Yan Sisi smiled at Guo Lan who was walking towards her and replied, "My name is Yan Sisi, hello."
After saying that, he scanned the classroom. There were not many people there, so there were many seats and plenty of room to choose from. He walked forward a few steps and sat directly in the first row.
Guo Lan finally met a girl. Seeing that she sat in the first row, she sat over there and started chatting with Yan Sisi.
Yan Sisi responded to the curious female classmate and looked at the classmates who walked in from the door from time to time. After about an hour, the class seats were almost full.
A man in his forties walked from the door to the lecture hall, put his hands on the table and said, "First of all, welcome everyone to our Agricultural University. I am your class teacher, Li Ren."
A lively classmate shouted loudly from below: "Hello, Teacher Li."
"Thank you for the warm welcome, classmate. I will not say anything more. We have three years to get to know each other. Now, a few boys come up and follow me to bring the textbooks for this semester and distribute them to each student. Then you can go around the school today. The formal classes will start tomorrow. Everyone remember not to be late." Li Ren finished speaking slowly, and finally pointed to five boys from the back row to follow him to the office to get the books back.
Yan Sisi received her own textbook, greeted Guo Lan, who had become familiar with her, and said, "Xiao Lan, I'm going back first. Are you leaving?"
Guo Lan picked up the textbook on the table, stood up and said, "Let's go together. I live in the dormitory on the second floor. How about you?"
Yan Sisi said, "I don't live on campus. My home is closer to here."
"That's great, you're from here." Guo Lan said enviously. She also wanted to live at home, but she had no choice but to live in school.
After Yan Sisi and Guo Lan separated, she walked towards the school gate with her textbooks. When she returned home, she took care of the vegetables and fruits in the yard for a while.
Most of the seeds have already sprouted and grown tender leaves. Although the growth rate cannot be compared with that in space, it is not slow either. It seems that growing vegetables in reality is not that difficult!
She thought she would fail the first time, and as she stared at the tender sprouts emerging from the soil, she felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in her heart.
Since she didn't have to go to school in the afternoon, Yan Sisi stayed in the yard, hiding under the shade of a tree and reading the textbooks she received from school. The textbooks contained a lot of knowledge about plants, and she was looking forward to the upcoming courses at school.
For the next month, Yan Sisi commuted between school and home every day, learning new knowledge while taking care of the plants in the yard.
The small green vegetables with a short growth cycle had already matured when they were ready to be eaten. Yan Sisi picked two baskets and sent one to her uncle's house and the other to her grandmother's house.
Both sides were very supportive of the green vegetables grown by Yan Sisi. Within a few days, they received some seeds collected by both sides, most of which the ones given by grandma were flower seeds.
After such a long time, Yan Sisi's space has been expanded. Half of it has been planted with some fruit trees, and the other half is planted with flower seeds given by her grandmother. I wonder what beautiful flowers they are.
When the tomatoes in the yard turned red, Yan Sisi picked one and put it in her mouth. She felt that the taste was slightly worse than those grown in the space, but it was a hundred times better than those bought outside.
The rosy-colored tomato has a thin skin that opens when bitten, and the juice that bursts out is sweet with a hint of sourness and tastes very delicious.
The vegetables in the yard began to ripen one after another. She could not eat all of them by herself, so she occasionally picked the excess and gave them to her uncle and grandmother.
The two grape trees transplanted next to the well are now full of grapes. The climbing rose on the courtyard wall has grown to about half a meter high. After a while, it will almost reach the courtyard wall.
Life at school is very fulfilling. I also learned unexpectedly that a flower and bird market has just opened in the south. I plan to go there tomorrow when I have a day off to see if there are any nice flowers and buy some to add to my flower collection.
The next day, Yan Sisi went to the flower and bird market after breakfast.
When we got there, we could see the end of the street. There were only a few people on the street, unloading pots of flowers from carts. Many people had come early and had already set up their stalls and were sitting there.
Yan Sisi walked along the way and saw many flowers, birds and fish that she had never seen before, including purple verbena (after asking, she found out that it is a Chinese medicinal herb), yellow roses, red roses, chrysanthemums, daisies, jasmine, and various other flowers and green plants.
There were also talking parrots, little goldfish swimming around, little turtles crawling slowly, and other small animals. They all looked very cute, which dazzled Yan Sisi's eyes. She really didn't expect that there were not many stalls, but there were so many varieties.
After shopping for a whole morning, Yan Sisi couldn't resist and bought two small goldfish, a talking parrot, and a dozen pots of flowers and plants. In the end, she hired a rickshaw to take all the things home.
After returning home, Yan Sisi moved all her things to the yard and counted her pockets. She really had spent all her living expenses for a month in just one trip. She had to control herself and not buy so many things from now on.
