Elf: I Am a Farmer

Chapter 18 Getting Back on Track

What made Chiba Kaede happiest was yesterday afternoon when Shuttlecock finally learned to play on the grassy field, proving that Chiba Kaede's investment of time and energy hadn't been wasted. 🎄🍓 69 ...

The shuttlecock flower is completely different now than when it was first captured. It has grown a lot larger. It used to be only about 0.6m tall, but now it has grown to 1m, and its whole body is radiating a sense of life.

Now the farm has a fairy doctor. In the future, if any fairy gets injured, the Jumpluff can use the grassy field to treat it.

The proud swallow and Heracross were also very happy, because today they finally enjoyed the life energy healing of the thousand-leaf maple, which healed the injuries accumulated during the week's training.

As for the other Pokémon, they can only enjoy the healing from the Grassy Terrain. However, they are just a little tired from training, and the Grassy Terrain is enough for them.

The fatigue from this week's training seemed to be completely dispelled during today's treatment.

Of course, Chiba Kaede didn't devote all his time to training this week. During that time, he went to Chunhua Town to purchase enough food, melon and vegetable seeds. He also bought some fruit trees that had been growing for a year and transplanted them to the farm.

Chiba Maple, along with the burrowing pangolins, planted these one-year-old fruit trees one by one, but they looked somewhat listless due to being newly transplanted.

Chiba Maple plans to use her ability on each fruit tree once in the coming period, believing that their growth will be even more pleasing than before.

Not only that, Chiba Kaede also cultivated a fruit and vegetable garden and planted all the seeds she bought there. After these vegetables mature in a few months, Chiba Farm will be able to achieve a certain degree of self-sufficiency.

Of course, the energy cubes that elves eat still need to be purchased separately, unless the fruit trees on the farm are ripe.

With Chiba Kaede's large spending, the Alliance Coins he earned from selling Fire Stones are almost gone.

Fortunately, the 15 Mare sheep raised at Chiba Farm have all passed their infancy and are in good health under the care of Terada Yuri.

The Hoenn region has a warm climate, which can be described as spring-like all year round. Except for a few days in winter when the weather is extremely cold, the temperature is generally warm.

Therefore, except during the cold winter months when sheep need wool for warmth, sheep can be purchased at any other time.

According to Chiba Kaede's estimate, the first wool harvest of these Mare sheep can be carried out in a few days.

After that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, the sheep wool can be harvested once a week.

However, there's no need to worry about anything happening to the Mare sheep. Their wool grows very quickly, and they can grow a full coat of wool of the same length in less than two days.

The reason for harvesting once a week is that the remaining time is needed for the newly grown wool to absorb enough static electricity, which will improve the quality of the wool.

This sale of Mare's wool is the first return on investment Chiba Kaede has received after investing so many Alliance Coins.

However, he was still unsure how many Alliance Coins he could earn from selling a single Mare's wool, as the price varied depending on the quality of the wool.

"Goodbye, Uncle Sengu!"

Two days later, Chiba Kaede said goodbye to Moriya Takayuki, who had come from town in a truck to buy Merri sheep wool.

In this wool transaction, Chiba Maple earned a total of 9000 Alliance Coins. On average, the wool sheared from each Mare sheep brought him an income of 600 Alliance Coins, even though the quality of the Mare wool produced by Chiba Farm was only medium.

However, Chiba Kaede was already quite satisfied with the quality of the Mare sheep wool, because normally, the first wool produced by Mare sheep that have just passed their juvenile stage is generally of inferior quality. 👻♕ ➅❾𝓼ħⓤ𝕏.ᑕⓄｍ 👺♥

The quality of the wool needs to be gradually improved through careful cultivation by the farmer.

Chiba Kaede believes that once the evolved pasture grass matures, the quality of the wool from the Mare sheep that eat this pasture grass will definitely improve significantly.

Based on the current income, Chiba Maple can earn 3.6 Alliance Coins per month by selling Mare sheep wool, which is enough to support the operation of the farm.

It's still far from enough for Pokémon training. However, since Chiba Maple's Pokémon is still weak, he can buy basic energy cubes to use. Once his Pokémon's strength increases, he will need to switch to intermediate or even advanced energy cubes.

For creatures like the Primal Swallow and Hercules, the number of Primary Energy Cubes they consume per meal is increasing, indicating that the Primary Energy Cubes are no longer sufficient to provide them with enough energy.

