The Garden Life of a Little Gardener

When Zhou Quan and Chen's father and son were walking back, across the short bridge over the stream, in the darkness, one could faintly see a short figure in cotton clothes, holding on to the door frame of the courtyard gate, walking towards the distance look around.

Even though Hei Tian couldn't see the face clearly, Zhou Quan knew that the person waiting for them at the door was his aunt with just a silhouette.

He could tell that the Chen family father and son would naturally not admit their mistakes.

The uncle of the Chen family seemed to be complaining when he saw this, but in fact he said with concern: "Mom, what are you doing out so late? The TV said that the temperature is cooling down today. How do you mix it when you catch a cold? You just have a cold."

The little aunt who was wearing a thick cotton coat said with a guilty conscience: "I just looked at the door, and I didn't dare to go far. It's okay to wear cotton coats and cotton shoes. Baojia Village is noisy and noisy. Mom, don't worry. "

"Mom, how many times have I told you that there is no Baojia Village or Chenjia Village now. We are all villagers of two surname villages, and we are people in the same village."

"I know, I know. I'm old and forgetful. When I was young, I was used to it for decades."

Because they lived next to each other, there was still some friction between the original Chenjia Village and Baojia Village.

To outsiders, it is not a big problem to cultivate land with water source in the field, but it is very practical for the villagers who rely on mountains and water to drink water.

Because of these problems, the two villages used to have some conflicts with each other. Even after the two merged, the villagers at that time still preferred to call their villages by their past names.

This kind of vaguely antagonistic attitude has lasted for several years, and the problem of cadres in the village is even more difficult.

The Chen family, who chose the Bao family, was dissatisfied, and the Bao family, who chose the Chen family, refused to do it. They sent people with other surnames to work in the village, and the results were even worse.

A village is divided by a small stream, and the two sides of the Hexi River and the East River are like the Chu River and Han Boundary, and they have nothing to do with each other.

Two people broke the deadlock, Zhou Quan's grandfather, Zhou Liren, and Bao Chen, the eldest son of Bao's parents.

Zhou Quan's grandfather fled to Chenjia Village, and was rescued by Zhou Quan's grandma's father, who was also the grandfather of the eldest cousin of the Chen family.

Back then, the old man of the Chen family just wanted to do a good deed, but he didn't expect to save a good marriage for his eldest daughter.

After the Zhou family's grandfather married a girl from the Chen family, he settled down here. With his family's ancestral skill of serving flowers and plants, he found a job in the garden management office in the city to maintain flowers.

Working and living, having children to support the family, the life of the old man of the Zhou family is simple and happy.

Compared with the simple Zhou family, the Bao family is much more complicated.

The lineage of the Bao family's gold family is said to have been prominent in the past. The house in the village covers an area of ​​several acres, and the courtyards with three or four entrances are their old house.

Later, the family fell into poverty, and the eldest son of the Bao family's generation went out to learn cooking by chance. Later, he stayed in the imperial capital by virtue of his skills and became the head chef of a state-owned restaurant.

At the beginning of the turmoil, Mr. Bao from the imperial capital escaped disaster and returned to his hometown because of his poor status. He married a wife and had a daughter in his hometown.

Because they lived close together, the two heads of the Zhou family and the Bao family became close friends.

The days went on like this, and after the reform and opening up, Mr. Bao came out again with his good cooking skills and ran a private restaurant in the city.

Because of the good craftsmanship and reasonable price, Mr. Bao's restaurant is booming, but the Zhou family's side is full of accidents.

First, Mr. Zhou's wife left early. Later, his son and daughter-in-law who worked in the same unit also died in the line of duty because of saving public property. The three generations of the originally happy family suddenly left only Mr. Zhou's family and Zhou Quan, who was not in elementary school at the time. .

In order to take better care of his grandson, the 50-year-old man of the Zhou family chose to retire early, and the grandpa and grandson stayed together and lived a life of mutual dependence.

At that time, the two villages had just merged for a few years, and the atmosphere was at its most tense. However, Zhou Liren's father-in-law was appointed as the village head of the village with two surnames.

In order to support the old father-in-law's work, to provide a better life for his grandson, and to let the old and young men in the village have a craft, so that the people in the village don't have to suffer from the pain of being separated from their relatives just to earn money, Zhou Quan's grandfather made a Very fashionable decision at the time.

He wants to build a flower shed in the village to grow flowers, not the common potted flowers, but fresh cut flowers that have just flourished in the northeast.

