Chapter 284: Watermelons
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Hearing that Officer Qiao’s family made so many efforts just to eat watermelons but obtained nothing in the end, Qiao Xuan ate two more slices purely out of delight.
Luckily, they did not let Manager Qin help them with selling watermelons.
Also, they dropped the idea of giving two watermelons to Manager Qin.
Yuezheng Xiao took the watermelons home but did not plan to sell them. Instead, he was going to give them away as presents.
He gave Xie Jingrong twenty watermelons, 20 to his parents and kept 20 for himself. By this point, half the amount was gone.
The watermelons were large and round, looking beautiful and tasting sweet. They were most suitable as presents.
Especially in this weather, nothing was better than a few large watermelons.
There were many watermelons in the market, and those fixed farmers already got their watermelons booked before they turned ripe.
Therefore, those that could come to the market were not only quite limited in number but also unripe.
Madame Qjao sent her housekeeper to buy the watermelon and luckily, he ran into some cheap ones in the market the following day.
Although the housekeeper said that it was just one of the leftovers and not very sweet, yet the housekeeper believed that the watermelons looked really good and sounded quite crispy from outside, thus buying them as good watermelons.
The expensive watermelons would not be too sweet but surely would not be bad. The housekeeper bought ten altogether.
Five liang for one pile of watermelons. That was very costly.
Five liang could buy hundreds of kgs of rice.
But he decided to tell his master that it cost seven liang so he could save two liang for himself.
Once watermelons as well as other things were bought, the housekeeper went back home early the next day.
Madame Qjao and Qjao Wei got so happy when the watermelons arrived that they started to drool.
Qiao Kou and Concubine Du were serving them and feeling greedy inwardly. They knew that even one slice would be quite satisfying for them.
However, when the maid broke open a watermelon, it looked really white with just a touch of redness.
Worse, the skin was not at all fresh.
After a bite, one realized that it had no taste, and the soft texture did not taste sweet or fresh at all.
Qiao Wei spat and had one more cut up.
But all the ten watermelons were the same!
“Ah!” Qjao Wei snapped. “What rubbish did the housekeeper buy? Is he blind? He cant even buy one correct one!’
The more they wanted something, the less likely they were able to get it. That caused a huge disappointment and the anger arose involuntarily.
Qjao Wei could not help but want to hit someone.
She threw herself in Madame Qjao’s arms and cried.
What she wanted was to just eat one watermelon. How could that be so difficult?
Madame Qjao got so annoyed that she scolded the housekeeper.
The housekeeper’s face turned. He begged for forgiveness continuously.
He had not foreseen this! How could the farmer sell the rotten watermelons at such a high price?
And the watermelons could not prove bad unless broken open.
He was cheated too!
Madame Qjao scolded him and ordered him to back off..