Leftover Girl's Neverland

Chapter 22
After careful explanation by team leader Zhao, Meng Zhen bought 960 red Fuji apple seedlings and [-] fragrant pear seedlings, and also picked some lotus seeds.Because the quantity is quite large, the nursery delivers the goods for free, but the nursery truck is not here now, and Meng Zhen's tricycle can't carry so many fruit trees, so it is scheduled to deliver them tomorrow afternoon.Forty fruit tree seedlings totaled [-] yuan, and the lotus seeds were given to her.Meng Zhen paid half as a deposit first, and paid the other half after the fruit seedlings were delivered tomorrow.

After negotiating the price, the two came to Team Leader Zhao's office. Team Leader Zhao received the deposit and filled out a receipt for Meng Zhen. Meng Zhen also wrote down his home address and left it to him.

Seeing that everything was settled, she asked casually: "Group Leader Zhao, do you sell the flower seedlings in your yard? What's the price?"

Group leader Zhao followed her gaze, "Oh, those are dead flower seedlings, worthless, if Ms. Meng is interested, she can take them away for free. But these can only be used as firewood, and they cannot be kept alive at all. .”

"It's okay, since it's worthless, I'll take it all away!"

Meng Zhenxin has always wanted to experiment with the efficacy of the manor, and now seeing that the experimental specimens are all given away for free, he is very happy.In fact, she didn't know that the nursery was happy. These dead and frozen flower seedlings were almost dead and could not survive at all. They were originally going to throw garbage.In the end, Meng Zhen took the initiative to ask for it, which just happened to give him a favor and save the truck's gas money.

With the help of the nursery workers, Meng Zhen filled the tricycle with a pile of dead branches and rotten seedlings. After confirming the delivery time with Team Leader Zhao tomorrow, he rode the bicycle out of the yard.

Going west on Jianshe Avenue, when approaching Zhoujiazhuang, Meng Zhen stopped, pushed the car and turned into the woods beside the road.

I looked around and made sure there was no one there, so I pushed the cart into the manor.

"Xiongxiong, I'm sorry, I forgot about you yesterday!"

When Meng Zhen entered the manor, he picked up the puppy squatting under the tree.

Hey, it seems to be fat again?Is it possible to eat tomatoes all day long and only drink some broth once in a while, so that you can also grow meat?

Xiong Xiong now began to recognize his own name, and seemed to know that the woman who lifted him up to her face was his master, facing his master's enthusiasm, it kept wagging its tail in the air.

Seeing that Xiong Xiong was still alive and kicking, Meng Zhenxin felt a lot less guilty: Xiong Xiong, don't worry, I was not a competent master before, and I will treat you well in the future!
The puppy wagged its tail in response, but tilted its head upwards, as if it was extremely enthusiastic about something.Meng Zhen didn't pay attention at first, but later found that Xiong Xiong seemed to be staring at the tree.

She put down the dog and looked up under the tree. If she saw it right, this strange tree seemed to be blooming!

Among the lush branches and leaves, there is a little pink and white, and there seems to be a different atmosphere in the air.Meng Zhen closed his eyes and took a deep breath. That's right, the smell was different from that of the vegetables in the field when they bloomed and matured, as if, as if they were alive.Yes, it feels like there is aura of agility all around.

Regarding this tree, she has never known what kind of tree it is. She has searched the Internet, but she has never seen such a plant: its trunk is so thick that Meng Zhen can't hold it by herself, and the bark is very rough and a bit rough. It looks like pine bark; the branches are stretched out, looking like a giant umbrella from a distance; the leaves are very strange, no matter how she looks like the leaves of a four-leaf clover.She thought it was ginkgo at first, but the leaves of ginkgo are not heart-shaped.

Now it is blooming again, and it has brought such a breath of vitality, it seems that everything in the manor is magical.She would not be surprised if one day the tree bears ginseng fruit.

After observing for a long time, I didn't see why, so I put it aside and started to get down to business.On the way, Meng Zhen decided to remove all the roses and morning glories from the loess and plant them in the yard.There was less than one meter wide space between the vegetable field and the root of the east wall, and she decided to open a small flowerbed there.Now the roses and morning glory have grown buds, and they will bloom in a few days. It happens that bamboo poles are erected at the base of the wall, which is also convenient for the morning glory to climb.

When summer came, flowers bloomed in the corner of the yard, and morning glories covered the walls, she felt comfortable just thinking about it.She can't master Neverland, but she can gradually turn her home into her own Neverland.

Meng Zhen carefully dug out the flowers and the soil with a hoe, and piled them aside. After a while, he removed all the crops from the loess soil, and took some spring water to sprinkle on the soil of the flower roots.

Then, she moved down the dead branches from the cart, not sure if it was a psychological effect, Meng Zhen looked at these dead branches and seemed to be alive.The aura floating in the air surrounded them, and Meng Zhen seemed to see strands of life force flowing on the dry branches.

True or not, she picked up a crabapple flower with withered flowers and leaves, its leaves were almost gone, only a few poor ones hung on the branches, and now these few withered yellow leaves seemed to be injected with life In general, it doesn't seem so weak anymore.

Can the manor really be brought back to life? !
Thinking of this, Meng Zhen was very excited. She hurriedly planted all the dead branches in the loess soil, and poured spring water row by row.Then put the removed roses and morning glory into the car bucket, and come to the spring to wash your hands.

