Chapter 127: The Laurel Tree

 “…… How can I be proficient in such a thing as tea? I just know a little bit of the skin. Xiao Sier held an iron pickaxe while digging the soil for the tea trees, and at the same time dealt with the problem of Angelica dahurica.

They went to the street that day, visited the clothing store, and when she came back, she thought about the empty yard, so she asked Bai Zhi where there were flowers and trees to sell, and she wanted to get some and come back and plant them for her own fun.

Later, I went to the North Market, Bai Zhi said that there was no serious seedling market in the capital, at most there was a vacant land outside the North Gate, where there were three religions and nine streams, and there were some low-level people who gathered in cockfighting, and from time to time they would also meet some people selling flower seedlings and seeds.

But it is precisely because of this that there are not many seedlings sold there, but Xiao Sier was lucky, when she went, she happened to see someone selling magnolia flowers.

The two magnolia flowers that are more than one person tall, the petals as white as jade and the leisurely fragrance make her think of the old house where she lived with her grandmother when she was a child, and there are two such magnolia plants in that house.

Every summer, the tree was full of silver flowers, and the fragrance could be smelled from half a mile away, so she bought the two magnolia plants with a heartbeat.

The person who sold her magnolia flowers was an old man in his forties and fifties, or because of the oppression of life, although he was not very old, he looked like he was rickety.

When Mama Bai went to buy flowers from him, he said that these were the two magnolia flowers planted by his little granddaughter when she was a child, but now for the sake of his grandson's illness, he has sold his granddaughter, and now he can't even keep the magnolia flowers she planted.

He said that the old tears were rampant, Xiao Sier couldn't bear to listen to it, so he asked Mama Bai to give some more money, and then Xiao Sier thought about it, and asked Mama Bai to ask if there were any trees he wanted to sell, grass, anyway, now her empty yard is quite big, and if there is a suitable one, she will buy it together.

As soon as the old man heard that Xiao Sier and they wanted to help him, he thanked him and said that there were two osmanthus trees at home, both of which were beautiful and rich varieties of osmanthus that had been planted for many years, and they were fragrant for ten miles when they bloomed.

Xiao Sier thought about it, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival after a while, and if there is a blooming osmanthus tree, eating moon cakes and admiring the moon under the tree, it is also a beautiful thing, so he hit it off and said that he could buy all the osmanthus flowers in his house.

The man couldn't stop thanking him for a while, and Mama Bai paid the deposit and returned to the courtyard first. In the afternoon, the old man sent her two magnolia plants and two osmanthus flowers, and Xiao Sier led people to plant them in the yard himself, and the two magnolias were planted on both sides of the gate.

As for the osmanthus tree, Xiao Sier originally planned to plant it in a sunny place in the yard, and then build a stone table there and add a few stone benches.

But after such a plan, I always felt that it looked weird, so I simply gave up this design plan, but for a while she couldn't think of a better way, so she simply let people plant trees on the courtyard wall, and then looked at it was better to follow the courtyard wall and plant a circle of osmanthus flowers.

When the osmanthus blooms, tsk...... When you think about it, you feel that the aroma is overwhelming!

And you can also plant some tea trees under the osmanthus tree, and when the osmanthus blooms, the fragrant tea trees of the flowers have some fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and the osmanthus tea is really called a superb taste, so she asked Mama Bai to tell the man that he would help find some osmanthus trees for her, and find some tea trees by the way.

However, after all, the tea tree is not an ornamental seedling, so it is not common in ordinary people's houses, so Xiao Sier asked the man to go to other places to help her find some back, as for the price, she thinks everything is very easy to say.

That person was not stupid, he naturally knew that Xiao Sier was helping him, so he started to do things very quickly, and in a few days, he sent her ten osmanthus plants with good varieties and varieties, and by the way, there were a few clusters of old tea trees with good branches and leaves.

"Hmm...... The slave still thinks that this osmanthus flower falling on the tea tree can really make the tea leaves leave the taste of osmanthus?" After a few days of getting along, Bai Zhi felt that Xiao Sier was indeed an excellent person to get along with, and she didn't have anything to say, and she was very considerate, so if she had any doubts at this time, she would also say it directly.

"This year or two years will definitely not be, but wait for the soil to cover the top of several layers of osmanthus flowers...... Xiao Sier scavenged a ball of soil to the bottom of the tea tree, and then used a pickaxe to knock the mud into pieces, "The soil is the fragrance of osmanthus, then the tea can absorb this fragrance!"

"Is this really the case?" Bai Zhi still felt that Xiao Sier's theory was not quite acceptable to her.

"Of course!" replied Shawl without thinking.

Bai Zhi was stunned for a moment for Xiao Sier's affirmative answer, and seemed to believe it, maybe it was really as Miss Xiao said?

"Will that girl make osmanthus brew this year?" After Xiao Sier finished planting a tea tree, Bai Zhi asked her again.

"Anyway, there's nothing to do, brew a little and put it there!" Xiao Sier clapped his hands and glanced at the tea tree with satisfaction.

"Hehe, okay. Bai Zhi handed a watering pot to Xiao Sier, and Xiao Sier took it and watered the freshly planted tea tree with great interest.

"By the way, I'm going to plant some camellia there. Xiao Sier pointed to a row of osmanthus flowers opposite, she planted tea trees in the corner of the wall and camellia in the corner of the wall, she felt that she could drink tea and enjoy the flowers, which was a very wonderful thing.

"Well, the slave maid asked me to go and find some good varieties of camellias. Bai Zhi agreed, anyway, her business is to make Xiao Sier happy, so as long as she likes it, she will do it.

"By the way, let's plant a few more triangular plums there, preferably the kind that are larger, and can be built along the eaves of the verandah to form a small shaded shed, so that we can rest there and drink tea or something. ”

Shaw felt that by designing and doing something he loved, he could not only pass the time, but also enjoy the sense of accomplishment after the work was done, and this joy was truly indescribable. Anyway, now she is quite free, and she doesn't worry about eating and drinking, so Yang Guang is willing to let her do this, and she naturally can't live up to him.

Cough...... Although sometimes she feels that she is quite shameless, but now what else can she want except shameless?

"Girl, is there something I don't know whether to talk about or not?" Just as Xiao Sier finished watering, Mama Bai led the two girls towards her.

The two girls, one holding a warm handkerchief, was used to wipe Xiao Si'er's hands, and the other held a cup of sour plum soup to quench her thirst.

"What's going on?" (To be continued.) )