Chapter 9 Chapter 8 The Bleeding Strange Plant in the Greenhouse

It never occurred to me at the time that this was a critical issue, it just felt unreasonable. Looking at me, the old teacher already understood what it meant to "blow into the lime water", so he didn't continue to explain, but just continued to talk about what happened at that time. He said: "At that time, I said to Dabao: 'Dabao, you shouldn't refuse such a request from the teacher!' Dabao's expression was stubborn and scared, but he just didn't say a word. The chemistry teacher got angry again, and I He hurriedly said: "Well, Dabao, you apologize to the teacher, and then go to blow the lime water, so you don't have to go to the principal." The chemistry teacher also accepted my opinion, but Dabao, alas, this boy, Too stubborn to refuse."

Bai Su smiled and said, "Such a stubborn boy is really rare." The old teacher said: "Yes, later, the chemistry teacher dragged Dabao to the principal. The principal is a good man, and he suggested it like me, but Dabao still refused. Even the principal was enraged and wanted to expel him." When the old teacher talked about this sorrow, he paused for a while, and I said: "For such a trivial matter, it seems that there is no need to expel a student." The old teacher said: "This matter is a trivial matter, but Dabao's attitude is too stubborn. No matter how many people persuade him, he just refuses to agree. Everyone is very angry. I strongly advocate that we let it go. Dabao insists on not doing that. Do it, what can I do?"

Bai Suxiang was quite interested in this matter: "Then, what was the result?" The old teacher laughed: "In the end, of course, nothing happened. Dabao got the nickname 'Stubborn Dabao'." Bai Su asked again: "Is he also so stubborn in other matters?" The old teacher said: "Not at all, until he graduated from middle school, he was always a good student with excellent character and learning." The old teacher sighed again when he talked about this, and said with great emotion: "Although I have been teaching middle schools for thirty years, I have been in contact with young people, but I still don't understand their psychology at all."

I said a few perfunctory words casually, and the old teacher left on a bicycle.Bai Su said: "This is very strange!" I yawned: "No matter how imaginative a person is, he can't connect not blowing into lime water with a plane crash twenty years later." Bai Su was stunned for a moment, obviously she couldn't connect these two things, she said: "Alright, let's go and see Dabao's greenhouse." I drove the car forward, and after a while, I arrived behind Dabao's greenhouse. Bai Su said: "The layout and size are almost the same." I said: "They are colleagues, maybe one of them, first built a greenhouse, and then the other three people also became interested and built the same greenhouse."

Bai Su didn't make a sound.Hobbies are contagious.It will spread among colleagues and friends. Assuming that four of them are engaged in the same industry and all of them are bachelors, one of them has an interest in cultivating plants, and the other three follow suit. This is a very reasonable one. speculate.We came all the way to the door of the greenhouse, and found that the automatic sprinkler was working in the greenhouse, as if it was drizzling, and it seemed that the water was hazy. Bai Su clings to the glass door, looking inside. A greenhouse is a greenhouse. Originally, there was nothing to see, but once I saw Lian Neng in the greenhouse, "sunbathing" in a strange way, before coming to the same greenhouse, I always felt a strange feeling in my heart.

Due to the mist in the greenhouse, the situation inside looks a bit hazy, adding to the mysterious atmosphere. Fifteen minutes later, the automatic sprinkler stopped, and everything in the greenhouse seemed much clearer.At the same time, lights were turned on to make everything more visible.I can already be sure that there is no one in the greenhouse except the plants.I began to pay attention to the lock on the greenhouse door. The door was not bolted from the inside, but locked.I glanced at Bai Su and saw that she was still watching.I pushed the door first, but without pushing it open, I took out a small tool and quickly opened the door.I pushed the door open first, then looked at Bai Su, and asked, "Go in and have a look?"

