"Okay, bring your men here tomorrow. Are you taking them to the capital?"
"Yes. Take them to the capital and some major coastal cities. The Jiang family fleet will also help arrange sales."
"Okay. I'll have someone go to the melon field and pick them tomorrow morning."
"Thank you for your hard work, young lady. The eldest young master sent a letter yesterday, saying that he would be back in two days."
"oh."
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The next day, Liu Jia took scissors and went to the melon field with the three siblings of the Huo family.
Liu Yuhan taught them how to pick watermelons simply and effectively.
1. Look at the melon’s belly button, the smaller the better.
Second, look at the color of the melon where it touches the ground. If it turns yellow, it is generally ripe.
Third, look at the patterns on the melon. If they are spread out, it means it is ripe.
Fourth, look at the vines. The ones that are climbing up the vines and have curled threads are the ones that are dry and ripe.
Liu Yuhan taught the above methods.
As for the sound of tapping, if it's dull and not crisp, it's usually a sandy melon. It's generally unreliable for those who don't understand. Anyway, Liu Yuhan couldn't learn it.
The children were not allowed to do anything with their hands. The adults had to take a pair of scissors and carefully select the items before cutting them.
In order to prevent the cut watermelons from being damaged by the sun, they put straw in bamboo baskets, packed them, and carried them under a shady bamboo shed.
Last night, they heard Liu Yuhan say that the Huo family was helping to sell watermelons for one or two taels of silver each! Oh my God, they are selling them at such a high price. These are not watermelons, but nuggets of gold!
Last night, no matter what Liu Daling said, he couldn't be stopped and he insisted on taking his two sons to the melon garden to look after the watermelons.
Seeing that he couldn't stop them, Liu Yuhan secretly gave them flashlights and mosquito coils, and told them to bring bamboo curtains and quilts, as they had to sleep after all.
Actually, it's not so bad, because when the watermelons were planted, the Liu family had already announced that they were planting watermelons for the Huo family. The Huo family is the Huo family's army, who would dare to harm the Huo family's crops without any hesitation?
The Liu family picked out watermelons of similar size, weighing about 8 to 10 jin each. They had to be in good condition, with no crooked or cracked ones. After all, they were selling for such a high price, so they had to guarantee quality.
According to incomplete statistics, one mu of land yields about 4,000 to 5,000 jin (approximately 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms). If we assume that a watermelon weighs nine jin (approximately 1,000 kilograms), one mu of land yields about 500 fruits. If one watermelon costs one liang of silver, how much does 200 mu (approximately 1,0
It took Butler Huo five full days to transport the first batch of watermelons from 50 acres of land.
25,000 watermelons, and 25,000 taels of silver notes were given to Liu Yuhan, 50 silver notes of 500 taels each!
Liu Yuhan put the banknotes in the space and couldn't help singing: Get rich, get rich... Watermelon, watermelon, I love you, just like a mouse loves rice...
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