Gourmet master of the Pokemon world

“Grumble ~ Grumble ~ ~”

Snorlax nodded quickly, then obediently stood aside, quietly observing An Jie washing dishes, scrubbing pots, and tidying the stove, looking like he was learning very seriously.

An Jie looked back at it and couldn't help but smile: So cute.

Soon, An Jie tidied up the kitchen, and around the same time, Diancie also tidied up the hall.

“Now can you tell me about the cooking training room!” An Jie said.

“Did you forget that we have a third floor? The cooking training room is there!” Diancie explained, “Let’s go take a look.”

“Third floor?” If Diancie hadn't mentioned it, An Jie would have almost forgotten that his house had a third floor.

When he first moved into the small building, An Jie wanted to tour the house inside and out. The first floor was the shop, the second floor was where he and his Pokémon lived, but when he wanted to go to the third floor, he was blocked by an invisible force.

At that time, Diancie told him that he hadn't obtained permission to enter the third floor yet.

“So now I have permission?”

“Yes, yes, let's go take a look.” Diancie grabbed An Jie's hand and headed to the third floor.

An Jie quickly waved to Snorlax, “Snorlax, you come too, this is your home from now on, let's tour it together.”

“Grumble ~ Grumble ~”

Snorlax happily followed behind An Jie upon hearing this.

Just like Diancie said, An Jie, who couldn't go up to the third floor before, easily came up this time.

He saw many, many doors on the third floor. He randomly chose one and tried to open it, but after twisting the doorknob for a long time, it wouldn't open.

Seeing this, Diancie explained: “You only obtained the opening permission for the cooking training room. You need to unlock the other doors step by step to obtain permission.”

“Okay.”

An Jie had no choice but to let go of the doorknob and followed Diancie forward with Snorlax.

When they reached the end of the corridor, Diancie stopped and stood in front of a door. On the doorplate were the words “Cooking Training Room”.

“Is this the place?”

Diancie nodded, signaling An Jie to push the door open.

An Jie took a step forward, grasped the doorknob, and twisted it. Sure enough, he opened the door smoothly.

Walking into the room, An Jie saw an empty, white space.

Diancie followed closely behind. According to the system's prompt, it guided An Jie: “An Jie, say ‘Cooking training start!’”

Although An Jie was puzzled, he did as he was told.

“Cooking training start.”

As An Jie's voice fell, the empty room immediately underwent a huge change, turning into a spacious kitchen in the blink of an eye, filled with all kinds of cooking utensils. Anything An Jie knew could be seen here.

At the front of the kitchen was a place similar to a podium, and behind the podium was a large screen.

Snorlax had long been dazzled by this luxurious kitchen. Its two eyes couldn't take it all in. It had never seen such high technology.

Then, Diancie pointed to the large screen behind her and introduced: “You can choose the food you want to practice making here. At that time, the training room will automatically prepare the ingredients for you.

But currently, An Jie, you have only unlocked the steamed bun, so the only thing available for practice in the training room is this.”

An Jie looked at the big screen and saw that there was indeed only one item, steamed bun, on the list. He couldn't help but complain: “When will I be able to unlock the next food item!”

It's not that he can't make other foods himself, it's just that he can't earn Happiness Points from foods that are not unlocked by the system, which is really not worth it.

Diancie comforted him: “Soon, soon, don't worry.”

“Okay.” An Jie resigned himself.

“Do you want to use the training room now?” Diancie asked.

An Jie shook his head, “Let's talk about it at night. I agreed to plant vegetables with Litwick and the others this afternoon.”

“That's right, then we'll talk about it later.” Diancie nodded.

After touring the cooking training room for a while, An Jie beckoned Diancie and Snorlax to go out.

At noon, after the family of four had lunch together, they came to the back of the small building. An Jie planned to open up a vegetable garden here.

Even if the vegetables grown are not used in the store, he can still occasionally satisfy his cravings. Anyway, he can't earn Happiness Points from himself.

Soon, Litwick brought his friends to help as promised. To An Jie's surprise, they also brought two helpers he hadn't seen before.

They were two Diglett.

“Moo hee ~ Moo hee ~”

Litwick introduced the two Diglett to An Jie. It turned out that they were Zigzagoon's friends. After Zigzagoon learned that An Jie was going to open up a vegetable garden today, he specially asked his friends to come and help.

The soil turned over by Diglett will become loose, making it more suitable for planting, and their droppings are also more fertile than the droppings of other Pokémon.

