Chapter 531 Reunion Joy (2)_1
Having said that, Yan Junyu picked up an apple the size of a bowl and ate it gracefully, feeling it grow more delicious as he continued, unable to stop himself. By the time he realized something was off, he had already eaten too much, astonishing Mo Yan as he devoured half of a whole basket of fruit, causing her to twitch at the corner of her eyes.
Noticing Mo Yan’s mocking glance, Yan Junyu’s face flashed with an unnatural expression, but quickly resumed as if nothing had happened, ordering some guards to pick fruit on the mountain while the rest were sent to transport it to the city.
With Aunt Tong in charge of the orchard, Mo Yan did not go there. More than ten strong laborers outperformed the women and children from the other day when it came to picking fruit. In just six hours, they had harvested the entire orchard.
After weighing and calculating, they gathered a total of four thousand six hundred catties of various fruits. These fruits were rarer and far pricier than pears and peaches, and given that Mo Family’s fruits were of higher quality than tribute offerings, the price was pushed even higher.
Mo Yan roughly estimated that the four thousand six hundred catties of fruits could be sold for two thousand taels of silver. According to the contract, even after splitting the profit, she would still net one thousand taels. Deducting the initial investment for purchasing land, clearing, and planting, she earned a clear profit of nine hundred taels. Such a yield in the first year of bearing fruit was quite impressive.
Next year, when the fruit trees grew larger and yielded at least five times more fruit than this year, the profits would be even greater. However, by then the winery would be able to produce grape wine and fruit wines, so whether to keep or sell the fruits would depend on the situation. In any case, planting these fruit trees was a surefire way to make a profit.
By noon, Yan Junyu showed no intention of leaving. After Mo Yan hinted several times to no avail, as if he was deaf to her suggestions, she resigned herself to enter the kitchen and prepared several of her signature dishes to host him. Otherwise, she would be the one breaching etiquette.
Yan Junyu, who had never tasted Mo Yan’s cooking but had eaten plenty of her fruits, vegetables, and live chickens, could naturally discern the difference. Thus, he was looking forward to this lunch.