"Does this mother need any other flowers?"
The florist manager asked with a smile, "Write down all the flowers that Fang's mother needs."
"That's all I need for now."
Mother Fang said, "I need these flowers urgently. When can you deliver them to my door?"
"About a month and a half later..." The flower shop owner smiled and said, "Mom should be the housekeeper of a wealthy family's garden. She should know that flowers need to be carefully cared for if they want to grow well. You want so many flowers at once, so you have to give them some time to grow."
Mother Fang also understood this logic, but the banquet at the Marquis' Mansion was over in a month and a half, and she really couldn't wait that long.
"I can pay extra money. How soon can the shopkeeper deliver the flowers I need?"
"I wonder how much more money Mom is willing to give?"
The flower shop owner's eyes lit up.
"Mom needs too many flowers. We have some flowers grown for other people's homes. They were reserved by our old customers. The extra money you spend is to compensate those customers..."
Mother Fang has been dealing with flower shop owners for many years, so she naturally knows that although these people will specialize in growing flowers for the backyards of some wealthy families, they will also prepare an extra batch in case the pre-ordered seedlings die midway and they will not be able to deliver to the pre-ordered customers.
Mother Fang needed this batch of goods urgently, so it was naturally impossible for her to wait for the flower shop manager to cultivate the seedlings again bit by bit. She had to give all the seedlings cultivated in the shop to herself.
They are all thousand-year-old foxes. The flower shop manager saw that Mother Fang needed a large number of flower seedlings and needed them urgently, so he naturally would not miss the opportunity to make a killing.
Looking at the half-smile on the flower shop manager's face, Mother Fang knew she was going to bleed heavily this time.
"Steward, I need some flower seedlings urgently. You need to deliver all the seedlings to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion within three days. How much does it cost?"
Upon hearing that Mother Fang was a servant in the Marquis' Mansion, the flower shop manager's eyes brightened a little.
He lowered his head and thought for a moment, then quickly stretched out three fingers.
"Three hundred taels? OK..."
"You are wrong. I said three thousand taels."
"what?"
Mother Fang couldn't believe her ears.
It does cost more money to purchase a large quantity of flowers without making an appointment in advance, and Fang's mother never expected that the other party would increase the price tenfold.
In the past three years, the silver she had embezzled from the Marquis' Mansion was less than three thousand taels, but the flowers in the Marquis' Mansion had to be planted.
At this moment, Fang's mother was completely panicked, because even if all the assets of her family were counted, it would not be enough for three thousand taels of silver.
"Manager, your price is too high..."
"If this mother thinks our price is too high, she doesn't have to buy it."
"I……"
Mother Fang wanted to turn around and leave, but when she thought of Hou's rage, her legs went weak.
"Manager, I really can't afford your price, so I'll take my leave now."
After saying that, Fang's mother walked towards the door with messy steps. Her steps became faster and faster, and finally she started running.
As Fang's mother left, the manager of the flower shop sneered, then went to the backyard and knocked lightly three times on the door of a room.
"What's the matter?"
A cold voice soon came from the room.
"Sir, I have already quoted the price to that mother as you instructed. Judging from her appearance, I am afraid she doesn't have the money to buy our flowers."
"Let the flower shop across the street remain closed. She will come here tomorrow at the latest."
The cold voice in the room came again, and then said: "When she comes again tomorrow, raise the price by another one thousand taels."
"It seems that she can't even afford today's three thousand taels of silver. If we add another thousand taels of silver, I'm afraid she won't dare to come to our door again."
"Will not."
A cold voice in the room said, "For her position in the Marquis' Mansion, she absolutely dares not not buy it."
"But there are other flower shops around here..."
"Then notify other flower shops to raise their prices together."
"Yes!"
The voices in the shop were still cold and quiet, but the words spoken were unquestionable.
"She'll raise the price by a thousand every time she comes over from now on."
"Yes!" The flower shop manager responded respectfully, but asked curiously, "Sir, you are taking so much trouble to deal with a housekeeper's mother in a marquis's mansion, but did that marquis's mansion offend you?"
"No."
The cold voice was slightly displeased.
"Just do what I tell you to do, and don't worry about anything else."
"Yes!" The steward of the Marquis' Mansion did not dare to say anything more. He said "I'll take my leave" and turned to leave.
As the steward walked away, a light laugh came from the room.
"I say, you've tried so hard to help people, but it's a pity that they don't know about it."
"Speak up."
There was displeasure in the cold voice, as well as a hint of loneliness.
"If you ask me, you should show up beside her and let her know you exist..."
"eventful."
"Hey, you took so much trouble to send Ming Yi to that person, why did you only keep him for a year?"
"If she wants, a year is enough time for her to do many things. If she doesn't want, what's the point of Ming Yi staying with her for the rest of his life?"
"You are right about everything."
After that, no more sound came from the room.
Liu Tianshu was not aware of what was happening at the flower shop. After warning Mother Fang, she started wandering around the mansion.
This incident with Fang's mother reminded her that in her previous life, the Marquis' Mansion also held a grand banquet after the mourning period ended.
In order to demonstrate her abilities as the mistress of the Marquis' Mansion at this banquet, Liu Tianshu did everything herself and kept a close eye on everyone in the Marquis' Mansion.
She thought that this banquet would be completed in a grand manner, but she didn't expect that she only focused on the banquet dishes and all the guests and nothing would go wrong at the banquet in the Marquis' Mansion.
In her previous life, she did a good job indeed, but she overlooked the fact that the Marquisate had been silent for three years. Although many courtyards and gardens spent a lot of money on repairs every year, there were still many people who were lazy and sloppy, causing her to lose face in the gardens and some courtyards that she seldom visited.
Although that tiny flaw was not important compared to the smooth completion of the entire banquet, it also earned her a reputation for hiring the wrong people.
She knew that Hou was behind all this, but because she couldn't find any evidence and the matter had already happened, she simply replaced all those who did not do their job well with her own people and let the matter go.
In the future, everyone in the mansion will be hers, and anything she tells them to do will be completed seriously.
As time passed, she forgot that there were many people in this yard who were not her own.
Now that she has married, she cannot leave without a divorce while the Empress Dowager and the Emperor are still around. It is time to find an opportunity to replace all the people in this palace.
In the past three years, she had kept some of her people in order not to hurt the Hou family's reputation. Now she thought that she was too kind.
However, the people who followed her in her previous life have not been trained yet, and their prestige in the mansion is not enough, so everything can only be done slowly...
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