Chapter 325： Tianwu’s number one melon-eating crowd

Chapter 325 Tianwu’s number one melon-eating crowd

“Haha, you want to ask Dayong if he can come back?” The old lady joked and pulled her to sit down.

"The Marquis looks cold, but he is actually the most soft-hearted. Even if he can't come back, he will definitely send the fourth child and Dayong back for a visit. Don't worry!"

Huiniang blushed, "I'm not worried about it, or the child is getting older, and I don't know what to do."

"This is your first time to have a baby, so of course you are worried. Don't worry, I heard that the barbarians in Jiangbei were killed again. Maybe Dayong will come back this time and stay by your side until the baby is one month old."

“Seriously?”

"Absolutely. I heard a few words from the chief steward of the Hou Mansion. I can't be wrong."

The old lady made Huiniang happy and invited everyone to eat.

After dinner, Dongmei accompanied Huiniang back, and Jiayin and her brothers lay down on the mat under the eaves of the corridor to take a nap.

The old lady was sitting aside sewing clothes and trousers for her grandchildren. Occasionally she picked up a big cattail leaf fan to help the children drive away mosquitoes.

In the scorching summer, the cicadas are heard, and the sky is extremely blue and clean.

Jiayin squinted her eyes and fell asleep without realizing it.

It was her birthday soon, and everyone in the family was very happy, but she actually felt it was unnecessary.

Other children like to grow up, but she wants to be a child all her life, carefree, loved and pampered, with all her relatives around her...

It’s a pity that time will not stop because of anyone’s hope.

In the blink of an eye, it’s seven or eight days again. This day has just dawned, and the dew in the fields is still heavy.

Yawned as soon as he heard the good news, he was carried to the melon field by his second uncle.

The village chief stepped forward and coaxed with a smile: "Fu Niu, please help the village chief's grandfather to see if the melons in the field are ripe? Which one is ripe? Pick them off and we will send them to the palace for the emperor to eat." "

As soon as Jiayin heard this, he immediately became energetic, jumped off the ground, and ran around in the melon field.

I have to say that with last year’s experience, the melons grown by the villagers this year are even better.

There are no weeds in the ridges and furrows, the melon vines are all pinched to their tips, and melons with taproots are rare.

Nowadays, each of the jasper melons is as big as a pottery pot, with dark green skin, lying lazily among the melon vines, making people salivate just looking at them.

Because he had to pay tribute to the palace, Jiayin picked melons that were nine-mature ripe and round and beautiful in shape.

As for the golden fruit field, it is even easier. When the tail of the melon is touched, the melon base will fall off easily and it is ripe.

Soon, sixty jade melons and one hundred and twenty golden fruits were loaded onto the car.

There were some melon vines stuffed around the carriage, giving it a wild look.

The village chief and Uncle Zhao drove the carriage in person, and Li Laoer, Liu Biaotou and Ye Shan got into the Marquis's carriage and followed behind.

Hyper logically speaking, this lineup is pretty good.

But a dozen villagers were worried and wanted to go to the city to watch the excitement, so they begged the village chief to take them with him.

The village chief simply waved his hand and said, "You can go if you want, but don't complain if you can't enter the palace gate."

“No, let’s just see what the palace gate looks like.”

The villagers were so happy that they walked on both sides of the carriage and escorted the melons into the city without riding in the carriage.

The Broken Gold Beach is thirty miles away from the new capital, and when we reached the city gate all the way, it was already the end of the hour.

The gate of the city was bustling with traffic and people, and passers-by were curious when they saw the formation of people in Broken Gold Beach.

"There are jasper melons and golden fruits on this cart? Are they ripe so early?" "No, the rich man Wang of our village found a handful of seeds somewhere and planted half an acre of land. I looked at the results. The melon is the size of a pottery bowl..."

“But look at the one on my car, it’s too big!”

Some people couldn't help but asked loudly, "Brother, where did you buy the jade melon?"

The people in Broken Gold Beach immediately responded with a mixture of pride and joy: "We are from Broken Gold Beach, and this is what we grew at home."

“Ah, Broken Gold Beach!”

“Oh, no wonder, I heard that the melons from Broken Gold Beach are the best. When I saw it today, it is indeed well-deserved.”

“The melon garden in Broken Gold Beach has opened, how many should I buy?!”

“Follow me and see where they are going to be sold. Buy a few and eat them fresh.”

While everyone was talking about it, Ye Shan took out the token from the Marquis Mansion and entered the city directly without waiting in line.

The carriage drove through the city in a swaggering manner, and it took half an hour to reach the east of the city.

Ye Shan went to the palace gate, took the token, and gave money to the young **** at the palace gate. Originally, he wanted to ask the **** chief next to the emperor to accept the jade melon.

Unexpectedly, the chief **** actually picked him up personally and called the village chief and Li Laoer in to answer the question.

A cart of jade melons and golden fruits was also carefully carried into the palace.

The emperor has just come down from court and is chatting about government affairs with several old ministers.

At times like this, he naturally couldn't say much to the village chief and Li Laoer. He could only ask about the output of jade melons this year and whether the business in Hot Spring Valley was good.

Although the village chief was nervous, he had already met the emperor twice. His etiquette may not have been so thorough, but his replies were honest, and his gratitude to the emperor and the court was beyond words.

The emperor was happy to hear this, and finally said to several veterans, "The Broken Gold Beach is a geomantic treasure land. The people are simple and honest, and the fruits they grow are also the best. In a moment, you will take two of you back to have a taste."

After saying that, he asked the village chief, "Is it true, old man, that this year's melons are sweeter than last year?"

If it were someone else, they would immediately say that they had never eaten it and offer the first bite to the emperor.

As a result, the village chief was very sincere, his face turned a little red, and he whispered back: "Your Majesty, originally, all the young and old in our village said that we would dedicate this first melon to you to take the first bite, but I am afraid that this year's melon will not be sweet. Last night, I secretly opened one...it’s sweet, it’s really sweet!”

His appearance of a child who was caught stealing made the emperor and the senior ministers laugh.

They are all used to intrigues and duplicity, so how could they not like this simplicity and sincerity.

"Come here! The people of Broken Gold Beach are sincere to me. They present the first cart of jasper melons and golden fruits in midsummer, and reward fifty pieces of brocade, one hundred taels of gold, and one thousand taels of silver. They ordered the Ministry of Industry to build an archway and engraved the four characters "Feng Shui Treasure Land" on it. ”

The dragon is very happy, and the reward is naturally rich.

The village chief and Li Laoer hurriedly knelt down to thank us. The village chief also said: "Your Majesty, we just need a memorial arch. With the emperor's prestige and reputation, we won't be afraid of anyone bullying us in the future. We don't want this brocade and gold and silver. Your Majesty." Keep the gold and silver to reward the soldiers who go on the expedition. There will be a bumper harvest of jade melons and golden fruits this year, and we can sell a lot of silver in our village, enough to feed and clothe every family!"

Logically speaking, you cannot refuse the emperor's reward. This is disrespectful.

But the village chief didn't know that he was speaking with sincerity and he was thinking about the emperor and the court.

The chief **** and the old ministers wanted to scold him, but they couldn't open their mouths.

After a long time, when the village chief and Li Laoer were filled with fear and confusion, the emperor said, "Okay, then just build the archway."

The village chief and Li Laoer were relieved and quickly kowtowed and said goodbye.

"Your Majesty, you are busy, we are going back. Many people on the road just saw us pulling jade melons, and they were very greedy. I am afraid they have gone to the village to buy melons, so we have to go back and take care of them."

(End of this chapter)