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At noon, after a simple meal of noodles to fill their stomachs, Zhuo Feng kept exclaiming in surprise at the transformed appearance of the begonia in the living room. Xiao Xian quietly put away the scissors without making a sound.
In the afternoon, with Xiao Xian gone and nothing else to do, Zhuo Feng took out a flower arrangement book bought from Xinhua Bookstore and started fiddling with a few potted plants brought down from the rooftop.
As she flipped through the flower arrangement book, she turned on the TV and watched for a while, Zhuo Feng lamented that the books from Xinhua Bookstore were all style with no substance, only talking about how to arrange the shapes of flowers and plants. There was no mention of how to prune and top off overwintering plants for branching, let alone maintenance. Zhuo Feng lost her enthusiasm, finding the book uninspiring.
