Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 127 Yuan Jiayuanzi
The garden Yuan Xiuzhu mentioned was not the one in the hot spring villa, but the house in the city.

The Yuan family was originally a family of officials and eunuchs, counting up to three generations, there were people who were officials, and Yuan Xiuzhu worked in various places for many years.Being a foreign official is much more lucrative than being an official in Beijing. After he became an official, he came back to buy property and bought a big house covering an area of ​​seven or eight acres.

He built pavilions, terraces and pavilions in the garden, moved many flowers and trees, diverted running water, and made it look like the gardens in the south of the Yangtze River that Du Jinning saw in his previous life.The winter in the south is warm. There has not been a snowfall in ten years. The vegetation is still green and the scenery is very beautiful.Walking in this garden, Du Jinning seems to have returned to his previous life.

Before she was reborn, she was building such a garden.It was a high-end villa community, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it was advertised as a Chinese classical garden environment. Du Jinning and his instructor were responsible for the garden design and flower planting projects.

"Xiao Ning, look, this is the tree."

Hearing Yuan Xiuzhu's voice, Du Jinning came back to his senses, and saw that they had unknowingly come to a fence, Yuan Xiuzhu was pointing to a camphor tree not far from the fence and said: "Look, this It was a camphor tree that I just asked someone to transplant here this spring, but since it was transplanted, it was dying, and the leaves were always turning yellow. I asked someone to look at it, and they couldn’t find out the reason. Xiao Ning Show it, if it doesn’t work, I’ll unplug it.”

Guan Lehe stepped forward to look, and was about to speak, when a servant came over and said, "Old Master, Old Master Qi is here."

"Haha, that old man, who has had enough to eat all day and has nothing to do, has nothing to do, so he ran to my place." Yuan Xiuzhu laughed loudly, "Please invite him in."

But before the servant turned around, Qi Bokun's voice came from not far away: "Who said that you have nothing to do when you are full? I don't think you are lonely by yourself, you are very pitiful, come to accompany you .”

Yuan Xiuzhu stared at Qi Bokun, who was walking towards him, and said, "You're a dead duck."

These two old men bickered as soon as they met, but it was very lively, Guan Lehe and Du Jinning were no strangers to it.

About this camphor tree, Yuan Xiuzhu thought he had told Qi Bokun about it.Qi Bokun walked closer and saw Guan Hele and Du Jinning walking around the camphor tree, so he knew what was going on, and said with a smile: "Did you invite our little doctor Du to treat the tree today?"

"Isn't it? The tree is half-dead. If you cut it down, you're reluctant; if you don't cut it down, it's obstructing your eyes. So let Xiao Ning come over and take a look. If you really can't find the problem, cut it down," Yuan Xiuzhu said. .

To be honest, although Du Jinning showed more confidence than Guan Lehe, Du Jinning was too young. Even if he had cured the strawberries for him, Yuan Xiuzhu still didn't have much confidence in this camphor tree. confidence.

Guan Le and Gugou were worried that she would make people laugh if she said the wrong thing, so they said what was interrupted just now: "Although I don't know much about camphor trees, there are many cabinets and bookcases made of camphor wood at home. I still know a little about this thing. The reason why people like to use this camphor to make cabinets and bookcases is because it has a special fragrance, which is hated by insects and ants, and can prevent insects very well. Since it is made into cabinets, it can It will not be eaten by insects, and there will be no insects to make it sick when it is alive, right? So it must not be caused by diseases and insects."

Yuan Xiuzhu nodded: "Our flower carpenter also said so."

Worried that Du Jinning couldn't see the reason, he was anxious, and he was about to say something in order to give Du Jinning a way out, when Du Jinning suddenly asked, "Is this section of the wall of your house just built?"

Yuan Xiuzhu was taken aback, nodded and said, "Yes."

"Is there a house built here? Then it was demolished, and a section of wall was built with old bricks, and then painted with lime?"

"Yes." Yuan Xiuzhu nodded again.

Immediately he asked suspiciously: "Why? Does this fence affect the camphor tree?"

Qi Bokun was also a little dumbfounded: "Could it be a matter of feng shui? Do you still read feng shui?"

