Pokémon: Starting with a Pokémon Ranch.

Chapter 96 is about to begin.

Ke Rui thoroughly enjoyed his meal at Su Yu's place.

After traveling around to various places every day, he hadn't had such delicious food in a long time.

While eating and chatting with Su Yu, Su Yu also took the opportunity to learn a lot about the engineering teams in this world.

After seeing Ke Rui off, Su Yu pondered that it seemed necessary to use Ke Rui's connections to send Mei La to Ke Rui's family's construction team for further training.

There's still a significant difference between large and small construction teams. If we could send Mela there to learn, she should be able to learn a lot.

After leaving Su Yu's house, Ke Rui returned to his tent by the lake and began writing in his diary by the light of the lamp.

The rascal frog and the tangled dog kept him company, huddled together in the small tent, sheltering from the early spring chill.

Around 11 p.m., Ke Rui went to bed early. However, at that moment, a small explosion was heard outside the tent. At the same time, there were flashes of light.

Startled awake by the explosion, Ke Rui pulled back the tent flap and looked outside in confusion. However, apart from a thick cloud of steam that seemed to come from nowhere, there was nothing outside.

Seeing this, Ke Rui scratched his head in confusion. Was this some kind of wild Pokémon causing all this commotion, or was Su Rancher doing something?

Meanwhile, Squirtle, cuddling Growlithe, and Caterpie had already hidden away in the distance. They watched as Corki pulled the tent shut again before finally letting out a sigh of relief.

"Jenny, Jenny..." Let's go practice on the other side of the ranch. There's an outsider on this side of the lake, so it seems we can't practice here.

Squirtle wiped his sweat and said this.

I was really careless tonight. I thought I was far enough away from the tent, but I still made such a commotion.

Upon hearing this, Caterpie and Growlithe both expressed their agreement.

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Early the next morning.

When Su Yu got up, the sun had already risen, and the sunlight was very bright.

Squirtle was leisurely watering the newly planted seeds in the field, carrying a watering can. While watering, it also held a dumbbell in its hand, constantly working out the muscles in its arm.

The big green onion duck got up early this morning and went fishing at Moon Lake.

At this moment, Ke Rui is standing next to the leek duck, posing as if he is holding a fishing rod and wrestling with a fish that has taken the bait, as if he is teaching the leek duck how to catch fish better.

It seems that Ke Rui is quite skilled at lure fishing.

Meanwhile, the woolly-horned sheep, with their last remaining braided sheep, were jogging around the hut in the morning.

Seeing that the woolly-horned sheep were up so early, Su Yu was quite surprised and asked:

"You guys actually got up this early today? That's not like you at all!"

Normally, these lambs should be hiding indoors taking a nap.

Upon hearing this, the woolly-horned sheep responded:

"Mah!" After all, there's a competition today.

"Hmm...that's true."

At that moment, Yang Hao was driving his family's one-horned rhinoceros past Su Yu's ranch again.

Seeing Su Yu standing at the door talking to the woolly sheep, Yang Hao asked curiously:

"Su Yu, are you going to that wool convention today?"

"Go ahead, why not?" Su Yu replied.

Su Yu didn't want to miss such a good opportunity to make money. If those high-end brands could take notice of them, the value of the wool from the woolly sheep could potentially double.

In order to participate in this wool competition, Su Yu notified her customers yesterday when she delivered milk that she was going to attend the wool conference today and might not be able to deliver goat milk to them until the evening.

"Then wait for me a bit, let me take the one-horned rhinoceros to the ranch next door."

"When I get back, have your tropical dragon give me a ride," Yang Hao said after hearing Su Yu's words.

Having arranged a time with Yang Hao, Su Yu went back to her room to prepare breakfast. After eating breakfast, Su Yu waited a while longer before Yang Hao finally arrived.

"Then let's go." Seeing Yang Hao arrive, Su Yu got up, put the Wooloo into their Poké Balls, and summoned Tropius.

Just then, Caterpie and Alcremie followed them out of the house. Seeing this, Su Yu asked curiously:

"Would you like to go to town and see what's going on?"

Alcremie is easy to understand; it likes to go wherever there's excitement. But Caterpie…

It seems that ever since the last time he took Caterpie to catch a poaching gang, Caterpie has really enjoyed going out with Su Yu.

This also makes Su Yu's shoulder seem to be a place exclusively for Caterpie, just like Ash's Pikachu.

Upon hearing Su Yu's question, both Frost Milk Fairy and Caterpie nodded.

"Then come into the Poké Ball first, and I'll release you when we get to town."

As he spoke, Su Yu went back into the house and brought out two Pokémon-specific Poké Balls, which he then put into the Poké Balls.

"Squirtle and Growlithe, you two are responsible for staying on the ranch and guarding the house."

He called out to the house, and then Su Yu mounted the tropical dragon's back. Immediately, the tropical dragon flapped its wings and took off.

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I rode a tropical dragon into town.

This wool competition was held in the square in front of the town's department store.

When Su Yu and Yang Hao arrived, the square was already packed with people.

On a high platform in the center of the square sat a group of people who appeared to be judges. Seeing Su Yu looking in that direction, Yang Hao introduced them:

"Those sitting over there are the judges for this year's wool competition. Some of them are the sponsors of the competition, and others are experts from the town's wool association."

"The results of this wool competition are mainly determined by experts. However, to secure exclusive supply contracts with those brands, you still need to attract the attention of the big spenders."

Upon hearing this, Su Yu nodded in understanding. So that's how it is.

Yang Hao then continued:

"As for the wool competition process, it is divided into two rounds. The first round is machine testing, where the organizers will directly cut wool from the Pokémon and send it to a specialized testing agency for inspection."

"Any contestants whose data does not meet the competition requirements will be eliminated after this round. After that, the final round of expert review will take place."

"The experts will give their scores based on the wool data obtained from the tests and the actual quality of the wool. At this stage, it basically depends on a certain amount of luck and the quality of the wool itself."

(End of this chapter)