As a craftsman who has spent most of his life dealing with landscape plants, Zhou Quan's grandfather is even more skilled than ordinary people in the maintenance of flowers.

In particular, the fresh-cut flowers he chose to plant were the most popular and the most used in the market at that time. Common people call them roses, but they are actually rose flowers.

Zhou Quan remembered that one year when his grandfather came back from drinking in the Bao’s mansion, he hugged him and said to him, “Ah Quan, you have to remember that the rose is the flower seed of our country. Our ancestors began to cultivate the rose thousands of years ago. There are too many varieties of roses. However, future generations are useless, and now the rose varieties cultivated by those transplanted and cultivated countries are better than ours, and the popularity is far beyond ours, which is really a shame to our ancestors."

It was one of the few times that Zhou Quan saw his grandfather cry. Zhou Quan will remember it all his life.

After the flower shed was built, Zhou Quan's grandfather not only planted fresh-cut roses by himself, but was also willing to selflessly share his technology with the villagers.

Whether it's from the Chen family or the Bao family, as long as they are willing to learn from Mr. Zhou, they are willing to teach them hand in hand, and soon the flower sheds in the village are built one by one.

Grandpa Zhou's step was very correct, because at that time all the fresh-cut flowers in their city had to be transported from the provincial capital. As the first village in the whole city to plant and manage fresh-cut roses, the whole village The celebrities quickly became rich.

And the days of Grandpa Zhou's family shuttled back and forth between growing flowers, teaching apprentices, and watching grandchildren.

Compared with the Zhou family, which has survived smoothly, the Bao family, which runs a restaurant in the city, has a big accident. The son-in-law of the Bao family was found to be raising another woman outside. The woman's belly was seven or eight months old. About to give birth.

Zhou Quan remembered that day, when he was in the first grade and his friends in the village were carrying their schoolbags to school together, they saw people from Bao's family in the village getting on the tractor of Bao Erlong's family and driving towards the city aggressively.

Later, Zhouquan heard that Aunt Lian of Bao's family had divorced, and the son-in-law who came to Grandpa Bao's house was kicked out.

The family property is all in the name of Grandpa Bao, and the son-in-law who came to the door actually got nothing.

But the grandfather of Bao's family was still very angry, because he really regarded his son-in-law as his successor and taught him all his cooking skills.

Fortunately, that guy is a bit lazy and lazy, and he refuses to endure hardships when learning things. He only learns the surface but not the essence, but the old man is still not reconciled to this, and always feels that he has raised a white-eyed wolf.

Because of this incident, the spirit and body of Bao's grandma and aunt became very poor. In order to take care of them, Grandpa Bao had to close the restaurant in the city, and returned to the village to live with his wife, daughter and grandson.

After an accident, the energy of the old man of the Bao family was not as good as before. After returning to the village, he relied on his past savings and farming to support his family.

Seeing his good friend living a splendid life in the village and being very happy teaching his apprentices, Mr. Bao was also moved, saying that if any young people in the village want to learn cooking skills, they can come to his house.

So besides growing flowers, the young people in the village have another way of life.

Because of the selflessness of the two old people, the Bao surname and Chen surname who were originally in conflict in the village quickly merged together, and the relationship became harmonious.

But even so, there are still some old people who are more used to calling the village by the past name, which has no other meaning, just a habit, and my aunt is one of them.

Uncle Chen's family was very helpless about this, and the village head made a slip of the tongue every day, which once became the focus of everyone's jokes before tea and after dinner.

Of course, this kind of teasing was not malicious, and the object of the teasing was not my aunt, but Chen Youde, the village chief.

Village head Chen Da had no choice but to laugh and scold him, because those who were older than him in the village basically watched him grow up, and those who were the same age as him were all young. People with the surname Cun are very polite to people they don't know well.

Seeing that the juniors came back safely, my aunt laughed so hard that she couldn't see her eyes.

Pulling them back into the house, everyone sat around on the kang again.

Poured Zhouquan half a cup of millet burnt, and the uncle of the Chen family said, "It's cold outside, I just came back to drink some burnt wine to warm my body."

After pouring the wine, the uncle handed the shochu bottle to his son, and said to Zhou Quan: "Don't drink too much, just one tael is fine, the cup here is exactly two taels, you can just drink half a glass. "

Although Zhou Quan doesn't smoke, he can hold a lot of alcohol. This is because he has two best friends, Fa Xiao, who can hold even more alcohol, and one of them is busy filling his glass now.

