Chapter 1206 - 381: Duke Wu’an, Brewing Wine
To ensure that the newly planted fruit trees from the last year could grow healthily, only three to five fruits were kept on each tree during the harvest time. The fruit harvested from over twenty orchards this time was even less than that from a single chicken farm.
The fruit trees in the chicken farm had grown into big trees. Other than pruning unnecessary branches and leaves at the beginning of the year, there was no further control over the number of fruits they produced. This time, a total of 600,000 jin of fruits were harvested. All the fruits combined weighed over one million jin. Next year, this number could increase at least fivefold, reaching five million jin.
"These fifty baskets of fruit have the best appearance and are to be sent to the Imperial palace. If you don’t have any other arrangements for the rest, I’ll transport them all to the winery to brew them into wine as soon as possible," Mo Yan said, pointing to the assorted fruits piled separately in the yard, to Yan Junyu.
Yan Junyu casually picked a crabapple from the pile of fruit and wiped it with his handkerchief before biting into it. The juice, sweet with a hint of sourness, spread through his mouth and seemed to turn into a stream of clarity, slowly reaching the meridians throughout his body after passing through the stomach, invigorating his spirit.
He nodded slightly, but his words perplexed Mo Yan, "Swap these fruits for ones of slightly inferior appearance!"
"Why?" Mo Yan asked. "Shouldn’t we pick out the best to send to the palace?"
Eating the crabapple leisurely, Yan Junyu gave Mo Yan a look that said, "You’re really naive." "The quality of this year’s fruit is better than last year’s, but can you guarantee that next year’s will match this year’s? If not, what would you have me send to the Imperial palace?"
Once she heard this, Mo Yan quickly understood. Even though she knew that with Spirit Spring Water, the quality of the fruit wouldn’t be poor, these things couldn’t be known by anyone. She could only nod and follow Yan Junyu’s plan, "Later, I’ll pick another batch, and from now on, we’ll use this quality."