The wife travels through time and space to honor her husband: The heirless prince raises a child

Chapter 264 Harvesting Spirit Melons
As the name suggests, it is a wild and desolate place, lacking spiritual energy.

The soil lacks rainfall, with almost no rain falling year-round. The land is dry and compacted, and the entire wilderness is barren under the scorching sun. Small animals are scarce, and only tenacious plants can survive here.

In this desolate and wild land, a patch of green crops suddenly appeared.

The aide's eyes widened in shock: "A spirit melon? It's actually a spirit melon?!"

Another aide craned his neck to look, his eyes believing, but his mouth still fixed on the vast expanse of crops, and said, "Is this still a barbaric land? This barbaric land is desolate!"

The guard pointed to the large melon field, including the melon fields belonging to Qin Tang and the others, and asked with a smile, "It's several acres."

There are large melon fields and fruit trees that bear fruit.

One more glance, and my eyes widened—good heavens, a spirit fruit tree!

The advisor, a scholar and literati, said shrewdly, "Our young master..."

There's no other reason than that the advisors and cultivators are from the Rong King's mansion and obey the Rong King and the Rong Crown Prince. However, it's not appropriate to say that the Crown Prince's wife's things belong to the Rong King's mansion, so it's best to give them to the young Crown Prince.

“Yes,” said Guard Yan. “Young Master is very fortunate to have a piece of land in this desolate land.”

The staff also offered their congratulations. Rong Yang, small and delicate, smiled. Rong Chi was munching on a spirit melon, ahhh, melon, so many melons. The Crown Prince Rong held him, not letting the little dumpling rush out.

The Crown Prince Rong was tall and handsome. He stood tall and elegant, holding the little baby. The baby was tiny, chubby, and restless, always thrashing about happily.

The Crown Prince doted on his youngest son and was extremely patient with him.

Qin Bi listened to her advisors and guards and tacitly agreed, saying, "Pick the melons."

Upon hearing this, the advisor rolled up his sleeves and stepped into the melon patch, while the guards sheathed their swords. When they reached the edge of the patch, they moved cautiously, carefully blocking the melon vines that covered the ground to reveal a foothold before finally taking a step.

Lin Yao rushed over first and called to a few of his staff members: "We'll pick the melons, and the rest of you can carry them. Some of the melons on this acre aren't ripe yet, so let's pick the ripe ones first."

A lean aide nodded and stepped into the melon patch: "Indeed, we can't pick the unripe ones."

If the melons are not ripe, they will be wasted if picked.

The guard objected: "Our captain knows about familiar and unfamiliar food too."

Guard Yan happily entered the melon patch, one person per row, and began picking. The others followed, carrying melons and examining them with delight before finally delivering them to the edge of the field.

Rong Yang ate the melons while looking at the basket, placing the melons with leaves one by one into the basket. The little dumpling Rong Chi was so happy that he almost fell to the ground and lay down in the basket. The Crown Prince Rong lifted the little dumpling upright.

Give him a piece of melon, and he'll be appeased for the time being.

In the melon field, the staff were initially in high spirits, but the abundant rainfall and irrigation made the melon rinds too brittle. They would crack at the slightest touch. How brittle were they? They could even crack a melon with a snap when pulled off the vine by hand.

It hurts to see one crack.

Two melons split open, and the staff dared not pick them.

"Use a knife to pick the melons," Lin Yao said.

Alright, it wouldn't be good not to pick them. The staff and guards took small knives to pick them, and the guards carried the spirit melons as gently as possible, since these were spirit melons and they wouldn't last if they were cracked.

Everyone was moving very carefully, but every now and then a melon would still crack.

There was no other way but to move it aside and separate it from the good melons.

Qin Tan and Qin Tang came over to help. Qin Tan looked at the basket of spirit melons and said, "It's a pity that the spirit melons have cracked and won't keep. The children can't eat them all. We should sell them to cultivators." Qin Bi had the same idea and nodded, "Spread the word that we're selling spirit melons."

