This tree really doesn't look like the begonia in my memory.

"Hmm. This one is Liu Gongzi's. Zhao Lan nodded and said with great certainty.

"It doesn't seem like it."

Zhao Chun hesitated for a long time, but still said it in a hurry.

"Of course not, the begonias were dying when they got it back, and now the leaves are green. You see, how spiritual, how beautiful! It's the same! Look at this pot, such a beautiful pot, we don't have it in our family. ”

Zhao Lan secretly thought in her heart, I have repaired it, how can it be exactly the same as the original. If you come next year, you won't dare to admit it.

"That's right."

Zhao Chun looked at the pot, and then at the thick green branches and leaves, and had to agree with what Zhao Lan said.

"Then I'll bring it to Liu Gongzi tomorrow?"

"Good! This pot of flowers belonged to him, and besides, the branches I cut have already been cut alive. You can also watch it in two years. ”

"Cuttings?" Zhao Chun looked at Zhao Lan with suspicious eyes and asked incomprehensibly.

"It's a good and strong branch that is planted in the soil, and after a while it takes root on its own. When you grow up, you can transplant it to other places. There is another begonia tree. ”

"Oh! That's it! ”

Zhao Chun listened to Zhao Lan's words, and seemed to understand, but he didn't ask any further.

"Yes, it's simple. Next year, the begonias from the cuttings at home will probably be able to bloom as well. Zhao Lan said.

After one night, Zhao Chun got up early, and after breakfast, he went back with the pot of begonias.

After the embroidery work was done, Zhao Shen took the embroidery to the town. This time, Zhao Shen went alone, and when he left, he asked Zhao Lan to take Zhao Qiu at home. Zhao Lan also wanted to go and see if anyone bought the handkerchief she embroidered. However, Zhao Qiu really had no one to take him, and his grandfather and uncle's family all went to the field to weed.

On that day, as soon as the sky was exposed, Zhao Shen got up and finished breakfast, rode an ox cart to the town, and came back early at noon.

Zhao Shen was very happy. Because as soon as she entered the door and called Zhao Lan, she kept grinning and laughing with wrinkles on her face.

Zhao Shen eagerly called Zhao Lan out of the house, and then, speaking like a submachine gun, she talked about her journey to the embroidery shop.

"As soon as I arrived at the embroidery shopkeeper, I greeted him with a smile, and asked me if the embroidery I took last time was embroidered, and whether I embroidered some new patterns like last time, and he asked me one question after another so eagerly, so that I was blindsided, and I didn't know how to answer him," Zhao Shenshi took a sip of water and continued, "It turns out that the handkerchief you embroidered last time was bought by Miss Zhang in the east of the town." Later, for some reason, it spread among the ladies, and in the following days, several maids from rich families came to buy the same veil. Because he couldn't contact us, the shopkeeper took it upon himself to ask someone to embroider some similar handkerchiefs according to the embroidery patterns in his impression, and these similar handkerchiefs were also sold, and the business was very good. The daughter of the county will only pass the shopkeeper, if there is a new trick for her. This time we take the three new patterns of the past, the shopkeeper is in charge, together with the last time, a total of four patterns, each pattern gives a hundred copper coins, a total of 400 copper coins, and the rest is counted as wages. A total of 500 wen was given. You see, this is the 500 wen given by the shopkeeper. ”

Zhao Shen smiled and took out five hundred wen from his clothes and gave it to Zhao Lan. Then he drank two large sips of water, and then said to Zhao Lan excitedly: "Lan'er, Shopkeeper Zhang also said that there will be new tricks for him in the future, and he will give it to us at this price." You said, if we hand over another batch this month, we won't be able to get one or two pieces of silver in that month. That's a lot of money! ”

Zhao Shen was looking down and thinking about how to make money, but he heard Zhao Lan's words pouring cold water in his ears.

"Mother, a trick is only 100 yuan, this price is not high. The shopkeeper asked someone to embroider hundreds of handkerchiefs, so he earned not a small amount, and he could also drive the embroidery shop to embroider other embroidery pieces. You say, don't you? ”

"Huh! It seems to be like this, I see that there are a lot of embroidered handkerchiefs with your patterns on the shelves of the embroidery shop," Zhao Shen recalled, there were a lot of the same handkerchiefs embroidered by Zhao Lan on the shelves, and in just a short time of speaking, there were two maids before and after the shop to buy the handkerchiefs.

"You see I'm right! Forget it this time, next time you go, you tell the shopkeeper that if you can't give so much for a pattern of 500 copper coins, just say that our new pattern of handkerchief, if you want to come to the festive embroidery shop, you are willing to accept it. That day, I looked, the diagonal door of the shopkeeper is also an embroidery shop, which seems to be called a festive embroidery shop. The two of them must be competing, and Shopkeeper Zhang will definitely not let this profitable business be handed over to others. Besides, five hundred is really not high. ”

Zhao Shen looked at Zhao Lan in disbelief and asked, "This can really sell five hundred copper plates, and if you make ten in a month, you will have five taels of silver." ”

Zhao Lan thought for a while and said: "This should already be sold cheaply, as long as someone buys our embroidery patterns, the shopkeeper can make money, and he is naturally willing to give us this price." ”

"What if you don't want to give it?"

