Chapter 534: Mere Sheep Ranch and Wool

Chapter 534: Mere Sheep Ranch and Wool

"This is, Steel Crow——"

Sasha covered her mouth with a surprised look, her eyes kept turning around Steel Crow and Luo Mu.

Steel Crow, with a black armor that can reflect light, is simply the extreme of another color compared to the snow-white world around it!

Black and white, no matter who meets each other, it is quite conspicuous.

Not to mention, Sasha realized that Luo Mu just called down these Steel Crows with just a whistle!

This means that the rumors circulating in the town are true!

"In the neighboring Pingdie Town, there is a farm that is so luxurious that it uses Steel Crows to deliver goods."

She has heard such rumors more than once, and now she has seen the authenticity of the rumors with her own eyes.

"So cool"

Looking at these Steel Crows, Sasha envied them.

You know, even if Steel Crows themselves are not bird Pokémon that are afraid of the cold, in order to have sufficient food sources for the tribe, they will choose to migrate to warm and abundant places before winter, and wait until the beginning of spring next year to fly back.

It seems that what Miss Joy said is right. Since there are abundant supplies for these steel crows to live in the icy environment, it means that Luo Mu has the ability to solve the current crisis of her ranch.

Watching those steel crows skillfully grab the eco-friendly baskets full of supplies and fly into the sky, waiting for her to set off.

After being in a daze for a while, Sasha's movements became more agile, and soon she and Luo Mu moved the supplies to the rear cargo compartment of the pickup truck.

When Luo Mu sat in the co-pilot at Sasha's invitation, two scarf-wearing Eevees jumped into the car one after another, she discovered their existence.

"It's Eevee, so cute, and there's another one with a different color!"

Even though she has been helping on the ranch since she was a child, her experience and personality are more stable than her peers. As a girl, Sasha still likes such cute things.

She envied Luo Mu more and more. She wanted to raise an Eevee before, but her father blocked her with "Instead of raising Eevee, it's better to raise the Mare sheep on the ranch."

"They are twin sisters. The brown one is the elder sister, and the silver one is the younger sister."

Seeing that Sasha really liked the Eevee sisters, Luo Mu simply introduced them to her briefly.

Then, he patted the Burning Bug in his arms and introduced them together.

"Also, this is the Burning Bug. It's very warm to hold it."

The twin Eevee sisters, one of which is a different color, and there is also a Burning Bug!

Sasha felt that she couldn't even light the fire properly. She glanced at the Burning Bug looking over here, and a forced smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, "It turned out to be a Burning Bug? I thought it was just a pillow."

The rumbling sound of the engine came to her ears, and for a moment, Sasha felt that her beloved pickup truck was not fragrant.

The twin Eevee sisters with different colors, and the cute Burning Bug!

Damn, so sour.

In order to avoid thinking about it again, Sasha simply stepped on the accelerator and drove the pickup truck towards Yangyang Town.

The Steeljaws in the sky didn't need Luo Mu's signal, and followed the pickup truck consciously, forming a strange landscape.

Along the way, many people from other farms and ranches saluted.

Yangyang Town is not far from Pingdie Town. It is a nearby town, about an hour's drive away.

Sitting in the pickup truck, Luo Mu, who could only do nothing but stroke the fur of the Burning Bug and Eevee sisters, recalled the cause of this action.

Because the weather is getting colder and colder, Zhihuixing proposed early on that he planned to prepare some warm clothes for the Pokémon on the farm who are not cold-resistant.

Speaking of cold-proof, it is nothing more than sweaters, down jackets and other clothes.

When Luo Mu was thinking about which channel to purchase goods from, Joey Lin, who taught him in the afternoon, mentioned that there might be supplies that Luo Mu needed in the town where one of his distant cousins ​​worked.

However, the other party only accepts barter transactions now.

Luo Mu naturally would not miss this opportunity and learned about the relevant matters in detail.

As the name of Yangyang Town suggests, most families in the town have ranches and raise Pokémon such as Merely.

The main source of income for the town is the sale of Merely wool.

Luo Mu had heard of the wool of Merely for a long time.

Clothes made of fluffy and soft wool are not only comfortable to wear, but also have the magical effect of keeping warm in winter and cool in summer.

Therefore, the wool of Merely is very suitable for making clothes.

