Chapter 15 Cutting Flowers
Author: Songhuadan Superman
Jiang Ancheng woke up at the first crow of the rooster.
When he reached out and touched it, he saw that Sun Miaolan was not there. He was suddenly startled, fearing that everything yesterday was just a dream.
The little fish chirped and smacked its mouth. He glanced over and breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, it was not a dream.
Jiang Ancheng opened the door and went out. Under the dim flickering oil lamp, Sun Miaolan was busy making cakes for him.
The rolled out dough is evenly sprinkled with chopped green onion, pepper, and salt, which is his favorite flavor.
Sun Miaolan heard the door open and turned her head with a smile, "You woke up so early, the cake will be baked soon."
The dough in her hand hadn't been rolled out yet, so she hurriedly opened the lid of the pot and went to get the cake stuck on the stove.
She threw the hot cake on the chopping board. It was charred on the outside and tender on the inside. Its simple color exuded the most alluring aroma.
Jiang Ancheng picked it up and took a bite in his mouth. The tip of his tongue was so hot that it trembled, "It's delicious!"
Sun Miaolan wiped her hands in a hurry, filled him with a bowl of porridge, and brought out a plate of pickled ginger and a plate of pickled cabbage, "Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry."
"Um."
After drinking two large bowls of porridge and eating three pancakes, Jiang Ancheng stood up energetically, picked up a flashlight and scissors, and walked towards the front yard.
Sun Miaolan paused and asked, "What are you going to do?"
Jiang Ancheng turned around and said, "Help Yu Fei cut some flowers."
Sun Miaolan suddenly remembered that there was still this crop, and said: "The roses on the left bloom better."
"know."
Rose has been cultivated by Chinese people since ancient times and is known as the queen of flowers. It belongs to the Rosaceae family.
Domestically, they are divided into roses, roses, and roses, but abroad they are collectively referred to as roses.
The most prosperous variety blooming in his yard is called "Purple Lotus", which is the oldest outstanding variety handed down from China.
The flower buds are round and plump, like a large flower ball, mostly dark red, purple red, rose red, and some center petals have white edges. When fully bloomed, they look a bit like a beautiful lotus.
It can grow up to more than two meters and climbs along the roof beams. The flowers are in bloom, gorgeous and fragrant, thick but not turbid, which is very in line with the aesthetics of the Chinese people.
Even in the potted flower market in 2022, it still occupies a large share of the market.
The reason why it cannot be sold as raw cut flowers in the market is because the flower stems of this variety are thin, the flowers bloom profusely, and they are easy to cut off. The flowering period is short, and the flower arrangement and packaging are difficult.
In the fresh cut flower market in 2022, most of them are roses cultivated from abroad.
In a previous life, at the end of the 1980s, the people of Yuncheng unexpectedly discovered that the economic benefits of flowers were much higher than growing vegetables. The people who originally sold vegetables "changed their careers" one after another. By the early 1990s, the road flower market was initially formed, and flowers were displayed on the streets.
On the roadside, they sell vegetables by jin, which is why "Eighteen Monsters in Yuncheng and Flowers are sold by jin" come from this.
As Yuncheng began to control the planting area and price of tobacco, and saw the economic benefits of flower planting in Yuncheng, Yuncheng began to vigorously support flower planting, and in order to cater to the market, it continued to introduce flower varieties and more advanced planting technologies from coastal areas.
In the early 1920s, Mingnan's flower market began to take off, integrating with international standards and beginning to be exposed to new foreign varieties.
However, flower varieties are too common, and the main flower varieties have to be imported. Europe has long eliminated varieties that have expired for more than 20 years and have already expired. Therefore, they have suffered from silence and losses in the international market for several consecutive years.
If you plant new varieties, you have to pay Gaogang's patent fees.
Countries with developed flower industries make high profits by cultivating high-quality flower varieties, and use this to control the world's flower trade.
Even if I buy it with money, they won't agree.
In order to catch up and develop, the Flower Research Institute of the Yuncheng Academy of Agricultural Sciences has provided technical support to many traditional flower art enterprises. It has not used market power to protect intellectual property rights, allowing other countries to gradually trust it and enriching domestic flower varieties.
When Sun Miaolan planted flowers in her previous life, it was already a little late.
Therefore, their family is just a flower farmer at the bottom of the Mingnan Flower Market, and they cannot even afford to rent a shop in the Huanan Market.
Jiang Ancheng stared at these purple lotus buds that had not yet bloomed, and suddenly realized that he could also cultivate high-quality flower seeds in advance. When the flower market emerged, just selling the royalties would allow his family to have food and drink for a lifetime.
Jiang Ancheng secretly made a note to cut off the branches of the purple lotus from below, and cut seven or eight clusters. Each cluster had many buds on it.
Turning his eyes, the white jasmine blossoms stained with dew are working hard to spread their fragrance.
As soon as he cut it, another handful came out.
The branches of roses are all thorny, and the thorns of purple lotus are small and dense.
Without special pricks, Jiang Ancheng used two bamboo sticks to shave off excess branches, leaves and flower thorns up and down.
I also briefly trimmed the branches below the jasmine.
Red with a little white is a common combination in flower shops, and it is also the straight male aesthetic that trendy girls complained about in the previous life.
Since you are going to give it away, you need to package it nicely.
Jiang Ancheng searched in his mind and remembered the popular retro packaging, which was wrapped in old newspapers.
There happened to be two old newspapers at home. When he walked into the main room and saw them stuck on the wall to protect them from the wind, he couldn't help but sigh.
Sun Miaolan walked over and asked doubtfully: "What's wrong?"
"I want to use newspapers to make Yu Fei's flowers look better. Why don't I use newspapers at home?"
Sun Miaolan shook her head in disapproval and said with a smile: "What kind of newspaper are you using? People don't mind death, but they say Yufei is perfunctory."
Jiang Ancheng thought about it carefully and realized that indeed, retro style was not popular at the moment. Sun Miaolan was a woman and she must understand women.
He asked: "Which one looks better?"
There is a bamboo basket he wove at home, but without the flower clay, it cannot be erected at all.
If there were nice-looking wrapping paper, he wouldn't have to worry.
Sun Miaolan usually played with flowers. She thought for a while and said, "How about tying them with red cloth? When we got married, there was a piece of red cloth. I cut some out."
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Chapter completed!