Professor, your turtle!

There was a light knock on the door behind him, probably Wang Gang left sadly.

"Ji Fan..." Mr. Xu walked in and was stunned for a moment, "Why don't you turn on the light?"

"Ah." Ji Fan turned around, a little embarrassed, "Sorry, I forgot."

Slap.Teacher Xu turned on the overhead light, and the warm light poured down, covering the small study room.

The clear starry sky was gone, and Ji Fan glanced out the window, only to see his own shadow projected on the glass.

"My dad told you to go and look at the flowers on the balcony."

"Well," he looked back and smiled, "I'll go right away."

Old Xu helped his forehead: "Wait, don't listen to him. My dad is old and has a bad temper. He doesn't know the seriousness. If you get used to him, be careful that he will call you to be a gardener every day in the future."

Ji Fan said: "It's okay, actually I like flowers very much, but I can't grow them at home."

"You," Old Xu said helplessly, "You are always so easy to talk, so be careful of being bullied by others in the future."

Ji Fan didn't speak, just smiled.Old Xu shook his head: "Oh, let's go."

"Ok!"

Old man Xu put a small mat under his buttocks, with a flower shovel in his left hand and a watering can in his right, and was tossing a few pots of small flower seedlings he bought recently.

The original pot of geraniums is still there, but the old love is no match for the new love and is ruthlessly abandoned.When Ji Fan stepped into the balcony, he heard a sigh clearly.

"Alas..." His voice was trembling, with deep and long-lasting resentment, like a concubine who has been cast into the cold palace.

"I thought that when I came here, there would be no rose, crabapple, lily-of-the-valley and others competing for favor, and I would be able to enjoy the master alone. Who would have thought... Sigh." After finishing speaking, there was another faint sigh.

Ji Fan wanted to laugh a little, he could almost imagine the second part of Geranium's sentence: "...Who would have thought that the master would go online to buy so many new little fairies!"

Seeing Ji Fan coming, Professor Xu greeted him: "Come on, let's take a look at my geranium first." He led Ji Fan to the corner, "This flower has been raised by my son for two days, and it is much better. But it's still not as beautiful as the old man Liu's next door. I'm so anxious, you have to help me find the problem."

Hearing what the owner said, the geranium's proud and upright chest withered, and the leaves hung down dejectedly, holding the few remaining flower bones in self-pity.

Ji Fan touched it secretly to express comfort, then turned his head and said: "You said 'not beautiful', do you think it is tall and tall, making the corolla look top-heavy?"

"Yes," the old man Xu sighed, "The geraniums next door are blooming in clusters of flowers, and the corolla is almost squeezed into a spherical shape. As for mine, a few flowers are scattered on a branch." After finishing speaking, he looked expectantly. Looking at Ji Fan, "You say that, but what can you do?"

Ji Fan shook his head: "This is the sequelae of the previous plant's elongated growth. Look here, its stem has begun to lignify, and it may be difficult to return to its original state."

"That's it." Old man Xu said in a drawn out tone, looking a little disappointed.

"There is no way, it's just..." Ji Fan bent down and gestured at the bottom of the flower stem, "Lignification starts here. You see, as long as you cut it, it will explode again in about half a month. New buds will emerge..."

The geraniums trembled, as if a sudden cold wind had blown on the balcony.

"Hey, I just touched your hand, why are you so vengeful! Cheapskate! Black-bellied monster!" It yelled angrily.

"No, no." Before Ji Fan could finish speaking, the old man Xu first shook his head like a rattle, "Cutting it in this position is not equivalent to cutting it in half. It's too cruel! I don't want to part with it."

"Then there is no other way." Ji Fan touched the long bare stalks of the geranium, and in its trembling eyes, he showed a smile that made the flower liver tremble, "Lignification is irreversible, your potted flower will probably always be the same in the future. That's it, only the top of the head will bloom."

"Oh, forget it. The taller the taller," the old man Xu squatted down and looked at it, thinking, "They are all children raised by themselves, why do you have to trim them to look neat, what a lot of trouble. "

With his reassurance, Geranium slowly stopped trembling, and seemed to finally let go of her heart, no longer worried that she might be cut in half at any time.

Ji Fan was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed.He guessed right, the old man was indeed a very gentle person.

Not only in growing flowers, but also in educating children.

Take Teacher Xu as an example, no matter how good his work is, he is just an ordinary middle school biology teacher, not in the same breath as an academician.

However, old man Xu treated his son's career choice very peacefully.In his opinion, both are teachers, and there is not much difference.

Just like this geranium, as long as it grows freely, whether it is beautiful or not is secondary.

"By the way, Ji Fan," said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, Lao Xu held a cup of smoked bean tea and leaned against the door to drink it, "Since you won't go home for dinner, do you want to call home?"

"No need." Ji Fan put down the peat and perlite at hand, turned his head and smiled, "There is no one else in my house for the time being."

"What? Mom is on a business trip again?"

"……Um."

Old man Xu turned around and looked at him thoughtfully.

"Speaking of which," Old Xu scratched his head, "Dad, this kid wants to be admitted to T University in the future!"

"T big?" Old man Xu became interested, "Oh, I have taught there for a few years, and the students are very cute hahaha."

