On the rooftop outside the balcony, there are several foam boxes.

In the past two years, it has become popular to grow vegetables on the balcony, and the retired old people in this building, who have nothing to do, imitate the urban vegetable growers in the newspaper, move a few foam boxes, dig some garden soil in the suburbs, buy a few bags of seeds for common vegetables, and start planting vegetables on the roof of this building.

It's a pity that those retired veteran cadres who have been pampered for decades will have this job of fiddling with hoes.

In less than a month, those vegetables and fruits, long, eaten by insects, fattened, all in all, few can be put on the table.

The old people stopped tossing, but they didn't have the strength to get the foam box and garden soil downstairs, so they could only discard them on the rooftop, exposed to the wind and sun, and absorb the essence of heaven and earth.

This is cheaper than Lin Zeng, and there is no need to go outside to make more effort.

Lin Zeng walked around the rooftop and found a plastic flower pot.

The vine red jade tomato is best grown indoors. Lin Zeng's room is not spacious, but it is not crowded, and the two corners are empty, which is suitable for planting this kind of indoor tomato.

Lin Zeng's generation, there are few people who are going to the ground. However, I have eaten pork and seen pigs run, and Lin Zeng's hands-on ability is not bad.

The basin was padded with plastic sheets, some garden soil was made from the foam box, filled with seven layers, and then the ordinary soil of the refining residue in the ding furnace was covered on the top layer. This kind of soil is more suitable for seeds to take root and germinate than ordinary garden soil.

Place two tomato seeds on the surface of the soil layer and grab a handful of ordinary soil from the side to cover the top of the seeds.

Disposable plastic cups filled with tap water, and Lin Zeng threw a fertilizer micron.

The red-brick-colored fertilized water micronos quickly melted in the water, and the tap water in the plastic cup was dyed iron-red.

Carefully and cautiously pour the iron-red liquid over the seeds.

When it was done, Lin Zeng rubbed his hands and happily straightened the plastic flower pot.

He hadn't been in such a relaxed mood for a long time.

Three years after graduation, he barely took a day off for the monthly attendance award. I went out to set up a stall at night, found temporary workers on weekends, opened a store on Taobao, sold meat skewers in a university town, and used all my hard work to make money.

It's a pity that in the past three years, God has never taken care of him.

Without success, he is still a small person struggling at the bottom of society.

The tight heartstrings were abruptly cut last night. has been a girlfriend for many years, betrayed in an instant, and Lin Zeng's three years of hard work seem to have completely lost its meaning.

Lin Zeng was born in a small town in the northwest, his family was poor, his parents died early, and before high school, he was fostered in his uncle's house, experiencing the warmth and coldness of human feelings. For three years in high school, he studied and worked part-time, earning tuition and living expenses independently. After four years of college, I relied on student loans and part-time jobs to earn money, and finally graduated.

In his hometown thousands of miles away, he doesn't have much attachment and concern, and the only connection is just sitting alone in front of his parents' graves during the Qingming Festival.

It can be said that before yesterday, his girlfriend Chen Huanyue, who had been in love for many years, was the person he remembered the most.

It's a pity that a qiē is shattered.

Lin Zeng was not an indecisive person, and yesterday's events made him completely lose his love for Chen Huanyue. He didn't want to think about it, and he wouldn't continue to associate with her.

What's more, he has access to a lot of information about the breeder's heritage. The fresh knowledge that flooded his mind diluted the anger and sadness that came with betrayal and breakup.

His attention is almost entirely focused on the breeder's legacy.

Lin Zeng returned to his room, brewed a cup of instant coffee, sat in front of the computer, opened the web page, and searched for information about urban cultivation.

Coffee is a supermarket promotional special, and cups are toothpaste giveaways.

After obtaining the vine red jade tomato seeds, Lin Zeng had a plan in his heart.

He found two forums on the web.

Urban farmer, flower and fruit world.

These are two big planting forums in China.

Lin had registered accounts in these two forums, and after thinking about it, he decided to give a vulgar and earthy screen name - Urban Seed King.

In the self-introduction column, Lin Zeng pondered for a while and wrote a sentence.

The world of seeds is endless.

On the homepage of the forum, the two websites are much the same, mostly some netizens, showing off their achievements.

"Today's cucumber harvest is abundant, and the loofah is also blooming, just waiting for the watermelon in the back"

"Bubble Girl's Balcony Garden"

"Please see if the blueberry seedlings I bought on Taobao are genuine?"

"Do-it-yourself zuò eco-friendly household fertilizer"

"Susu's Vegetable Garden - Come and Help Me See What Fruit Tree This Is?"

"Rooftop Vegetable Garden, Fruits and Vegetables That Can't Be Eaten All Year Round"

Lin Zeng flipped through the forum posts page by page, and felt that these friends were much better than the retired old cadres in this building.

Most of the balconies of commercial houses in the city are not spacious, and the vegetable lovers give full play to their creativity and almost make full use of the balconies.

