A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 323 Combination Bucket
After hanging up the phone with Django, Leon took out his bicycle again and headed straight for the library in Pelican Town.

Although Django said he would bring him a winemaking guide, it wouldn't prevent Leon from learning more on his own, so that he could learn from the best of all schools.

When Lyon arrived at the library, he greeted Gunther and explained his purpose. Gunther enthusiastically helped Lyon find two books on winemaking.

One is called "Fruit and Wine" and the other is called "Fermentation and Distillation".

Both are teaching books about brewing technology, and both are highly recommended by Gunther. He said that after reading these two books, Lyon will have the most basic understanding of brewing.

With these two books on winemaking technology, Leon said goodbye to Gunther, rode his bike back to the farm, sat at the head of the bed, opened the fruit and wine, and began to study.

The time spent reading always passed quickly. When Leon came to his senses, it was already getting dark outside.

Lyon put down the book in his hand, rubbed his dry eyes, walked out the door, and looked at the foothills in the distance for a while to relieve the eye fatigue.

An afternoon of reading gave him some basic understanding of winemaking. The basic process is to clean, crush or directly squeeze the juice, then add yeast to ferment, filter out impurities and inactivate bacteria, and finally bottle and store.

Because it is fruit wine, the production process is relatively simple. If it is white wine, the process is different.

However, Lyon does not intend to or cannot brew high-proof distilled liquor, so he only needs to master these simple techniques and follow them to brew fruit wine.

After his eyes felt a lot better, Leon returned to the house and prepared to cook. At this time, the phone in the house suddenly rang.

After the call was connected, Leon heard Django's greeting and that the barrels Leon ordered had been delivered by the workers, and that the workers were waiting outside Leon's farm for Leon to sign for them.

After thanking Django and hanging up the phone, Leon immediately walked out of the farm and saw a pickup truck on the dirt road outside the farm.

"Mr. Lyon?" The worker asked immediately when he saw Lyon appear.

"It's me." Leon nodded, then looked at the cargo bed behind the pickup truck. Two small barrels that were very similar to the ones he remembered were lying quietly on the cargo bed.

In addition to the round bucket, it is also equipped with a concave bracket more than one meter high. The curved groove can just hold the bucket on it and keep it away from the ground.

"This is the small barrel you ordered. This is the order list. Please check the integrity of the goods before signing and paying." The worker first took out an order list and handed it to Leon. Then he immediately went to the car to assemble the two small barrels in advance and unloaded them. He placed them in front of Leon for inspection.

Lyon first glanced at the price on the invoice to make sure there was no problem. Then he looked around the two barrels for a while to make sure there was no damage. Then he took the pen from the worker, signed his name, and paid 1400G.

This is the number on the cargo list, and the workers did not ask for any transportation fees. I don’t know whether the Far Travel Chamber of Commerce doesn’t care about these things, or whether Django specifically waived this fee for himself.

The worker who received the signed order counted the amount to make sure it was correct, then returned to the car, retrieved the book wrapped in brown paper, and handed it to Leon: "This is what Mr. Django asked me to bring to you. I'll deliver it to you as well."

After Leon took the book, the worker asked again, “Do you need me to help you carry these two barrels to the farm?”

"No, I can do it myself. You can leave now. Sorry for bothering you." Leon declined the other party's service, put away the book in his hand, and then walked to the front of the two buckets. He lifted one of the supporting legs of the bracket with one hand and lifted the two buckets at the same time.

His posture could be compared to Xiang Yu lifting the tripod, except that the bucket he was lifting wasn't as heavy as the bronze tripod. The two buckets, along with the brackets, weighed only a little over fifty pounds, not too heavy. Leon returned to the farm carrying the buckets and placed them in the kitchen. Only then did he have time to check the system notification.

"I've detected a common brewing barrel (rough) and a special brewing barrel (exotic). They can be combined. Do you want to combine them now?"

"Combination?" Looking at the two small barrels in front of him, Leon was confused and didn't understand why the system would give this prompt.

However, the system rarely spoke, so Leon couldn't help but give it face and nodded immediately: "Combination."

As Leon spoke, the two barrels that had just been placed began to move towards each other. The moment they touched, one of the barrels disappeared, leaving only the other barrel with a darker surface color.

There was no significant change in appearance or size. It looked the same as when it was first retrieved, but looking at the appearance, Leon felt like he was deceived by the system.

Fortunately, the system is not a pushover. In order to avoid being underestimated by Leon, a guy who doesn't know the value of it, it immediately made a note of this new fusion barrel.

"Combination Keg: Place fruits and vegetables inside, and they will eventually become drinks. (Although not as easy to use as a keg, it is also a good alternative, but the brewing process will take more time)"

"Oh?!" Seeing this annotation, Leon raised his eyebrows, then hurried back to the wooden house, took out a coconut that he had picked in the Calico Desert, and then came to the combination barrel, opened the lid on the top, and threw the coconut directly in.

Without peeling the shell or even opening the coconut, a whole big coconut was thrown in.

As the coconut entered, the brewing barrel of the combination keg did not expand or contract like in the game. Instead, an inconspicuous red light lit up at the beer outlet where the faucet was installed.

"Is it really that high-tech? Does a green light mean the brew is ready?"

Leon complained, seemingly talking to himself, but actually asking the system.

Unfortunately, the system was not in the habit of answering Leon, so it remained silent. However, Leon felt that this was the system's default, so he also got the answer.

Looking at the small barrel that has entered the brewing state, Lyon is filled with mixed emotions.

On the one hand, he was lamenting that he seemed to have found a way to produce a large number of barrels without upgrading farming to level eight.

On the other hand, he was lamenting that he had spent the afternoon reading in vain. Fortunately, he was still learning how to brew wine, but the system suddenly did this, which completely ruined his efforts.

The current combination bucket created by the system is basically the same as the bucket in the game in terms of function. It should be Leon's exclusive tool like the treasure chest. Although it is easy to use, it can only be used by himself.

But it was originally obtained for brewing wine on the farm. Now that there are such easy-to-use combination kegs, who would still be willing to follow the brewing process step by step to brew wine?
With the emergence of combined kegs, processes such as juicing, yeast fermentation, and sterilization to remove impurities have become meaningless.

Throw in fruits and vegetables that can be used for brewing, and when the time is up, you can get vegetable juice or fruit wine. There is no fancy stuff at all.

It highlights the ease of use and unscientific nature of the product, and its main feature is the fool-proof winemaking method.

(End of this chapter)