In addition, as long as the nutrition of Pokémon such as Merely is kept up, their body hair will continue to grow longer. Even if all their wool is shaved off in summer, it only takes a week to restore to its original state.

It can be said that Merely is a walking wool machine.

Because of the large output, although the wool of Merely is very effective, it cannot be sold at a high price.

Even so, the lives of the entire Yangyang Town residents are not particularly wealthy, but they are well-fed and well-clothed.

Sasha's Merely sheep ranch is also one of them.

However, there are unexpected events.

Due to an accident not long ago, all the supplies prepared by Sasha's ranch for the winter, including the food prepared for the sheep, disappeared.

After investigation by the police station in Yangyang Town, the culprit was identified as a wild Pokémon.

Let’s not talk about whether the wild Pokémon that have gone to who knows where can be returned to the ranch. Even the Mare sheep in the ranch, Sasha’s family can’t just sit there and wait for them to use up all the supplies and starve without doing anything.

But now it’s winter, it’s hard to collect enough supplies, and the price has more or less increased compared to before winter.

Even if they buy enough supplies, it’s certain that the ranch will have worked in vain this year.

Even if the police station and the mayor support their ranch with some supplies, it’s just a drop in the bucket, and can only relieve thirst.

In the end, there was really no other way, so Sasha’s family tried to barter with “the wool of Mare sheep before winter” to exchange supplies.

In order to keep warm, Mare sheep often have a crazy growth period of wool before winter.

At this time, the wool is both fluffy and warm, and it can be regarded as one of the super warm clothing materials limited to winter.

Although if they wait another month, the wool can be sold at a better price.

After consideration, Sasha's family still felt that the Meli sheep were the most important, and chose to use these wools for barter.

And Luo Mu's goal was also these wools.

Compared with the tough wool of the wool-braided sheep, which was rarely distributed in Padiya, the wool of the Meli sheep was more in line with his needs.

It happened that the farm was not short of supplies at the moment.

With Regiace, a legendary elf with natural cooling, Luo Mu, who had a bit of a fear of insufficient supplies, had stockpiled a lot of supplies.

In addition to some common specialties on the farm, in exchange for the wool of the Meli sheep before winter, Luo Mu felt that it was completely acceptable.

After discussing with Zhihuixing and Leiguanwang, Luo Mu made a direct decision and contacted Miss Joey in Yangyang Town through Joey Lin, and then contacted Sasha's family, and finally expressed his willingness to barter.

At this time, the reason why Luo Mu personally brought the supplies was that he planned to complete the transaction and touch the wool with his own hands to determine its quality.

Although Zhihuixing confirmed that the "samples" sent by the other party were of excellent quality, Luo Mu felt that he would be relieved if he went to check it out in person.

For this reason, he also asked Zhihuixing to teach him how to distinguish the quality of wool.

After an hour's drive, the outline of Yangyang Town finally appeared in front of the sleepy Luo Mu.

"Ibubuyi!"

The Ibu sisters also became active instantly, scrambling to climb onto Luo Mu's shoulders and looking at the town in the distance.

It was the first time for them to come to this place by car!

Everything was very new to them.

Compared with Pingdie Town, which is small but actually has a good scale, Yangyang Town has few buildings. Luo Mu estimated that there are probably about a hundred households.

Although there are few people, Yangyang Town covers a large area. Behind the one-family building with the style of the Padya region is a pasture surrounded by fences.

However, there is no trace of green grass in the pasture, only thick snow piled up there.

When passing by a certain house, dog Pokémon such as Paparazzi, Mahua Dog or Rock Dog often rush out, bark at the pickup truck driven by Sasha symbolically, and then quickly return to their warm nests.

Luo Mu thought that these dog Pokémon were probably raised by the residents of Yangyang Town to guard their homes or herd sheep.

Compared with the pickup trucks passing by, the steel armored crows holding goods attracted the attention of many residents.

And Sasha also politely answered the townspeople who asked that these steel armored crows were transporting barter goods.

Seeing the surprised expressions of the uncles and aunts who heard this answer, Sasha was a little happy.

This time she was not the only one shocked, hehe.

Sasha's home and ranch were on the edge of Yangyang Town. After entering the town, they drove for a long time before arriving.

Sasha's parents had been waiting in the cold wind early.

When they greeted Luo Mu, the first sentence they asked was about the origin of the steel armored crows following behind them.

Sasha could only patiently explain it to her parents again.

