Chapter 16 Looking for Flowers

"What?" Lin Daimo raised his eyebrows and didn't know what medicine was sold in this woman's gourd.

"Why don't you give me ten taels of silver and take it as tuition. Anyway, those mushrooms and fungus you raise will be rewarded in the future. I happen to be in urgent need now, and my family is about to run out of food. We can't drink the northwest wind. Why don't we get a little advance from you first?

But as soon as Lin Daimo heard it, it was just taking advantage of the fire, and his anger came up and said with a black face, "No." After saying that, he turned his head and refused to make a sound again.

Lu Mengji slumped and cleaned up the room sullenly, but the seed in his heart gradually sprouted and was ready to move, but without the support of silver, everything returned to zero.

"What's the use of those ten taels of silver?" For a long time, Lin Daimo softened his tone and said a sentence.

"Naturally, it's for a full livelihood. I can't run away with money when you're sick."

"Well, it's just ten taels of silver. This is the key. You can take it yourself." Lin Daimo untied the key on his trousers and handed it to Lu Mengji.

He is weak and everything is taken care of by Lu Mengjian. Although he has always had some ideas about this woman, he has to admit that this woman has a lot of ideas. Moreover, he did agree to tuition at the time of mushroom breeding. If the contract is broken, it is really not a gentleman's morality. Besides, there are some debts, which are cleared early.

Lu Mengji didn't expect the other party to be so happy. He asked for ten taels of silver. He was ready to fold in half, but he actually agreed without frowning. This change was like a child's face changing.

With silver in hand, Lu Mengjian was so excited that he almost didn't sleep all night. The next morning, after entrusting Lin Daimo to Aunt Li, he listened all the way to Pulan City and went straight to the famous Zhao Jiayun flower shop in the city without hesitation.

Perhaps because the flowers have not yet opened in early spring, there is almost no one in the flower shop except the dozed boss. There is a pot of golden oranges in the small store, and the small fruits bend down the fine branches. Due to the extremely low temperature in winter, the flowers and trees here have withered their leaves early, and there are several pots of bare flower trees in the vacant land next to them. Except for a pot of osmanthus trees with a few green leaves left, the other flower trees look very pitiful.

When the boss saw the person coming, he thought that the other party had gone to the wrong place. He did not get up to greet him, but just squinted and looked up and down. Unexpectedly, the woman turned around the store for a long time and bent down to carefully check the flowers and trees in the pot. Finally, she pointed to a pot of rhododendron that had not yet bloomed and asked, "Boss, how much is this flower?"

"One or two," the boss couldn't help but feel disgusted when he saw the woman wearing shabby clothes. Only rich people have been full and have nothing to do. They came to the flower shop to buy flowers. Unexpectedly, such poor people also wanted to learn from others to do such elegant things, so they casually said the number and tried to scare her out.

"I'm scared, but a pot of ordinary rhododendrons is so expensive. Boss, you dare to ask for a price." Lu Mengjian didn't expect that a pot of flowers could be sold so expensive. He couldn't help but be surprised, but when he saw that the boss looked unreasonable, he knew that the other party thought that he could not afford to buy flowers, so he asked for a lot of prices, and deliberately pointed to a pot next to him. Jin Gui asked about the price.

After grafting, Jin Gui grew very well, and the shape of rockery and flowing water was placed in the basin, which looked very elegant. The boss hummed softly and pinched his voice and said, "This, you need nine taels of silver, little girl, you can't afford it."

When Lu Mengji heard the boss's voice, a trace of ridicule appeared on his face, "Oh, yes, the shape of Jin Gui is only worth nine taels of silver. No matter how expensive it is, I'm afraid no one wants to buy it."

The boss was anxious when he heard it. It took him several years to cultivate this Jingui, but now he has been arbitrarily belittled. How can he swallow this breath and walk to Lu Mengjian in a few steps. "What are you talking about? Do you know how rare this Jingui is? Look at the shape of this tiger's head alone, it is very rare, and this fake Mountain..."

"Although the shape is good, it is a pity that if this flower deliberately carves its shape just for money, it will also lose the soul of the flower. Don't you find that this golden osmanthus has a shape, but it has no spirituality?"

In Pulan City, everyone knows that the bonsai of Zhao's cloud flower shop is famous for its exquisite beauty, but all the rich people who come to buy it are praised, and even the flowers in the flower shop during the New Year's festival are in short supply.

The potted plant has no soul and no spiritual words. Zhao Jizhong heard about it for the first time, and he couldn't help but feel unhappy.

"This girl, why did you say this? Why is Jin Gui not spiritual at all? If it's good, I'll sell this Jingui to you at half price today, but if it's not good, don't blame me for being rude." Zhao Jizhong got up and walked slowly to him, with his slender eyes narrowed into a crack and kept looking at Lu Mengjian. He didn't believe that this childish little girl could do to the bonsai at all.

