Chapter 726: My Daughter is the Heroine Who Runs Away with the Baby (15)

Zhou Shichu gave a ghost orchid to Professor Wang and they took it back to the research institute, but not long after, Professor Wang came back with it anxiously:

"Ms. Zhou, please take a quick look. This orchid is not growing as well as before. It looks listless. I'm afraid it's dead."

Professor Wang carefully placed the orchid on the ground in front of Zhou Shichu and looked at her eagerly: "Do you know what's going on? We have been raising it according to the method you told us. But as soon as it left your place, it started to behave strangely..."

Zhou Shichu squatted down, picked up the ghost orchid, looked at it, and then dug up the rotten leaves and soil at the bottom to observe the roots. Then he said, "The ghost orchid is very delicate and has strict requirements for the growing environment. Maybe it's because you moved it away and it's not used to the local climate."

This is indeed a case of acclimatization. In Zhou Shichu's opinion, she is the ancestor of plant cultivation. In her hands, there is no plant that cannot be grown, including the ghost orchid. However, the professors in the research institute do not have Zhou Shichu's skills. Although they strictly follow Zhou Shichu's requirements when taking care of the ghost orchid, the results are different.

"Not adapting to the climate and soil? But we took it directly from you along with the mud and soil. We also followed your instructions for all other requirements. Why can't it adapt to the soil and water?" Professor Wang was puzzled.

Zhou Shichu coughed a few times. She couldn't say that she had the ability to grow plants, right? The local humans here didn't have this ability, so the delicate ghost orchid would have a hard time surviving without her.

"Let me keep this flower for the time being." Zhou Shichu said kindly. She couldn't just watch this ghost orchid die. She had spent a lot of thought on it before.

Professor Wang naturally agreed immediately and was eager for Zhou Shichu to take care of it.

A few days later, the ghost orchid became full of life again, not at all like the lifeless one a few days ago. Professor Wang was speechless when he saw it, wondering if this ghost orchid could recognize its owner?

After all this trouble, Professor Wang didn't dare to take the ghost orchid away easily again. He simply took his students to buy her neighbor's house near Zhou Shichu's home, and after renovating it, he turned it into a branch of the Institute of Plant Sciences.

Zhou Shichu was impressed by his brilliant idea. He built a temporary branch of the research institute in the village just for a ghost orchid. What a great idea.

"Ms. Zhou, the ghost orchid is not the only rare plant here. There are also others such as the double-stamen orchid, the single-flowered orchid, the star-leaf grass... right? These are all precious species worthy of research, so it is necessary to build a temporary research institute near you." Professor Wang understood Zhou Shichu's eyes and explained without any guilt.

Zhou Shichu couldn't help laughing: "It seems that Professor Wang is targeting my plants?"

"Who told you to have so many treasures?" Professor Wang said deliberately, "I will have to bother Ms. Zhou often in the future."

"Okay..." Zhou Shichu remembered that not long ago, Chen Dawei brought people to try to force sell her the ghost orchid. She thought that if there was an extraordinary research institute next to her house, even if she grew some precious plants in the future, others would not dare to covet them so blatantly. The reason why Chen Dawei dared to bring people to bully her in broad daylight was because he saw that she was a middle-aged widow with no power and no influence, and no one to rely on.

After that, people often came and went in Zhou Shichu's yard. Later, she got tired of it and simply moved all the plants that Professor Wang and others were interested in to the temporary research institute. If they could take care of them, they would take care of them. If they couldn't, she would go over to check on them every day. Both parties felt it was a good idea this way.

At the Fan Group, Fan Guangting finally remembered the precious orchid his sister had mentioned before, so he asked Secretary Chen, "Have you bought the orchid for Mr. Wen?"

Secretary Chen was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that President Fan had indeed assigned him to handle this matter, and he handed it over to his cousin, thinking that his cousin would be more convenient to help. However, he did not expect that his cousin had not replied to him for such a long time. When he was busy with the work, he forgot to ask about it. Could it be that his cousin had not finished the matter yet?

Secretary Chen's heart sank, thinking that something might have gone wrong, but he didn't know anything at the moment, so he could only answer vaguely: "I'm asking someone to do it, it will take some time."

Fan Guangting frowned when he heard this and reminded, "You must do it as soon as possible. You can't make any mistakes. This is very important."

"Yes, I will definitely see to it personally!" Secretary Chen assured quickly.

When he returned to his office, he immediately called Chen Dawei, but the person who answered the phone was not him, but his uncle: "Chen Kang, are you looking for Dawei? Dawei was sent to the police station for buying those flowers for you! You can't ignore your cousin, he was arrested because of you..."

"What? What is going on? Uncle, please tell me in detail." Secretary Chen broke out in a cold sweat and said anxiously.

Uncle Chen complained to Secretary Chen, "It was you who ordered Dawei to buy the flowers, but the owner was unwilling to sell them, so Dawei found a few people to surround the owner of the flowers, hoping to scare her so that she would be sensible and sell the flowers to us. But the owner of the flowers had a very bad temper and actually called the police to have Dawei arrested! Your cousin didn't do it on purpose, he didn't have any bad intentions, he just wanted to scare her, you have to help your cousin, your cousin was arrested because of you, go find someone to release him..."

Secretary Chen was stunned. He said in disbelief, "Cousin asked someone to threaten the owner of the flowers? How dare he do that? Didn't I ask him to buy the flowers? I told him to buy the flowers no matter how much it cost. Why didn't he just buy them with money? Why did he have to use force to coerce them?"

"You don't know how greedy the flower seller is. Your cousin offered two million but he wouldn't sell it. What kind of flowers are worth two million? Isn't that too much? Your cousin did it for your own good. He didn't want you to spend so much money, so he wanted to scare the man. He was kind-hearted." Uncle Chen said righteously.

Secretary Chen was almost mad: "Uncle! What's two million? Even if it's twenty million, my boss can afford it! Didn't I say any amount of money is fine as long as I get the flowers? Why didn't my cousin listen? Not only did he not listen, he also severely offended the owner of the flowers. Now it will be hundreds of times more difficult for me to successfully get the flowers! I shouldn't have let my cousin do this in the first place. He is more likely to cause trouble than to succeed..."

"What did you say? How dare you scold your elder brother? Wasn't he taken to the police station because of you? And you still blame him. You are such an ungrateful and ungrateful person..." Uncle Chen was also angry and cursed in frustration.

(End of this chapter)