Elf: I Am a Farmer

Chapter 31 Artificial Lake

Good morning, Yuri!

Chiba Kaede had already prepared breakfast and was eating with the other elves. Seeing Terada Yuri come down, she greeted her. 🎈🐧 ☺💛

"Excuse me, boss, I overslept today?"

Terada Yuri walked up to Chiba Kaede and bowed to him.

"Don't you remember? You fainted yesterday?"

Seeing that she seemed a little confused, Chiba Kaede reminded her.

"Yes, my sister really scared Akiko yesterday!"

Akiko Iida chimed in at the opportune moment.

"Oh, well, it seems like that's true. I'd completely forgotten about it if you hadn't mentioned it!"

Terada Yuri thought for a while and finally remembered.

"By the way, boss, I successfully made a basic energy block yesterday!"

Terada Yuri then excitedly added.

"Yeah, I also gave the Poliwag the energy cubes you made yesterday, and it really liked them! It thought they tasted even better than the basic energy cubes you buy at the store!"

Chiba Kaede relayed yesterday's test results to Terada Yuri.

"The main reason is that the fruit from our Chiba Farm is of high quality, and I still need to continue to improve my energy block crafting skills."

Yuri Terada stated objectively.

She knew that although she had successfully created a basic energy cube, the success rate was not stable and she needed to continue to work hard to improve it.

"I'm hereby formally informing you that if you continue to produce power blocks day and night like before, I will consider suspending your access to the Berry Mixer. Do you understand, Yuri?"

Chiba Kaede was also frightened by Terada Yuri's fainting spell yesterday. ♝🐜 👌🎈

Although he has the ability to treat patients, there is really no need to exploit his employees like this, even if she does it voluntarily.

"I understand, boss. I won't let you worry anymore!"

Terada Yuri was startled by Chiba Kaede's serious demeanor.

However, she knew that her boss was also thinking about her health. Looking back on that period, she was indeed a bit obsessed, as if she was holding her breath and wanted to make the energy cube so as not to disappoint Chiba Kaede.

"Yes, just be careful. Isn't everything moving in a positive direction right now?"

Chiba Kaede said to Terada Yuri.

Time flies, and years pass quickly!

At this point, three months had passed since Terada Yuri created the basic energy cube, and Chiba Kaede had finally grown from an 11-year-old boy to a 12-year-old boy.

During this time, Terada Yuri has been able to easily make basic energy blocks, and occasionally even intermediate energy blocks, so Chiba Farm no longer needs to purchase spirit food from outside.

After all, the energy cubes made from the tree fruits produced on the farm are better than those bought in stores, both in terms of taste and energy content.

Moreover, some time ago, another batch of fruit trees began to bear fruit, and now Chiba Farm has basically achieved fruit freedom.

Even the proud swallows now mainly eat energy cubes made by Terada Yuri, and only occasionally eat some tree fruits when they crave them.

Chiba Kaede gifted many tree fruits to Officer Jenny, Joey, and the orphanage where Terada Yuri lived.

He addressed Miss Officer Jenny and Miss Joey to express his gratitude for their help and care, and the orphanage to thank Yuri Terada for her contributions to Chiba Farm.

However, after Chiba Maple transplanted more fruit trees to the orchard, the previous method of using a well dug by the original farm to draw water for irrigation became unsuitable, mainly because it was too inefficient and consumed a lot of their time.

So during this time, Chiba Kaede and a group of Pokémon wanted to dig an artificial lake near the orchard, so that they could bring water from the large lake here, raise a group of Water-type Pokémon in the artificial lake, and then have them help irrigate the fruit trees.

Chiba Maple originally planned to teach the Mosquito Coil Tadpole the Rainmaking skill to irrigate the fruit trees, but later found that this was somewhat impractical.

Not to mention that the mosquito coil tadpole hasn't learned to summon rain yet, even if it did, it wouldn't be able to use the rain-summoning skill more than a few times a day, and the rainfall area would be relatively small, which simply cannot meet the needs of the ever-expanding orchard.

