Eddie threw away the sour fruit in his hand, picked another ripe fruit from the tree, wiped it, and took a bite.
Ugh!
It was still so sour that Eddie was shaking all over.
It seems that it is not a problem with just one fruit, but that the fruits on the entire tree are like this.
This fruit tree is useless. Even Pokémon that like sour tastes can't stand this level of sourness!
Shaking his head, Eddie walked to the next tree, picked another fruit and tasted it.
Hmm... the flesh is juicy and soft, not obviously sweet or sour, and has a slightly astringent taste.
It's useless…
Then Eddie tried each tree one by one, and really ate fruits of all kinds of flavors. Even if he only tasted one bite of each fruit, his stomach was now bloated.
These fruits with strange tastes can only be regarded as failed varieties of cultivation, but Eddie was not too disappointed, as he had been mentally prepared.
There are quite a lot of grafted fruit trees that survived, as many as hundreds of them. After all, most of them are not as ill-adapted to the environment as the mutant fruit trees.
But one thing is that they were not cultivated by Eddie for long enough, and then they were directly stimulated to grow by Enamorus, and their energy levels generally did not even reach level B.
As for those varieties with low energy levels and too strange tastes, Eddie had no choice but to decide to cut them all down. There was no need to keep them taking up space.
If there is time to cultivate them, Eddie might as well cultivate some fruits that are more popular in the market.
As for those varieties that do not bear fruit, being cut down is still their ultimate fate.
Among these hundreds of fruit trees, there was finally one variety that was successfully cultivated. Although their energy level was very low, their tasting taste surpassed the fruits on Mystic Mountain.
This variety is a graft of two pears from different regions, one from Gene's hometown and the other from the tropical rainforest area of the Alola region.
The pears from Gene's hometown are extremely sour, so sour that your teeth will fall out, and they are very dry, with almost no moisture in one bite, as if you were eating plastic foam.
The pear fruit from the Alola rainforest has a special feature, which is that it is full of water. When you take a bite, the juice will come out of your mouth like a fountain.
But one thing is that you can use it to quench your thirst, but if you want to enjoy it as a delicacy, you will probably be disappointed because it has almost no taste.
This kind of fruit did not appear at the fruit exhibition at that time. Eddie only heard about this kind of fruit by chance when he was chatting with a friend who lived in the Alola rainforest.
Because he became interested in the fruit of this tree, Eddie made an agreement with his friend to mail the fruit tree to him after he returned.
The pear fruit from Gene's hometown and the pear fruit from the Alola rainforest are at two extremes in taste. At that time, Eddie thought that it would be nice if these two kinds of fruits could be neutralized, so he grafted them together.
Unexpectedly, the fruit cultivated now tastes much better than he expected, which is really a pleasant surprise.
The new variety of pear has a slightly sour overall taste and medium sweetness. More importantly, its flesh is delicate and refreshing, with abundant juice. When you take a bite, you can feel the rich pear aroma in your mouth, and the fragrance is long-lasting and does not dissipate for a long time.
It's really delicious.
Of course, this new variety is different in appearance from ordinary pears.
The shape of the common pear is a bit like a gourd, but the segments are not as obvious as those of a gourd, and the skin is also bright green when ripe.
The new variety of pear is oval in shape, but not very regular. Generally, it is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. When ripe, the skin is white-green and even somewhat transparent, and it looks very good.
This can really be said to be a promising future.
Although the energy level of this new variety of pear fruit is a bit low, Eddie believes that the energy level will be quickly improved as long as it is cultivated for a period of time.
By then, wouldn't it be possible for the pear fruit to become a main product of Eddie's Orchard?
There are only about ten trees of this new variety of pear fruit. It's not that the survival rate is low. Its survival rate is quite high, and most of them survived.
It's just that when Eddie was grafted, we didn't expect such good results, so not many were cultivated.
Let's ask Gene and our friends in Alola to send some fruit trees over, and then graft another batch.
In addition to these two batches of grafted fruit trees, a large number of ordinary fruit trees have also been planted on Mystic Mountain. These fruit trees have also grown and borne fruit under the promotion of Enamorus, and are now all bearing fruit.
Some of these ordinary fruit trees were cultivated by Eddie for a short time, and even after being stimulated, they could only produce C-grade fruits. Some were cultivated for a longer time and could barely produce B-grade fruits.
