Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

During the remaining days of winter, Lin Xia stopped working hard and began to adjust herself and prepare for the upcoming busy spring.

You know, after a winter covered with snow, she has to plow all the farmland on the first day of spring.

On the 28th, Lin Xia's village villa was completed. Coincidentally, the villa was built next to the blacksmith house and opposite the giggle house.

The house is not big, at least not as big as Lin Xia's farm cottage which has been expanded many times. It has complete facilities, but there is a TV, fireplace and calendar in the house. It can only be regarded as a temporary place to stay overnight.

If you want to decorate your villa to be as warm and complete as other people’s homes, you have to work hard to earn money to upgrade it!

Lin Xia looked at her second house and her heart was filled with fighting spirit!

During these two days, the residents of the town were very happy. Whenever they met, they would talk about the buckwheat gathering on the 30th and the rice cake gathering on the 1st of the New Year. Everyone was looking forward to the group dinner at Rose Square on those two days. Mana grabbed Lin Xia and kept telling her, "Be sure to leave some space in your backpack during those two days. When you finish eating the buckwheat noodles and rice cakes, the remaining buckwheat flour and rice cakes can be taken home by everyone, okay? These two things are not available at other times, and Jeff's grocery store doesn't have them either. They're only available during these two days. If you miss them, they'll be gone!"

Lin Xia nodded repeatedly to show that she understood!

In the last few days, Lin Xia rode her horse around during the day. Perhaps it was because spring was coming and winter had lasted for a long time, and the food stored by the animals for the winter had run out. The traps she had set before began to show signs of prey, and she could get some harvest every day, but the prey she caught were all skinny.

But Lin Xia didn't mind it either. She didn't like to eat it herself. Now that she had a prey bag, she could just put the living prey into it and ask Dart or Huo An to see if they wanted it. If they didn't like it, she could just raise it again!

Finally it was the 30th. In the morning, Lin Xia took care of the animals and presented tribute to the goddess. Today was another day of receiving gifts in return, but it was still white grass, nothing special.

During the day, Lin Xia began to prepare for tomorrow's spring planting. She first selected the seeds of the crops to be planted, and prepared the hoe, sprinkler, etc. By the way, since the 1st was the first day of the new year, the rice cake festival, and all the shops were closed, her farmland could not be upgraded until the 2nd at the earliest.

It seems that rice can only be planted after it is upgraded, and the fields must be reserved first. This year, she will not only plant rice, but also wheat.

The cultivation of these crops is not only for processing into rice and flour for human consumption, but mainly the processed wheat bran and rice chaff can be used as feed, etc. Rice stalks, wheat straw, etc. are also useful. It can be said that it is a very cost-effective cultivation.

The main crops used to get rich in spring are cabbage and strawberry. Lin Xia will plant more of these two kinds of crops. As for other crops such as radish, potato, cucumber, etc., she only plans to plant a few acres, leaving enough for herself to eat. As for wheat and rice, since they can continue to grow and be harvested until autumn, it is enough to directly fix about 10 acres.

After Lin Xia planned her farmland one by one and figured out what No. 1 was going to do, she went out to visit the dwarves again with gifts.

That’s right, you have to entrust the dwarf with the work on the 30th!

Today’s buckwheat gathering starts at 6pm and lasts until 12am. After 12pm, everyone can go to the top of the back mountain to watch the New Year’s sunrise and welcome the arrival of the new year!

The rice cake festival on the 1st starts at 10 am and ends at 2 pm.

Because Lin Xia had to open up most of the farmland on the 1st, he could only get there around noon.

But you can still have some fun on the 30th!

So, after visiting the dwarfs, she contacted Karin, Jennifer, Gray and Huo An. What's the point of only eating buckwheat noodles at the buckwheat party? Why don't everyone come out and set up a stall together!

It just so happens that several of us are planning to open a shop next year, so we might as well test out our own works and see if anyone in town likes them!

When Lin Xia mentioned it, everyone was happy and started to prepare.

Among these people, Huo An is the least worrying one, as he has extensive experience in setting up stalls!

So, when Thomas announced the official start of the buckwheat gathering at 6 p.m. in high spirits, everyone did not just discuss the texture and taste of buckwheat noodles as in previous years.

After finishing a bowl of noodles, they actually went to wander around the stalls that were lighting all kinds of lanterns. In the words of the square dance trio, this was much more interesting than just eating noodles, and they didn't have to rush to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise!

Karin's stall mainly sells various spring clothes and distinctive accessories. She asked Popli to help and act as a model.

Jennifer and Gray's stall was filled with all kinds of accessories, including jewelry and decorations. Next to them was Mary, who was invited by Gray to act as a guide.

The items on Huo An's stall are much more messy, but also more interesting. There are many unique items full of local culture and art. He alone can satisfy all the customers' questions.

Lin Xia also had a sudden idea to set up a small stall and started selling barbecue. She prepared more meat this year, as well as various mushrooms, vegetables, etc., which she couldn't finish herself. Besides, in such a lively night market, it always felt like something was missing without barbecue. So she simply set up a barbecue stall, and added various fruit juices and fruit wine brewed in small barrels. The feeling came immediately.

You know what, even though this night was supposed to be a night for soba noodles, the smell of the barbecue was really overbearing!

As soon as the fresh, fragrant and spicy skewers came out, everyone's mouth was watering. In the end, almost everyone came over to buy skewers to eat with noodles!

This also directly led to a lot of buckwheat flour that Thomas prepared this year being left over, and Lin Xia ended up taking a lot of it home, haha!

Lin Xia did not go to watch the sunrise after midnight. Usually, this activity is only for couples, but Lin Xia, as an old farmer who has heavy work to do tomorrow, would not go!

The next morning, Lin Xia got up early and resumed her daily farming routine, which was to check the weather forecast while eating breakfast to pay attention to the weather for the next day.

However, there is a special program during the New Year. It is time to play the number guessing game with the goddess again. There will be gifts if you guess correctly.

Last year, when it was the first year, Lin Xia had no experience, didn’t guess correctly many times, and wasn’t very lucky, so the prizes he got were very average.

This year, I don’t know about my luck yet, but I have some experience. From the 1st to the 5th of every year, I can guess the goddess on TV 5 times every day.

As long as she guesses correctly 10 times, she will start to receive gifts. Unfortunately, the fruits of the lucky tree she planted in the Xirang space are not ripe yet, otherwise she would have eaten one right away!