After Boss He finished his set meal, Shanshui and Cheng Wu took him to the village.
Along the way, he kept praising Cheng Wen's cooking skills and said that he would come to eat here often in the future.
When he arrived at the melon field, he couldn't stop grinning.
You keep calling me "good boy", but how come you are so big!
Not to mention Boss He’s surprise, Cheng Yue put up a sign with the price of the watermelon written on it after everyone left.
He also asked Dahua to go to the county government office to find Cheng Jinxing and Mingzhu. Since they were too busy at dinner time, they asked the two younger ones to sell watermelons at the door.
You know what, the combination of handsome men and beautiful women might even make people buy more!
Shanshui brought a lot of melons in his cart, more than what Cheng Yue and his friends brought in the morning.
Cheng Jinxing and Mingzhu came over from the yamen, and those who were waiting to buy melons couldn't wait any longer.
The wealthy families in the city sent their housekeepers to buy in batches of a few each. The slightly wealthier families bought in batches of one or two. No one bought in pieces or by pound, and they were sold out before dinner time.
A total of 127 melons were sold for a total of 50 taels and 800 wen.
This was picked from Shanshui's fields. Cheng Yue asked Cheng Jinxing to take it and give it to Shanshui later.
Shanshui planted 300 acres of melons, the same amount as the Cheng family, and another 200 acres of grapes and fruit trees, all of which were seedlings found by Cheng Wu.
The grapes have grown, but they are still a little sour. Cheng Yue doesn't plan to let Shanshui sell them. She will sell them directly to her and Huang Shaolan to make wine.
As for the fruit trees, Cheng Yue didn't water them, so they were still growing normally.
After the dinner ferry docked, the watermelons had been sold out. When they learned that Cheng Yue had watermelons for sale, they all wanted one. They even went to discuss with the ferry manager and asked them to buy some watermelons before leaving. Anyway, they also asked and found out that Boss Cheng's house was not far from here.
So Cheng Jinxing and Mingzhu drove the carriage back to the village to pick up melons.
After finishing the work at the tavern and returning home, it was already the hour of Xu, and the Cheng family members were waiting for Cheng Yue and Cheng Wen to have dinner.
At the dinner table, Cheng Shun was laughing and muttering "melon" all the time. Cheng Yue felt that her father's eyes were like big watermelons.
Shanshui and Cheng Wu agreed with Boss He to sell him the melons from 50 acres of land first, and keep the remaining 10 acres to sell in Taoyuan County.
The others will be almost cooked by the time Boss He finishes shipping all the goods out, and they will arrive one by one.
Boss He has two cargo ships, and he plans to use them both to transport watermelons.
One melon weighs about ten pounds, and there are about four hundred melons per acre, which means four thousand pounds. Fifty acres of land will weigh two hundred thousand pounds.
This transportation is a huge project. Boss He has sent people back to the city overnight to gather the people in charge on the ship.
His boat is big enough to carry so many melons.
He planned to ship one ship down to the south of the Yangtze River, transport the other ship from Yanjiang to Yizhou, and then transport it from Yizhou to the capital by land. He had a big business in Yizhou, so it would not be troublesome to change routes there.
He didn't have that much money, so he paid half of it, fifty thousand taels, to the Cheng family first, and would pay the remaining half half a month later. By then, he would have made a profit.
The Cheng family was not afraid that he would not give it, after all, Ji Mingxuan was a witness.
The only worry is that something might go wrong during transportation.
Based on Boss He's experience and Ji Mingxuan's letter, they are not worried about man-made accidents, but are worried about natural disasters.
The fifty thousand taels have been obtained, and Cheng Yue and the others feel much more at ease than Boss He.
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