"Ju'er! Lan'er! Zhao Chun was a little surprised and asked, "Mother, why are you all here?" ”

"Come to the market, your sisters are also coming to visit the market, so they came together, just in time to see you and your father."

Zhao Shen said, a smile overflowing his face.

"Let's go outside and talk."

After Zhao Qiu said goodbye to his classmates, he walked out while talking to Zhao Shen.

"I'm good at reading!" Zhao Shen said, "My mother brought you braised pork, you will eat it in a while, and you will save yourself the cold." ”

Zhao Chun took the basket and asked, "Have you all eaten?" ”

"I haven't eaten yet." Zhao Ju hurriedly answered.

Zhao Shen touched Zhao Ju's head and said to Zhao Chun, "Don't worry, we'll go back and heat it up in a while." ”

"Ju'er and Lan'er will eat a little bit here in a while." Zhao Chun looked at Zhao Ju and said, "What do you want to buy when my mother comes to the market, and it will be the same next time you ask me to bring it back?" ”

"Buy salt, the salt is almost finished, the embroidery work I took last time is done, and by the way, I will take some embroidery work and go back to embroidery."

"Oh! Mother, don't embroider too late, don't embroider at night, don't embroider your eyes. Is my brother okay? Why didn't you bring it. ”

"My mother knows, I don't embroider at night. There were a lot of people in the bazaar, so I couldn't bring him here, and the provincial one bumped into it. How are you doing here, how are you living? Is it important to study? ”

"It's good, I can keep up with the teacher, and I got an honor last time." Zhao Qiuqing said with a little pride.

"That's good, that's good." Zhao Shen was very happy to hear it. The smile on his face never broke.

"Go to your father when you are resting, there is no work at home, you just study hard."

"I know."

While talking, he came to Zhao Chun's dormitory. The dormitory is quite simple, with two single beds and two low cabinets. A table with two chairs, and a cup-shaped oil lamp on the table. The others are the tools for life and learning.

Zhao Lan glanced twice, there was nothing to see, said to Zhao Shen, and then came out of the door and came to the courtyard.

There are more than a dozen such houses in this row, there is a gate facing south, and the gate is made of exquisite carved bricks, on which is written the West Bamboo Courtyard, and there are several emerald green bamboos on both sides of the door, and there is a plum tree planted in the west corner of the courtyard, and there is nothing else. It's really a response to that sentence: It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo.

"Akihei, throw this pot of flowers, the leaves are all withered. My mother is annoying, so I have to send potted flowers over. ”

A man's irritable voice came from next door.

"Madame, if you ask?"

"What is there to ask, the flowers are all dead, why are they kept? Go, go, throw. ”

"Do you want this pot?"

"Don't, don't, what are you doing with the worthless broken pot? All thrown away. The boy who spoke seemed to be very impatient, "I said not to spend flowers, but to send pots." ”

"Yes, young master. I'm going to take it out and throw it away. ”

Zhao Lan, who was about to go back to the house, suddenly heard a conversation in her ear, probably from the person in the next room, and was ecstatic!

What the? Someone is going to throw away the flowers, so don't I have flowers to pick up? Originally, I liked to pick up flowers thrown by others next to the trash can, but I didn't expect to pick up flowers in ancient times. What a blessing!

Zhao Lan suddenly came to her senses, and immediately turned around and looked next door.

I saw a little girl in blue holding a pot of flowers and most of them fell, and the begonias with their leaves listless and drooping walked out.

"That little brother," Zhao Lan took two steps forward to greet and asked, "Excuse me, is the little brother planning to throw this flower away?" ”

"Well," the little guy replied casually, but realized that it was a girl's voice who spoke, so he quickly stopped, raised his head to look at Zhao Lan who suddenly appeared, frowned and asked, "Who are you?" ”

"I'm the younger sister of Zhao Chun, a student in the academy," Zhao Lan hurriedly explained, "I just heard it, your flower seems to be about to be thrown away, I look very good, it's a pity to throw it, can you give it to me?" I'll go back and live and see if I can live. ”

"You want this pot of flowers?" The little guy asked rhetorically at the flower in his hand.

