Communicate with furry animals without any barriers, and take the farm to the next level

Chapter 305 Conquered!

After tasting the delicious hard-shelled insect meat that Wen En had personally caught, Josh took out the prepared lunchbox.

"Here, Wen, try this." Josh handed Wen the egg yolk pastry from the lunchbox.

"Is this the snack you wanted to make with salted duck eggs?" Wen En took the lunchbox and examined it carefully.

"Where is the egg yolk used? Is it in the golden outer layer or mixed into the fine powder?"

"No, you'll know once you take a bite. Take a big bite and see." Josh held up his index finger and shook it, keeping everyone in suspense.

"Okay, whatever you say." Wen En chuckled expectantly, opened her mouth wide, and took a big bite.

"Hey, something's leaking out." Wen En hurriedly caught it with his hands.

"It's duck egg yolk!" Wen En exclaimed in surprise. "The duck egg yolk is completely wrapped inside the pastry. The aroma is fully released with one bite. And the crust is flaky but not dry or hard at all. It's delicious!"

Wen En finished the egg yolk pastry in a few bites and quickly grabbed the second one to start eating.

This time, instead of devouring it like a cow chewing on a peony, he took a bite and savored it slowly.

"I don't really like the taro paste inside. There should be a better combination. Of course, it's delicious, but it's just a matter of my personal taste," Wen En added after finishing her sentence.

“Is that so?” Josh pondered for a moment. “The most classic pairing for egg yolk pastries is still red bean paste, but the farm doesn’t have suitable sweet red beans, so we can’t make red bean paste.”

"Red bean paste? I've never had it before, so I don't know what it tastes like. But if you're talking about sweet red beans, I think I know where you can buy it."

"Where? Wen En, tell me quickly."

"Connor? You mean Connor from Big Tail Fish Farm?"

"Hmm, Josh, do you know him too? His farm also raises a lot of low-level, mindless bird-like magical beasts. We've known each other for a long time. His farm grows all kinds of beans and grains to provide nutrition for these magical beasts. He definitely has sweet red beans."

"We both work at the same three-star farm. We met when we were collecting rewards, but we weren't very familiar with each other; it was just a one-time encounter." We haven't been in contact since.

If Wen En hadn't brought it up this time, she might have almost forgotten about it.

Oh no, I ran into him in the business district last time too. He and Dolly visited the Glimmer Business District together, but the two of them didn't interact much. Of all the shops for rent, only Dolly's Wilderness Farm persisted until the end. She rented a medium-sized shop located inside the business district, with two floors and a small warehouse.

During my last visit to the commercial district, I noticed that her compressed juice business was doing quite well after its improvements, attracting many Gorilla cats to the store and drawing in a lot of customers.

"It's okay, I get along with him quite well. If you need, I can ask him for you."

"Okay, thank you Wen En."

"It's nothing, a minor issue." Wen En grinned, thinking it was no big deal.

"Oh right, I haven't mentioned the important point yet. If you want to order salted duck eggs on a long-term basis, how will you supply me?" Josh asked.

"This is a small problem. I've been using that Rookie Delivery service, which you guys are very close to, to deliver a lot of goods to me recently. They've also been doing business around Chaoyang City lately."

We've agreed on the quantity, and I'll deliver the goods to them on time so they can bring them to me.

"My location while herding ducks changes frequently, and the communicator often can't reach me. You can write to me; this is my home address, and I'll see it when I get home." Wen handed over a note with his home address. "Okay, we haven't used up the 500 salted duck eggs yet. Can we try sending me 500 every two weeks to see if that works?" Josh asked somewhat shyly.

Five hundred sounds like a lot, but there are actually only a few. What a hassle.

"Of course, I'll deliver on time." Wen En was delighted to have secured new business and didn't mind at all.

"But can we supply so many eggs?" Josh asked with some concern, worried that the raw materials might run out.

"Haha, Josh, don't underestimate me. You don't think I only have these silly ducks grazing around, do you?"

"Isn't that right? Do you also herd other flocks of ducks?"

“Of course not. We are hereditary duck herders. My father got too old to herd ducks anymore, so he also raises other types of ducks that don’t require grazing. Don’t worry, they can easily meet the needs of the Glimmer Farm,” Wen said proudly.

"That's amazing, that's good!" Josh was relieved.

After a brief chat, Wen En packed up and headed to the next duck-herding spot.

The next time we meet will likely be next year, barring any unforeseen circumstances. Josh gave him a lot of farm produce, hoping we can meet again next year.

In the following days, Josh rode Big Fat deep into the Glimmering Forest, searching for a moist, warm, and secluded spot to sow the spores of the brown jelly.

Basically, you take the dried brown jelly from the farm, squeeze it at a selected spot to let the spores inside burst open, and then leave the rest to them.

Josh told the digging pigs to remember this taste, so they could come back to pick mushrooms after the rainy season.

After tasting the few pieces of brown jelly that Josh handed them, the three burrowing pigs nodded emphatically. Good mushrooms, they would definitely remember them.

Now that all kinds of crops have been planted on the farm, the next days will be spent thinning flowers and fruits and managing the crops in the fields.

With Josh's strong support, the leaf ants began to reproduce and expand rapidly. Currently, the leaf ants can manage six or seven of the ten farm plots on the farm. The remaining plots are in remote locations and their ant population is insufficient, but this will not be a problem once their numbers increase.

What? You're asking why they suddenly stood up?
Of course, it's because Josh made the bigleaf ant beans taste like them, and now they're all growing strong and healthy.

Haha, as expected of her.

Actually, a few days ago, Josh took out the large-leaf ant beans that had been soaking for a long time and found that they still tasted terrible. Although the strange taste in the beans was removed by soaking in water, the taste did not improve at all. Instead, they had a stale and disgusting texture.

Josh had the leaf ants try it, but they just lay there like corpses and refused to open their mouths.

With no other option, Josh tried different processing methods, but he was still unable to overcome the challenge of processing large-leaf ant beans.

Finally, she remembered the fried soybean noodles her grandmother used to make when she was a child. Stir-frying them over a high flame would make even the oldest soybeans fragrant. Adding white sugar and a spoonful of it would make them incredibly delicious.

She put the dried ant beans, which she had originally intended to use for other purposes, into a large pot and stir-fried them over high heat until the outer skin of the beans was charred yellow with some black bits, and the aroma of the beans was released.

I personally pounded the beans into powder with a stone hammer, and finally added special deodorizing algae and granulated sugar.

For the first time, Josh tasted the crispy and delicious flavor of beans from the bigleaf ant beans.