Qianlong during his reign, the wind and rain were smooth, the national treasury was sufficient, so he had a lot of time and money to enjoy life, he had many times to play in Jiangnan, and sometimes chatted with the people, but most of the time it was micro-service private visits, so others did not know his identity, once Qianlong was thirsty on the road, he wanted to let the entourage go to buy some watermelon to eat to quench his thirst, but the entourage returned empty-handed, bluntly saying that the melon farmers did not sell to him.
In the Qing Dynasty watermelon is a very precious fruit, melon farmers' watermelon has been booked by people, so Qianlong personally went to the melon farmer to buy watermelon, only to see that the melon farmer was sleeping, originally the entourage wanted to wake up the melon farmer, but Qianlong did not let it, they directly waited for an hour, waiting for the melon farmer to wake up before buying, the result of the melon farmer saw that they were waiting hard and directly gave them watermelon to eat.
When Qianlong finally ate the watermelon, he was very happy, so he squatted on the side of the road and ate it regardless of the image, but the melon farmer saw that Qianlong ate the watermelon first, so he said to him: You will not be sweet if you eat watermelon like this. Qianlong was very strange, and the melon farmer immediately explained that the sweetest watermelon is the middle, if you eat the middle first, the more you eat it, the less sweet it is, and if you start eating from the side, the sweeter it will be.
The melon farmer then said to Qianlong that ordinary people eat both sides first, because they live in poverty and always want to leave the sweetness at the end, life is like this, there are bittersweet and sweet, Qianlong saw that the melon farmer had an extraordinary insight, so he continued to talk with him, and found that he was full of talent, so he asked the melon farmer if he wanted to be an official, but the melon farmer said that he did not want to. After Qianlong bid farewell to the melon farmers, he did not go far before he let his entourage go and kill the melon farmers, because it was too dangerous for such a powerful person not to use them for himself, but he did not expect that when the entourage returned, the melon farmers had long disappeared.