"The cherries here are Golden Thread Cherries unique to the Dragon Emperor Domain. They ripen every April. There are fifty mu of cherry orchards here, and each mu yields 1,500 jin of Golden Thread Cherries a year. Altogether, this place produces more than seventy thousand jin of Golden Thread Cherries annually..."
As the group walked through the cherry orchard, Hong Yukun had the chaste maidens picking cherries in the orchard salute them before continuing their work, while introducing the place to everyone. "Besides the cherry orchards, the fruit orchards in season during April include loquats, red bananas, mulberries, green limes, and birdwood fruits. The smallest of these orchards covers fifty mu, while the largest spans over two hundred mu. In the past, aside from supplying the Dragon Emperor Pavilion, the fruit produced here was supplied to the Four Great Courts and the Dragon Emperor Temple in Dragon Emperor City. A small portion was distributed as benefits to the guards stationed in Cloud River Valley and the agricultural masters, who were permitted to sell them. But now, most of the seasonal fruit here is sent to Cloud River Castle, where it is processed into raw materials for making Dragon Emperor Potions..."
As they listened to Hong Yukun, more than one of the elders and court masters reached out to pluck a Golden Thread Cherry beside them and taste it.
The Golden Thread Cherries tasted exactly as they had before, with no discernible difference. But how could such fruit become Dragon Emperor Potions? Could it be that some immortal art had been cast upon these fruits? It was simply too miraculous.
Seeing the astonished expressions on the elders' and court masters' faces, Zhang Tie smiled faintly to himself. This was precisely the outcome he wanted. In truth, it was a subtle form