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“Cough cough…” Lin Lixuan instantly sobered up and hurriedly used his hand to fan the side of his mouth to dispel the taste.
He poked the bowl of soup with his finger and trembled as he asked Ger Yan, “Ger Yan, what is this? …Are you trying to kill your own husband?!” ！”
“We just moved and you’re already trying to rebel???”
Ger Yan was shocked. He didn’t expect the other party to react so much. He leaned over and wiped the residue liquid from the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief. “Lin-dage, you’re really weak to sourness. This is what mother asked me to bring over to help sober you up.”
“You brought me a bowl of vinegar, didn’t you?” Lin Lixuan frowned. The sourness in his mouth still lingered. “No, even vinegar isn’t as sour as this.”
“What’s in here?”
Although it shouldn’t have been like this, Ger Yan was amused by the other party’s silly appearance. “There’s freshly picked plums in it… Mother said it would be a waste to put it in there, but I soaked the broken ones in water and made it into a sobering soap for you.”
Poison, it really was poison! The lethality of this year’s plum was much stronger than last year’s bananas and mangoes. It was so sour that nobody could handle it.
“You…seriously. Ger Yan, how can you even say I’m afraid of sour things? You’ve had our plums before. When we were picking them, you secretly ate some. It was so sour your teeth hurt. You…you’re still ruthless enough to soak them in water and make me drink it…”
“But, wasn’t it useful? Lin-dage, you’re sober already…”
“No, I’m not,” Lin Lixuan muttered to himself. He picked up the bowl of sobering soup and drank it again in front of Ger Yan. Like a self-sacrificing hero, he drank a mouthful, but he didn’t swallow it. Instead, he placed the bowl on the table, then used the back of Ger Yan’s head to pull him forward and force the contents in his mouth into Ger Yan’s mouth.
He had to let Ger Yan have a taste too.
After joy came sorrow!
Ger Yan was pressed into a corner. His lips were forcibly opened. The other party’s tongue broke in and along with the tongue, an unspeakable liquid was pushed inside.
His eyes widened. He used all his strength to push the other party away. The two separated, and he spit out the things that were forced into his mouth. Ger Yan was forcibly fed the sour and abnormal soup. He felt choked, and there was a hot feeling at the tip of his tongue. It was also in his nasal cavity. Tears of pain lingered in his eyes.
This method was killing a thousand enemies but self-inflicting oneself eight hundred times. Lin Lixuan also suffered a lot, so he hurriedly went to find a sugar jar. He took a mouthful of cane sugar for himself and felt Ger Yan a piece as well.
Ger Yan’s eyes were full of tears. Seeing his miserable state like this, Lin Lixuan couldn’t bear but to hold him in his arms. Ger Yan angrily bit his collarbone. He was so angry, he wanted to grind his teeth against him.
“You’re too much! If you didn’t want to drink it, then don’t! Why did you force me to drink it!”
“You’re the one who tricked me into drinking it in the first place.”
“When did I trick you? I just brought it over and you wanted to drink it yourself.”
They both shifted the blame. Ger Yu ran over to watch the show when he heard the noise. “Ge, what’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing. Your brother choked on water.”
This attracted Zhao Liniang as well. She saw the mess in their room and hurriedly reprimanded the two, “Why did you two make everything wet? You’re both grown up but still act like children. Ger Yu is more sensible than both of you.”
Lin Lixuan and Ger Yan, these two pitiful people, were being blamed by the initiator. They were extremely aggrieved. Both feeling the same, the husbands shook hands and made peace. They cleaned up with a rag and swept together.
That night, Lin Lixuan and Ger Yan slept in the new bed. They spent a good night, moved to a new house,and a new page of their life started.
After cleaning up the pile of sour plums at home, Lin Lixuan racked his brains and thought hard about what to do with this pile of sour fruits. He didn’t plant many plum trees, but there were so many fruits. The lychee tree and longan trees he’d planted at the same time didn’t bloom or bear fruit, and yet these fruit trees he’d unintentionally planted produced something that made him feel entangled.
Zhao Liniang began to try and make plum fruit wine with plums. She was addicted to wine making. She made more than a dozen jars for him in one day. She asked her son and daughter-in-law to help carry the wine jars.
Lin Lixuan disliked her piles of wine. He didn’t have a good impression of plumps now. He couldn’t wait to throw out these fruits, yet they were used to make wine. He disliked it. “Even if you make it, I’ll never drink it.”
“You talk like you usually drink the wine I brew,”
“Those lads in the shop can appreciate the wine I brew. I brewed it for them. Don’t be silly. This is none of your business.”
Even if Zhao Liniang used up some of the fruit to make wine, there was still a lot left. What should he do with them? It was estimated that it couldn’t be sold. No one liked this taste. The plums were so sour nobody could swallow it. Normal people wouldn’t eat it, and abnormal people were rare in this world. If they wanted to deal with this pile of sourness, they could only add sugar.
