I raised my succulents with my own hard work. What gives you the right to just take them?

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Every person who grows succulents probably has one worry: how to refuse the freeloaders who want your succulents without making a scene or tearing up the relationship. This really is a job that takes a lot of skill.

If the precious succulents we raised through hardship end up in the wrong hands, how heartbreaking that would be!

Chief Hui has many succulent lovers around him who share the same passion, and there are times when they give each other plants, but when it comes to freeloaders, most of them refuse with their whole lives. Yes, we do grow a lot of beautiful succulents, but they were not grown for you!

Be rational, be rational. After all, Chief Hui is the owner of a greenhouse and should still be magnanimous. It was just that one time Chief Hui was at a friend's house, and there were quite a lot of guests that day. It was originally a lively and harmonious scene, with the adults gathered together laughing and chatting, and the children finding their own fun.

The friend was also a succulent lover and had grown quite a few succulents on the balcony. A mischievous child ran over and started pulling at them, and with so many people around, no one noticed.

It was not until dinner time that the child's mother pulled the child away and scolded, saying: "You only play with dirty things, look how dirty your hands are!"

The friend went closer to look, and several pots of succulents had been damaged, including the friend's most treasured pot of peach eggs, whose roots had all come loose! The child's mother just smiled and said: "

Sorry about that, kids don't know any better

."

The friend was too embarrassed to lose her temper because of the situation, and only said gloomily, "It's fine, just have the child be more careful next time."

After that mother left, the friend looked at the succulents alone for a long time

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By the end, when most of the guests had almost all dispersed, this mother appeared again, this time with a face full of smiles, and said to the friend, "My child says he really likes your succulents. I see

you have grown quite a lot too. Could you give a few pots for the child to take home and play with?"

The friend's expression immediately turned bad, and of course I was utterly disgusted too. What do you mean, take them home to play with? Other people spend effort growing succulents, and your child already ruined a bunch, and now you still want to take some home to ruin? No one would be willing to do this!

The friend could not bring herself to be blunt, but I could not hold it in anymore, so I said to the friend, "Quite a few of these were given to you by me, right? You have to take good care of them yourself!" The friend caught on and picked up the thread: "Yes, quite a few were given by others, so it's not good to pass them on again. If you like them, I can recommend a few good shops to you."

As soon as this mother heard that she would have to buy them herself,

she just gave a token agreement and then left with the child

.

When you run into this kind of thing, it just makes you furious. The friend smoothed things over, which only made people push further. When you run into this kind of thing again, fellow succulent lovers, you absolutely must not be timid!

Chief Hui has decided today to sternly denounce several types of succulent freeloaders, and attach perfect countermeasures. Protecting succulents is everyone's responsibility!

You grow so many succulents at home, they look so nice. Give me a few, okay?

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Bold type

: I will take the first part as you complimenting me, but take that last sentence back quickly so we can still be friends. Your family has so much money, why don't you say you'll share some with me? I am happy growing so many succulents. If I give them to you and I am unhappy, why should I?

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Gentle type

: Right? I also think they look super nice. I have grown them for a long time. If you like them too, next time we can go look together. I know a few pretty good shops and can recommend them to you.

These succulents all look about the same. Give me two to grow. Anyway, they are not very expensive.

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Bold type

: Heh, I think your lipstick colors all look the same too, and you still bought a whole bunch! Succulents are not expensive, so go buy them yourself. You may not care about them, but I do!

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Gentle type

: That is where you are wrong. It is true that some varieties look very similar, but I just cannot help wanting to buy them when I see them. I am about to buy another batch recently. Do you want to join a group order? Maybe it will be cheaper.

That one you gave me last time was not very pretty. This time give me the xxx one, okay?

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Bold type

: I should not have given you one last time! I kindly picked out some easy-to-grow ones for you to try, and you raised them badly yourself and now you are shifting the blame? If they are not pretty, go buy them yourself. Why should I give you the pretty ones!

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Gentle type

: Ah, did the last one not grow well? How about bringing it back and letting me help you grow it? They are all relatively easy varieties. The one you like is very hard to grow, so maybe do not try it yet.

Why are you so stingy now? You will not even give one succulent!

-Bold type: It really is not that I am stingy, lady. Is one succulent a small matter? If you raise it to death, that becomes a big matter! If you are so generous, then do not ask me for one. I hate most this kind of people who ask others for help or things while acting arrogant as if they are invincible!

-Gentle type: It really is not stinginess. I have grown succulents for so long that I am very reluctant to part with them. If you do not want to, how about I treat you to a meal? Succulents are out of the question. Try growing one yourself and you will know. If you grew them, you would be reluctant to part with them too.

Anyway, you were already planning to give it to me, so why not give me that big one?

-Bold type: Heh? You keep pestering me relentlessly, so I reluctantly give you a small offset and that is already good enough, and you are still picky and getting more shameless? I am not giving it anymore, not even the small one! Are you satisfied? What else can you do?

-Gentle type: Try growing the small offset first. If you start with a big one, I am afraid you will not grow it well. Later, if you really like it, you can try growing some bigger ones yourself, or different varieties.

After posting photos on Moments, the freeloaders from the other end of the internet

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Tell him with unmatched handsomeness:

No!

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Reason with emotion and move with logic

and tell him that growing succulents requires conditions and patience, and if you grow them badly they can be so ugly that you doubt life;

-Or just

directly reveal your identity

and say you are a WeChat seller to scare him. Ask whether he wants to buy. If he really wants to buy, then just give a friendly price and ship it, testing whether his feelings for succulents are real;

-Or use

the sympathy ploy

, with tears streaming and nose running, tell him that this was grown together with your boyfriend (or girlfriend) for many years and your feelings are very deep, so deep that it is almost as if you take it out for a walk on the street every day. If he can still bring himself to ask for it, then Chief Hui would have to wonder about his (her) relationship with your boyfriend (or girlfriend).

Suddenly I feel that in order to protect our succulents, all the lies of this lifetime have been told to freeloaders!

After all, the most terrifying thing about freeloaders is this:

they are clearly not people who cherish succulents, yet they casually take away what others love

. That really stings. A succulent that was growing perfectly well becomes on the verge of death in their hands, and then they can even turn around and bite you. So toward this kind of person, you should not be softhearted.

The succulents you grow yourself, you must take good care of them and keep walking with them all the way~~~

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