Chapter 21: Learn to Plant Flowers

"Wow, it smells so good!"

The white flowers/petals are overlapped one by one, and when the wind blows, the golden-yellow flowers/stamens hidden in them are occasionally revealed.

The flower is small, but the aroma is rich and intense, which is an intoxicating fragrance that no perfumer can concoct.

One plant was only half a person tall, with dozens of flower bones, and now only five or six flowers were blooming, but the fragrance wafted all the way to the outside of the yard, domineeringly occupying the sense of smell of passers-by.

Sweet Girl squatted to the side and watched Grandma Wan carrying a small kettle to water the flowers, her eyes seemed to be flashing with tiny stars.

Grandma Wan saw that her little appearance was very cute, so she picked one of the most beautiful flowers and took them off and inserted them in her hair.

The fragrance stained the corners of her hair and clothes, and she tilted her head slightly, as if she was a flower fairy who had inadvertently fallen on the world.

Unexpectedly, when she got flowers, the sweet girl was unhappy.

"Grandma, a flower can only bloom once, if you pick it, it will die in a few days."

It's a caring little girl.

"Little sweet girl, even if you don't pick it, you will be grateful for this flower in a few days."

"It grows on the branches, and if it blooms for a few more days, I am happy to look at it. Grandma Wan takes care of these flowers so carefully, doesn't she also hope that they will bloom for a few more days? ”

If you don't love flowers, who can endure the temperament and do such a small thing as weeding and watering day by day.

Tianniu's words were innocent, but she spoke to Grandma Wan's heart.

She loves flowers herself, and Sweet Chick seems to love them just as much.

Grandma Wan's mind moved, and she asked, "Sweet girl, do you want to learn to grow flowers with grandma?" ”

Sweet girl tilted her head, as if she didn't understand.

No one in Grandma's house has the heart to grow flowers, in their opinion, flowers are useless, they can't be eaten, they can't be sold, and it's better to have that kind of food.

Ruan Yu likes flowers, but she is a teacher and doesn't know how to raise flowers at all.

The sunflower seeds in the yard were still given by the vendor when she took the sweet girl shopping.

Ruan Yu casually threw them in the corner and left them to fend for themselves, but fortunately, the flower was tenacious and survived.

From a distance, the flowers are blooming lively, but if you want to say how good they grow, it is really not necessarily, as long as you look closely, you can see that these flowers have thin stems, like malnourished people.

The people in the family don't pay attention to raising flowers, and Tianniu has no concept about it.

Grandma Wan thought about it and explained to her, "It's just to learn from grandma how to make flowers grow better and bloom more beautifully." ”

This time Sweet Girl understood.

Her eyes sparkled again, and she jumped on the spot twice, "Okay, okay!" ”

She could feel that the sunflowers at home were not growing well, but she didn't know what to do. If you can learn how to take care of flowers from Grandma Wan, then you will be able to take good care of sunflowers, right?

After returning home in the evening, Sweet Niu told her mother the news.

"Grandma Wan, ......"

The two families live relatively close, but there is very little contact.

Ruan Yu recalled that it seemed to be an old lady who lived alone, and there were a lot of flowers and plants in the yard, and she could often be seen watering in the yard, although she didn't know much about how she was, but it didn't seem difficult to get along with.

"If you want to learn, let's give it a try."

There are not many children around who are similar to Tianniu's age, Ruan Yu was still worried before, if Tianniu can't find someone to play with her, she can only stay at home every day, will she feel bored?

Now that she has found something to do for herself, raising flowers is not a bad thing, Ruan Yu is too late to be happy, so naturally she will not obstruct it more.

Anyway, she is still young and has no homework to write, so it is good to pass the time with the neighbor's grandmother. Ruan Yu didn't actually expect her to really learn much.

In this way, the two families seem to have a tacit understanding vaguely, every time after dinner, Tianniu will run to Grandma Wan's courtyard, listen to her talk about how to raise flowers, Grandma Wan herself will also calculate the time, it is estimated that Tianniu is coming soon, so she will open the courtyard door in advance.

Grandma Wan is a very easy-going person, she was also a lively personality when she was young, and she loved to talk, but she was widowed in her early years, and worked hard to bring up a son and two daughters, and in her later years, she was unwilling to follow her children to the city, so she lived alone in the town.

The neighbors around her are as busy as she was when she was younger, and she is too embarrassed to visit the door to disturb people.

Now suddenly there is a little girl who is well-behaved and clever, and can calm down and listen to her, and the words that she has not spoken to people for most of her life seem to have been settled for a while.

Grandma Wan selectively forgot the fact that the little girl was initially attracted by the fragrance of flowers and came in directly through the yard.

"This flower, called gardenia, is more common in the south, but it is not common in the north, it likes warm and humid places, so it needs to be watered more......"

"When I was in the south, when it was flowering, some people would go to the streets and alleys to sell gardenia bunches, and if the family had a lot of money, they would buy a bunch, and a bunch could make the whole house fragrant for several days......

"At that time, I was alone with three children, not to mention that I had the leisure to buy flowers, and there was not enough food to eat, I don't know how many people starved to death that year, and a few of us survived......"

Grandma Wan taught Sweet Girl the precautions for raising flowers, and at the same time told her her story back then. The sweet girl nodded her little head and listened to it with relish, but she didn't know how much she remembered.

Sometimes she also takes the initiative to ask a few questions.

"What's this flower called?"

"Aren't hydrangeas hard to raise?"

"Did Grandma Wan learn to raise flowers by herself?"

Some questions are about flowers, some questions are about people, as long as they are not too private questions, Grandma Wan will answer them seriously.

Two people, one big and one small, one speaks and one listens, one asks and one answers, even though there is a difference of decades, they get along very well.

Grandma Wan really treats Tianniu as her little granddaughter.

When I buy something, I will deliberately pick out some fruit snacks and keep them for the evening to feed the sweet girl.

Ruan Yu heard that Tianniu had eaten at Grandma Wan's house, and she would also ask Tianniu to send some of it to Grandma Wan after she cooked the meal. In summer, they are relatively light to eat, and these dishes are also suitable for the elderly.

Because of the sweet girl, the relationship between the two families has become more intimate than ever.

Knowing that Ruan Yu is a teacher and has nothing to do during the summer vacation, Grandma Wan sometimes comes to visit the door and chat with her in the name of seeing what kind of sunflower Tianniu has raised.

With the guidance of Grandma Wan and the careful care of Tianniu, these sunflowers are indeed growing better day by day, and the later flowers seem to be bigger and more gorgeous than those that bloom earlier.

Ruan Yu originally planned to let them fend for themselves, but now that it was the climate, she began to think about whether to take off the flower tray and fry two catties of melon seeds by herself after the flowers were gone.