Qin Yan immediately became interested: "Really for sale?!"

Qin Bi said helplessly, "I can't let it go."

Qin Yan immediately thought of his maternal grandfather's family. The Duke of Su's mansion must have bought spirit melons. He had heard the young master of Su mention several times that he had gone to the Immortal Sect to buy spirit melons, but he had not been able to buy any. Qin Tan also thought of his good colleagues.

"How do you plan to sell it?" Qin Yan asked.

"You're buying it?" Qin Bi asked.

"No." Qin Yan was worried that Qin Bi would give him a melon, which was a spirit melon, so he quickly explained, "My maternal grandparents' family has always wanted to buy spirit melons, but they couldn't find any at the immortal sect. I'll ask them."

Qin Bi considered that the spirit melon would crack and not keep, and the two children would not be able to finish it, so she said, "One high-level demon beast crystal or one hundred low-level demon beast crystals will buy one spirit melon."

Prince Rong did not speak up to stop it. The price was not high, but the price of a cracked melon was indeed discounted.

Given the refreshing taste of the spirit melons grown by Qin Bi, they could be sold to the immortal sects for a higher price. However, the Five Grains Abundance Cloud is extremely rare, so it's best to keep this ability under wraps and not let the immortal sects covet it.

Having learned the price of the spirit melon, Qin Tan and the others sent people to inform their acquaintances.

Rong Yang also hurriedly sent the guards away from the desolate land and went to the palace to inform the little prince. Rong Yang said in a childish voice, "Tell the little prince that our family sells cracked spirit melons. One high-level demon beast crystal and one hundred low-level demon beast crystals are for one melon. They are freshly picked. If the little prince wants to eat some, come quickly."

The guards quickly left the desolate land and entered the palace to see the young prince, Yan Xun.

"What?!" The young prince was stunned. "Rong Yang's family has a spirit melon?!"

"A spirit melon just picked from the vine." The guard swallowed hard. He had never actually eaten one before, but he knew how crisp it was just by the way it cracked at the touch: "Crisp, sweet, and cool."

The young prince looked incredulous: "Really?"

The guard nodded, and the young prince hurriedly sent someone to inform the Minister of War.

The Minister of War was attending court in the front hall when he received the news. At first, he didn't believe it, but when he heard that it was grown in the Rong King's mansion, he couldn't hold back any longer and took his leave from the Golden Hall after bidding farewell to the Emperor of Great Yan.

The young prince was already waiting; he activated the teleportation array and immediately went to the desolate land.

Beneath the few spirit fruit trees in the desolate land, a sandalwood table was set up, and bluestone was laid on the ground. Grapevines were trellised on the spirit fruit trees, and bunches of fruit were like green jade.

The grapevines on the spirit fruit tree grow well, and their lush foliage shields the wild land from the scorching sun.

On the table were sliced ​​red-fleshed spirit melons. The melons were all sandy and juicy. Taking a bite of the melon was cool and refreshing, and sweet. Prince Rong was holding his youngest son, while Rong Yang was eating melons beside him.

When the Minister of War and the young prince Yan Xun saw this scene, they wiped their sweat and immediately felt the temperature drop a bit. Eating spiritual melons under the spiritual fruit tree was so pleasant, which made the young prince extremely envious.

"Brother Rongyang!" the little prince called out.

Rong Yang, holding a piece of spiritual melon, raised her little head and said, "Brother Prince."

The young prince pulled the Minister of War over, and Rong Yang handed the young prince a piece of spiritual melon. The little dumpling in the young prince's arms cried out, "Oh my, oh my!" and flapped its little hands.

Rong Shizi took back Xiaotuanzi's hand. Rong Yang was the heir of the royal family and could make the decision regarding the distribution of the spirit melon.

It's no use if the little dumpling doesn't want to.

(End of this chapter)