Therefore, Chiba Kaede personally went to survey the terrain, selected a relatively reasonable route, and then had Sandshrew use its digging skill to dig a sufficiently wide water channel from underground.

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This was no challenge for the sand rat, since its digging skills had become instinctive, and it completed Chiba Maple's request in just a few days.

The more difficult part was digging out an artificial lake in the orchard that was large enough and deep enough.

Of course, the main force in digging is Sandshrew, after all, it is a natural expert at digging. However, this time it also needs the cooperation of other Pokémon. Chiba Maple needs to direct them to transport the excavated soil to other places.

Chiba Kaede treated digging an artificial lake as a daily training exercise for her Pokémon. Swellow directed her minions to help transport baskets of soil to other places to dump them, then bring the empty baskets back, and so on.

Heracross needs to help move the heavier stones. If the stones are too big, it needs to use its Brick Break skill to break them before it can be moved.

Jumpluff, along with Jumpluff who has already learned Grassy Terrain, waits nearby to restore the Pokémon's stamina, thus deepening their use of Grassy Terrain.

The Mosquito Tadpole needs to use its Water Gun skill to help water the fruit trees during this time. Of course, this is a lot of work, so Chiba Maple will also assist.

Since Shiny Mareep and Gastly couldn't be of much help, Chiba Kaede sent them to take care of Akiko Iida.

Because he and Terada Yuri had been quite busy lately, they hadn't been able to take care of her much. They were also worried about her playing alone, so they had the two spirits keep her company.

The project lasted for about a month, but not all of our time was devoted to digging the artificial lake; we also had to take care of other things on the farm.

Most importantly, Terada Yuri needs to create enough energy cubes to replenish the stamina and energy consumed by the spirits, so that they do not become physically exhausted.

It can be said that Chiba Farm has devoted more than 90% of its labor force to the excavation of this artificial lake.

During this time, Chiba Kaede could feel that all the Pokémon had grown considerably. Among them, Sandshrew, which was the main force, even evolved into Sandslash. This was largely due to its constant use of the Dig skill and the ample nutrition provided by Chiba Kaede.

Since the Sandshrew evolved into the Sandshrew, the speed at which they excavate artificial lakes has taken a qualitative leap. That's why they were able to excavate this artificial lake, which is 100 meters long, 100 meters wide, and 2 meters deep, in just one month.

"Sandslash King, use Stomp!"

"Heracross, use Stomp!"

Right now, Chiba Kaede is using the Stomp skill with Sandslash and Heracross to compact the bottom and shore of the artificial lake, preventing too much silt from being carried in by the lake water.

With the last piece of land compacted, the artificial lake was finally completed.

Chiba Kaede and his group of elves looked at the artificial lake before them, filled with pride. They had dug it out with their own strength, proving that unity of purpose can move mountains.

Unlike Chiba Maple's initial plan to draw water directly from underground through a tunnel dug by the Sand King, the irrigation canal was instead a small river, two meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. This way, the land on both sides of the river will benefit more, and there will be no shortage of water when planting crops in the future.

Once all this work is done, only the final step remains: diverting water through canals into the artificial lake.

The next morning, Chiba Kaede led everyone and the Pokémon from Chiba Farm to the source of the irrigation canal, to the large lake where Chiba Kaede had previously captured the Mosquito Tadpole.

Now, all that's needed is to dig out the gap in the soil, and the lake water can flow into the artificial lake along the canal.

Then, under the watchful eyes of everyone and the elves, Chiba Kaede took out a shovel and dug a few times into the already thin barrier layer. Then, under the pressure of the lake water, the barrier layer broke through, and the water flowed continuously from the lake towards the artificial lake through the canal.

"Let's go over there too!"

Then, the group of people and the elves walked towards the artificial lake along the waterway. The mosquito tadpole jumped directly into the waterway and was immediately carried forward by the current. It looked very excited.

When they walked to the artificial lake, it was already full of water. In addition to its mosquito tadpoles, there were also some carp kings and goldfish that had been carried by the lake water.

Judging from their appearance, they were clearly also a bit confused about the current artificial lake and couldn't understand why the environment had changed so much.

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(End of this chapter)