3rd day of summer in the first year

The live stream suddenly stopped and then suddenly started again, and you can only choose to accept and adapt to this change.

Your expressionless face when you're alone quickly switches to a friendly, business-like smile. As you get out of bed, you expertly greet everyone: "Hello, hello~ Good morning, noon, and evening, fellow villagers! Let's continue experiencing this Curse Return module. We're already in Summer 3. Let me show you my vegetable garden—blueberries, melons, and hops. They're all planted and sprouting!"

【Ahhh, bunny feet, you sneaked out!】

Why are there only two hop plants?

"Isn't the first day of every season all about farming? And then there's fishing, grinding fishing levels. If you just sit there watching, you'll get bored." You didn't mention the few story segments you'd accidentally missed in the past few days, and as you explained, you threw copper ore into the furnace: "I don't have a small bucket yet. I just unlocked the sap collector yesterday, so I'll make a few and hang them up today."

[Don't try to deny it. You practically planted those two hop plants on someone else's farm. Is that how you intend to use them for brewing?]

The rabbit that you want to pet was moved to the front of the door, while the hops that you're too lazy to tidy up were planted near the doghouse. The discrimination couldn't be more obvious.

"You can't use hops as a sacrifice!" you argue as you wait for ingots at the furnace. "What's the point of brewing so much beer? If you want beer, go to a bar."

[Rabbit's Foot, you've gotten too big for your britches; you're no longer the simple farmers we are.]

[Okay, okay, let's just plant it like this, and see when we can master all five paths.]

You said, half-laughing and half-crying, "Mine is version 1.5. I haven't mastered the caves yet. Right now, besides building a beautiful village, I'm making friends everywhere and diligently playing the foolish grandson of a landlord!"

[A full-time grandson? But Grandpa's already in the grave!]

Grandpa returned for the third year: Nothing has changed, as long as the kids are happy.

Don't just stand there waiting, check your email!

Mail?

You instinctively turn around to check your email for new messages, but someone quickly spoils what the message will contain.

[Haha, here come the underwear~]

[When the blankets were lifted from the siblings' beds, it was discovered that one was naked on top and the other naked on the bottom.]

Oh, it's a request to find the lucky purple shorts... I have to go into the underworld's bedroom to pick up the shorts, how embarrassing.

This time, you plan to pick up the shorts and return them to Youyou honestly. After all, they are shorts that someone else wore and that have been lying on the floor for at least one night. You don't want to use them for anything else, as that would make you seem like a pervert (but doing so in the game is harmless).

Once the copper ingots are smelted, you make five sap collectors. Hang them on a few trees on the farm, catch rabbits, and then go fishing at the beach.

Anyway, Youyou probably doesn't need another pair of underwear, so you decide to wait until next Tuesday when Mingming isn't home before going to pick it up.

As you walk onto the beach, you suddenly realize that you haven't seen Elliot for a few days. Now that you're at his doorstep, and it's still early if you want to fish for pufferfish, why not go in and take a look?

So you went to Elliot's seaside cottage, where he usually leaves late in the morning and is usually home by now.

Sure enough, as soon as you entered, you saw Elliot standing in front of the desk. When he saw you come in, he immediately looked pleasantly surprised and said, "Hello, Iridium Rabbit Foot, welcome to my humble abode."

"Hello, Elliot." You smile back, as if you've really made a new friend, and begin to inquire about his daily life: "Are you writing a book? How's it going?"

Elliott leaned half his body against the edge of the table, his fingers lightly tracing the crumpled manuscript paper, and said softly, "I am indeed creating something, but there are no results yet. Maybe tomorrow, the day after... until spring comes again, there will still only be a persistent literary creator and his unfinished work here. My family often says that behind every successful writer are 1,000 tragic failures. They think I'm crazy."

A slight smile played on his lips, but his tone was unusually firm: "Living alone by the sea helps me capture inspiration. I will become a writer; it's a dream I've longed to realize since I was a child."

His monologue differs somewhat from the original work, but you find this version of Eliot quite charming, and you can't help but meet his gaze until his deep green eyes fill with laughter. Then you suddenly realize what's happening, your cheeks flush, and you stammer, "So-so? Do you need any advice? About the direction of your writing or something..."

“Of course,” Elliott said. “Tell me, my dear friend, what kind of books do you like?”

You replied, "Suspense."

Elliott nodded thoughtfully: "These kinds of stories are indeed exciting."

He turned his gaze to the flowerpot on the corner of the table and suddenly said, "Okay, I've said enough. Finally, I have a request for help from a friend—you should know something about plants, right? Could you take a look at this rose? It seems a bit wilted."

You walked over and stood close to the flowerpot, examining it for a long time before hesitatingly saying, "Perhaps it needs more light? Ordinary lamplight can't replace sunlight..."

Elliott agreed, "Yes, if I didn't need its company, it would thrive in the bright sunshine. It seems I'll have to take this rose outside to bask in the sun more often. Thank you for your suggestion."

