First update
The land had been plowed, fertilizers had been buried, and insecticides had been applied. Qin Yao held a design drawing in her hand, imagining how to plan her own yard. In addition to a small vegetable patch, she would also plant a circle of flowers on the edge.
She planned to plant a giant climbing bougainvillea. The climate on the island was not suitable for growing climbing roses, so only shrub roses could be grown. The temperature in winter was too high, so they could not be vernalized and would not bloom many flowers next year. So if she wanted to create a wall full of climbing flowers, the simplest and easiest to grow one was bougainvillea.
Just plant the most common purple bougainvillea!
Qin Yao once planted green and red bougainvillea, as well as various white roses. In fact, this proves one thing: no matter how beautiful white flowers look in photos, in reality, seeing a bunch of "white flowers" at home cannot make people feel good. It only reminds people of the paper flowers all over the ground during the Qingming Festival.
Although bright red and purple flowers are vulgar, they do look beautiful when used as backgrounds. A large patch of purple bougainvillea splashes down like a waterfall, and from a distance it looks like a sea of flowers.
Bougainvillea is drought-tolerant and the drier the weather, the more it blooms.
A bougainvillea should also be planted on the second-floor balcony, and hydrangeas should be planted in the shady corners. There are also camellias, azaleas, and cockscombs. Not too many kinds, just one or two of each. For example, one camellia and hydrangea, if planted in the ground, can grow into a huge small flower-shaped tree.
Qin Yao likes to grow hydrangeas, which are easy to grow and resistant to diseases and insects. However, they are not resistant to the sun, so just make sure to provide shade.
The flowers Qin Yao selected were all easy-to-grow varieties. Finally, she added two shrub roses and spider plants and petunias. Roses are not suitable for multiple plantings. They receive plenty of sunlight and are planted in the ground. Roses grow too wildly all year round, just like weeds in the ground. Such a large shrub rose has thorns all over its body, and it is too tiring to trim its branches and leaves every month.
Gu Cheng asked: "Grow so many flowers?"
In his opinion, it is enough to plant two or three bougainvilleas in the yard and take good care of them. A bougainvillea can produce four or five square meters of flowers, filling the entire vine frame with flowers. It also has many thorns, making it difficult to deal with.
——Sooner or later, he would come home and help his wife deal with the thorny vines.
"If you plant flowers with care, they won't bloom; if you plant willows by accident, they will grow into shade trees." Qin Yao spread her hands. She was a very casual person when it came to growing flowers. "Plant more. Keep the ones that grow best. Half of them will eventually be eliminated."
Just like planting vegetable seedlings and transplanting them, seedlings that do not grow well are not worth transplanting into the ground at all. Some seedlings win at the starting line from the moment they break through the soil, and these are good seedlings.
Nature is a process of survival of the fittest.
Qin Yao suddenly thought of her lucky skill. She had never really understood how to use it. After using it, she couldn't say that she was very lucky. It was not like pie would fall from the sky. The only time she was having a snowball fight last time, she was lucky enough to dodge the snowballs frequently. It wasn't a very amazing skill.
So she used "luck" when planting seedlings.
Especially when transplanting the seedlings, Qin Yao prayed silently in her heart for mutation, mutation, mutation, and hoped that the bougainvillea would bloom taro purple flowers for her!
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Qin Yao went back to work at the military hospital. She married Gu Cheng and planned to have a simple meal in the cafeteria with her colleagues and comrades-in-arms, just like the rituals that ordinary people did at that time.
I have done it in my hometown and then went through the process at work.
"Xiao Qin, you're finally back." Head Nurse Ge was very happy to see her and kept sharing the good news with her, "The article you wrote was reprinted in several major newspapers and won an award!"
"You have a good literary style. If you work harder and write more poems and articles for recitation during the Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Day, you might be able to join the local writers' association next year."
After hearing this, Qin Yao was curious. What were the requirements for joining the Writers Association and the local cultural center at this time? Who will judge? She couldn't help but ask, "Head Nurse Ge, do you think I can go to work in the hospital's publicity office?"
Head Nurse Ge was very surprised: "You want to go? Then I can recommend you someone."
Qin Yao was extremely shocked. Is this even possible?
Qin Yao didn't know that at that time there were very few educated people. Those who had attended junior high school and high school could be considered "highly educated" in the village. Learning mathematics, physics and chemistry was more valued now, and many people were unwilling to engage in cultural propaganda, as they were afraid of causing trouble.
But Qin Yao is not afraid of this. She knows that culture will become more and more open in the future, and it will be a process of gradual loosening, and it will not return to the state of previous years.
Especially in the 1980s, that was the time when literature and art took off, and it was also the best era for print media.
When Qin Yao graduated and became an editor, traditional print media had already declined. Many magazines and periodicals had long since ceased publication and no longer existed, becoming only beautiful memories. However, some periodicals and magazines still existed.
Qin Yao had studied the history of the development of print media over the years, and she also yearned for the golden age of the development of novels, magazines and print media. This time when she was reborn, she was determined to start a magazine to keep up with the trend of the times.
Just like that, Qin Yao entered the hospital's publicity office to do odd jobs. There were not many people in this office, only four in total, a director, a deputy director, and she and another young man, who were odd jobs. They were responsible for the hospital's publicity slogans, promotional tiles, photo-taking and publicity for programs and performances, and receiving leaders for visits, exchanges and learning.
