473 Cut It Open
The inside was red. It was the kind of red that was especially sweet.
“Ah, this watermelon…” Xue Wu Hu swallowed his saliva. It looked delicious.
Liu Guixia cut the watermelons into small triangular pieces so that they could be eaten easily.
Naturally, the first person to eat was Xue Da.
Xue Da took a bite and immediately smiled, “It’s sweet. It’s also cooling. Why are these watermelons so well grown?”
“Maybe it’s because of the seedlings,” Xue Dafu said as he ate a watermelon. “At that time, the seedlings that Chunmei bought for us were especially big. People said that the watermelon seedlings looked good.”
Xue Da laughed, “It’s all thanks to your care. No one else can take care of something this well!”
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were both eating their slices in silence.
“It’s because Xue Yan and Jiang Yue insisted on buying the barren land,” Li He Hua laughed in a very soft voice. “Otherwise, we wouldn’t have had this big watermelon to eat today.”
“That’s right,” Yu Hongyan agreed with a smile. “At that time, we were all afraid that the harvest would not be good even if we planted them on the barren land. In my opinion, as long as you work hard, the crops can actually have a good harvest even if they grow in barren land. It just required a little extra work. However, as farmers, as long as the harvest is good, we are not afraid of hard work.”
Xue Sifu’s eyes were shining as he asked his two precious children, “Was there a lot of watermelons like this in the field?”
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at each other, and Jiang Yue said, “We didn’t look at it carefully, but we know that many of them are quite big. We’ll go and take a look tomorrow. If there are more like this, we’ll pick them back.”
Xue Sifu said, “Sure, if there’s really a lot of them, you can pick them all and send the ox-cart to the town to sell them at the stalls. There were some people selling watermelons in town a few days ago, and the business is quite good. Their watermelons don’t seem to be as big as ours though. I don’t know if their watermelons are sweet or not, but our watermelons are definitely sweet.”
“With a size like this…” Xue Sifu said, “It should cost five kilograms each. Ordinary people don’t buy much, but with it being this sweet, big families will definitely be willing to buy it. They will definitely be able to finish it. When the time comes, Dagui can also sell this. Dagui is really good at selling things.”
Hearing this, Xue Dafu couldn’t help but say, “Sifu, as long as Dagui doesn’t go overboard, you should give in a little sometimes.”
“Father, don’t worry.” Xue Sifu laughed.
“You’re worrying too much. Sifu knows better than you do,” Xue Da laughed.
“Alright. Sure.” Xue Dafu chuckled happily and didn’t care anymore. He picked up another piece of watermelon and chomped it down.
Jiang Yue wanted to suggest something, so she said, “Sifu, we have smaller watermelons at home. If it’s a big watermelon, you can just cut it up and sell it at the store. Others can buy the other half of it.”
“That’s a good idea,” Xue Sifu said with a smile.
The next day, Jiang Yue plucked the other four watermelons from her space and planted more seeds on the small piece of yellow land.
This time, she had planted two seeds, one of which was a seeded watermelon, while the other was a seedless watermelon.
Each seed would eventually sprout and grow up to bear five watermelons. Two seeds would mean ten watermelons. In addition to the five that had already been picked, there would be fifteen watermelons.