In this way, another two months passed, and the time suddenly came to August.

Recently, Chen Jixing's family has been happy.

Because Aunt Cha's family stayed at home honestly during this period of time, and did not come to the door to find trouble, and because the Ye family helped Chen Wumei "solve" a tricky life event, Chen Wumei would come to the house from time to time to sit and chat with the Ye family.

With the approval of the sister-in-law, Ye's was in a good mood during this time. She is in a good mood, and the whole family is naturally in a good mood.

Just like this morning, she always said that she heard magpies chirping in the backyard, and it seemed that something happy was going to happen in the family recently.

But Ye Feng listened carefully for a long time, but he always felt that it was not a magpie at all, it was just an ordinary unknown bird calling.

And, in essence, magpies and crows don't seem to be very different, but they are just birds.

And Chen Jixing is in a very good mood because the crops in the field are about to be harvested. Because I listened to Ye Feng's suggestion before, it was top dressing, soil cultivation and interplanting, and Chen Jixing's corn field has recently become the "star land" of Chenjia Village.

Those who laughed at Chen Jixing's alternative approach before all closed their mouths at this moment and came to visit with red eyes. Because the sweet potatoes and potatoes planted in the corn fields obviously grew very well, and the corn was not affected, but grew better than all the corn in the village.

Because of the top dressing, Chen Jixing's corn cobs look big and long, and some of them have as many as three. You must know that most people in the village generally have only two cobs or even only one corn plant in their fields.

But Chen Jixing's family is generally two, and some are three.

The third stick is not as good as the first one, but it is also quite remarkable. In addition, due to the cultivation of soil, Chen Jixing's corn field has almost no large falls.

Qianyan followed Ye Feng into the mountain in the past few days, and even the Ye family followed, and picked a lot of black and cabbage back. And the wead vegetables in the backyard are growing well, and after harvesting, they can be stored in the cellar for the winter.

With the dried mushrooms, fungus and backyard vegetables picked in the summer, Ye Shi is quite confident and happy to announce that he will no longer have to eat pickles this winter.

In contrast, Ye Feng was not so happy.

First of all, I have been going into the mountains a lot recently, and I have found nothing except a few pine and cypress trees of average appearance. This also made Chen Jixing and the others understand that although these trees do not need to be bought with silver, it is indeed difficult to find a suitable one.

In addition, after pruning, the rhododendrons and red fruit trees have gradually taken shape.

It's a pity that there are no flower pots at home. Moreover, Ye Feng walked around the village and found that there seemed to be no flower pots in the entire village.

For a while, Ye Feng was a little discouraged.

A bonsai without a flower pot has no soul and will only be greatly discounted.

However, looking at his first work after coming to this time and space, Ye Feng was still somewhat happy. After several months of growth and nearly three months of pruning, coupled with the fixation of bamboo strips, this rhododendron finally lived up to expectations.

I saw a thumb-thick trunk, swarthy, about sixty centimeters high, and straight. Because it was completely cleaned by Ye Feng, there were no branches and leaves on the main trunk, which looked unusually clean and neat.

Because of the good maintenance and sufficient nutrition, the black of the trunk is much deeper than when it was first dug home, but it is like ink, which is very eye-catching.

At the top, the style mutates, and it becomes unusually leafy.

The entire canopy is long oval or drop-shaped, narrowing from the top downwards, dragging nearly two meters long.

At first glance, it really looks like a proud peacock, standing in the ground, with its head held high and its eyes empty.

At this point, the shape of the rhododendron tree is preliminarily completed. Of course, these can only be regarded as good-looking, they can only be regarded as bonsai, not bonsai.

It is worth mentioning that these luxuriant branches and leaves are now covered with large and small flower buds. These delicate buds are too small to tell what color they will be when they open.

However, it is conceivable that once it blooms, the beauty of this flower will increase exponentially. And according to Yeh, the wild rhododendron forest has many flower colors, and some trees even have two colors.

However, this is not surprising, some people have counted, there are about more than 100 varieties of rhododendrons, and the two colors Ye said are mostly the same color, just a dark and a light, so that they look like two colors.

