Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

After buying the animal potion, Lin Xia looked at the time. It was almost time for lunch. However, he had just replenished his energy with food before leaving the mine. He was not hungry at all at the moment. He would eat when he was hungry!

Lin Xia looked at the ball of yarn in the space, thinking about what Karen said yesterday, that Grandma Ailian liked to knit sweaters. Now that she had some free time, she might as well send some to her. It was quite comfortable to knit sweaters by the warm fireplace in winter.

"Oh, Lin Xia is here? Have you had lunch?" Looking at Lin Xia who came in, Grandma Ailian asked happily.

"I've eaten. How about you, grandma? Hey, why don't I see You?"

"We've eaten too. As soon as we finished, You ran out to play! Is it snowing outside?"

"The weather is pretty good today and it hasn't rained yet, but it's getting colder!" Lin Xia answered Ailian's question while taking out a few balls of wool from the space and handing them to Ailian.

"By the way, grandma, I heard from Karen yesterday that you are really good at knitting. These yarns are spun from the wool cut from the animals raised on my ranch. I'll give them to you!"

"Oh, thank you!" Ailian took the ball of yarn and said happily, "By the way, I'll use this yarn to make a sock for you to put in your Christmas present! Wait a minute!"

"Is this too much trouble for you?" Lin Xia felt a little embarrassed. Although Karen had said so, she still felt a little embarrassed when she really wanted to knit it for her. She always felt that the gift of this wool was a little insincere!

"What's the big deal? I don't have much to do at home every day, and you always bring me food. I have nothing to thank you for. It just so happens that you just came to the town this year and are in need of socks, so I can come in handy~"

"Thank you, grandma!"

Grandma Ailian is indeed a knitting expert. Her knitting skills in socks are like divine skills. . . . .

In less than an hour, the socks were knitted. "Finally, it's done, Lin Xia. Just take it home and hang it on the wall. On Christmas Eve, there will be gifts inside!"

"Okay, thank you grandma, you've worked hard!" Seeing that her grandma looked a little tired, Lin Xia felt bad.

"Alas, I am old now and my physical strength cannot keep up. I used to be able to knit for a whole day and still be full of energy!"

"Grandma, Karen said she wants to open a clothing store. Can you provide her with knitted items? Do you have the physical strength to keep up?"

"Haha, she mentioned this to me. Knitted fabrics are usually sold more in winter. She said I can use the spring, summer, and fall to slowly accumulate works. Besides," Ailian said with a smile, "these are handmade works after all. Quality is more important than quantity. There is no need to pursue quantity blindly."

"Indeed." Lin Xia also agreed, "Hey, grandma, I have an idea. I wonder what you think of it."

"what?"

"It's winter now, and many people don't have anything to do. You can use this time to open a knitting training class! People like Mana, Anna, and Sasha can learn knitting from you if they have free time. If they learn it, the output of several people using their free time will definitely be much more than what you can do alone!"

Ailian's eyes lit up: "That's a really good idea! I'll talk to Karen later and let her go ask!"

"Hey, if I have time, I will come and learn knitting from grandma, okay?"

"What's the problem? You can come anytime!" Ailian murmured with a dazed look in her eyes, "In fact, Joanna is the most talented weaver in our town~"

"Joanna? Who is she?"

"She's May's mother, Mookie's daughter."

"Huh, I don't think I've ever seen her before?"

"Yes, she doesn't live in a small town, she lives in the city."

"Why didn't she come back? Mei is so young. She hasn't seen her mother for such a long time. Doesn't she miss her mother?"

“Hey~” Ai Lian seemed to have someone to talk to, and began to chat with Lin Xia about the past, “How could I not miss him? But that child is just like most young people, he can give up everything for his dream.

Muchi's wife Sophie is also a knitting expert. In search of the best wool, she came to our town by chance and discovered that the wool from the sheep raised by Muchi was of very high quality, and the wool spun from them was of even better quality, so she started to interact with Muchi.

Later they fell in love and had Joanna. Since Sophie came, I have been getting along very well with the residents of the town. I learned knitting from her, but unfortunately I have limited talent and can't even learn half of her level.

She was a very gentle person. Even though I was not talented, she always said that she didn’t know how to teach me. This person is really... " Ailian said with a smile while recalling.

"As Joanna grew up, she also developed a strong interest in knitting, but she was still young at the time, so Joanna only let her learn for fun and didn't formally teach her. As a result, this delay prevented Joanna from formally learning, and this has always been a hurdle in Joanna's heart."

"What happened?"

"That was when Joanna was about 5 years old. Muchi had a batch of sheep that needed to be delivered to a herder in another town, but he broke his leg while catching the sheep, so he couldn't go far. Sophie went instead of him, and when she went, an accident happened..."

“Ah~ This is really…”

"So Joanna has always had a problem with Muqi raising animals, and she has a great regret for not being able to learn weaving from her mother. Later, she learned the basic skills of weaving from me, but my own skills are just so-so, even if I taught her everything, it would still be at that level.

But Joanna wanted to be a knitting master like her mother Sophie, so a year after giving birth to Mei, she resolutely went to the city to find a better knitting teacher to learn knitting, saying that she would never come back until she succeeded. "Alas~"

This is really a regrettable story. We can’t say who is wrong. We can only say that everyone makes different choices!

After leaving Ailian's house with socks, it was already 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Lin Xia hurried to the back mountain. At this time, Ah Huang and Da Zhuang were already waiting at the entrance of the mine cave of the lake mine. According to the two pets, there was no prey in the trap for the time being. It seemed that it was just the beginning of winter and the animals still had surplus food stored.

The man and his two pets entered the cave again and continued the morning's process.