Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After dinner, the four of them sat in the yard and chatted.

"Lin Xia, how come you can eat so much now!" Sasha is already the one with the biggest appetite among the group, but compared with Lin Xia today, she can only say that she has a small stomach.

Among the few people, Sister Juan and Lili ate the least, because one of them wanted to lose weight, and the other didn't eat much to begin with. As for Shasha, she exercised regularly and had good physical fitness, so her appetite was relatively large, and she could usually eat the amount of two normal girls. And Lin Xia——

"You actually ate all the leftovers today. Even four men would be full!"

"Hey~ I wasn't like this before, but since I came here and ate the Fruit of Power, I became like this!" Lin Xia also felt aggrieved!

"What fruit of power?" several people asked in unison.

"It should be a kind of fruit unique to this place. After eating it, it can increase a person's physical strength limit and also increase a person's strength. The first time I was hoeing in the field, I dug one. After eating it, my physical strength limit increased immediately, and my strength also increased a little. Now, I have eaten a total of 5 fruits of strength. Every time I eat one more, my physical strength limit increases more than the previous time. Now I feel that my physical strength is twice as much as before."

Later, Lin Xia discovered by observing the changes in physical strength before and after each time that his initial physical strength value was 100. The first fruit increased it by 10, the second increased it by 15, and each additional fruit increased his physical strength by 5 more than the previous time.

Now after eating 5 pills, his physical strength limit has reached 200, and his strength is twice as much as before, so his appetite has increased by more than 2 times than before. Just like they said, what Lin Xia eats is more than enough for 4 strong men!

Sister Juan suddenly sighed to Lin Xia: "Fortunately, although you eat a lot, your body shape has not changed. If your body shape also changed with your strength, it would be like... like that..."

"Zach!" Sasha and Lili answered immediately.

"Yes, if you look like that Zach, don't ever call me your sister again!"

"Don't say she is our sister. We don't deserve it!" Sasha and Lili continued.

Lin Xia gritted her teeth: "You are really my good sisters!!!"

"Hahaha~"

"The night here is so beautiful." Lili exclaimed.

"Yes, the air is also fresh." Sister Juan agreed.

"You can't feel this kind of tranquility in the city," said Sasha.

"The starry sky in my yard is not quite there yet. Tomorrow night after we finish soaking in the hot springs, we can go directly to the top of the mountain to have dinner. While we eat, we can look at the starry sky there. It's so beautiful!" Lin Xia said immediately.

"Ah? Do you have a restaurant on the top of the mountain?"

"No!"

Several people glared at Lin Xia: "Are you here to have fun with your sisters? Or are you planning to make us lay out a mat on the top of the mountain and eat bread?"

"How could I bear to do this to my sisters!" Lin Xia laughed, "Don't worry, even if there is no restaurant, you will definitely have a comfortable meal!"

Everyone looked up at the starry sky while chatting and laughing, immersed in the tranquility.

At around 8 o'clock in the evening, Lin Xia sent the sisters to the hotel, told them to have a good rest today, and asked them to come directly to the ranch to find her tomorrow morning, have breakfast at the ranch, and go up the mountain after breakfast. They should also bring their own spare clothes with them so that they don't have to come back to get them before taking a hot spring bath tomorrow.

As a result, several sisters laughed and said, "Don't worry, little worrywart, we are all used to traveling on business trips, and we always carry our things with us. Although the space backpack is not upgraded to level 5 like yours, it is definitely enough to hold all our things!"

After seeing them enter the hotel, Lin Xia did not go in to disturb them and went straight home to prepare for tomorrow's reception.

The next morning, Lin Xia got up early and prepared breakfast for everyone. Soon, the three sisters came to the ranch.

"Wow, it smells so good!" Sasha exclaimed.

"Come and try the breakfast I made. I prepared both Western and Chinese styles. What do you want to eat?" Lin Xia greeted everyone with a smile.

The table was filled with breakfast of various kinds, dazzling to the eyes!

Western breakfast includes: grape toast, curry bread, French toast, sandwiches, vegetable salad, cheesecake, sushi, hot milk, etc.

