Volume 1 Spring Chapter 3 Sorrel
Since he came out, Feng Chunxi has only made friends with Lemon, but has never made friends with anyone. Most of his childhood playmates have gone out to work hard, and it turns out that the neighbors in the alley have almost moved due to the renovation of the old city. Feng Chunxi’s only connection with the past is this Chunxi Gardening Store. Until the appearance of a person, the childhood memories become clearer.
That day, Feng Chunxi took advantage of the afternoon to trim branches and leaves of large green plants. A girl with yellow hair dyed on her head and dark blue jeans and black leather jacket walked into the store. Feng Chunxi casually said "Welcome", but the scissors in her hand did not stop.
"Boss, do you have sorrel?" the yellow-haired girl asked Feng Chunxi.
"There is a pot over there. I just came in the past two days." Feng Chunxi pointed to a pot of purple-leafed sorrel near the windowsill.
Purple-leaf Oxalis is a very popular small potted plant in recent years. It is less difficult to maintain. Unlike ordinary Oxalis, its leaves are more beautiful, with larger leaves and bright purple-red, like a butterfly spreading its wings and flying, so people prefer to call it "purple butterfly". It can bloom in spring, summer and autumn, and the pink petals are also small and cute.
"Not this, I want to eat the kind!" As she said that, the yellow-haired girl walked straight to a pot of cactus, pulled out a green leaf from the pot and put it directly into her mouth, chewing it like eating potato chips. She ate a kind of sorrel with yellow flowers. When she was a child, she had potted plants such as cactus at home, and she must have seen it. That kind of sorrel always grows out of the pot and breeds very quickly. It tastes sour and is often eaten by children as snacks.
Feng Chunxi was shocked by the behavior of the yellow-haired girl and stood up to look at her. Only then did she realize that the person in front of her looked familiar.
"Brother Chunxi, don't you know me?" The yellow-haired girl smiled naughtyly at Feng Chunxi.
"Bai Xue?" Feng Chunxi couldn't believe that the yellow hair in front of him was Bai Xue, Feng Chunxi's childhood neighbor, when he was a child.
"It's me. When did I come out? Don't say hello?" As he said that, Bai Xue grabbed another piece of sorrel and put it in her mouth.
"It's half a year, I thought you all moved away." Feng Chunxi explained. Bai Xue followed Feng Chunxi all day after she was a child. Now she has grown up so big. Feng Chunxi didn't know how to deal with it for a while, and she was a little embarrassed.
"I'll go home first and take a look. I'll bring some food tonight, so let's drink some." After that, Bai Xue waved her hand and left.
When she was a child, Bai Xue looked quiet, had excellent grades, and sang very well. She was simply the child of other people's families. At that time, she also liked flowers very much. Every day after school, she went to Feng Chunxi's house to do homework, pestering Feng Chunxi to take her to play. Once, Bai Xue saw a story about four-leaf clover on TV. She thought that sorrel was four-leaf clover, so she went to Feng Chunxi's flower pots to search for them, and while searching, she vowed to find four-leaf clover, because they all wanted to make a wish for four-leaf clover. Bai Xue's wish was to be a singer when she grew up. Feng Chunxi's wish was to hope that her mother could go home.
In the evening, Bai Xue really bought a skewer and came to the store. Feng Chunxi went to a nearby convenience store to bring a box of beer. The two of them started drinking on Feng Chunxi's workbench. Bai Xue had a very good alcohol tolerance, and she raised her hand and kept smoking. Feng Chunxi used to be very rebellious, and she must have smoked in order to be cool. She smoked in the air. Naturally, she quit and no longer smokes now.
Bai Xue asked Feng Chunxi how her life was like inside. Feng Chunxi didn’t want to mention it too much. She simply said that working inside is harder than going to school. Feng Chunxi asked Bai Xue what she was doing now and was still singing?
