Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 397: Tasting New Varieties of Fruits (3)

"Delicious, really delicious," Jueqing cocked an eyebrow, laughing heartily a few times before diving back into the fruit plate. Seeing the yellow fruit flesh was gone, he then turned to the white ones, spitting out the seeds while eating.

Zongzheng Zehang, observing this, also cast aside any consideration for his image and picked up the chopsticks to join in. Before he could swallow, his mouth was instantly filled with a sweet and juicy flavor, with a delicate flesh that was unlike the crispness of an apple or the tartness of a hawthorn—indescribably light and sweet.

Beitang Xuan wouldn’t be left behind either. He picked up a red-tinged piece with his chopsticks and tried it. After one bite, he couldn’t stop, continuously eating one after another without the slightest concern for conversation.

Xiu Bingxi watched the others wolf down the food, and his own curiosity piqued, he picked up the fruit plate from the table and started eating. Now he understood why the others had forsaken speech; once you started, your mouth just couldn’t stop.

Although Xiu Bingxi was the last to start eating, his elegant use of chopsticks was incredibly swift and precise. He kept up with each and every one of them, one bite at a time.

Qinmeng’s eyes widened in disbelief as she watched them, and she cautiously began to taste the fruits herself. Before she could have a few bites, her fruit plate was snatched away from in front of her. Qinmeng’s eyes widened in shock—it was her own brother who had taken it. Blinking, she put down her chopsticks with a sense of resignation, internally wailing, "Ah... I haven’t had enough yet," and gave her brother a look of deep grievance. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Having finished eating, Jueqing squinted his eyes and smacked his lips. That man’s skin was really quite thick. Jueqing glanced at the fruit in front of his cousin, wanting to snatch some although he didn’t dare.

Feng Xuxu set down her chopsticks and daintily wiped her mouth, "So, what do you think? Can any of you say what these fruits are called?"

The others shook their heads.

"Princess, if you show them to us, maybe we’ve seen them before and just didn’t recognize them?"

Feng Xuxu glanced at Beitang Xuan and smiled, "Alright, today I’ll satisfy your curiosity so that in the future when these are grown, you won’t be ignorant about what they look like. It would be quite embarrassing to speak of them otherwise."

"Haha, I just realized the princess has quite a sense of humor," Beitang Xuan laughed loudly, his gaze towards Feng Xuxu changing. If he had met her earlier, would things have been different...?

Within the time it took to drink a cup of tea, two servants brought in a basket of fruits, placing it on the ground before exiting.

The others approached the basket and scrutinized the fruits within—some were spiky and hurt to touch, some had a yellow exterior, and another was an egg-shaped purple fruit with two thick leaves attached. There was also a deep red fruit covered with long hairs. They came in all sorts of bizarre shapes.

"Cousin, are these the same fruits we just ate?" Jueqing flipped through the basket and seemed to find something else underneath. Pulling it out, he saw a small watermelon.

"Isn’t this a watermelon!" he exclaimed, holding up the fruit in his hand like a treasure, finally recognizing something.

The others glanced at it, skeptical that it was merely a watermelon, mainly because they hadn’t tasted any watermelon just now.

"This is a Phoenix Melon, a type of watermelon. Its flesh inside is yellow."

The others nodded.

"That spiky one is a pineapple; that one is a Mao Pill, also known as a Mao Lychee; the purple one is mangosteen, with white flesh inside—the seeds you’ve been spitting out belong to it. Then that yellow one is a mango, and the red one is a wax apple; the pale yellow with green ridges is a star fruit."

Interested, the group picked up the various rare fruits and examined them, realizing they had never seen such things before.