Bai Su took a deep breath, nodded, and I pushed the door completely open, then walked in, and she followed behind me. As soon as I entered the greenhouse, I couldn't help taking a deep breath. The air inside was extremely fresh, just like entering the forest in the morning, which made me feel refreshed physically and mentally. The ground in the greenhouse is quite wet.We have to move forward carefully so as not to step into the water on the ground.Although the area of ​​the entire greenhouse is large, it is full of plants. The walkable passage is in the middle, but it is only half a meter wide.Walking in the passage, you will be touched by the branches, trunks and leaves of the plants on both sides, and your body will inevitably be wet by water droplets.

The door opened in the middle of the greenhouse. After entering the door, I walked to the left, and Bai Su walked to the right. After walking through the middle passage, I turned around and made a gesture to Bai Su, indicating that we should go around the greenhouse from different directions, and then go go once. Bai Su waved to me, agreeing, and after another walk, we still met in the middle passage after entering the door."What did you find?" I asked. Bai Su shook his head: "It seems like it's just a greenhouse with fanatics about plants." I smiled and said, "I agree."

When we say this, we already agree.Go outside and prepare to leave the greenhouse.But because the two of us started at the same time, and the passage was very narrow, our shoulders bumped, Bai Su's body turned sideways, and hit a potted tree. The potted tree was an oak tree, which was planted in a not-so-big pot. The tree was quite tall, and the center of gravity of the pot was unstable. When Bai Su touched it, the pot fell down, made a sound, and shattered. I supported Bai Su, Bai Su said: "It's really quiet." Many things are related.If it weren't for the sound of the earthen pots breaking, we wouldn't feel that the greenhouse was so quiet: there was almost no other sound except the sound of water dripping from the tips of the leaves of various plants.

If it weren't for the sound of water dripping, it would sound more serene and involuntary than the silence of everything. If we stayed for a while, we wouldn't hear that kind of breathing sound. At that time, Bai Su and I were leaning together, and we both felt that the greenhouse was so quiet, it was worth nostalgic for a while.At that moment, I heard the sound of breathing into my ears. I thought it was from Bai Su, I smiled: "I broke a crockpot, don't be so nervous." When I was talking like this, Bai Su's expression seemed to be very strange. She immediately made a gesture to me, indicating that I should not speak, and at the same time, she turned her head to look at a corner of the greenhouse.The sound of breathing came from the direction Bai Su looked at.