After drinking three bottles of beer, Feng Chunxi had basically understood it clearly. In the second year of junior high school, just over a year after Feng Chunxi's accident, Bai Xue's parents also divorced. At first, both of them were fighting for Bai Xue's custody, but later both of them formed new families, Bai Xue became unnecessary and had to move to the suburbs to live with her grandmother. After high school, she began to mingle with people outside the school, not only smoked, fought, but also became pregnant, and later she dropped out of school.
Bai Xue is now singing in a bar in the city. She usually rents an apartment near the bar with her friends, and occasionally goes home to her resettlement house for a few days. Although she has not been able to attend the music school, Bai Xue is now a singer, and she is quite satisfied.
"Baoba." Feng Chunxi and Bai Xue were drinking happily, but suddenly someone knocked on the roller shutter door, which scared them.
"Who the hell? Can't you see that the door has been closed?" Feng Chunxi didn't know whether Bai Xue swears because she drank too much, or whether she usually did. Feng Chunxi only knew that she wouldn't swear when she was a child.
"Drink, I'll go and have a look." Feng Chunxi pulled Bai Xue's arm and pressed the roller shutter door with the remote control. As soon as the door opened a gap, a yellow figure came in. It turned out that the smell of meat attracted the greedy cat.
"Lemon, why are you here?" Feng Chunxi was about to say hello to Daju, but Bai Xue spoke first.
"Do you know this cat?"
"This is a cat from our community, named Lemon, why are you here?"
"In the past month or two, it has often come to my shop. I thought it was a stray cat, but it turned out to be a lemon." Feng Chunxi explained.
Lemon seemed to understand that people were talking about it, and meowed twice in response. Feng Chunxi took a bunch of fat and thin meat and wanted to feed it, but was stopped by Bai Xue.
"You can't feed it, human seasonings will hurt its kidneys." As he said that, Bai Xue rinsed a piece of chicken head with water and put it in a bowl and handed it to the lemon. It was the bowl Feng Chunxi usually used to cook noodles.
The lemon enjoyed the delicious food in the bowl, and at the same time tilted his neck and received the snow tickling it. A snoring sound came from his mouth. Feng Chunxi didn't understand how it snored while eating, but Feng Chunxi could see that it had a better relationship with Baixue than with Feng Chunxi.
"Do you want to adopt it?" Bai Xue squatted on the ground and scratched Lemon without looking back.
"What?" Feng Chunxiu couldn't understand what Bai Xue meant. Isn't this a cat from their community? Then it should have a master.
"Its little owner is sick and the family doesn't have to take care of lemons, otherwise it won't come to you to find food. What you can eat here will not be much better than the trash can."
"What disease, is it very serious?" Of course, Feng Chunxi, whom he didn't know, didn't care about him, but just asked habitually.
"I have seen a little boy from a community in one of ours several times while swinging. I heard that something was growing in my mind, which was quite serious." Bai Xue stood up and returned to her seat.
Feng Chunxi didn't know what to say, so he just said "oh" and drank all the beer in the cup in one sip.
"I'll send some cat food tomorrow. If lemons come, you can feed them more." Seeing that Feng Chunxi did not express his opinion, Bai Xue continued.
"I will naturally feed it when it comes. If I need to feed cat food, I will buy it when I go to purchase it tomorrow."
Although Feng Chunxi likes cats very much, he doesn't know how to take care of a cat. He eats perfunctorily every day, so he really wants to raise it. Feng Chunxi is not mentally prepared. Limon occasionally comes to visit, and Feng Chunxi entertains it like a friend, perhaps the best relationship between them.
"It's true, this cat is not mine, why are you going to give it to you on behalf of the owner? No matter it, drink." Bai Xue swept away the melancholy on her face, returned to the cool expression of the little girl, and cried a glass with Feng Chunxi, and started drinking it in big gulp.
Lemon was full and drunk, but this time he did not compete for the rattan chair with Feng Chunxi, but ran to a gap on the flower stand on his own and lie down and rested. Feng Chunxi looked at the sensible lemon and felt that it was like an old friend of Feng Chunxi. Yes, how many friends do Feng Chunxi have in this world?
"If its owner agrees, let me adopt lemons!" Feng Chunxi said.
Chapter completed!