Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

As I was talking, I heard a series of "Woof woof~" sounds coming, and the one running over with the sound was undoubtedly my pet Ah Huang!

"Ah~ a big yellow dog!" Shasha was the first to react and immediately stood in front of the people. Lin Xia immediately shouted, "Ah Huang! Sit down!"

"Ah~" Ah Huang stopped in an emergency, sat down on the spot, still looking at them excitedly.

Everyone then realized that this should be Lin Xia's pet.

"Excuse me, this is my pet, named Ah Huang. He has never seen you before, so he is a little excited. Don't be afraid, he won't bite you!"

"I never thought, Xia Xia, you actually have a dog!" Sister Juan exclaimed, "Weren't you afraid of dogs before? You actually like cats more."

"Hey, this dog was given to me as a gift from the ranch, and I didn't get a chance to choose it!" Lin Xia explained. But after she finished speaking, she saw Ah Huang looking at her eagerly, and immediately made amends, "But Ah Huang is still very good. Since my ranch is close to the back mountain, some small animals would run in from time to time, and they were all driven away by Ah Huang. With it around, I feel a lot more at ease!"

After hearing this, Ah Huang immediately became energetic, wagging his tail and following the few people.

"Really?" Several people became curious and asked what kind of animals they were. Lin Xia didn't want to make them worry too much, so she didn't mention wild dogs. She just said that sometimes some rabbits, squirrels and the like would run in, and that when she was hoeing the fields, field mice would run out. "At first, I dug out a big field mouse with a hoe, which scared me. But later, I saw it more often, so I just took out a hammer without batting an eyelid and hit it with the hammer. It added nutrients to my fields, haha~"

Everyone found it interesting and laughed out loud, but they felt sorry for Lin Xia and offered some advice: "Since there are so many mice in the fields, why don't you keep a cat? I see there is a cat in the hotel, it's quite cute, and it can catch mice at critical moments."

"Ah~ I had just arrived at that time and was busy getting familiar with the ranch and the town. I didn't have the time and energy to raise another pet. Fortunately, Ah Huang is not squeamish, so I don't need to take care of him. He follows me around every day. When he was small, he couldn't leave the ranch. After he grew up, he helped me a lot. And his food is provided free of charge by the town!"

When they arrived at the stable, Lin Xia immediately said, "I'm taking care of a horse for someone else. Do you want to take a look?"

Sasha immediately became excited and kept asking for it. They walked into the stable. Bai Long was a little panicked when so many strangers suddenly came in. Lin Xia immediately took out some pet snacks to feed Bai Long, and then took out an animal brush to brush Bai Long's hair and comfort it.

Only after the white dragon calmed down did they allow a few people to get close and touch it.

"This horse is really well raised, but why would others ask you to help take care of it?" Everyone was really curious. You know, horses are relatively precious animals, and most people don't raise horses, so there are still many things to pay attention to.

"Grandpa Muchi in our town is also a rancher, but he mainly raises cattle and sheep. He has a lot of them. It seems that this pony was delivered not long ago this year. However, Grandpa Muchi is the only one running the business with a little granddaughter. He has to take care of so many cattle and sheep at the same time, so it is inevitable that he cannot take good care of this pony. Later, Grandpa Muchi found that the pony was getting more and more depressed and a little afraid of people. So after meeting me, he wanted me to help take care of it for a while.

In fact, it is not difficult to take care of the pony. I just need to talk to it and brush its back every day. Grandpa Mu Qi also prepares the feed, so I don’t have to worry about it. Maybe the place here is big, and there are only two of them, Bailong, so he has become much more lively than when he first started!"

"It shows that you accompany it with all your heart." Lili said gently, "Just now, it was obviously panicked when it saw so many of us suddenly appear, but you calmed it down quickly, which shows that it trusts you!"

"Hehe~" Lin Xia laughed happily after hearing that. After seeing the white dragon, she continued to take them to visit the animal house. Looking at the cows, sheep and alpacas leisurely eating grass in the house, several people were stunned. This, this is too many animals!

"We didn't raise so many at the beginning. They gradually increased in the summer. We didn't grow so much forage grass at the beginning."

