101 Chapter 101
◎Qianxi Fruit◎
There was a noise outside the second gate, and Mu Yun came back with a few water bags to fetch water.
Cheng Mu always asked people to boil water for drinking, and everyone who worked at Lin's house brought water from here to drink.
Mu Yun asked them, "Who's here?"
Cheng Mu: "Your Master Li's daughter, Alan."
Mu Yun nodded, having no recollection. He turned to leave when Nanny Zhu stopped him. "Miss Li is visiting, Master Yun should say hello before leaving." She winked at Cheng Mu, "Madam Cheng, don't you agree?"
Mu Yun looked at Cheng Mu, who stuttered inwardly and said, "It's fine to meet her."
Li Lan came out of Gui'er's room and suddenly saw a handsome young man, and her face turned red instantly.
Cheng Mu introduced dryly, "This is your brother Mu Yun. He was just repairing Master Wu's house and came back to get some water."
Li Lan leaned sideways, bowed, and stammered, unable to utter a word. She was completely different from the lively person just now.
Mu Yun said, "I'll go visit Master Li when I have time."
"He, he, my father..." Li Lan's voice was as soft as a mosquito. Only when she knew he had gone far away did she dare to raise her head. She looked at the empty doorway, feeling lost.
Nanny Zhu smiled and joked, "We've been apart for so many years, we've become strangers. Miss Lan, please come more often."
In the end, Li Lan almost escaped.
After sending the people away, Nanny Zhu smiled happily, "Madam Cheng, what do you think of this Miss Lan? Her family hasn't arranged a marriage for her yet, and her age is just right."
"Too young." In Cheng Mu's eyes, a child of this age in modern times is still a junior high school student.
"Young Master Yun is seventeen, so you'll have to wait another two or three years."
Nanny Zhu was rarely chatty, "This Miss Lan is very hardworking. Thanks to the chili peppers you gave her last year, she has become very successful at home. I heard her say that there are more than a dozen people in her family, and it's a small family. Maybe it's because of her family's situation that she is a little restricted, but these are all things that can be trained..."
After walking a few steps, Cheng Mu finally remembered, "I just said I would give her two Qianxi Fruits, but I forgot to take them."
"I'm interested." Nanny Zhu clapped her hands, "This way she'll have a reason to come back next time!"
"Then please move her out separately. She might be able to come back soon."
"Why."
Turning into the second door, I saw Gui'er lifting the door curtain and looking over here. Cheng Mu entered her room.
"What are you two plotting?"
"What did you say?"
Gui Er acted as if nothing escaped her notice. "I saw it when Li Lan came into the room. Nanny Zhu took you outside to talk. Later, when Li Lan left, she was laughing loudly."
"you guess."
"Madame Zhu is just like those old women who tease young girls about their marriages. Is Li Lan engaged?"
Gui'er stared at her closely, and Cheng Mu hesitated whether to tell her. This difficult matter could have been quietly resolved with her, but if she told Gui'er, it might be reported to Mu Yun.
"Mom!" Xiaoliu rushed in angrily, "Madame Zhu touched my Thousand Happiness Fruit!"
She had taken a long nap and was already a little grumpy after waking up, and the touch of her beloved thing instantly made her furious.
When Xiao Liu interrupted, Cheng Mu breathed a sigh of relief. "Miss Li Lan came here just now. Mother promised her two plants. She can come and get them next time. Aren't you going to grow more seedlings at Master Lin's house? Mother will compensate you."
Xiaoliu curled her lips, feeling sad. Her seedlings were bearing fruit. They were bearing fruit.
Guier glared at her, "These are all your mother's things, and you're dividing them between yours and mine?"
Xiao Liu was unconvinced, "These are the seedlings I grew, and I brought them here with me! I still have uses for them!"
Gui'er knew exactly what she was going to take it out for. "How old are you and you're already obsessed with money! How much are two plants? Aunt Gui will give it to you!" Gui'er took out the purse that Cheng Mu gave her a few days ago.
Yu gave it to Cheng Mu at that time, and Cheng Mu did not refuse. She was afraid that Yu would feel uneasy if she didn't take it, so after coming here, she turned around and gave it to Gui'er, saying that it was given to her by Yu.
"Why are you arguing with her?" Cheng Mu pinched the mouth of the purse and ordered, "Put it away."
Gui'er was stunned for a moment, then blinked at Cheng Mu: I'm helping you.
Cheng Mu blocked the signal and turned to Xiao Liu and said, "Take me to my master's house and I'll teach you how to do it."
No matter how Gui'er blinked behind her, Cheng Mu took Xiaoliu and left.
The Qianxi fruit is a tomato variety Cheng Mu bred in space. Initially, the tomatoes were small, similar to those grown in the wild. To make them palatable as vegetables, she cultivated them to fist-sized sizes. Once these tomatoes were ready for consumption, she bred them even smaller, eventually achieving cherry-sized red fruits.
Vegetable tomatoes are still three parts sour, but cherry tomatoes are not sour at all, and are juicy and sweet, just like the millennium fruit of later generations, with green leaves and red fruits, lush and abundant, and pleasing to the eye. Cheng Mu called it the Millennium Fruit.
My whole family loves it. Northerners have fewer fruits, and northerners love red, so you can imagine how popular it will be once it's released. Xiaoliu had already said she wanted to sell this in Puyang City.
Before Mu Yun renovated the house, he hung a plaque on the door: Lin's Residence.
A carpenter was hired. The carpenter was planing the wood, Mu Yun was helping to cut it, and the other two were carrying it. There was a pile of wood chips on the ground.
Seeing them coming, Mu Yun put down the work in his hands, let go of the hem of his clothes tied around his waist, and shook off the wood chips on his body.