An Jie gratefully thanked Zigzagoon: “Zigzagoon, thank you.”

“Jee kow ~ Jee kow ~”

Zigzagoon shyly hugged his head with his two small paws.

“Now that everyone is here, let's start working!” An Jie announced.

“Moo hee ~”

“Ya cha ~”

“Jee kow ~”

… …

The Pokémon responded to him with enthusiasm.

Then, An Jie assigned tasks to the Pokémon like he did when planting flowers last time.

However, this time everyone doesn't need to find dead branches and rotten soil to make fertilizer, because the fertilizer made from planting flowers last time hasn't been used up yet.

Similarly, everyone doesn't need to find stones this time. An Jie plans to use wooden sticks to enclose the vegetable garden with a fence. The area of ​​the vegetable garden is much larger than the flower garden. Enclosing it with stones is not as efficient as enclosing it with a wooden fence.

After the tasks were assigned, Pancham, Scraggy, Skitty, Litleo, and Gulpin ran out to find wooden sticks. Only An Jie, Diancie, Komala, Snorlax, Diglett, and Castform were left in place.

“Komala, I'm counting on you.” An Jie said to Komala, who was holding a log and swaying back and forth.

Upon hearing this, Komala rolled to the location designated by An Jie, raised the log and used the Wood Hammer skill, smashing it hard on the ground. Suddenly, the ground cracked and the soil bulged, and a piece of land was opened up.

Then it was the Diglett's turn to appear. The two Diglett drilled into the ground turned up by Komala and drilled back and forth in the soil. After a while, the large pieces of hard soil became loose.

This efficiency is much faster than An Jie and Diancie using hoes to knock it out bit by bit.

“Great!” An Jie gave the two Diglett a thumbs up.

Hearing the praise, the two Diglett drilled even harder.

Zigzagoon told them that if they did a good job, there would be delicious food!

An Jie beckoned Diancie and the others: “Let's start working too, don't just stand there.”

As he said that, he, Diancie, and Snorlax walked into the ground together, clearing out the grass roots mixed in the soil one by one, and then letting Litwick bake the soil.

By the time the sun was about to set, An Jie and the others had finally opened up the vegetable garden.

Looking at the square land in front of him, An Jie felt a sense of accomplishment.

Anjie divided the cultivated vegetable plot into five sections. The first section was planted with scallions and garlic, the second with green peppers and small chili peppers, and the third with ginger and green onions. The fourth section was planted with some common spices, such as Sichuan peppercorns, cumin, bay leaves, star anise, etc., with only a little of each. Spices are consumed slowly, so planting these would be almost enough even for use in the shop.

As for the fifth section, Anjie planted some commonly eaten vegetables, such as greens, water spinach, tomatoes, radishes, and so on, with only a little of each, just about enough for his family to eat.

As for what the shop needs, he can replant later when needed. After all, he doesn't know what dishes the system will unlock in the future. Anyway, vegetables grow quickly, so there will definitely be enough time.

The Nibel Plateau has a special climate, so you can harvest whenever you plant.

After planting, he put up a fence, and Anjie said to Floating Bubble, "Floating Bubble, please water them."

"Puniu ~ ~ ~"

Floating Bubble nodded and flew over the vegetable garden. Soon, a drizzle began to fall in the vegetable garden. Having learned from the last time he watered the flowers, this time he controlled the rainfall very well.

After watering, Anjie said to the Pokémon, "Go take a bath, and then we'll have dinner!"

The Pokémon cheered when they heard this.

After setting out the bathing supplies one by one, Anjie put Munchlax and Komala into the water, applied shower gel to them, and then said to the other Pokémon:

"You are all mature Pokémon now, shouldn't you learn to bathe yourselves?"

Stunky, Foongus, and Helioptile jumped into another bathtub, imitating Anjie's movements, applying shower gel to themselves, and then rubbing their bodies.

Seeing this, Anjie reminded them, "Remember to ask your friends to help you scrub the places you can't reach yourself, don't miss any spots."

Stunky, Foongus, and Helioptile immediately understood and spontaneously learned the skill of scrubbing each other's backs. Foongus loved cleanliness and scrubbed the most vigorously, not forgetting to supervise his friends, not allowing them to miss a single spot.

With Stunky, Foongus, and Helioptile taking the lead, the other Pokémon also helped each other bathe.

This time, Anjie had specially prepared two extra bathtubs, so there was no need to worry about not having enough tubs.

