Rebirth 13, starting from the big demolition treasure hunt

Chapter 574 I bought three melons, but none of them were ripe

"Really? Then this 50 yuan should be worth it! If we find a porcelain figurine or other strange things in the future, we won't throw them away. We will sell them to you later!"

The woman spoke to him again.

"It should be worth 50. If it sells well and someone likes it, it's possible that someone will buy it for 100. This is my business card. If you find it, please contact me.

Of course, if your colleagues have antiques or other items they want to sell, you can bring them to me for a look!"

While Wu Yuansheng was chatting with her, he took out a business card from his wallet and handed it to her.

"Okay! I'll ask around for you during lunch. If they have antiques they want to exchange for money, I'll have them call you!"

As they chatted, they walked to the place where they had just been working.

After chatting with another woman for a few words and handing her a business card, he left to buy some water and watermelon.

The place Wu Yuansheng drove to was the "Old Street".

The current Yanjiang Road is under construction. After a distance, the asphalt road becomes a gravel road.

After driving forward for a while, the road became paved with brick slag crushed by a crusher.

Looking towards the roadside, there were crushers still crushing the brick debris brought over by eight-wheel dump trucks.

In the demolition area here, all the relocated households have moved out. After the houses were collapsed by the excavators, at least two-thirds of the brick debris were dug up and crushed to be used as road paving.

You can see some people picking up iron where the excavator is digging brick slag or where the slag is dumped.

Some of them were hitting with hammers, while others were simply picking up the items without using hammers.

Without looking any further, he continued driving forward.

After walking a short distance, he found that the road ahead was blocked by mud and could not be passed.

There is no brick slag over there yet, and the bottom layer of the road is mud, which is very low.

Unable to get through, he parked the car on the side of the road. At this time, he was not far from the long alley of the old street, about 200 meters away.

When he got off the car and looked towards the river, he found three people picking loquats from a big loquat tree.

This loquat tree was planted next to a vegetable garden, only about seven or eight meters away from the river.

It must be because the residents moved away due to the demolition of the tree, and the tree became ownerless, so passers-by saw the fruits and picked them.

I looked at the loquats on the tree. They were bright yellow and quite big. It was the right time to eat them.

Wu Yuansheng returned to the van, took a large plastic bag and a shovel, and walked over.

The people who had picked fruit from the tree before were two women around 40 years old and a young woman around 24 or 25 years old.

They had already picked a lot, and the plastic bags each of them brought were almost full.

Seeing him coming down, they looked at him without saying anything, picked some more fruits for a while and then left.

The easy-to-pick fruits at the bottom had already been picked by three people, so he had to hook the branches above with a shovel and bring down the fruits that were higher up.

When picking them, he tasted a few and found them sour and sweet and very delicious.

After picking for about half an hour, the plastic bag was full. He then broke off some branches from the trees, took them all with him and left.

With the greening of the riverbank, it is unlikely that this tree will be preserved in the future.

In the demolition area, there were many similar loquat trees, other fruit trees, and pepper trees, all of which were later damaged.

I came out to buy some water and watermelon, but I never thought I would find some fruit by the way.

After putting all the things in the car, he walked straight towards the old street.

"Boss, I just bought three melons from you. After I went back and cut them open, I found that none of them were ripe!"

We came to a three-way intersection next to the old street. There was a stall parked on the side of the road, selling watermelons from a small truck.

The carriage was filled with watermelons.

The speaker was a man in his forties.

He brought all three melons in a convenient bag, and they all looked raw. Wu Yuansheng was quite surprised that none of the three melons he bought were ripe.

I don’t know how this person chose the melons before. He didn’t even pick a ripe one.

At the same time, it also made him more cautious about choosing the melons on the car.

He has his own experience in selecting watermelons. Unripe watermelons make a "popping" sound when knocked, while overripe watermelons make a "dull" sound when knocked.

Only the melons that are neither too dull nor too poppy are ripe enough.

"Please help me pick two melons. I won't ask you for three melons!"

The man in his forties said to the melon seller.

It is normal to buy a raw melon and then exchange it with someone else.

"Okay! I'll help you pick two, but they can't be too big!"

The boss didn't argue with him. In business, harmony brings wealth.

He tapped the melons in the cart with his hands, and soon selected two melons and handed them to the man who came to exchange them.

"Is it guaranteed to be ripe now? I don't know how to choose melons. Next time I buy melons, I'll just ask you melon sellers to help me choose."

The man in his forties said after taking the melon in his hand.

"Bao Shu, if you don't believe me, I'll help you kill it now."

"Okay! Then kill one first. I'll kill one too when I get back!"

After hearing what he said, the melon seller opened a melon for him, which was just ripe enough.

When the two of them were picking melons, Wu Yuansheng also started to choose the melons based on his own experience.

The melon seller just now was selecting melons by listening to the sounds, so his experience is probably similar.

In addition, to see whether a melon is sweet or not, you need to look at its "belly button". The smaller the "belly button", the sweeter the melon; the bigger the "belly button", the less sweet it is.

After selecting two melons, he asked the boss to try them as well, and the boss said the melons were just right.

It’s not that I don’t trust my own judgment, but I mainly want him to know that if the melon is not good, he can come over and exchange it.

(It’s normal to have raw melons in your car. Just like other fruits, they are raw when you pick them, but they will slowly ripen after a few days.)
Seeing that the boss was still selling half a melon, he felt thirsty, so he bought half a melon from the car and started eating it right away.

The melon is sandy, sweet and has a great taste.

Half a melon weighs about five pounds, which is just right for him to eat by himself.

If the car wasn't some distance away and he felt it was too heavy to carry, he would have wanted to buy a few more.

After buying the melons, on his way back, he passed by a store and bought two large bottles of "Ring Sugar and Snow Pear".

When he arrived at the parking lot, he put the water and watermelon away, took out a separate plastic bag, poured some loquats from the bag, and drove to the place where the two women had been working.

"I thought you had run away and weren't coming back. It's been almost an hour."

When he saw the two middle-aged women in their fifties again, one of them said to him.

"I picked some loquats. I was a little delayed. Here, this is the water and melons I promised to buy for you. I'll also give you some loquats."

As he spoke, he placed all the things next to them.

He definitely wouldn't do something dishonest or run away just for the sake of something.

"Thank you then!"

Another woman said.

"It's okay! It's what I should do."

After chatting for a few minutes, Wu Yuansheng left and continued to walk around other places in the park.

At around 11 o'clock, he drove his van home.

(End of this chapter)