"Hmmm! Can you give? Zhao Lan nodded hurriedly and asked again.

The little girl looked at the withered flowers, thought about what the young master was going to throw away, thought about it and said, "If you want to, I'll give it to you, but I guess this flower can't be raised, so don't waste your efforts."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll try, I can't live, can't I still fall into a basin!"

"That's a good thing. That, here you go. I said it was a good pot. Your little girl is quite discerning. ”

"Oh, thanks for the compliment! Thank you, little brother! ”

Zhao Lan smiled and held the flower pot to thank the little brother.

Zhao Lan held the basin and put it at the door of Zhao Chun's house. I thought that when Zhao Shen left for a while, I would take the flowers home.

After a while, Zhao Shen and the others came out with baskets. Zhao Shen pulled Zhao Chun and kept talking, and Zhao Lan followed behind them with a flower pot.

Zhao Ju, who was left behind, saw Zhao Lan pick up the flower pot and walk out, so she asked, "Sister, where did you get the flowers?" ”

Hearing Ju'er's question, Zhao Shen and Zhao Chun turned their heads to look at Zhao Lan at the same time.

"Lan'er, where did this come from? You can't just take other people's things. Zhao Shen asked hurriedly.

"The boy next door doesn't want to let the little guy throw away the flowers, I think it's a pity to come," Seeing Zhao Shen's frowning and disbelieving, Zhao Lan hurriedly said, "Really, mother." If you don't believe it, you go and ask, it's the flower that the boy in the second room to the west of the eldest brother doesn't want. ”

"This flower was sent by Liu Gongzi's mother, Gongzi has been shouting and refusing to ask for it, her mother has to put it in his house, but I didn't expect that the flowers have withered in the past few days, and I don't want to come. If my mother is not at ease, if not, I'll ask. Zhao Chun looked at the flowers, then at the suspicious Zhao Shen and the nervous Zhao Lan and said.

"You go and ask, ask carefully, what's going on. Make no mistake about it. ”

"Okay." Zhao Chun agreed, and walked to Liu Gongzi's house.

Not long after entering, Zhao Chun came out with a relaxed face, and said to Zhao Shen: "It's true that Liu Gongzi doesn't want it, let me take it back if I say that my sister likes it." ”

"Alright, let's go back, you can get into the house!"

"Send you to the door, and I'll go back." It's not class time yet. ”

Zhao Lan went back with the flower pot all the way. Fortunately, the flowers are not big, and the pots are not big. In this way, it took a lot of effort for Zhao Lan to exchange this pot of flowers with the Shen family and bring it back.

After lunch, Zhao Shen went to hand in the embroidery work, bought the things he needed, and returned to the village early in the ox cart.

The handkerchief embroidered by Zhao Lan not only accepted it because of the beautiful embroidery, but also gave an extra penny. The shopkeeper looked at this veil pattern and looked very fresh, and it looked very good-looking, and I was afraid that I thought that this handkerchief should be popular. Finally, tell Zhao Shen that this handkerchief will be given more articles, and if there is a fresh one, he will send it again, and said that if someone likes it, let him embroider a few more when the time comes, and the price is also negotiable.

Zhao Lan was very happy to hear it, and the handkerchief she embroidered by herself could also make money here. Zhao Shen was also very happy, thinking that Zhao Lan could help the family when she grew up.

When she returned home, it was getting late, Zhao Lan looked at the pot of begonia flowers, the soil in the pot was damp and wet, so she quickly loosened the soil for the flowers, and put it in a cool and ventilated place first. If it doesn't work, you have to pick up the soil and see if the roots are not good. In the end, if it really can't be done, you can only prune and take cuttings.

