Chapter 74 Polygonum hydropiper
As soon as Long Qingdai entered the banquet hall, she saw Hai Xinghan and Tang Jia hiding beside the dining table and whispering to each other.
Long Qingdai frowned immediately and winked at Huo Qingyu. Huo Qingyu took two steps at a time and rushed from behind Long Qingdai to behind Hai Xinghan and Tang Jia.
It was also a coincidence that Huo Qingyu happened to hear Tang Jia's invitation.
Huo Qingyu was about to stop him, but Hai Xinghan had already agreed impatiently. Huo Qingyu's eyes suddenly became sharper when he looked at Tang Jia.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Long Qingdai ran towards the two of them and even used gestures to call Huo Qingyu back.
Huo Qingyu told Long Qingdai every word of their conversation. Long Qingdai's expression became strange, but she finally put on the appearance of a "caring elder sister" and called out to Hai Xinghan softly, "Cousin Xinghan!"
Hai Xinghan sighed, turned his head, and called out reluctantly, "Cousin Qingdai!"
Long Qingdai's expression froze for a moment, but the time was too short and not many people noticed.
"Cousin Xinghan doesn't have any flowers in his hair today?"
Hai Xinghan touched his head, frowned, and picked up a flower from his storage space and pinned it on his head.
The round stem has many small purple-red spots on it, lanceolate young leaves, and tiny white and pink flowers...
Isn't this... just Polygonum aviculare?
So, this thing belongs to the sea tribe?
It is really true that after searching for a needle in a haystack, it was finally found without any effort!
However, how to get this thing under Long Qingdai's nose is still a big problem.
But now, right now, at this moment, it is not a good time!
Tang Jia lowered her eyebrows and eyes, her eyes focused on her nose, and her nose focused on her heart, which made the red camellia on her hair even more conspicuous.
"Miss Tang also likes to wear flowers in her hair?"
Long Qingdai's voice was as gentle as ever, but Tang Jia could hear a hint of displeasure in it.
"But has this violated the Emperor's taboo?"
Tang Jia touched the red camellia embarrassedly, his expression hesitant for a moment.
Seeing that she was “reluctant” to part with the camellia, Hai Xinghan placed the Polygonum multiflorum on his head in front of Tang Jia and said loudly, “How could she be afraid of wearing flowers in her hair?
She is disgusted by anyone dressing more beautifully than her!
If you are afraid of stealing her limelight, why don't we switch flowers?"
Tang Jia was secretly happy, but put on a reluctant look and exchanged flowers with Hai Xinghan.
She took off her belt and wrapped it around her hair, with a sprig of water pepper inserted diagonally in it. It matched Tang Jia's loose black dress, giving her a different kind of charm.
No matter whether she is a lady from a wealthy family or a beautiful girl from an ordinary family, beautiful people are always beautiful.
Long Qingdai asked softly, "Miss Tang's dress is truly beautiful. I wonder which master designed it?"
Tang Jia smiled faintly and lowered his head, putting on an embarrassed look as he whispered, "It was just a joke from me. Your Highness, thank you for your compliment!"
Tang Jia made it himself?
A playful work?
Long Qingdai was really surprised.
“I didn’t expect that Miss Tang has such a talent in fashion design.
Miss Tang, do you want to develop in this direction in the future?"
Tang Jia shrugged and spread his hands.
“I’m quite interested in fashion design now, but who knows what will happen in three years?
I'm only fifteen years old, and there's a lot of life ahead of me!
Maybe, by then I might want to be a pharmacist, or a chef.
Life is too long to set limits.
I'll do my best and leave the rest to fate, and see how far I can go!"
Long Qingdai hit a snag and couldn't continue asking questions, so she could only find an excuse to take Hai Xinghan away.
As soon as the cousins disappeared from Tang Jia's sight, he immediately turned around and went to the bathroom, solemnly put the water spinach into the storage space, and then turned back to the banquet hall.
Long Qingdai was on guard, and Tang Jia never met Hai Xinghan again. However, Tang Jia, who had obtained the Polygonum multiflorum, did not mind. He left the banquet hall contentedly with the treasure he had finally obtained.
Hot pepper is usually propagated by seeds, but the branch of hot pepper that Tang Jia obtained was still in the flowering period and there was no trace of seeds.
In desperation, Tang Jia could only choose to cut and weave.
Rinse this hard-earned flower branch with water, cut off the lower part with scissors, retain the only complete internode and axillary bud, and ensure that there is a long enough rhizome on the outside of the axillary bud.
Soak the cut rhizome segments in rooting powder solution for 2 hours and then place them in the flowerpot.
The flowerpot is filled with a thick layer of soil prepared in advance, and covered with a culture medium made of a mixture of fine sand and peat soil in equal proportions. A shallow sowing trench is drawn, and the selected rhizome segments are placed in the sowing trench, then covered with soil and watered thoroughly.
After Tang Jia finished doing all this, he began to urge it to grow.
After a while, this hard-earned branch of Polygonum multiflorum began to sprout.
With the help of Tang Jia's wood-related abilities, the seedling quickly grew to more than ten centimeters in height and produced eight new leaves.
Dig out the plant that has grown new roots together with the substrate, keep the roots moist, and transplant it into the soil.
Tang Jia urged the plant to grow several times, and finally the Polygonum multiflorum plant bloomed white and pink flowers and produced oval, flat, black, dull achenes.
Tang Jia divided the seeds into three parts, kept one for himself, and sent the remaining two to Caleb Ryan and Sun Wei respectively.
And her?
Of course, to make the meal she and Hai Xinghan agreed upon happen as soon as possible!
However, before Tang Jia could come up with a solution, Hai Xinghan contacted her.
Looking at the three big words "Hai Xinghan" flashing on the friend request on the light brain, Tang Jia had to admit:
For a foodie, there is no difficulty that is insurmountable.
The same goes for the little prince of the sea clan, Hai Xinghan!
Tang Jia accepted Hai Xinghan’s friend request immediately.
The next second a message popped up:
When are we going to the Pattons' for dinner?
Tang Jia immediately gathered a small group of three and quickly finalized the time, place, and menu.
This meal was negotiated right under Long Qingdai's nose.
As for how Hai Xinghan avoided Long Qingdai's eyes and ears and ran out?
Hai Xinghan said that the mountain man has his own clever plan!
Tang Jia and the fat boy George Patton guessed for a long time, but they did not expect that the little prince of the sea clan would use such a "retro" way to avoid Long Qingdai's eyes and ears - by crawling through a dog hole.
In order to have this meal, Hai Xinghan tried his best!
Because of the high salt environment of seawater, marine creatures generally prefer sweet tastes.
In addition, sea creatures that do not have a very sensitive sense of smell but prefer meat also prefer fishy food.
Tang Jia specially designed a sea tribe menu for him:
Sweet and sour hairtail, stir-fried shrimp, salt and pepper shrimp balls, braised swimming crab with scallions and ginger, garlic oysters, dry pot squid, fresh crab soup...
After that meal, Hai Xinghan's mouth was full of oil. He successfully built a solid friendship foundation with Tang Jia and the fat boy George Patton, and established an unbreakable bridge of friendship.
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