A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 26 Rough Shallot Processing Techniques

However, Lyon did not rush to pick these onions. Instead, he walked around the onion field and confirmed again that the onion field was not artificially planted. Then he walked to the nearest onion and stretched out his hand.

These shallots look very similar to the onions that Lyon is familiar with, but the difference is that these shallots are taller than common onions, have thicker roots and longer leaves.

A green onion was pulled out of the soil. Lyon estimated it with his eyes and found that it was about 30 centimeters long. It was green all over, except for the tuber at the root, which was quite round and light purple.

“Shallots (collection): Grow wildly in spring.”

Maybe he used too much force when pulling it out, so some green onion juice was stained on Leon's hand. After sniffing it, a very unique onion fragrance rushed into Leon's nostrils.

The onion flavor was purer than that of leeks, and Leon couldn't help but squint his eyes. If green onions were used instead of leeks in the morning, perhaps the scallion omelet would be more fragrant.

However, after confirming that this thing was indeed the familiar smell of onions, Lyon continued to squat down and began to pull out the onions one by one by the roots.

If it weren't for the backpack provided by the system, Leon couldn't imagine how he would carry away so many green onions. He only pulled less than half of them, but the harvested green onions easily exceeded one hundred. And the strange thing was that three of them could not be placed together with the previous green onions, and occupied a backpack slot alone.

Then Lyon took out the three special onions, and took out another onion that could be stacked into the large army. He held it in his hands and observed it carefully for a while. He found that except that the special onion was longer than the ordinary onion and the color was richer, there was no other difference.

"Is this a high-quality crop? I don't know if it's a silver star or a gold star."

Leon muttered as he stuffed the green onions back into his backpack, then continued his work of pulling onions.

Lyon was busy until the sun hung in the middle of the sky, and only then did he take the entire green field into his possession.

Because of the system backpack's capacity display, Lyon doesn't need to count his gains one by one. He only needs to take a glance to know what he has gained today.

There are 217 ordinary green onions, 16 high-quality green onions, and one special one that cannot be integrated into the ordinary green onions and high-quality green onions. Its whole body is emerald green, even the rhizome.

With this special individual, Lyon was sure that the sixteen high-quality shallots should be of Silver Star quality, and the last unique shallot should be a high-end product of Gold Star quality.

Of course, there are also top-level products of iridium quality, which are close to perfect. However, before the level of wild mining is raised, Lyon feels that he may not be able to access them for the time being.

Looking at the bumpy land made by pulling onions, Lyon wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up and stretched his limbs. Crouching for a long time put a great burden on his waist. If he didn't stretch, Lyon felt that he would get a lumbar disc herniation sooner or later.

After harvesting the green onions, Leon didn't rush to leave. Instead, he pulled a plant from his backpack and peeled back the lavender rhizome. Sure enough, he saw a large, pink, spot-sized insect swarming inside. Because it was a wild plant, untouched by pesticides and untended by humans, it was understandable that the rhizomes were host to so many parasites.

The reason why he thought of this was because Leon remembered that there was a setting in the game, that is, when the player's favorability with the two little guys in the town is high enough, an additional plot will be triggered.

In the plot, the two little guys will chat with the player using wild onions, and then tell the player that there are insects living in the onions, and teach the player how to deal with them without harming these parasites, thereby obtaining a special technique that can increase the selling price of onions by five times.

In reality, Leon would not stick to the old ways and try to improve the favorability of the two little guys. After all, if a child can discover these little tricks, there is no reason why an adult like him cannot figure them out on his own. So Leon wants to try whether he can unlock the green handling skills by himself without relying on the power of the plot.

Now that he had peeled the green onions, he found that there were indeed bugs inside, so Leon's first attempt was to kill these bugs.

He had no empathy, so Leon, carrying the green onion, quickly came to the river and stuffed the green onion roots that had been pulled apart into the water.
With the erosion of water flow, these small insects clinging to the roots of the green onions were immediately separated from the roots of the green onions by the water and passively floated to the surface of the water under the buoyancy of the water.

However, there were still some small insects stubbornly clinging to the roots of the green onions, forcing Lyon to vigorously rinse the roots of the green onions in water twice before all these small creatures were cleaned out.

"The rough shallot processing technology has been unlocked. Each rough-processed shallot will be sold at twice its original price (this technology is upgradeable)."

As the small insects on the roots of the green onions were carried away by the water flow, Leon heard the system's reminder in his mind.

The processing technology was indeed self-unlocked, but the crude prefix and the double price increase made Lyon speechless. Why was his simple and crude method only worth twice the price?

Is it true that harmlessly treating the insects on these green onions will yield a fivefold increase? Isn't the primary purpose of both methods to eliminate insects? Could it be that because this treatment method is designed to kill insects, it's inhumane?

At this moment, Lyon had a lot of complaints in his heart, but he also knew that the system would ignore him, so he could only hold it in his stomach and think about how to unlock the perfect green onion processing technology to get a five-fold price increase.

Just as Lyon was about to take out the second shallot and try to see if he could carefully peel off the bugs manually, ensuring that there were no bugs on the shallot while still keeping them alive, Lyon noticed some movement on the surface of the water he was washing the shallots.

Originally, those insects floating on the water like rootless duckweed actually attracted a lot of fish in the river. After discovering these excellent proteins floating on the water, these fish immediately swarmed over and devoured these poor little guys in big mouthfuls.

Some of the more lively fish would even jump out of the water when swallowing, their scales sparkling in the sunlight, and after falling into the water, they created a series of splashes, leaving Leon stunned.

"What a plump smallmouth bass! I didn't expect these fish to like this kind of worms, huh?! Wait, this seems like a good discovery!"

(End of this chapter)