Cousin Chitose Chitose

After finally catching Wei Jinxuan and Jiang Yuanwan's tricks, the second lady will not let it go.She yelled directly, and made a fuss in front of Mrs. Tai and Chang Ninghou: "My daughter-in-law just wanted to enjoy the flowers in advance, but unexpectedly found that several pots of precious flowers have failed to bloom. What should I do for the flower viewing feast in the next few days?" ?”

"What should I do? A few pots of flowers are missing. Could it be that this flower viewing feast cannot be held?" Marquis Chang Ning was displeased in his heart.

"Your Majesty doesn't know something. The post we sent listed the varieties of chrysanthemums included in the flower viewing banquet. But the four potted flowers of Mo Peony, Rouge Dianxue, Cinnabar Red Shuang, and Yaotai Yufeng are all very precious. The two nieces and daughters only I bought a pot." Then, the second wife sighed: "Hey, if I knew this, I should help my two nieces find a few more pots. Although I don't have much ability, I still know a few who are responsible for purchasing rare things. Grass merchants."

"Since the second brother and sister can find those flowers, I will leave this matter to you." Changning Hou said, and gave Wei Jinxuan and Jiang Yuanwan a hard look: "Why are you so careless!"

Mrs. Tai said: "Wait a minute - I remember that a few days ago, the fourth family borrowed a few pots of flowers. Which pots did she borrow?"

Wei Jinxuan said: "Back to grandma, it's the damaged four potted flowers."

The second lady covered her mouth and said, "Could it be the fourth sibling..."

"Call the four younger siblings and ask them." Changning Hou's face was ashen.

The fourth lady secretly stuffed money into the person sent by Marquis Changning, and finally figured out why Marquis Changning called her here suddenly.As soon as she entered the door, she yelled wronged in front of everyone: "I borrowed these potted flowers to enjoy them for a few days, but when I returned them, they were all in good condition!"

"At that time, my aunt came to borrow flowers, and my cousin Jiang and I emphasized to my aunt how precious these flowers are... My cousin Jiang and I didn't want to give them to my aunt, and my aunt even made a fuss with my grandmother..." Wei Jinxuan wanted to speak again. end.

Mrs. Tai also thought of this incident, and her complexion became more and more unkind: "For no reason, what flowers did you borrow? The other flowers are all fine, but something happened to the few pots you borrowed. If it wasn't you who tampered with it, who else would it be?" !"

The fourth lady stared at Wei Jinxuan and Jiang Yuanwan: "I remember, when I returned these four potted flowers, the two nieces checked them!"

Wei Jinxuan said: "If Fourth Aunt tampered with the flowers before returning them, the gardeners might not be able to notice immediately."

Jiang Yuanwan saw that the two sides insisted on their opinions, and said: "I think there is some misunderstanding. Everyone knows that the fourth aunt borrowed the flowers. If there is something wrong with the flowers, everyone will definitely suspect the fourth aunt. It's not good for the fourth aunt, is it?"

The second wife said: "So, the cousin and niece admit that you have not taken good care of these flowers?"

"I didn't say that. Uncle, I'd better ask the gardener to see why these potted flowers withered."

The second lady snorted softly: "It's because those gardeners failed to fulfill their responsibilities that this flower was raised to death. They will naturally try their best to shirk their responsibility. I can't believe what they said!"

"Then invite a gardener from outside!" Chief Ning Hou didn't want to pursue this kind of trivial matter, but Mrs. Tai was quite concerned about this matter, and he couldn't go against Mrs. Tai's wishes after all.

The corners of the second lady's lips curled slightly, and a pair of sharp eyes scanned the servants around: "Didn't you hear what Lord Hou said? Hurry up and find those gardeners who are used to in our house!"

When holding a flower viewing banquet in the mansion, if the gardeners in the mansion are too busy, they will occasionally invite some gardeners from outside to rush to work temporarily.

"Wait." Mrs. Tai looked at the second lady defensively: "This matter is a matter of the inner house, so don't make it public. It's better to call some gardeners from my natal family's Xiafu. After these gardeners have finished their investigation, they will Let them stay at our house."

"Mother is very considerate, so let's do this."

The second lady's face was a little ugly. It seemed that the money she bought those gardeners was wasted.

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Mrs. Tai's natal family's Xia Mansion has long since fallen, and now she lives in Changning Hou's Mansion.After hearing that the Marquis of Changning wanted to borrow some gardeners, Master Luo asked the best gardeners in the mansion to tidy up and report to the Marquis of Changning without saying a word.

Master Xia looked at his slim daughter, and said to his wife, "Our eldest sister has also reached the age for marriage. I wonder if I can ask my aunt to help find a good family."

Mrs. Xia said: "I think the brothers in the Marquis of Changning are pretty good, but I don't know if the Marquis of Changning can think highly of our daughter."

Master Xia said: "Why don't you look down on me? The old lady of the Changning Marquis Mansion is the old aunt married by my Xia family, and my daughter is also my aunt's grandniece! And the eldest sister died in the Changning Marquis Mansion for no apparent reason. The Hou Mansion will always give us some compensation!"

