Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 93 Sowing and Tortoise Shell Maintenance Agent

With the One-Horned Rhino using the [Till] move to help till the land, the speed at which farmland is cultivated in the ranch has increased significantly.

Wherever the tilling technique passed, the soil was turned over and softened, and weeds and other plants were crushed by the power of the rhinoceros, making the wasteland suitable for planting.

While the rhinoceros was tilling the land, Su Yu rode his tropical dragon to town and bought some seeds at an agricultural products store.

These seeds are diverse, including seeds of vegetables such as cabbage and carrots, as well as seeds of staple foods such as rice and wheat.

The main reason for buying these seeds from agricultural product stores is that these seeds have undergone specialized breeding.

Just like the rice seeds that Su Yu bought, it seems to be a high-yield rice variety that has only been bred for a short time.

The main reason Su Yu bought so many seeds was that he wanted to increase the variety of crops on his ranch.

After all, these vegetables were basically grown for his own consumption. Previously, due to limited land, he couldn't grow many varieties, and Su Yu had long been tired of them.

When Su Yu rode the tropical dragon back to the ranch, the one-horned rhinoceros was still diligently working in the fields.

Su Yu then called upon Squirtle to plant seeds in the already plowed fields.

Previously, when Su Yu had the one-horned rhinoceros plow the field, he specifically instructed it to make sure to divide the land into ridges and furrows. In other words, to create undulating hills on the land, with some parts high and some parts low.

This method is also called ridge cultivation. This cultivation method has many advantages and is a farming method that Su Yu's previous life's country used for thousands of years.

This method allows crops planted at the higher points of the wavy shape to receive more sunlight, and the wavy terrain is more conducive to the growth of crop roots and can also reduce wind.

Moreover, those sunken ditches made it easy for people to pass through. At this moment, Su Yu was standing on the ditch, planting seeds in the soil.

After planting a portion of the seeds, Squirtle picked up a watering can and began watering them.

This busy period lasted until evening.

During this time, Su Yu also went back to cook lunch and dinner.

When he finished cooking dinner and came to check on the field, Squirtle was sitting on the edge of the field with Yang Hao. Squirtle's water bottle was placed aside. It seemed that it was tired from working all day, so it came over to rest for a while.

The two, one human and one Pokémon, were talking about something, and Su Yu gradually heard what they were saying as he approached.

Hearing Yang Hao's conversation with Squirtle, Su Yu was speechless. Was Yang Hao trying to recruit Pokémon into his self-proclaimed "Absolute Defense" Turtle Shell Cult again?

The last victim of the Tortoise Shell Cult seems to have been the woolly sheep on my own ranch who used cotton defense to perfection, right?

At that moment, Yang Hao was trying to persuade Squirtle:

"By the way, Squirtle, do you know the moves 'Retract into Shell' and 'Iron Defense'? What, you don't?"

"How can this be allowed? How come you only learn weak moves like Water Gun? Let me tell you, your final evolution, Blastoise, is famous for its powerful defense. The shell of the famous Water-type Elite Four member Squirtle is comparable to the defense of some Steel-type Pokémon."

"Here's what I'll do: I'll give you a bottle of Steel-type shell conditioner. Apply it to your shell whenever you have time, and I guarantee your shell will be as hard as a Steel-type Pokémon's in the future."

"Squirtle, Squirtle~!" Upon hearing this, Squirtle happily accepted the bottle of health supplement. At that moment, it also noticed Su Yu walking up behind it.

"Jenny~"

Squirtle waved and greeted Su Yu.

Seeing this, Yang Hao turned around and saw Su Yu. Noticing the dangerous smile on Su Yu's face, Yang Hao said awkwardly:

"Uh... well, my dad's calling me home for dinner, so Su Yu, you don't need to see me off."

"I'll take the one-horned rhinoceros back with me now. It's already finished its work anyway, so we can talk about anything else next time!"

With that, Yang Hao slipped away with the one-horned rhinoceros.

This surprised Squirtle. It scratched its head, wondering why Yang Hao had run away so quickly, feeling somewhat confused.

Su Yu walked over and asked:

"Did you accept the shell conditioner he gave you?"

"Squirtle, Squirtle~." Upon hearing this, Squirtle nodded and handed the maintenance solution directly to Su Yu.

After taking the shell conditioner from Squirtle, Su Yu looked at it for a while and, finding nothing wrong with it, returned it to Squirtle.

He said:

"This skincare product is fine; you can use it for now. If you need more after you finish it, I'll go buy you some more."

However, this also made Su Yu feel very strange. Could this Squirtle really be developing in the direction of the steel-shelled, muscular Blastoise that he had previously imagined?

It would be so much cooler to develop a combo-based attack style like Kuma or Keldeo's Fighting-type offensive style...

After returning to the cabin with Squirtle, everything proceeded as usual that evening.

When Su Yu finished eating and settled the accounts, he found that the goat milk delivered that morning had actually sold for more than 30,000 Alliance Coins.

"Our income has skyrocketed... and this is without even fully informing everyone. If we can get through to GG in the pastoral areas, sales might even increase."

Not all of the goat milk we took out today was actually sold. However, after hearing that humans could also drink this goat milk, everyone's enthusiasm for buying it soared.

It is foreseeable that the milk from the lambs on his mounts will bring Su Yu a great deal of wealth.

"I just hope... this money can last until I build my house," Su Yu thought to himself.

The speed at which he's spending money these past few days has been incredibly fast. Money is just flowing out like water, and Su Yu has no idea when he'll be able to save enough to renovate his house.

After settling the accounts, Su Yu left the room and went to the living room to watch TV with the Pokémon for a while.

Around 11 o'clock, he hurriedly went to bed.

……

Early the next morning.

After milking the goats as usual and delivering the milk to the customers, Su Yu returned to find that Squirtle had not watered the fields.

Seeing this, Su Yu ran over to the fitness equipment area and took a look, but didn't see Squirtle exercising there.

"That's strange, I didn't see Squirtle in the house either, where did it go?" Su Yu asked in confusion.

Just as Su Yu was about to send Tropius into the air to see where Squirtle and the others had gone, Squirtle suddenly came running from the direction of the lake, looking like it was in a hurry.

As it ran, Squirtle shouted at Su Yu:

"Jay, Jayne Jayne!" Something's happened on the other side of the lake.

湖？

What else could have happened on the other side of the lake?

Squirtle's inexplicable words puzzled Su Yu. When Squirtle approached, Su Yu reassured it:

"Don't rush, tell me slowly. What exactly happened on the other side of the lake?"

(End of this chapter)