My Pokémon Story of Seasons

Chapter 247 The First Alchemy Workshop

A short while later, Tong Hua finished trimming Mao Rongrong's fur.

After her haircut, the fluffy dog ​​looked fresh and cute. She shyly rubbed against Tong Hua's leg and then snuggled up to Meimei affectionately.

Seeing that all the Pokémon were in pairs, and recalling what had happened at the Pokémon House earlier—

Tong Hua suddenly felt an inexplicable impulse, but he quickly suppressed it.

"Forget it, anyway, relationships aren't really my thing."

I'd better focus on my career; off to alchemy!

After collecting the sheared wool, Tong Hua and Tibrim carried the piles of wool back to the Happy Dessert Shop.

On the way, as Tong Hua passed the fields behind the house, she saw her senior brother Mu Mu helping Shu Lin Gui and Tian Wu Ni tend to the fields.

To complement Tong Hua's brewing techniques, among the first batch of summer crops planted, Tree Turtle specially allocated large planting areas for hops, star fruit, and blueberries.

After all, making wine from star fruit is a specialty, and Jessica taught me how.

"The batch of fruit wine in the cellar should be transferred to new barrels in a few days."

After transferring to new barrels, it needs to age for a while longer; I don't know if it will turn out well.

Actually, to be honest, Tong Hua hadn't paid much attention to the situation in the wine cellar during this period.

Anyway, the temperature and humidity in the wine cellar are automatically controlled, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

Even if the final brew is undrinkable, just the fact that Tong Hua unlocked the alchemist profession is already worth the price of admission.

"Ouch!"

In the kitchen, three Alcremie were directing two little Alcremie to help out, along with a Messenger bird returning from a delivery, and Riolu and Grovyle, who had finished their training, were busy in the shop.

Looking at the bustling scene in the store, Tong Hua couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

"This really optimized me out of my wits!"

However, there are some things I still have to do myself.

After carefully tidying up the wool, Tong Hua tied on an apron.

Although I already tasted the Pokémon's cooking yesterday, I have to say there's still a lot of room for improvement.

If it's just for sale in a store, lowering the price would be reasonable.

However, the orders supplied to outsiders are different; Chef Tong Hua still has to personally prepare them to avoid damaging the brand.

"Chirp chirp!"

It's been a few days since I've seen Tong Hua make desserts, and the messenger bird is excitedly flying around the kitchen.

Tong Hua picked up the kitchen utensils and instantly transformed into a chef. Her movements were fluid and skillful, from preparing the ingredients to putting them in the oven and finally decorating the finished product.

It took less than fifteen minutes to complete an order, and the lowest quality was B grade.

"Eek~"

The three Alcremie fairies assisted Tong Hua, their movements perfectly coordinated.

In no time, all the orders needed for this week were completed. The messenger bird counted the items, nodded in satisfaction, and carefully packed the desserts into its tail bag.

"Chirp chirp!"

The messenger bird flapped its wings and ran off to deliver goods again.

"Be careful on the road!" Tong Hua stood at the door, watching the messenger bird fly towards the village.

Actually, he had originally planned to bring back a few new messenger birds today to help ease the delivery burden.

However, upon further reflection, the current demand for delivery is not that great, so I didn't make a move.

"After a while, the number of delivery orders should increase."

After all, it's almost time for ice cream to start to come.

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Tong Hua gazed at the rising temperature outside the window and said thoughtfully.

"Take advantage of the situation to launch a home delivery service for shaved ice and sundaes, and hire a few more messenger birds to handle the delivery."

Besides shaved ice, you can also have messenger birds blow a cool breeze to refresh your guests.

Tong Hua thought about it more and more and felt that this was a good idea, so he wrote it down in his notebook.

"Bree!"

Meanwhile, Tibrim, who was already getting impatient, was secretly eating snacks while urging Tong Hua to hurry up.

"What happened to alchemy? Why are you cooking again?"

"If you keep slacking off like this, when will you ever make the potion to restore me to human form!"

Seeing Tibrim's pouty and angry expression, Tong Hua scratched his head somewhat embarrassedly.

"Sorry, sorry————"

"So, the red diamond, caramel, and tricolor—the rest is up to you. All right? Be careful with fire."

"Eek~"

In order not to disturb the work in the kitchen, Tong Hua and Tibriam used a trolley to move the crucibles and other alchemy equipment away.

The kitchen suddenly felt much more spacious, allowing Frost Milk Fairy and Little Fairy Milk to move around more freely.

"Hmm, how about we move these things to the basement of the new house?"

Fortunately, in addition to the wine cellar, several basement floors were reserved, so we'll use one of them as an alchemy workshop for now.

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So, Tong Hua pushed a cart full of equipment and returned to their new home with Tibrim.

As soon as I got back, I saw Chinchilla and Pickpocket Cat lying on the sofa watching TV.

The TV was still showing the classic Tom and Jerry cartoon; I don't know why they both love watching it so much.

"Terrifying!" "Meow!"

Upon seeing Tong Hua return, the two little ones immediately gathered around. Tong Hua smiled and told them not to watch for too long and to go outside and exercise more.

Because the cart needed to be pushed to the basement, the stairs couldn't be used. Fortunately, Tong Hua had considered this issue when the house was built, so an elevator was installed in the new house.

The elevator door is located next to the stairs. There are five floors in total: two floors above ground, an attic, and two basement floors.

Tong Hua pushed the cart and walked into the elevator with Tibrim, pressing the button for the basement level.

"Come to think of it, this elevator hasn't been used very often."

However, elevators will still be necessary for convenience when we get older. It's a way of preparing for age-appropriate retirement fifty years from now.

As Tong Hua was talking, she suddenly laughed at herself.

Thinking about the distant future, fifty years from now, Tong Hua couldn't help but laugh out loud.

I should be almost seventy years old by then, probably an old man with white hair like Grandpa Yang, maybe even using a cane, riding this elevator up and down the stairs surrounded by Pokémon.

"Bri?" Tibrim tilted her head, not understanding what Tong Hua was laughing at.

"It's nothing, you probably wouldn't understand." Tong Hua rubbed Tibrim's head.

"I just suddenly realized that being able to grow old together with everyone is a very happy thing."

The elevator came to a smooth stop on the basement level. Tong Hua pushed her equipment out of the elevator and looked at the spacious and bright basement in front of her, feeling a sense of security.

Regardless of what the future holds, at least for now, he is steadily moving towards his goal.

"So there were windows in the basement after all!"

While tidying up the alchemy equipment, Tong Hua observed the basement.

Although it is a whole floor, like the first and second floors, it is divided into multiple rooms by walls, and is not a single large floor.

Several of the rooms have been used as warehouses to store some of Tong Hua's unused items.

Moreover, the basement has a fresh air system and air conditioning, plus small windows at the top of the wall that let in sunlight, so it's not dark at all even without the lights on.

Instead, it had a cozy, secret base feel that excited Tong Hua.

Through that small window, you can see the ground outside and the view of the pasture in the distance.

It's like being in a submarine that has submerged underground!

"This is the place we've decided on!"

Tong Hua loved the window so much that she immediately decided to put all her alchemy equipment in this room.

Crucibles, racks, flasks of all sizes, grinding bowls, centrifuges, freezers for rapid freezing, and ovens for heating.

After all of this was put in place, there was still plenty of space left in the room.

Tong Hua immediately decided to place another wooden table on the wall directly opposite the window.

Whenever I have any alchemy inspiration, I'll just record it all here!

"This will be the alchemy workshop of Fairy Tale Ranch from now on!"