fruity fragrance

Chapter 186
The next day, when Xiucai woke up and saw Lin Guoxiang, the two had a tacit understanding and didn't mention what happened last night, as if it never happened at all.In fact, although Xiucai was drunk last night, he could vaguely remember some things from last night, but Lin Guoxiang didn't mention him, so he didn't mention it.

So both of them tried their best to pretend that nothing happened, and just like that, the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived in a blink of an eye.

Three days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lin Guoxiang asked someone to open a cellar specially used to store watermelons, and took out some watermelons from it to prepare for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The cellar was dug by Father Lin and the others. It is said that after the fruit is stored in it, a cover is put on the cellar, and a layer of soil is added to seal the cellar tightly, so that the fruit can be stored in good condition for more than half a year (actually, I checked the information , Like the cellars in ancient times, the fruit can be stored for up to three months. After three months, the fruit will start to rot slowly, so not only should the cellar be cleaned regularly, but also the melons and fruits stored in it should be disposed of together. Otherwise, it will be broken. But this is in the novel, so I added some more time for the needs of the plot), so that people can eat fruit even in the snowy winter.

Everyone knows that fruits in winter are rarely sold, so that the prices of those fruits can be increased, and fruit farmers can therefore earn more money.It’s just that this method is not used by ordinary fruit growers, because the size, depth, and soil quality when digging cellars are particular. All the hard work is in vain, so most people will directly take the fruits and vegetables to the market to sell them once they are ripe. Although the money will be much less, it is the safest and most practical.

But Lin Guoxiang is very lucky. After continuous experiments, the Lin family finally succeeded in knowing what kind of cellar is the best way to store fruit, so that the fruit is not easy to rot, so as soon as August (here refers to the Gregorian calendar) Lin Guoxiang begins He directed the people to neatly stack the watermelons with good shape and intact skin together with a small melon seedling in the cellar, and began to store them.

She thought clearly, since she wanted to make money, the fruits in winter must be more valuable, not to mention this kind of auspicious gourd-shaped watermelon?Although Babyface mentioned it to her a few times overtly and secretly, it was nothing more than suggesting that she take out the watermelon, but Lin Guoxiang kept pretending to be confused with him, anyway, it was just two words "no"!
On the contrary, Lin Guoxiang didn't believe that the watermelon that Babyface said was out of stock and lost a lot of money. At first, because he saw that the watermelon made money quickly and a lot, Father Lin was ruthless and directly let The man cut down the peach tree in his orchard that was not bearing fruit, and he also planted watermelons with Lin Guoxiang. The two families together have at least [-] to [-] mu of watermelons, and all the watermelons were given by the baby-faced man. pulled away.

At this moment, he told himself that the watermelon was out of stock, and he knew with his toes that he must be a liar.Even she knows how to store melons and fruits, so does Babyface not know?So when Babyface brazenly sent someone to ask her for watermelon, she refused without even thinking about it.

In fact, Lin Guoxiang really wronged the baby face. His Zuibin Building was almost full of the entire Great Xia Dynasty, and this kind of auspicious gourd-shaped watermelon was very popular. It will be out of stock within a few days, and this is still a limited sale, so he really doesn't have much stock in hand.

But Lin Guoxiang doesn't care about whether Babyface has a headache because the watermelon is out of stock. Although they are in a cooperative relationship now, to be honest, Lin Guoxiang really doesn't have a cold for Babyface, and it's rare to see him occasionally. He got a headache every time, and the number of times the two met without fighting was more than enough to count with three fingers, which showed how at odds they were.

If Lin Guoxiang knew that the baby face was having a headache because there was no gourd-shaped watermelon in the Mid-Autumn Festival Drunken Hotel, Lin Guoxiang would die of laughter. It is not an exaggeration to say that she could even wake up from a dream with laughter.What a fun scene to think of that disgraceful and obnoxious baby face who is frowning and getting angry with a toothache at the moment.

"Hey..." Lin Guoxiang held a green gourd-shaped watermelon in her arms, imagining the baby's wrinkled face, and couldn't help laughing, but she didn't realize it at the moment Her image... Ahem, to put it bluntly, she is no different from the legendary fool.Even Lin Fanghou and the others all backed away when they saw her like this, and finally they couldn't stand it any longer and simply called the scholar over and asked him to see what was going on with her.

Facing the obvious shameless actions of a few little ones, "dead friends don't die poor people", Xiucai finally couldn't help rolling his eyes in his heart.However, he still walked over and stretched out a slightly cool palm to gently cover Lin Guoxiang's forehead, then touched his own forehead, and muttered in a low voice: "I don't have a fever..." Then why did it suddenly Has it become abnormal?He didn't dare to say the latter sentence.

