Aunt Qin's friend is a Chinese teacher who is about to retire, and she speaks little on weekdays. I like calligraphy and Chinese painting, and the decoration of my home is also that old Chinese style. Although Aunt Qin said that the two were just ordinary friends, Feng Chunxi was not a fool, and she could see the admiration and love in her eyes at a glance.

After thinking about it for a while, Feng Chunxi already had a choice: "Mr. Du is such a noble person, of course the first choice for sending flowers is the 'Four Gentlemen'!" ”

Aunt Qin's cultural level is not high, obviously she has never heard of the four gentlemen in the flowers, and she feels at a loss when she listens to Feng Chunxi's teasing words.

"Plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, since ancient times, has been called the 'Four Gentlemen of Flowers' by literati and ink writers. They represent the four qualities of pride, seclusion, firmness and lightness. The so-called Youlan gives birth to the vestibule, with a scent waiting for the breeze. The tranquility of orchids is most in line with the temperament of an intellectual like Mr. Du. Feng Chunxi learned from the appearance of Mr. Teacher in the costume drama, and deliberately shook his head and said.

"Stinky boy, what are you pretending? How many taels of ink do you have in your stomach and ask me I don't know, do you have the ability, why didn't you go to college? As soon as the words came out, Aunt Qin realized that these words touched Feng Chunxi's scar, and her expression became embarrassed for a while.

What Aunt Qin didn't know was that Feng Chunxi went to college. If it hadn't happened back then, he could have gone to a good university. Later, although he was in prison, Feng Chunxi still took correspondence courses on his own and obtained a bachelor's degree in horticulture.

"The orchid you mentioned, I think Mr. Du really likes it, you take a pot for your aunt, and your aunt will give you cash!" Aunt Qin circled back and talked about orchids again.

There are many kinds of orchids sold on the market, and in the early years, the most popular gentleman's orchid, Chunxi's father made a small profit at that time. At present, the best-selling orchid is Phalaenopsis, and Feng Chunxi has also bought a few pots in the store, and the quality is good. However, to give it to those who like traditional culture, phalaenopsis is a bit cheesy. Feng Chunxi looked at a pot of spring orchids placed on the lower layer of the flower stand, at this time there were already two slightly open pale green buds, and a faint fragrance could be smelled when he got closer.

Feng Chunxi recommended Chunlan to Aunt Qin with her heart, but when she saw a large pot of grass-like plants planted in a worthless big red tile pot, she felt that Feng Chunxi deliberately coaxed her with defective products: "What is this?" It's okay to take this thing home and play with it without money, but it's okay to give it away or to be embarrassed? ”

"This is the mother plant I entered last year, of course you don't look good-looking, when this horticulturist has a hand, the value will be tens of thousands." Feng Chunxi said that the price is a bit exaggerated, the truth is indeed so, now people raise flowers, is no longer a simple pursuit of flowering and good-looking, more and more people are pursuing artistic effects, and are willing to pay a higher fee for it. Less is a treasure, more is grass, a pot of precious orchids, sold for tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Feng Chunxi's small shop can't sell treasures, so it's okay to count Aunt Qin for two thousand.

"Then you hurry up and design it for your aunt, and I'll take it away when I'm done." Aunt Qin was a little impatient.

"You can't be anxious, orchid landscaping has a long history and a lot of exquisiteness. If I want to grow a pot of orchids that meet Mr. Du's wishes, I have to go to the mountains to find strange stones created by nature, absorb the essence of the sun and the moon and the moss grown from rootless water......"

Aunt Qin interrupted Feng Chunxi's teasing, and agreed that she would come to pick up the goods in ten days, and when she left, she did not forget to threaten Feng Chunxi that if she couldn't make a potted orchid plant that she was satisfied with, she would close Feng Chunxi's shop and rent the shop to a meat seller.

Feng Chunxi asked Aunt Qin to pick up the goods in ten days, not because of how complicated Chunlan's landscaping really is, but because after transplanting, it needs to be placed in a cool place for many days.

After the mixed planter of primrose was hung out, it really attracted a few customers to the door, most of them just to see, there are not many people who really plan to buy green plants, and only sell a pot of Yueji and a pot of phalaenopsis in an afternoon, and also sell a pot of bear boy, which is the child clamoring for his mother to buy.

In between greeting guests, Feng Chunxi went to the tool room to rummage through the materials needed to plant Chunlan bonsai. The best time to transplant spring orchids is September, followed by March. The tile pot has good air permeability, which is most suitable for the growth of spring orchid, but if you want to give away the landscaping, it is still a purple sand pot that is more graded. Feng Chunxi found a dark gray oval purple sand pot for later use, then poured the Chunlan plants out of the pot, rinsed the roots with water, dried them, and waited for planting.

