Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 42: Why did you eat the cake I drew? ?
  Wait until Haruna leaves.

Huo Ya then asked Bai Zhen, "Are you going to conquer new partners tomorrow?"

"That's right, I plan to tame a heavy mud draft horse, and it will be able to help with carrying goods and transportation in the future."

Huo Ya looked at Bai Zhen expectantly.

Bai Zhen could read the meaning in Huo Ya's eyes without even needing to speak.

He said: "If you finish your work ahead of schedule tomorrow, you can come and have a look. Anyway, I'm going to leave at ten o'clock tomorrow to find the Chongni draft horse."

"It doesn't matter, I will finish the work before 9 o'clock tomorrow morning!"

"Will it be finished at 9 o'clock? You won't skip work, right?"

Huo Ya's little face puffed up and she protested: "How could it be? I will complete the task well and I will never let anyone find fault."

"Also, if the work is not completed, I won't be the one who gets scolded."

Bai Zhen continued to return to the table in the room. He took a pen and ruler to draw drawings.

Huo Ya saw Bai Zhen drawing, and she asked curiously: "What are you drawing?"

"Drawings for a manual honey shaker."

"Honey shaker?" Huo Ya has obviously never heard of this device. Yanhuo Village uses the most primitive pressing and filtering method to collect honey.

Bai Zhen explained simply: "It is to put the honeycomb inside and rotate it, and use centrifugal force to throw the honey out of it."

"So that's it. It feels like you know everything, Bai Zhen."

"The great ones are the predecessors, and I am just learning from them."

While Bai Zhen was drawing, he asked about what happened last night: "By the way, after your sister tasted the food last night, did you have any comments?"

Huo Ya shared: "We all agree that you should open a restaurant in Yanhuo Village. It will definitely be a hit."

Bai Zhen asked: "I can understand this as you are praising me, right?"

"Of course it's a compliment."

After spending some time, Bai Zhen finally drew the design of the honey shaker.

After confirming that nothing was missing, Bai Zhen used a universal tool to transform the hand-cranked device.

Putting the spleen in the center, Bai Zhen started to rotate the rocker, and the spleen in the bucket began to rotate rapidly. Soon the honey was thrown out from inside and stuck to the wall of the bucket.

After turning around for a while and confirming that all the honey in the nest was thrown out, Bai Zhen stopped.

He took out the empty nest spleen and waited for it to be used later.

Pour the separated honey into a glass jar and harvest 6 pounds of honey.

According to the price of 120 gold per pound in Yanhuo Village, these honeys can earn 720 gold.

Information about honey flashed in Bai Zhen's mind, Level 2 honey, and Bai Zhen took out another bottle of half-used bottled honey.

He bought this honey in the Padia area, and it was only grade 1. He applied it on the skewers when he roasted bear meat last night.

Bai Zhen dipped a little bit of each on his fingers to compare the quality.

There is a significant difference in the quality of the two honeys if they are only one level apart.

Higher-grade honey tastes moderately sweet, has a smoother texture, and has a richer smell.

Bai Zhen felt that his tongue was relatively slow, and even he could tell whether it was good or bad. This was enough to explain the difference between the two honeys.

Bai Zhen asked Huo Ya to help with the comparison, and there was indeed a clear difference between the two grades of honey.

Bai Zhen murmured in his heart.

I remember that this 500g bottle of honey cost 60 alliance coins when I bought it, and the wholesale price is probably around 40 alliance coins.

If you sell level 2 honey directly, the wholesale price should reach the level of seventy or eighty alliance coins per pound. If we could make higher-grade honey, such as Lv. 6 or Lv. 7 honey, it wouldn't be too much to sell it for four to five hundred alliance coins per pound, right?

Bai Zhen calculated a little and figured out that if he wanted to make a lot of money, he would have to increase the unit price of goods in the limited ten acres of land, and if he wanted to do it, he would have to make products that others didn't have.

The Pokémon world is so big. If he was the only one in the world who could make such high-grade honey, he would definitely not have to worry about sales.

But just when Bai Zhen fantasized about level 10 and level 11 honey.

Outside the house, Semi returned with his head hanging.

After coming back, she sat down at Bai Zhen's feet and said tiredly to Bai Zhen, "It's good for the flowers to induce birth."

Bai Zhen picked up the weak Xie Mi. It could be seen that she was indeed tired now.

Bai Zhen came outside and looked at the four level 5 honey flowers, just when he wanted to try to fuse these flowers again.

The fusion that was smooth before is now unable to be activated again.

After investigating the reason, Bai Zhen found that it was his lack of mental power that prevented him from fusion.

It seems that the current level 5 honey flower has reached its limit.

Moreover, the amount of physical energy required to produce a flower of this level is far beyond what a level 2 honey flower can compare with.

Considering Xie Mi's health, cultivating two acres of level 5 honey flower fields should be the limit.

Bai Zhen handed the flowers to Xie Mi and said: "Then use flowers of this level first. You can find a way to plant the two acres of land over there with these flowers, and then keep them in the honey-flowing period."

Looking at the flowers handed over by Bai Zhen, Xie Mi lost all energy at the moment.

The level of this kind of flower is a bit high. Even if she uses up all her strength, she can only produce half an acre of flowers in a day.

It’s really too hard for Xie Mi!

"I'm done." Xie Mi buried her head in Bai Zhen's arms and protested loudly to Bai Zhen.

Seeing Xie Mi burying her face as if to escape, Bai Zhen said seductively: "These nectars can help make a lot of delicious butter waffles."

"Waffles?" Hearing the delicious ones, Xie Mi raised his head again.

"That's right, puffy pancakes baked with flour and egg yolks, stacked together and topped with sweet and thick honey. Finally, garnished with a piece of butter, and use the remaining heat of the pancakes to melt the butter."

Bai Zhen described to Xie Mi the delicacies she had never eaten before.

Drool slipped from the corner of Xie Mi's mouth.

"Will you do a lot?" Xie Mi looked at Bai Zhen expectantly.

"As long as you help me properly, I will do whatever it takes for you."

"One word is final!"

Semi rekindled his fighting spirit and had to work hard for the all-you-can-eat waffles he had never eaten before.

Just when Bai Zhen was feeling complacent about convincing Xie Mi to work hard.

Bai Zhen suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that Huo Ya on the side seemed to be quietly wiping his saliva.

Bai Zhen unexpectedly turned his head to look at Huo Ya.

Huo Ya reacted quickly. The moment Bai Zhen looked over, she immediately turned her head to the side and blocked half of her face with her long sleeves.

Bai Zhen was surprised.

I'm drawing cakes for Xie Mi, how come you are even persuaded?
  Bai Zhen asked Huo Ya uncertainly: "When I make muffins later, why don't you come and taste them too?"

"Why are you so embarrassed? But since you have invited me, it would be really rude if I refused again. I will bring some specialties over that day."

Huo Ya agreed immediately and was not polite to Bai Zhen at all.

(End of this chapter)