Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"And then you showed up. It must have been nature's plan."

Lin Xia: No, not really.

"That's it. Please help me think of a name for it! What do you think is a good name?"

Looking at Jennifer who was full of expectations, Lin Xia encountered a social death scene again. She felt like she was back in the Gotz family facing Brandon's artistic interrogation.

"Uh~ sounds like a magic name?" Lin Xia uttered a few words with difficulty.

"The name of the magic? Is it beyond common sense and makes people feel incredible?" Jennifer frowned and thought.

Lin Xia felt that Jennifer was not particularly satisfied with this answer. She looked at the lake again. The lake bathed in golden sunlight was indeed incredibly beautiful, as if it was covered with holy light!

"Or, like an angel's name?"

"Angels? A resting place for angels? I see..." Jennifer said excitedly, as if her Ren and Du meridians were suddenly opened. "You are unexpectedly poetic. I have a new respect for you. What you said gave me an idea of ​​a good name! Let's call this lake 'Isabella'!"

Hey, the name Isabella sounds sacred and incredibly beautiful... It perfectly complements this lake. Don't you think so?"

Lin Xia: "You're right!" As long as you are happy.

"Haha, this name is really great. Thanks, Lin Xia, let's keep this name as a secret between the two of us."

"Why don't you tell everyone in town?" After working so hard to come up with a name, if you don't make it public, isn't that like walking at night in disguise?

"Oh, there's no need to tell anyone else. Just the two of us can call it that. That's why it's more special, right?"

Okay, what you said makes sense. At this time, Lin Xia thought of the tent behind her and asked, "Is this tent behind you? You won't live in the tent at night, will you? It's still quite dangerous in the back mountain at night."

"Hey, I've booked a hotel in town and will stay there at night, but I'll basically stay in this tent the rest of the time. Come find me if you have time. I want to know more about you!"

"Haha, okay!"

"Yeah, it's time for me to go back to the tent. I got up very early today and I suddenly feel very sleepy. I'm going to go back and rest first! See you next time!"

After Lin Xia said goodbye to Jennifer, she went to the lake and served today's cucumber dish to Kappa, then continued to walk into the forest with Da Zhuang and Ah Huang.

The main purpose of going into the mountains today is to hunt more birds and rabbits. When we go back in the evening, we will make some samples for tasting in preparation for tomorrow's reception.

Ah Huang is responsible for searching for rabbit holes, Da Zhuang is responsible for finding birds, and Lin Xia is responsible for taking action. Not to mention, Lin Xia's archery skills are still relatively good now, and he is only 18% away from upgrading to the mithril level. After hunting today, he should be able to prepare ore to find Sepala for the upgrade.

The cooperation between one person and two pets is quite good. In autumn, rabbits eat well, give birth to many babies, and grow fast. Ah Huang can find a whole litter of them at once, and Lin Xia is not lenient either. After all, rabbits reproduce too quickly, and too many of them can cause great damage to vegetation and ecology.

Use the net in the hunting suit to block the hole you find, and use smoke to force the rabbits in the hole out of the hole, so that they fall into the trap. Occasionally, one or two rabbits will come out of the gap, but they will either be captured by Ah Huang or shot by Lin Xia.

In one morning, Lin Xia caught 16 rabbits, including 42 big rabbits and small rabbits. Lin Xia killed all the big rabbits and put them into the space. He tied the small rabbits with a net and put them in a backpack. Lin Xia planned to keep a few small ones for barbecue and sell the others to Huo An.

There are so many rabbits in the mountains. You can find so many just by looking around. I guess we can catch a lot in the next half month!

While looking for rabbit holes, Ah Huang occasionally found a few hedgehog holes, but since the backpack was already filled with rabbits, it was difficult to leave the hedgehogs behind. Lin Xia also didn't want to sell the dead ones to Dot and Huo An, so she didn't catch any this time.

