"Little melon, little melon boy, pushing your wife in a cart to the fields, not afraid of wind or rain or sun, only afraid that my parents will scold me for not having a wife..."
A burst of singing rang out.
A three-eight bar bicycle carried a pair of amorous figures through the fields. The sun blazed overhead, while a stream flowed from the upper river into the farmland, passing through more than ten mu of watermelons divided into several sections...
"Sing that again and I'll stuff your dog mouth..." Great Goddess Nuwa was furious. This fellow was far too unruly.
"Heh heh... We're here..." Chen Xuan immediately got off the bicycle.
Under the blazing sunlight, many fully ripe watermelons looked liable to burst...
Chen Xuan's parents had rented a little over five mu and planted a large patch of watermelons. Since there had been ample rain and bright sunshine that year, huge quantities of watermelons had reached the market, causing a glut...
It was a major sales slump. The farmers were the ones who took the losses, because every farmer felt confident that whatever they planted would sell like hotcakes. In the end, they lost everything...
Bang...
Chen Xuan lightly swiped his finger across a sandy-fleshed watermelon. It split apart, and the two of them each took half to taste. It was wonderfully sweet and delicious—quite decent.
"Although this melon has no spiritual energy, its sweetness is acceptable. The Primordial World doesn't have any of these yet. Once I can return, I'll certainly bring some back to plant..." Great Goddess Nuwa took a few bites and commented with elegant poise.
"The watermelon market is flooded right now, and most people can't sell theirs. At the planting bases, they're offering two jiao per jin and still nobody wants them. My parents have basically lost money..." Chen Xuan had no better sales channel and could only sigh.
Great Goddess Nuwa shook her head as though she had a brilliant plan. "Although my cultivation has been suppressed, my main cultivation is Creation. I can only use some minor spells, but changing the watermelons is still possible. Giving them a little spiritual energy will definitely make them sell well..."
Chen Xuan's eyes lit up. He had almost forgotten that Great Goddess Nuwa was here. If she upgraded the watermelons into ordinary spirit melons, their quality would definitely rise to another level...
Someone had taken seeds into space and brought them back down. Their value had soared, and the food that grew from them was even plumper, grew faster, and was of superior quality...
"I only need to set up a Spirit Gathering Formation. Should it cover the entire area?" Great Goddess Nuwa made her move. She could cover a huge stretch of farmland, enveloping an area dozens of li wide.
"Not for now. This is roughly my family's section..." Chen Xuan pointed beneath his feet. The countryside was complicated. A favor the size of a grain of rice could earn gratitude, while a favor the size of a peck could create hatred. He needed to communicate properly and did not dare arrange things recklessly, lest someone come with a hoe to argue at his door.
"All right..." Great Goddess Nuwa did not waste words. She formed a hand seal, and mysterious rays of light shot out one after another, landing in the corners in all eight directions. The air faintly began to feel different.
Whoosh, whoosh...
A gentle breeze blew over...
Chen Xuan stood within it and felt refreshed. Although it was far inferior to the Primordial World, it felt wonderful. Before half an hour had passed, a mass of clouds gathered overhead, and a shower of spirit rain began to fall.
"That's done... Try it again." Great Goddess Nuwa withdrew the formation, looking very confident.
Chen Xuan punched a watermelon apart. After tasting it lightly, the pores all over his body relaxed, as though a bucket of water had been poured over his heat. He felt incomparably comfortable, as if his body and soul had undergone a cleansing...
"So sweet... So refreshing... So healing... One bite makes you feel like an immortal." Chen Xuan could not help exclaiming.
"Mortal... With your charming ancestor helping you, naturally there won't be any problems. How do you plan to deal with the watermelons?" Nuwa looked quietly at Chen Xuan. He really was an interesting fellow.
"I'll borrow a three-wheeled motorcycle..." Chen Xuan rode the three-eight bar bicycle to find the village chief. His was the only household with a three-wheeled motorcycle.
"Hehe... What an interesting little brat." Great Goddess Nuwa smiled sweetly.
After countless years of dullness in the Primordial World, her long-silent heart seemed to ripple. This plain and ordinary life gave her a relaxing sense of belonging...
Perhaps farming was not bad either...
Nuwa was immediately startled. She had only been immersed in it for half a day, yet she had already developed such thoughts. In the Primordial World, she would have severed the karma long ago and dared not allow even the slightest ripple to arise again.
Chen Xuan soon drove back in the three-wheeled motorcycle. Each watermelon weighed roughly seven or eight jin, with some exceeding ten jin, and he quickly filled the whole vehicle...
"Great Goddess Nuwa... Do you want to come along? If you don't, you can go home and wait for me." Chen Xuan glanced at the passenger seat. It was just big enough for one person, and with a goddess overflowing with immortal aura sitting there, the sight looked strange no matter how he viewed it...