Lu Mengji smiled and said, "This is a bonsai. Only when the flowers and trees have aura and the universe in the basin can they be appreciated. Flowers and trees are like people. Before being repaired, they are just plain roots and branches and leaves. Only after creativity, design, combination and repair can they become a bonsai work of art with both shape and spirit. Take this pot of golden osmanthus as an example. Although the shape does give people a magnificent feeling, it always feels a little far-fetched when looking at it carefully. The boss deliberately distorts the branch shape according to his own will, but he does not know that it restricts the development of the tree shape, thus making the whole plant look dull, as if a person has lost his soul and has no aura.

After listening to this, Zhao Jizhong looked carefully and found that what Lu Mengji said was indeed reasonable, but he had planted so many years and had never been questioned. Today, he was picked out by a woman, which was inevitably unhappy. So he looked at Lu Mengzhi without any doubt, "What remedies do you have?"

Although the tree shape has roughly grown, it is not irreversible. You can take advantage of the spring branch turning green and become flexible, slightly lower the branch, let the other parts grow, and then trim it a little when the branches and leaves flourish. As for the appearance of the tiger head, I have to say that your craftsmanship is indeed first-class, but if you try to minimize it and focus on pulling pressure, it will be more natural." Lu Mengjie said and stroked the golden Gui branch with his hand. The technique was very old-fashioned. Zhao Jizhong stood aside and frowned and listened and nodded constantly.

"I didn't expect that the girl had such an understanding of this potted plant at a young age, which was disrespectful and disrespectful!" Zhao Jizhong then smiled and looked at Lu Mengzhi, "I don't know which basin to take away if the girl came to Zhao's store today?"

Lu Mengjian heard the change of the boss's tone and couldn't help but admire Boss Zhao's face-changing skills, but as the saying goes that he did not reach out and not hit smiling people. What's more, Lu Mengjian came to buy flowers today. Seeing Boss Zhao's kind face, he thought that his words also played a role. Naturally, he could not return empty-handed.

"I don't know that there are unpruned flower seedlings in Boss Zhao's store. I heard that the seedlings of Zhao's cloud flower shop are famous for being easy to survive, so I want to buy some today so that I can plant them by myself."

"There are flower seedlings, but since there are ready-made potted plants, why do girls have to plant them by themselves? Not to mention the daily watering, fertilization and plastic surgery alone is not easy. This is all physical work," Boss Zhao strongly persuaded. After all, the flower seedlings have not yet taken shape, and now they can only earn money back. Such as the benefits of selling beautiful bonsai directly.

"The ready-made bonsai is good, but it's a pity that it has also been shaped now, and the cultivation process is inevitably less fun. It's better to plant flowers and seedlings directly." Lu Mengji insisted, but retained the most important point that it can be shaped according to the situation. Most of the shapes of the bonsai sold by the florists are specific and have no new ideas. Instead, you can have more time and ideas to create a work of art.

Although Zhao Jizhong was not happy, he still took Lu Mengjian to the backyard to select several types of flower seedlings, and selected more than 20 healthy flower seedlings, including several kinds of potted plants such as osmanthus, cypress, pomegranate, etc., and carefully tied the roots. He also took many narcissus, lilies, rhizomes, rhizal bulbs and several colors of rose flowers and handed them over to Lu Mengji.

For these alone, seven taels of silver were spent. Lu Mengji stuffed the flower seeds directly into his pocket, but the seedlings and bulbs were inconvenient to carry on his body, so he directly called a carriage to transport them home directly.

Suddenly thought of the many ingredients that were still missing at home, Lu Mengji touched the purse on the cuffs, asked Boss Zhao about the location of the grain store, entrusted Zhao Jizhong to take care of them, and temporarily deposited those flowers and seedlings in the store. It was already afternoon, and Lu Mengji hurried to the nearby market.

Along the way, I bought a complete set of oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. I bought two bags of fine noodles and a bag of coarse corn noodles. Thinking that Lin Daimo was poisoned and weak, I cut a catty of meat to nourish him. Seeing the fried buns sold on the roadside, he said that some of them were in his hand. In the middle of the road, he hired a carriage for dozens of yuan, took flower seedlings from the cloud flower shop, and sent them directly to Shita Village.

Aunuch Li is worried about Lu Mengjian going out alone and has to look at the entrance of the village every once in a while. After noon, there was still no trace of Lu Mengzhi, so he sent Zhong'er to guard at the entrance of the village.

The sun was setting in the west. Zhonger saw a strange carriage coming to the village, so she looked up and took a more look. She saw Lu Mengjian raise the curtain to look out and hurried home to inform Aunt Li.

While talking, the carriage had come to the door. When Aunt Li heard the sound of the carriage, she immediately ran to the door. Seeing that Lu Mengjian was moving things out of the carriage, she hurriedly put her hand and brought down all the things on the carriage. It was inevitably puzzled to see dozens of saplings.

"Dream Jian, there are many saplings on our mountain. Why do you still buy them from the city? Isn't it a waste of money? If you have that money, you might as well buy more food and waste more!" Aunt Li complained sadly, but Lu Mengjian heard about the flower seedlings and hurriedly put down the things in her hand and ran to Aunt Li. She carefully put the seedlings on the ground for fear of breaking a leaf.

"Aunuch Li, don't worry, you also bought the grain. I still expect these saplings to live in the future," Lu Mengjian smiled cunningly, turned around and paid the fare before slowly moving the things to the yard.