At three o'clock, Asaba Rika's cell phone rang, and it was an unfamiliar caller number.
"What's wrong?" Li Xiang picked up the phone and answered the call.
"What's so weird... is it Luoyan? Your express delivery has arrived, come down and get it!"
"Oh! Okay! I'll come down now!"
It turned out that the seeds purchased online had arrived. Asaba Rika hurriedly put on a small shirt and ran downstairs to get the courier.
The door opened a little, and she stuck her little head out to look outside.
There was a small cargo tricycle parked at the door, with all kinds of packages on it. The courier boy was sitting on the seat, holding a small cardboard box in his hand and looking at the order.
This must be the courier...
Rika Asaba came out and greeted him: "Hello! Is this my express delivery?"
"Luoyan, right?"
"Um."
"this."
The courier boy gave her the small carton in his hand, turned the accelerator and left.
Asaba Rika curiously took a look at the express package. She had to say that it was very fast. The order she placed the night before yesterday was delivered this afternoon.
Back in the yard, she couldn't wait to open the cardboard box.
I placed an order for marigolds, snapdragons and some other flower seeds, but the seller gave me a lot of stuff, including a small bag of white fertilizer, a small shovel for digging soil, and a small watering can for watering the flowers.
There were instructions on how to grow it, and not only that, there was a letter in the box.
Rika Asaba opened the letter curiously and saw that it was handwritten and then typed. It contained sincere sentences and blessings. Finally, she said that her shop had just started and she hoped she could give a five-star review. If it was a picture, add a hundred words. If you rate above, you can also receive a three-dollar red envelope...
This service is also great!
She spent a total of 19.9 yuan on these things, with free shipping. The seller also gave so many small gifts, they must have lost money!
Rika Asaba felt that she should be considerate, so she opened the app and gave a five-star review with a picture without receiving a red envelope.
Another big cloud came from the sky, and it started to get cooler in the yard, so she started planting flowers.
In the utility room on the first floor, I only found a big shovel, which had not been used for a long time. It was leaning against the corner and a little spider had built a web on it.
"Sorry sorry..."
Asaba Rika apologized to the little spider, and then took the shovel away. The spider web burst, and the little spider as big as a mung bean was frightened by her and ran around. Then she herself was frightened by the little spider and ran around, screaming and hugging her. The shovel ran out of the utility room.
There was a flower pond planned in the yard, and it was smooth, so she turned over the soil with a shovel, turning it up piece by piece, and then smashed the soil clods into pieces with the shovel.
For Lixiang, who has never done farm work, this is a big project.
Soon I felt my delicate palms being rubbed to the point of raw pain. It was also quite hot at the moment, and there were a lot of sweat beads on my forehead.
Bai Xiaomeng watched her working and wanted to help. Unfortunately, she was just a little kitten and could only act cute and sleep with Shen Yu, so she jumped on the stone table to watch Li Xiang work.
Time passed little by little, and at 4:30, the courtyard door opened. Qian Yulixiang thought Shen Yu was back, but it turned out that Su Zhifu came over to play with Bai Xiaomeng after school.
"Hey! Sister, are you planting sweet potatoes?"
"I'm planting flowers. You're out of school so early."
"What about your flowers?"
"On the table, those are seeds. Wait two months and they will bloom."
Su Zhifu suddenly became interested: "I'll help you!"
She picked up the small digging shovel given by the seller on the table, ran to another flower pond and started digging.
When Su Zhifu dug the soil, she did not dig forward, but like a dog digging the soil, bending down and squatting, holding a small shovel with both hands behind her back, spreading her legs, and digging the soil from behind.
Asaba Rika was dumbfounded.
I wonder if that's how the small shovel used to dig soil is used. If so, she wouldn't want to dig soil like this...
Although Su Zhifu's digging posture is very unsightly, her speed is obviously not to mention. Children have a natural restraint on sand and puddles. If you throw a few children into a hill-like sand pile, they will definitely be able to dig a seat for you. Come out of the castle.
With Su Zhifu's help, the soil in the flower pond was quickly turned over.
Then the next step is to sow.
Snapdragons and marigolds are both very easy to grow plants. There is nothing special about sowing seeds. Just spread the seeds evenly on the loosened soil. When the seedlings appear later, you can thin them appropriately.
