Alliance calendar year 198, May 6, summer.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter. In addition to doing farm work, Zhi Shu stays at home almost every day, blows on the air conditioner, watches TV, and makes desserts with Frosty Milk Fairy to share with everyone in the ranch.
As time goes by, the crops in the fields begin to grow and mature.
Hop vines covered the stands, yellow-orange golden pumpkins and dark green watermelons lay quietly in the ground, and the corn grew tall, but the corn on top was not yet fully mature.
The wheat and pineapples are almost ready, but it will take some time before they mature.
Of course, what satisfied Naoki the most was the sunflower field full of sunflowers.
The golden flower disk faces the sun, with green rhizomes and leaves below, which looks very beautiful.
Looking at all this, even though he had expected it, Naoki still felt very incredible.
The growth cycle of crops in this world is too fast.
These sunflowers had bloomed and grown seven days ago, and now, watered by the energy of the mount goat, they have begun to mature.
Zhishu went to the field to inspect the crops under the bright sun.
[Pumpkin: A crop that can be used for cooking. It will take 3 days to harvest. ]
[Watermelon: A refreshing and thirst-quenching summer crop, ripe for harvest. ]
[Corn: Not yet ripe, still 10 days away from harvest. ]
[Hops: A crop that can be used to brew barley beer. It is not yet mature and needs 10 days to be harvested. ]
"It seems that other crops will have to wait for a while." Naoki thought to himself.
Now the only two types of crops that can be harvested from the fields are sunflowers and watermelons.
Naoki thought of the giant watermelon that mutated last time, so he walked to the watermelon field and sunflower field. Using his golden fingers, he carefully inspected every watermelon and sunflower to see what else was there. Something has changed.
However, the result is regrettable.
There was not a single mutated crop in the two fields.
"Sure enough, the probability of mutation is very low."
Naoki was a little disappointed in his heart, but he quickly recovered. After all, only two crops had matured, and there were still so many crops that were not yet mature.
Turning to look at the pumpkin patch aside, his eyes were filled with anticipation again.
So now, it’s time to start harvesting!
Zhi Shu called Gu Ledun, Motor Lizard and Kuailong and asked them to help him pick the ripe watermelons from the ground and pile them in the shade.
He plans to sell part of these watermelons, send part to Ice Eevee's igloo for ice, and keep the other part for food development.
There was no giant watermelon left from last time, so he didn't have a chance to try out what kind of dishes it could make.
After all the work was done, it was ten o'clock in the morning.
Naoki opened five watermelons to several Pokémon and let them sit in the shadows and eat them.
The three mount goats and the big milk can were also assigned one each, and the three three bees ate one together. Salt Stone Barrier was not interested in watermelons. They still preferred to eat soil and tree fruits sprinkled with salt.
Looking at the Pokémon feasting, Zhi Shu felt that the entire ranch was filled with the joy of a good harvest today.
He smiled, turned around and took a sickle to chop down a relatively mature and fully mature sunflower. He picked off the sunflower seeds that were so full that they were about to burst out, and prepared to fry the sunflower seeds and save them for eating when he was bored.
In this era without mobile phones and underdeveloped networks, eating melon seeds is also a good way to pass the time.
A large pot was filled with sunflower seeds. Naoki cleaned them first, then dried them, and borrowed a bowl of caramel cream from the Cream Fairy.
Finally, add sunflower seeds, a small amount of rock salt and caramel cream into the pan and stir-fry constantly.
In about twenty minutes, the sunflower seeds in the pot were completely cooked.
Seeing that it was almost done, Naoki turned off the fire and poured the caramel-scented melon seeds into the basin.
He looked down and the information about these melon seeds appeared in his mind.
[Translation melon seeds (B+): melon seeds fried with caramel cream and pure rock salt.
Cooking effect: Language communication (small). After eating, you can understand the language of Pokémon. One melon seed translates one word, and the effect can be accumulated.
Rating: A very good snack, full of caramel cream flavor. It makes people feel happy when eating it. It is the best choice to pass the time in your spare time. ]
Um? what? !
Naoki opened his eyes wide and looked at the pot of melon seeds in front of him in disbelief.
In order to verify the effect of this dish, he knocked two pills, then ran outside, found Bada Huo who was enjoying the cool under the eaves, and shouted:
"Bada Hu?"
Bada Butterfly turned around and looked over. When it saw Naoki, its face showed a happy look: "Bah?" (Why?)
Naoki: "!!!" I really understand!
He turned around and returned to the house, holding a pot of melon seeds and having fun.
There is no doubt that the practicality of this pot of melon seeds has far exceeded all the dishes he has made before!
Half a month ago, he was still envious of Gardevoir, who could only telepathize. Unexpectedly, he could now communicate directly with Pokémon.
It allows the eater to communicate directly with Pokémon...
If combined with food to restore physical strength, the effect is comparable to the rare power of Tokiwa!
Invincible!
Zhi Shu immediately held the basin and started eating melon seeds crazily. After eating an unknown number of melon seeds in a row, he ran to the grass outside and found Kuailong and other Pokémon eating watermelon.
Naoki shouted: "Kuailong!"
Kuailong was startled and turned his head to look over: "Ouch?" (What's wrong?)
Naoki said cheerfully: "It's okay, I just came over to talk to you."
Kuailong: "Aww...Aww?" (Why is it suddenly like this...can't we talk every day?)
Naoki grinned and said, "That's because I can understand you directly now!"
"Ouch?!" (What?!)
"Gah?!" (What?!)
"……"(What?!)
Hearing this, several Pokémon looked shocked at the same time and looked over with surprise.
Kuailong kept whining and whining, asking him how he did it. Didn't he always understand it before?
Then, they saw Naoki mysteriously take out a small melon seed.
Naoki: "Of course it's because I made snacks that allow me to understand what you are saying!"
"Gah?" The Motorized Lizard looked at the melon seed, a little confused.
Naoki introduced the effect of this melon seed to them: "...it allows me to understand your speech. Every time I eat one, I can understand one word."
Hearing this, several Pokémon all looked surprised.
Is this too amazing? !
However, as he was talking, Zhi Shu heard Kuailong's voice change back to ow ow ow.
Naoki: "..." It seems that the accumulated number of words has been exhausted.
He turned to look at the farmland not far away, and immediately made an important decision:
Start growing sunflowers today!
(End of chapter)