The director's surname is Huang, and her name is Huang Mingxia. She is a middle-aged woman in her forties. Her husband is a middle school teacher, and her eldest daughter is already in high school. Director Huang has a round face, thick lips, and squinting eyes when she smiles, which makes her look very friendly. She is on the plump side. She is a good friend of Head Nurse Ge, and Head Nurse Ge recommended Qin Yao to her, so Director Huang asked for Qin Yao to come over.
The world is truly a huge makeshift team.
"I've read your articles. They're really well written, Xiao Qin. You're well-educated and talented in writing... You don't have to call me Director in the office. Just call me Sister Xia."
Qin Yao smiled and nodded: "Okay, Sister Xia."
"Xiao Chen left, and we just happened to be short of staff. And you came. It's really fate." Director Huang took her hand and introduced the office to her with a loving face.
The hospital's publicity office is neither important nor unimportant. At least the office is quite large, about thirty square meters. As soon as you enter the office, there are two rows of sofas and coffee tables, and on both sides are display cabinets with various newspapers, photos and some hospital-made brochures. Under the display cabinets is a row of storage cabinets with various office supplies.
When she arrived, Director Huang didn't say anything else but told her how to boil water and the location of various types of tea. There were also many snacks, biscuits and melon seeds in the storage cabinet, which were used to entertain guests when they visited.
"From now on, whoever comes to the office first, you or Xiao Pan, will boil the water first."
Xiao Pan, like Qin Yao, is another handyman, a young man in his twenties.
Inside the exhibition cabinet are four desks forming a workstation in the shape of a "田" (a Chinese character for "田"). Qin Yao and Director Huang's desks are in a row, facing Xiao Pan at the opposite workstation, while Director Huang faces Deputy Director Liu.
Deputy Director Liu is also a woman, about 28 years old, not married yet, wears glasses, is a worker-peasant university student, speaks shyly and politely, but is efficient and concise at work.
Including Qin Yao, there are three women and one man in this office, and Xiao Pan is responsible for the physical work of moving things.
"Hello, Comrade Xiao Qin."
Director Huang and Deputy Director Liu expressed their warm welcome to Qin Yao. Xiao Pan looked at Qin Yao with a half-smile on his face and sighed in a long voice: "Another Xiao Qin has come. Now I am the only man in the office."
"It's better to be a woman like you guys."
"Look pretty, marry a good man, and just sit on an idle job."
Qin Yao smiled and said, "Comrade Xiao Pan, you are so resentful, could it be that your partner has fallen in love with someone else?"
As soon as she said this, Xiao Pan's face froze, and no one else said anything. Qin Yao guessed that she had hit the nail on the head.
Qin Yao sneered in her heart. He deliberately put on such an expression as soon as he arrived. He was just testing whether she was an easy person to bully. If she didn't resist, he would say even more excessive things in the future.
An idle job? Who doesn't want to have an easy job?
Her internship salary was only a dozen yuan a month before, and now it's only twenty yuan. It's not a lot, but not a little either. Compared with those who are on planes and submarines, it is certainly not high. But in this era, a couple can earn forty yuan a month in total. Not to mention supporting a couple, if they manage the business well, it is no problem to support a whole family.
"There are so many farms and rubber plantations nearby. Xiao Pan, I see that you are young and strong. You don't need to sit idle in this office. There are many hard-working positions that are suitable for you."
Xiao Pan was ridiculed by Qin Yao and felt angry, but he stopped talking.
Director Huang shook his head upon seeing this. Xiao Pan was a self-righteous person who could not get along well with anyone. He could not be persuaded and was not good at doing things. He had always wanted to transfer to a school to be a teacher, but no school wanted him.
Of course, there are many village primary schools with poor conditions and a shortage of teachers, and Xiao Pan doesn't look down on them.
Working in a village school doesn't sound as respectable as working in a military hospital. The last time his family introduced him to someone, they thought he was an officer and he praised him to great heights. But after he came, they discovered Xiao Pan's appearance and that he was dating a company cadre.
While Qin Yao was out fetching water, Director Huang whispered to Qin Yao, "Don't take what Xiao Pan said to heart. He is the only son in the family. He has several sisters who all support him. He is the only educated person in the family. He is the pride of his parents in the village. He talks big to others, but he really has no ability. He can't get along with people at work, so he just stays in our office."
Qin Yao was incredulous: "A man like this has the nerve to say that being a woman is good and his sisters are not human beings?"
All the women in the family have been supporting him since they were young, and yet they envy the women here for being able to "enjoy happiness" after getting married, haha.
Director Huang: “That’s exactly the case.”
Director Huang is a good person. He still keeps Xiao Pan. The woman has a good temper and high patience. Xiao Pan is the only child in his family. The women in the family tolerate and coax him, which has led to his inability to speak. He is used to despising women and does not take bad words seriously.
Xiao Qin's husband is Captain Gu. He used to be a nurse who was conscientious and conscientious and was praised by everyone. He also wrote good articles. Any normal person would be polite to her.
Xiao Pan is such a bad talker, but his family still hopes that he will become a leading cadre. However, it is already a blessing for him if he does not offend people everywhere. Who in the outside world, whether man or woman, will tolerate him?
Director Huang had thought about getting rid of him, but what could he do when his sister and mother came to his house and begged for mercy?
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