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

"Hou Ye's man looks cold, in fact, he is the most soft-hearted, he just can't come back, and he will definitely send the fourth and Dayong back to see, you can rest assured!"

Hui Niang blushed, "I'm not worried, but the child is getting bigger and bigger, and I don't know the bottom of my heart." ”

"This is your first time giving birth, and of course you're worried. Don't worry, I heard that the barbarians in Jiangbei have been killed and retreated again, maybe this time Dayong will come back and stay by your side until the child is full moon. ”

"Really?"

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

The old lady coaxed Hui Niang to be happy, and beckoned everyone to eat.

After eating, Dongmei accompanied Huiniang back, and Jiayin also took a nap with her brothers on the mat under the eaves of the porch.

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

In the scorching summer, knowing the sound, the sky is extremely blue and clean.

Jiayin squinted, watching intoxicated, and fell asleep unconsciously.

It's her birthday soon, and her family is very happy, but in fact, she feels that it is dispensable.

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

Unfortunately, time does not stop because of anyone's hope.

In the blink of an eye, it was seven or eight days, and it was just dawn, and the dew in the fields was still very heavy.

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

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

As soon as Jiayin heard this, he immediately became energetic, jumped off the ground, and ran around in the melon field.

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

There is not a single weed in the ditch, the melon seedlings are pinched, and the taproot melon is also rare.

Nowadays, the jasper melons are the size of clay pots, the skin is dark green, and they are lazily lying between the melon seedlings, which makes people want to drool when they see it.

Because he wants to pay tribute to the palace, the ones selected by Jiayin are all nine ripe, and the melon shape is round and beautiful.

As for the other side of the golden fruit field, it is even easier, as soon as you touch the tail of the melon, the guati easily falls off and is ripe.

Soon, sixty jasper melons and one hundred and twenty golden fruits were loaded into the car.

There are also some melon seedlings stuffed around the carriage, and the costume is quite wild.

The village chief and Uncle Zhao personally drove the car, and Li Laoer, Liu Darttou and Ye Shan got into the carriage of the Hou Mansion and followed.

It stands to reason that this lineup is very good.

But more than a dozen villagers were not at ease, and they also wanted to go to the city to see 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 enter the palace gate." ”

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

The villagers were so happy that they didn't take the car, so they walked on both sides of the carriage and escorted the cart full of melons into the city.

Broken Gold Beach is thirty miles away from Xindu, and when it reaches the gate of the city, it is already the end of the hour.

The city gate was full of traffic, the voices of people were boiling, and passers-by were curious when they saw the battle of Broken Gold Beach.

"Is this car a jasper melon and a golden fruit? Is it ripe so early? ”

"No, the rich man of our village didn't know where to find a handful of seeds, and he also planted half an acre of land, and I saw that the melon was the size of a pottery bowl......

"But if you look at the cars in other people's cars, it's too big!"

Someone couldn't help but ask in a loud voice, "Brother, where did you buy the jasper melon?" ”

The people of Broken Gold Beach immediately replied with three points of pride and seven points of joy: "We are from Broken Gold Beach, and this is our own planting." ”

"Ah, Broken Gold Beach!"

"Oh, no wonder, I heard that the melons in Broken Gold Beach are the best, and when I look at it today, it really lives up to its reputation."

"The melon orchard in Broken Gold Beach has opened, so I have to buy a few?!"

"Follow up and see, where are you going to send it to sell, buy a few first and go back to eat fresh."

When everyone was talking, Ye Shan took out the token of the Hou Mansion and entered the city directly without queuing.

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

Ye Shan went to the palace gate, took the token, and also stuffed the silver for the little eunuch at the palace gate, originally wanted to find the chief eunuch next to the emperor, just accept the jasper melon.

Where did you think that the chief eunuch actually took it out in person and called the village chief and Li Lao Er in to talk back.

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

The emperor has just left the court, and he is gossiping about the government with several old ministers.

At such a time, he naturally couldn't say anything more to the village chief and Li Laoer, so he could only ask about the output of jasper melons this year, and whether the business in the hot spring valley was good.

Although the village chief was nervous, he had already met the emperor twice, and the etiquette may not be so thorough, but his reply was honest, and his gratitude to the emperor and the court was also overflowing.

The emperor was happy to hear this, and finally said to a few old ministers, "Broken Gold Beach is a treasure land of feng shui, not to mention the simple folk customs, and the melons and fruits grown are also the best. ”

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

If it is someone else, I am afraid that I will immediately say that I have not eaten it, and the first bite will be dedicated to the emperor.

As a result, the village chief was very real, his face turned a little red, and he replied in a low voice: "Your Majesty, originally this first melon, all the people in our village said that they would give you the first bite, but I was afraid that this year's melon was not sweet, so I secretly opened a ...... last night Sweet, really sweet! ”

His appearance of stealing and eating the child who was caught making the emperor and the old ministers laugh.

These people are used to deceit, and they are used to seeing inconsistencies between what they see and what they see, how can they not like this simplicity and sincerity.

"Someone! The people of Broken Golden Beach were sincere to me, offering the first cart of jasper melons and golden fruits in midsummer, and rewarding 50 horses of brocade, 100 taels of gold, and 1,000 taels of silver. The Ministry of Labor built a memorial arch and engraved the four characters of Feng Shui treasure. ”

Dragon's heart is happy, and this reward is naturally rich.

The village chief and Li Lao Er hurriedly knelt on the ground to thank him, and the village chief also said: "Your Majesty, we just want the archway, we have the emperor's prestige in the town, and we are not afraid that someone will bully us in the future." This brocade and gold and silver don't want, the emperor keeps the gold and silver to reward the soldiers who go out on the expedition, this year's jasper melon and gold fruit harvest, our village can sell a lot of silver, enough for every family to eat and clothe! ”

It stands to reason that the emperor's reward cannot be shirked, which is a big disrespect.

But the village chief didn't know, he was talking like this, with a sincere face, full of thoughts for the emperor and the court.

The chief eunuch and the old ministers wanted to scold, but they couldn't open their mouths.

After a long time, when the village chief and Li Lao Er were full of panic and doubts, the emperor said, "Okay, then only build the archway." ”

The village chief and Li Lao Er were relieved at this time, and quickly kowtowed again.

"Your Majesty, you're busy, we're going back. Many people on the road saw us pulling jasper melons, and they were very greedy, afraid that they had already gone to the village to buy melons, and we had to go back to take care of them. ”