You, who are essentially a plant killer, said: "How about we take it to Grandma Evelyn for a look when we have time? What I say might not be accurate."

Elliot stood beside you, speaking mysteriously, "That won't do, little farmer, only you can see this flower."

"Huh?" You wanted to ask what this meant, but you felt yourself being pushed back so fast that you were standing at the door of the wooden house again.

Elliott, sitting at his piano, casually thanked you for chatting with him and said he would think about what you said.

You leave Elliot's house full of questions, eat a "sea dish" that you put in your backpack before leaving in the morning—yes, you only remembered when you were rummaging through the refrigerator that you had previously obtained 5 of these good dishes that could increase your fishing level by 3 through some kind of sacrifice or something, so yesterday's bowl of terribly salty trout soup was a complete waste—then you stop at the Venus fishing spot at the estuary and start fishing for pufferfish.

[Four tilapia, is this still Lucky Rabbit's Foot?]

[It must be because you're not wearing the mayor's lucky purple shorts! Go back and get them!]

With so many tilapia caught, our barbecue for tonight is sorted!

[One each of spicy, chopped chili, perilla, and salt and pepper fish. Anyone want some grilled tilapia?]

Hello, I'd like a stalk of perilla leaves.

[Classic Spicy, Thank You]

I'll get the chili-flavored one, and I'll also get my roommate the salt and pepper one, since she can't handle too much spice.

Salt and pepper

[All collected!]

One per person, no more! Let your roommate get it themselves!

[Sorry, she ate too fast; there's only bone left. Do you want to slurp it up?]

【Ugh, this is disgusting】

Look, the live stream has already arranged everything for the fish that were just caught. The frustration of catching tilapia one after another has been greatly relieved, and they continue casting. When they catch tuna, they even ask who wants to eat sashimi.

【I!】

[If you don't like raw tuna, make it into a tuna salad]

[Pick your food and take it outside, don't fight us for it]

You were laughing so hard that you accidentally let the pufferfish that had finally taken the bait escape, which drew boos from the live stream audience.

Fortunately, I had good luck today. Less than half an hour later, I caught another pufferfish. This time I kept a close eye on it and didn't let it escape. I caught it successfully.

Then, if you want to confirm what other summer fish to catch besides pufferfish, tuna, and tilapia, open the offering board in the upper right corner of your backpack and find...

The pufferfish has already been sacrificed!

"When did this happen, family?!" you exclaimed in despair. "Why are we already got pufferfish but we're missing red snapper?!"

[Hint: Traveling Merchant]

It's alright, it's just a rabbit foot. We don't remember you buying it. Just pretend to offer it as a sacrifice and it'll be fine.

[The biggest mistake is being too rich. Even if we could afford pufferfish at the start of spring, we'd still feel the pinch for half a day.]

Don't waste the vegetables, go sturgeon fishing!

Before you could even take a deep breath to calm yourself, you immediately decided to go sturgeon fishing and turned to head towards the mountaintop.

Drink your coffee, then go full speed ahead!

You're struggling to climb up with the buffs of +3 fishing level and +1 speed, and people in the live stream are even cheering you on:

[Sturgeon sauce, wait for us~]

[Damn it, don't underestimate my bond with Fishing +3!]

[Swing your rabbit feet!]

At 4:00 pm, the time when pufferfish leave the shore, you catch the first sturgeon of the day in the mountain lake. Sturgeon are difficult to catch, but they are easier for you than pufferfish, after all, you are a veteran of the fishpond and a supplier of high-quality raw materials for caviar.

After catching a sturgeon, you didn't leave immediately, intending to catch a few more to release into the pond. However, it seemed your luck with fishing had run out for the day. You didn't wait for any more sturgeon to bite until the buff from the Sea Food wore off. Instead, you just caught a few lake fish to accumulate fishing experience points. When the time came, you went down the mountain to fish for nighttime fish in the river—bream. That completed your fishing task for the day. The last sacrificial fish of summer can only be caught on a rainy day.

You temporarily placed the sturgeon in the fish tank by your bedside, then changed the tank and threw in the pufferfish you had accidentally caught. By comparison, you felt that the pufferfish was ridiculously large.

These round, golden-yellow pufferfish balls are so good they could be used to polish shoes, or even scrub the floor!

Although I didn't catch a second sturgeon, after these two days of hard work, my fishing level, which had been stagnant for a long time, has risen to level 6. Once I reach level 1, I can use the remaining 4 portions of Sea Dishes to fish for Magma Eels... But I don't need this fish right now, so I'll put it aside for the time being.

Tomorrow I can build a fishpond and catch a sturgeon while I'm at it; more fish mean faster spawning. I also need to mine, buy pigs, and chop hardwood. I've been lying around for a few days without streaming, so I need to catch up and grind! Otherwise, when will I ever be able to go home?!

While it's possible to return by collecting all the items in the museum, it's also quite possible that we'll return to the real world together after the sacrifice of the demon Zhu Ni Mo. We can't let our guard down on either side.