Chapter 312: A Little Trick for Picking Melons

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then laughed in unison.

Zhang Yanping greeted: "I'm starting the livestream, those who don't want to show their faces, stand to the side."

And then he clicked the button, and the livestream began again.

On this side, Seventh Great-Uncle still scolded Qiao Qiao with a smile: "What kind of hand is that, patting it and it's ripe? You don't even know how to pick a watermelon and you're acting all professional—come here, I'll teach you."

"Wait!"

Qiao Qiao was a very responsible teacher, and now he quickly stopped Seventh Great-Uncle and leaned over to look at the livestream:

"Great-Uncle, wait a moment before talking. I'll learn with the little friends—have the little friends all arrived?"

He leaned in front of the lens, but his eyes were looking at Zhang Yanping, who was adjusting the livestream.

Zhang Yanping only saw a flawless face leaning in the screen, and even though he saw it every day, he couldn't help but hold his breath.

How to put it, with Qiao Qiao's face, he should clearly be a host in the beauty section.

Sure enough, after a short silence, the barrage exploded again—

【Just entered and it's a beauty crit.】

【Baby, Auntie will give you a kiss first today.】

【No, no, my sweet, let sister bite your cheek.】

【Cub, Mom is here!】

Good heavens, the ethical relationships in this livestream were quite messy, Zhang Yanping simply couldn't bear to look.

Fortunately, there were still normal people.

【Here!】

【The host always starts the livestream so unexpectedly, luckily I turned on notifications.】

【What are we livestreaming today?】

【Such a large melon field! Are you selling melons?】

【The peach blossoms are gone, there are quite a lot of fruits on the peach trees, are you selling peaches?】

【Is it a pre-sale?】

【Are you putting up links?】

With more people and more comments, the atmosphere of the livestream was stirred up, and in just a few minutes, the number of viewers had reached three or four thousand.

Zhang Yanping once again sighed at Qiao Qiao's popularity, and then stepped back, intending not to care anymore.

Qiao Qiao also turned the lens, looked at the number of viewers on top—he had learned to understand some under Xin Jun's teaching, and now he smiled sweetly: "So many little friends have come!"

"Alright, Great-Uncle, you talk. I'll learn with the little friends."

And then he said: "Little friends, today I'm teaching everyone how to pick watermelons, Teacher Qiao Qiao doesn't know either, let's learn together."

Seventh Great-Uncle: ……Suddenly so solemn, he also felt a bit embarrassed.

But he was old and had experienced many things, so he cleared his throat and beckoned Qiao Qiao to his side.

Zhang Yanping looked—well, today he was a tool man again, so he simply lifted the stand, and the lens followed Qiao Qiao's angle and moved forward.

Only to see a round watermelon in the green melon field, exceptionally cute.

There were also a few scattered ones nearby, and Seventh Great-Uncle simply moved the watermelon along with the vine to this side, and then picked two watermelons and placed them together.

"Come, I'll teach you how to pick."

"You said patting earlier—I ask you, can you tell by patting?"

Qiao Qiao hadn't spoken yet, but the barrage spoke first—

【Can't tell.】

【To be honest, I think patting is just a prelude to buying a watermelon.】

【Patting: It seems I understand, but actually I didn't hear anything.】

【I pat every watermelon and think it's ripe, but it's not the case when I cut it open.】

【Good heavens, melons are expensive right now, I don't dare to buy them at roadside stalls at all, just afraid of picking a melon that isn't sweet and being too embarrassed to return it, waiting for the teaching.】

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The two melons looked about the same size, and there didn't seem to be any difference, but Seventh Great-Uncle pointed to the wavy patterns on the watermelon:

"If you can't hear the sound, first you have to look at the patterns on this watermelon. Full, no broken lines, and they've all stretched out, slightly wider—this kind, the melon pulp inside has grown full, just like when a person has more subcutaneous fat, it stretches the skin full, it's the same principle."

"This is a good melon."

"Like the one next to it, the stripes are tight and crowded, this is because it hasn't eaten enough, the nutrition hasn't been absorbed enough, it hasn't grown open, and it still needs to grow longer."

In the livestream, there was a chorus of 【Wow】.

However, Seventh Great-Uncle's teaching hadn't ended yet.

"Again, look at the melon vine; people say the melon is ripe and the stem falls off. When the melon is ripe, its vine starts to wither, and this stem can fall off."

"Once it withers, doesn't this place start to shrink? So look at the place where this watermelon connects to the vine, this belly button-like thing, is it very small? This is a ripe one."

"Like the one next to it, it's still growing, so the melon vine is still thick and green. If you pick it at this time, that belly button will be very large."

【Learned it.】

【Good heavens! I can't hear the sound of patting, but I can look at the patterns.】

【Can "the melon is ripe and the stem falls off" also be used to pick melons?】

【If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have been humiliated by a white-faced melon last year.】

【I'm going to the melon stall to wash away my shame later.】

Zhang Yanping also looked bright-eyed and quickly stabilized the lens.

"Again, our local melons are rarely grown hanging in nets, so most of them are against the ground."

"Against the ground, this side is yellowish, partly because it hasn't been in the sun, and partly because of the color of the soil. A watermelon that has been exposed to the sun and wind like this is the same principle as greenhouse vegetables and wild vegetables; our vegetables in the field have a vegetable taste, and this kind of watermelon is also sweeter."

"However," Seventh Great-Uncle glanced at the livestream again: "There are too many bases growing watermelons all over the country now. Some places are more scientific, and in order to save space, they all use nets to hold the watermelons, so they don't touch the ground. That kind is also sweet, so you can't use this method."

【Learned it, learned it.】

【I just love eating watermelons that are against the ground.】

【Why else would they say essence of sun and moon, nourishment of the land?】

【Hanging melons have no soul.】

【How many people hang summer melons? Generally, only off-season ones would do that, for the convenience of sunlight and temperature control.】

On this side, the teaching hadn't ended.

"The last trick is patting, and the sound of patting naturally has its own particularities."

Seventh Great-Uncle reached out and patted the raw melon, and the "Dongdong dong" sound was very crisp.

"Did you hear clearly? Crisp sound, this is raw. If it's overripe, it's another kind of sound."

However...

He stood in the field and looked left and right: "There isn't one now, let's not pat the overripe one first, you pat the ripe one next to it yourself, and listen to the sound."

The audience in the livestream also pricked up their ears, intending to learn to distinguish melons by sound seriously.

Qiao Qiao, as a teacher, had a serious face and intended to practice.

His hand was overly white in the sun, and before the livestream could comment, they saw him lightly pat the watermelon twice.

Before the feedback of the ripe one could come out, they heard a crisp "crack" sound, and Zhang Yanping pointed the lens at it, only to see an irregular crack appearing in the middle of the round and full watermelon.

Seventh Great-Uncle said "Oh my": "This watermelon is good! It's ripe just at the right time—come!"

He quickly picked up the watermelon on the ground and broke it open along the crack.

The emerald green melon skin was gradient to slightly white, thin, and even only a few millimeters.

Inside was a bright red piece of melon pulp, shining with crystal light in the sun. ===== CHAPTER 313 =====