In their opinion, what Du Jinning said could only be explained in this way.Otherwise, such a section of wall is still two or three feet away from the tree, and the wall is not high, and the tree is not short, so it cannot be said that the wall blocks the sunlight of the tree, right?Isn't this bullshit?
Guan Lehe took two steps forward, gave Du Jinning a wink, shook his head slightly, and signaled her not to talk nonsense.

It doesn't matter if you can't see what's wrong with the tree, Yuan Xiuzhu doesn't have any hope for her, it's just a dead horse as a living horse doctor.If you can't see it, just say it openly, and no one will blame her.

The son is silent and strange.But if she said ghostly things for the sake of face, Yuan Xiuzhu and Qi Bokun would definitely have a bad impression of her, and it would be difficult to change this impression in the future.

Seeing her husband defending herself, Du Jinning felt warm in his heart, smiled to reassure him, then turned to Yuan Xiuzhu and said, "In my opinion, this is a problem with the soil. I think you didn't dig the foundation deep when you demolished the house. The camphor tree was planted directly here without changing the soil at the tree pit. The foundation contains lime, which is also used to paint the fence, and it is possible to directly mix the slurry here, so that the lime seeps into the mud The lime is harmful to the camphor tree, so it can’t grow well. It’s half dead now, and the leaves are turning yellow. After half a year, those leaves will shrivel and the edges will be scorched, and the tree will be completely hopeless.”

Everyone didn't expect that Du Jinning specifically pointed out the meaning of the wall just now.

"Is that so?" Yuan Xiuzhu was still skeptical.However, no one else could find the reason. Du Jinning could at least explain the original situation here, which seemed to make some sense.He also tentatively believed it.

"Then is this tree still safe?" He asked.

Du Jinning hesitated for a moment: "Remove it first, let's see how it grows."

In modern times, this kind of yellowing disease is quite easy to cure, just inject ferrous sulfate directly under the tree roots.But this is ancient times, where did the ferrous sulfate come from?Although putting iron into sulfuric acid can decompose ferrous sulfate, dilute sulfuric acid bears the name of "green vitriol oil" and was refined by alchemy Taoists as early as the Tang Dynasty, but she is a country boy, where can she find out Green alum oil?These are all well-read poems and books.If she said that she saw it in a book, these people had to ask her to point out which book it was.

She didn't want to cause trouble for herself for a tree.

"Remove?" Yuan Xiuzhu frowned.

This tree is also as high as a story and a half of a house. It took a lot of effort to get it and plant it.Now I have to move it again, and there are still many troubles.

"Can it be dug up and replanted?" he asked.This is at least a little bit of a hassle.

Du Jinning shook his head: "I suggest that you plant it with other trees. The soil here is not good for camphor, but it can grow well with other trees."

The camphor tree likes acidic soil, and it is easy to get sick in alkaline soil, and eventually the whole plant will die.But this piece of land has construction waste, a lot of lime content, and serious alkalinity.Even if a part of the area is dug up, the soil is changed, and the tree is replanted, it may survive in the short term, but after a year or two, the root system develops and extends to other places, and it will still be affected by the alkaline soil.

It's better to move it elsewhere and replace it with plants that like alkaline soil.

Yuan Xiuzhu didn't have any good ideas, so he didn't bother the two masters, and asked Du Jinning, "What kind of thing? Give me your opinion."

"Plant one or two big-leaf crape myrtle." Du Jinning said.Crape myrtle trees like alkaline soil.

Yuan Xiuzhu looked at the camphor tree, a little bit reluctant: "Then don't want this tree?"

"In this way, you choose a place you like first, and I will show you if the soil there is suitable." Du Jinning said.

Yuan Xiuzhu has nothing to do with it.After looking around, he wanted to reach out and point out.

"Don't be near here, it's better to be far away." Du Jinning hurriedly stopped him.

Yuan Xiuzhu stroked his beard, he didn't have any idea at the moment, so he said: "Let's go, I'll show you around the garden, Xiaoning, you can also help me choose a suitable place."

These words hit Du Jinning's heart.She was just about to see what flowers and trees there were in Yuan's garden.Farming is hard work and the income is not high, she doesn't want Mrs. Chen and the others to work hard in the fields every day.It is enough to grow a little enough for rations. In other places, flowers and trees can be cultivated for sale.

(End of this chapter)