9 CHAPTER IX
Qi Zhichen's chaotic thoughts in his mind can write a book, but on the surface it is still calm, with the small figure of the flower spirit, the mascot is as cute.
Forget it, I still won't fight back.
Not to mention that the phone is running out of battery, he has been away from plants for too long, and the whole flower spirit is irritable, just want to find a flower sticker, and don't want to care about someone on the first page of the vengeance book.
Anyway, he still has Lu Li's number, and WeChat has not been deleted, if the other side really wants to contact him, how can he talk about it tomorrow, let him turn into a domineering first.
He dropped his phone, which had only 20% battery left, and flew back to the cactus.
During the time he was away, the cactus never stopped its fluctuations: "...... The shallots upstairs have been plucked a few more times today, but there are more small bean sprouts, I don't like the small bean sprouts very much, the small bean sprouts are thinner than the shallots, and the coriander downstairs has at least a lot of hair, but they all laugh at me for being the only one, and they also say that in humans this kind of is called the widow king, which means people who have never been in love-"
Qi Zhichen, who has never really been in love, has been in the crush stage from beginning to end: "You shut up for me." β
"Shut up? What does it mean to shut up? Oh actually, I'm just a cactus, I don't have a mouth, I'm just emitting fluctuations......"
Qi Zhichen felt that he couldn't stay in this house anymore.
He had wanted to barely survive the day when he was turned into a flower spirit at home, after all, there was at least a pot of cactus, and there were shallots and coriander upstairs and downstairs.
Oh, and now there's a little more sprouts.
But now he felt that if he stayed for a second longer, even with the good cultivation of the flower spirit, he couldn't help but give this cactus a big blow, or simply himself off.
How can there be the fragrance of wild flowers in the home ball, Qi Zhichen decided to go outside and get along with the lovely flowers and plants.
There are two parks near his home, one is a wetland park newly built last year, which covers a large area, has a rich variety of flowers and plants, and has a small play area, which once became a holy place for young couples to fall in love.
The other is a dilapidated botanical garden, a dilapidated one, basically no one takes care of it, last time Qi Zhichen went to a trip without believing in evil, and found that the fastest growing in it was weeds.
Wetland parks are too crowded and at a higher risk of being discovered, but botanical gardens are pretty good, even if they're full of weeds.
As long as the weeds don't force and don't scatter fluctuations.
Qi Zhichen wanted to cover the cactus ball's constantly pressing mouth, but the whole ball was full of thorns, so he pinched one of the thorns angrily.
The cactus fluctuated a little higher: "Oh don't look like this, you have already deflated my two thorns, my thorns are for my future object, although you are very cute, but if you want to pinch it, you should pinch your object-"
Qi Zhichen was out of sight and out of mind, turned his head and flew to the kitchen.
The pixel of surveillance cameras in modern cities is still quite high, and with the recent rise of drone photography, he doesn't want to become an alien unknown object or an urban legend in other people's photos.
After thinking about it, in order to fly to the nearby old park unobtrusively at the least cost, he decided-
Put a garbage bag on it.
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"I'm so happy to see you again, oh my God, why are you like a plastic bag," the cactus babbled, "I don't like plastic bags, I don't like white ones even more, and before the sun rises and sets, a white plastic bag flies over and covers a few of my thorns." β
Qi Zhichen fiddled with the bag on his head.
He buckled two holes in his only black garbage bag, and the whole flower spirit got into it, like A Piao in an inferior ghost movie.
Looking at the direction where the old park was located, it would take him about ten minutes to walk there on weekdays, and at the speed of the flower spirit flying in a straight line, it would take him about three or four minutes to get there.
Okay, that's it, flush the little garbage bag-
Qi Zhichen became more and more natural to ignore the fluctuations of the cactus ball, turned on the function of selective deafness, and flew into the air through the balcony with a black garbage bag on his head.