In the evening, the old horse who went to the opposite door ate a bowl of braised noodles, and Feng Chunxi was about to look for the materials to turn waste into treasure. The tiles and gravel used to pad the drainage holes at the bottom of the basin can be picked up in the nearby alleys, while the coarse sand and landscaping stones can only be picked up in the small river in the park. There are a lot of people who go to the small park to walk after dinner, but Feng Chunxi is the only one who walks to the river at night, if it weren't for the fact that the river is too shallow, Feng Chunxi is worried that he will be regarded as a person who can't think of jumping into the river. With the help of the glimmer of the flashlight, Feng Chunxi searched for about half an hour by the river and found a small yellow-brown stone, one side of the stone is relatively flat, which is convenient for fixing in the flower pot in the later stage, and the other parts have a mottled feeling formed by the river erosion, which is most suitable for the effect of rockery. As for the sand, it is good to simply scoop a little, mainly to improve the drainage and air permeability of the bottom of the basin.

After everything was ready, Feng Chunxi cleaned up the clutter on the workbench and began his gardening creation. First, pad the tiles and gravel on the drainage hole at the bottom of the purple sand basin, and then spread a layer of coarse sand. The next is the most important step, after putting the orchid seedlings into the pot, straighten the roots, let them stretch naturally, fill the soil to the halfway, gently lift the orchid seedlings, and at the same time shake the pot to make the orchid roots and the potting soil tightly combined, continue to fill the soil to the edge of the pot, and press tightly. The height of the flower soil and the edge of the pot should be about 3 cm, so that it can be fertilized and watered in the later stage. After the orchid seedlings are planted, the stones that are quickly cleaned are directly placed in the middle to the right, and a pot of spring orchid landscaping is preliminarily completed. After watering thoroughly, Feng Chunxi put the pot in a cool backlit place to maintain, and then planted dwarf moss after two days, and the work was completely completed.

In the next few days, the business of the store has improved a little, and the spring is getting stronger, and people are not only willing to go outdoors, but also have a love for life. A person has to be both a gardener and a salesman, and he also has to ride an electric tricycle to replenish stocks. To be honest, this kind of labor intensity is greater than when Feng Chunxi was inside, and the only difference is freedom.

Recently, Feng Chunxi also made a new friend - an orange cat. Feng Chunxi wasn't sure if it was a stray cat, because it looked quite clean and fat. Feng Chunxi wasn't sure if it was male or female, because Feng Chunxi didn't see its balls, nor did she see if it had been castrated, it was Feng Chunxi's friend, and Feng Chunxi had to respect its privacy. Because he didn't know its original name, Feng Chunxi kept calling it Big Orange. The big orange often visits Feng Chunxi's shop at noon, and the first time it is very self-cooked, it falls in love with the rattan chair that Feng Chunxi usually rests on, and jumps directly on it to take a nap. If Feng Chunxi was on it at the time, the big orange would meow twice to signal Feng Chunxi to get up, and that posture, it was obvious that if it didn't get out of the way, it would jump directly on Feng Chunxi. Feng Chunxi doesn't have cat food here, so he can only use tap water and leftovers to entertain him, this guy is not a picky eater, and he eats very fragrant every time. Feng Chunxi has decided that if the owner of the big orange has not been found, he will regard it as an ownerless cat, officially adopt it, and hire him as the cat manager of the store.

When Feng Chunxi was a child, he didn't have a pet cat yet, and whoever had a pastoral cat at home was already very enviable. Feng Chunxi pestered Chunxi's father to buy him a kitten, but he didn't agree, not because he was reluctant to spend money, but because he was worried that the cat would destroy his flowers. At that time, in order to save costs, Chunxi's father used the house where the family lived as his nursery, and there were potted plants with cuttings everywhere.

Feng Chunxi thought cuttings were interesting when he was a child, so he followed to help, and thus learned some techniques for raising flowers since he was a child. Chunxi's father said that Feng Chunxi, like him, is a big forest and a woodman, loves to grow anything, and is a natural good gardener. Feng Chunxi believed in Chunxi's father's words throughout his childhood, thinking that he was a talented flower prodigy. He didn't know if it was an illusion or if he really had the ability to do this, and he always felt that he could feel the emotions of flowers. If he feels that the flowers and plants are unhappy, he has to find a way to solve it until he feels that the flowers and plants are in a better mood. Sometimes the school asks you to fill in the specialty, including the "planting flowers" that Feng Chunxi filled in later.