Extra-Sixty-Four: Orchids

Boss Huang went to buy a lot of goods, and drove a small car around Chuhua City.

I have to say that there are many places not to mention black charcoal, and even Su Musha has never been there.

I ran a lot, but I went out early, so when I got back to the grocery store, it was still early.

Boss Huang wanted everyone to go to the small restaurant for a meal together, but Su Musha refused and returned to the family home with black charcoal.

As soon as I entered the family courtyard, I saw the old man Lan walking with a hand behind his back humming an opera tune, probably in a good mood, this old man walked with a flutter on his head today. I guess I just went to find an old friend who bragged about it.

Because he was with Su Xiaopang, Hei Tan didn't plan to go over, but he didn't think that Old Man Lan saw Hei Tan, and suddenly smiled with chrysanthemums on his face, and Zheng Si shook his beard twice.

"Where's the black charcoal, go out for a walk again?" Saying that, Old Man Lan also waved at the black charcoal and motioned for the black charcoal to come over.

So welcoming?!

Hei Tan hesitated and slowly shook to Old Man Lan's side, and looked at Old Man Lan's dress, he should have been to the small flower garden, and there was mud on his shoes, which was from the small flower garden. The mud in the small flower bed is different from the mud in the flower bed in the school, and this black charcoal can be distinguished.

"Black charcoal, the baby you gave me is about to bloom!"

As soon as Hei Tan walked over, Old Man Lan said quite excitedly.

Baby?

Hei Tan thought hard about when he gave a baby, but the person who spoke was Old Man Lan, and for Old Man Lan, the baby was naturally an orchid.

After thinking about it for a few seconds, Hei Tan remembered that he had given the old man Lan two orchids three years ago.

It's only the beginning of September, and it's about to bloom?

Black Tan remembered that when he and Little Gray Ball found the orchid in the mountains on Qi Da's side, it was after eleven.

If it weren't for what Old Man Lan said today, the black charcoal would have forgotten the flowers he brought back three years ago.

Su Musha was on the side, and he was also in a trance for a while. When he found the orchid, he was still a little hamster with a small Mimi, and he was fighting with cats all day long, and he drank black charcoal and fought with Qi Da that time.

In the blink of an eye, it's been almost three years.

Hei Tan and Su Musha followed Old Man Lan to the small flower garden, looked at the pot of orchids, five buds, according to Old Man Lan's words, it will bloom in two or three days.

Black Charcoal got closer and smelled the smell, it was a little familiar, it seemed to smell similar to the smell when I first encountered this orchid in the mountains, so it should be right.

Old man Lan was still afraid that Black Tan would gnaw flowers like the sheriff, so he was going to speak out, but when he saw Black Tan retreating again, he didn't say anything about it. After all, Black Charcoal doesn't have the sheriff's history of ruining flowers, and this flower is still brought back by Black Charcoal, Old Man Lan's attitude towards Black Carbon is much better, if the sheriff appeared here, Old Man Lan would have been rushed out long ago.

Old man Lan has taken good care of this pot of flowers, there is a flower shed and barbed wire, so it is no problem to prevent the sheriff at all.

Now there are no two pitiful seedlings in the pot, and I don't count how many black charcoal there are, but at least there are more than ten or twenty plants.

"Black charcoal, how is this flower?" Old man Lan began to get excited again when he saw this pot of orchids, "This bud looks a little jade, the flowers are absolutely extraordinary, let me tell you......"

As soon as they heard those four words, Su Musha and Hei Tan turned around directly, and when Old Man Lan finished speaking, they looked around, and found that there was no one for a long time, not even the shadow of the cat.

In a blink of an eye, school started, and Su Musha and Jiao Yuan entered the most difficult third year of high school in their lives. In fact, Su Musha worked a little harder than Jiao Yuan, because in addition to studying at Chuhua High School, he also had to find time to do the reference books he brought back in Mingzhu City and ask his old classmates to help him get back various test papers, if it weren't for the fact that after he crossed over several times, he felt that his IQ and memory had improved a lot, and he wouldn't have been able to handle this kind of SSS-level copy at all.

Rao is like this, Su Musha's time is also tense, and even the audit classes in the university have stopped. Jiao's father felt that he still concentrated on completing the college entrance examination first, so as not to capsize in the gutter when he got it.

Now the Jiao family is very busy, the three children are busy studying, and Jiao's father is becoming more and more valued in the School of Biological Sciences, and he has more things to do. And Jiao's mother has to care about the health of the family in her spare time, including the health of the cat, and worry about what to eat all day long.

The only thing that is idle is black charcoal.

Since the black charcoal was taken by Old Man Lan to see the buds that day, he was full of curiosity, waiting for the buds to bloom, and he could see if it was the same as what he saw in the mountains.

