kingnovel Chapter 230: Planting Flowers in a Broken Pottery Pot
Chapter 230: Planting Flowers in a Broken Pottery Pot
After finishing the meal, we had the fish as an after-meal snack. Although it was big, there were so many people in the family that we finished it in a few bites and it didn’t fill us up very much.
Zhou Gu was slicing the fish in an unskilled manner. She couldn't bear to see it, so she took out her dagger, cut off a large piece of fish, and began to slice it skillfully. She had sliced the fish a lot in the past few days, and practice makes perfect. The fish sliced into thin slices in her hands very quickly.
Zhou Dacang squatted down and began to grill the fish skillfully.
The fragrance soon filled the yard.
Although I have eaten it before, no one can resist not having a piece when smelling its tempting aroma and watching others eating it.
Zhou Xing smiled and said, "This fish has been dead for two hours. It tastes much better than the fish we had this morning. No wonder the gentleman refused to eat it this morning. If I were him, I wouldn't want to eat it either."
Li also ate a piece and couldn't help but feel sorry, "It's a pity that fish will die if they are out of water. Otherwise, I could take them out and keep them in a tank, and kill one whenever I want to eat it."
Zhou Guo laughed, "Mom, the problem with these fish is that they will die if they are out of water. The most important thing is that there are too few of them and they are too difficult to catch. If you can't catch one in half a day, it's useless even if you can transport it out."
The old man understood this very well and nodded, "That's right." He had been fishing for several days but didn't catch any fish. He didn't even look at the fish when he went into the water.
Everyone had to give up this idea. Since it was difficult to catch, it was better to eat the fish. It was nice to be able to eat it from time to time.
It's just that one person bakes the slices for two people, and the whole family eats it. It takes a long time to eat a slice.
Zhou Xing took another pair of chopsticks and helped to turn them. Two people were slicing and two were grilling, so it was much faster this time.
Finally, Li also helped to slice the fish. The main reason was that the fish was too big, as long as an adult's arm, and it would take two people a while to finish slicing it.
The family finished eating a whole fish in a lively atmosphere, then sat for a while to eat a wild melon and chatted for a while, and after cleaning up, they went to bed one after another.
Zhou Guo stood up, took the orchid out of his bag and placed it under the fence, then watered it and thought about where to find a broken clay pot tomorrow.
"Guoguo, I've poured water for you. Go in and take a shower. Then you can go to sleep," Li shouted from the shed nearby.
"Hey, I'm here." She walked into the shed and looked around. This shed was newly built today. There were branches and leaves on all sides. It was specially used for bathing. When the weather was cold, she had to take a bath inside the house. If she took a bath outside, she would freeze into a lump.
After washing and drying her hair, she changed into pajamas and lay down in the soft and fragrant bed. She rolled around in the quilt comfortably for a few times and then closed her eyes sweetly. After a tiring day, having a comfortable bed was a kind of happiness.
Early the next morning, the sky was gloomy.
After Zhou Guo finished practicing, he walked around and finally found the broken pottery jar that he had thrown out of the house in the pile of rocks next to the vegetable garden. The pottery jar had no lid and a large piece was missing from the edge of the jar mouth. It was no longer useful. Fortunately, the pottery jar still had some depth. Although it was broken, it was enough to grow orchids in it before finding a suitable flowerpot.
She picked up the pottery jar and asked the old man to make a hole in the bottom.
The old man looked at her speechlessly, "Are you going to ask me for something as trivial as digging a hole?"
Zhou Guo said, "Drilling a hole is a piece of cake, but drilling a hole in a pottery jar is not that simple. I'm worried that I won't be able to grasp the degree well. If I use too much force, the pottery jar will break. I still need to use it to plant flowers. Master, can you help me? Look at my flowers. They are so beautiful. I can't plant them in this yard. The yard is so empty and there is no shade at all. They will die in a few days."
Speaking of this, the old man became even angrier, "How dare you say that."
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "I didn't mean to hide it from you. I just put it in my bag and accidentally forgot to tell you."
As he said this, he turned the pot upside down, took a small stone in his hand and handed it to him, "Come, Master, it's just a matter of seconds, it's just a piece of cake."
The old man looked at the bright red orchids blooming under the fence. The rich fragrance filled the whole yard. He didn't know much about orchids, but he had never seen a flower of this color before. Its fragrance was the best of all the orchids he had ever seen in his life. It was beautiful and fragrant. It was a good thing.
He took the small stone handed to him by Zhou Guo, turned his wrist, pinched the stone between two fingers and threw it out at an extremely clever angle.
With a ding sound, a small black hole suddenly appeared at the bottom of the pottery jar.
Zhou Guo took a closer look and found that there were no extra cracks around the small hole. The entire hole was very clean and neat.
He admired her sincerely and pointed to a few places nearby, "Master, this, this, and this, please make a few holes for me. I'm afraid one hole is not enough."
The old man opened a few more as he was told.
Zhou Guo happily took the broken pottery jar and went to the back mountain to dig soil. He used pine needles to make soil, cut off the rotten roots of the orchid, wrapped them with a layer of wood ash, and planted them shallowly in the pottery jar.
Zhou Guo looked around. Although the pottery jar was broken, the grass seeds inside were surprisingly harmonious and full of wildness. It looked very artistic and much more beautiful than ordinary flower pots. It could be said to be a blessing in disguise.
"Well, it's not bad when you look at it this way. I think you don't need to look for a new flowerpot. This one is good enough. Others can't compare to this one." The old man walked over and was a little surprised when he looked at the grass in the pottery jar.
Zhou Dacang and the others were also attracted and looked at the potted flower on the ground. They smiled and said, "When we were young, we were lucky enough to find one and planted it in the yard. But it died after a few days. We never thought of planting it in a broken pot. We don't know how long it can last."
The Zhou Gu boys took a look and left. What's so good about the flowers? There are not many of them in the mountains and wilderness.
Zhou Xing alone was very interested in this flower, and she liked every aspect of it.
Zhou Guo picked it up and placed it under the eaves to protect it from the sun and rain. He would go to the market tomorrow to buy back the old table and put the pot on it when he put it in the house. The whole house would be filled with fragrance.
After finishing this, I looked up and noticed that there were more and more dark clouds in the sky and it might rain at any time.
Li frowned and looked at the sky. "It's really bad to have rain at this time. It would be better if we could wait until the well is dug. I don't know if the well diggers will come today."
Zhou Gu said, "They will come. The masters said yesterday that they can finish the work today. They have work for several families and want to finish our work before the busy farming season. After that, they can start working on other families."
Just as he was talking, people came.
When people arrived, they didn't say much and started working.
Zhou Gu and others followed suit and helped out.
Zhou Guo looked at the sky and called Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi to lead out the cows and horses in the backyard, harness them to the cart, and plan to go cut some grass.
Seeing her making such a big fuss, the cattle and horses all came out, and Li asked anxiously, "It's about to rain, what are you doing?"