Xiaoliu was impatient and blurted out, "Daddy, Mom wants to see the nursery."
Cheng Mu asked Mu Yun, "How many places need to be repaired?"
"The roof is all done, and the walls have been whitewashed as you requested. There are still five windows to be replaced, and two doors to be replaced."
Cheng Xi nodded and said, "I want to make some wooden boxes to grow seedlings. If the wood is not enough, I will buy more. I will draw the blueprints for you later."
Mu Yun can now do some carpentry work. When he lived in Zhao Datian's house, he loved to tinker with it and learned the art by himself.
"Also, when you buy paper for the windows, please buy some extra. I need it for growing seedlings and making mulch."
"Keep the sawdust and use it to make nutrient soil."
Mu Yun agreed to all of them.
Cheng Mu looked at the room that Xiaoliu was going to. It could be heated and ventilated, so it was a good choice. This time she wanted to use wooden boxes for planting, some square, some big, and some small. She had a rough idea in her mind.
"Sixth son, this time I'll make you a few boxes of awesome stuff. They'll look impressive when you carry them out, and they'll sell for a high price."
"Really? Really?" Xiaoliu jumped up, "Mom! Mom is so good to me!"
When Cheng Mu was drawing the blueprint, Xiaoliu stood right beside her and watched intently.
"Mom, is this wooden box too tall?" She measured it against herself, according to the proportions Cheng Mu had taught her. "It's half my height."
"Well, this is the Box King. Look, Mommy drew a picture of the effect for you."
With clean, simple brushstrokes, Cheng first painted the frame, then the vines and leaves, and finally the fruit. Opening a box of fruit brings joy.
"Mom, how come you can draw so well!"
Cheng Mu's painting skills largely came from her original self. Her father was a skilled painter, and to please him, she diligently practiced her skills. Although she couldn't match the glamorous heroine in the original work, and was ridiculed and lost interest, in Cheng Mu's eyes, this was a skill that she loved more. The plants she had painted over the years had accumulated a thick pile.
Cheng Mu was quite satisfied. She picked up the paper and asked Xiao Liu, "Does it look good? How much silver do you think it's worth?"
Xiaoliu chuckled, she didn't know either.
"But mother, will the seedlings grow like this?"
"Plant these climbing plants at these points. You can design them to grow however you want. Build a cage for them. The wooden box should be high so the plants can't be shorter. Remove the side branches here and there and try to climb upwards. Tie up the side branches in good positions in a circle. Then you'll get the effect like this, with fruits all over the outside."
Xiaoliu's thoughts were suddenly opened up, "I understand, Mom! It's about making bonsai."
The only time she stayed at the inn, she was intrigued by a tree on the altar. She wondered how a tree could grow on the altar, and how it looked so small and strange. Her mother told her it was a bonsai, a landscape created by shrinking the earth to an inch, a potted landscape.
"Yes. Same principle. Remember that little tree behind the house? Back then, you were naughty and bent its branches and tied them to the trunk with a piece of cloth. Then the buds on the side branches took shape. Plants can be controlled with a little intervention."
Xiaoliu chuckled awkwardly when he was suddenly reminded of the bad things he had done.
Cheng Xi pinched her face and said, "Your smile is so fake."
In the past few days, Xiaoqi always finished school at 15:00 on the evening of Youshi. Today, before the evening of Youshi, he came out of the Zhuangjia Bookstore.
Carrying his schoolbag, he turned around and stared at the plaque on the small door in a daze.
Wanli usually came to pick him up. The private school was not far from his home, and it was still early, so Wanli had not left home yet.
Xiaoqi decided to walk back by himself.
He crossed the alley and avoided the pedestrians on the main street. "Cheng Tai!" someone shouted. He followed the voice and unexpectedly a little boy bumped into him, and the windmill in his hand fell to the ground.
The child grabbed his clothes with surprisingly strong force, pulling him all over the place. "You have to compensate for my car! Pay!"
The wonton stall owner happened to see it and said, "Kid, you accidentally knocked it over, who can you blame?"
"Shut up!" The little boy refused to give in, believing that he had bumped into the other person because he had blocked the road.
During the tug of war, several people came to watch. Xiao Qi stretched his neck to look for the person who called him but couldn't find anyone, nor did he look for the child's family, and he was unreasonable.
"Chong'er!"
A loud shout stopped the child's next action, and a gust of fragrant wind pushed Xiaoqi up.
"My dear, is this your child? How could you hit someone like that?" The wonton vendor, not knowing how things had turned out, spoke up and said, "My dear, your parents must take charge!"
The wonton stall owner spoke up for him and Xiaoqi thanked him.
"Chong'er, why don't you apologize!" The person who pushed Xiaoqi up was a young woman who was dressed in tight clothes and moved with clean and neat movements.
The little boy refused to give in and continued to argue. The young woman raised her arm and he was immediately frightened like a quail.
"I'm sorry, it's my fault."
"You beat him up like this. It's not enough to just apologize to him. You have to come to my house and apologize."
The young woman said to Xiao Qi, "I'm so sorry. I owe you an apology. May I ask where your home is?"
With the result, the onlookers dispersed, and the wonton stall owner pointed to the alley and said, "Just go straight to the end."
"Thank you very much."
The young woman held one child in each hand and walked into Baoqing Hutong.
Wanli was startled when he opened the door, "Seventh Master, what are you doing—"
"My dear, I failed to control my younger brother. He offended the young master of your house. I brought him here to apologize."
"This, this..." Wanli didn't know whether to scold the other party. He stretched out his arms and hugged Xiao Qi. "You two wait here!"
He asked Li Yan to keep an eye on the people, "I'll take the Seventh Young Master in first to pass the message. Don't let them get away!"
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