Ye Feng was very much looking forward to his own tree, which would be like this.

Now, everything is ready, and only one pot is owed.

Therefore, when the Ye family finished finishing the housework in the evening, Ye Feng said a little embarrassedly: "Sister, when my brother-in-law went to the city recently, can you buy me a flower pot and come back?" You don't need to be very expensive, just the most common. I'm going to transplant that rhododendron into a pot and raise it. In a little while, we will be able to go to the city and exchange it for silver. ”

Hearing this, Ye Shi smiled and said, "Look at what you say, of course you can." I'm looking forward to this day. It just so happens that your brother-in-law is going to the city tomorrow to pick up rape seeds, so I'll ask him to buy them by the way. ”

In fact, Ye Feng wanted to buy a few more, and wanted to buy different pots according to different plants.

But now he doesn't know if anyone buys this potted plant, and secondly, the family is in this economic situation, and he doesn't know how much a pot is worth, so he really can't open his mouth.

Fortunately, he was not in a hurry.

After this rhododendron is sold, it is not too late to buy a flower pot when you have the capital. As for the pines and cypresses and red fruit trees, they are still in the modeling stage and do not need to be transplanted into flower pots for the time being.

Early the next morning, Ye Feng and Qianyan were still sleeping, but Chen Jixing had already eaten breakfast and was ready to leave for the city. Today, he and representatives from every household in the village have to go to the city to buy rapeseed seeds, and they have to pick them back by hand.

This is a big deal for the whole village, and you can't be sloppy.

In addition to selling some and paying rent, people rely on these seeds for the oil they use to fry vegetables next year. Since the journey is not close, and the whole journey relies on foot strength, everyone discussed it last night and set off early today.

gave Chen Jixing a whole collar and explained a few things, and Ye said Ye Feng's request for a flower pot by the way.

Chen Jixing agreed without thinking about it.

Thanks to Ye Feng's blessing, he will definitely be able to harvest more grain this year. And the most ordinary flower pot is only a few pennies, and he is still willing to pay for it.

When he arrived in the city, he saw a long queue at the gate of the county yamen, and he didn't know when it would be Chenjia Village, so he greeted Chen Jiwan and a few people, so Chen Jixing went to the grocery store and bought a flower pot.

When he returned, the team seemed to be moving forward at all. I had to sit on the floor and chat with everyone.

After lunch, I waited for more than two hours, and then it was Chenjia Village's turn. Chen Jifa stepped forward to negotiate, and handed over the money he had collected before, and the men hurriedly stepped forward and filled the bamboo baskets with tools and a large pile of rapeseed.

After confirming that it was correct, Chen Jifa led everyone to carry rapeseed to Chenjia Village. Of course, he has no burden on his shoulders, and men still have this bit of eyesight.

There are many families in the village who lack labor, take the Zhao family as an example, Chen Qianliang is still young, and the Zhao family is a widow, so he can't help at all.

Therefore, the men who came this time are all strong on weekdays, helping families like the Zhao family to pick the seeds back.

It would have been fine if I had taken an ox cart, but it would have been there in about half an hour. But now everyone needs to walk, and everyone is carrying a burden of nearly 300 catties on their shoulders, so the road is all about stopping, drinking water, and resting.

By the time Chen Jixing returned home, it was already night.

Putting down the rapeseed, Chen Jixing went to wash and eat.

Ye Feng happily picked up the flower pot and looked left and right. found that in addition to the shape of this flower pot, it is really lackluster, the key is that it has no appearance, it is too ugly.

This flower pot is probably made of the most ordinary clay, so it is neither black nor yellow, nor brown, and Ye Feng doesn't know what color it is.

And the flower pot as a whole is plain, and there is no decoration at all.

Forget it, it's better than nothing, Ye Feng comforted himself in his heart.

On the second day, Ye Feng began to prepare for the transplantation of rhododendrons.

He first went to the rhododendron forest, and dug up a large pile of earth under the most luxuriant rhododendron tree. Next, according to his memory, Ye Feng began to create the most suitable nutrient soil for the growth of this pot of rhododendrons on the basis of the base soil prepared before.

