"It's about to be the winter solstice, why do you still want to go into the mountains at this time?" Ye Yuan asked Yunxi puzzled.

"Because the gentleman wants more pots to play with." Yunxi said weakly.

To tell the truth, she has lived two lifetimes without learning to appreciate bonsai, which in her opinion is really a very morbid beauty, and as far as she knows, to make a twisted shape of a tree trunk requires a knife to "pierce the intestines" in the middle of the trunk, and then twist and bend it to fix it.

There are two ways to make a "vicissitudes" feeling on the tender bark: one is to use a sharp blade to "cut the bark with a thousand knives", and when the scar is formed, a small tree will successfully simulate a century-old tree. Or coat the trunk with honey to attract thousands of ants to gnaw on it, and at the same time make the bark scaly and bruised.

The removal of "redundant" branches is followed by sanding and cautery, the latter of which both rejuvenates the new stubble and disinfects it to prevent decay.

This kind of operation-like operation is not to cure the disease and save people, but to make a good living and healthy plant into a distorted, sick and strange existence, and this existence is called "beauty". In Yunxi's view, this is the same as wrapping a woman's healthy feet into a three-inch golden lotus in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is really a very violent and sick "beauty", and what is hidden behind it is a kind of harm and destruction of life.

Of course, Mr. Zhou's means of making bonsai are far from reaching that level, but judging from the attraction of bonsai to him, bonsai is unstoppable as the favorite of literati. And once the scale is formed and the market is formed, there will definitely be countless smart people who will take the road of killing plants.

However, even if Yunxi did not give Mr. Zhou any skills about bonsai making, but since she was not the first, she naturally would not be terminated because of her opposition, and the few small pine trees that Mr. Zhou dug back in the summer were well taken care of by Yunxi, and they grew lush, which can be regarded as polishing his dream that he had hidden for many years, no, as soon as the weather turned cold, he couldn't wait to discuss with Yunxi to enter the mountain again.

On the last Double Ninth Festival, he was already ready to move, or Yunxi repeatedly persuaded him, so he agreed to follow what Yunxi said, first choose, prune it on the spot, and then dig it out and transplant it when the weather is completely cold.

It's just November, and he is going to go into the mountain to dig piles, and he doesn't even plan to spend the Winter Solstice Festival at the bottom of the mountain. Yunxi thought about it, although it was said that it was more than a month earlier than the time for the best master pile to descend the mountain, but the ancient climate had no greenhouse effect, let alone an urban effect, so the climatic conditions were actually suitable, so he agreed. Unexpectedly, Ye Yuan didn't happily agree.

"No, this is the fifth day of the new year, and the day after tomorrow will be the seventh winter solstice festival, and there are only two days left, so let's go home again for the festival!" Ye Yuan said to Yunxi, "You don't have to worry about this, I'll go to Mr. to discuss it." ”

"I hope you can convince Sir!" Yunxi Road. If he just talked about the festival, Yunxi seriously suspected that Zhou Han would not listen. Because Yunxi found that Mr. Zhou was really an old man with a very Wei and Jin style, although he knew everything about those red tapes, but if he said to do it, he could only do it.

"By the way, Dad, there is one more thing I want to discuss with you." Yunxi suddenly remembered something, "Didn't we build a new yard and leave a lot of green bricks?" Can someone chisel them like that? ”

"Are you going to sell it in the winter? But why is it only half chiseled? Ye Yuan knew that Yunxi had already planned to sell moss in winter, and he still remembered the incident of Yun Cong's full moon very clearly, this little girl didn't save him any face, but it made him lose a big face.

"This half also asks Daddy to invite a stonemason back and engrave the seal characters here, so that it looks more elegant." Yunxi said with a smile.

Since the Ye family started to open a store, she has been thinking about how to use this platform to make some money to spend, her own store, what is inconvenient, isn't it stupid not to use it? After thinking about it, she thought of such a method, in the past, she used to hollow out most of the entire bricks and use them to grow moss, but this year, didn't she learn from a teacher? Influenced by art, it is natural that it can no longer be the same as before.

"It's a good idea to engrave words, but if you can plant calamus here, it will be more popular." Ye Yuan suggested.

"The hero sees the same thing, Daddy, I have asked Mr. to help me write a letter, it is estimated that in another ten days and a half months, a batch of calamus seedlings will be transported, and when the time comes, they will be planted with moss, and they will be well maintained for a few days, and when the New Year is approaching, they will be sold out, and they will be sold at a good price."

The raisers have been in ancient times, and Wen Zhenheng's "Chronicles of Long Things" contains: "Flowers and plants have four elegant, orchids are elegant, chrysanthemums are elegant, narcissus is elegant, and calamus is elegant." Among the four elegances, only calamus can be hidden in the wild and hidden in the city. Therefore, it is praised as 'the first elegance in the world'. It can be seen that the popularity of calamus at that time has even surpassed the orchid of "viewing leaves is better than flowers", so you can imagine how popular it is.

Because calamus has the medicinal value of "pungent and warm taste, non-toxic, happy, replenishing the five organs, brightening the ears and eyes, forgetting for a long time, and being ambitious", people in ancient times even had a kind of blind superstitious worship of calamus.

Moreover, because calamus has a high ornamental value, it has been cultivated in royal gardens since the Western Han Dynasty. It is rumored that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty broke Nanyue in the sixth year of Yuan Ding, and started to support the Li Palace to plant strange grass and trees, and there are hundreds of calamus. Fuli Palace is a protection facility or place set up for planting lychees and other southern flowers and trees in Chang'an. The sixth year of the Yuan Dynasty was 111 B.C., indicating that China had begun ornamental cultivation of calamus at the latest 2100 years ago.

However, despite this, the calamus approached the interior but not so fast, the atmosphere of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and most of the flowers and plants were built in gardens. Small bonsai are still very rare, and bonsai iris has not yet waited for its spring. However, Yunxi believes that as soon as she pushes it out, it will soon become the standard configuration of the study.

No matter how high the literati is, no matter how pretentious he is, in the final analysis, he is still a human being, as long as he is a person, then he can't get rid of the habit of following the trend, but he is just a little more than the general public.

Ye Yuan nodded, "That's good, it's not easy for us to buy here, it must be easy to buy in the capital." By the way, let me ask you, you toss these, don't you plan to sell those small bonsai in the back garden? ”

"It's definitely going to sell, but only half of it can be sold now!" Yunxi said depressedly, she didn't think about it at the beginning, Mr. Zhou asked her to dig pines and cypresses, she was unwilling, and dug up a lot of other varieties of small trees back, which was beautiful at the time, however, the weather was cold, and people fell leaves, she was dumbfounded, could it be that she let her sell the rod? The ghost will buy it, right? But fortunately, there are still those small bonsai of ferns, and the green ones that are still alive are very energetic, which can be regarded as comforting her heart.

Ye Yuan persuaded: "Then let's raise it to play by yourself, or wait until next spring to sell it, don't be sad, you can make money selling calamus." ”

"I'm not sad, if it weren't for this, I wouldn't have remembered to make calamus!" Yunxi smiled, "It's a blessing in disguise!" ”