Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 82 The money I just got is about to go out again.

That evening.

After repairing the duck shed, Su Yu returned to the small house and prepared a hot pot with beef tallow.

We still eat in the living room, since the house is small. When this little house was built, the living room was designed to be the dining room.

This was also the first meal Squirtle ate after arriving at Su Yu's ranch.

"Come on, raise your juice bottles and welcome our newest friend to the ranch!"

The hot pot was bubbling away, and the cilantro and beef that Su Yu had just thrown in were still cooking. At that moment, Su Yu stood up and made this appeal.

Seeing this, Farfetch'd, Caterpie, and other Pokémon stood up, and Alcremie, who had been biting her chopsticks and staring intently at the pot, also quickly stood up after hearing Su Yu's words.

"Mama~!" Welcome!

"Jenny, Jelly!"

Upon hearing this, Squirtle chuckled. Holding a glass of juice, it jumped up and clinked glasses with the other Pokémon, including Su Yu.

"Alright, let's all drink to that!" With that, Su Yu tilted his head back and drank the entire glass of juice in one gulp.

After sitting down, Su Yu picked up a pair of serving chopsticks and used them to pick up all the beef from the pot.

As he picked up the chopsticks, he said:

"Come on, the beef should be cooked through. Eat up, there's still a lot of toppings left after you finish."

Since it was a welcome feast for Squirtle, Su Yu went to town to buy a lot of ingredients, including shrimp paste, beef tripe, meatballs, etc., and made a plate of pork knuckle rice for each Pokémon.

Drizzled with a bright and fragrant sauce, and topped with a braised pig's trotter, this plate of pig's trotter rice made Su Yu's mouth water.

The Growlithe dog next to him had already buried its head in the plate and was eating heartily, seemingly too busy to even look up at the hot pot.

Meanwhile, Alcremie, who had sat down to the side, was still chewing on her chopsticks. Seeing this, Su Yu served her a bowl of beef and said with a smile:

"Alright, stop biting those chopsticks and start eating!"

"Mama~!" Yay~ I love Su Yu the most!

Seeing that Su Yu served her the first thing, Alcremie smiled with delight. She trotted over to Su Yu, gave him a quick kiss on the cheek, and then toddled back to her seat.

Su Yu was stunned for a moment, then touched the spot where the Alcremie had just "mua". Good heavens, had he... been suddenly attacked?

Noticing the somewhat dangerous look in Squirtle's eyes, Su Yu coughed and said:

"Don't rush, you're involved too. Don't even think about getting hit like that with me."

Upon hearing this, Squirtle finally calmed down.

After serving Squirtle a bowl as well, Squirtle suddenly asked a question.

It seemed that it also wanted Su Yu to make a special dish for it to help it become stronger.

"I guess other Pokémon told him that my food has special effects..."

Upon hearing Squirtle's words, Su Yu thought to himself.

However, cooking isn't something you can do all the time, and Su Yu isn't always successful when he tries to create a new dish. Otherwise, he wouldn't have only managed to develop so few recipes after two months here.

Therefore, Su Yu said to Squirtle:

"I understand your request... but cooking isn't that easy."

"Okay, give me some time, I'll study it carefully and see if I can make one."

"Jenny, Jenny~!"

Upon hearing this, Squirtle immediately nodded and expressed its gratitude to Su Yu.

After taking all the beef out of the pot, Su Yu added some more ingredients and continued cooking.

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That evening.

When keeping track of the expenses, Su Yu roughly calculated based on the fish pond design provided by Squirtle that the current fish pond would cost him about 190,000 Alliance Coins.

This includes the labor costs for digging the fishpond, the cost of purchasing various materials to enrich the aquatic energy of the fishpond, and the cost of buying fish fry.

In addition, Squirtle also suggested that Su Yu purchase some equipment, such as an automatic fish feeder and a series of machines for making fish feed himself.

Squirtle made a list of all these machines. Roughly calculated, the total investment for this entire breeding pond came to 190,000 Alliance Coins.

"I've only just started to have some money, and now most of it is already gone..."

Su Yu currently only has a little over 300,000 yuan left. He thought the new house construction would start soon, but suddenly there were new expenses.

It seems that the construction of the new house will have to be delayed for a while longer.

Fortunately, now that tropical dragons have dishes that shrink their bodies, a new house is no longer so urgent, so the problem isn't too serious.

After all, the reason Su Yu was in such a hurry to build a new house was because the tropical dragon had been neglected outside. As for the house being too small and cramped... well, it wasn't something he couldn't tolerate.

Furthermore, the earning power of the riding sheep is now incredibly high, and the sheep milk they produce can be sold for a very high price. After Su Yu reforms the sheep milk sales mechanism, the income from sheep milk will increase even further.

"Sure enough, every brick and tile of the new house was built by the little sheep that we rode."

Su Yu thought to himself.

After finishing the accounting, Su Yu went to the living room. At that moment, the remote control was in the hands of the scallion duck.

"A fart duck actually came in to watch TV?"

Su Yu found it quite strange. But when he saw the program playing on TV, he suddenly felt no surprise at all.

At that moment, the television was broadcasting an agricultural channel program, which seemed to be a special program about scallion cultivation. The scallion duck was watching it very attentively.

Beside Farfetch'd, there were only a handful of Pokémon, such as Wooloo. The rest, like Alcremie, Growlithe, and Squirtle, seemed to have run off to the side to play Monopoly, apparently because they weren't interested in the show.

As Squirtle played, it would occasionally glance at Farfetch'd. It felt that Farfetch'd was a major rival to its farming endeavors.

During the day, Squirtle actually saw Farfetch'd taking care of the green onion. Farfetch'd's skillful movements and unique understanding of green onions made Squirtle sweat profusely, feeling that he was far inferior to Farfetch'd.

"Jenny, Jenny..." It seems my journey of ranching and farming still has a long way to go...

That's what Squirtle thought.

While playing mindlessly, Squirtle ended up being the richest of all the Pokémon present at the final tally. This seems... to be a mental crushing victory?

Compared to the other Pokémon on the ranch, whose minds are like those of children, Squirtle's mind is like that of an older brother. However, at times, Squirtle can also be quite goofy.

"But he's quite mature for his age," Su Yu thought to himself.

In its previous life, this Pokémon was like the leader of a group of children.

If I'm not at the ranch for any reason later, I can leave it to Squirtle to manage. I believe Squirtle will play the role of "leader of the kids" well.

(End of this chapter)