Yan Sisi hung the parrot cage on a wooden rack covered with grapes in the yard, and placed the goldfish in a basin filled with diluted spiritual spring water in the living room.
All the flowers I bought were planted in the space, and I planned to grow them in the space first and then plant them in the yard.
The flowers in the space bloomed and withered, withered and bloomed again, and almost a month had passed outside.
That day, Yan Sisi cleared the vegetable garden on the right side of the courtyard gate, pulled out all the vegetables planted in the soil, and planted the flowers and plants that had grown several rounds of growth in the space that were dug out from the space one by one.
A passage was left in the middle, and red and yellow roses and blue hydrangeas were planted scattered around it. They were interspersed with daisies, bougainvillea, jasmine, tulips, Clivia, fortune trees, money trees, and Chinese dragonflies. Basically, all the flowers and plants in the space were transplanted out.
From the high outside to the low inside, the bright colors such as light yellow and purple look particularly beautiful against the green. The pink roses that have begun to bloom on the courtyard wall hanging down from the wall are particularly beautiful.
The middle ground was paved with some leftover bricks, on which was placed an old, unused table, and some short grass was planted on the edge of the bricks.
The yard looks completely different after being cleaned up. One side is filled with a sea of flowers, and the other side is filled with a sea of vegetables and fruits. You can enjoy the beautiful scenery and eat delicious food.
Yan Sisi looked at the empty space on the balcony, then dug out some discarded wooden boxes and flower pots, transplanted some flowers to the balcony on the second floor, and finally transplanted two climbing roses on the railings, one leaning to the left and the other to the right.
After planting flowers, Yan Sisi gets up half an hour earlier every day and spends time taking care of the flower garden and vegetable garden. Although it is very hard work, she is very happy.
Tang Mingze, who hadn't been here for a long time, looked at the completely changed yard and said in surprise: "Sisi, your yard is well done, and you planted so many flowers. Where did you get them?"
After Yan Sisi let her cousin in, she continued to squat in the vegetable garden to weed. She glanced at the laborer who had come to her doorstep and said, "Grandma collected it for me. Brother, you came at the right time. Come and help me weed."
Tang Mingze looked at his cousin who was staring at him closely. What else could he say but to go up and help pull out the weeds.
When two people pulled weeds together, they were much more efficient, and soon all the weeds in the vegetable garden were pulled out.
Tang Mingze hadn't done this kind of work for a long time. He sat down on the ground after pulling the weeds. Yan Sisi piled all the weeds in the corner, then went to the kitchen to get a bowl of diluted spiritual spring water and handed it to her cousin.
Tang Mingze took it and drank it in one gulp: "Why does your water taste a bit sweet? Did you add sugar?"
Yan Sisi often drinks it but doesn't feel sweet at all. Could it be that she put too much spiritual spring water this time? She said perfunctorily, "No, maybe you are thirsty."
Tang Zeming didn't care. Looking at the sea of flowers on the right side of the yard, he could see from the outside that his cousin took great care of it. Thinking of the barbecue Zhao Ming mentioned recently, he asked, "Sisi, we are going to get together again soon. Can we arrange it at your place?"
It's such a waste of time to go back and forth to the countryside. My cousin's yard is so beautiful that it allows him to show off a little, and the yard is big enough for them to enjoy the so-called barbecue.
Yan Sisi thought of her brother's friends and asked in confusion, "Aren't you all from the countryside? Why are you here?"
Apart from the yard, there seemed to be nothing fun to do here.
Tang Mingze, "Recently, Lao Zhao said he wanted to treat us to some barbecue. I see that your yard is quite big, and you have ready-made vegetables. They are much more delicious than the vegetables bought outside."
Yan Sisi said "Oh", it turned out that he was beating her food, and joked: "Brother, how much are you going to pay for my food?"
Tang Zeming knew something was going to happen when he heard his cousin's tone, "Don't worry, I guarantee you'll be satisfied."
Yan Sisi smiled nonchalantly and asked, "Why don't you guys come over then? I can get ready."
"You don't have to prepare anything this Sunday. We will bring everything over then." After Tang Mingze finished speaking, he stood up, brushed the dust off his butt, waved at Yan Sisi, and left.
Yan Sisi calculated the days. Today was Friday and there were no classes at school tomorrow, so she had just one day to prepare properly.
Thinking of this, Yan Sisi simply filled her stomach, then sat down in the garden with a pen and paper and began to write and draw.
First, she can pick some fresh flowers from the space to decorate the room. Secondly, she can use the beautiful tableware she found before for the meal that day. If she doesn’t need to prepare any dishes, she can prepare some fruits.