Wow! After Mr. Li said that, the others naturally started to get jealous. Looking at the cut melons on the cart, they couldn't help but feel curious.
Seeing this, Li Yuanzhao quickly took the melon and passed it around.
The dozen or so people in the front row began to take the melons and savor them carefully.
Fang Zhengyi had already pinched a petal in advance, and it was really sweet when he took a bite!
Li Yuanzhao approached him slyly and whispered, "Lao Fang, is it sweet?"
"Sweet! Did your highness add sugar to it?"
Li Yuanzhao smiled proudly: "You will never guess what I did. Yesterday afternoon, I thought of a way to make the melon sweeter."
"Guess how it was done? Never mind! I don't think you can guess it!"
"I mixed some honey water. There are still some penicillin syringes in the East Palace that you used to poison people. I injected it with a syringe. You didn't expect it, did you?"
“Your Highness is brilliant!
Fang Zheng was speechless as he bit the melon.
This is a fucking water-injected melon. What's so unexpected about it? And you even accuse me of poisoning it.
"Hey, Lao Fang, this isn't considered false advertising, right?"
“Not really!”
At most, this is the transformation of primary agricultural products into processed agricultural products. This creative idea is worth a fortune!
Everyone took turns eating.
There was endless exclamations of praise, it was worthy of being the melon sold by the prince, it was so sweet!
How can the melon with honey water not be sweet? !
Fang Zheng looked at everyone's reactions and didn't know what to feel for a moment.
Crooked! More and more crooked!
Zheng Qiao also took a melon slice, swallowed it in two bites, smacked his lips and said with some satisfaction: "Your Highness, where did this melon come from? Could it be that melons are grown in the palace?"
"This is the goods I imported from Taoyuan County!"
Everyone suddenly realized.
It’s not surprising that the goods were imported from Taoyuan County.
The customs there are different from those in normal places. There are women fighting openly on the streets, and no one stops them.
What’s the big deal about having an out-of-season watermelon? Maybe it’s a cold-resistant variety?
\"Okay! Then pick one for me! Pick a bigger one!" Li Yansong pointed at Fang Zhengyi.
Hey, I’m the dignified Chancellor, and I’m selling melons here instead of sleeping at home!
Fang Zheng reluctantly picked a watermelon from the pile and patted it.
He took it to Li Yansong and asked, "Is this okay, Mr. Li?"
When the melon was brought to Li Yansong, he hesitated again: "How can there be melons in this season? Is it too late to plant it? There won't be any that will grow."
Fang Zheng showed his displeasure: "If the prince and I set up a fruit stall, can we sell you green melons? Do you want some?"
Li Yansong smiled bitterly and took out his purse: "Yes, yes, yes! This is not how you do business. Even if it's a charity sale, your attitude can't be so bad! How much?"
"Ten taels each, not counting the weight." Li Yuanzhao took the initiative to say
"How much?!" Li Yansong took his hand out of the purse and looked at Li Yuanzhao in disbelief.
"Ten taels." Li Yuanzhao repeated.
The crowd was suddenly in an uproar, and then a group of court officials began to whisper.
Ten taels of silver. Even though no one present took ten taels of silver seriously, you can't offer so much more than the market price, right?
"Fuck, is the melon rind made of gold, or is it the melon seeds?"
"Ten taels of silver! Isn't this just ripping people off? No matter how sweet it is, it's still a melon! Isn't it different if you soak a normal melon in honey water?"
"Hey! Now that you mention it, I feel like this melon is weirdly sweet! Could it be filled with honey?"
"If it's filled with honey, there should be a hole. Take one and check..."
Li Yansong stood in the crowd, looking at Fang Zhengyi and Li Yuanzhao suspiciously, then took the melon from Fang Zhengyi's hand.
He turned around and faced the crowd to check.
Li Yuanzhao looked at the group of ministers with their backs turned in astonishment, cold sweat streaming down his forehead, and looked at Fang Zhengyi for help.
Fang Zhengyi shrugged helplessly.
These old devils are not so easy to fool!
It’s easy to fool around with something you’ve never seen before, like glasses, but it’s not so easy to fool around with something common in life, like watermelon.
We can only hope that the pinhole won't be discovered.
A group of people were holding the melon and passing it around.
"There's no hole here, how did the honey get in?"
"Could it be that the whole melon is soaked in honey water?"
"Slurp... Impossible, this melon rind is not sweet!"
"Huh? There seems to be something here on the melon stem... No, no, it looks like this is the type, it's so sweet!"
Zheng Qiao did not participate in the discussion. Instead, he squinted his eyes and looked at Fang Zhengyi, and then he had the answer in his mind.
He leaned into the crowd and whispered, "Everyone, these melons are so expensive at ten taels each! But you see, Fang Zhengyi is still reluctant to buy them. It is obvious that these melons were brought from Taoyuan County by Taizi Qiang, otherwise Fang Zhengyi would have kept such treasures for himself!"
"According to my observation, although Fang Zhengyi is young, he is well versed in the art of health preservation!"
"This melon is definitely not an ordinary melon. It might have health-promoting effects!"
A group of people stood there pondering for a while, and then nodded.
"That makes sense! Fang Zheng is not happy when he sees the silver, he must have suffered a loss! Ten taels...it seems really not expensive!"
After the discussion, everyone turned around and Li Yansong happily took out ten taels of silver: "Okay! Since it's a charity sale, ten taels is ten taels!"
Li Yuanzhao heaved a sigh of relief when he saw this. It seemed that nothing had been revealed....
When Fang Zhengyi handed over the watermelon again, Li Yansong happily took it and held the watermelon in his arms.
Now that I’m old, my only hobby is keeping in good health. This thing is very rare, I’ll go back and savor it carefully!
"Pick one for me too!"
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