"Summer, if you are free in the afternoon, accompany me to a place!" Uncle Mo's loud voice came from the phone.

I moved the microphone away from my ears.

"Afternoon ......" is not available in the afternoon.

"I'll pick you up! A friend of mine from an old friend sent a pot of flowers that none of us had ever seen, and no one knew what the name was. "Uncle Mo doesn't need my answer at all, and has already made his own arrangements for yelling.

I vaguely shirked.

In fact, because of my weak heart, he asked me about my plans to return to China at his son's wedding a while ago, and I told him that he had recently opened a flower shop.

But I know that the types of flowers I know are not much more than ordinary people, and the shops are generally filled with flowers that everyone knows.

But Uncle Mo didn't care about it and hung up the phone.

I had to hurry up and finish the work at hand.

Sure enough, as soon as the lunch time passed, Uncle Mo's call came, and I hurriedly explained a few words to the clerk Xiaomei, and went downstairs with him.

On the way, I came to drive, and I heard him fidgeting in the passenger seat.

Sometimes muttering, sometimes spitting. It's nothing more than that: "I've seen a lot of flowers in my generation, I don't think there's anything I haven't seen, he said I haven't seen it this time!" ”

"Hmph, last time I brought a rose to me, I said it was Yueji, he didn't believe it, and showed it to the clerk who sold flowers, and sure enough, it was Yueji, and he was not convinced, saying that I had hit it."

"I said that this moon season is not a novel flower, I don't know, I can only say that I have little knowledge, this old man will not really get a rare flower..."

I heard the three words of Old Man Xiang and was stunned.

I don't think it's such a coincidence.

You miss a man so much, but you can't find him everywhere; And once they meet again, his name appears everywhere and everywhere.

Seven years of good fortune have been exhausted in this month?

The car drove into the villa area that I was familiar with. Because my home used to be in this community, although I knew that Xiang Chen lived in the same community as me for a long time, I never knew which building it was in.

The Xiang family opened a door in the yard, and entered from the yard, it was a dense grape trellis, with a quaint stone table, a stone bench, a delicate fish pond, and a piece of vegetable soil against the wall, the snow season was coming, but there was still a lot of greenery in the yard, and it could be seen that the owner was working hard.

Before entering the hospital, I heard a loud dog barking, and a snow-white puppy pounced, but after finding out that it was Uncle Mo, he immediately changed his barking to humming, and his enthusiastic front paws hugged his waist and wagged his tail violently.

The man with gray temples strode out, he was tall, although he was nearly fifty years old, he still looked like a young man, full of energy, his face was full of red light, and his laughter was like thunder, he casually brushed away the white-haired puppy, but he slapped his palm on the shoulder of the skinny Uncle Mo, and my heart jumped a few times in shock.

Uncle Mo didn't care, and greeted him back with the same loud voice, and with these two middle-aged people who didn't let each other go back and forth in the originally quiet courtyard, plus the voice of a puppy, it instantly became as lively as the New Year.

When you enter the house, the warmth comes to your face, and the air is filled with the faint smell of books.

The puppy was still running around us, and now he let go of Uncle Mo and sniffed at me curiously.

Uncle Mo said to me, "This is their puppy, named Lin Chong." ”

I looked at the dog's honest face, and I couldn't help laughing.

Uncle Mo pulled me over again and introduced: "Old man Xiang, this is the girl I told you about in the summer, I met in the United States, and she knows more about this than the two of us combined, because she is now a flower shop!" The last time my son got married, I found out that she was actually a good friend of my daughter-in-law! You say it's a coincidence, hahaha! ”

Then he said to me: "Summer, call Uncle Xiang!" This is the old friend I told you, who has a bad taste and a first-class tea. ”

"Yo, there's a guest at home?" When we were talking, a woman came out of the kitchen, the woman had a pair of bright eyes, clear and clear, as bright as stars, almost exactly the same as Xiang Chen's eyes, and her voice was very gentle, and when she smiled with us, her eyes were bent like a crescent moon, as if the spirit had overflowed. Between a smile and a smile, the noble look is naturally revealed, and people have to marvel at her elegant and delicate light.

"Brother and sister, come on, sit down!" Uncle Mo on the side beckoned.

I hurriedly got up and politely called, "Aunt Xiang is good." ”

Aunt Mo walked in front of me, she looked a little unnatural, and lowered her head slightly, "You are Xia Feng's sister, right?" She asked softly.

I gave a soft "um".

"Look how similar this little face is to Xia Feng, is your brother back?"

I shook my head again.

It is estimated that Uncle Xiang was a little too much to ask, and quickly became impatient, and urged the matter of the pot of flowers again and again, Aunt Xiang had to keep her mouth shut, glared at Uncle Xiang a few times, and specially told me that she had time to chat alone, and she wanted to catch up with me, I nodded again and again.

Finally moving on to today's topic.