It happened that a gust of wind came at this moment, accompanied by the rattling sound of the breeze blowing the garbage bags, and the little brother who was pulling the green onions upstairs glanced at the spinning and rising garbage bags, and condemned: "Who, why are you still littering?" β
Below, there is the traffic of City A.
Qi Zhichen's dripping little eyes looked down through the small holes in the garbage bag.
As soon as he flew into the air, his already very ordinary sense of direction instantly fell below the passing line, and the plastic bag rattled in his ears, making it even more difficult to distinguish between east and west, north and south.
The ghosts in horror movies look so elusive, and it's definitely not because they can't tell the direction.
Qi Zhichen felt like a headless fly, floating in mid-air for a long time, and during this time, he also received the attention of a certain child because the trajectory of the flight was too weird.
"Mommy, Mommy!" The little girl licked the ice cream and pointed to the air, "There's a bird flying." β
The little girl's mother looked over and said with a smile, "That's not a bird, it's a garbage bag." β
The little girl didn't seem to understand: "Will the garbage bags fly too?" β
"It's the wind that blows the garbage bag," the little girl's mother said patiently, "but Jiajia, it's a bad habit to throw garbage anywhere, you see, the garbage is flying into the sky, it will pollute the environment, and when you finish eating ice cream, the rest of the garbage will be thrown into the trash can." β
The little girl nodded as if she didn't understand: "So the garbage bag is a bird?" β
Little Girl's Mother: "......"
Qi Zhichen: "......"
He was deaf and audible enough to hear all the conversation below.
The thinking of a child is terrifying.
At this interruption, Qi Zhichen didn't care about the direction, and flew forward for a long distance while listening.
When I came back to my senses, I caught a glimpse of a patch of emerald green that was slightly different from the familiar dilapidated park directly below.
The botanical gardens he remembered were mostly dark green, dark for the stagnant water and rusty seats without a trace of waves, and green for the clumps of weeds.
And now it seemsβ
He lowered his altitude and flew down.
As he passed the gates of the park, he saw that the tattered "Botanical Garden" sign had been wiped clean and painted.
In the past two years, someone has actually started to maintain the park.
Wouldn't it be possible to sleep with weeds anymore?
Qi Zhichen lifted his spirits, sped up and rushed into the botanical garden from a height of one person, and the galloping garbage bag was aimed at the largest of the flower beds, in which the blooming flowers swayed happily towards him.
He hadn't touched it yet, but just looking at it, he felt comfortable physically and mentally.
Of course, the flower spirit has to find a small flower sticker!
I squeezed with the cactus all night last night, and although I smoked the plants, it was like a meal replacement, tasteless, and full without a soul.
At the moment when Qi Zhichen was about to rush into the flower bed, there was a sudden sound of breaking the air overhead-
Sou!
He was startled, only to feel a chill on the top of his head, and his whole hand fell into the flowers in a hurry.
As he fell, he looked up and saw a steel fork that had accurately and unmistakably slashed away his black garbage bag.
Then it was stuffed into a garbage truck on the side.
Qi Zhichen: "......"
Qi Zhichen was shocked.
He was surrounded by countless blooming flowers, and the small one blended into the flowers, and with his colorful hairstyle and clothes, even if you looked closely, you would not notice that there was a small thing hidden in this flower.
At this moment, the little thing was pulling a large leaf to block its body, stretching out its colorful head, and secretly looking over.
A tall, middle-aged man silently clutched a steel fork, with half-length black hair, blue stubble on his chin, and a cargo vest on his upper body, revealing well-defined muscles and scars on it.
The steel fork he was carrying didn't look like a full-time fork of garbage, the handle of the fork was almost black, and the three silver forks were glowing with cold light, and there seemed to be a smell of blood.
Are all the current sanitation workers rolled up like this?
Moreover, when he flew down just now, he didn't seem to see this person, nor the garbage truck next to him......
Is it now that sanitation workers are required to ...... Are you going to get to the site before the garbage hits the ground?