Hei Tan thought that the bud would bloom soon, but when he went downstairs a few days later, he met Old Man Lan and found that the old man was not so happy on his face, if the orchid bloomed, Old Man Lan would not be like this.

There was no old man Lan in the flower garden and he couldn't see the flowers when he went to the black charcoal, so the black charcoal waited for a few more days and found that the old man Lan was in a hurry.

Why the hurry?

Black Carbon was able to guess that the problem was with the pot of orchids, but Black Carbon wasn't sure what it was.

What went wrong when the flowering was approaching? Or is it some other accident?

Old Man Lan has always been very protective of flowers, and when he brought black charcoal over that day, looking at the momentum, Old Man Lan basically would not allow other people and animals to approach.

If it's not someone else or something, is it the orchid's own problem?

Hei Tan knew that although the orchid looked very similar to an ordinary iron bone heart orchid, it was difficult to distinguish it by looking at the leaves alone, even a person like the old man Lan who had studied for decades did not see anything wrong when he saw it for the first time, and only after careful study did he find out that it was different.

In order to find out the reason, Hei Tan squatted in front of Old Man Lan's door on the third floor to guard, and when Old Lady Zhai was not at home, the door of Old Man Lan's house was basically closed.

In the process of waiting in front of the door, Ermao went out to throw garbage and glanced at Hei Tan inexplicably, he didn't understand what Black Tan was doing here, and Black Tan didn't pay attention to him.

Finally, at ten o'clock, Mrs. Zhai came back from outside, and after opening the door, Hei Tan followed in.

The old lady went into the kitchen to cook, and she was not worried that the black charcoal would cause damage in the house, in the past few years, the black charcoal had never made trouble here, and the old lady was relieved.

Bringing a small plate of fish balls out, Mrs. Zhai saw that Hei Tan was looking for people from room to room, and knew that he was looking for Old Man Lan, so Mrs. Zhai smiled and said, "He went to the library, and recently because the pot of orchids has not bloomed." People have become anxious, alas, when it comes to flowers, it's like this, stubborn and stubborn. ”

Doesn't bloom all the time?

Old man Lan said that it would only be three or two days after flowering, and the black charcoal also saw it that day, and the buds did look like they were about to open, but I don't know why, but there was no follow-up reaction when they were about to open.

While washing the vegetables, the old lady nagged at the black charcoal, listening to her words, it meant that the old man himself didn't know the reason why it didn't bloom. I've checked a lot of information, but it's useless, and now Old Man Lan's house will go directly to the school library after reading the books, and it is estimated that he won't come back to eat at noon if he can't find the answer. When you sit there and study, you lose track of time.

When the old lady is ready, she has to bring it over. You can't eat in the library. But there is a special rest area, there is also a rest place for the employees, and the old lady knows the people there. Said hello.

If you want to say why Old Man Lan is in such a hurry, one is that I don't know why the flowers don't bloom, and the second is the flower show held in the city in October.

In the past three years, the old man did not continue to study other orchids, and after the basic care, most of the rest of the time was spent on this strange orchid. It was only when he raised it that the old man really knew how difficult it was to serve this pot of orchids, and he originally thought that it would take five or six years or even longer to see the flowers, but he didn't expect it to bloom in the third year.

The excitement in Old Man Lan's heart when he saw the flower buds was incomprehensible to others, and in the past three years, others said that Professor Lan was crazy for a pot of cheap orchids, and he was laughing behind his back. In the past, at the annual National Orchid Expo, the old man would take out a pot or several pots of orchids, the pots and pots were all high-quality, and each pot of orchids would be quoted at a high price.

Many people said to the old man Lan, since there are a lot of fine orchids on hand, why don't you take them out and reward them for everyone, even if they have been rewarded before, you can also reward them again, I don't know if the orchid in your hand will soar the price once?

It's a pity that the old man Lan is stubborn, his mind is spent on the orchid that Zheng Si brought back, so he wants to raise this pot of orchids to see what is different about its flowers, as for the others, he doesn't want to take the orchids that have won the award out to be exhibited again, he doesn't have this habit, and he hasn't raised new varieties in recent years, so he simply didn't participate in the Lan Expo.

Whether this pot of orchids is fine or not, Old Man Lan doesn't really care very much, he just wants to figure out the difference between this pot of orchids and ordinary iron bones, once he gets into this alley, Old Man Lan will not come out, and it is useless to persuade anyone.

In addition to the few pots of award-winning orchids that Old Man Lan now has on hand, this pot of orchids is also in Old Man Lan's plan, and he wants more people to see this pot of orchids that are suspected of being natural variants. But now, there are obviously buds, and it looks like it will open soon, but it has not opened, although it is still September, but if it has not opened, and it has not opened until October, it is a pity to miss the old man of Huazhan Lan.

