Rebirth Space Farming

Chapter 115 The Best Cantaloupe

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After a busy day, Zhuo Feng, who hadn't exercised for a long time, was exhausted, so he could only take Xiao Xian to a nearby fast food restaurant to have a simple Cantonese porridge. After the meal, the three of them walked home to the downstairs of the apartment. Woke up and hadn't paid the utility bill for this month, so I opened the mailbox and took the stack of letters back upstairs.

After living with Zhu Shijun for four years, Xiaoxian also developed the habit of listening to the news. Fortunately, Fengxing also likes to watch the news, so Zhuo Feng went to take a bath first.

Listening to the news, Feng Xing opened the letter smoothly. When he opened the third letter, he noticed that there was a letter in the pile that was not from their family. When he was looking at it, Zhuo Feng came out of the bathroom, " How much was the utility bill last month?"

"It's not our family's utility bill, it's from Mr. Bai downstairs," Feng Xing was watching, but when Zhuo Feng heard that it was for old man Bai, he snatched it with his hands, glanced at it, and couldn't help laughing Come out: "Old man Bai's name is Bai Juyi, no wonder I never heard his name called by anyone in the neighborhood."

No wonder Zhuo Feng wanted to make fun of it. Although the old man Bai said his surname was Bai, he wore gray old man's clothes every day and spoke acrimoniously. He really had nothing to do with the great poet Bai Juyi.

Looking at it carefully, Zhuo Feng was as dumbfounded as Feng Xing, not because of the old man's name, but because of the unusual number in his utility bill, "It's strange, I think old man Bai is such a stingy person, There is no refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine, etc. Why are the utility bills so expensive, more than twice as expensive as ours."

Xiao Xian has no idea about utility bills. The village chief has always collected the electricity bills from door to door in Ge Village. Besides, Zhu’s houses have no TV and only a few lights, and the water they use comes from the well. It also feels a bit strange when a person has to spend more than 300 yuan for water and electricity.

"Could it be that the water and electricity in Uncle Bai's house was stolen by someone?" Feng Xing wanted to go downstairs to remind Uncle Bai that he was a lonely old man, and it was inconvenient to go up and down the stairs. He must have not paid attention to the water and electricity meters downstairs. Lou Xin moved in with several tenants, maybe they stole the water and electricity from Uncle Bai's house.

"Don't mind your own business, don't get scolded again then," Zhuo Feng said angrily, and pushed Feng Xing into the bathroom.

"I think Uncle Bai is a nice person. He gave our family the green onions last night," Xiao Xian knew that Zhuo Feng had a typical stubborn temper, and it would be nice if the neighbors took care of him.

As soon as Zhuo Feng heard that he accidentally ate the green onion downstairs, Zhuo Feng was speechless. Taking advantage of the opening song of Zhuo Feng's favorite series playing on the TV, Xiaoxian took the letter and went downstairs to deliver it. up.

The lights that were turned off last night hadn't been installed yet, and the aisle of the stairs was still pitch black, but Xiao Xian was mentally prepared, concentrated, and identified the stairs under her feet in the opaque corridor.

When I reached the third floor, I saw a short figure standing on an escalator, unsteadily twisting a light bulb.Xiao Xian looked intently, and the sheep-white beard on the figure's chin was particularly eye-catching.

"Uncle Bai, why are you changing the light bulb? Come down, and I'll change it for you," Xiaoxian discovered a common phenomenon. The older you are, the more you don't accept the old. Well, the mouth is also good. During the autumn harvest in the village, the old man insisted on picking more grains with Uncle Sangouzi and other strong young people. As a result, his legs and feet were sore for a few days after he came back. You can't just toss around.

Time is not forgiving, but the law of heaven.

The same performance was also reflected in this old man named Bai Juyi.You say that no one at home changes the light bulb, so you can ask the neighbors to help out, or you can change it during the day if it doesn’t work. If the light is dark, you don’t need a flashlight.

Xiao Xian suddenly remembered that when he went upstairs after dinner, the sky was getting dark, and the corridor was blurry, Zhuo Feng even babbled a few words, saying that he would ask Fengxing to change the light bulb in the corridor tomorrow. As soon as they changed, Uncle Bai probably heard it in the house, alas, upstairs and downstairs, people live with cold faces and warm hearts, Xiao Xian smiled wryly in his heart.

The old man Bai Juyi did hear it in the house. He is a blind man. He has lived in the community for decades. I have to be responsible for myself, so regardless of the black lights and blind lights, and the old eyesight, trembled and changed the light bulb with a ladder.

After being forced down the ladder by Xiao Xian, the old man thought she was going upstairs to ask the adults to come down to help.There was a flash in front of my eyes, and the pretty girl was like a monkey climbing a tree, climbing up the ladder three times and two times, and the light bulb was replaced within a few seconds.

When going down the ladder, the girl still thought it was troublesome, she slid her long legs, and she jumped down, but Bai Juyi was frightened.

"He looks like a very gentle kid, why does he look like a monkey head," Bai Juyi said with distaste, and he liked Xiao Xian a little more in his heart.At his age, there are no children and grandchildren around him, and it is a pleasure to have a lively child by his side.