The land can speed up the growth cycle of plants, and the blooming of strange trees brings vitality, so this spring water should also have miraculous effects.In the past, I used it to water vegetables, and sometimes I found that the blazing head was circling around the edge of the pool. I should be very salivating about the spring water, but it is too small to drink at all.

Meng Zhen scooped up a ladle of water with a gourd ladle, and took a sip. The cool and sweet taste hit the tip of her tongue, and she swallowed it unconsciously.She licked her lips, it was really sweet, a hundred times better than the so-called mineral water and purified water she bought.After a while, she drank all the water in a scoop, and was about to take a scoop, when something seemed to be pulling her trousers, she looked down and saw that it was biting her jeans, and she couldn't help screaming, her tail Still shaking, looking eager.

Meng Zhen raised the gourd scoop in his hand and asked it: "Do you want to drink too?"

Xiong Xiong seemed to understand, let go of his mouth, squatted down, supported his body on his two front legs, and wagged his tail more happily behind him.

"Hehe, look at your ugly face? Little greedy dog, you know what's good!" Meng Zhen looked at its flattery with some amusement, and she didn't forget the way it squatted under the tree drooling just now.Point its head with your finger, take the small bowl prepared for it, pour out the clean water in it, and pour spring water on it.As soon as it was full, it shook its head and stuck out its tongue to lick it.

After it drank the water, I carried it out together. After missing for a day and a night, I should take it home.

Riding a tricycle full of flower seedlings, Meng Zhen returned to the village. As soon as he entered the village, he met familiar villagers one after another.

"Yo, Meng Zhen is back, did you go shopping for flowers?"

"Hey, I just went to buy saplings. The nursery saw that I bought a lot, so they sent a few flower saplings, which happened to be planted in the yard."

"That's right, there are still flower buds blooming on it, if you take good care of it, it will bloom in about ten days!"

"Yes, anyway, I don't need money, so I brought it back and planted it. Fourth sister-in-law, have you eaten?"

"No, I'll pick up the kids and eat after school!"

"Come back, Zhen Nier, there must be a lot of people in the market today!"

"Not a lot, didn't we sell a little food just after the big fair yesterday!"

"I bought flowers, they are so beautiful, why buy bowls of flowers, these things are everywhere!" (Bowls of flowers = morning glory)
"I bought the saplings as gifts, no money, ha ha!"

He got out of the car when he saw anyone, and Meng Zhen simply got down and pushed him back.

Walking into the yard, she parked the car, and Hua Miao didn't move.It's noon now, it's not suitable for planting flowers at all, and I don't have time--we have to have lunch!
Xiong Xiong was lying on the porch, watching the owner go back to the bedroom to change clothes, and then went to the kitchen to cook.Alas, two more women will come running in a while, pulling their ears and rubbing their heads against it.Hmph, next time I go back, I will never come out!There was a gloomy look in the puppy's eyes. If someone saw it, he would think he was dazzled.

After taking a nap at noon, he got up and drank some tea made from spring water. Meng Zhen changed into his work clothes and started plowing the land with a hoe.Ever since he learned how to weed with his second aunt Meng, Meng Zhen has become more and more comfortable with these farm tools.It turned out that Uncle Meng Wu built a shed in the corner of the yard and put all his farm tools in it.When Meng Zhen later renovated the house, he also repaired the tool shed. The farm tools in it were taken away by Uncle Meng's daughter-in-law.

Meng Zhen has no objection to her behavior. After all, it is someone else's property, and she is not used to it if she is allowed to use it for nothing.After selling the vegetables the next day, she bought two sets of commonly used farm tools, one set outside and the other kept in the manor.

After the land was cultivated, Meng Zhen inserted a few bamboo poles at the base of the wall, fixed them with ropes, and started planting flowers.The morning glory is planted next to the wall, and the branches that have grown are placed on the bamboo poles; the number of roses is not very large, and one third of the land is left after planting.Meng Zhen planned in his heart that after the manor revived those dead branches, he would replant some.

After planting the flowers, Meng Zhen looked at the vegetable field next to him. There were four rows of vegetables in the vegetable field, and the gaps were obvious. The ones that were removed from the manor grew very well, and they were probably covered with loess when they were removed, so these vegetables were also mature. extraordinarily early.Before, the vegetables grown in the yard were just like ordinary vegetables, not to mention slow growing, and they looked listless.

By the way, water them with spring water in the manor?Meng Zhen flashed in with the leather tube, but didn't see Xiong Xiong in the porch almost lying on the glass door struggling to get out.She fixed the leather tube in the spring pool with a hanging chair, took the other end out, squatted on the ground and squeezed the mouth of the tube hard, and the water flowed out after a while.

I watered the vegetable field first, then the flower garden that had just been reclaimed, and finally I saw more than a dozen fruit trees in the yard, so I watered some spring water together.

This should be about the same. Some people in the village have begun to be curious about Meng Zhen going to sell vegetables every day. Some people just discuss it quietly, and some come to her house directly and see that the vegetables in her yard are indeed better than their own. , I have to admire: It is good to be educated, even to grow vegetables well!
In fact, if people notice the quantity of vegetables Meng Zhen sells every day, they will definitely be suspicious, but the people in the village are still relatively simple, they only think about what they are not doing well, and they don't ask the bottom line of other people's lives.Only a few people with ulterior motives have begun to envy Meng Zhen's courtyard and pond.

(End of this chapter)