A farming master in Stardew Valley

Chapter 73 Palm Fossils
"Here?"

Abigail looked in the direction of Leon's finger and found that there was nothing special there. It was no different from the sandy areas she passed by.

As for the ancient spots? She couldn't see any of them.

"Ah."

Leon nodded, then walked forward and squatted, stretching out his fingers to try to touch the ancient spots on the sand, but his fingers went straight through the three twisted earthworm-like translucent creatures and touched the slightly moist sand.

"It's really an illusion."

Lyon thought with some disappointment that if this ancient spot that looked like an earthworm really existed, perhaps he could get some bait while looking for antiques in the future.

After all, earthworms that can appear alongside antiques must be very special. If used to fish, I wonder if I can catch mermaids, sea monsters, or something like that.

"What are we going to use to dig?" Abigail also came over and squatted down, asking with a troubled look on her face.

"Hands." Leon said, and started digging the sand on the ground with his hands.

The texture of the sand itself is relatively soft and loose, and because it is close to the lake, the sand contains water and is relatively sticky. There will be no embarrassing situation like digging in dry yellow sand, where you scoop out sand with your front feet and the yellow sand around your feet fills up with it.

As Leon scooped out handful after handful of sand, it piled up into a sand pile. Abigail felt embarrassed to just stand by and watch, so she joined in to help Leon expand the width and depth of the sand pit.

Emily and Sandy noticed that the two were squatting on the ground and digging holes like children playing in the sand pile in the park. Although they were puzzled, they did not stop them. They just stopped and waited for the two to finish playing. They had no intention of joining in the fun.

"Leon! There's something."

After digging for a while, Abigail first touched a hard object. The touch of this object was very special in the soft sand, so the moment she touched it, Abigail knew that this object must not be sand.

"Dig it out and have a look."

Lyon encouraged Abigail with a smile and stopped his actions. After all, the thing had appeared. With a goal, there was motivation. It was better to leave the joy of discovering antiques to Abigail.

Abigail did not hesitate and quickened her movements. After a while, a stone slab about 30 centimeters long appeared in the sand pit. The stone slab was grayish white, and there was a palm leaf-shaped pattern on its surface.

"It turns out to be a stone." Abigail looked at the stone slab with some disappointment. She originally thought that she could dig out some special antiquities, but who would have thought that it was just a stone slab. Although it had patterns on it, it was essentially stone.

"It's not an ordinary stone, it's a palm fossil."

"Palm fossils (antiquities): Palm fossils are quite common, but this one happens to be relatively complete."

Lyon touched the palm leaf pattern on the stone slab and received a brief introduction provided by the system.

Touching the outline of this fossil palm leaf with your hand, you can feel some slight bumps on the edge of the leaf pattern. Although there is no slender petiole, the leaf is well preserved, which does meet the relatively complete description.

"Is it a fossil? I thought it was just a stone with special patterns." Abigail was a little surprised when she heard this, and at the same time became interested in this palm fossil.

"Is it valuable?" "It's not too big and has research value, but its collection and economic value are relatively weak. After all, the output rate of palm fossils is not low." Lyon estimated.

After all, I don’t know much about the price of fossils in this world, but palm fossils are relatively common fossils, and their economic value should not be too high.

"Oh." When Abigail heard that it was not valuable, she lost interest again. It was not that she wanted to make money by digging for treasure, but she simply felt that there was no sense of accomplishment in digging out worthless ancient treasures.

"We can take it back and send it to the library's exhibition room as a collection, Sandy. Fossils dug out of the desert should be able to be taken away. There shouldn't be any disputes over ownership."

Noticing what was happening on Lyon's side, Sandy and Emily naturally came over out of curiosity. After seeing Sandy, Lyon took the opportunity to ask about the ownership of the excavated antiquities.

"Of course you can take it away. Things buried in the desert belong to whoever digs it up." Sandy replied, and then noticed the palm fossils in the sand pit in front of Leon and Abigail.

"I just didn't expect you to actually find something. You're lucky! This palm fossil is in excellent condition."

"Do you know about valuation in this area?" When Leon heard Sandy's words, he felt that the other party seemed to have done research in this area, so he asked immediately.

"Because many desert gold prospectors and explorers used to come to the store to rest and exchange information, I've heard some news about this. Palm fossils of this quality can probably be sold for around three or four hundred yuan."

Sandy generously shared his estimated price.

"Three or four hundred is not a small amount, but let's put it in the library. Its cultural value is much greater than its economic value." Lyon was a little surprised when he heard this, but he still had no intention of selling it.

Now that he has the ability to observe ancient spots, as long as Lyon is willing, finding antiques will not be a difficult task for him. If he encounters high-value antiques in the future, he will consider selling them. For these antiques that are not too expensive, Lyon still plans to give them to Gunther in return for gaining this ability.

After all, agreeing to let Gunther help him fill the library's exhibition hall with collections was a kind of equal exchange.

"It's all fine." Abigail didn't care how Lyon dealt with the palm fossil, but she was very interested in Lyon's ability to find antiquities.

It's just that there are a lot of people here now, so it's not convenient for her to ask Leon why he can directly point out where the ancient artifacts are. She plans to ask him later when they are alone.

"I think Mr. Gunther will be very happy." Emily agreed with Leon's point of view.

"The library's exhibition room used to be a must-see for tourists, where you could see many rare and unique things. However, since the previous director took away the collection and ran away, the library has rarely been visited by tourists."

"Then you wait here for me. It's not convenient to hold such a fossil. I'll go and put it in the car for him." Leon nodded and suggested.

Although he was able to put the palm fossils into his backpack, he didn't want to expose this special ability with so many people around.

The three women nodded in agreement with Lyon's statement, and Lyon did not waste any more time. After taking out the palm fossil, he went back the same way.

He wasn't just talking, he really wanted to put the fossil in Abigail's car, and put it in his backpack if it was out of sight.

Then when Abigail and Emily returned to the car and saw no trace of palm fossils, it would be difficult to explain.

(End of this chapter)