0451: Old Gardener

The car slowly stopped in front of the city wall, Xiao Chen looked at the people who were walking in a hurry outside, and he suddenly asked, "Do we also have to wait here?" ”

"No, my lord, the emperor personally summoned you, and no one dared to stop us." Yun Xiao said with a smile.

Xiao Chen nodded, and pointed to the people outside: "It's not easy to be an official, the car is parked three hundred meters away, waiting under the sun, you can't leave if you don't call, this kind of life, tsk......"

Xiao Chen couldn't help but shake his head again and again, if he was so unfree, he didn't want to be a big official.

Someone in front got out of the car to communicate with the guards, and after a while, the three cars slowly drove into the city gate in turn.

"Everyone has a difficult scripture to read, and the pursuit of rights is their ideal, and adults feel pitiful to them, but they enjoy it." Yun Xiao said with a smile.

"That's right, but I still feel a little uncomfortable when I see them waiting here." Xiao Chen said lightly.

"My lord, it actually makes sense to let these junior officials wait in front of the city, Emperor Taizu has training, in order to save the time of the court, let them think about what to call here, and also to improve their bearing, and only after passing this mental test can they be reused......"

Yun Xiao saw that Xiao Chen was dissatisfied, and he kindly explained.

"It's a novel statement, but there is some truth to it." Xiao Chen nodded again and again.

Entering the imperial city, it was another wide road, with two-person tall green trees planted on both sides of the road, and after walking for a long time, they entered a corridor with a high wall on one side.

"My lord, the front is the place to deal with political affairs, we will go to the side hall and wait, this is the outer Guo of the palace......"

Yun Xiao explained as he walked, Xiao Chen didn't understand much, the key was that the palace was bigger than he imagined, with many houses and buildings, netted roads, and the most outrageous thing was that each place was extremely similar, almost making him dizzy.

Finally, the convoy stopped in front of a riverside path, Yun Xiao asked Xiao Chen to get out of the car and wait for a while, and they went to park the car in the parking lot not far away.

Xiao Chen didn't expect that there was a rippling river in the palace, no more than three or four meters wide, there were not many aquatic plants by the river, and there were white marble stone fences on both sides.

The path by the river is very long, Xiao Chen looked at it for a while, and then looked back at the road.

There is a wall more than three meters high on the side of the road they are driving from, and the wall is dark red, giving people a solemn atmosphere.

Xiao Chen walked back casually, there was a gate where they had just parked, and there was no one around, he walked over casually.

Walking to the door, Xiao Chen looked inside, and he found that it was full of all kinds of flowers and plants, like a big garden.

After taking two breaths hard, the fresh air was mixed with the fragrance of flowers, and as soon as he smelled it, Xiao Chen couldn't help but walk in from the moon gate.

"Sure enough, it's a garden......," Xiao Chen muttered as he walked casually, looking around.

There were knee-high flowers everywhere, or verdant and pleasant kudzu vines, Xiao Chen roughly estimated that this small garden had at least twenty acres of land.

With Xiao Chen's caution and feeling, he felt that there were a lot of people here, but he couldn't find any of them, this was the palace, at least there were no people who were unfavorable to him now, so he didn't take out the Shen Sou Yi to search for the people in the dark.

Walking casually along the gravel path, Xiao Chen bypassed a moon gate again, and at this time, he saw a piece of extremely neat trees that had been tied, all of them were straight pole trees, and there was no grass on the ground.

There is a small pavilion in front of it, and in front of the pavilion there is an old man with half-white hair who is pruning a pot of pothos leaves.

Finally seeing a person, Xiao Chen waved his hand from afar and shouted, "Uncle, uncle......"

The gardener was very serious, Xiao Chen called five or six times before he looked back, and when he saw Xiao Chen's unique temperament and dress, he smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Come, come, come, come and sit." ”

Xiao Chen looked around, he felt some palpitations just now, he didn't see anything abnormal, he walked over slowly.

"Uncle, you're a gardener in the palace, right?" Xiao Chen said with a smile.

"Gardener?" The old man was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Yes, yes, yes, no one has called me that for a long time......

"Oh, uncle, this garden you take care of is very beautiful, and the layout is good, it is really a good place to look at, such a good place, I wonder if the emperor will come?"

