Wind rises time and space gate

Chapter 549 A Good Harvest
The melon fields around Hangu City were full of people looking at the melons, some from Daqi and some from Hu.

Lin Zhaoxia was not stingy either. He immediately ordered people to pick some ripe melons and cut them on the spot, then distributed them piece by piece to the people who came to watch.

As soon as the melon-cutting knife touched the body of the melon, it cracked with a "hiss" sound, and a hint of red popped out from the crack. When it was fully opened, it was bright red, like a glowing gem.

Just looking at it, people around you can drool.

When you eat it, it is fresh, juicy, crisp and sweet like honey, more refreshing and thirst-quenching than honey. The juice slides into your throat, and your throat, which was just smoking, is moistened thoroughly.

What a melon!

So this is a watermelon! It's delicious! This bite is not enough to fill the gap between my teeth. In this hot day, I can't wait to hold a watermelon and eat it. How can they eat such a big watermelon!

Those Hu people were not satisfied after eating a bite. It turned out that the Great Qi was really rich in goods and people. This watermelon was hundreds and thousands of times better than their cold melons!
The cold melons they provided to the royal family and nobles were not as red, not as sweet, and had all black melon seeds. You had to spit out two bites after eating one. The melons of Da Qi were sandy and sweet!
Buy, buy!

"Prince Yue, Princess Yue, we want to buy melons!" They spoke the Da Qi dialect in an unprofessional manner and surrounded Zhao Guangyuan and Lin Zhaoxia.

"Don't push, don't push, we have everything!" The steward and the guards were so scared that they were sweating.

This enthusiasm is unbearable.

They were afraid that something might happen to the prince and princess. Over there, Princess Deyang was also pulled away by Old Madam Jiang and Madam Jiang, for fear that she would be bumped into.

"You should take it easy and take care of the baby in your belly."

It's almost time to give birth, but she still refuses to stay in the mansion. Mrs. Wen also admires this sister-in-law. Isn't it good to stay in the mansion in such a hot day with maids and servants to serve her? There is also ice sent by the princess. Can't she stay in the mansion and wait in the coolness?

How can she be left without food?

"Oh, sister-in-law, you don't understand. What's the good of staying in the mansion? The melon field is so lively here." Isn't this better than staying in the mansion?
Anyway, she just loves to go out. She used to live in the capital, eating Ling melons but never picked or selected melons herself. Besides, she had never seen so many Western Regions people of different appearances at that time. She could watch them all day at the market.

Now she knows a lot of words in the Western Region. The Northwest is much more interesting than the capital.

Old Madam Jiang pulled her arm, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. She was afraid that if she didn't make a mistake, her daughter-in-law would run away into the crowd.

"Okay, okay, if you want to watch the fun, then watch from a distance and don't hurt the baby in your belly."

You still have to listen to your mother-in-law's words, "I understand, mother."

Seeing that Lin Zhaoxia's place was surrounded by a crowd of people, he was very envious. "How come the princess has so many ways to make money? The houses and shops built for the trade have made a lot of money. The inns and taverns she opened are always crowded with people. She also has a theater, and the ticket sales alone make a lot of money every day. Now she has several hectares of melon fields. Wow, the God of Wealth must be living in her house."

These words made both Mrs. Jiang and Mrs. Wen laugh.

"You must be envious of so many people who follow the prince and have melon fields and can sell melons."

"Of course. We just regret that we came too late. Otherwise, Wentao would be too busy to come and see us on such a lively day as today. At least we can get a piece of the melon field according to our merits." Looking at the families of the generals, they couldn't stop smiling.

"And my eldest brother, he is busy with the trade and won't be home for a few days. He must get a piece of the melon field."

Mrs. Wen agreed with a smile, "Yes, yes, yes, the two brothers must share a piece of the melon field. Not to mention selling it for money, they can also eat it themselves. Look at those kids, they don't even feel hot in this hot weather, they go into the melon field and pick melons without even raising their heads."

The three of them looked at the melon field not far away, and saw a few children crouching and knocking melons, and they couldn't help laughing again. The wife of the county magistrate Wu also laughed, and her mouth was stiff with laughter.

Her family was the second to follow the King of Yue to buy land. The master had bought a lot before, and was busy flattering the King of Yue, and did not dare to be careless in serving him, which led to the bumper harvest of the melon field. She had seen that, apart from the King of Yue's land, the melons in her family's melon field grew the best!
Although those generals of the Northwest Army took good care of him, they were just a group of warriors, so how could they take care of him as well as their own servants?

Now, a bunch of Hu people are surrounding her house to place orders, and the master is almost unable to cope with it.

The county magistrate's wife smiled so hard that she couldn't close her mouth. What a great hug! How many melons can we get from this melon field! She had the servants weigh the melons just now. The largest one weighed more than 30 kilograms, and the smallest one weighed more than 10 or 20 kilograms.

My goodness, one catty is one hundred coins? One tael of silver? How much silver would that cost?

It doesn’t count, it doesn’t count. Otherwise, it will be bad for the master’s reputation if I lose my composure.

Thinking about the master's false generosity in giving away a hundred acres, my heart ached and started bleeding! It hurt like a blunt knife pulling meat. I gave the master a fierce look and said that such chores could not be handled by the master, what did the master know.

"How many do you want to order? One thousand? Okay, okay, the price is negotiable." The county magistrate's wife smiled brightly.

But the big businessmen couldn't smile anymore. They looked miserable.

How could they know that watermelons could be grown on this rocky land? This rocky land, with stones all over the ground, could not even blow away the soil when the wind blew. How could such precious watermelons be grown on this rocky land?

When they were dragged to the county government office by the county magistrate to buy land, they all thought that the county government and the King of Yue were using a trick to make them pay money. But it turned out that the King of Yue really invited them to buy land because he saw that they had helped prosper the economy of the northwest and was taking care of them.

Now looking at the melon fields of King Yue and Magistrate Wu, there are those plump round watermelons. Also, looking at the last batch distributed to the generals in the corners of the fields, they are all growing such good watermelons. The ground is full of watermelons. The yield is amazing.

I regret it so much. I regret it so much.

Now they realized that the King of Yue was not asking for their money, but really wanted to give them something back, but they did not cherish it.

If I had known this earlier, if I could go back on time... why would I still do business? It's so hard, selling goods from the south to the north, working so hard but not making much money. How can it be more than what I make from this melon field?
Many businessmen almost fainted from crying in the melon field.

The melon field was bustling with activity. The laughter of the Northwest Army generals who followed the King of Yue to grow melons could be heard from miles away.

They live in the northwest and eat only wind and dirt, so they have never tasted such precious things. Now watermelons are grown in their own melon fields and they can eat as much as they want. Even their own children can afford to eat the watermelons as a meal. Eat them, and there will be more in the fields after they have eaten them!

After this crop is eaten, there will be the next crop. After the last crop is eaten, there will be next year, and the year after that.

Many people who are watching the fun are already wondering where else there is such land in the northwest, and quite a few are secretly preparing to buy land at the county government office.

Although not many watermelons were ripe in the first batch, Zhao Guangyuan still picked dozens of carts of them from his eight hectares of watermelon fields.

One pound of melon cost one hundred coins, and one melon cost two or three taels of silver. Apart from keeping some for their own consumption and giving away, the rest from these dozens of carts were sold at the melon fields.

The generals and the county magistrate of Wu also offered the same price as the King of Yue, and almost all of them were sold. Those that were not ripe were ordered.

And those merchants tearfully searched for the tenaciously growing melons among the sparse melon vines...

I will make up for the missing tomorrow.