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Chapter 18 Melons eat flowers, watermelons eat

Lin Tao didn't say that night, but many people knew that Lin Tao's prediction of cotton rising was not groundless.

Therefore, except for being hesitant for a long time and being persuaded by his family, he decided to sell the harvest to Lin Tao for 20,000 yuan, and no one else could move.

Old Chen did come to his house that night and praised Lin Tao very much, saying that this was the real talent who went to college. He whispered that the money he earned this night was worth a month on weekdays!

Lin Tao also told him that in such a prosperous business, there will definitely be others following the trend and need to carry out more discount activities. Old Chen agreed.

The next morning, Leng Yuhu came to Lin Tao's house.

"You mean, are you going to try it in Shaanxi?" Lin Tao asked Leng Yuhu in surprise.

Leng Yuhu nodded and said, "Yes. Anyway, it's the free time for farming. My brother is planting our land. I don't have much work now, so it's better to go out and rush!"

Every family has difficult scriptures to recite. Leng Yuhu's family has three brothers and one sister. Leng Yuhu is three years older than Lin Tao and is already married. He has two younger brothers at home. His sister is in high school.

Leng Yuhu's home land was planted by his father, and Leng Yuhu would not have any income at home, no matter whether he worked or not. It was just like two brothers in the city. The old couple insisted on leaving the house for their younger son.

This is also why Leng Yuhu went out to pull sand and dig stones to make money in his previous life. Now Lin Tao gave him a chance, and after hearing what Uncle Chen said last night, Leng Yuhu naturally wanted to give it a try.

"Do you have startup capital?" Lin Tao asked a key question.

Leng Yuhu had obviously thought about it for a long time, so he nodded and said, "That's what I think. First borrow a car, go to the place you mentioned, pull a few carts of melons, sell them at a cheap price, save some money, and then pull a few sacks of melons to try in Chang'an. If it can be done, I will approve a little of the kiwi you mentioned when I come back. I have inquired. The kiwi is indeed very expensive now, and I don't dare to enter the fruit stalls, but it sells very quickly. There are not many channels to enter."

Seeing that Leng Yuhu had obviously had an idea, Lin Tao said, "This is great. Today I have time. You go to borrow a car and I will take you there to cook melons. When you start making it in the future, don't forget to bring me some sweet kiwis."

"If it is really done, I will pack all the fruits in your house." Seeing Lin Tao giving him affirmation, Leng Yuhu was in a good mood and said half jokingly and half seriously: "But you have to help me in this process!"

"no problem."

Leng Yuhu borrowed a pickup truck. He took the driver's license exam a few years ago. Lin Tao sat in the passenger seat and the two drove to the yard that Lin Tao remembered.

Although the roads are not as good as those in later generations, and most of them are gravel roads, the pickup truck drove very quickly and arrived at the yard in two hours.

I saw that many melon vines in the field had been killed, and many cantaloupes were thrown into the field. I didn’t often see the melon sheds on the ground. Leng Yuhu sighed while driving: “If you don’t say it, we really don’t know that there is such a place so close, and this melon seems to be something no one wants.”

On the road, you can see tractors, pickup trucks and even big trucks parked on the side of the road. Some people are picking melons in the field, which is really picking.

After another period of opening, Lin Tao pointed to the roadside and said, "Stop, it's this!"

This is a piece of land that looks like it is about twenty acres. There are more cantaloupes in the field, and no one seems to have pulled them. There is an old man wearing a straw hat in the field, bending over to pick up a cantaloupe, and it seems that he is preparing to go back to eat it.

Lin Tao recognized this place and this person. His experience of "melon ripening and ripe" was actually obtained from this old man. In his previous life, Lin Tao became a researcher at the research institute. Once he came here to collect data, he went to the field to eat melons, but he didn't understand. He directly picked the largest but unripe melon. It was the old man who told Lin Tao how to pick melons.

"Uncle Zhang," Lin Tao got out of the car and said hello. The old man, who was about 60 years old, looked at Lin Tao with some confusion. He obviously didn't know him.

"I am from the Municipal Agricultural Science Institute." Lin Tao said under the guise of the old unit: "I have come to you for research."

"Oh, it's a technician!" Lao Zhang smiled, "I don't recognize it."

Lao Zhang is from Yu Province. He has been here for more than 40 years and is almost at the age of retirement in the Corps. He can get a retirement salary, but he is used to farming and often works in his son's field.

Lin Tao took out a box of cigarettes, took out one and handed it to Lao Zhang, lit it for him, and then said, "Uncle Lao Zhang, I will take my friends to the field to pick some melons. This is your son's land, right? How about it, what is the price of these two melons this year?" If Lin Tao of this previous life, at this age, he would not have smoked cigarettes at all. But he always had to understand some things about humanity and worldly styles in his two lives.

Lao Zhang pointed to the cantaloupe in the field and said, "What a pity! There were so many melons in 50s and 8 years, so how many people could not starve! Now they can only throw them into the field..."

As he said that, he took a puff of cigarettes and said, "No one is here to pull it anyway, you can do whatever you want. Just your small car, you can pull at most one ton and a half, so what else can you do..."

Lin Tao pointed to Leng Yuhu and said, "My friend will come here often during this period, let him tell you!"

Since Leng Yuhu was going to do business, it was up to him to discuss this matter. Lin Tao took a step back. He didn't smoke, but picked up a small ripe melon on the spot and picked it up. He didn't use a knife to knead it. He threw off the melon seeds inside on the spot, handed most of the half with the melon tail to Uncle Zhang and said, "Take a bite, you should be able to see that it's sweet!"

"What an expert!" Uncle Zhang pushed the melon back: "Eat the melon and eat the watermelon. You really understand it at a young age! You, I'm old and afraid of getting angry!"

Leng Yuhu was originally planning to bargain for the price. After hearing what the two said, he asked in confusion: "What is melon eating flowers and watermelon eating?"

Uncle Zhang smiled and said nothing. He was not ripe with Leng Yuhu, so Lin Tao was responsible for explaining: "The sweet part of this watermelon is in the melon stem, which is the melon bar. The cantaloupe is the opposite. It is the tail of the melon and the flowers are sweet, so I said so."

So that's how it is!

Leng Yuhu suddenly realized.

After eating the melon, Leng Yuhu started to talk to Uncle Zhang seriously. Lin Tao looked at it and wanted to laugh, but endured it.
Chapter completed!
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