Asaba Rika was sowing seeds, and Su Zhifu was following her behind, holding the small bag of fertilizer to apply fertilizer. Judging from the skill of her movements, it was obvious that Puff had done this a lot in the countryside during the summer vacation.
After all the flowers were planted, there was still a lot of open space outside the flower pond. For example, the piece of land under the corner that looked relatively fertile was used by Shen Yu’s mother to grow vegetables, such as water spinach and green onions. , pick it if you want to eat it, pour some water after picking it and it will grow again.
Later, Mom and Dad moved to a new house, so Shen Yu naturally stopped taking care of the small vegetable garden.
"Sister, let's grow sweet potatoes here! Then you can grow onions and garlic!"
Su Zhifu still didn't give up her dream of growing sweet potatoes, so she pulled Asaba Rika along, and the two of them turned over the vegetable patch again.
"I have a lot of sweet potatoes, onions and garlic at home."
After Su Zhifu finished speaking, she ran home again. When she came back, she was holding a black plastic bag in her hand, which contained a lot of garlic, shallots, and a few sweet potatoes.
She rubbed her butt and said excitedly: "I got it!"
"What's wrong with your butt?"
"Let's plant sweet potatoes quickly! As long as we plant them, Brother Shenyu won't let us pull them out!"
Su Zhifu didn't explain the butt matter. She knew Brother Shen Yu very well. She had often pestered him to plant sweet potatoes in his yard before, but Brother Shen Yu didn't agree, so she planted them quickly while he was away.
The two girls, one older and one younger, squatted in the vegetable patch planting sweet potatoes, garlic and spring onions.
When Su Zhifu buried the last sweet potato, the door opened and Shen Yu came back on an electric bicycle.
Seeing the turned-up soil everywhere in the yard, Shen Yu was dumbfounded.
"Are you two weasels?"
Bai Xiaomeng seized the opportunity and rushed super fast. He was the first to jump into Shen Yu's arms and nudged his chin with his big head. Then he jumped into the basket of his electric car and waited for him to carry Xiaomeng into the house.
“We grew so much!”
Listening to Asaba Rika and Su Zhifu chattering, Shen Yu was a little speechless. He could still understand planting flowers. He was growing garlic and sweet potatoes. He thought he had run into the farmland.
Asaba Rika went back to the first floor to get a bucket, filled it with water, and prepared to carry it out for watering. Her small body was so red that she couldn't lift it up.
"Get out of the way, I'll do it."
Chen Yu entered the house and came over to help carry water.
He also explained: "I'm afraid that if you spill it, the water will flow into the circuit in the hall!"
He easily lifted the bucket full of water with one hand and lifted it steadily outside.
"Amazing!"
Girls all have fairy tale dreams, such as the elf princess in the forest sitting on the shoulders of a giant. Li Xiang thought that Chen Yu was so strong, so it would be effortless to pick her up.
It was already past five o'clock in the afternoon, and the setting sun slanted into the yard, dyeing the three people in the yard red.
Asaba Rika took the water ladle, scooped water into the bucket, and gently poured it on the soil. The water was absorbed like a sponge, and there was a fresh earthy smell in the air.
"What's the point of messing with this all day long..."
Shen Yu muttered, went to the utility room to find a soft water pipe, and took a wrench, water tape and other tools to replace the broken faucet in the yard, install a new faucet, and then connect the water pipe.
The water gate was opened, the faucet was turned, and he held one end of the hose, and water sprayed out. The fine water droplets formed a small rainbow in the sunlight.
"Rainbow!" Asaba Rika and Su Zhifu cheered.
“What a fuss…”
Shen Yu looked calm on the surface, but he was still quite proud of the admiration of the two stupid girls.
"This is nothing. I'll make a bigger one for you to see."
"Wow! Siguoyi!!"
"Then watering the flowers will be left to Mr. Shen Yu. I'll go upstairs to cook!"
"Um."
Shen Yu watered the flowers seriously, and also watered Puff's sweet potatoes. He casually rolled up his trousers and used the faucet to wash the cars parked in the yard.
He didn't come back to his senses until the sky was dark and Rika Asaba called him from the balcony on the second floor to come up for dinner...
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