This is a Xifu begonia, the flower buds are red and bright, and it is a faint pink color after opening, like a baby's face is pink and tender, and it is like the red glow of the dawn sky, and the flowers are blooming, which is magnificent. It's a pity that if you plant it in a pot, if you plant it in the ground, it won't take two years, and the trees will be full of flowers, and the beauty is intoxicating.

I don't know if I can live, Zhao Lan first picked two strong branches, cut them off, and prepared to take cuttings, there is a piece of soil from the mountain last time I cut a few jasmines, it is estimated that they have taken root, and this begonia branch is also inserted there, and it should be able to live. If you can't use the 2.0 cuttings method, it is 100% insertion.

After getting the begonias, I hurriedly planted the peach trees and persimmon trees that I bought, and I don't know if there are wild peach trees and wild persimmon trees in the back mountain, and if there are any, dig them back and graft them. In two years, there will be endless fruits.

After returning from the market, the rain continued to pour down.

When it rained, I couldn't go to the fields, so Zhao Shen did embroidery at home when he was fine after eating, and Zhao Lan also embroidered with Zhao Shen.

Because the pattern embroidered last time was recognized, Zhao Lan planned to embroider two pink and purple chrysanthemums this time.

After planning it, Zhao Lan began to embroider handkerchiefs, first with threads, and then with a sample, so that the embroidery was much easier.

embroidered two handkerchiefs, and the embroidery work was shelved by Zhao Lan. It's really because Zhao Lan is not used to sitting there for a long time and embroidering all the time, and it's really boring to do one thing repeatedly. After three minutes of heat, Zhao Lan only occasionally took it out to embroider.

It's okay Zhao Lan fiddled with the flowers and plants, and the begonias she got back were already in good spirits, although the flowers were gone, but the leaves were getting greener and greener.

The seedlings sown also grow larger and larger. A piece of green is very pleasing to the eye. On rainy days, the pebbles on the road are washed clean by the rain. Zhao Shen even praised Zhao Lan several times and said that the pebble road was so good, and the shoes were not dirty when she walked out, while Zhao Ju was running around happily on the pebble in the rain. The sky in May was no longer cold, and Zhao Shen looked at Zhao Ju, who was running happily, and also showed a happy smile. The rain is actually very emotional.

On this day, contrary to the dullness of a rainy day, the sun is sprinkled on the ground, the sun is warm, and the mood is very comfortable.

Zhao Shen took Zhao Qiu to his grandmother's house, Zhao Ju went out crazy again, Zhao Lan took advantage of the sunshine and took out the embroidery basket and prepared to embroider for a while.

The handkerchief had just been taken out and two stitches had been embroidered, when a knock was heard at the door.

"Who? The door didn't close. Zhao Lan said without raising her head.

"I, Yuan Yu," the little sister-in-law Liang in a patched dress walked in timidly, stood in front of the door and said cautiously, "I haven't come to see you, you don't blame me!" ”

"No, I was sick last time, and I don't remember some things. You are? ”

"That's it! No wonder you haven't been to my house for a few days, and my brother asked me to ask? Xiaogu Liang raised her head and glanced at the smiling Zhao Lan before she dared to say a little loudly.

"Who is your brother?"

"My brother Yuanhe!"

Zhao Lan was very puzzled, she didn't hear Zhao Ju talk about Yuanhe! I didn't talk about any men!

"Don't you remember?"

Xiaogu Liang asked Zhao Lan a little disbelievingly.

"Well, I often go to your house?"

"No, I rarely go, you don't go out much, but you always love to go to my house when you go out."

"You said that your brother asked me, is there something wrong with your brother looking for me?"

"My brother didn't say it."

"Are you going to play at my house?"

"Okay, I can only play for a while, I'm going to come back and cook."

"Shall you go now? My brother is at home! ”

"I'll pack up and go, you wait for me to go together."

It turned out that Zhao Lan also had friends. Zhao Lan was curious.

But how can it be a man?