Wear It with Space - Chapter 20

On this day, as usual, Shen Ling got up early, washed a little, and got out of his penthouse. Passing through the back porch, I came to the upper room where Hui Niang lived. Under the porch, a little maid had already taken out a copper pot and a copper basin from the small kitchen.

Tea Qing arrived one step later, and the two took the copper pot and basin, and knocked on the door of the room lightly.

Yanqing, who was watching the night last night, opened the door and let the two of them walk in. Go back to the room to make up for the sleep.

After Shen Ling went in, she saw that Niang Hui was sitting in front of the vanity mirror, and brought the copper basin to her. Tea Qing poured the hot water from the copper pot into the basin, and tested the water temperature. So Hui Niang was wearing the copper. The basin washed his face, took the towel and wiped his hands.

After freshening up, after drinking red dates and white fungus soup, Hui Niang went to Mrs. Hou’s greetings as usual.

Madam Hou didn’t know what she was thinking, she was in a trance leaning on Luohan’s bed. Hui Niang called her several times before she recovered and ordered the people below to start a meal.

Hui Niang winked at Shen Ling because she was going to Wenxintang for class, and before she could ask Mrs. Hou why she was upset. Shen Ling knew that when Mother Hui finished her meal, she found an excuse to stay in Rong’antang and quietly asked her maid Liuli next to Madam Hou.

Liuli said, “It’s not because of the peony banquet. It’s strange to say that this spring seems to be very late. It’s April and the weather is still cold. Those compradors who went out to buy peonies came back empty-handed and said yes. The best thing about those peonies is that they have buds, and you have to wait at least five or six days for them to bloom.”

“What about the flower house in that mansion? I remember that there are still a few pots of peonies that I bought a few years ago. Is it possible that they didn’t bloom?” Shen Ling asked.

Liuli said, “It happened that Mrs. Ding, who was serving these peonies in the flower room, broke her leg in winter. The grandmother who came from behind was not good at this. Although there are several pots of open peonies, they are not very good.” She paused. “It would be fine if it were in previous years, but this year my wife invited a lot of people from a noble family in the post for the marriage of the three young masters. If there are no two or three pots of brilliant peonies, those people will not be guaranteed not to laugh at our Hou Mansion. So the wife is doing it for you. I’m worried about this!”

Shen Ling couldn’t help but move when he heard it. This was an opportunity.

When Hui Niang came out of Wenxintang, Shen Ling told the truth one by one, and finally said: “Second girl, I think of one person. I once met a flower farmer in the country, known as Qiu Weng, not only loves flowers like He is also very accomplished in floral art. He has collected many rare flowers in his life, including Yaohuang, a precious variety of peonies.”

Hui Niang said: “If this is the case, then you will take a trip tomorrow. If he really has famous flowers like Yao Huang Zhao Fen, you can buy it for me. Silver is not a problem. After I go back, I will make tea. Qingkaizi gives you a silver ticket.” The three young masters are not another, but her brother Zhang Ge, so Hui Niang is more anxious than Madam Hou on this matter.

On the second day, Shen Ling got up early, and when she got to Hui Niang’s room, Hui Niang had arranged a carriage for her. Shen Ling went out to the West Point Gate and got on the carriage, and the coachman found a silver number and stopped as she said. Shen Ling went in and exchanged all the two hundred taels of silver tickets into silver, and then got on the train and ordered the coachman to go all the way north. Going north to the outskirts, he walked around for more than an hour, before Shen Ling asked him to stop in a yard.

The yard was deserted in Abi’s memory for a long time, but it looked good outside, so there was no problem in fooling the outsider, the coachman.

Shen Ling walked to a place where the coachman could not see, and entered the space.

The Yaohuang tree she bought from Jia Shun that day has not only survived but was successfully divided by her. In the early winter of last year, she had already moved the two bred Yaohuang trees to flower pots for planting. Although there is no prosperous Yaohuang in the black soil, it is much better than the Yaohuang sold on the market.

Shen Ling moved the two pots of Yaohuang outside and left a hundred taels of silver in the space before calling the coachman to come in and carry the flowers.

When the two returned to the Hou Mansion, Hui Niang just woke up during the lunch break. After she came out of the room, she saw the two Yaohuang trees in full bloom.

Rao Yi Niang was born in a rich family like the Hou Mansion. She has seen countless famous peonies, and she couldn’t help but breathe when she saw these two Yaohuang trees.

The ordinary Yaohuang is only six or seven feet tall, but the Yaohuang in front of you is about ten feet high. The golden flower pavilions stand on the surface of the leaves, and each flower is the size of a bowl. What surprised Hui Niang even more was that on the two branches of Yao Huang in front of her, twenty-four flowers bloomed.

Hui Niang stood next to her, only feeling a faint fragrance coming, she couldn’t help but praised: “This is the first time I have seen so many peonies blooming. That Qiu Weng is really a strange person.”

After seeing the flowers, Hui Niang will give Shen Ling a reward when she returns to the room.

