"La la la~?!"
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It was almost noon. Annie was happily skipping along the road in Mineral Town all by herself, heading toward the northeast corner of the town's church...
It was the sixth day of summer. Everything Annie had planted had sprouted, and was growing several times faster than it would in any other normal world. This made Annie very happy and pleased!
However, along with her happiness, Annie had a little problem! She didn't seem to have much time to look after that huge field of crops—watering them, watering them, or, well, watering them some more?
Anyway, that sort of thing was a real pain, at least in her opinion!
After all, Annie wasn't so unreasonable that she'd use magic to make it rain over Mineral Town every day just so she wouldn't have to water her crops. That really wouldn't be right... It wouldn't just make that "goddess" or some other random thing notice something was off and raise objections. More importantly, crops watered with rain seemed less tasty than those watered with hot spring water?
So, she had no choice but to spend a fortune again. On a sudden whim, she asked Uncle Zac to use the same channel that had brought hot spring water to the bathhouse and run some cooled hot spring water down from the mountain behind it, using bamboo. Then she started setting up a semiautomatic hot spring irrigation system across the entire field. In other words, rows of bamboo tubes would carry the water, which would drip onto each crop. That way, whenever she needed to water the plants, all Annie had to do was turn on the water at the hot spring when she went there to play, then remember to turn it off when she left.
However, even though