After the camping activity of Qiliyan ended, Zong Gu did not go out for the next two days.
Of course, the so-called failure to go out means not going to a farther place, but I have been shopping around - Yoshikawa took on the task of walking the dog during the holidays, and would come over every day and call him and Akane Kirino.
Quietly, the Golden Week has passed and it is the morning of the new day.
After breakfast, Zong Gu sat on the edge of the living room and flipped up the book he borrowed from Chaowuling.
She was sitting aside, too.
The surroundings are quiet, the late spring sun shines on the yard, warm and bright, and it is not yet time to burn.
Neither Akane Kirino nor Yoshikawa came yet, and the Tanijima couple who were staying in Kirino's old house two days ago had already left here and headed north to Hida in Gifu.
Another relative came here yesterday, but only stayed for one night and left before they got up.
Zong Gu held the book, but he was not obsessed with it. The sound of the pages turning came from beside him, and he could hear it very clearly.
Crash.
As he looked, Chao Wuling quickly raised his head.
Zong Gu pointed to the books next to him, "Where did Ling's collection put these books before moving here?"
"Yuyuan."
"...then this is also considered a royal collection of books."
She nodded and said after a while: "They allow it."
As for "they", they are naturally the former masters of the Imperial Garden.
Izanami would not treat herself badly in her residence, and she lived in the palace at that time in a noble manner, and the same was true for the Chaowuling who had been following her;
Even though they moved the capital later, the two people who had already lived in Kyoto's Okuen did not go to Tokyo together. They had their residences in places where they could see and invisible to the Okuen.
"Will you go back tomorrow?" Zong Gu asked.
During the Golden Week, hotel rooms around Gion of Kyoto were full, and Yoshikawa only booked a room for tomorrow. Therefore, after half of the holiday, their trip to Kyoto had not yet set off.
He looked at him at Wuling, "The day after tomorrow."
They are going to spend the night at the hotel in Gion tomorrow, "Will it be after it's over?"
"Um."
"When the time comes...well, let's talk about it."
"Um."
After the conversation ended, the two of them picked up the books again, and the tranquility was quickly broken.
Thumb-
A burst of rapid footsteps rang from top to bottom, from far to near, and Yue Du soon appeared in the living room, holding a small storage box in his hand.
"More than half of it sprouted!"
Zong Gu, who was on the side of the world, looked back and saw Yue Du’s face full of excitement, and then smiled.
“It’s not easy.”
"Is it time to plant it in the ground?"
"It's early, it's not that time yet." He put down the book and stood up. "It's time to wait until the young buds grow into seedlings, and the two real leaves are fully unfolded."
He took the storage box, opened the lid and looked.
More than half of the tomato seeds sprinkled on wet tissues have sprouted tender buds after two or three days of cultivation, and the budding rate is quite good.
There is also a circle drawn with a stroke in the corner of the tissue, and in the circle, the seed that Yue Du had first attracted to also sprouted.
"I can recognize it without marking it."
Zong Gu shook his head, and at the same time he also knew where the missing pen on his desk had gone.
Yue Du felt a little proud on her face, and then asked him what he should do next.
“Go into the corridor.”
"Uh-huh."
He came to the corridor and looked back at Zonggu, "What?"
"Call Kirino. If she has time, please come and transplant the young buds together."
“…”
More than ten minutes later, Akane Kirino came to the old house excitedly.
"show me!"
Staring at the tiny buds, she smiled unconsciously.
"That's great, our seeds are all sprouting."
Zong Gu nodded, "It's time to move to the seedling tray."
"Uh-huh."
Akane Kirino put down the small storage box and walked towards the backyard.
"The seedling cultivation plate should also be in the warehouse, so I'll look for it."
Before the figure disappeared, she turned around and said, "Songgu is here together."
"Um."
Tsukido also followed the two of them, watching Soya and Akane Kirino walk into the warehouse, and then sifted out with shovels and bamboo alone.
"What are you doing?"
"Prepare the soil."
Zong Gu looked around and found an open space with his farm tools, dug a few times, and shoveled a shovel of soil onto the bamboo sieve.
Just as he was about to bend down, Yue Du next to him picked up the bamboo sieve first.
"What are you going to do next?"
"...You don't know anything, so why are you here to join in the fun?"