"Emperor? Oh, sometimes come, occasionally, not much......" The old man's bearing was extraordinary, Xiao Chen thought to himself that the people in the palace were really different.

"You're pruning the pothos grass? Uncle, this kind of pothos grass seems to have long leaves, so it shouldn't need to be pruned, right? ”

Xiao Chen said without words, in his last life, there were several female employees in his office, and they all liked to fiddle with some indoor flowers and plants, such as the pothos leaf in front of him was one of them.

"There are bugs on the leaves, so I have to cut them off." The old man sighed.

"Leaves grow insects, insecticide is, why cut leaves?" Xiao Chen said curiously.

"Bugs are hard to kill, it's hard to get rid of them, it's better to remove the leaves." The old man said.

"Uncle, I don't think you can handle it well, pothos grass itself is a grass plant, leaves are its life, you cut two pieces today, and two more pieces tomorrow, or it won't be long before this pothos plant is saved......"

“…… The old man also knew that this was a palliative rather than a cure, but the garden was big, and the old man was not confused, so he didn't have much energy to get rid of insects and protect grass......"

Xiao Chen looked at this gardener carefully, simple and decent casual clothes, his hair was half white, his face was ruddy and blue-gray, his spirit was really not very good.

"Uncle, to say something disrespectful, you can't use drastic measures because your energy is not exhausted, which will not only fail to achieve the expected results, but will lead to more serious consequences, such as this pothos grass, why don't you let go and let people who know how to treat insects do it?"

"How to let go? How can you let it go? The old man said thoughtfully.

"How can't you let go? What about letting go? Speaking of which, this garden is still yours. Xiao Chen said with a smile.

"There is some truth in that...... old man's eyes lit up, and he said, "Then tell me, how to treat insects with the right people?" ”

"Uncle, insect treatment is equivalent to killing insects, but some of the insects in flowers and plants are good, which is beneficial to flowers and plants, and some are bad, and they are based on flowers and plants......

"It's a novelty, oh, you go on." The old man's interest was raised.

"After figuring out the insects to be killed, we use methods according to the characteristics of the insects, one is to use things to overcome things, use the natural enemies of insects to eliminate insects, the second is to use poisons and other potions, and third, it is not too troublesome to use manual searching, see one to eliminate one, and constantly reduce the known insects, which will always move its root and stop the growth of pests......"

Xiao Chen doesn't know where the indifference comes from, maybe he has been lonely for too long, and he needs such an old and stable person as the object of his talk.

"Hehe, young people are not simple, a little insect removal, you can also say one, two, three......" The old man laughed, he laughed heartily a few times, but suddenly coughed violently.

"Uncle, uncle......" Xiao Chen hurriedly stepped forward to hold the other party's hand, and the moment he touched the other party's left hand, a cold feeling spread through the palm of his hand.

The old man waved his hand quietly and said with a smile: "It's okay, the old problem is ......."

Xiao Chen helped the old man into the pavilion, slowly helped him sit down, he looked at the other party's face and shape again, and said after a while: "Uncle, according to your body shape, you shouldn't have any diseases...... Well, I see, you must have been poisoned......"

"Poisoned?" The old man covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed for a while, and when his breath calmed down, he looked at Xiao Chen curiously.

"Yes, it should be poisoned, there are too many things in this world that we don't understand, such as poisons, there are several kinds of physical poisons and elemental poisons, I see that your face is blue, you should be poisoned by substances......"

"Oh? Do you still know medical science? The old man asked curiously.

"A little bit of skin, hehe, let's be honest, I have a miracle doctor class summoning hero, so, I know a little about medicine, not fine, not fine......"

As Xiao Chen spoke, he suddenly patted his head and said, "By the way, I'll give you two bottles of elemental elixir, you can try to see if you can heal it, even if it can't be cured, you can drink it as a nutritional product......

When Xiao Chen spoke, he immediately summoned Bian Que to his upper body, waved his hand twice, and two bottles of medicine bottles composed of elements appeared in his hand.

At this moment, Xiao Chen felt palpitations again, and at this time, he looked around a few times in shock.

(End of chapter)