I was startled for a moment, and in an instant, I couldn't hear any sound except the sound of water droplets. The two of us remained silent for half a minute, and then Bai Su lowered his voice: "What did you hear just now?" I also couldn't help lowering my voice very low: "It seems, it seems to be the sound of breathing." Bai Su nodded and said: "It seems to be, but it may be another sound, the sound is coming from over there." She stretched out her hand and pointed forward. I looked forward and saw many potted plants. One pot was a huge fern, which blocked my view.I said: "Go over and see if there is something that makes such a sound." Bai Su said "hmm" and walked forward with me.After only a few steps, we stopped abruptly.That voice came again. It was really the sound of breathing, quite rapid, not high-pitched, as if there was some kind of barrier between the person who made the breathing sound and us, but it was really a sound of breathing, and we couldn't say what it was or what it was. very similar sound. I was stunned, and immediately asked, "Who is it?" I don't know why I yelled so loudly, but because things are so weird, I shudder.I think it was for this reason that I shouted loudly. In the silent greenhouse, the sound of my shouting turned quite harsh, and after drinking it, the sound of breathing suddenly stopped.But since we heard it twice, we can be sure that it came from behind the huge fern. Bai Su went forward, and I hurriedly followed behind her.Going forward, there is no way at all, you have to push some plants and step over several wooden frames.When we came to the front of the big fern, our bodies were wet enough as if we had been drenched in rain. We stooped under the leaves of the big fern, and we saw a gray-white plastic box on a wooden shelf. The box was about one meter square and half a meter high. The box had a lid with many tiny holes.On the entire cover, there is a groove about the size of the box, about half a centimeter deep.At this time, there was still water in the groove, which was seeping down through the small hole in the box cover. Around the box, of course, there are also various plants. There is nothing surprising about the box, so I immediately looked around again.But apart from the box, there was nothing worth noting. Bai Su kept staring at the box: "What... is this? It looks like—" I immediately followed up and said, "It looks like a nursery!" That box could not have been anything other than a nursery for growing young plants. Bai Su took another breath and glanced at me: "Do you want to open it and take a look?" The box is made of a very light plastic. I just pushed the top with my fingers, and the lid was lifted, and the contents of the box were presented in front of our eyes.For a moment, our eyes were fixed in the box, and it was difficult to express our feelings at that time. We're not horrified, because what's in the box is what we expected. I had expected that the box was a nursery, and it turned out that it was a nursery.The bottom of the box is 20 centimeters high, and it looks like very fertile soil. This kind of soil is exactly used for cultivating seedlings. On the dirt, are four plants.There are plants in a nursery, of course, but ordinary. But we still feel very horrified, too horrified to speak. That is of course due to those four plants! The appearance of those four plants is quite weird, it seems that they look like succulent plants among tropical plants. Their shape is like an oval ball, about 20 centimeters high, dark green in color, the surface of the ball looks carefully, there are many fine holes, on the ball, there are some similar small balls attached to it, There are several cracks in the upper part of the ball. We looked at those four weird plants for a long time before Bai Su said, "God, what is this?" I said: "It looks like a tropical succulent plant. Especially like one of them, called 'Obisa'." Bai Su shook his head and said, "Botanically, succulents are close to cactus, and they don't need so much water. If they were succulents, they wouldn't survive if they were so wet." I said: "Not necessarily, there are several kinds of succulents that need a lot of water, such as the one called 'bishop's hat'." Bai Su remained silent, and reached out to touch one of the four plants.As soon as I saw Bai Su stretch out her finger, I wanted to stop her, but Bai Su's movement was very fast, and the finger had already pressed down. As soon as she pressed her fingers down, she immediately let out a low cry, and quickly retracted.I was also taken aback.I was right next to her, and I could see it very clearly, when Bai Su's finger pressed down, the plant, like a soft object, was slightly sunken.And when Bai Su's fingers retracted, the sunken place immediately returned to its original shape. Bai Su's breathing was a little short: "It...is soft." I gulp, plants, even bulbous succulents, have no reason to be soft.I hurriedly stretched out my finger to press it. I pressed it harder, and there were more recessed parts. When I retracted my finger, the recessed part returned