Anyone who has ever raised rhododendrons knows that rhododendrons prefer loose, acidic soils. So, if the flower grower accidentally happens to plant it in alkaline clay, you won't be able to feed one of the ten.

However, in this time and space where there are no chemical fertilizers and PH values are just fantasy, how to prepare a pot of acidic soil?

In modern times, it's easy to create a pot of acidic soil. Just go to any gardening store, buy a packet of ferrous sulfate, water the soil, and slowly the soil will become acidic.

Or, buy a little peat directly, which is also acidic soil. At its simplest, even vinegar can be used to change the acidity and alkalinity of the soil.

But right now, don't even think about these things, it's not that you can't afford them, but you don't have a place to buy them.

After thinking about it for a long time, Ye Feng could only use the most traditional and very small method to slowly "create" the acidic soil by himself.

He first took some rotten vegetable leaves, and covered them with some sand. I sprinkled a handful of dried small fish and shrimp into it.

After thinking about it, it would be perfect if there were some pork bones.

However, pig bones are even more difficult to do, this family can be fed and clothed, where do the bones come from. Anyway, Ye Feng has been here for so long, and he has never eaten meat at home.

Qianyan saw that Ye Feng was digging and burying rotten vegetable leaves, and at the end he sprinkled small fish and dried shrimp into it, so he asked, "Uncle, what are you going to do here?" Why do you still sprinkle small fish and dried shrimp into the soil? ”

Ye Feng originally wanted to say that he was growing fish, and he would be able to harvest a lot of small fish in the autumn. However, on second thought, don't mislead your child. Qianyan's curiosity is not ordinary, if she really believes it, the dried fish that she has accumulated with great difficulty at home will suffer.

In fact, it's not just a thousand words, Ye also wants to ask, because what Ye Feng did is really strange.

Ye Feng didn't want to hide it, on the contrary, he really hoped that Ye and Qianyan could learn to make bonsai. If Ye and Qianyan join in on the premise that they don't affect housework and farm work, they will have two more helpers.

Therefore, Ye Feng picked up the simplest language and explained it as plainly as possible: "Each flower has its own habits, and they must be raised according to their habits in order to grow well." For example, Qianyan likes to eat sweet but doesn't like to eat sour, to make you happy, you must not give you sour food, right? ”

Qianyan nodded and said, "Uncle, does this azalea like to eat sour or sweet?" ”

Ye Feng couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this kind of explanation could also be understood by everyone, so he said with a smile: "Cuckoos like to eat sour. ”

Ye Shi is smart, Ye Feng explained like this, she understood a little, but she still said in surprise: "So you just did this, just to make these soil sour?" ”

It seems that the Ye family still has some talent.

Hearing this, Ye Feng said: "Yes, if you do this, the soil will slowly turn sour and become the soil that azaleas like." Sister, when we have the silver, we will buy some bones and come back to stew soup and drink, and then put the bones in the soil, so that the soil will become more sour. ”

Ye Feng knew that the two of them would definitely not understand acidity and alkalinity, so they simply explained it according to what Qianyan said was sweet and sour.

Ye Shi thought silently in his heart, wrote down what Ye Feng had just said, and sighed at the same time: "It's really not easy to raise flowers well, I think it's similar to planting crops, this is really a meticulous job." ”

Ye Feng said: "Isn't it, in fact, it is not easy to do anything in this world." But I thought that if I finished it, I would be able to exchange it for silver, and I didn't have much to work on. ”

In the following period, whenever he was free, Ye Feng regularly watered this pile of soil. The water used is not water from the house, but from the pond.

Ye Feng believes that after a period of fermentation and chemical action, although these soils will not necessarily be transformed into acidic soils, they will certainly not be alkaline soils at least.

Coupled with his own careful cultivation, he can always make up for that shortcoming.

After a while, I saw that the flower bones between the branches and leaves were getting bigger and bigger, and the luxuriant leaves could no longer hide their slender figures.

Ye Feng knew that the time had come to transplant it into a pot.