Eddie was also very happy. C-grade fruits could also be sold for money. Although the price was much lower than that of B-grade fruits, there were so many of them. As a poor man, he had no right to look down on C-grade fruits.
Nowadays, most of the orchards in Coumarine City are in a period of reduced production, so Eddie is not worried about not being able to sell these fruits.
When Eddie came back from Prosper Peak, he was humming a little tune happily and was in a particularly good mood.
After returning home, he went to see the Landorus and Enamorus first, then he remembered that he had been busy since early morning and had not had breakfast yet, so he decided to finish his breakfast first and then go see the Zapdos.
Originally, Eddie planned to make breakfast by himself, but when he entered the kitchen, he saw Selene and Salandit had almost finished preparing breakfast together.
Eddie knew his mother's cooking skills were not as good as his own. It was fine as long as it was edible, and don't expect much from the taste.
After finishing his breakfast, Eddie went to the staff dormitory to visit Zapdos, but when he arrived at the door of Zapdos' room, he saw that it was empty.
What about Zapdos?
Eddie saw a little Fletchling passing by, so he asked it where the Zapdos had gone. However, the little Fletchling said that a Heliolisk had been here not long ago, and then the Zapdos carried the Heliolisk and flew away.
As for where they went, the little sparrow didn't know.
The Heliolisk came to look for the Zapdos? Eddie was surprised. Why did it look for the Zapdos? Could it be... At this time, Eddie suddenly thought of something.
Thinking this, Eddie left the staff dormitory. After asking several Pokémon in succession, he finally found Zapdos and Heliolisk at the lightning rod.
I saw the Zapdos strike a golden lightning on the lightning rod. Under the action of the lightning rod, the golden lightning was broken down into tiny electric currents that flowed to the ground.
The Heliolisk lies under the lightning rod. Whenever the current flows to the ground, it will intercept a strand of it and absorb it into its body, then look intoxicated.
really...
When Eddie saw this scene, he realized that his guess was correct. After enjoying the lightning of the Thundurus, the Heliolisk set its sights on the Zapdos and even had the courage to go looking for it.
The most important thing is that Zapdos actually agreed.
You are really promising.
The Heliolisk was so intoxicated that he didn't notice Eddie coming. The Zapdos did notice him, but it just nodded slightly at Eddie and then continued to release electricity to the Heliolisk.
Because the lightning of the Zapdos is too strong for the Heliolisk to absorb directly, it uses the lightning rod to weaken the power of the lightning.
I have to say, Heliolisk, you know how to draw inferences from one example.
Eddie left silently again. Since Zapdos had no objection to such things which were good for the Heliolisk, Eddie certainly had no objection either.
After Eddie returned home, he saw the Diggersby carrying baskets of fruits into the house.
These fruits were all knocked down during the storm. The good ones had been sold to Celebi Breeding House by Eddie in the morning.
But there are still a large number of fruits that have become of poor quality due to being dropped. Some are missing a small piece, and some have broken skin... In short, they cannot be sold.
Eddie thought about it and finally decided to give these fruits to relatives and friends.
He returned to the house, took out a pen and paper to write down the reason for sending the fruit, and then called all the Talonflame over.
"I have a task for you..."
Eddie picked and chose in the basket, selected the ones with better quality, and then packed them into other baskets. Finally, he told the Talonflame Patrol to deliver these fruits to the homes of relatives and friends.
Bluebird Orphanage, Master Ramos, Rob and Paris, Officer Jenny, Nurse Joy, Captain Sanders... they all received gifts from Eddie.
Although the quality of the fruit is not very good, the price of tree fruit in Coumarine City has risen, and some of the fruit sent by Eddie just hit everyone's heart.
The demand for tree fruits in the Pokémon world is quite high, because they not only play the role of ordinary fruits, but also serve as the basic daily food of Pokémon. People need to eat them, and Pokémon need to eat them even more, so a large amount of tree fruits are consumed every day.
In today's Pokémon world, even if you are not a professional trainer, everyone has a few Pokémon at home!
Eddie gave a lot of fruit to each of his relatives and friends this time, but even so, there were still a large number of fruits left over. These were of worse quality, and Eddie was embarrassed to give them away.
At this moment, he suddenly thought of Naomi.
Why not ask Naomi to make them all into energy blocks that are more convenient to store!
Eddie did what he said and called Naomi immediately.
"Hello~"
The voice of Naomi soon came from the other end of the phone. She was very surprised to see that it was Eddie calling.