"Cute?" Old Xu complained, "Yeah, you failed 60.00% of the students in the class one semester, and then went to the campus bbs. Do you remember how many black and white photos of you there were?"

Ji Fan: "..." What class are you teaching?Does anyone still dare to choose next semester? Hey!

Old man Xu didn't care much: "What are you afraid of, am I living a good life?" He turned his head and asked cheerfully, "Fanfan, have you chosen your major yet?"

"There is probably a direction, but the specifics are not yet..."

The old man Xu remembered something, and suddenly his eyes widened: "Wait, you don't want to learn biology, do you! No, no, absolutely no."

Ji Fan was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Lao Xu at the door in confusion.

Old Xu also looked at a loss: "What's wrong with the creature? I remember that the big creature T is pretty good?"

"No, absolutely not," the old man Xu said with phantoms in his hands, "Don't forget, our next door, Xiao Liu, is a biology student. If Ji Fan can enter the School of Biological Sciences, he will become his Student? When Fanfan turns to help him plant flowers, how can I hang out in the family courtyard?"

Ji Fan: "..."

Old Xu: "...It's just a flower, can you harvest your competitive spirit?" He paused for a moment, then added, "Also, don't call it 'Xiao Liu' or 'Xiao Liu', Liu The professor has also been promoted to an academician this year."

"Hmph," the old man Xu said proudly, "Academician, what is there to be proud of? I was 800 years ago."

Old Xu Heixian: "No one can compare with you!"

Hearing the quarrel between the two, Ji Fan's heart moved and hesitantly said: "By the way, do you know Professor Fu Mingyuan Fu? He is also working at T University, and his major is..."

The old man Xu waved his hand: "I don't know, I've been retired for many years, and I don't know anything about you young people." With his hands behind his back, he turned around and looked at Ji Fan for a while, then suddenly said, "Speaking of which, you and I are the other A student is kind of like that."

Ji Fan: "?"

The old man thought for a moment: "Your father's surname is Ji...then what is your mother's name?"

"...Her surname is Chen," Ji Fan hesitated, "The name is Youqing."

"Chen, Chen Youqing... is a physics guy, isn't he?" The old man's eyes brightened a little. Seeing Ji Fan nodding, he laughed twice, "It really is her. I'll say that your nose and mouth look exactly like hers. Exactly the same."

"Are you... her teacher?"

Old Xu was also surprised: "Dad, why don't I know anything!"

"Haha, it happened decades ago, when you were still a brat. She was my favorite student at that time, but unfortunately she was abducted out of the country by the brat next door who specializes in playing with mud," Xu old man said indignantly He snorted, then turned to Ji Fan, raised his eyebrows and said, "How about it, being her child must be very hard, right?"

Ji Fan didn't expect him to ask such a question, and lowered his head in embarrassment: "No, not at all."

"Hey, I know my student well, I'm afraid her obsessive-compulsive disorder can't be cured." Old man Xu waved his hand, "Next time she keeps nagging, you can hide here and say, 'Teacher Xu' Calling you to help him plant flowers'."

Ji Fan: "..."

Old Xu: "...Dad, can you not expose your purpose so thoroughly?"

Old man Xu shook his head triumphantly, lost in memory: "Oh, if she had been willing to stay, I'm afraid she would be able to inherit my mantle by now..."

Thinking of Ji Fan's mother's appearance, Lao Xu rolled his eyes: "What? Inherit the mantle, and help you kill the remaining 40.00% of the students?"

Several people stood and chatted for a while, and they didn't return to the restaurant until it was getting dark.

In order not to put too much pressure on Ji Fan, Grandma Xu just stir-fried two vegetables and asked the deli downstairs to deliver a roast duck, which was a delicious light meal.

During the chat, Ji Fan found out that the so-called third "Teacher Xu" was the kind-hearted old lady in front of him.

Her surname is also Xu, but to be honest, her academic background is a generation older than Mr. Xu's. It is said that when Xu's father was still studying at school, she had already stayed at the school to teach, but the major was different, so it was many years later. know.

Father Xu drank two glasses of wine and said with a smile, "We were considered a fashionable 'teacher-student relationship' back then."

"Aren't you ashamed?" Mother Xu pinched him, "When did we become teachers and students?"

"Back then, I was still hesitating whether to sign a contract to stay in school, so the school sent her to do my ideological work." Father Xu completely reversed his previous aloofness, raised his glass and shook it, and said proudly, "If you want me to say , this is called 'beauty trap'."

The old grandma adjusted her glasses, glared at him, and was embarrassed to speak any more.

After dinner, Ji Fan bid farewell to the lovely old couple of the Xu family, took the bus, and drove all the way through the bustling downtown area to the quiet coastline.

The noisy traffic sound disappeared, replaced by the faint chirping of insects, and the warm sea breeze blowing across his skin, reminding him of the coming early summer.

"Fu Mingyuan." He scratched the back of the chair and wrote these three words unconsciously.

If...he can stay in school in the future, will the school send Mr. Fu to use his beauty trick?

Thinking of this, Ji Fan burst out laughing, and Fu Mingyuan's serious look appeared in his mind.

——This duplicity guy will definitely abandon the contract and say with his chin raised, "I like to sign it or not", but if he really refuses, he will definitely sulk again...

Thinking about it, Ji Fan just felt like returning home, wishing he could fly back home immediately.