Everyone bathed and played in the water. Glameow still didn't like bathing and was dragged into the water by her friends, letting out a heart-wrenching "wail."

Litwick and the two Diglett, who didn't need to bathe, quietly watched everyone bathing and playing. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on everyone, adding a touch of gentleness to them, harmoniously like a painting.

Litwick felt that this kind of life was too wonderful, so wonderful that it felt like a dream, a beautiful dream that seemed like it could be awakened at any moment.

It turned its head and cast its gaze on Anjie, who was chatting and laughing with Munchlax.

Recently, everyone had become less and less afraid of Anjie, and their relationship with him had become closer and closer, including itself.

It was both fascinated by this beauty and unconsciously afraid, afraid that at any moment, the current beautiful life would suddenly shatter like the beautiful times of the past, piercing it severely.

Litwick had once had its favorite trainer, and they had spent many wonderful times together.

However, one day, its trainer suddenly fainted. After some examination, it was told that it had inadvertently absorbed its trainer's life force, causing the trainer to become weaker and weaker, eventually falling into a coma.

To allow the trainer to wake up again, it had to leave its trainer.

In the end, Litwick was secretly sent away by the trainer's mother, and after many twists and turns, it wandered to the Nibel Plateau.

In fact, it understood the trainer's mother's actions. Even if the trainer's mother hadn't sent it away, it would have quietly left on its own, but…

"Alright! Everyone's all clean, let's go back and eat, my stomach is growling with hunger."

At this time, Anjie's voice pulled Litwick's thoughts back. It stepped into the house with Anjie in the sunset, and then had a delicious meal with everyone. Finally, it returned home with its friends amidst the farewells of Anjie, Diancie, and Munchlax.

After dinner, Anjie took Munchlax, Komala, and Diancie to the cooking training room.

"Let's experience the functions of this training room!"

As soon as he said this, he saw Diancie standing on the podium, with a pointer in her hand at some point.

Anjie's heart trembled, "Diancie, what do you mean by this?"

Diancie flicked the pointer and said, "You asked me to supervise the training! What else could it mean?"

"You wouldn't physically punish the students, would you?"

"How could I?" Diancie smiled kindly, "I'm just a simple supervisor."

"Okay… alright."

Thinking of Diancie's cold and ruthless attitude when he was specially training his cooking skills before, his heart couldn't help but tremble.

He saw Diancie select a special training item for Anjie and the others on the big screen. The ingredients needed to make steamed buns immediately appeared on the stove in the kitchen: flour, yeast, water…

"Practice begins, Munchlax, you follow behind Anjie and learn." Diancie transformed into a demon instructor, snapping the pointer in her hand on the podium.

Munchlax nodded obediently. At this time, he was wearing the same chef's uniform as Anjie, a white apron, and a tall hat. He really had the demeanor of a chef's apprentice.

It's just that he was a little short. In order to reach the stove and the cutting board, he stepped on a stool.

After the training started, Munchlax followed behind Anjie step by step, learning with a serious and earnest expression.

*Snap* ~ The pointer slammed hard on the podium.

"Munchlax, too much water!" Diancie's stern voice suddenly came.

Anjie's heart trembled. He looked at Diancie, then at Munchlax. Fortunately, fortunately, she wasn't talking about me.

No, wait, I'm the head of the family, why should I be afraid! Thinking like this, Anjie straightened his back again.

*Snap* ~ ~ ~ The sound of the pointer hitting the podium came again.

"Still too much water!"

Diancie's eyes, with the blessing of the system, were simply piercing, not tolerating the slightest mistake. Munchlax frantically corrected himself.

*Snap* ~

"The kneading force is too strong, be gentle."

*Snap* ~

"I said be gentle, don't you understand what gentle means?"

*Snap* ~

"I told you to be gentle, not to not use any strength. Didn't you eat enough for dinner? Who did those big pots of steamed buns go into?"

Diancie in the training room was more venomous than at any other time. Little Munchlax shrank his head from the scolding, not daring to say a word.

"Diancie, how about we take it slow…" Anjie tried to plead for Munchlax from the side, but silently closed his mouth at Diancie's glare. The words that came to his lips also turned into, "Munchlax, no pain, no gain. For you to have a good life in the future, endure it a little now! I am firmly on your side."

Munchlax ate Anjie's chicken soup. Sure enough, the look on his face was no longer bitter, and his movements became even more energetic.

Only Komala was the most relaxed. He hugged his tree pillow and swayed on the podium, not knowing if he was really sleeping.