In this regard, Ye Feng explained to the confused Chen Jixing and Ye Shi: "It's just right to transplant now." If you wait until the flower is about to bloom before transplanting, it will be too late. Generally speaking, flowers and trees need to adapt to the change of growth environment. If you transplant too late, you will have to fall these flowers if you don't get them. ”

In this regard, Chen Jixing quickly understood, this is actually the same as planting crops.

It's just that, it stands to reason that this season is not the time for rhododendrons to bloom, which surprised Ye Feng. It seems that it is his own careful cultivation that has changed the flowering period of this rhododendron.

It's no wonder that in that forest, it is difficult for plants of this size to absorb nutrients. And since digging back, Ye Feng has been carefully cultivated, carefully pruned, and equipped with nutrient soil, so it is not surprising that it grows well.

When everything was ready, Ye Feng called Chen Jixing and Ye Shi to help, and let Qianyan watch from the sidelines.

He wanted her to understand the whole process.

In terms of planting, Chen Jixing is indeed a good hand, I saw him carefully digging the rhododendrons out of the ground, trying not to hurt the root system. When the digging is almost done, holding the mud ball in both hands, holding the trunk of the tree and gently lifting it up, the whole rhododendron is pulled out of the ground intact.

Here, Ye Feng fixed the flower pot, and Chen Jixing gently put it into the flower pot as a whole.

The pots are slender, so there's still a lot of space inside. Ye Feng mixed the acidic soil he had prepared before, and mixed the original soil dug up from the rhododendron forest before, and then carefully filled it into the flower pot.

After the transplantation was completed, Ye Feng found another position and fixed the flower pot.

Now, even a big man like Chen Jixing was amazed by this pot of rhododendrons.

In fact, it looks good when it is planted in the backyard, but that beauty is not enough to be fully displayed. And this flower pot, although it looks like an eyesore, is a better platform than the backyard in the end.

To say an inappropriate analogy, it is like a beautiful woman with an excellent figure, who is plain all day long, wearing a cotton coat of thorncloth, which is beautiful, but it is difficult to impress.

But, suddenly, one day, this beauty changed into a cheongsam, put on makeup, and wore high heels, and the change was simply amazing.

The same is true for this pot of rhododendrons, this pot is like a pair of high heels and cheongsam, making its beauty three-dimensional and concrete.

I only heard Chen Jixing say: "Looking at this tree every day, I feel that it really doesn't feel any different except for the tail that has grown a little." And at this moment, it is just a flower pot to become so beautiful, it is simply amazing. ”

In fact, this pot of flowers can be more beautiful, that is, to change to a better-looking pot.

If you can change to a slender pot made of purple sand, or a long brown flower pot, this azalea will look more ancient, more beautiful, and more like a bonsai.

And now, in Ye Feng's eyes, it is at best a pot of flowers, and it can't be a bonsai at all.

Ye Feng swore in his heart that next time he would definitely cultivate a bonsai.

"Alright, that's it, let's go to the city tomorrow." Patting the mud on his hands, Ye Feng announced excitedly.

At dinner, everyone changed their silence and offered suggestions and discussed how to price and where to sell.

When the discussion was over, it was already late at night, so I hurried to go to bed.

The next day, it happened to be a cloudy day, and it was not sultry, a rare good weather. After breakfast, the family prepared to go to the flowers, and then walked to the entrance of the village to take an ox cart to the market.

Recently, the farmers have been slack, and the people who drive the ox carts have started to solicit business again.

It's just that when they went to hug the flowers, everyone was surprised to find that the flowers on the tree last night were all full of flower bones, and they still hugged the pipa and half-covered their faces, and they did not show their true faces. But after only one night's work, there were seven or eight flowers competing to open at this moment, and the color was also what Ye Feng expected, one light and one thick, just like two colors.

This makes the tree a little more abundant than it was before it bloomed.

Therefore, as soon as I sat in the car, it was no surprise that this pot of flowers successfully attracted the attention of the people in the car, and everyone appreciated it.

Although the people in the same car are all farmers, in the face of beautiful things, everyone knows how to distinguish and admire.

In fact, everyone has a love for beauty.