Is this a matter of the amount of grass? This foolish girl raises so many animals and cultivates so much land. Is she treating herself like a man?

If they knew that Lin Xia not only did all these, but also went hunting in the mountains and fishing at sea, they would know that calling a man a servant is a humble term!

After visiting the animal house, they went on to see the black pig mother who had successfully become pregnant in the pigpen. Then they came to the chicken and rabbit house and saw the dozen or so chickens and rabbits looking for food in the chicken coop. The sisters were completely stunned and convinced.

Even though they knew that these animals were now all taken care of by a dwarf, they thought about how Lin Xia had to do it all by herself in the early days, and they no longer thought of Lin Xia as the panic-stricken little girl who had just graduated from school. This little girl had really grown up and become a rancher who could support a ranch! Great!

Shasha looked at Dazhuang, the chicken in the chicken coop that was obviously different from the other chickens, and asked, "This chicken is so domineering! Why is he different from the other chickens?"

"This chicken is my pet. We met in the back mountain. It saved my life!"

"What happened?" Sister Juan and the others immediately turned to stare at Lin Xia, who immediately comforted them, "It's okay. One time, I went to the back mountain to play, and I saw it fighting with a big snake. I happened to have a bow and arrow with me at the time, so I worked with it and killed the snake. Later, it didn't want the snake, so I took it back and sold it to the hospital, making a small profit! Do you think it saved my life?"

Seeing Lin Xia's smug look, Sister Juan said unhappily, "Forget it, forget it! You've really grown brave. You didn't tell her to run away when you saw the snake, but you actually dared to go up and fight it."

Shasha: "That's great. Do you want to go out and harvest with your sister in the future?"

Lin Xia joked with them on the surface, but she felt relieved in her heart. She decided not to talk about the experience of being rescued from the crocodile's mouth as it was too exciting.

"These little rabbits are so cute!" Lili exclaimed as she hugged a baby Angora rabbit.

As for the two adult rabbits with their hair shorn next to them, although they are not big in size, no animal will look very beautiful once all its hair is shorn.

But baby rabbits are different. Not only are they smaller, but they are also covered in fur and are super cute.

Even Sister Juan and Shasha were attracted. Lin Xia quickly said to them, "If you like, I will take you to the Gulp House the day after tomorrow. There are more rabbits there, and in other colors!"

"Okay!" Several people agreed readily!

After leaving the chicken and rabbit house, Lin Xia took a few people to visit the five trees planted in the yard. The grape trees no longer bear fruit, but the apple trees and orange trees are still full of fruits. Lin Xia has not picked the ripe apples, oranges and newly produced honey today. Seeing that the three of them were very interested, she simply let them do it themselves. Not only did they pick the fruit honey, but they also let them visit the fields by themselves.

"Today, only peppers are ripe. The dwarves should have harvested them now. Tomorrow, we will harvest sweet potatoes, green peppers, and red beans. Then you can experience the joy of a good harvest!"

"Okay! This is interesting!"

"Then you guys play first, and come into the house to rest when you're tired. I'll go prepare dinner for dinner. Oh, and I have some fishing gear here. If you're interested, you can go fishing in the river next to the ranch!"

"Okay, just put your things down and go with peace of mind. We can take care of ourselves, but don't forget who took care of you in the past!" Sister Juan sent Lin Xia away with a smile, and the few of them began to move freely.

Lin Xia also went back to the house to start preparing dinner, 4 spicy crabs, 2 garlic vermicelli shrimps, 1 crab fried in typhoon shelter, scrambled eggs with bamboo shoots and black fungus, and eggplant and potatoes. It was a pity that there were no cowpeas, otherwise she could have made three fresh delicacies.

There was a curry chicken made with tomatoes, onions, carrots, potatoes, peppers, etc., a large plate of grilled fish, 2 grilled birds, 2 grilled squids, and some grilled corn and sweet potatoes.

Lin Xia didn't care whether it would be too much or not. She would put the food in the refrigerator to keep it fresh after making it. She also made all the desserts and snacks she could. She could just take whatever she wanted to eat when the time came.