Qi Zhichen was shocked for a moment.
However, he quickly put the matter behind him, and looked at the man's figure and face with pure admiration for a few seconds.
Although this tattered body looks like dried pickles and pickles that were taken out of the washing machine and dried without shaking off, the whole combination makes people feel that this person should appear on the runway.
After Qi Zhichen finished appreciating it, he shrank into the flowers.
Flower spirits and all natural things are complementary to each other.
The cactus, which had obviously increased his intelligence after sleeping with him for the night, was a typical example, and the large flowers in the flower bed here were much less intelligent, like the chirping of many cute birds.
"Wow, that's so cute!"
"You're so cute, I like you so much," a small dandelion confessed enthusiastically, "Do you want my seeds, you can also blow a mouthful, and I will fly into a lot of seeds." β
"If you want to touch my petals, the leaves can be touched for you too."
Wow.
Qi Zhichen felt like he had fallen into a pile of cuties.
He was about to go and stick to the cute little flowers with a happy face, but a voice behind him that gave him goosebumps -
"Yo, our Captain Joe, this is here-" The man with a red scar piercing the corner of his eye didn't know where it came from, with a cigarette between his fingertips, "Picking up trash?" β
The man laughed, stepped forward defiantly, and shook the soot on the man with the steel fork.
"Why are you so pitiful, do you want me, a former little brother, to buy you a few brooms and dustpans? It's a little unbearable to watch the rumored 'Poseidon Trident' fall to the point of cleaning up garbage? β
The man holding the steel fork glanced at him indifferently: "You are the Du family...... Du Yi? β
"Not really! I'm Du Er! After all these years, you can't even remember my name! Du Er's chest rose and fell violently, and for a moment, he gritted his back molars and said, "Qiao Fangde, you-"
Qiao Fangde raised the steel fork with a blank face.
Du Er subconsciously took two steps back, and said cautiously: "This is Jiangcheng, you dare to do it to me, let me tell you, believe it or not, I call a car with a phone callββ"
Then Jofonder expertly forked back the black garbage bag that the wind had almost blown out of the garbage truck.
Du Er: "......"
Du Er took a mouthful of old blood in his chest, he took several deep breaths, and finally remembered the business he had come over today, hugged his hands in front of him, and sneered coldly: "Do you know? The results of the research on the 'unicorn species' from the R&D Department of the Special Bureau have come out. β
After that, he deliberately paused for a moment, only to see that Qiao Fangde didn't even change the angle of his eyebrows, and the feeling of heart attack was a little worse.
"You have been here for two years, staring at that small piece of unicorn seed every day, do you still have the wish that you can grow unicorn flowers one day?"
Du Er said word by word: "I'll tell you now, the R&D department has found the atavistic ancestor of the Qilin clan, and after that person's determination, these Qilin species have long lost their vitality, and you can't grow them for a hundred years!" β
Qiao Fangde's hand holding the steel fork suddenly tightened.
He didn't seem to have any expression all along, but his whole body suddenly became a little haggard, and a dull and secret sadness slowly seeped out from somewhere, and the few small flowers closest to him drooped their petals.
And Qi Zhichen, who had his little ears and didn't intend to eavesdrop, but helplessly, Hua Ling's five senses were extraordinary, so the conversation between the two naturally entered his ears, and Qi Zhichen, who wondered: "Kirin flower? Or the Seven Spirit Flowers? Haven't you heard of it, what kind of precious variety? β
So this old park has become what it is now, because someone specially renovated the park in order to plant a very valuable flower, and planted many other flowers at the same time, but the original flowers have not grown?
Could it be some agricultural college for baldness to graduate a PhD student...... bar.
"The unicorn, over there, has a seed, a seed that is about to die," a little daisy shook the leaf, "that human, poured a lot of precious things, it was very fragrant and delicious." β
"But it didn't work."
"The seeds are dying and can't grow."
The little flowers are chirping in a big patch.