"I must go... I'm very curious about this brand-new world. Come on... Take me to sell melons." Great Goddess Nuwa took her seat as though she were already familiar with the place.
"Sure!"
Chen Xuan drove the three-wheeled vehicle, a goddess drifting with immortal aura beside him and a load of watermelons behind them. In the sweltering afternoon, they charged toward the city.
They drove for more than half an hour...
At a three-way intersection, Chen Xuan took a black marker, found a wooden board, and wrote the price: Super Delicious Large Watermelons, two yuan per jin, today only...
"Do you need your charming ancestor to help?" Great Goddess Nuwa asked.
"No need... Charming ancestor, go rest. I can handle it." Chen Xuan hurriedly refused.
Great Goddess Nuwa found a patch of grass, where the shade of a tree happened to fall. She quietly watched Chen Xuan set up his stall, enjoying the simple and unadorned life of a mortal...
"Kid... Are you joking? Watermelons in the countryside cost only two jiao per jin. Even in the city, they're only three or four jiao per jin. They're practically rotten and unwanted, yet you dare ask for two yuan..."
"Scammers are becoming more and more brazen. Do you think your watermelons are peaches of immortality? Only an idiot would buy them..."
A middle-aged man selling peaches nearby immediately mocked him. Anyone wanted to do business these days, but running a stall was not something a fool could toy with.
"Can't afford it, so don't eat it. Take a look at whether you've worked hard enough and whether your wages have gone up..." Chen Xuan retorted unhappily.
"Fine, fine... Don't get conceited, young man. Society will teach you how to behave. If you can sell even a few watermelons, I'll work like an ox and horse for you..." The middle-aged man snorted and returned to his stall.
Chen Xuan ignored him. Spirit-filled watermelons could not possibly be sold cheaply...
"Young man... How much are the watermelons?" Several passing aunties could not resist asking. After all, they were near a residential area.
"Two yuan per jin." Chen Xuan shifted aside a little. He had been blocking the sign, so the aunties had not seen the price.
"Young man... There are several stalls on the street ahead selling watermelons for fifty cents per jin. If this place weren't a little closer to home, I wouldn't even look at yours. Now you're charging two yuan per jin—do you take me for a sucker?"
The auntie cursed loudly, calling him a greedy-eyed boy with rotten morals. Her shout attracted even more passing aunties and pedestrians, who all shook their heads when they saw the price.
"Exactly... Watermelons worth fifty cents at most, and you want two yuan? And today only? Take them home and treat them as family heirlooms!"
"Exactly... My grandson wants some and cries about it all day. I was planning to buy two, but seeing how you do business, don't dream of selling even one..."
"Let's go! We'll buy them somewhere else later..."
The aunties chattered noisily, stirring up the crowd and attracting onlookers. Yet nobody was willing to be a sucker. Two-yuan watermelons were more than three times as expensive—wasn't that simply daylight robbery?
They pointed and made several remarks before everyone dispersed...
Chen Xuan did not care. With spirit melons in hand, he only needed someone who knew their worth to sell them. Yet by the time the sun sank and the sky was filled with evening clouds, not a single person had bought one...
Could he really fail to sell even a single watermelon today?
"Brother... Your watermelons cost two yuan. Is there anything special about them?"
Just as Chen Xuan was preparing to pack up and go home, a clear voice rang out beside a beautiful figure. She wore a red suit and a pair of sunglasses, looking like an urban career woman with a trace of curiosity.
"Only people who've eaten my watermelons know how wonderful they are. You can try one." Chen Xuan was not stingy and immediately took out a knife to cut one open.
The woman took a light bite. A refreshing sensation that cleansed the body flowed through her internal organs and every limb, leaving her deeply shocked.
"How is that possible?" The woman widened her small mouth, removed her sunglasses, and exclaimed.
"There's nothing impossible about it. This is the wisdom of our ancestors..." Chen Xuan gave a mysterious smile.
"All right, all right... I'll take this entire load of watermelons. Deliver them to the Junyue Grand Hotel nearby." The woman was genuinely surprised and immediately bought them all.
"Sure..."
Without another word, Chen Xuan delivered them to the Junyue Grand Hotel under the dumbfounded gaze of the middle-aged man nearby. They settled the payment on the spot: nine hundred jin of watermelons brought in 1,800 yuan. In an era when monthly incomes were only around two or three thousand yuan, it was definitely a huge sum.
"Ancestor... Let's go home..." Chen Xuan headed back, bringing Great Goddess Nuwa with him.
"This, this, this..."
The middle-aged man selling peaches was utterly stunned...
Not only had that fellow sold all his watermelons, but he also had a beautiful girlfriend. Heaven really was unfair...
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