Dressed as a farmer's little blessing, the road to escape the deserted

"Haha, you want to ask Dayong if he can come back?" The old lady joked and pulled her to sit down.

"Hou Ye looks cold, but he is actually the most soft-hearted. Even if he can't come back, he will definitely send Lao Si and Dayong back to have a look. Don't worry!"

Hui Niang blushed, "I'm not worried about it, it's just that the child is getting bigger and bigger, so I don't know what to do."

"This is the first time you have a baby, so of course you are worried. Don't worry, I heard that the barbarians in Jiangbei were killed and retreated again. Maybe this time when Da Yong comes back, he can stay by your side until the baby is full moon."

"really?"

"Almost, I heard a few words from the chief steward of the Hou Mansion, and I can't be wrong."

The old lady made Hui Niang happy, and invited everyone to eat.

After dinner, Dongmei accompanied Huiniang back home, and Jiayin and her brothers also lay down on the mat under the veranda to take a nap in the morning.

The old lady sat on the side sewing clothes and trousers for her grandchildren, and occasionally picked up a big cattail fan to help the children repel mosquitoes.

Intensely hot summer, knowing the sound, the sky is extremely blue and clean.

Jiayin squinted her eyes, intoxicated by watching, and fell asleep without knowing it.

It's her birthday soon, and everyone in the family is very happy, but she actually thinks it's not necessary.

Other children like to grow up, but she is willing to be a child for the rest of her life, carefree, loved and pampered, with all her relatives by her side...

Unfortunately, time will not stop because of anyone's expectations.

In the blink of an eye, it was another seven or eight days. It was just dawn on this day, and the dew in the fields was still heavy.

Jiayin yawned and was carried to the melon field by the second uncle.

The village chief stepped forward and coaxed him with a smile: "Fu Niu, help the village chief's grandpa to see if the melons in the field are ripe? Which one is better? Pick it off, and let's send it to the palace for the emperor to eat. "

As soon as Jiayin heard this, she immediately regained her spirits, jumped off the ground, and ran around in the melon field.

I have to say that with the experience of last year, the melons planted by the villagers this year are even better.

There are no weeds in the furrows, the melon seedlings are pinched, and the main root melons are rare.

Now each jasper melon is the size of a clay pot, with dark green skin, lying lazily among the melon seedlings, making people want to drool just looking at them.

Because they want to pay tribute to the palace, Jiayin picks melons that are half-ripe, round and beautiful.

As for the golden fruit field, it's even easier. When you touch the tail of the melon, the melon pedicle will fall off easily, and it is ripe.

Soon, sixty jasper melons and 120 golden fruits were loaded onto the cart.

There are also some melon seedlings stuffed around the carriage, which are quite wildly decorated.

The village chief and Uncle Zhao drove the carriage in person, and Li Laoer, Liu Biaotou and Ye Shan got into the carriage of the Hou Mansion and followed behind.

It stands to reason that this lineup is very good.

But more than a dozen villagers were worried, and they also wanted to go to the city to watch the excitement, and begged the village chief to take them with them.

The village chief simply waved his hand, "Go if you want, but don't complain if you can't get in the palace gate."

"No, let's see what the palace gate looks like."

The villagers were overjoyed, and instead of taking the carriage, they walked on both sides of the carriage, guarding the cart full of melons, and entered the city.

Suijintan was thirty miles away from Xindu, and by the time we reached the gate of the city, it was already the end of the day.

There was a lot of traffic and voices at the gate of the city. Passers-by were curious when they saw the battle of Suijintan people.

"There are jasper melons and golden fruits in this cart? Are they ripe so early?"

"No, the rich man Wang of our village found a handful of seeds from somewhere, and planted half an acre of land. I saw that the melons were only the size of a pottery bowl..."

"But look at the ones on other people's cars, it's too big!"

Someone couldn't help but asked loudly, "Brother, where did you buy the jasper melon?"

Everyone in Suijintan immediately replied with three points of pride and seven points of joy: "We are from Suijintan, we planted it ourselves."

"Ah, Broken Gold Beach!"

"Oh, no wonder. I heard that the melons from Suijintan are the best. I saw them today, and they really deserve their reputation."

"The melon garden in Suijintan is open, so how many should I buy?!"

"Follow up and have a look. Where are these going to be sold? Buy a few and go back and eat something fresh."

When everyone was discussing, Ye Shan took out the badge of the Marquis Mansion, and entered the city directly without queuing.

The carriage swaggered through the city all the way, and it took half an hour to reach the east of the city.

Ye Shan went to the gate of the palace, took the token, and gave money to the little eunuch at the gate of the palace. Originally, he wanted to find the chief eunuch next to the emperor, so he just took the jasper melon.

Unexpectedly, the chief eunuch actually picked it up in person, and called the village chief and Li Laoer in to answer.

A cart of jasper melons and golden fruits was also carefully carried into the palace.

The emperor just came down from the court, and he was chatting about the government affairs with some old officials.

At a time like this, he naturally couldn't talk to the village chief and Li Laoer, but could only ask about the production of jasper melons this year, whether the business in the hot spring valley was good, and so on.

Although the village chief was nervous, he had already met the emperor twice. He might not be very polite, but he replied honestly, and his gratitude to the emperor and the court was beyond words.

The emperor was happy to hear that, and finally said to several old officials, "Suijintan is a treasure land of geomantic omen, not to mention the simple folk customs, and the melons and fruits grown are also the best. After a while, you all take two of them back to taste."

After all, he asked the village chief, "Isn't it true, old man, this year's melons are sweeter than last year's?"

If it was someone else, I'm afraid they would immediately say that they hadn't eaten it, and offer the first bite to the emperor.

As a result, the village head was very honest, his face turned red, and he replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the first crop of melons was originally offered to you by all the young and old in our village, but I am afraid that this year's melons will not be sweet. Secretly opened one... sweet, really sweet!"

His appearance of stealing and eating the child who was caught made the emperor and the veterans laugh.

They are all used to intrigue and inconsistency, how can they not like this simplicity and sincerity.

"Come here! The people of Suijintan are sincere to me, presenting the first car of jasper melons and golden fruits in midsummer, and rewarding fifty pieces of brocade, one hundred taels of gold, and one thousand taels of silver. Order the Ministry of Industry to build a memorial archway, engraved with the words Fengshui Baodi" .”

The dragon's heart is happy, and the reward is naturally rich.

The village chief and Li Lao Er hurriedly knelt down to thank each other, and the village chief also said: "Your Majesty, we just need the memorial archway. It has the emperor's prestige, and we are not afraid that someone will bully us in the future. We don't want this brocade, gold and silver, your majesty." Save the gold and silver as rewards to the soldiers who go out to war, this year the jasper melons and golden fruits have a bumper harvest, our village can sell a lot of silver, enough to feed and clothe every family!"

It stands to reason that the emperor's reward cannot be declined, which is disrespectful.

But the village chief didn't know, he spoke like this with a sincere face, and he was thinking of the emperor and the court with all his heart.

The chief eunuch and the veterans wanted to reprimand, but they couldn't open their mouths.

After a long time, when the village head and Li Laoer were full of fear and doubt, the emperor said, "Okay, then just build the archway."

The village head and Li Laoer were relieved, and quickly kowtowed to leave.

"Your Majesty, you are busy. We are going back. Many people on the road saw us pulling Jasper melons. They were very hungry. They may have gone to the village to buy melons. We have to go back and take care of them."