Chapter 980: Autumn Harvest Seeking Medical Help (1)
Once the time of the Beginning of Autumn passed, the increasingly cooler August days arrived. However, the noon sun remained fiercely hot, and few people would labor in the fields at this time. Yet, compared to the scorching June and July, Mao Tuan and his heat-fearing companions found their days considerably more bearable.
August was also the harvest season, and the Mo Family’s orchard welcomed a bumper crop. Although the fruit trees had not fully matured, the fruits they bore bent the branches with weight. It was clear without having to pick and weigh each piece that this year’s harvest would exceed the last by more than fivefold.
The quantity of fruit harvested last year was not large, but Mo Yan and Yan Junyu kept a little, and the rest was sent to the Imperial Palace. The quality of those fruits was much higher than the so-called tribute brought from the south, and there wasn’t enough to go around in the palace.
Therefore, with the significant increase in the orchard’s yield this year, Mo Yan did not worry about sales at all. Even if the palace couldn’t "consume" it all, there were many outside the palace who wanted it, and the price would certainly not be low.
With the fruits nearing maturity and ready for picking in not more than ten days, Mo Yan asked Aunt Tong to oversee the arrangement and also sent a message to Yan Junyu in advance to have his people come and take away his share of fruit after ten days. As for her share, it would naturally be hauled away in one go, which would not only not cost her any Silver Coin but also save her a lot of trouble.
The more than a hundred acres of rice in the valley had also turned yellow and would be ready for harvesting in three to five days. As usual, Mo Yan entrusted this task to Old Man Ding, asking him to hire people to help with the harvest, calculating the wages as they had been in previous years.