A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 691: Shrimp Fishing Class Begins
"Oh, yeah, why didn't I see Penny in their team? Penny seems to have a pretty good relationship with Leon."

As a social butterfly in Pelican Town, Jodie knew a lot about things in the town. She also knew that Penny and Leon had a good relationship. She hadn't noticed that Penny was missing from Leon's team before. Now that Olivia mentioned Penny's name, she realized it.

"Maybe it's because I sent Penny for training and she doesn't have time to attend. This is also my problem. If I knew they were having a young people's gathering today, I would have postponed the training for a few days." Olivia explained.

"Why don't we join them? It looks like it should be quite lively." Caroline suddenly suggested.

"Uh, isn't that inappropriate?" Olivia was stunned, not understanding why Caroline would say that.

"Yes, and I have to go back to cook at noon. Caroline, don't you need to cook for Pierre?" Jodi dissuaded.

It would be so awkward for three middle-aged women to attend a gathering of young people. She didn't want to be a third wheel. What if one of the girls took the opportunity to develop a relationship with Leon, but was restrained by the presence of the three of them? That would be a sin.

"You're right, let's forget it." Seeing this, Caroline had to give up, but she felt a little unwilling in her heart.

The reason why she made such a suggestion was that she wanted to help Abigail. After all, as Leon's official girlfriend, she was not with Leon to assert her sovereignty at this time, but stayed on the periphery without any care. She was really not afraid that Leon would fall in love with someone else.

When Abigail comes home one day, she will definitely have a good talk with her about this matter.

On the other side, Leon and his group had arrived at John's butcher shop.

But only Leon went in.

"What would you like to order today?" Although he didn't like to talk, John still forced a smile and asked Leon, a regular customer.

"Order pork liver." Leon replied.

"Yes, how much do you want?" John was no longer surprised by Lyon's choices. Lyon was very fond of some scraps that the people in Pelican Town had never asked about. If the quantity purchased each time was not so small, John would have thought that Lyon bought them to make biological fertilizers.

"One piece is enough, but I need to borrow your knife." Leon said.

"If you want to cut it, I can help you." John immediately understood Leon's intention of borrowing a knife.

"I'll do it myself. I have some special requirements for the cut shape." Lyon explained.

"Okay." John didn't try to persuade him any further. Instead, he turned around and rummaged through the basket. Finally, he took out a piece of bleeding pig liver from a pile of internal organs. It looked quite fresh.

"How much?" Leon touched his pocket and planned to pay first.

"No money." John waved his hand, then looked at the girls outside the window: "But is one dollar enough? There seem to be quite a lot of you."

"I'm just using it as bait, not to eat," Lyon added.

"Oh." John nodded, then threw the pork liver onto the chopping board and handed the boning knife in his hand to Leon.

Lyon took the boning knife and weighed it. It was quite heavy. The handle did not feel greasy after being in contact with meat grease for a long time. Instead, it was quite dry. The blade was also polished to a shine, and the blade reflected a cold light. It was obvious that the knife was well maintained in John's hands.

Without wasting any time, Leon quickly cut the entire liver into long strips, then cut it piece by piece, forming strips, each piece about a finger's length. Each strip of liver was also scored with a few small cuts, very short but quite noticeable, to make it easier for the lobster to grip and to help the liver emit the most fishy smell underwater.

"Okay, thanks."

As soon as he finished cutting the pork liver, John took out a plastic bag, put all the liver into the bag and handed it to Leon, which made Leon very grateful.

"You're welcome. Have fun." John shook his head, then took the boning knife from Leon's hand and ran to the back to clean up with the knife.

Before leaving, Leon left a 10G bill on John's counter and then left the butcher shop.

"It's time to go."

Now that the most important bait was taken care of, the rest of the preparations would be much simpler. Leon asked the girls to follow him and headed directly towards the river west of Pelican Town.

Across the stone bridge is the Joja supermarket, but Leon did not go there. Instead, he walked north along the river and stopped in front of the small waterfall near the northern foothills.

This is the place where we fish for the king of autumn fish, anglerfish. We chose this place because it is close to John's butcher shop, and on the other hand, it is because the river is sheltered by mountains on both sides and does not need to face direct sunlight.

"We haven't prepared anything, what should we do?"

Seeing Leon stop, Emily looked around and found that everyone had their hands free, so she asked.

"I have long been ready."

Lyon smiled and took out the bag of pork liver from the system backpack, followed by a long piece of fishing line. This bundle of fishing line was the one that was on the reel of the carbon fiber fishing rod. Because its position was replaced by Lyon's iridium reel, it was directly retired. Now that Lyon took it out, it could be regarded as a second job.

After pulling out the fishing line and leaving a length of about four meters, Leon called the girls to gather around and began to demonstrate how to tie the pig liver.

In fact, there is no special skill involved. You just need to wrap the fishing line around the middle of a pig liver, tie a knot, and make sure it is tied tightly. It is not difficult, so the girls can learn it at a glance.

"Just pick up the fishing line and throw the bait in?" When Leah saw this style of fishing gear, she thought of the hand-line fishing method.

"The fishing line is too sharp and can easily scratch my hands, so I need a rod." Lyon shook his head and then took out the wood he was carrying.

A piece of wood that is one and a half meters long is a bit long for a shrimp fishing rod, but it is not unusable.

The wood itself is a bit thick, so Lyon has to do some secondary processing, using a Galaxy watermelon knife to divide a whole piece of wood into four parts, making it much lighter and thinner.

After carving a groove on the rod head and removing the excess corners on the rod tail to make it round and not uncomfortable to touch, finally wrap the fishing line around the groove on the rod head and shorten the excess line by wrapping it in a circle. Now you have a pretty good shrimp fishing rod.

"Just throw it directly into the water, try to make sure it sinks to the bottom, then let out a little more line so it curves on the water surface. If a crayfish is attracted and bites the bait, then according to their hunting habits, they will use their claws to drag the food away, and then you will find that the originally loose fishing line will straighten up, and then you can just lift the rod."

　Two more updates, no need to wait, busy!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)