Across Ranch Story: Friends of Mineral Town

"These are the 10 long bamboos you requested. The heads have been sharpened and the bamboo is specially selected. It is very tough and not easy to break." Gotz said as he handed Lin Xia a thin bamboo about 2 meters long.

After Lin Xia took it, she felt that the bamboo had a strong texture and some weight. She walked out of the house and came to the open space. She tried to throw it forward. As a result, the bamboo flew out with a light throw and directly stuck about 10 meters away.

Lin Xia was stunned. This weapon was so easy to use, just like the weapons used by primitive tribes in the past.

If my aim was better, the lethality of this bamboo would definitely be no less than that of a bow and arrow!

He immediately ran forward and pulled out the bamboo that was stuck in the ground. It was quite deep.

Back inside, Lin Xia immediately praised: "Gotz, this bamboo is amazing! You are really amazing!"

Gotz laughed out loud, as happy as a child, and handed the short bamboo to Lin Xia, saying, "Take a look at this one, can it work?"

Lin Xia took the short bamboo, which was no more than 20 centimeters long and half as thin as the long bamboo. However, it was not light and was very strong. One end of it was sharpened so that it could be used as a dart.

Moreover, this short bamboo is cheap, you don’t have to feel bad about using it, and it doesn’t need to be recycled, which makes it much more convenient.

Lin Xia immediately settled the payment for the bamboos: 10 long bamboos, 100G each; 50 short bamboos, 20G each, a total of 2000G.

"Gotz, Harris, I'm treating you to dinner today!"

Goetz & Harris: "I'm so sorry! You're welcome, Lin Xia~"

Lin Xia: "I'm not being polite. I caught a pheasant yesterday and brought it to you today to try. Do you like chicken?"

Gotz: "Eat it! I've eaten pheasant cooked by the old rancher before, and I still miss the taste today!"

Harris: "I've never eaten pheasant, so I won't be polite today!"

So Lin Xia brought the food she brought to the table one by one. Since there was an extra Harris, she simply took out two servings of pheasant, otherwise she was worried that there would not be enough to eat.

As for the food that Lin Xia took out, except for the jam bread and bamboo shoot rice, the other dishes were new to both of them and were very novel.

At Lin Xia's warm invitation, both of them started to taste it.

The residents here don’t eat much chili peppers, so the spicy braised pheasant and spicy and sour shredded potatoes seemed like a new world to them both.

Chili peppers have this kind of charm that makes people want to eat more and more.

Feeling it was spicy, Lin Xia recommended steamed corn and tomato egg soup, and the two of them enjoyed it more and more.

The smashed cucumbers were okay, as I had tried pickled cucumbers and sweet and sour cucumbers before and were quite accepting of them.

The salted peanuts also received rave reviews. Goetz even said that it was a pity that it was daytime, otherwise it would have been nice to have a bottle of wine.

After eating and drinking, Lin Xia raised a new request to Gotz:

A number of bamboo sieves of different sizes - used to dry peanuts, corn kernels, melon seeds, chestnuts, etc.

Several drying racks - used to dry fishing nets, vegetables, place bamboo sieves, etc.

Rocking chair - for sunbathing (haha~)

4 small stools + 1 folding dining table - convenient for resting and eating outdoors

A large bamboo backpack - used to carry game and other things. From now on, you don't have to tie rabbits and pheasants around the waist anymore. You can just throw them into the backpack after tying them up. The back is free now.

"Gotz, please help me with all of the above when you are free. I also want to ask you, can my chicken and rabbit hut be expanded?"

"The chicken and rabbit hut has been expanded once. Isn't it enough?" Gotz was full of curiosity.

"It's not enough. If I just want to eat eggs, it's enough, but I also want to raise some chickens for meat. It takes quite a long time for chickens to grow up. I can only raise 8 at most this time, which is definitely not enough!" Lin Xia complained.

Gotz: You're really obsessed with playing PUBG.

"And I also want to raise some ducks and geese. Do these animals have to be kept in the same cage with the chickens and rabbits?" In Lin Xia's mind, ducks and geese need to go into the water, and they are bigger than chickens. Can they live together?

"Ducks and geese need special houses because they need to go into the water, so it's better to keep them closer to the river," Gotz said quickly. "And it's best not to keep them together with chickens and rabbits. Geese are more aggressive and will scare the rabbits and chickens."

"What should I do then?" Lin Xia was distressed.

"I remember that the southeast corner of your ranch is diagonally opposite to your house, right next to the river. You can build a house for the ducks and geese there when the time comes! Do you want to expand the chicken and rabbit house first, or build a duck and goose house?" asked Gotz.

"Well, let's expand the chicken and rabbit coop first. I don't know where to buy ducks and geese right now, so we can put it aside for now." Lin Xia made the decision.

Goetz: "Okay, then how many feeding places do you plan to expand the chicken and rabbit shed? Do you plan to add an egg incubator or a rabbit pregnancy feed box in the hatching area?"

Lin Xia thought about it. Rabbits take a long time to gestate, but eggs can hatch in just three days. So she decided to add one of each. She said, "We'll expand the breeding space by eight more, and add an egg incubator and a gestation feed box!"

Gotz nodded, "Okay, to expand by 8 seats, we need 1 G, 600 pieces of wood, 400 pieces of stone, and it will take 4 days to complete."

Lin Xia counted his wood and stone and found that they were all missing something, so he decided to cut some more today.

"I'm still short of some. I'll go get them today. You can just pick them up from the warehouse tomorrow. Is that ok?"

"Sure. This time I will expand the existing chicken and rabbit hut and convert it into a two-story house. This will save some space," Goetz explained.

"Well, you are an expert in this area, I believe you!" Lin Xia said happily, "I would also like to trouble you to help me make the other tools I ordered when you are free!"

"No problem, just wait until I make it and then settle the bill!"

"Thank you so much!"

After Lin Xia talked to Gotz, he immediately rushed to the stone mountain to quarry stones and collected wood along the way.

Not only that, because there were plenty of stones, Lin Xia collected 600 pieces of stone and 400 pieces of wood in one go. After deducting the missing pieces for expanding the chicken and rabbit hut, there were still 435 pieces of stone and 267 pieces of wood left.

Remembering the promise he had made to Dotte to collect medicinal herbs, Lin Xia collected the easy-to-pick Pyrola and Selaginella in the surrounding area.

Seeing that it was getting late and his energy was running out, he walked back quickly. When he passed by the Kappa Lake, he gave the Kappa a pickled cucumber. Then he went to the Goddess Spring, first gave the goddess flowers, and then soaked in the hot spring for a while to recover some energy before going home.