to its original shape. I looked towards Bai Su, and Bai Su also looked towards me. We both said in unison: "What is this?" We said "what is this thing" at the same time, but not "what kind of plant is this", because in our hearts, we felt that the four strange things were really not like plants. That's not only because it is soft enough to be dented by fingers, but also has a strange feeling when fingers press it. It has temperature, not high temperature, but it does have temperature. After we said this, I stretched out my hand to press one of the four plants, Bai Su said: "Take your time, don't worry." I stretched out my hand and pressed lightly on one of the plants, with my palm completely attached to the surface of the plant. I just pressed it lightly, and said: "Just like me." Bai Su hastily put his hand on another tree.At this moment, I couldn't see my own expression, only Bai Su's, which was weird and inexplicable, and I thought I must have the same expression myself. I spoke first: "What do you feel?" Bai Su said: "I... felt a very slight tremor." I nodded repeatedly, it was because I felt a very slight tremor when I pressed it just now, that's why I asked Bai Su to learn from me.I said, "This slight tremor is like...like..." For a while, I couldn't find an appropriate adjective, Bai Su said: "It's like we held down a baby who has no ability to resist at all." When Bai Su said that, I couldn't help but trembled, and quickly withdrew my hand. Bai Su's description is too appropriate.It is also because of this that it shocked me.a baby!It's so weird that those four plants give people the feeling of "baby"! Bai Su's hand was still pressed, with a strange expression on her face, I don't know what she was thinking. After I was stunned for a while, I stretched out my hands together, but Bai Su exclaimed: "What do you want to do?" I said: "I want to pull it up to see the creation!" Suddenly, Bai Su was taken aback and shouted: "No, you can't pull it up, you can't!" I was stunned for a while: "Why not? I don't know what it is, it looks so strange, how can I not pull it up to understand?" Bai Su still insisted: "No, they...look...I feel that they...seem to be alive!" As soon as Bai Su said this, I couldn't help laughing: "Of course they are alive. Pull them up See clearly, if you plant it again, you will definitely not die." As I said that, I stretched out my hands and held one of them, Bai Su hurriedly shouted: "Don't pull it out." Bai Su's expression was very strange, which made me stunned again, Bai Su hurriedly explained: "I said they are alive, that means... is..." Bai Su hesitated and didn't say it out, I was startled for a moment, I already understood what she meant.I looked at her: "You mean...is..." Like her, I hesitated to say it, but she obviously understood what I meant. I retracted my hands, the two of us took a deep breath together, and said in unison: "Alive!" "Living" means living. "Living" means to have life. When I first heard Bai Su say that I thought those four things were "alive" and didn't think about it, that's why I laughed.Because whether it is an animal or a plant, there is life.Those four things were cultivated in the nursery, and of course they were alive. But I immediately understood what Bai Su meant. The scope of "living" she said was relatively narrow, which meant the life of a high-level creature, the kind of "living" that has thoughts and can act. In short, it is like an animal. Such "alive" is not the opposite of the univocal "dead". After I withdrew my hand, I was speechless for a while before I said, "You...why do you feel this way?" Bai Su hesitated for a moment: "Maybe... maybe I just heard...they make a sound?" That breathing sound! Things seemed to be getting weirder and weirder until I had to speak up to get rid of the weird feeling in my mind: "Plants don't breathe!" Bai Su immediately said: "You are wrong, plants can breathe." I was taken aback, I spoke too hastily, yes, plants can breathe, not only can they breathe, but their breathing organs are more complicated than animals, when there is light, they release oxygen and take in carbon dioxide, when there is no light Then, breathe in the opposite way. I immediately said: "Of course, I know that plants can breathe, but what I want to say is that when plants breathe, they don't make any sound." Bai Su didn't refute this time.Perhaps plants also have sounds when they breathe, but human ears should not hear the sound of plants breathing. After I spoke, I looked at her: "May I pull it up and take a look?" Bai Su frowned: "I know, after you pull it up, you will definitely cut it apart and study it slowly." I was angry and funny at the same time: "Yes, so what?" Bai Su said: "I have already said, I feel it is alive." The woman became stubborn, and sometimes there was nothing I could do. I snorted: "Please see clearly, it is planted in the soil and needs soil and water. It is green, which proves that it has chlorophyll. Generally speaking, those with chlorophyll, It's the plants." Bai Su shook his head and said, "No, those without a