Although Zhao Shen looked at Zhao Lan and said the truth, he still didn't believe it in his heart, this small embroidered handkerchief could be sold for five hundred Wen.

"Mother, the next time you go, if the shopkeeper's smiling face greets you, I can't wait, he will agree to this price. If you don't agree, you will definitely not be less than 100 wen when you go to the opposite house. Don't worry, Shopkeeper Zhang is an understanding person, and he has tasted the sweetness again, so he will definitely agree. ”

Zhao Lan looked at Zhao Shen's distrustful eyes and continued to persuade.

"It works."

"Hmmm! It works. As long as there are more people who buy, the shopkeeper will earn more. If he earns more, he is of course willing to give more. If it weren't for my new tricks, he wouldn't have made a fortune less. ”

"You seem to have some truth in what you're saying." Zhao Shen thought for a while and said.

"That's right." Zhao Lan said confidently.

Although Zhao Lan spoke the truth, Zhao Shen kept frowning, Zhao Lan persuaded for a while, and Zhao Shen finally nodded and agreed to try it next time.

On this day, Zhao Shen was planning to pull out the green vegetables at the door of his house and prepare to plant some more late beans. As soon as he stood up after pulling out the green vegetables and wanted to stretch his numb legs, he saw Li Liu, the eldest lady, walking towards this side with a smile on her face.

"Where are you going?" Zhao Shen has been in a good mood these days, with a smile on his face all day long, and he greeted Li Liu warmly when he saw Li Liu coming over.

"you! In the past few days, I have been saying to me every day that your yard is so good-looking, that it is beautiful, and I am asked to make one that is the same as your home. No, I'm also curious, when did your family repair the yard, and I didn't see Brother Zhao come back, nor did I see you hire someone to work. How? I'll see what it looks like, and I'll get one for her when I get back. It's not for me to say, the bricks in my yard are well and flat, and the yard is clean, so how do I do it? ”

Li Liu speaks quickly, has a bright voice, has something to say, and is a very refreshing person.

"How good the bricks of your yard are paved with neat and tidy, why do you need to get anything more. My yard is my big mushroom cool, and I have nothing to do at home. Some time ago, Zhao Lan picked up some stones from the mountains and came back to make a stone path in the yard, there is nothing to see, it is just cleaner on a rainy day and easier to walk. Look at what these kids are all about. ”

"Stone road? What a stone road, I really haven't heard of it. Let's go, take me inside and have a look. Let me see and see. ”

"How can I talk about letting you see, Mrs. Lichang will come and see, just don't be afraid that the yard will be untidy. Seeing that I have been standing at the door and talking, I don't know how to call you in, come, come in, there is nothing to see," Zhao Shen shouted loudly while letting Li Liu walk into the courtyard, "Zhao Lan, Mrs. Li is here, quickly pour a bowl of your flower tea for Mrs. to drink." ”

As soon as Li Liu stepped into the courtyard, he saw a stone path leading straight from the door to the hall, and branching out to lead to the place. Such as wings, kitchens, chicken coops and so on. Walking in, what catches your eye is the pomegranate tree, Zhao Lan is wearing a beige undergarment and a blue skirt under the pomegranate tree, the tree is not big, there are a few flowers scattered on it, and there seem to be a few small pomegranates on it. There are two stone benches under the pomegranate tree, and a table that appears to be a stone is propped up in the middle, but the corners of the table are not so sleek and shapely. On the table was a bamboo tube, in which were planted green plants, which seemed to have small flowers. It doesn't take long for it to bloom. Zhao Lan seemed to be sitting under the tree just now, and was about to get up to pour tea. It's indescribably beautiful.

No wonder Chun Tao went home and said to get a yard for Zhao Ju's house. Such a clean and comfortable yard with flowers and grass is indeed much more beautiful than the yard of my own house, which is almost covered with green bricks, no flowers and no grass, and is full of sundries.

"Madame, have a cup of tea." Zhao Lan held a tea bowl soaked in two honeysuckles and handed it to Li Liu.

Li Liu took the flower tea, glanced at it in surprise, and then glanced at Zhao Lan with a profound expression, before he spoke: "Your yard is so beautiful, it's almost the same as the backyard in the small corner of the Qin Mansion, no wonder my Chun Tao comes home to nag me every day." How did you come up with this? I got it in the backyard of the Qin Mansion. ”

"Where can we enter the backyard of the Qin Mansion, only your eldest lady has ever entered. This is all Lan'er's trouble. How can I think about it, I can't take it, when I just got a small stone, I was still too awkward, and now I get used to it, and I don't feel it. ”

"It's a bit awkward."

I don't say I don't feel it yet, but I immediately feel uncomfortable on the soles of my feet. Li Liu's words were said by Zhao Shen, and he also noticed that the stone road was awkward, and his good feelings immediately disappeared.

"If I continue to stand like this, my feet will be dying, let me sit down."

With that, Li Liu walked quickly to the stone bench, put down the tea bowl, sat down, and raised his foot slightly. The sun shines through the pomegranate treetops, warm but not hot, the slight wind blows, with some grass and floral fragrance, and then look at the honeysuckle floating in this bowl, and feel that this environment is so pleasant.