Pokémon: All About the Breeding House

"Miss Joey."

Fang Yan greeted Miss Joey.

Miss Joey greeted Fang Yan, and at her request, Fang Yan called her "Sister Xiao Shui".

"Oh right, Lucky Egg and I bought some food for you and put it in the fridge. Xiao Lan said you didn't prepare any food, so I just bought some random things for you. You can go to town and buy whatever you like later."

Miss Joey said.

Fang Yan was taken aback, then realized that because he didn't have a refrigerator, he hadn't bought any food for today yesterday. He had been planning to treat others to a meal, but he hadn't prepared any food.

It's all messed up.

Fang Yan chuckled awkwardly, and then he heard the sound of "happy eggs" coming from the kitchen.

"Harpy—"

Fang Yan walked into the kitchen and saw that Xingfu Dan was already preparing the ingredients.

"Happy Egg, thank you for your help."

Walking over to Lucky Egg, Fang Yan praised Lucky Egg a few times, and then together with Lucky Egg, they processed the ingredients that Lucky Egg and Miss Joey had brought, turning them into a standard four-dish-and-one-soup meal in the Donghuang region. They also turned the tree fruit they won in the lottery into tree juice.

After greeting Xia Lan and the others, Fang Yan moved the round table he had bought to the open space behind the house, set up the chairs, and then Xingfudan brought over the food and placed it on the table.

Give everyone a glass of tree juice, and give each of the Gengar and the other Pokémon a glass of Moo Moo fresh milk.

After finishing all that, Fang Yan sat down. The setting sun shone on them. The weather in Sinnoh was a bit cooler than in other regions, and the evenings in the height of summer were already starting to get cool.

"I didn't know you had this trick up your sleeve."

Xia Lan couldn't stop eating. After swallowing what was in her mouth, she said...

"It's alright, after all, good food is something you shouldn't miss out on."

Fang Yan said, sipping the soup in his bowl.

Gengar and the others were enjoying their food immensely. It's worth mentioning that Blissey was responsible for preparing most of the Pokémon's food, with Fang Yan assisting.

When everyone had almost finished eating, there was still some left. Fang Yan asked Gengar if it could still eat it. Adhering to the traditional virtue of not wasting food, Gengar opened its big mouth and poured all the food into it.

Then he licked his face with his scarlet tongue.

"Kou Jie—"

A cool breeze swept over the group and Pokémon sitting on the messy grass. Fang Yan glanced at Gengar playing with Growlithe, Blissey trying to break up a fight, and Xia Lan and the others talking. For the first time, Fang Yan felt at ease.

He watched all this quietly, then beckoned Gengar over and pinched its round cheeks.

"It seems Gengar really likes you, dialect."

Miss Joy looked at Gengar, whose face was still smiling as it changed in Fang Yan's hands, and said, "And the cooking is also very good. You are a very skilled breeder."

"A breeder?"

Fang Yan stopped what he was doing and asked in confusion.

Xia Lan and Miss Officer Jenny exchanged a glance.

"By the way, do you have a breeder's certificate?"

Xia Lan asked in dialect.

"what?"

Fang Yan was stunned. A trainer's certificate? What is that? Oh right, I remember now, trainers need a trainer's certificate, and trainers also need to pass the trainer's exam to become a formal trainer.

I just finished renovating my house and spent all my money, but suddenly they said the breeding house needs a breeder's certificate? Can I still get a refund?

Fang Yan, trembling with fear, asked, "Um... does a breeder have to be the one to open a breeding house?"

"That's not the case. Many private breeding facilities are not run by breeders."

Fang Yan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Miss Officer Jenny say this.

"That's good, that's good."

"However, a breeder's certificate proves to the League that you have the ability to take good care of the Pokémon in the breeding center. At the same time, the League offers certain discounts to breeder-run breeding centers. For example, when buying Pokémon eggs. In your case, if you have a breeder's certificate proving that you have the ability to take good care of the Pokémon, the League will probably give you a bigger discount."

A qualified breeder: Passing the breeder assessment and becoming a qualified breeder is an essential part of any breeding facility.

[There will be generous rewards for passing the assessment.]

Even without this task, Fang Yan still decided to take the test because there's a discount when buying Pokémon eggs, which is a perfectly valid reason.

Each league rescues many Pokémon eggs every year. Some are given to the Professor's Lab to serve as starter Pokémon for trainers' journeys, while others are entrusted to breeding centers for sale.

If you don't buy Pokémon eggs from the League, you can only hatch them yourself, or have someone else entrust them to you for resale.

For those in dialects who are currently short of money, saving money is the best policy.

"I think you could take a dialect test."

Miss Officer Jenny suggested.

Fang Yan nodded.

"There's a breeder assessment at the Twinleaf Town Pokémon Center tomorrow afternoon, so I'll just register you."

After Miss Jenny finished speaking, she took out her phone, asked for information about Fang Yan, and swiped her fingers across the screen a few times.

"alright."

"Eh...Eh?!"

Fang Yan hadn't even realized what was happening before she was already registered? She didn't even know what the exam would be like.

"Special cases require special handling, it's alright."

Miss Officer Jenny clapped her hands and said.

"Was the assessment difficult?"

Upon hearing the dialect, Miss Joey touched her chin with her finger, thought for a moment, and said:

"Well, it depends on the person. How about this, when I get back I'll find some past exam questions for you to take a look at."

"Thank you, Sister Xiaoshui."

I sincerely thank you for your help. I'll be staying up all night to practice the questions as soon as I get them tonight.

With the Pokémon knowledge stored in my mind and my cheat code, passing a breeder's test shouldn't be too difficult, right?

"It's okay, we believe in you. Just treat tomorrow as a trial run and see how it goes next time."

Xia Lan stood up, patted him on the shoulder, and Miss Officer Jenny and Miss Joey nodded in agreement.

"Harpy—"

"Awooo—"

"Goblin!!"

Gengar and the others cheered for Fangyan from the sidelines, especially Gengar, who clenched its little fist and raised it upwards, though it couldn't reach the top of its head.

"I will try my best."

Fang Yan was somewhat moved and said with great conviction.

Xia Lan and the others then started tidying up the table. Fang Yan tried to help, but they pressed him back into his chair.

"You can just sit here. I can't expect you to cook and clean at the same time."

Officer Jenny laughed when she heard Xia Lan's words, and then said, "It's pretty good. Maybe I'll come over for meals often in the future."

Miss Joey agreed, but since Xia Lan works as a lawyer and needs to travel a lot, she probably won't be able to come very often.

You are always welcome here.

That's how it's said in the dialect.

You can feel the older sister's care for her younger brother from them.

For them, this is a place they can never forget.

The setting sun passed over them and headed straight for the distance, leaving the evening breeze to brush against their bodies and leave its mark.

It passed through here more than a decade ago, when it was petting a grandmother and three little girls. Now it is petting a young man and three girls.

Without exception, it left its mark on them, like the mark of a family member.