The village chief thought for a while, suppressed the pounding in his heart, and said, "Mr. Liu, since we have trusted you, we can arrange these things as you wish. But there is one thing I want to say."
"Okay, Village chief, please tell me." Liu Zhiheng nodded, guessing that it was about the price.
Sure enough, the village chief said, "As for the price of cold melons and cantaloupes, although we have been growing them for more than half a year and have suffered a lot, we don't want to sell them too expensive. In other words, we are willing to sell these cold melons at a reasonable price. I'll sell melons and cantaloupes to you. As for the price after you take them away, we won't be jealous even if a cold melon sells for an ingot of gold."
This was so unexpected for Liu Zhiheng that everyone expected to be violent overnight. To be rich, one can reach the sky in one step.
But why did the people at Broken Gold Beach push out the gold they got?
"This... village chief, things are rare and valuable. It is very easy to sell these cold melons and cantaloupes at sky-high prices. If you push them out like this, you will lose a lot of money."
The village chief smiled and shook his head, "Others don't You know, we know it ourselves. We are just a bunch of mud-legged people who luckily escaped here to survive. We have been jealous of others since we got the hot spring valley, causing trouble to Mr. Wen and Mr. Hou.
"Now these cold melons and cantaloupes are sold again If the price is astronomical, I'm afraid the trouble will continue again. The Marquis is away fighting, and Mr. Wen has just entered the court. We don't want to trouble them anymore. Money is easy to use, but you must have a life and a happy life before you can spend it well.
Li Laoer also echoed, "A young child holds gold in his hand and walks in the busy city. " Most likely you won't be able to keep your gold, and may even endanger your life. We are ordinary people who only want a stable and prosperous life. We don't want to be treated as tempting fat by everyone, ready to take a bite at any time. "
I sent cold melons to the Liu family before, so the village chief discussed it with Li Lao'er, Liu's escort leader Li Laosi and other captains.
Money is a good thing, but the village has no ability to protect itself for the time being, and most of them rely on Hou. Mr. Wen and Mrs. Cui.
If they are too greedy, they will end up causing disaster and harming others and themselves.
It would be better to just take what they deserve and feel more at ease.
The village chief added, "So, the cold melons and fruits in our fields For the melons, excluding those that were brought to the palace as tribute, we simply set a price for the remaining melons and give half of them to Mr. Liu to sell. Even if they are sold for gold and silver, we will only take our own share. The other half should be left in the fields to feed the other side of the valley and add to the excitement. "
Liu Zhiheng didn't speak for a long time, and he felt very complicated in his heart.
At first, he just thought that the people in Suijintan were simple and kind-hearted. His adopted sister lived here, and she could at most supplement some food. She was just looking for a place to live. I rested for a while, safe and secure.
Now I realize that he is still shallow. These people may not have read many books, but they are rare sober and sensible. They
only take what they deserve, and are not greedy or arrogant. These are all It sounds easy to say, but it is the hardest thing to do.
He stood up and solemnly saluted the village chief, Li Laoer and others, "Liu learned a lesson today, thank you all! "
The village chief and others hurriedly helped him and said with a smile, "We are just timid and don't dare to cause trouble. We don't know any big principles or teachings. Li
Laoer also said, "In addition, if these cold melons and cantaloupe are sold, many people will try to grow them next year. Our village is not going to hide it. Anyone who asks about how to grow them will teach them a few words." If Mr. Liu's family has riverbank land, he can plant a few acres of it. Liu
Zhiheng thought for a while and nodded, "It's really hard to control the seeds of these cold melons and cantaloupe melons after they are sold. Everyone wants to try them. If you don't teach them, it's really easy to become enemies." Well, my family will also plant a few acres, and I will have to bother the village to send someone over occasionally to give some guidance.
"Yes, it's a small matter. " "The village chief agreed immediately.
Even if the matter was settled at this point, she was happy to hear the good news from beginning to end.
She was originally worried that the villagers would be stunned by the sudden wealth, but she did not expect that the village chief and her second uncle would act as usual. Wake up.
This is like a big cake, everyone wants to take a bite. Rather than clinging to it and being coveted by people with all kinds of calculations, it is better to take the initiative to part it.
This way, you can keep a bigger piece, and you can get it safely. Stable and stable.
Naturally, everyone feels sorry for the part that was separated, but in the final analysis, Broken Gold Beach is still too weak, and stability and development are the first priority.
That night, Liu Zhiheng stayed at Li's house, which happened to be the third room After moving to Luo'an, the room became vacant and it was convenient to live in.
Mr. Wen rushed over early the next morning.
He and Liu Zhiheng discussed it and decided to donate fifty cold melons and one hundred cantaloupes.
This number is not too much, but it is also quite a lot.
The villagers rushed to Dahuaishu Village and bought many small baskets. Each small basket contained a cold melon or ten cantaloupes, which looked much neater and more delicate.
When picking melons, the village chief specially carried Jiayin to the melon field.
Although he followed the instructions yesterday, he was still afraid of picking the wrong thing for such a precious thing.
Jiayin was running around in the field, and the village chief would lead people to pick whatever the little finger touched.
Liu Zhiheng was surprised and asked Mrs. Cui, "This little girl from the Li family is only two years old, right? Isn't she a little too..."
Mrs. Cui had watched Jiayin grow up, so she didn't find it strange at all, so she smiled and said, "Fu Niu is smarter than ordinary children and is naturally greedy, so she is superior to ordinary people in this regard. Yesterday she also grabbed the first cantaloupe from the vole's mouth. Not only was it ripe, but it was also very sweet."
Liu Zhiheng was amazed. Is Broken Gold Beach really a geomantic treasure? Why is everything so unusual?
Opening up barren mountains can create hot springs. Cold melons and cantaloupes were grown in the worst riverbank land.
Even the little baby we raised is so smart...
Soon, the cold melons and cantaloupes were picked.
A villager wanted to wash the soil off the cold melons and cantaloupe, but Liu Zhiheng stopped him, "Don't wash it. It's not easy to store it after washing. It will look fresh this way. Just put the clean ones on top and put some more melons in the basket." Seedlings."
Everyone nodded, and after a lot of work, they finally put the cold melons and cantaloupes on the carriage.
The village chief and Li Laoer changed into clean clothes, and followed Liu Zhiheng and Mr. Wen into the palace to offer melons, feeling half uneasy and half excited.
The villagers have been thinking about it all day long. When working, they always look at the intersection.
And all the old people and children in the village, as long as they didn't have any important work in their hands, were scattered in the melon fields.
No outsiders are allowed to approach, and small animals and field mice are also killed when they see them, leaving no one alive.
At dusk, the carriage finally came back.
The village chief and Li Laoer were both so happy that they walked as if they had stepped on cotton.
The villagers surrounded them and asked, "What's going on? Did the emperor eat our cold melon?"
Mr. Wen was afraid that the village chief and others wouldn't understand, so he said with a smile, "The emperor not only ate , very happy. He said that we are good people of Tianwu, we have built a new home, and we have grown such good fruits. The emperor gave the cold melon the name Jasper, and the cantaloupe the name Golden Fruit."
Liu Zhiheng then said, "It doesn't matter that the emperor didn't reward you with anything. Just these two names are valuable treasures. From now on, the Tianwu family will grow cold melons and cantaloupes, and your broken gold beach ones will also be the best ones. Don't worry about selling them, and they will definitely be sold at a high price."
The villagers were overjoyed when they heard this. They all knelt down in the direction of Xindu and shouted long live.
"Long live the Emperor! Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Jade Melon! Golden Fruit! The Emperor really knows how to name names."