Mrs. Tai doesn't know yet, but her careless natal family has started to think about her again. Even if she knows, she will only help her natal family.Her heart has always been biased.Her current status also gave her the capital to be willful.

Mr. Xia is quite fond of elegant things, he likes admiring flowers and reciting poems in his garden on weekdays, the Xia family has high requirements for gardeners.After Xia's gardener was sent to the Marquis of Changning, he carefully inspected the condition of the potted flowers according to Mrs. Tai's request, and then said: "This flower has been poured with thick vinegar. What kind of reaction, the rhizome of the flower will completely absorb the juice, and the flower will wither."

Jiang Yuanwan hurriedly asked: "Then can this flower still be saved?"

The gardener shook his head: "The roots are completely rotten."

The second lady said: "Then, can we find out when the thick vinegar was poured?"

The gardener twirled the petals with his hands, and then took a closer look at the rhizome of the flower: "This flower has just begun to decay, and it won't be long before pouring thick vinegar—about two days."

"Oh, I don't know when the fourth sibling borrowed the flowers, and when did they return the flowers to the eldest niece and cousin?"

The fourth lady's expression suddenly turned ugly: "Second sister-in-law, what do you mean by that?"

"I just want to confirm whether the four siblings want to see the two nieces make a fool of themselves, or the two nieces are not doing well."

"The fourth aunt returned the four potted flowers two days ago. At that time, my eldest cousin and I only thought that the flowers had some taste, and didn't think too much about it." Jiang Yuanwan said.

"Two days ago...it's hard to tell." The second lady looked quite distressed.

"Actually, the most important thing right now is not to investigate whose fault, but how to find these potted flowers for the flower viewing feast in a few days." Jiang Yuanwan looked at the second wife meaningfully: "Can I ask the second aunt to send you a few days earlier?" How about lending the prepared flowers to our family for emergency?"

The second lady's heart skipped a beat, and she felt that something was wrong. Could it be that someone saw her secretly asking her family to buy these potted flowers a few days ago?

If the whole family is helpless about this matter, she offered the flowers to borrow the family's urgent need, which can be regarded as a great achievement.But if the fact that she had these pots of flowers in her hand was known in advance, and she was "forced" to donate these pots of flowers, then her contribution would be greatly reduced.

The second wife was going to take over the work of holding the flower viewing banquet first, and then "arrange" her family to "buy flowers", but now this plan has to be changed.

"Yes, my natal family just wanted to enjoy flowers this year, so they bought a few pots of precious chrysanthemums, which happened to contain the four kinds of flowers that our family needed. Wait for me to write a book and explain the whole story to my natal family. I will definitely agree to lend the flowers to our family temporarily."

"Oh, I don't know if the second aunt's house bought a lot of precious chrysanthemums, including these four kinds, or only bought these four kinds of flowers?" Wei Jinxuan looked at the second lady with a smile, but there was no smile in her eyes.

"Then I have to ask my second aunt. A few days ago, when the maid next to me went shopping, my second aunt's maid also said that she was going to buy rouge for my second aunt, but she was sneaky and disappeared halfway. My maid became suspicious, so I went to look for it, and found that the second aunt's maid had gone to the fourth aunt's family. Not long after the second aunt's maid left, the second aunt's family began to buy ink peonies, rouge and snow everywhere. , cinnabar red frost, Yaotai Yufeng four potted flowers... Now that I think about it, this is too coincidental."

Jiang Yuanwan said: "The second aunt's family and the fourth aunt really have a good understanding, and they went to enjoy the flowers in one place."

"You sent someone to follow my maid!" The second lady no longer smiled, and looked at Jiang Yuanwan with undisguised resentment.

"I said, if the servant girl next to my second aunt hadn't been sneaking around and aroused the suspicion of the servant girl next to me, my maid would not have followed."

After hearing this, the fourth lady suddenly realized: "I remembered! I didn't plan to borrow flowers to see it. It was a few maids who gossiped and said that my two nieces looked down on me. Although they collected a lot of flowers, they definitely wouldn't." Allow me to borrow it to watch...I'm so angry, this is why I want to watch it!"

The more she thought about it, the more suspicious those maidservants became: "I'm a rough person, how can I know whether these flowers are good or bad? Which ones are rare varieties and which ones are common ones? It was those maidservants who kept repeating in my ears. , said that these four kinds of flowers are very good, and the Empress Dowager also praised them, so I remembered them!"

"Niece, tell me, when did your maid discover the abnormality of the second sister-in-law's family?" The fourth lady's eyes were full of urgency, and she knew that she had fallen into the trap of others.

Liu Yun came out and said, "It was five days ago. On that day, the second wife's family spent a lot of money to collect these four potted flowers. The flower seller must still have an impression."

"That's it, that's it... After I heard the rumors, I shamelessly asked my nieces to borrow flowers. It was six days ago... At that time, the second sister-in-law must have been planning to frame me!" The fourth wife gritted her teeth.

Everyone looked at the second lady with suspicion in their eyes.