บท 39: The Upcoming Harvest Festival Bazaar
A week has passed since the incident with the guild. During that week, Elaina has tamed two more Hencluckle in the process. A few days after the guild master stopped by with his employees, they promptly sent a letter to Elaina about approving the egg's inclusion in the market and appointing it as a new variety of eggs from the Hencluckle.
According to the letter, the price might increase depending on the demand by the people but right now, it will be sold for 5 gold coins per egg and 50 gold for a dozen. Elaina agreed to it since she didn't lose anything from the price. She earned money that is more than she spent from paying for feeds which were milled corn for chicken feed. Since milled corn wasn't so expensive for Elaina's budget and the Hencluckle's egg is much more expensive if sold, she has earned money for a single shipping of a dozen eggs.
Since then, it somehow gained traction and although Elaina can't keep on supplying a dozen eggs for a single day since the Hencluckle only lays one egg in a single day, the demand is starting to increase. This made Elaina prompt herself to tame more Hencluckle in the process.
It was not hard anymore now that Elaina and Julia have done it before, just the problem of dispatching all the monsters the Hencluckle calls is the problem. Still, it made the task successful and now, Elaina has 3 Hencluckles that will lay three eggs a day. Although not enough for a dozen a day, she can deliver a dozen immediately every 4 days now.
The farm is also slowly shaping up as well. Although Elaina sometimes cannot do work when the Morning Sickness she experiences is bad, during the times when it immediately halts, she made great progress on keeping the farm functional and big. Not big enough that would cause Julia to struggle to work once she cannot do any physical labor, but big enough that would generate income for them for some time.
As for Elaina's crops, thanks to the fertilizers that the Harvest Goddess gave to her, the plants are growing properly and are slowly maturing. Regular maintenance and check-ups are what Elaina does every morning. Getting rid of pests, watering daily, checking if the plants had some diseases or not, and making sure that they were growing smoothly while the crows and other birds were not there to destroy the crops she painstakingly cared for.
The scarecrow is coming along nicely but it will take a while as neither she nor Julia knows how to create a functional scarecrow that can scare the birds consistently.
As for the sprinklers, Elaina has been steadily saving up her Farm Points to ensure she can purchase them. It won't be purchased now, but it will be in the future.
Today is another sunny day for Elaina. She feels great so far and the morning sickness is mild and disappeared after a while. After breakfast with Julia, she started to do the work once more. Cucumbers are slowly growing properly and the strawberries are already blooming their flowers. It won't take long before the fruits of her labor will soon appear before her eyes soon enough. She can't wait to make some harvests and see if she did a good job with it.
With the usual tasks slowly being done, Elaina decided to take a break from work. Since Julia is still busy finishing the Scarecrow, she is stuck inside, doing all the work. While Elaina is currently taking a break, a mail bird flies over by her house, circling for a few seconds before it lands nearby, and pulls out a letter from its little sling bag full of letters. It looked around and saw the mailbox before dropping the mail inside it and flying away.
There are two mailboxes for Elaina, one is meant for the humans to put mail and it was situated outside the gate, and of course, the Mail Birds that carry their mail around coming from different areas. Since it was a Mail Bird that was delivering the mail this time, it wasn't from the guild since a guild member would be the one responsible for sending it if it ever came there.
Elaina stood up and headed to the mailbox, retrieving the mail in question. It was a formal letter of invitation and it seemed to be some kind of event in which many people participated.
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"To all the farmers of the city and nearby town,
We are organizing a Harvest Festival Bazaar this coming Rabon(Saturday). It will be a three-day activity that will be happening to showcase the crops of the farmers and to celebrate the climax of the spring season. Farmers who receive this mail can join the Harvest Festival Bazaar competition and compete with whoever carries the most high-quality ingredients they can sell to the people. Although we won't force you to join, your participation is a welcome one and we will be waiting for you to register in either your Mayor's office or perhaps in the city hall itself.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!"
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Before Elaina can even react to the letter in her hands nor she can decide whether she will join or not, the unknown god suddenly starts talking which makes Elaina surprised, since the chat box suddenly appears without warning, surprising her slightly.
"[Elaina! This is a good opportunity for you to increase the fame of your farm, and the fame of the products and to bring glory to your name in farming!]"
"Eh? Wait...don't tell me..."
"[Yes! This is a good opportunity to not only give the farm a massive boost of popularity, but the farm's reputation as one who gives quality vegetables would be a great way to let people know about the specialty of our products.]"
"Uh...I know that is the case...but there is no way I would participate with only a bit of vegetables at my disposal and some are not yet even ready for harvest. I don't want to call the Harvest Goddess for another blessing to enhance the growth of my crops artificially and my crops are not even that high a quality just yet," Elaina protested. She agreed to what the unknown god was saying but it was still too early for her to participate and the battle for the top-tier farm would be still a few more works away from happening."
"[You don't have to win. You just needed to participate and try to win. Winning gives quite a lot for the winners but since you are skeptical about this, we will be giving a limited mission while the event is going to happen. It will expire once the event is over but it will reappear at a later date once the event happens once again.]"
For Elaina, something like that is something enticing for Elaina, and she suddenly showed interest after hearing the words..."Rewards".
"I see. Then, tell me what I should do for this matter then."
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