Chapter 283: Gossip
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
“They should have brought some to you on their own. Damned civilians, never understanding the rules!’
Officer Qjao rubbed his beard and nodded. He believed that his wife was right damned civilians!
Madame Qjao added. “Young Master Yuezheng is also too arrogant. You saw them off. He should have given you some watermelons on his own. How dare he ignore you!’
Officer Qjao, who was deeply hurt by Yuezheng Xiao and Xie Jingrong’s ignorance, felt very humiliated hearing what Madame Qjao said. “Young Master Yuezheng never thinks about those small things.”
Madame Qiao brought herself back and smiled. “True!’
Madame Qjao spoke to Qjao Wei about watermelons, and she was very happy too.
It seemed that they were going to have many watermelons to eat during this summer season.
“I hope they are sweet. Not every farmer is able to plant good watermelons, otherwise they would not have been so rare. Mom, we are buying them in the province if they are not sweet here.”
“Of course!” Madame Qjao said with an indulgent smile.
It was going to be a very quick exercise. Watermelons were planted in the field and no one was able to conceal that for long. What they needed to do was to do some simple investigation.
Qjao Wei and Madame Qjao even got prepared to eat watermelons the following day.
It was going to be such a cooling relief, if they were able to eat large watermelons on this hot day.
That was a tempting thought!
However two days passed and they could not see a thing!
Qjao Wei could not help but complain. “They are so lazy! How can they be so slow as not to get an idea of where the watermelons are!’
Madame Qjao frowned and got someone to ask Strategist Lu.
Strategist Lu was very anxious and disappointed as well.
How would he know? The whole thing was so strange that they could find nothing!
He had sent many people to look around and theoretically speaking, they should have been able to eat watermelons by that night itself.
However, it seemed that the watermelons Yuezheng Xiao carried, had appeared out of nowhere. No matter what, they could not find the source!
Strategist Lu got so annoyed. He just did not understand where the watermelons would have grown? So, he got someone to dig deeper.
Before he could find anything, Madame Qjao’s men came to ask him for the result.
Strategist Lu had to tell the truth.
Madame Qjao complained that he was useless but she had no choice except to wait.
Yet no matter how much they tried, they still could not even find out who planted the fruit and some people even had no idea of what watermelons were.
Then they heard that watermelons might have grown out in the wild field, and not planted at home.
Strategist Lu thought for a while and could not find out any other explanation, thus telling the truth.
The County Magistrate was disappointed but he believed the excuse and dropped the idea.
What a pity that the watermelons were gone!
Madame Qjao and Qiao Wei felt even more annoyed. Madame Ojao sent her servants to buy watermelons from the province!
“Dont worry, Wei, we are going to buy many of them, even though it costs 1 liang for one!’
Only then did Qjao Wei drop the anger.
Shao Yunduan and Qiao Xuan finally let out a sigh of relief hearing that the officers stopped seeking the origin of watermelons.
Although they stressed repeatedly that the family should not spread the news around, they were still quite worried.
They could counter the situation if they were found, but the best thing would be that they were never found..