After Zhao Lan finished pouring water, she saw the two sitting on the stone bench, chatting energetically. Zhao Lan re-put the honeysuckle and made a bowl of tea, and drank it in a big gulp. Watering is actually quite tiring. If there is a faucet and water pipe, no matter how far or near, just drag the long water pipe and unscrew the faucet to spray around, then watering is much more convenient than carrying water in buckets and buckets now. Don't carry water, and don't bend over to water it, save more energy. I'm stupid again, what's wrong here? In ancient times, doing farm work was about exercising the body.

Chun Tao saw that it was time to eat, so she reluctantly left Zhao Lan's house.

Just after noon, Zhao Shen, who had washed the dishes and chopsticks, looked up and saw Chun Tao who had just walked to the door.

"Hey! Hello Aunt Zhao, I'll play with Ju'er. Chun Tao obediently called Zhao Shen.

"Ju'er, Spring Peach is here."

Zhao Ju, who heard the voice, rushed out.

"Chun Tao, it's here so early." Zhao Ju happily pulled Chun Tao's arm, glanced at the embroidered basket that Chun Tao was carrying in his other arm, and said, "You really bring an embroidered basket, you won't really come to my house to embroider." ”

"Well, when I talked about embroidery at your house, my mother urged me to come." Chun Tao said proudly.

"You're really here to embroider!" Zhao Ju still didn't believe Di Chuntao's words, and then said, "I don't know how to embroider!" But my sister will, she embroiders beautifully, you can learn from my sister. ”

"Really?"

Chun Tao didn't believe Zhao Ju's words either, she had never heard Zhao Lan embroider well, Liu Er, Sanya, and Maizi were recognized as good embroiderers in the village. Every time Chun Tao's mother is called Chun Tao Embroidery, she will say, who embroiders well, you can't see people when you look at your embroidery. Therefore, Chun Tao remembers best who embroidered well in the village.

"Last time I went to the town with my mother, the handkerchief of the young lady was so beautiful, the green silk was embroidered with a pink flower with an unknown name, and the petals were layered on top of each other. It's beautiful! Chun Tao said as she gestured to the pattern of the flowers.

"Really? Then my sister may not be able to embroider. But my sister's embroidery is also beautiful. ”

"Of course it's true, but it's beautiful." Chun Tao nodded heavily, for fear that Zhao Ju would not believe what she said.

"Oh! It's a pity I can't see it. ”

"Why do you want to learn embroidery, it's so difficult." Chun Tao frowned and looked at Lanzi, who had embroidery in his hand, and said bitterly.

"Yes. Why don't we play first, and then you embroider when my sister embroiders. ”

"Hmmm! That's good! ”

Chun Tao threw away the embroidered basket she brought in a blink of an eye and played with Zhao Ju in the yard.

After eating, Zhao Lan wanted to sleep beautifully, but who knew that Zhao Lan's children were noisy in the yard. I really couldn't sleep, so I had to get up. In the afternoon, there was basically nothing to do, just embroider and embroider, bring Zhao Qiu, or go up the mountain to see. The most important thing is to take care of the cuttings. The peach tree she bought was already alive, and Zhao Lan also cut some branches and cut them up. Cuttings of peach blossom branches can flower and bear fruit quickly, which is shorter than the time for grafting. If the shoots survive, they will probably be able to bloom next year, and the fruit may soon be set next year, and it will definitely bear fruit the year after next at the latest.

Zhao Shen didn't go out today. When Zhao Lan got up from the bed, Zhao Shen was embroidering pillow towels in the courtyard. This embroidery work is basically finished, and there is only an unfinished handkerchief in Zhao Lan's hand and a pillow towel in Zhao Shen's hand that is almost finished.

Seeing this, Zhao Lan also took out the embroidery work and began to embroider, this time Zhao Lan embroidered five handkerchiefs, embroidered two last style, and embroidered two chrysanthemum handkerchiefs with two different colors, and this hand was embroidered with blue flower leeks. Blue leeks, orchid-like slender leaves, cylindrical long petals, blue petals, ovate rectangular flowers, star-shaped flowers, delicate flowers, flowers next to each other, very beautiful! Zhao Lan likes blue flowers very much, but unfortunately there are few varieties of blue flowers. The flower leeks and blue dolphins are the blue flowers that Zhao Lan once planted. A patch of blue always gives people a quiet and thrilling beauty.

Pazi Zhao Lan planned to embroider three blue flower leeks, and the flower was only embroidered one, but the leaves were almost embroidered, and it should be completed today without accidents. Zhao Lan took out the embroidery shed, picked out a blue silk thread, threaded the needle, and prepared to embroider the second flower.

Embroidery is quite time-consuming, and it is also very eye-consuming.

Zhao Lan embroidered for half an hour, and felt a little tired, so she dropped her embroidery work, drank some tea, and went to the backyard to see the planted trees, cuttings seedlings, and peppers that had sprouted. Pepper has become a key protected plant for Zhao Lan, and she always has to see it twice a day.

The two girls who were playing on the side suddenly ran over.

"Wow!"

Chun Tao let out an exclamation!

"This flower is so beautiful!" Chun Tao looked at the blue flower and said, "Blue yes! ”

"Zhao Ju, come and see, your sister's embroidered flowers are so beautiful."

Zhao Ju, who was a few steps behind, said, "I told you that my sister's embroidered flowers are beautiful, but you still don't believe it." ”

"Believe, believe, come here!" Chun Tao urged impatiently.

"I'm behind you!"

"When did my sister embroider a blue flower, what kind of flower is it? Look good! ”

Zhao Ju, who was sticking out her head from behind Chun Tao, couldn't close her mouth in surprise.