When everyone knew that it was going to be exchanged for silver in the city, they were even more envious, why didn't they think of this method. If you want to say that this is red, there are a lot of them in the forest.

Along the way, Chen Jixing used his big hands to firmly fix the flower pot so that the flower pot would not sway from side to side. Fortunately, there are not many people today, so I think everyone is preparing for the autumn harvest at home.

Ox carts, farmers, morning light; Flowers, maidens, laughing and talking.

Everything looks so good.

This is not the first time Ye Feng has rushed to the market, nor is it the first time to ride an ox cart. But this time with a pot of flowers, it was really a little inconvenient.

Overall, this bullock cart really can't be called a car, because it's really far from the word "comfortable". In addition to making people feel extremely uncomfortable and cold, there is also a big bump.

And there is no warning of this bump, so you can only endure it.

Fortunately, Chen Jixing is here, otherwise even Ye's arm would not be strong enough. If it is not fixed well, I am afraid that when I rush to the city, the soil will be spilled and the flowers and leaves will be destroyed.

I don't know how long it took, Ye Feng listened to the people in the car talking, and gradually, the building that appeared in front of him began to be a little different. The previous buildings were mostly mud-walled thatched houses, but the ones in front of them gradually became mud-walled tiles or even brick walls, as well as some materials that Ye Feng couldn't name.

When I arrived in the city, although it was still early, it was already full of people.

Unlike the tranquility of villages and temples, it is full of noisy, cars, horses, people, and bustling. Selling cooked food, all kinds of breakfast sellers such as baked cakes and oil buns, the cries of selling one after another.

Everything is full of life.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng couldn't help but miss his two little friends, Yin Ping and Xue Dan, as well as the master who had taken care of him for ten years.

I don't know how they're doing now, how they're doing.

Is it still the same as before, eating only two meals of gruel a day, and getting up at four o'clock in the morning to recite the scriptures. Thinking of this, Ye Feng suddenly missed modern life.

If you miss someone, just make a phone call. If you don't want to talk, it's okay to send a message.

Standing on this bustling street, Ye Feng thought again, judging from the eyes of Master, Xue Dan, and Yin Ping, he was really covered with wind and dust now.

But even so, so what?

Ye Feng didn't regret it at all. At the very least, he is doing everything possible to get closer to his dream.

Work hard to find a way to make a fortune, work hard and struggle, let the Ye family live well, let yourself live well, slowly let the people of Chenjia Village live well, and slowly realize their ideals and goals, this is what Ye Feng wants.

For Master, Yin Ping and Xue Dan, calming down and practicing and praying for the blessings of the world is the way to calm their minds and realize themselves.

And for Ye Feng, only by filling himself with the smell of fireworks in the rolling red dust and climbing up step by step can he feel at ease.

Cultivation may not be suitable for him.

Thinking of this, Ye Feng suddenly smiled, because he suddenly thought of what name he wanted to give this pot of flowers.

He had been thinking about it before, and he had thought about it countless times, both elegant and vulgar, but he was all rejected by himself.

Ye and Chen Jixing couldn't help, and Ye Feng didn't go to that Master Cen to help choose a name.

With Master Cen's knowledge, it is naturally not difficult to choose a good name for this pot of flowers, but Ye Feng is reluctant to give him silver, after all, he will bleed before he sees the silver. Buying flower pots is already very reluctant for him; Secondly, this potted flower can be said to be his first work in this time and space, which is of great significance, and no one knows this potted flower better than himself.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Ye Feng is afraid that Master Cen will not let go when he sees this flower. You know, he had people dig up this rhododendron in the village before, but he didn't feed it.

To spend can, but that's later, not now.

Ye Feng decided to call this pot of flowers "a bright future".

The name is indeed very ordinary, but it contains blessings, expectations.

Ye Feng hopes that his life and that of the Ye family can have a bright future, that the villagers of Chenjia Village can get rich as soon as possible, that Xue Dan and Yin Ping can learn and succeed, and that the master can have an epiphany and become a generation of grandmasters.

In short, he hopes that everyone can have a good life.