Listening to the nagging of this old lady Zhai, Hei Tan thought in his heart, is it not time to bloom yet?

When Black Charcoal and Little Gray Ball found it three years ago, it was already October, or after the November holiday, did this flower really have to wait a little longer?

Different orchids have different flowering periods, there are many varieties, and the flowering period is also very different.

Old man Lan walked back and forth between the home, the small flower garden, and the library every day, took photos every day, and made detailed records, he didn't find the answer, so he recorded it first, and then looked for the answer, at the same time, the old man Lan also found some like-minded people in the school who have studied orchids to come and help, but unfortunately there is no way, and he doesn't dare to try it easily.

The only thing that made the old man Lan feel better was that those who had seen the pot of orchid buds would praise it.

So, for the next period of time, every time Black Charcoal passed by the small flower garden and jumped on the fence to look inside, he would find that there were several old men watching the place where the pot of orchids was placed, and sometimes they would quarrel for a long time because of the opinions raised.

They thought the same as the old man Lan, and felt that this pot of orchids was probably a natural mutant variety of iron bones, which was worth studying, but the problem of not blooming now has its own reasons and explanations.

Some orchids take longer to bud to bloom. There are one or two months or even half a year, but now the buds of this pot of flowers have grown like this, and anyone looks like they will bloom soon, but they have been frozen here.

"In short, no matter what the reason, as long as the buds are still healthy and normal, it is a good phenomenon." An old man said.

In everyone's expectation, September passed quietly, and the military training for freshmen ended. The weather is no longer as hot as it used to be. It's already a little autumnal. However, the weather in Chuhua City is always unpredictable, and you can wear a short-sleeved vest the day before. The next day, you can wear a laminated jacket, and there are many new students who are not used to it and have a cold.

The changing weather did not stir up ripples in the hearts of those old men, and the old man Lan was no longer as anxious as he was at the beginning, he felt that maybe this was the will of God, looking at the date of the flower show gradually, the buds of this pot of orchids have been maintained in the state of a month ago, and the old man Lan thought, probably this flower has nothing to do with the flower show.

On this day, when Hei Tan went out and went downstairs, he found that the door of the old man Lan's house on the third floor was hidden, and the old lady inside was cleaning, Zheng Si squeezed open the door and went in.

After seeing the black charcoal, Mrs. Zhai had another object of nagging, and chatted with Zheng Si. It's nothing more than an orchid thing, and only this can make the old man Lan stubborn and the old lady chatter.

"The pot of orchids has bloomed, and they are all squatting in the small flower garden, and they can't even take care of eating." The old lady said. I am very helpless about the fact that Old Man Lan forgets to eat every time he comes to orchids, but Old Man Lan is not the only one who forgets to eat this time.

When Black Charcoal came to the small flower garden and turned into it, he found the place where the pot of orchids was placed, and there were already seven old men with gray or silver hair, and all seven old men were squatting in front of the pot of orchids, as if they were frozen.

Is this playing the Seven Dwarfs?

In addition to these seven old men, there was also a cat squatting next to them.

The sheriff didn't know when he came, because there were seven old men here, and the wire door outside was not closed, so the sheriff who loved to gnaw flowers came in when the seven old men were not paying attention, and the seven old men only cared about going up to see the flowers, and did not notice that there was a dangerous person squatting next to him.

And what's even more strange is that the sheriff, who has an inexplicable obsession with gnawing flowers, just squatted obediently and watched, and didn't keep his mouth shut.

Seven old men and a cat squatted there like this, and they didn't know how long they had been squatting, and they saw that the black charcoal hurt their legs, and they were afraid that these old men would fall down because they had been squatting for a long time when they got up.

While thinking, Black Carbon walked over.

When he smelled the black charcoal, he knew that it was the same as the flower he saw in the mountains back then.

The five buds, now all blooming, are the same as the flowers in the memory of black charcoal, revealing the feeling of jade, if you don't know that this is a real flower, you will probably think that this is carved from jade.

Back then, black charcoal could look at the flowers and be stunned, and now the seven old men and the sheriff are probably also stunned by the flowers.

Black Charcoal felt that although this flower was also very good, there was still a slight gap compared to the ones he saw in the mountains at the beginning, and it was the best proof that Black Charcoal didn't stay directly now, of course, it could also be that he was immune to it.

It's not a problem to stay like this all the time, Black Tan squatted next to him and looked at the seven people and one cat staring at the flowers, yawned loudly, and made a long "ah-" sound.

Finally someone came to their senses, and so did the sheriff.

"Hey, quick, it's the sheriff!!" An old man shouted.

A few old men didn't care about continuing to look at the flowers, guarding the sheriff like a thief, and they didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they drove the sheriff out.

The sheriff is a nymphomaniac, everyone knows it.