nervous system are plants." I laughed "haha": "Okay, miss, please prove that they have a nervous system." As I said that, I pointed to the four strange things.I thought that if I said this, Bai Su must have nothing to say.Who knew Bai Su used the simplest method to refute my words, she said: "Sir, please prove that they don't have a nervous system." I stared, and I wanted to continue arguing, but suddenly, I laughed: "Forget it, why bother arguing about these four ugly plants. Most likely, these are some succulent plants from tropical places. Some The appearance of some succulents is so weird, I don't think there is anything special, let's go, I have seen enough." Bai Su seemed to be afraid that I would hurt those four strange things if I stayed, so she agreed to my words immediately. Bai Su said: "Yes, we should leave too." After she said this, she said something to herself: "I'm going to find Dabao and ask him what it is." I didn't pay much attention to her last sentence, because at this moment, what I was thinking about was another thing, something I was going to do without telling Bai Su. These four things, no matter what, are very weird, I must find out what they are, Bai Su will not let me touch them, I have already made up my mind. Since my actions cannot be seen by Bai Su, I have to concentrate on it, so it is not worth paying attention to what Bai Su is saying. While she was talking, I half turned around to cover her sight, and at the same time, I reached out and closed the lid of the box. While closing the lid of the box with my right hand, I quickly wiped the one closest to me with my left hand.That kind of plant has a small ellipsoid growing on top of the big ellipsoid, like when a cactus reproduces, a small cactus grows from the big ellipsoid.What I want to do is to break off one of the small ellipsoids, take it back, study it slowly, and see what it is. My movements went very smoothly. I was worried that its large body would be so soft and tough that it would not be easy to break off, but in fact, it is quite brittle. With a little force, there will be an ellipsoid the size of a thumb. It was folded off, and put into the pocket very quickly. Bai Su didn't pay attention to my movements, she looked like she was thinking about something. At that time, I had already closed the lid of the box, and I said, "Let's go." Bai Su had no objection either, we retreated to the aisle in the middle of the greenhouse and walked to the door. After arriving at the door, Bai Su hesitated again: "The breathing sound just now must have come from that box." I said, "Maybe that's another kind of voice." Bai Su frowned, didn't say anything more, but didn't leave, still looking at the greenhouse, after a while, she said again: "This greenhouse, their greenhouse, has a very weird atmosphere, don't you think?" This, I conceded: "Yeah, I think so. Maybe it's because we've mixed together the weirdness of the greenhouse, the plane crash, the disappearance of Markey, and so on, and that's why it feels that way." Bai Su thought for a while: "Maybe." After she finished speaking, she turned and walked out.I also walked out of the greenhouse, closed the door, and locked the door with a small tool before coming to the car. When I got to the side of the car, I opened the door, let Bai Su get in the car first, then I sat in the driver's seat and drove straight ahead.Along the way, I was just thinking that I have a lot of common knowledge about plants. After returning to the hotel, I must study the small part of the things I picked up.After driving for about ten miles, and passing the school again, Bai Su suddenly let out a "Huh". Bai Su said: "Are you injured?" I was stunned for a moment and said, "Injured?" Bai Su pointed at my waist, I lowered my head to look at the place Bai Su pointed at, and I was shocked too. I was wearing a light-colored jacket, and there was a red spot in the pocket of the jacket, which seemed to be blood. The blood oozes out from the pocket, the blood color is bright red and has not yet condensed. I hurriedly said, "No, how could there be blood?" As I said that, I reached into my pocket.At that moment, I really didn't think about where the blood came from, I just had doubts in my heart.But as soon as I put my hand into my pocket, I said "ah", and for a while, I couldn't retract my hand. Seeing that my expression was different, Bai Su became anxious instead: "How did you get hurt?" I became very embarrassed.Of course I wasn't hurt.The dark red liquid was not blood either.As soon as I reached into my pocket, I felt the thumb-sized piece that I had broken off. It must be this kind of fleshy plant, which oozes red juice and stains my coat red. I did this without telling Bai Su.Now that things have been accidentally exposed, it is naturally somewhat embarrassing.But I immediately laughed: "If you really want others to know, you have to do nothing yourself." Bai Su said: "What did you do?" I said, "It's nothing. Who knew that damned plant would bleed red. I just broke off a small part and put it in my pocket. I want to go