After removing the core, he broke the pulp to make jam. The plump was fruity. Although it was sour, a layer of pulp and a layer of sugar was placed on it for a few days. It became a fragrant and thick jam.
The jam made from the sour fruit was even more delicious. The simple sweet jam only made people feel greasy. With a little bit of sourness, it was just the right amount of sweetness with the best fruit aroma. It made the jam even more delicious.
The jam was sweet and sour. On a hot day like today, Lin’s Restaurant launched a smoothie. The ice cubes they made were broken into pieces, then jam was poured on top. The smoothie was delicious. Once launched, it was better than the grand scene of selling watermelons last year.
Sadly, it was only sold for seven days before they stopped. Since business was booming and they didn’t have enough jam prepared at home, they didn’t have enough supply. That was why they stopped selling it. Those who weren’t able to have a taste only regretted that they hadn’t tried it earlier.
In the scorching heat, to this day, occasionally eating watermelon was a common thing for the residents of All Water County. On the streets, it was common to see someone walking while gnawing on a piece of watermelon. 。
Lin Lixuan planted a lot of watermelons this year, which not only supplied the needs of All Water County, but he also signed a contract with a food merchant and sold thousands of catties of watermelons to him.
“You should plant more next year. When the time comes, I’ll buy it from you.”
“Our county heard that you grew big and sweet watermelons here. I want to eat them, so why don’t you sell me some next year. I’ll contract a boat to carry them.”
After last year’s publicity, the reputation of watermelons had spread even further. Lin Lixuan couldn’t do all this business by himself. At the same time, in order to help the township, he shared the method to graft watermelons to everyone in Jade Creek Village for free. Everyone planted melons together.
After Lin Lixuan shared his planting experience, the families of Jade Creek Village who had energy to spare began to learn how to grow watermelons from him. There was extra land and a surplus of people. They were productive, and before autumn, Jade Creek Village produced a total of tens of thousands of catties of watermelon.
The rich drove everyone to riches. By relying on planting watermelons, there were several more rich families in Jade Creek Village. Plus, Lin Lixuan sold fast food in the county town and bought the vegetables from the village. This also opened the way for some others to make a lot of money.
The life of most villagers had improved, especially Old Man Ge’s. He had become a big melon farmer. Perhaps in order to compete with his wife and son, he held his back as he took care of the fields. In the end, the melons he planted were the best. He also earned the most money from selling these melons. He was now able to raise his head in his family.
Originally, the Lin family was unique in the village. It was inevitable that people would hold grudges secretly. But now that more and more villagers were doing well, their family wasn’t as eye-catching.
The relationship between the villages also got better.
Some bold young people, under Lin Lixuan’s influence, now had silver. They also became more courageous. They planted some valuable crops in the field for their food and clothes. They thought it was strange. In fact, they couldn’t feed their families just by digging and growing food. But now by just growing some things, they earned even more money than before. Their family could not eat even better.
On July 15th, news came from the government: The current emperor has passed. His Royal Highness the third prince has succeeded the throne. In a small county town far from the imperial city, this news originally didn’t have any impact on them. But after the new emperor succeeded the throne, the other prices were divided into feudal states. This affected All Water County.
Chuxian County belonged to Chuxian Region, which was the new fief of King Laing. King Liang was the new emperor’s brother with the same mother. He was very favored.
When he arrived, he didn’t care about the people below him. It was estimated that the officials here would be greatly affected.
As soon as King Liang arrived to Chuxian Region, he removed several officials from their positions. He was short-tempered, impatient, and couldn’t tolerate even a little sand in his eyes. He couldn’t tolerate the officials under his command to even dare deceive him. Once found out, they would lose their position.
King Liang had a strong temperament, but it wasn’t a bad thing. He pulled out a lot of corpses from the closet at the speed of light.
The corrupt officials at the top all fell, and a group of roots below them were pulled out one after another.
“Sigh. Did you hear? The county magistrate of Shimmering Water County next door has been dismissed.”
“Are you talking about Jiang Rufei?”
“That’s right, him.”
“What did he do?”
“Jiang Rufei is nothing good!” “Just look at all the bad things he’s done over the years just to protect the Jiang family.”
“Exactly! I have a relative from Shimmering Water County. He sold his land a few years ago. His few mu of high-grade paddy fields were robbed by the Jiang family for the unreasonable price of inferior paddy fields… H-how could that be counted as a sale? It was simply robbery!”
“Their family also has a village bully. His family has met their karma. His son is a fool. Last year, they found a wife for their fool of a son.”
“Well deserved!” “These scum should have been dealt with a long time ago.”
“The Jiang family is now in ruins. They should be locked up or exiled. I can’t wait to see what happens!”