Grow strawberries, grow chicken hair, grow cucumbers, plant tomatoes, plant pumpkins......

Coke bottles, foam boxes, oil drums, can all be used as planting containers.

As for those lucky vegetable friends who have a rooftop, they are constantly melons and fruits all year round, and most of them have become popular figures in the forum.

The food safety problem that makes people feel uneasy and the rising price of vegetables has come into being the rise of the trend of urban vegetable growing.

Lin Zeng searched for seed businesses on Taobao and found that a number of Taobao shops that provide vegetable seeds for urbanites are doing brisk business.

After browsing the web for about two hours, Lin Zeng keenly found that in fact, the proportion of urban vegetable growers in the city is not large.

The most important factor is the constraint of space.

In the past ten years, the commercial houses have extremely high floors, but the balconies are not big. And there is no old-fashioned commercial housing that sits in the north and faces south, and the north and south are transparent, most of the balconies face the northeast and southeast, and the light conditions are insufficient, even if you plant some vegetables, because the light is not sufficient, it is difficult to grow well.

A lot of news has been reported, and some elderly people have planted vegetables in the green space of their community and opened it up into a vegetable garden. That's actually the reason for the lack of space.

Another point, judging from the posts on the forum, many netizens bought seed pots, and after germination, they rushed to the forum to show photos. And then, and then there was no then.

Cultivation is a technology, fertilizer, light, temperature, humidity all affect the growth of plants. Super amateur growers, can only say that they are hot-headed, and after planting in, they find that planting is not as simple as imagined. In this case, the most typical characters are several retired old cadres in Lin Zeng's building.

After planting for half a month, they found that they were really not that piece of material, so they might as well go to the park to learn to do Tai Chi!

For a variety of reasons, there are very few people who can grow their own vegetables and be self-sufficient in the city.

After reading the forum, Lin Zeng stretched his waist, and suddenly felt a little confident in his heart.

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Lin Zeng gave himself a day off, and he still had to go to work normally the next day.

He woke up early in the morning, and the first thing he did was to observe the tomato seeds in the plastic pot.

Two small tomato seedlings, with white fluffy leaves, burrowed into the soil layer, bringing Lin Zeng strong joy.

That's too fast, isn't it?

The seeds were planted only yesterday, and today they have grown six or seven centimeters and four leaves have emerged.

He finally understood the power of the Fertilizer Neutrino, refining the derivatives of the seed, and the Fertilizer Neutrino has the energy that is most suitable for the seed.

The seedlings of the vine red jade tomato made Lin Zeng's mood extremely happy.

He hummed the tune all the way, and the rhythm of stepping on the electric donkey also became extremely brisk, and the white steamed buns that he was tired of nibbling on every day could not affect his cheerful mood.

It wasn't until he entered the supermarket, changed into his uniform, and saw Director You's thin figure standing in his work area.

Director You was a middle-aged man of nearly fifty years old, he was so thin that his bones were protruding, but his eyes were the size of copper bells, and he looked very strange.

Perhaps, the face has a heart, and this person has a very strange temper. The cashier girls in the supermarket, when they saw this middle-aged old man, avoided him.

Early in the morning, Lin Zeng saw the sneer on the corner of Director You's mouth, and he was in a bad mood.

But to Lin Zeng's surprise, Director You didn't make any accusations against him for asking for leave and hanging up the phone yesterday, but occasionally, cold eyes drifted by from time to time, and his eyes were full of malice.

The work of a large supermarket is very busy, and today coincides with the arrival of new goods on the shelves, Lin Zeng has not stopped for almost the whole day, and the only free time is to squat in the corner at noon and pick up a few bites of cold fast food.

Finally staying up until the end of work, Lin Zeng was about to change out of uniform, and suddenly, Director You, who had not appeared in the afternoon, stood at the door of the male employee's locker room and yelled:

"Lin Zeng, come to my office right away!"

The colleague who got off work together gave Lin Zeng a look of self-begging. Director You is bitter and mean, and the staff in the supermarket is extremely poor, and almost no one has a good impression of him.

Lin Zeng changed out of his uniform and walked to Director You's office on the second floor of the supermarket. He frowned, and had a bad premonition, Director You's reaction today was a little abnormal, and he didn't know what kind of yin tricks he would come up with to make things difficult.

Lin Zeng knocked on the door, and with an answer from inside, he pushed the door and entered.

As soon as he entered the door, he was greeted by Director You's distorted face with a smile.

"Xiaolin, you've been working in our supermarket for three years, right?" Director You said with Erlang's legs crossed and quite swaying.

"Hmm. Lin Zeng nodded in response, not knowing what kind of plane he was doing.

"Hehe, I won't say anything else, you take this thing. Director You handed an envelope to Lin Zeng.

"What is this?" Lin Zeng asked inexplicably, he didn't think Director You would be kind enough to give him something.

"Severance pay!"