Lin Guoxiang was having a good time, when she felt a sudden chill on her forehead, and she woke up immediately.She shivered tremblingly, and when she looked up, she saw Xiucai bent over with one hand covering her forehead, and seeing his strange expression, she knew what this guy was thinking at the moment without thinking.So Lin Guoxiang gave him a big roll of eyes angrily.

Turning around and glancing around, seeing a few workers with weird faces, and seeing her turn to look at them, they all secretly turned their faces away, but even so they kept looking at her from the corner of their eyes. sideways glance.Lin Guoxiang frowned slightly, then lowered her head and glanced at herself, only to be belatedly aware that she was squatting next to the cellar with a watermelon in her arms. Looking back, she seemed to be giggling just now...

Suddenly a thunderbolt fell, and Lin Guoxiang's face turned red and black. She jumped up from the ground like a cat whose tail had been stepped on. The speed was amazing.Her first reaction was that she was ashamed this time.Thinking of this, Lin Guoxiang's face flushed red.

Seeing the changing expression on Lin Guoxiang's face, several workers and scholars consciously turned their gazes elsewhere. Who knows if this person will become angry and deliberately come to find fault with them?So it's better not to see her.

Lin Guoxiang wanted to find fault, but she couldn't find an excuse, so she had no choice but to carry the watermelon into her yard awkwardly.In fact, she really wanted to have a serious fight with Xiucai in her heart. Although she didn't mention a word about what happened last night, it didn't mean she didn't take it seriously. Losing someone in front of many people made her panic even more.

Lin Guoxiang was sulking alone in the living room, and even forgot to put down the watermelon in her arms.

"Mother, my uncle is here!" After a commotion outside, Wang Yuanyue ran in and saw Lin Guoxiang still hugging the watermelon just now. He looked away from the watermelon in his arms, and said eagerly while being happy, "Little uncle is here, and he sent a lot of red eggs to our family!"

Red eggs?Lin Guoxiang was taken aback when she heard Wang Yuanyue's words, and after thinking for a long time, she couldn't remember who in his family had a baby, so she could send red eggs to her.

An unwritten rule in the Great Xia Dynasty was that if a family gave birth to a child, they would boil the eggs and dye the egg shells red and give them to relatives of the family (close relatives of the natal family) to celebrate.That's why Lin Guoxiang was stunned when she heard Wang Yuanyue say that Gao Dashu came to bring red eggs to her family, because although Wang Tao had been married for several years, her stomach had never moved. Why did she suddenly come to deliver red eggs?
Lin Guoxiang was wondering when she saw Xiucai entering the living room with a shy tall tree with a smile all over her face. When Xiucai saw that Lin Guoxiang was still holding the watermelon in her arms, the corner of her mouth twitched, and then she coughed , Said: "Fruit fragrance, the big tree came to announce the good news to us." In fact, he wanted to say more, daughter-in-law, you put down that watermelon anyway, it's not a child, why are you hugging it like that?
"Happy news?" Lin Guoxiang was even more confused this time. Apart from being aggrieved, it seems that there is no happy event these days, right?

Seeing Lin Guoxiang's puzzled face, Xiucai explained carefully: "My little sister is finally pregnant, isn't it the rule to send red eggs to my family who are full of children and grandchildren?"

Hearing Xiucai's explanation, Lin Guoxiang suddenly realized this time.According to the folk rules of the Great Xia Dynasty, when a woman is pregnant with a child, she will send red eggs to the relatives of the same family who have both children and grandchildren. The blessing is brought back, so that the pregnant woman can give birth to the child safely and smoothly, and the future child will grow up safely and healthily.

To be honest, from the perspective of a modern person, Lin Guoxiang, this method is useless except to make people eat more boiled eggs, otherwise there would not be so many pregnant women having accidents every year.But I think so, but Lin Guoxiang was very happy for Wang Tao when she learned that Wang Tao was pregnant with a baby.

Lin Guoxiang quickly put down the watermelon and first said a lot of auspicious words (this is a necessary procedure and a rule), then cheerfully called Gao Dashu to sit down, and took out some snacks from the drawer under the coffee table to entertain him. Only then said with a smile: "Well, I'm going to prepare some auspicious little objects." As he said that, he was about to go outside.

A tall tree like Lin Guoxiang not only didn't feel that he was neglected, but was a little happy, because the ancients were superstitious. Although people like him were announcing good news, in a sense, it was equivalent to absorbing other people's blessings in disguise. Who wants to share their blessings with others?So it was the best way for Lin Guoxiang to prepare a mascot in such a hurry, and it was too late for him to be happy.

　Thank you Yuanruo for the pink vote, haha.

　　Recently, it seems that I have fallen into a vicious circle. The more I want to code well, the more I can't code, and I don't know what's going on.Maybe it's because it's the last stage, so I don't know how to write it.I'm too sleepy today, so I'll sort out the outline tomorrow and try to update the multi-code Braille.

　　
　
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