Listening to his wife's muttering, Lao Zhao simply walked into the orchid room, took out a basket from a pile of baskets piled under the basket, looked at it, put it down, turned around and wrapped his other hand in a newspaper and spread it on the ground.

Three or five leaves, green and petite, like a girl in her twenties and eighties, show a little shyness and vitality in weakness; There is still some soil on the roots of yellow and white orchids, and some seem to be embedded in them. Curved and hovering roots, now without the blessing of the soil, are somewhat retaliated and have no strength, hanging down. At the end of the winding circle-the root tip that falls at the lowest place, it is as white as snow, as jade-like, as clear as a child's shiny and clean white fundus, and the greatest vitality of life is condensed here, waiting for the extension of time.

This vitality of life is clean and fresh, which makes people feel pity.

Look carefully and repeatedly: from tip to petiole, from leaf surface to leaf back, from leaf to root tip; Lao Zhao took off his glasses, took out a magnifying glass and wiped the leaves ... He "examined" this "little life" in his hand without missing anything. After reading it, my eyes are full of pride and hope.

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In his wife's mouth, this is "nothing to worry about", but he spent nearly half a month looking for the "treasure" of the early morning flower market on cigarettes-one of countless. The dialogue with his wife when he entered the door has been running repeatedly and persistently in Lao Zhao's leisure time for many years.

While playing bluegrass, Lao Zhao secretly recalled and cared.

No way, Lao Zhao grinned and raised the wrinkles piled up in his eyes.

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In Lao Zhao's circle of friends, You Lan is a fixed place with different hearts-this is normal for most friends. Usually everyone drinks tea and chats, and takes turns to sit in the village from time to time-treat people to drink, and most of this "circle meeting" will never appear again after a whole circle; Everyone is about the same age, and there are some teenagers. Although their experiences are different, they gather on orchids for different reasons. Good flowers are rare, and everyone wants to choose a unique product in the haystack-to get ahead and earn a lot of money. So the essence of this grass selection is top secret for everyone. This mentality can be seen from the way they look at those who have successfully chosen grass.

With few resources and a small circle, everyone is working hard in secret.

You can't say this is doing nothing. Whoever said such a thing was the object of their jokes-except, of course, being cut at home.

For them, this is a kind of fun, a kind of fun that is bent on making "career" successful and working hard to live seriously. Even in a few years, ten years or even twenty or thirty years, they will not get ahead because of "planting grass", but they will still persist and enjoy it.

A sense of security and happiness for the elderly. This slogan, which used to be exactly the same as theirs, gradually became their heartfelt respect and appeal.

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After watching the grass, choose a good basin; Cleaning, disinfecting, airing and soil preparation of blue pots and bluegrass; After two or three hours, carefully put the bluegrass into the blue basin, first enlarge the soil, then put the fine soil, shake it, straighten it, and finally cover the basin with a layer of red sandstone or breastplate and grass moss; Unplug the hose, turn on the shower and moisten the grass from head to toe. It is refreshing, and people are as steady as grass at this time.

Then, what awaits them is: from now on, day after day, year after year, together, with each other.

As for whether they will be "sad and happy" in the future, it depends on their own fate: most people, after countless waits and hopes, are either dead or unknown. At this point, they will banish their hopes to another grass that has just been planted; Very few people-people who reach the peak, people are happy and have brilliant flowers. Breaking up is a happy sharing, flowers will be famous all over the world, and people are both rich and happy. Dreams come true, I hope to continue.

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Bluegrass is placed on the flower stand of Orchid Garden, as if countless voices and echoes are ringing in Lao Zhao's heart.

Yunlantang

Orchid, listen to me slowly.

The joy of raising orchids

The trouble of raising orchids-"into the pit".

"Hidden" Value of Orchids