Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 106 Selling Pearls

That evening.

With the newly purchased table from town set up outside, Su Yu finally no longer needed to move the dining table from the living room outside every night to provide a place to eat.

Incidentally, Su Yu also set up a rain shelter outside. That way, even on rainy days, they could have dinner outdoors.

After having dinner with the Pokémon, Su Yu returned to his room as usual to do the accounting. By the time he came out, it was already completely dark outside.

He was about to go out to check on the ducks in the duck shed when he saw a group of dangling mice perched by the window.

They were perched by the window, watching the television program playing inside. They were whispering amongst themselves as they watched.

Seeing this, Su Yu asked in confusion:

"Are you... watching TV outside?"

Hearing Su Yu's voice, the group of drum rats were startled. They hadn't expected Su Yu to appear at this time.

Seeing the Pokémon's reaction, Su Yu immediately understood. These Pokémon were probably afraid that if he went in, he would disturb the Pokémon that originally lived in the ranch inside.

After all, they are just here to "work," not to be the owners of this place.

So Su Yu said with a smile:

"It's alright, please come in, no need to be so polite."

"It's just watching TV together, it's no big deal. I'm sure the Alcremie and the others will be happy to go inside, so don't be so reserved."

"Knock knock...?" Really?

Upon hearing this, the Drum Mouse, standing atop the Scyther's head, went from dejected to delighted, thinking it was about to be scolded.

Su Yu nodded.

Seeing this, the large-toothed raccoon standing to the side said:

"Oh dear..." But if we go in, won't it make the already small living room even more cramped?

So that's what you were worried about?

It seems... there really isn't enough room in the living room to hold all these Pokémon.

"Wait a moment, I'll go in and make you something to eat."

With that, Su Yu returned to the kitchen, took out tree berries and Moo Moo milk, and made a fruit milk jelly for the wild Pokémon.

It's possible that the Pokémon in the ranch never mentioned Su Yu's magical cooking to the wild Pokémon, or that the wild Pokémon didn't notice when Tropius ate the fruit milk jelly and shrank.

Therefore, the Dongdong mice had no idea of ​​the power of the dishes Su Yu made.

Therefore, when Su Yu brought out the fruit and milk jelly, Dongdong Mouse and his group were completely unaware.

As Su Yu instructed, they obediently waited outside. Su Yu then placed the fruit and milk jelly in front of them and said:

"Eat this, and your bodies will shrink."

"Knock knock?"

"Huh?"

"Huh?"

Upon hearing this, the wild Pokémon were completely bewildered, but out of trust in Su Yu, they still ate the dish.

After eating this dish, their sizes indeed gradually decreased according to their wishes. Seeing this, the Drum Drum mice were quite shocked.

Is there really such a magical food?

Su Yu, however, said unsurprised:

"Alright, you can go in now. Go in and play with Alcremie and the others."

Upon hearing this, all the Pokémon immediately ran inside. Now, no matter how many of them there were, the room wouldn't feel crowded.

Having solved the problem with the dung-dung mice, Su Yu went to check on the duck shed and then went to inspect the sheep pen.

Ever since Su Yu first brought them into the house, the woolly horned sheep have been sleeping in the living room every night. Therefore, this sheepfold is now only used to house the regular sheep.

After checking the sheepfold and finding nothing wrong, Su Yu turned and headed back towards the hut.

As Su Yu passed by the wooden hut that had been built for the fitness equipment, he heard the sounds of equipment being used coming from inside.

Hearing the sound, Su Yu peeked inside and saw that it was Squirtle and Caterpie training.

Several days passed, and Squirtle came here every night to train. Normally, Squirtle looked almost exactly the same as the other Squirtles.

At that moment, Su Yu looked at Squirtle's bulging biceps as it used the gym equipment, and they looked quite terrifying.

This is quite different from Squirtle's usual appearance.

Normally, this Squirtle looks no different from any other Squirtle.

"I wonder what kind of impressive muscles are hidden under Squirtle's shell..."

Su Yu recalled the meme from his previous life about "what the bodies of Diglett look like underground." Perhaps, hidden under Squirtle's shell, there was also a muscular hunk.

"Speaking of which, I should probably install a light in this makeshift gym sometime. I hadn't thought about it before, and now it looks rather dim."

Su Yu thought to himself.

Without disturbing the two Pokémon's disciplined training, Su Yu returned to the cabin.

And time quickly passed to the next day.

Early the next morning.

Grandpa Liu came to the ranch again. Su Yu had called him specifically because the Big Tooth Civet had already retrieved quite a few pearls from the lake in the past few days.

Su Yu plans to sell all of these pearls at once.

Grandpa Liu carefully counted the pearls piled up like a small mountain. After a while, he said:

"There are 213 pearls in total, and the quality of these pearls is quite good. Each pearl is worth 1,000 Alliance Coins, for a total of 213,000."

As he spoke, Grandpa Liu took out a large amount of Alliance Coins from his small satchel.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu exclaimed in surprise:

"How come they can sell so many?"

He had initially thought that since these pearls came from the giant tongue oyster, they shouldn't be too rare. But the price Grandpa Liu quoted was beyond his expectations.

One pearl costs a thousand yuan... more expensive than Moo Moo Fresh Milk, and this is just a pearl that looks completely useless...

In response, Grandpa Liu explained:

"Jewelry and similar items have always had a market in human society. You're still young, so you probably don't have much of a concept of this market."

"Moreover, these pearls continuously accumulate water-based energy inside, which can nourish the human body invisibly. They are not as useless as you might think."

Upon hearing this, Su Yu nodded and accepted the 200,000 Alliance Coins.

After handing the money to Su Yu, Grandpa Liu left immediately.

To be honest, Su Yu doesn't usually have many opportunities to call out to Grandpa Liu. His ranch's main products already have stable customers, so he doesn't need to sell them to Grandpa Liu and let him profit from the difference.

Having resolved the pearl issue, Su Yu turned around and called over the caterpillars and the others.

He said to the caterpillar:

"Don't go to training today. After we finish eating, let's go to Linsen Ranch in the north."

"I'm planning to go there to buy a few trees to plant. I'll take you there so you can pick one you like."

He had been holding that half-bottle of the Water of Life in his hand for a long time. Just then, Su Yu decided to use it on one of the plants to see if he could grow something magical.

The people upstairs are still going through a mental ordeal; I'm too late.

(End of this chapter)