At night, a pink cloak hung on the clothesline, swaying in the night breeze.
The pink Celebi embroidered above seemed to come alive.
Early the next morning, as Xiao Jia arrived at the front of the shop, she saw Mu Zong standing at the door, with the somewhat intimidating Zarude beside him.
"Mu Zong? Why are you here?"
"This...is this the Pokémon your grandpa left behind? It's a very unfamiliar Pokémon."
Xiao Jia pondered for a long time but couldn't recall what kind of Pokémon it was.
It looked a bit scary, but its gaze was very gentle.
Zarude naturally recognized the other party; in the future, he had helped them a lot.
So, his gaze was exceptionally gentle, just like looking at Leavanny.
Mu Zong replied, "I wanted you to introduce me to Mr. Kyle."
Zarude also took down the basket he was carrying, and the few crucian carp inside were still barely alive.
"Wild crucian carp? And so big! So your fishing skills are really impressive," Xiao Jia said with a slight surprise.
"Not at all, it's all thanks to Zarude," Mu Zong did not take credit.
"Is that so? Then it seems to be a very powerful Pokémon...just like Tangela," Xiao Jia praised, then added, "Mr. Kyle passes by here every day. You can wait a bit; it's only eight o'clock now, so he's probably just entering Qinghe Town."
"Come in, sit down and rest for a while. It must be tough managing a farm by yourself."
Xiao Jia opened the shop door and found two chairs for them.
"Thank you."
"luzha!"
Around nine o'clock, the roar of a vehicle sounded, and Mu Zong's gaze shifted from the shelves.
Xiao Jia also peeked out from behind the shelves.
A Meganium-style covered wagon stopped in front of Xiao Jia's door, already loaded with some goods.
Mr. Kyle was a strong man, with a Serperior tattoo on his arm, accompanied by a Kricketune.
"Mr. Kyle, we meet again. This is what I want to sell today," Xiao Jia brought out a cardboard box filled with some old parts.
"No problem. Here are the parts you wanted. Just...give me three hundred more points, and we're good."
Kyle flipped through the cardboard box, and the price instantly appeared in his mind.
"No problem, I'll get you the money."
Mu Zong watched their transaction, not expecting Kyle to even collect old parts.
"This young man is a stranger. New here?" Kyle looked at Mu Zong, his gaze unconsciously shifting to Zarude.
Even with his extensive knowledge, he had never seen this kind of Pokémon.
His gaze then moved from Zarude to the basket on the ground.
"His name is Mu Zong. He just inherited his grandpa's farm and wants me to introduce him to you," Xiao Jia explained Mu Zong's purpose.
"Of course, no problem...My name is Kyle. Where is your farm? Tonight, I'll re-plan my route to pass by your farm."
Kyle extended his hand.
"Mu Zong. The farm is in the direction of the mountain," he pointed in the direction of his farm.
"Oh, that one...Understood." Kyle didn't say much more, his gaze returning to the crucian carp.
"This is what I want to sell."
Mu Zong's words were exactly what he wanted to hear.
"Alright then, let's weigh them. The price of crucian carp has been good recently!" Kyle smiled.
He then took out the measuring instrument from the car and weighed them one by one.
"Incredible! They're all good wild crucian carp, four catties or more!" Kyle's smile widened. "The usual purchase price for crucian carp is 150 points per catty, but your crucian carp are not only alive but also exceptionally large. I'm willing to pay 300 points per catty."
Mu Zong's eyes instantly lit up.
"The total price is seven thousand six hundred points..." Kyle calculated the price.
Five crucian carp, each weighing from over four catties to over five catties, at 300 points per catty.
Cash for goods. When the cash was in his hand, Mu Zong felt richer than ever before.
Seven thousand six hundred points.
At the same time, Kyle also included the latest newspaper as a gift.
After the transaction, the Meganium covered wagon drove to the next stop.
Zarude picked up the empty basket, retracted his vines, and tucked them into the wristband on his hand.
A large basket disassembled into a pile of broken branches.
"Mr. Kyle's prices are still very fair. They are an organization that collects various resources and sells them to places that need them, earning a price difference," Xiao Jia explained from the side.
"Zhuanzhuan?" Mu Zong immediately thought of the platform that advertised everywhere.
He then took out two plastic-wrapped Sitrus Berries from under the clothes bundled in a sheet.
"Are these for me?" Xiao Jia looked at the Sitrus Berries being offered.
Mu Zong nodded, "Sister Xiao Jia helped me a lot."
"It was nothing...Then I'll accept them? These are quite rare. Qinghe Town doesn't sell them; you have to pre-order them from Mr. Kyle." Xiao Jia tucked back her blue hair and happily accepted them.
These words made Mu Zong think that perhaps he could transplant that tree.
It might sell for a good price in town.
He had also thought about using Sitrus Berry seeds for Birth , but this thing didn't even have seeds.
The Sitrus Berry tree in the forest belonged to Leavanny. He had a pretty good impression of Leavanny, so he didn't want to just snatch someone else's things.
Mu Zong then bid farewell to Xiao Jia and left to buy some fabric at the cloth store.
The colors were all black and white. He wasn't sure what kind of fabric it was, but it felt very good.
The price was also more expensive than he expected.
Fabric enough to make three sets of clothes cost a total of eight hundred points.
"No wonder Grandpa didn't have many clothes. Prices are so strange..."
Perhaps it was due to the material, or maybe the region.
The price was exceptionally high.
He then headed to the seed shop.
He planned to buy some more starf berry seeds to plant and harvest together.
With money, it naturally had to be spent wisely.
Since there was no shortage of sales channels, he naturally had to keep up with production.
But when he arrived at the seed shop, he was dumbfounded.
"One hundred?"
He gasped.
What kind of seeds were so expensive?
"Yes, it's one hundred points per seed." The owner was a middle-aged man, somewhat plump.
"Mu Zong, you just came back, so you don't know. Second-generation starf berry tree seeds lose their original glowing characteristic. Without that glowing characteristic, there's no gimmick, so they don't sell for a good price."
"First-generation seeds have a very low yield, and most of them have to be brought back by the mayor from other places."
He patiently explained that he wasn't trying to trick Mu Zong; the price had always been this way.
A single seed only needed to yield three and a half catties to break even, and there usually wouldn't be a loss, as a fruit tree's lifespan was quite long.
"I see..."
This made Mu Zong recall the starf berry tree's attributes.
Ghost and Grass.
The problem was probably with the Ghost attribute.
For some reason, anything involving the Ghost attribute always made him feel a bit eerie, as if there might be some conspiracy behind it.
"Then I'll buy fifty seeds," Mu Zong pulled out the money.
Adding them to the previous fifty, that made one hundred seeds.
"You'll have to work hard again when we get home." Mu Zong and Zarude set off on their way home.
"luzha!"
The sunlight shone down from behind, elongating their shadows until Zarude's shadow disappeared first, and they returned to the farm.