Chinese breakfast includes: dumplings, wontons, three-fresh ramen, seafood porridge, cornmeal steamed buns, mushroom meat buns, fish pot stickers and vegetable pancakes, etc.

Looking at so many breakfasts, the other three no longer complained about not being able to finish them. Anyway, with Lin Xia, the little "glutton", around, there was no waste, and they all started picking out the food they were interested in.

After making their choice, the four of them enjoyed a delicious breakfast and were in a particularly happy mood.

"By the way, is the back mountain we are going to today far from here?" Lili asked.

"It's not far. It takes about half an hour to get there from the back door of the ranch." Lin Xia replied.

"That's good. I was worried that it would take a long time to walk." Sister Juan said.

"But Sister Juan, don't you want to know whether coffee, strawberry and fruit milk are produced directly from cows? After breakfast, I'll take you to milk the cows first!" Lin Xia said mischievously.

Sister Juan: "Thank you, but I'm not going to go. I'll avoid causing trouble for the dwarfs!"

hey-hey...

After breakfast, the four of them packed up their things, Lin Xia took Ah Huang and Da Zhuang with them, and set off for the back mountain. Along the way, the scenery was picturesque, and everyone enjoyed the beautiful scenery, talking and laughing.

Everyone can understand that Lin Xia brought Ah Huang with her. Dogs can explore the way, protect their owners, and some dogs can even help people hunt! But why bring a chicken with her?

Lin Xia didn't say much, just smiled and asked everyone to pay attention to the mountain road. There would be mushrooms and autumn-specific flowers - blue magic grass - on the roadside that could be picked.

Following Lin Xia's instructions, several people picked several bunches of magic grass and put them into the space. When they saw mushrooms hidden in the grass or dead trees, they picked them under Lin Xia's guidance. If they were poisonous mushrooms, Lin Xia picked them himself and didn't let them touch them.

After passing the easy mountain road and entering the woods, gradually, Da Zhuang led the way in front, Ah Huang followed behind, the three sisters followed Ah Huang, and Lin Xia walked at the end to prevent anyone from getting lost.

At this time, Shasha was the first to react: "This chicken~ No, Dazhuang, it's so skilled. Look, the path it chose doesn't have any large obstacles, it walks very smoothly, and it found a lot of big mushrooms!"

After hearing this, the other two also became thoughtful and looked at Lin Xia.

Lin Xia smiled and said, "I told you a long time ago that Da Zhuang had always lived in the mountains and knew the situation there best. He must know the best about what good things there are. Ah Huang was only allowed to enter the back mountains after he reached adulthood in autumn. Many of his skills were taught by Da Zhuang!"

"This chicken is very good, very good!" Sasha pretended to praise, but ended up with an unceremonious eye roll from Dazhuang. The feathers on the chicken's butt were all standing up high, swaying from side to side, looking so proud!

"Look at this chicken!" Sasha laughed out of anger. She was actually looked down upon by a chicken.

"Haha~ You asked for it!" Several people did not sympathize with her.

I continued walking carefully on the mountain path, looking around and not missing any mushrooms.

While walking and laughing, Lin Xia looked at the time. They had entered the mountain at 7 o'clock, and it was almost 8: now. They could go back, so he called a few people and asked Dazhuang to lead them to walk out through the bamboo forest on the side of Houshan Hetong as the exit.

So, although they were going out of the mountain, they were not going back, so the journey was not boring. Da Zhuang even led everyone to a hazelnut and pecan tree that Lin Xia had liked before. At this time, the hazelnuts and walnuts were beginning to mature, and some ripe walnuts and hazelnuts had begun to fall to the ground under the tree. Some were carried back to their nests by the small animals in the forest and stored as food for the winter, but more were still scattered on the ground.

Sasha and a few others immediately stepped forward and wanted to pick hazelnuts and walnuts by themselves. Seeing that they were interested, Lin Xia also took out tools, hooks and baskets. Lin Xia and Sasha were responsible for using the tools to hook the hazelnuts and walnuts from high up, while Sasha and Lili were responsible for picking up the intact fruits on the ground and putting them into baskets.