Zong Gu shook his head and continued, "Screen the soil."
“How to screen?”
"shake."
rustle--
Yuedu shook the bamboo sieve, and the fine particles in the farmland soil drilled through the gaps and fell one after another.
The fine soil was piled up on the ground, Zong Gu grabbed a little and pinched his fingers.
Yuedu is so shaking, "How is it?"
"It's okay..."
Zong Gu is also the first time he has been breeding, and he has no clear concept of many of the elements.
On the other side, Akane Kiriyo quickly found the seedling tray, took it out, and went to the pool to clean it.
The seedling tray is covered with grooves, four rows and eight rows, and thirty-two seedlings can be cultivated in one piece, which is enough.
"How about it?"
Facing Akane Kirino who squatted down to squeeze the soil, Soya asked the same question.
“…”
She stared at the thin soil on her fingers, confused and confident, "It's okay!"
So the three of them began to add soil to the grid of the seedling plate.
"It's enough to put a little bit, and you'll have to... don't compact the soil later!"
“Oh oh oh!”
The soil just dug from the ground is relatively moist and there is no need to water it for the time being.
After filling the thirty-two grids of the seedling plate with some soil, Yuedu returned to the edge and took the storage box containing tomato seeds.
"Be careful, don't hurt the buds."
While reminding Zong Gu, he twisted up the germinated seeds on the wet tissue, and only one piece was placed in a grid.
The number of germinated seeds was not enough to completely fill the seedling plate. He then put two or three ungerminated seeds together and threw them into the remaining grid.
"This is your last chance..." he thought softly.
Yue Du watched from the side and couldn't help asking, "What would happen if it still didn't sprout?"
"It won't be like that."
"ah?"
Zong Gu looked down at the tiny seeds, "Nothing will happen except to rot and decompose and become part of the soil."
"No."
But Akane Kirino shook her head at this time.
"These ungerminated seeds will be hidden in the soil. When summer comes, they will drill out of the ground and turn into mosquitoes and fly back."
“…”
Yue Du looked incredible and looked at her for a while, "Really?"
"real."
"but……"
He hesitated, "Mosquitoes are animals, these seeds should be plants, right?"
"That's right." Akane Kirino nodded repeatedly, "Is it amazing?"
“…It’s amazing.”
Seeing Yuedu believe it is true, Soya next to him finally couldn't listen, so he quickly asked Akane Kirino to stop destroying his fragile common sense.
"Don't be so serious... I'm not a child anymore, who would take it seriously?"
“…”
Zong Gu looked at Yue Du, and neither of them spoke.
The transplant is not over yet.
Transfer all the seeds to the seedling plate, Zong Gu and Akane Kiri then picked up the fine soil and leaked a little in each grid, about one centimeter thick, covering the seeds and buds completely underneath.
After covering the soil, watering is followed.
After watering, Tong Yeqian took plastic wrap again to cover the seedling tray to keep warm and moisturizing.
"Okay."
She clapped her hands, "Next, wait for them to break out of the ground."
"Um."
Yue Du poked the transparent and thin plastic wrap twice, and was beaten by Soya.
"It hurts...how long will it take to unearth?"
"If you're quick, it's about one to two weeks."
"Long time!"
After the seedlings are unearthed, they need to be illuminated in time, and people need to pay a little attention. Therefore, Akane Kirino simply puts the seedling plate on the edge so that it can be seen in the living room.
After the busy schedule, she sat here for only a moment and then went back.
"…There are relatives at home who come from Nara."
Kirino and his wife usually receive relatives who only come to visit and do not stay overnight.
After seeing off Akane Kirino, Soya called Tsukido back to the living room and raised his chin towards the TV.
“It’s time to start class.”
“…”
Yuedu no longer resisted this matter as much as he was at the beginning, but it was inevitable that he was reluctant - when Soya was at home, he had no money to take in class seriously.
"Try money?"
Zong Gu looked at him for a while, "I have prepared lunch and dinner, what are you doing?"
“I’m also at the age of needing to keep some money on…”
"You're dead."
“…if you don’t give it to me!”
But you can't just forget about class.
But Yueju was reluctant to pay attention to the courses on TV.
"What does Lord Yuedu want money to do?" Sonoya asked again.