"Master Bai, here it is. Your utility bill was wrongly placed in our mailbox, and my uncle asked me to send it to you," Xiao Xian's brow was sweating after repeated actions just now.

"Come in, the cantaloupe grown in my shed is ripe, and my old man can't eat it by himself, so come and eat it together," Bai Juyi turned sideways, making way for Xiao Xian enter the door.

Xiaoxian hesitated for a while, and listened to the movement upstairs. When she went out, she didn't close the door, and she could vaguely hear the movement on the fourth floor from the corridor.In the series, the heroine was crying miserably, and Zhuo Feng's nose could be heard occasionally. Needless to say, before the 45-minute series ended, I had no time to care about her whereabouts for the time being.

Xiaoxian followed into the door. When she was borrowing green onions that day, she only glanced at the old man's interior decorations. She also knew that there was a big balcony in his house. She was invited in today, so she had a chance to see the whole house clearly. the whole picture.

"What a big balcony, no, this should be the greenhouse that grandpa mentioned?" Xiaoxian finally saw clearly that the balcony of the old man's remodeled house was divided into several independent tent-like rooms.Several water pipes were drawn from the kitchen to the greenhouses made of plastic sheets about one or two square meters in size, and several high-wattage solar lamps were directly shining on the "artificial greenhouse".

The high-wattage solar lamps make it difficult for people to see clearly the crops in the greenhouse for a while.

Bai Juyi turned off the light, and opened a gap next to the "artificial greenhouse".Xiaoxian looked inside, and it turned out that it was not Zhuo Feng who took the lead in growing melons, fruits and vegetables in the old apartment, but the widowed old man who took the lead.

Compared with the mud and ponds spread randomly on the roof, these greenhouses of Uncle Bai are works of art.Each greenhouse is equipped with wooden shelves more than half a meter high. On the shelves are special flower pots about the size of the greenhouse, which are [-] to [-] centimeters high. They look clean and tidy.

"This is XJ's black-browed melon?" Xiaoxian followed into the "artificial greenhouse", and she was really eye-opening today.Take this tent-style "artificial greenhouse" that can accommodate two or three people to enter at the same time as an example. There is sufficient sunlight during the day, and at night, it simulates the sunlight in the XJ area and uses solar lamps for several hours. If each " Greenhouses are all like this, no wonder the utility bills of the elderly are so staggering.

"You can tell it's black eyebrows at a glance? Tell me how you saw it. You're right, old man, I not only want to treat you to eat melons, but also allow you to pick one and bring it back to your adults to try something new," Bai Ju said. Old Man Yi's beard twitched, he laughed loudly, and there was a bit of mischief in his wrinkled old eyes.

In fact, black eyebrows are not difficult to recognize, the difficulty is that this kind of cantaloupe is still very rare in the BJ market, and only a few are prepared in the midsummer when the state guesthouse entertains foreign guests.

Xiaoxian pursed her lips, and patted the cantaloupe growing on the vine with her hands dishonestly, "As long as you recognize it as a cantaloupe, you can recognize it as black eyebrows. That's not easy. The dark green is like the melon pattern on the beautiful eyebrows of ancient beauties."

"Oh? I don't believe it, just based on this? When the children of other families are at your age, I'm afraid they haven't even eaten cantaloupe. A cantaloupe weighing four to five catties was picked off the vine.

Use a fruit knife to gently draw on the skin of the melon, only to hear a "chuck", and the emerald green flesh of the melon is revealed.Xiaoxian took a bite of the hanging meat, only to feel that the gap between the teeth was extremely delicate, the melon juice as sweet as honey not only stuck to the teeth, but even the hand holding the melon was sticky.

"About cantaloupe, I have an allusion here, and it's good to tell you." Bai Juyi saw that Xiao Xian ate up the melon in two or three bites, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were all stretched out. There is a record of cantaloupe in "The Chronicles of the Western Expedition", "When you meet a post ride on the road, you enter the cantaloupe, and hundreds of thousands form a group.People hold small pockets, covered with yellow burdens, and each carry a melon, passing by with a glance, as swift as a bird. "

"Uncle Bai, the melons you grow taste really good," Xiaoxian listened to the story and gnawed on the melons, feeling like he was back in Ge Village in a trance, and the sheep-bearded old man in front of him turned into an army of all time.When the moon was in the sky, the grandfather waving the cattail fan was telling stories. On such a day, thinking about it in the distance, the longing in his heart also became thicker.

"You girl is really sweet, just looking at your expression, I'm afraid this melon is bitter." Bai Juyi also saw Xiao Xian's sadness, as if afraid of being infected by her sadness, he asked her to hug her With the remaining half of the cantaloupe, I went upstairs.

Xiao Xianben wanted to see what plants were placed on the balcony, but Zhuo Feng's voice came from the stairs, "Xiao Xian!"

"If you like, you can come and sit more. The old man's house has nothing but a lot of flowers and plants. Go back quickly," Bai Juyi closed the door, and all the greenery in that room was isolated behind that door.

(End of this chapter)