Aunt Xiang carefully took out the pot of flowers from the balcony and put it in front of us, and it was indeed a very rare flower.

Uncle Mo impatiently picked up the pot of flowers and looked at it carefully.

I'll go over too.

But coincidentally, I came here to recognize the flower is to make some preparations, in the view of the flower encyclopedia when the last one is this kind of flower, because I think it looks more peculiar, I took a few more looks, I didn't expect it to come in handy now, and suddenly felt that the big stone in my heart finally fell.

I was unhurried to show them what I was seeming to learn: "The name of this flower is "ghost orchid", and as the name suggests, it is a type of orchid.

The flower was first discovered by a Belgian, and 50 years later, the same orchid has been found in the pine and cypress swamps off the coast of Florida.

The ghost orchid is a rare orchid with green and flattened roots so that it can attach to trees.

The ghost orchid is also unique in that it has no leaves or stems, so when the ghost orchid is not in bloom, it is composed of roots alone.

Since this orchid does not have leaves, its root system must be responsible for two tasks: water absorption and photosynthesis.

This ghost orchid blooms only once a year and blooms for 6 to 8 months.

Because the root system of the ghost orchid blends in well with the bark, his large, eye-catching white flowers are like ghosts floating in the air.

Therefore, it is called the ghost flower. ”

They were dumbfounded, and praised me for my knowledge, and I scratched my head embarrassedly and confessed to them, but they were already sure in their hearts, and they didn't care where I knew about it, they were just happy.

Uncle Xiang, who was very interested, invited me to see the flowers planted by some other aunts, and made us kung fu tea, and in the sound of their adults bickering and the fragrance of tea from time to time, the afternoon passed quickly.

As a result of drinking tea, I want to go to the bathroom.

Aunt Xiang smiled embarrassedly.

"The toilet in the bathroom downstairs was broken yesterday, and I didn't come today to call someone to fix it, you go to the second floor to use the bathroom in Xiang Chen's room, anyway, he doesn't come back to live much." On the third floor, turn right and the first room is. ”

I had to climb upstairs on my own.

Turn right on the third floor and push the door in, inside is a suite, through the study and bedroom, and at the end is the bathroom.

Lin Chong rubbed behind me, as if leading the way, and as if playing.

Although I heard that there are not many people living here, the room is still clean and simple.

I couldn't even breathe lightly, for fear of disturbing the dream.

There is a small table next to the floor-to-ceiling window, a basketball, some magazines neatly placed, and a senior high school graduation photo in the middle of the table.

This is Xiang Chen's private world when he was a teenager.

I looked greedily and nostalgically at everything in this space, but I didn't dare to reach out and touch it.

I looked around, only to see a piece of paper in the drawer of the bedside table, revealing a corner.

I pulled it out gently.

Suddenly stunned.

On that piece of paper, in my familiar handwriting, was written a familiar name.

Summer.

It was followed by a big question mark.

That piece of paper isn't new anymore, it should have been for a while.

I don't know how I got out of that room, and when I got out of the room, I caught a sight out of the corner of my eye on something on the shelf.

One thing that doesn't fit in with this room.

It was the screaming orangutan that I secretly stuffed to a strange woman at my freshman orientation.

Now, it stood quietly in the corner of the bookshelf, watching my soul go down.

I reached out and pinched it, pinched it again, and it didn't make a sound.

When I returned, I was unusually silent.

Uncle Mo wanted to speak several times, but he wanted to speak and stopped.

When he was sent home, he finally asked hesitantly. "Summer, I remember you had a boyfriend in the United States, didn't you? The person in charge of that hotel, right? ”

I knew he was talking about Yan Ming, and I shook my head.

"That's just a good friend of mine."

Uncle Mo's eyes lit up, "Then do you have a boyfriend now?" ”

I shook my head again, my mom was asking this question lately.

"Don't blame me for being verbose, I introduced you to a person named Xiang Chen, you have also seen it, the one who appeared at my son's wedding last time, that child I watched grow up, and his character is not to be said, but after a lovelorn, now the whole person is a little cold."

There was a car in front of me that suddenly cut into the road, and I panicked for a moment and almost rear-ended.

Uncle Mo saw that I didn't squeak, and continued, "Why don't you two meet at a time?"

My hands and feet were cold, and my heart was numb.

Seeing that I still didn't say anything, Uncle Mo was also a little embarrassed, and laughed at himself: "I also know that you must be not low-spirited, and the conditions are good, blame me for talking too much, they are all Brother and Sister Xiang, you have to ask ......"

"Not really!" I was in a hurry to interrupt him, and for a moment my throat almost stopped.

"As long as he agrees, I'm fine!" I can only say that the reserved attitude has been exchanged for Uncle Mo's inexplicable surprise.

Xiang Chen, if that person is you, how could I be unwilling.

I don't care if it's wind, rain or sunshine ahead, I only know that if it were you, anytime, anywhere, I would come as promised, even if it was a lifetime of luck.