Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 92 Inviting a One-Horned Rhinoceros to Plow the Fields

They delivered goat milk all the way.

To Su Yu's surprise, the regular goat milk was still the most popular product.

After all, every household has elderly people and children, and some people may also be feeling unwell recently and may need to buy goat milk.

As for giving it to Pokémon... to be honest, if it weren't for the fact that the Pokémon had just been born or was in a critical period of accumulating strength, no one could afford a bottle costing 900 League Coins.

Perhaps... only those wealthy trainers in the city could afford to pay for it.

While delivering goat milk, Su Yu arrived at the same appliance store he had visited earlier.

Upon arriving at the electronics store, after placing the goat milk on a nearby table, Su Yu smiled and said:

"Boss, I'm here to patronize your business again."

Upon hearing this, the appliance store owner poked his head out from behind a mountain of small machines and asked:

"What should I buy this time?"

"Do you have any fish feeders here, or fish food dispensers? Anything related to fishing is fine. Let me take a look!"

Upon hearing Su Yu's request, the shop owner immediately began searching through the electronics store. In no time, he found a fish-feeding machine.

Then, while searching through the pile of appliances, the boss asked:

"Your ranch has started raising fish?"

"Yes, as I told you before, the fish from my hometown are of really good quality," Su Yu replied.

After the boss gathered all the necessary equipment, Su Yu glanced at it and said:

"Then we need this for feeding the fish, this for making the fish food, and that aerator for aquaculture."

"We need five feeders and five aerators, and one fish food making machine."

Upon hearing this, the boss did a quick calculation and replied:

"Hmm... that's 80,000 Alliance Coins in total. Should I send a vehicle to deliver it to your ranch?"

"With so many machines, I'm afraid you won't be able to move them all in one trip."

Su Yu shook his head upon hearing this and looked at the tropical dragon, saying:

"No need, let Tropical Dragon make the trips a few more times. Thank you for your help, Tropical Dragon."

"Roar~!" Upon hearing this, the tropical dragon responded and agreed to the matter.

After buying the machine, Su Yu rode the tropical dragon back to the ranch.

By then, Mela and the others had arrived.

After drinking the tea that Squirtle brought them, Mela and the others started their work.

After laying the delivered aquatic materials on the bottom of the ponds and setting up drainage systems, the three fish ponds, now dug, are considered to be the final preparations for raising fish.

After digging away the last layer of soil separating the fishpond from Moon Lake, Mela and her team had already built a sluice gate at the connection between the lake and the fishpond.

In the future, Su Yu will be able to control the water drawn from Moon Lake through this sluice gate, which will be quite convenient.

When the sluice gate to the fishpond was opened, water from Moon Lake immediately rushed into the fishpond, quickly filling the entire pond.

Once the fishpond was full, Meila turned off the water valve and came to Su Yu, saying:

"Boss, these three fish ponds should be repaired and there shouldn't be any problems."

"I don't know anything about fish farming or anything like that, so you'll have to do it yourself. I'll go and dig the remaining two fish ponds."

Hearing this, Su Yu nodded. He had already ordered a batch of materials to improve the fishpond water quality from the town, as requested by Squirtle, but they hadn't arrived yet.

As for fish fry and the like, we'll have to find someone to order them from later.

"Looks like the fish-raising thing will have to wait a few more days..."

Su Yu thought to himself.

Moreover, the feeder bought from the appliance store needs to be connected to electricity from the hut before it can be used, so Su Yu needs to solve the electricity problem first.

Just then, Yang Hao from the neighboring ranch was driving a one-horned rhinoceros past Su Yu's ranch.

Upon seeing the three already dug, enormous fish ponds, Yang Hao exclaimed in astonishment:

"Good heavens, Su Yu. You've only been gone a few days, and you've already caused such a commotion?"

"Where did you get so much money to invest in such a large fishpond...?"

These fish ponds are so big; it seems Su Yu must have invested a lot in the early stages, which is why Yang Hao was so surprised.

In response to Yang Hao's shock, Su Yu remained remarkably calm, saying:

"This is just the beginning, it's not a big deal yet."

"By the way, what are you doing with that one-horned rhinoceros?"

"Oh, this... The ranch next door is taking advantage of the rising temperatures to cultivate new fields, but none of their Pokémon have learned the 'Till' move, so they came to borrow one from us."

"I just finished working at his place and am about to head back."

Because Pokémon that know the Till move are relatively rare, the farms in the vicinity help each other out if they have one.

Using traditional farming techniques to till the land is not only much faster than using human or animal power, but it also makes the land more fertile.

"What a coincidence! I'm also planning to expand the farmland on my ranch recently," Su Yu thought to himself.

To cultivate new farmland, tilling is essential. However, the area of ​​farmland that Su Yu wants to cultivate is enormous, and relying solely on the Pokémon in his own ranch would seem to take a considerable amount of time. It would be better to let professionals do it.

Therefore, Su Yu immediately asked Yang Hao to lend him his one-horned rhinoceros.

"Sure, but the one-horned rhinoceros just finished working at my uncle's house, and might be too tired to help you right now..."

"Hoo-ha~!" The one-horned rhinoceros nodded in agreement upon hearing Yang Hao's words.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu immediately sent Squirtle back home to fetch a large piece of grass cake. Wasn't that simple? He could just lure it with food.

Su Yu remembered that the one-horned rhinoceros was also a herbivore, so grass cake should have a good effect on it.

Sure enough, after Squirtle brought the grass cake, Su Yu placed it in front of Rhyhorn. Rhyhorn went over, sniffed it, and then took a bite.

After eating the grass cake, the one-horned rhinoceros let out a satisfied cry. It seemed it was now willing to help Su Yu with his work.

Seeing this, Yang Hao was also quite surprised. Logically speaking, this one-horned rhinoceros should be quite stubborn, and usually, apart from his own father, no one could easily order it around.

Why did the rhinoceros become so obedient after Su Yu simply brought it a piece of green pastry?

"What did you feed it?" Yang Hao asked, puzzled.

Upon hearing this, Su Yu smiled and shook his head, saying:

"It's nothing, just some ordinary pastries I made myself. I saw that the little sheep I ride really like them, so I thought it might work on the one-horned rhinoceros."

"One-horned rhinoceros, now you're willing to help me plow the land in the pasture, right?"

"Hoo-ha!" The one-horned rhinoceros responded to Su Yu with a cheerful shout after exhaling a puff of white vapor from its nose.

"Okay, after the land is plowed, I'll give you a big piece of grass cake, the kind you just ate," Su Yu said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)