In the end, Annie still failed to buy the seeds needed to grow crops on her ranch...
Because she was out of money!
With only the miserable number "0G" left in the ranch's account, nobody was willing to let this unfamiliar little girl, who had only arrived in Mineral Town two days ago and looked rather unreliable, buy on credit! So, with gold unable to be spent as money and not worth much either, Annie—who temporarily didn't want to be driven out by Mayor Thomas, that big-nosed old man, under some flimsy excuse about being unqualified—could only make a resolute decision: she would find a way and earn money herself?
Thus, Annie had no choice but to set off. After eating and drinking her fill at Big Sister Lynn's shop, she headed toward the mountain behind town!
She remembered that Uncle Zac had also told her that there were plenty of valuable things on the mountain—things like "foraged goods" that could be gathered and sold when funds were running low?
So...
To save her ranch's account, which was already on the verge of bankruptcy, she had to do something.
"??"
(°ー°〃)
"This is the right road. It should be just ahead, right?"
~o(▽｀ o)=3 =3 =3
The mountain behind Mineral Town was also called Mother's Hill. Supposedly, if one went south from the ranch Annie had just obtained, crossed the little stream used for fetching water, and passed through a small grove containing a wooden house where a lumberjack lived, one would arrive there!
There were two mountain paths on the grove's southwestern side. One led to the hot spring and waterfall, where the residents of Mineral Town could bathe for free whenever they were tired in the miraculous hot spring that was said to restore stamina and dispel fatigue.