However, everything is moving in a positive direction, and that's the most important thing.

During this time, things weren't peaceful on the farm either. After all, it was in the wild, and at the most dangerous moment, an Arbok broke into the wooden house where the Mare sheep lived under the cover of darkness.

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Fortunately, the multicolored Mare sheep like to huddle together with their companions to sleep at night, which may be a natural instinct of their species!

Under Chiba Kaede's guidance, Shiny Mare has undergone rigorous training and its strength has far surpassed that of other Mare. Therefore, it spotted Arbok the moment it entered.

To protect its companions, the shiny Mare overcame its fear of Arbok and fought back. Although it was seriously injured in the end, it did protect the other Mare sheep.

Of course, Arbok was ultimately defeated by Chiba Kaede, who heard the commotion, and Taillow. However, it is undeniable that without Shiny Mare's delay, Arbok might have succeeded.

After that incident, the heterochromatic Mareep gained the support of the other Mareep and became their leader.

Moreover, since then, the shiny Mare has trained even harder.

It is estimated that it also wants to work hard to improve its strength so that it can rely on its own power to protect its clan if danger arises again.

As for the Arbok, according to the "Regulations on the Management of Wild Pokémon that Intrude into Farms" promulgated by Spring Blossom Town, Chiba handed it over to Officer Jenny the day after capturing it, and also received a reward of 2 League Coins.

This regulation is mainly to protect wild Pokémon that wander into farms. After all, many wild Pokémon that wander into farms will cause damage to the farms. Without this reward mechanism, many farmers would probably just kill these Pokémon.

As for what to do with it after handing it over to Miss Officer Jenny, that's not something Chiba Kaede can worry about.

However, from that day on, Chiba Kaede would arrange for the Pokémon to patrol at night, usually on a rotating basis between Taillow and Heracross, as they were the only ones on the farm whose strength he could trust.

The days passed peacefully and fulfillingly, and before they knew it, Terada Yuri's first month at the farm was over.

"Yuri, I've transferred your salary for this month. Please check!"

Chiba Kaede was very satisfied with Terada Yuri's work this month, so he gave her a salary of 5000 Alliance Coins.

"Hey boss, didn't you miscalculate? You've given too much!"

After checking her phone, Terada Yuri discovered that Chiba Kaede had given her 5000 Alliance Coins as a salary, which was 2000 more than the originally agreed 3000 Alliance Coins. She felt that Chiba Kaede must have made a mistake in the calculation.

"You're right. You worked hard this month and also took on the job of cooking at the farm. It's not a lot of money, really."

Chiba Kaede did feel that Terada Yuri's salary was actually too low. Her presence gave him more free time to train his Pokémon.

"Then I'll accept it, thank you, boss!"

Upon hearing Chiba Kaede's words, Terada Yuri happily accepted the gift, as she was indeed short of money. With these Alliance Coins, she could buy more gifts to take to the orphanage.

That's right. In fact, Terada Yuri had already made a plan to use all of her first month's salary to buy gifts for the orphanage.

"By the way, boss, I'd like to ask for a day off tomorrow to go back to the orphanage. Is that alright?"

After saying that, Terada Yuri felt a little embarrassed. Chiba Kaede had just given her a raise, and she was already asking for leave. That was really going too far!

"Of course! I really didn't think this through. This way, you'll have one day off every week that you can use as you please!"

Chiba Kaede thought about it and realized that he had gone too far. He hadn't given Terada Yuri a break for a whole month, which was comparable to the heartless boss in 007's previous life.

"Once our farm expands, I will recruit more employees, and then you will be able to take two days off a week."

Chiba Kaede continued.

"Really, I don't need it. I'm already very satisfied with my current job, and I don't need so many holidays every month."

Terada Yuri genuinely enjoys working at the Chiba Farm. The farm not only provides food and lodging but also helps her catch her first Pokémon, and her daily work isn't actually that busy.

Everything was wonderful, and she still had time to continue learning about animal husbandry.

"Alright, let's leave it at that. It's decided."

Chiba Kaede didn't give Terada Yuri a chance to refuse and made her decision directly.

Although doing this would keep him busy for a few days each month, it was actually a vacation that should be given to him, after all, he wasn't some kind of unscrupulous boss.

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(End of this chapter)