Shen Ling took out the remaining one hundred taels of silver, and said modestly: “The slave and maid dare not ask for any reward. It is the blessing of the girl and wife to be able to get such a good flower.”

Hui Niang asked Chaqing to take over the silver, and smiled: “So, I will be the master for you. Yanqing, bring my set of gold inlaid jade, grass, and insect inlaid jewelry.” After speaking, he smiled, “This set of jewelry is Mrs. Dingguo gave me a birthday gift. I am too old-fashioned and have never worn it. However, the jade and gems on it are all good materials, and they are worth three or four hundred taels of silver. Even if I add makeup to you!”

Shen Ling naturally declined, but after all he accepted the set of jewelry.

With the two Yaohuang trees, Mrs. Hou successfully held a peony banquet a few days later. Because Shen Ling had done a good job in this matter, Madam Hou called her for an unprecedented time, asked her something kindly, and finally rewarded her with a pair of red gold pomegranate flower silk bracelets. The value is naturally not as valuable as the set of jewelry given by Hui Niang, but the meaning is different.

Soon, Shen Ling found that the maids around Madam Hou were more polite to her than usual, and some maids who didn’t communicate with her usually had a three-point smile when they saw her, and Shen Ling knew that she was close to the task. It’s not far anymore.

Hui Niang obviously relied more and more heavily on Shen Ling. When she asked Shen Ling’s advice one day about something, Shen Ling turned her head and found that Yanqing’s eyes showed a trace of jealousy. Hui Niang followed her gaze and frowned slightly, “Yanqing, what are you still doing there?”

Yan Qing recovered and went out with his head down.

Shen Ling looked at her back, knowing that she could no longer be restrained, it was probably only two or three days.

In the afternoon two days later, Hui Niang took Shen Ling and Cha Qing Yanqing to find the three girls to play chess. When passing by the garden, Shen Ling saw that the Xifu Begonia on the top of the rockery was just in full bloom, and proposed to fold a few branches of Begonia and give it to the third girl.

Hui Niang readily agreed: “Abi, you have the best vision, so you can fold a few branches!”

Shen Ling smiled and said: “It’s just that the slave and maidservant always fear heights, and dare not go to such a high place. The second girl has to give me a helper.”

Before Hui Niang could speak, Yan Qing said, “Girl, let me accompany her!”

Hui Niang had already felt Yan Qing’s jealousy towards Shen Ling, and she had beaten her several times in the past two days. Now that she had offered to help Shen Ling, she responded with a smile.

The rockery is almost two feet high, with vines planted all over it, and only a small path is exposed in it.

Shen Ling reluctantly followed Yanqing to the Begonia of Xifu, and heard that Yanqing turned around and said: “Abi, don’t think you helped the girl to get two pots of broken flowers and you became the hero of this mansion. The country girl is the country. Girl, can you really treat yourself as a phoenix?”

Shen Ling looked at her pale with tears in her eyes, “Yanqing, I have never offended you, why are you embarrassing me again and again?”

Yanqing stared at her bitterly, “I just see you are not pleasing to the eye, I wish you could roll as far as possible. Why don’t you roll, roll!” The more she talked, the more angry she was, and she didn’t care if Hui Niang brought the tea. Qing was still waiting below, stretched out his hand and pushed Shen Ling.

If she was pushed like this under normal circumstances, Shen Ling would stagger at most and then sit on the ground. However, Shen Ling’s current situation is seriously afraid of heights. She was afraid of standing not stable enough. Although Yan Qing’s strength was not strong, she suddenly pushed her to the edge of the rockery.

Standing under the rockery, Hui Niang and Cha Qing heard Shen Ling let out an exclamation, and then rolled down from the rockery.

The moment Shen Ling rolled down, he quickly covered his head and face, and then grabbed the vines on the rocks as much as possible to slow down the momentum of the fall. After all, the rockery was not too steep and the terrain was fairly flat. Shen Ling grabbed the vines and rolled down at a very slow speed.

But even so, her body was still scratched in many places by rocks or vines, and her clothes were already torn.

But what was worse was her spirit. Originally, this body had a fear of heights. After this fright, Shen Ling almost fainted without pretending to be.

But this crime was not in vain. After Shen Ling woke up, she saw a little maid named Bing’er beside the bed, who took care of her daily life while she was recuperating.

Without Shen Ling’s detailed questioning, Bing’er explained what happened later in detail.

After she fell from the rockery, Hui Niang ordered someone to ask a doctor, and by the way, she notified Guan Li. Manager Li heard that Abi had been pushed off the rockery, and immediately went to ask Mrs. Hou for justice. Although he is not very concerned about this daughter, after all, blood is thicker than water. Now that someone has killed his daughter half-dead, he will naturally not let it go.

Under his impetus, things proceeded faster than Shen Ling expected.

Mrs. Hou quickly got rid of the status of Yanqing maid. After hitting her ten boards, she ordered her parents to take her home and never let her serve in the house again.

In order to compensate Shen Ling, Madam Hou promoted her to be a maid, and only waited for her to take up the post after she recovered.