Hearing this, Sasha's father Zelu showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, and couldn't wait to invite Luo Mu to come in and drink some hot tea, and then he would take Luo Mu to the warehouse to check the wool.

Luo Mu smiled, declined Zelu's invitation, showed the burning bug in his arms, and said: "Thank you for your kindness, but I don't feel cold."

Luo Mu said so, so Zelu naturally didn't force it, but followed Luo Mu's words and said, "Then let's go to the warehouse first."

Then, he looked at his wife again, and whispered to her that after receiving the supplies from the steel armor crows, remember to bring hot tea and cups directly to the warehouse.

From the supplies held by the group of steel armor crows, Zelu knew that as long as the transaction went smoothly, the difficulties in the recent period would be over.

For a big customer like Luo Mu who came to help in times of need, he could not drink hot tea, but his family had to prepare it.

After repeated instructions, Zelu led Luo Mu around Sasha's house and entered their ranch from the fence entrance on the other side.

At a glance, Luo Mu estimated that Sasha's ranch was about the size of Kachi's ranch in the Sun and Moon animation.

Although it was snowing outside, a group of Meli sheep with thick wool were walking around in the snow, occasionally lowering their heads to dig in the snow, trying to find the roots of the grass covered by the snow.

It can be seen that they are indeed a little hungry now.

Zeru, who noticed Luo Mu's sight, smiled awkwardly and explained, "Just in case, we can only reduce some of the food we provide to the Meeres in the past few days. Fortunately, you are here, so they don't have to go hungry."

"It's okay, it's just a trade between us."

Luo Mu didn't comment on this.

For him, he couldn't say that he helped the Zeru family. The two sides were just doing a very ordinary trade, each taking what they needed.

He needed wool, and the Zeru family needed supplies, so they hit it off.

At this time, the Eevee sisters who were painting plum blossoms on the snow seemed to have discovered something. After saying hello to Luo Mu, they ran over there happily.

Luo Mu looked over there and found that among a group of Meeres, there were a few pink figures vaguely.

Of course, it was not a Meeres of different colors, but the evolved form of Meeres, the Fluffy Sheep.

Unlike the Meeres, many parts of the Fluffy Sheep were completely bald, revealing their pink skin.

When they evolved into Dragonite again, they didn't even have a single hair on their bodies. They would only grow some again after Mega Evolution.

Bald sheep naturally can't grow wool. How to manage these wool sheep and Dragonite that can't produce value is also a headache for many ranches.

Abandoning them is definitely impossible. They can be given to passing trainers, or they can be changed to provide electricity for the ranch. There are always more solutions than difficulties.

There are still many wool sheep left in this ranch, which surprised Luo Mu a little.

"They are the evolution of the Maeli sheep that Sasha has taken care of since they were young. They have some feelings for them. It's okay to leave them in the ranch."

Zelu, who had no objection to the Eevee sisters playing in the ranch, explained the origin of the wool sheep.

Then the two came to the warehouse where the wool was stored.

Maeli sheep have little body odor, so the wool is not as full of smell as ordinary wool.

Luo Mu grabbed a handful of wool in the warehouse, carefully observed the gloss and color of the wool under the light, rubbed the wool with his fingertips, and felt the elasticity and feel of the wool itself.

The burning bug also curiously played with a ball of wool, his eyes full of interest.

After a while, Luo Mu, who had used all his mediocre skills, showed a satisfied smile and said, "Very good quality."

"It's great that you are satisfied."

Zeru responded with a more sincere smile.

"By the way, maybe I'm a little too nosy, about the purpose of this wool-"

"Most of it is prepared to be made into clothing to keep the Pokémon on the farm warm, and a small part is intended to be made into some decorations."

This is not a secret, Luo Mu answered directly.

Hearing this, Zelu's eyes lit up and asked, "Have you contacted the factory that processes wool?"

"If you don't mind, I know a few reliable processors and can tell you their contact information."

What Luo Mu bought was just "wool" as raw material. If he wanted to make it into various clothing and textiles, he had to process it carefully.

Judging from Luo Mu's appearance, it was probably the first time he came to buy such a large amount of raw materials. Zelu, who has been selling wool for decades, naturally wanted to provide the best service.

Not to mention the current barter transaction, as long as Luo Mu is satisfied with the quality of the wool, he might be able to accumulate a big customer for his own ranch.