Chapter 143
After Mr. Xu retired, he liked to raise some flowers and plants.
In order to grow these flowers and plants, I bought a garden on the first floor.
Every time summer comes, the outside of his garden becomes an automatic check-in spot for neighbors.
There are all kinds of flowers, all of which are in bloom. Because of this, he is somewhat famous in the community.
Once summer comes. If you are polite, you can ask for a few flowers here, and the old man will cut them for you. There is nothing you can do, there are too many flowers in bloom, this is definitely not Versailles.
If the flowers are not cut, all the nutrients will be absorbed by the large flowers.
The flowers below won't bloom anymore, and this old man's pruning skills are also very good.
He also has a dedicated flower-growing group. After a few years, I have become an administrator.
Various novices come in and ask how to configure nutrient soil.
The ratio of nutrient solution includes which flowers are cold-resistant and which flowers are easy to grow, which is suitable for novices. They all answered clearly and logically.
The children liked him and brought a few pots of flowers every time they came.
The old man keeps growing more and more flowers, whether at home or outside.
He loves to grow flowers, but his wife doesn't like them very much.
The main reason is that there are too many flowers, and I don’t feel that they are rare even if I look at them every day.
On the contrary, there are ants in the house, which annoys me to death.
Mrs. Xu said, "If that doesn't work, just plant some vegetables. You can still eat them anyway. What's the use of these flowers?"
When Mr. Xu heard this, he immediately said: "This is called a rose for others, and it has a lingering fragrance in your hands. What do you know?"
Old Mrs. Xu mocked: "I think you are a conspicuous person. Look at this old lady, she grows vegetables every day, and her son and daughter don't have to buy vegetables. It is enough for the whole family. It would be better for you to get some shabby flowers like this, 2nd floor I told you that if you, a flower, climbs up the wall again, I will have to tell you later."
It’s hard for this flower to grow too well.
After more than ten years of planting, the flowers he raised became as big as trees and blocked the sunlight from the second floor.
Not satisfied with the 2nd floor.
The old lady asked him to give the flowers away.
But the old man’s flowers were grown from seedlings.
No matter if it is sold or given away, I would hate to part with it.
I've been talked about a lot by the old lady these days. The old man had a dark face and didn't know what to say.
Just angry at myself.
While the old couple was quarreling, the son came back, holding a small flower pot with green flowers in his hand.
Before Mr. Xu could see clearly, he transferred his anger to his son: "I told you not to send it home, but I keep sending it home every day, which makes your mother even unhappy."
The old lady didn't expect this old man to be so shameless: "You old thing."
The son said next to him: "This is not for you, but for mom. This is a vegetable. I went to Mantianxing Kindergarten to buy it."
As soon as she heard that it was a dish, the old lady immediately went over and saw that it was indeed a dish.
The green lettuce is grown here, emerald green, with a fresh and tangy smell.
The old man became sour when he saw that it was not given to him: "This vegetable is still planted in a flower pot. It is really valuable."
The son said next to him: "It is true that this dish is usually not available. Mangyxing Kindergarten is grabbing food. The news is coming out. It seems that everyone in the city has gone there to grab food. Fortunately, I rode one Electric cars, otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to park there if there was no parking space, so I went there and bought 10 pots.”
"I'll give you one, give one to my father-in-law, plant the remaining one in the office, and raise a few more at home."
"This is easy to break off a few leaves and make noodles when you want to eat it. It is said that it tastes really good!"
"Do you know Gypsophila Kindergarten? My wife has been paying attention to it for half a year and wants to send her child to it, but they don't enroll students, so she can only buy some Gypsophila vegetables."
"A kindergarten can also grow vegetables." The old lady thought it was novel.
"No, my wife looks at these dishes like eyeballs, so she will give them back to my father-in-law. He doesn't feel bad, otherwise the neighbors won't sell them if they want to spend money to buy them."
When they mentioned that they were their daughter-in-law, the old couple said nothing, but the old man curled his lips, obviously not thinking that this was so rare.
This kind of lettuce costs 2.5 yuan per pound in the market.
This one weighs less than a pound.
But the old lady’s Coke is broken.
She loves food.
When her son brought her vegetables, the old lady immediately moved down the most conspicuous pot of flowers on the flower stand in the house, and then placed her own vegetables on top, giving the impression of getting out of the way of a big shot.
The old man was a little dissatisfied.
But his wife has been quarreling with him these days, and he doesn't dare to say anything.
So I could only give up.
At noon, my son insisted on asking his mother to put some noodles into the dish.
He has long heard that this food is delicious.
But the daughter-in-law wouldn’t let her eat it.
Just keeping it like this every day, he has been craving for it for several days.
When you look at the leaves, they are so green and crisp.
Now when I come to my parents, I make a request.
"That's enough food!" The old man said sarcastically next to him.
When the old lady got angry, she immediately said: "Okay, we two will eat it, but you don't want to eat it!"
Finally, I ordered noodles for my son and specially broke off two leaves.
When the old man saw that he really didn't care, he got angry from the side and kept giving his son winks.
The son laughed and said, "Mom, bring my dad's share!"
When the old lady saw her son speaking, she reluctantly joined him.
As a result, the noodles are ready to eat as soon as they are made. The house is full of fragrance.
The greens are cooked crispy and tender. It also has an unprecedented sweetness.
The old couple immediately became energetic and felt very comfortable after eating the whole meal.
Coupled with the hot noodles, my mood became better.
No wonder the noodles are so delicious.
For a moment, the old man looked at the vegetables thoughtfully. Is it true, as the old lady said, that growing flowers is not as good as raising vegetables?
I haven't thought about it in these years, but now that I have eaten noodles once, my mentality has changed significantly: "Can you bring back some more food?" One pot is not enough.
"Yes, why not? I still have seven pots at home, that's it. I'll get four more pots later."
"Can you buy some more?" the old man said.
"This is not easy to buy. I'll go take a look later!"
The old man said: "If you can buy it, you can buy another 20 pots."
"Where is the place at home to grow crops?" the son said next to him.
The old man said, "What's there? Give him all my flowers. From now on, your mother and I will have a separate yard, one of us will plant flowers and the other of vegetables."
When the old lady heard this, she was very happy: "This is what you said, but you can't go back on it."
She didn't know that eating this bowl of noodles would have such a big impact on him. She would have eaten it if she had known about it.
