Chapter 148: Flour, Cream, and Cream of Mushroom Soup

"It won't be long until spring break and the salary after my second month as a regular employee."

In the kitchen, Luo Mu, who was slowly washing mushrooms, looked out at the clear sky and remarked with emotion.

Unknowingly, it had already been a full two months since he started the farm.

During this period, not only had many partners joined, but the farm itself had taken on a completely new vitality.

The crops in the fields were thriving under the combined effect of the Grassy Terrain created by Comfey and Bai Bai Pengpeng, with most already yielding their first harvest; after setting aside enough reserves for the farm's Pokémon to eat for a long time, the surplus crops were all sold to Xiao En, who had his Primeape drive a truck over to purchase them all at once.

Since Xiao En's purchase price was fairly just and wouldn't cheat anyone, rather than making trip after trip to the agricultural market inside Pingdie Town, busily transporting crops in the heat of the moment, it was better to hand everything over to him for a bulk purchase.

This single transaction earned quite a few League Coins; Luo Mu did the math and found that his current savings had returned to the three hundred thousand mark.

With money in hand, it was time to plan the farm's next development, starting with the introduction of fingerlings to the Thunder Cry Lake area; by designating a specific zone in the lake for fish farming, they would be able to enjoy delicious fish dishes without needing to buy from the market or fish in the wild.

The pasture area only had Mudsdale and two Deerling, so Luo Mu planned to find an opportunity to introduce Pokémon like Miltank, Skiddo, or Wooloo, which were suited for life in the pasture and produced byproducts, essentially to keep the lonely Deerling and Mudsdale company.

Thinking of the few lonely Pokémon in the pasture area, Luo Mu silently made up his mind.

After washing a large basket of mushrooms clean, Luo Mu drained the water and handed them to the Cangyan Cangyan Rengui standing beside him, who was wearing a little yellow duck apron, saying, "I'll leave cutting them in half to you; I'm going to handle the other preparations."

"Siro."

Cangyan Cangyan Rengui nodded slightly, first actively controlling the temperature of the long sword on its arm to lower, extinguishing the flames, lest the mushrooms meant for soup be turned into grilled mushrooms.

Then, a cold light flashed instantly, and the swordsmanship Cangyan Cangyan Rengui had honed day after day bloomed with dazzling brilliance within this small patch of kitchen ground.

In no time at all, neatly sliced mushroom pieces, cut cleanly in two, piled up high.

Watching Cangyan Cangyan Rengui seriously chopping vegetables, the corners of Luo Mu's mouth lifted slightly; who would have thought that a Pokémon like Cangyan Cangyan Rengui, which looked as if it were born for battle, would have such a high interest in the culinary arts and even master excellent knife skills and grilling techniques?

Luo Mu turned and went to the cupboard, picking up a pretty small bowl printed with a blueberry pattern, and upon closer inspection, saw that Milcery was sleeping soundly inside.

Remembering that when he first met Milcery at the Eli Ranch, the other party had also been sleeping in a bowl? Luo Mu's smile grew even wider; he poked Milcery's soft body, and upon careful feeling, his finger actually encountered a bouncing sensation between the push and release.

Combined with the natural fragrance emitted by Milcery, it was just like a mochi ball, sweet, fragrant, soft, and glutinous.

This was probably also the reason why Milcery often lived alongside humans; in the wild, they were too fragile and too easily exposed.

"Mawf~~"

Milcery lazily yawned, its bewildered, soft eyes looking at Luo Mu, as if it didn't understand why Luo Mu had woken it up.

"I'm going to the warehouse to find some ingredients for making lunch; I'll need your cream later, do you want to come with me?"

Facing such a Pokémon as Milcery, which was only the size of a palm, Luo Mu always unconsciously softened his voice when speaking, afraid of startling Milcery.

"Mawf Mawf?"

Hearing that lunch would require its cream, Milcery's eyes sparkled, and it floated up directly.

After a period of growth, and under Luo Mu's provision of good food and drink, Milcery no longer suffered from the previous situation of running out of strength after floating for a while.

It could follow Luo Mu floating for half a day without any problem, and would no longer be bound by the earth!

Arriving at the warehouse, Luo Mu precisely located the Required Items he needed from a pile of neatly stacked goods; before leaving the warehouse, looking at the King's Rock lying quietly on the counter alongside his Dengshan equipment, Luo Mu was startled.

Oh no!

After returning, due to fatigue, he had left the items in the warehouse and gone straight back to the house to fall asleep, and later, because of his leisurely life, he had completely forgotten about the King's Rock gifted by Tron!

No wonder he had recently kept noticing Poliwad silently gazing at him with resentment; it must be that the other Pokémon who had accompanied him to Frostveil Mountain had told it about this matter.

No wonder Poliwad had been putting so much more effort into using Rain Dance recently; could it be that it thought Luo Mu was planning to give it the King's Rock only after it made a contribution?

Touching his slightly aching conscience, Luo Mu casually took the King's Rock with him and turned back toward the kitchen with Milcery.

At this time, Cangyan Cangyan Rengui had already finished all the preparation work; Luo Mu placed the ingredients down one by one and rolled up his sleeves.

Cangyan Cangyan Rengui actively stepped aside, standing quietly behind Luo Mu on guard.

Today, the dish Luo Mu was preparing for the Pokémon was Cream of Mushroom Soup, to be boiled in two pots.

One pot would be boiled using only non-toxic wild mushrooms gathered by the Grass-type Pokémon, intended for those Pokémon who did not like to eat meat.

The other pot would have some shrimp and chicken breast added, which had been marinated in advance with black pepper, salt, and cooking wine.

The method for making Cream of Mushroom Soup was very simple: first, stir-fry the mushroom slices and onions cut by Cangyan Cangyan Rengui in the pot using olive oil produced by Greedent, and finally add the shrimp and chicken breast, stir-frying until just cooked through.

After skillfully removing the stir-fried ingredients from the pot and setting them aside, Luo Mu placed butter into the pot cleaned by Cangyan Cangyan Rengui, while carefully opening a bag that looked plain and unadorned.

Inside was flour obtained after Mudsdale and the others had ground it, followed by multiple rounds of fine sifting!

As soon as the bag was opened, a strong scent of wheat rushed to the nose; without a doubt, this was the work of the Mawherd.

Thanks to it running through the wheat field, the quality of the flour produced could be so good.

After the butter melted, the wheat flour, which could be called the crystallization of everyone's sweat on the farm, was added and stirred into a paste, finally adding water and stirring until no lumps remained.

At this moment, the aroma of butter and wheat blending together had already filled the kitchen, and outside, several gluttonous Pokémon were already secretly peeking in from outside the kitchen.

Finally, milk was added and brought to a boil, the prepared side ingredients were added and cooked through, then the light cream made by Milcery was added, stirred for a while, and seasoned with black pepper.

A pot of rich, milky, fragrant, and delicious Cream of Mushroom Soup was now complete.

Tao Zui sniffing the charming aroma coming from the gourmet dish, Luo Mu felt an explosion of accomplishment in his heart.

Because this pot of Cream of Mushroom Soup represented the joint achievements of the Pokémon on the farm during this period; lacking anyone would make it incomplete.

(End of Chapter)