As a bus driver, Chen Wenli, who loves wine, can only control his hobbies at ordinary times, but tonight he plans to break.

Zhouquan sipped a few mouthfuls of millet burnt, still couldn't hold back and asked: "Big cousin, didn't that Zhao Ergun took him with Xiaosan and the children to work hard in other cities, and I heard that the job was pretty good. How did you find it again?"

Chen Youde snorted coldly when he heard the words and said, "Ah Quan, you go to university, and you don't understand what happened later. After that Zhao Ergun and Sister Alian divorced, he took that pregnant one to the provincial capital. The skills learned by Uncle Bao, he was good at the beginning, became a chef and later opened his own restaurant. But this person is so wicked that he can’t change it. He uses waste oil when cooking. He also used expired flour and spoiled ingredients, and the food hygiene department found out, not only sealed up the shop, but also severely fined him."

"If it's a dog, it can't be changed to eat shit." The aunt who also avenged Lao Bao's family said disdainfully.

"So he came back after he couldn't get along in the provincial capital?"

"It's not a big deal. The one who was fined sold the house, and the restaurant couldn't open in the provincial capital because of the bad reputation, so he had to come back in despair."

"The village they went directly to? Live in our village?"

"They are beautiful, dare to come here! When I first came back, I worked in the city and rented a house in the city. I heard that they were valued by the boss because of their good craftsmanship. Later, they were caught by the boss and almost called the police for stealing the kitchen. , In order not to go to jail, he paid the other party a lot of money, and when the situation was exhausted, he went back to the old house of Zhao Ergun's hometown."

Zhao Ergun is from Taoshu Village next door. Taoshu Village is located in a ravine with only one dirt road. The electricity was only connected to it more than ten years ago. It is a well-known impoverished village in ten miles and eight towns.

If he hadn't been so poor, Zhao Ergun wouldn't have thought about becoming a son-in-law back then.

"He is a son who has married into someone else's family, and he will come back after almost 30 years. It is needless to mention how annoying he is. His elder brother and third younger brother disagree, but he lives in his parents' old house, so it is just Noisy, no one has chased away yet."

No one in the village sympathized with Zhao Ergun's fate, and those close to the Bao family despised him even more.

"Then which play is he singing today?"

"I don't know, anyway, no matter what he wants to do, don't try to trick people in our village."

At this time, Chen Wenli put a piece of red mushroom into his mouth and asked as if something sounded while chewing: "This guy didn't hear that Baozhen came back and was going to renovate the old house, so he wanted to come over to share a piece of the pie?"

"Fuck, why is he the only one? Where was he when Baoyan was a teenager and went to Suizhou to beg for a living? Now that Baoyan has made a fortune, he wants to come back to take advantage of it, so he has to ask us uncles if he agrees."

"Brother Baoyan is back?" Zhou Quan, who was holding a wine glass, asked in surprise.

"Well, I came back a few days earlier than you. I didn't live in the old house. I stayed in a big hotel in the city. I'm planning to renovate the old house."

"Oh, that's it."

"Don't talk about those annoying things, I'm glad you came back today. Come, let's go with my brother."

The atmosphere at the eating and drinking table quickly became lively again.

The author has something to say:

Well, the fresh-cut flowers sold in the market now, what everyone calls roses are actually modern roses.Chinese rose is native to my country and has been cultivated for more than 2000 years. It is also known as periwinkle, moon red, etc. From the 17th to the 18th century, Chinese rose varieties such as Yueyuehong, Yueyuefen, and light yellow perfume were introduced to Europe one after another, and were deeply loved by the European court aristocracy at that time. Strains and varieties that bloom all year round, and quickly became popular all over the world.

Roses, roses, and roses belong to the genus Rosa, and they are sister flowers with very similar shapes. However, roses have large flowers, hard branches, and rich colors and are mostly used for ornamental purposes. Roses have high medicinal value and strong fragrance. and other raw materials extraction.Rose has many vines, and the flowers are small and clustered in clusters. It only blooms in summer and has strong adaptability.

In terms of varieties, modern roses are more suitable for fresh-cut flowers than roses.

After repeated crossbreeding between Chinese roses and European roses, the new 'French' variety, which blooms all year round, was successfully bred in 1867, so this year became the dividing line between modern roses and ancient roses.

In the 70s and [-]s, due to special period problems, the ancient rose varieties in China were destroyed on a large scale. Many very precious and ancient varieties were almost lost for a time, which is really a pity.

So my dears, the bouquet you hold in your hand is actually not a rose but a rose~~