It's miserable.
Qi Zhichen sighed sympathetically.
I've been guarding my graduation thesis for two years, and I don't know if it's been postponed for two years, and I suddenly know that my graduation thesis has failed, and I must have been hit hard.
But what's the ...... Rice? Is the rice boiling? Cooking? Could it be that some kind of crop seeds are planted, or can they be used as vegetables in cooperation with school canteens?
"It's been two years," Du Er didn't know if he was admonishing or sticking a knife in people's hearts, "I know you can't accept the fact that Huai Wei left suddenly, but you have to know-"
He coldly extinguished the cigarette on the edge of the garbage truck, and wanted to throw the cigarette butt everywhere, but after touching Qiao Fangde's emotionless eyes, he angrily threw the cigarette butt into the garbage truck.
"There is no hope for something, no matter how much you insist on it, it is meaningless."
Qi Zhichen touched his chin: "This is what you are talking about...... The senior sister of the research group suddenly left the mess and ran away? Or was it free-ranged by the mentor? β
Qiao Fangde was silent for a long time before moving slightly.
Just when Du Er thought he was going to say something, he put the steel fork on his back with his backhand, and then skillfully grabbed the two handrails of the garbage truck and pushed the garbage truck to the garbage point in the distance.
Du Er: "......"
Grass!
Du Er scolded and left.
Not long after he left, Qiao Fangde, who was a little more haggard than before he took out the garbage, walked back empty-handed.
The steel fork was still on his back, and he was like a traveler who had been trekking for a long time, and every strand of hair was telling of exhaustion.
He walked to the edge of the flower bed and touched his hand on his body, as if trying to find something, but in the end he only took out the lighter in his trouser pocket and rubbed it back and forth in his hand.
Qi Zhichen watched him stand still for a long time, and finally walked towards a small white bungalow in the distance with an indomitable momentum.
Then a large weeder was pushed out of it.
Wait, wait, what are you doing pushing a weeder over, is it going to-
Qiao Fangde slowly pushed the weeder to the edge of the flower bed, perhaps for himself, and he whispered, "I'm sorry, maybe I'm really going to give up." β
Give up, give up what?
Giving up your dissertation and finally ready to change your subject?
If you change the subject, you will change the topic, what is this battle for!
What else can the weeder do besides cutting flowers and mowing grass, the little flower of the older doctoral student in front of him has not yet grown, and now it is ready to plant the nine clans? Don't even plan to let go of other innocent little flowers?
"Ah, he's coming," Dandelion was surprised, "he has to plant a bunch of new ones every once in a while, and he will sprinkle a lot of water in the land, and we will grow as fast as we can." β
"But we've all grown several batches, and the seed that is about to die is still dead."
"Not dead yet, just dying."
"When the sparkle in the sky falls and rises again, it will really die."
So the current situation is that an older doctoral student does not hesitate to charter the park land to grow flowers in order to graduate.
Every day, he concocted a secret growth potion, and experimented with other flowers and plants, and the results showed that the growth of other flowers and plants was particularly gratifying, only his graduation thesis was sluggish, and not even a bud appeared.
Not only that, but he also experienced the disintegration of the research group, was ridiculed by people who might have been competitors, and was told that the research direction was wrong from the beginning, and he couldn't grow flowers at all.
So the disheartened older PhD student decided to cut off these flowers that made him sad, change the subject, and start over.
Qi Zhichen: "......"
Brothers! Don't be so efficient, can you not cut today!
He finally flew here, you cut this flower, where can he go to find the flower sticker!
Then he heard Jofonde's voice: "Let's start and end today, just right, it's also your birthday." β
"Use these flowers to ...... for you"
Qi Zhichen didn't listen to the rest of the words.
He flew through the flowers as if his butt had been burned by fire, and kept asking along the way: "Little cuties! Where is the dying seed you are talking about? β
Today, with the dignity of his flower spirit, how can he let this flower seed grow!