Bab 170: Chapter 170: Growing Up to be Just Like His Father

Private plots were not allowed to grow watermelons or cantaloupes. They could only grow vegetables, or else, it'd be considered sowing the seeds of capitalism, and that would be unthinkable!

Only the production team had a plot of land dedicated to watermelons, the melons produced there would be sold in the city accompanied by a letter of introduction from the team, selling melons without this letter would be a big deal.

When the melons were ripe, there'd be someone specifically assigned to guard the melon field.

So, how had the father and son of the Yu family come into contact with these watermelons, assets of the production team?

Despite the alluring description of "a sky full of stars" and "filial piety between father and son" from Yu Jingting's mouth, Suizi made a decisive analysis:

The father and son were stealing them!