"Zhao Ju, don't you even know?" Chun Tao turned her head and asked Zhao Ju.

"I haven't seen this blue one, I've seen the red chrysanthemums embroidered, and the pink and purple chrysanthemums embroidered a few days ago."

"Anything else?" Chun Tao was even more surprised and said, "You can show it to me." ”

"This, that's all." Zhao Ju took out two handkerchiefs from Zhao Shen's room.

"This one looks good, this one looks better."

Chun Tao looked at this and that, and turned her eyes away.

"Zhao Ju, can you give me one?" Chun Tao looked at Zhao Ju and asked.

"No, this is an embroidery job to be handed in, taken from the embroidery shop in the town." Zhao Ju shook his head without hesitation and said.

"Ahh So what to do! Chun Tao opened her mouth wide and asked, "Do you want to ask your sister to help me embroider one?" ”

Zhao Ju replied: "This, I don't know if my sister will agree." ”

"Let's ask." Chun Tao took Zhao Ju's hand and went to the backyard.

"Sister, Chun Tao wants a handkerchief you embroidered." Zhao Ju said.

"Nope." Zhao Lan replied.

"Sister Zhao Lan, you can help me embroider one! Please! Chun Tao looked at Zhao Lanqiu with a smile.

This kid is quite a problem, and he can put it off the shelf. Zhao Lan thought to herself.

"How can you give away embroidered handkerchiefs indiscriminately, or you can learn from me! It's very simple, just teach it. Zhao Lan looked at Chun Tao's pleading eyes, and it was really difficult to refuse, so she tactfully came up with a solution.

"Ahh

Chun Tao stayed there.

"Me, well! If you can't learn it, you can help me embroider another one. Chun Tao said compromisedly.

"I'm sure I can learn, you're such a smart Guliang." Zhao Lan said encouragingly.

"Really?" Chun Tao heard Zhao Lan's praise and asked happily, "Then I, I will prepare the handkerchief and embroidery thread tomorrow, and I will learn to embroider the blue flower." ”

"Okay."

The two sisters-in-law saw that Zhao Lan agreed, and ran away happily. Children have a child's temperament, saying that the wind is the wind, and that the rain is rain.

In the evening, Zhao Chun actually returned.

"Brother, why are you back?" Zhao Ju, who was playing at the door, asked.

"Where's your sister?" Zhao Chun's eyes swept around the yard.

"In the backyard," Zhao Ju hurriedly shouted, "Sister, sister, brother is looking for you." ”

Hearing Zhao Ju's shout, Zhao Lan hurriedly ran to the front yard. Zhao Chun rarely comes back, only two or three times a month. Today, what's going on? I don't know what happened, I didn't come back from school leave. It's still Zhao himself, it must have something to do with himself, what's the matter, I haven't gone out these days. Thinking about this, Zhao Lan ran faster.

"Brother?" Zhao Lan panted and ran to Zhao Chun, and asked suspiciously, "Brother, what's the urgency, why did you come back today?" ”

"That's right, that, is the pot of flowers you got back from Liu Gongzi last time still there? Not dead, right? Zhao Qiu asked nervously.

"Nope!" Zhao Lan asked puzzled, "What's wrong?" ”

"That's good, that's good!" Zhao Chun breathed a sigh of relief, and involuntarily said twice in a row.

"What's wrong? Did the boy regret it? I want to go back. Zhao Lan asked.

"Yes and no," Zhao Chun said, "it's quite complicated. ”

It turned out that the pot of begonias was given to Master Liu by his subordinates who didn't know where to go, and Master Liu didn't like this and turned around and put it in the flower garden, and Liu Gongzi's mother felt that her son was studying in the academy with this tree, so she ordered someone to take it and send it to Liu Gongzi. Liu Gongzi didn't like to raise flowers, so he gave them to Zhao Lan half-dead. This is nothing, but the current prefect of Master Liu's classmate loves this, but whenever he hears that Master Liu has this bonsai, he wants to appreciate it. Didn't you find Zhao Chun.

Zhao Lan, who heard the reason, pointed to the begonias placed against the south wall.

"This?" Zhao Chun was a little unconvinced of his eyes and asked, "This is what I got back from Liu Gongzi?" ”

"Hmmm! That's it. ”

"What's going on with the strips of cloth on this?" Zhao Chun pointed to the strips of cloth wrapped around the begonia tree and asked.

"Oh! Strips of cloth! Zhao Lan was stunned for a moment before replying, "Modeling, modeling." I'm going to tear it down, it won't affect it. ”

Zhao Lan walked quickly to the side of the bonsai, picked up the scissors in the embroidery basket and cut the strips of cloth, and pulled them out one by one.

Zhao Lan felt that the shape of this weeping silk begonia was not very good-looking, and the tree shape was not full enough. Zhao Lan especially likes Yangzhou's bonsai "one inch and three bends", with branches without inches and straight. Although begonias cannot be bent in an inch like pine and boxwood, it is still necessary to tie and stretch the branches in order to adjust and control the direction of the branches, so as to make their shape more beautiful, fuller or make them more poetic and beautiful.

In this bonsai, Zhao Lan pricked and stretched its branches and leaves, and pruned some redundant and repetitive branches, and now this pot of begonias is slightly different from when it came. Panza also has a slight effect. It's a pity that the panza was removed and not fully formed.

The begonias that are dismantled from the cloth strips, the branches and leaves are scattered, the leaves are green, and a pot of spiritual begonias appears in front of you.

"This is the one. Liu Gongzi's? Zhao Chun looked at the begonia with the strip of cloth removed, and was still very confused.