"Eddie, how is your orchard? I heard that because of this storm, the orchards of families in Coumarine City suffered heavy losses. Is your orchard okay?"
Eddie replied half-truthfully: "The loss is still within an acceptable range. I came to you today just for this matter."
"I have a large number of fruits here, but they are not of good quality and cannot be sold. However, they can be used to make energy cubes, so I would like to ask you to help me make them into energy cubes."
"Of course I can, but... I won't help you for nothing."
Although the two have a good relationship, business is business, and Naomi will never hesitate to charge Eddie for helping him make energy cubes.
"Of course." Eddie said, "There are quite a lot of fruit trees here, and they can definitely produce a lot of energy cubes, so I'd like you to help me sell them, and we can split the profits 50-50."
Eddie himself did not plan to use the energy blocks made from these B-level fruits. Now that he already had the more advanced A-level fruits, his Pokémon would of course have to eat the energy blocks made from A-level fruits!
Eddie doesn't have many A-grade Berries now, and he doesn't plan to sell them outside. It should be enough to use them just for daily consumption of his Pokémon.
"Really? That's settled then!" Senior Sister Jun was delighted when she heard this. "Do you want me to go to your place, or do you want to bring the fruit to me?"
"I'll send the fruits to your place." Eddie replied. Mystic Mountain is not suitable for outsiders now.
"Okay, I'll wait for you then!"
Naomi is currently at home with nothing to do, so she is waiting for Eddie to send the fruit to her to pass the time. This allows her to hone her skills in making energy cubes while also allowing her to make money, which is really killing two birds with one stone.
After hanging up the phone with Naomi, Eddie contacted a truck and delivered baskets of fruit to Naomi's home.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
During these three days, the TV station in Coumarine City broadcast every day the impact of this strange storm on Coumarine City. It was not just the fruit industry that suffered losses, but all industries in Coumarine City were greatly affected.
No one knew how the storm came and how it suddenly disappeared. Experts discussed it over and over again in TV interviews, but most of it was nonsense, and Eddie just watched it for fun.
However, the losses in the fruit industry were more serious than Eddie had imagined. Some small orchards even went bankrupt and closed down because of the storm. All the fruit trees were completely destroyed by the storm. How could they still operate the orchards?
Therefore, the market demand for tree fruits is growing day by day, and the prices of tree fruits of all energy levels are also rising. Eddie ships out large quantities of tree fruits every day.
In just three short days, Eddie has sold more than 30,000 kilograms of fruit and earned a total of more than 20 million, which is simply terrifying.
Of course, Eddie didn't just sell it to Celebi Breeding House.
Because of this disaster, many fruit merchants in Coumarine City were faced with the dilemma of having no fruits to sell. So Eli seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to contact several fruit merchants and reached cooperation with them.
A large fruit store even signed a long-term cooperation contract directly with Eddie. They were very satisfied with the fruits cultivated by Eddie and were optimistic about the prospects of Mystic Mountain Orchard. They felt that since Mystic Mountain Orchard could seize this opportunity, it would only be a matter of time before it rose.
I really have a better vision!
Eli is really great when it comes to contacting clients. Without him, Eddie would most likely be faced with a situation where he would be unable to handle the whole thing alone.
Eddie gave him a large bonus for this, and now Eli can be considered a wealthy man with some savings.
The energy blocks made by Naomi have also started to be sold.
Naomi is still just a student, so her target of promoting energy cubes is mainly her classmates and friends.
Fortunately, Naomi was somewhat famous among her classmates, and many people were willing to buy the energy cubes she made, so a lot of energy cubes were sold one after another, and Eddie also made a small profit.
But this amount of money cannot be compared with what he earns from selling tree fruits.
Moreover, the energy cubes have not been sold out. According to Naomi's plan, the remaining ones may have to be sold for a while. Fortunately, the energy cubes can be preserved for a long time and are not as easy to spoil as thin fruits, so there is no need to worry.
The price of tree fruits in Coumarine City has not risen too much. Currently, the alliance has begun to regulate the market and has even transferred a large amount of tree fruits from other places to the market in Coumarine City.
But this did not affect Eddie. He had only a few tree fruits. If they were put into the fruit market in Coumarine City, they would not even make a splash.
Besides, his fruits have their own advantages that other people's fruits cannot compare with.
Also, Eddie has started going back to school since yesterday. After a few days of suspension, the school finally sent a notice asking students to go back to class on time.