back and take a closer look." I spoke very easily, but Bai Su's demeanor became extremely serious, she shouted: "What... did you do? I broke off a small part to see, it is bleeding." I hurriedly said, "Don't talk nonsense, that's not blood." Bai Su said: "It's not blood? Look at its color." I said: "There are many plants that ooze red sap. There is a kind of amaranth that does. We often use it as food." Bai Su said: "Take out the part you folded and take a look." Only then did I stretch out my hand from my pocket. Naturally, I held the folded part, which was only the size of a thumb.It looks more like a tropical succulent. When I took out that small piece, my hands were also full of this red juice, and I snorted: "I don't know if it's poisonous, but at least it doesn't irritate the skin." But Bai Su screamed: "Go back! Go back!" I was stunned: "Why?" Bai Su said: "Go back, go back to Dabao's greenhouse." Seeing that she was very excited, I couldn't help being even more stunned, and hurriedly stopped the car: "What's wrong with you? This thing—" As I spoke, I looked into my hands. Just now, when I took that thing out, because I was still driving, I just handed it to Bai Su, and I didn't look at it myself. Until then, I stopped the car and looked into my hand .When I saw it, I couldn't help being startled. The small oval-shaped thing, its broken part, still has red juice flowing out, but the flow is not very much.This doesn't shock me. What shocked me was that this little thing was moving! I, or should I say, is shrinking, shrinking, and expanding to its original size.The shrinkage is quite small, but it is indeed shrinking, so it gives people the feeling of movement. When I saw this phenomenon, I was so shocked that the car spun towards the side of the road and rushed out. If it wasn't for Bai Su who immediately helped me turn the steering wheel, it might have gone straight out of the road. The car overturned on the field beside the road.The car came to a stop amidst the vibration, and my sight moved from the thing in the palm of my hand to Bai Su's face with difficulty. At the same time, I muttered, "This... what is this?" Bai Su's expression was extremely serious, and her eyes were full of blame for me, she just said hastily: "Go back, go back quickly." Because of the excessive shock, my mind was a little numb, and I said, "You...you mean to go back to Dabao's greenhouse?" Bai Su said: "Of course. Look at what you did!" I suddenly yelled and said, "What did I do? I don't know what I did. I don't even know what it is. It's just a piece of plant. Well, even if it bleeds out red liquid, what else?" Anyway, you can't call what comes out of it blood." Bai Su's expression was still so excited, but she was obviously trying to calm herself, her tone was very cold: "For things you don't understand, the scientific attitude is not to jump to conclusions too quickly." I snorted: "I know very well that this is a plant that oozes red sap!" Bai Su didn't look at me, but just stared straight ahead: "If so, why are you so shocked?" I really can't explain why I was so shocked: "Maybe it's because of your nervousness that it infected me." Bai Su sighed, as if he didn't want to continue arguing with me, I didn't say anything, but on the road, I turned around and drove towards Dabao's residence. Not long after I drove out, I wanted to relax the atmosphere: "What are we going back to do? Are we going to turn this thing over to that strange plant?" Bai Su still didn't answer, I suddenly laughed: "Haha, if you can connect back, do you know what this situation is called?" Bai Su said unhappily, "What's your name?" I smiled and said, "It's called 'replantation of severed limbs'." Bai Su's expression seemed to be extremely angry, so that her voice raised, and she said loudly: "It's not funny at all." I saw that Bai Suxiang was really angry, stuck out his tongue, and didn't dare to speak any more.If such inexplicable things lead to quarrels between husband and wife, it would be extremely boring. After a while, we were approaching Dabao's residence again, and we could see his huge greenhouse. I drove the car very close to the greenhouse and stopped. The plant that I picked, shortly after I took it out of my pocket, was wrapped in a handkerchief by Bai Su and held in his hand.After I stopped the car, I looked at Bai Su, and saw the red juice flowing out of that thing, which dyed her handkerchief red. As soon as the car stopped, Bai Su opened the car door and walked out. I hurriedly got out of the car and followed behind her, and quickened my pace to catch up with her: "What are you going to do? At least let I know." Bai Su glanced at me, and sighed: "I don't know, I think I did something wrong, maybe there's still time to fix it, so I'm going to come back and see what to do." I stopped in front of her, with my back leaning against the greenhouse door. As soon as she finished speaking, I suddenly saw a look of extreme surprise on her face. I was taken aback, and turned around quickly, and the boss was also taken aback—what I saw was so unexpected!