At noon, we found an open space, set up the tent, had lunch, and rested for a while. During the rest period, Lin Xia discovered that the trees nearby were very huge. How big were they? They were as big as a house, and it would take more than a dozen people holding hands to hug them.

Lin Xia was amazed and wondered if such a tree was suitable for making furniture.

Based on the principle of not cutting down trees casually, Lin Xia walked around and soon discovered that several trees were too close to each other and were competing for sunlight resources. The sides close to each other were not growing very well. If this continued, the trunks would grow crooked, and in the places blocked by the trees, no herbaceous plants could grow except for some fungi.

Lin Xia decided to selectively cut down some trees that were too close to each other. Of course, he would not learn from Baldy Qiang and cut down trees indiscriminately.

After cutting down a complete tree for the first time, Lin Xia realized that after cutting down a tree, there are two options: 2. Keep the tree branches directly; 1. Continue to cut it into timber.

After decisively choosing 1, the trees were directly stored in the space. The remaining tree stumps looked very familiar to Lin Xia. After all, these tree stumps were common in the back mountain, and Lin Xia had been cutting down these tree stumps. After each success, he would directly get 6 pieces of wood, but the stumps left behind this time were very large.

Even with the Mithril Axe at full power, Lin Xia still had to chop the wooden stake six times before he successfully broke it into pieces, obtaining 6 pieces of wood at one time.

After wiping the sweat off his head, Lin Xia continued to chop down the big trees he had set his eyes on, and of course, he did not let go of the remaining tree stumps. After successfully chopping down five big trees, Lin Xia packed up the tent, called Ah Huang and Da Zhuang, who had rested well, and continued the hunting trip.

In the afternoon, they stopped catching rabbits and started shooting birds. Based on the reliable clues provided by Da Zhuang, Lin Xia quietly approached the gathering places of some relatively large birds that would not be plucked out of their feathers and whose meat was not enough to fill a spoonful. After Da Zhuang pointed out the location, he hid far away.

At first, Lin Xia thought that Da Zhuang was embarrassed for betraying his neighbor, so he didn't want to show up. But after Lin Xia shot the first batch of birds, with her head full of bird droppings and feathers, she felt that she was too naive and overestimated Da Zhuang's sense of shame.

Ah Huang also followed Lin Xia, bearing bird droppings and feathers. Occasionally, when he rushed out to help Lin Xia pick up the fallen birds, he would be pecked by other birds. It could be said that they shared the same suffering.

Shooting birds is quite difficult. Generally, only the first arrow shot can be hit relatively easily because the birds are not on guard. After they are startled and become defensive, you can only shoot them by predicting their flight patterns. However, the lush branches and leaves among the trees also had a great impact on Lin Xia's shooting. So even though Da Zhuang provided many bird gathering places and a large number of birds, Lin Xia only successfully shot 9 birds in an afternoon.

Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Xia decided to go back. After all, she still had a batch of little rabbits that she had to sell to Huo An today. She didn't want to take care of the little rabbits today. If they died, she wouldn't be able to sell them for a good price.

So he hurriedly took the chicken and the dog out of the forest, without even having time to take a bath. He just sent Da Zhuang and Ah Huang home at the junction of the back mountain and the pasture. He then went into the town from another road, passing the logging cabin, and ran to the cabin by the sea to find Huo An.

"You...really..." Huo An and Zach, who was about to go out to collect the goods, stared at Lin Xia, whose head and face were covered with bird droppings and feathers. After stuttering for a long time, he spoke with difficulty, "You work so hard~ You are a role model for our generation!"

Zack saw that Lin Xia was fine except for being a little dirty, so he returned to normal, said hello to Lin Xia, and went out to collect the goods. Anyway, Lin Xia came here probably to look for Huo An.

"Hey, it's all because of life!" Lin Xia put down the basket behind him, revealing about forty little rabbits inside, and said, "Look, these little rabbits are all caught by me. You can see how hard it is for me, give me a good price!"

Huo An looked at Lin Xia again and gained a deeper understanding of this girl who didn't care about her image at all.