Nong Zhaohua

Chapter 66

Yan Zhaohua greeted Mrs. Liu in Qingcangyuan, and resigned after saying something. Liu ordered someone to prepare a few boxes of dim sum. The cook of Qingcangyuan is a dim sum master from the south of the Yangtze River. She is very unique. , the most popular gift from the Liu family to the children in the mansion are these chic little snacks.

Yan Ruiqian and Yan Shuyan had already been sent to their yard, but Yan Zhaoning hadn't come to Qingcang yard today, so Liu asked Yan Zhaohua to bring her there.

Yan Zhaoning now lives in the yard next to Aunt Gong. When Yan Zhaohua entered, it seemed that something had just happened in the yard. Yan Zhaoning was not there. There was a little maid whose cheeks were flushed. She must have just been beaten. , red eyes, red face, crying, Ranxiang stopped her and asked:
"What's going on here?"

A little maid who had just cut her hair curled her lips, as if she wanted to cry again, but after seeing Yan Zhaohua standing aside expressionlessly, she didn't dare anymore. Yan Zhaohua ignored her and walked straight in two steps , the little servant girl bowed her knees to greet Yan Zhaohua's back, seeing that Ranxiang was still asking, she whispered, "Your servant did something wrong and was beaten twice by the mother."

"You little girl can do a lot of things wrong, and Mammy is too ruthless." Although this girl is not from the Marquis of Changning, she doesn't have any gangs in the mansion, and foreign maids like Ranxiang and the others can make peace Getting along with each other, after listening to Ranxiang's words, I felt even more aggrieved, and said:
"I didn't do anything wrong at first, my cousin asked me to dry the beans, but who knew that my aunt came to see Miss Biao, and she became angry when she saw the beans that she let me dry. I didn't know why, so I beat several of them." Erbazi, Sister Ranxiang, do you think I am wronged or not?"

Ranxiang felt strange when she heard it, why did she make a mistake and get beaten after drying the beans well?Feeling sorry for the child, she took a few pieces of candy from her sleeve and stuffed it into her hand, the little maid laughed through tears, thanked Ranxiang again and again before leaving.

Yan Zhaohua stood behind the hanging flower gate looking at a crabapple flower in full bloom. Dyexiang came over and told Yan Zhaohua what he had said earlier. Yan Zhaohua was also puzzled, what kind of beans would be beaten for no reason?Just at this time, Yan Zhaoning came from the next yard, and saw Yan Zhaohua standing at the door, so he came forward and said:
"When did the eldest sister come? I was playing in my aunt's yard."

Yan Zhaohua smiled, asked Ranxiang to hand the box of snacks from Liu Shi to the maid behind her, and said:

"Grandma's made new tricks again, let me send you a box. What happened to your yard earlier, the little girl cried and kept saying that she made a mistake."

When Yan Zhaoning heard this, his eyes moved, but he recovered immediately, and said, "Oh, that girl! Oh, it's wrong, I asked her to dry the lovesickness beans she brought back from my sister, but She was so stubborn that she just put it on the ground to dry, and the nurse next to my aunt told her a few words, saying that the beans had to be stringed up to dry, so that they would dry in a day or two."

"Oh, so that's the case." Yan Zhaohua nodded after hearing this, expressing that he understood, but the doubts in his heart were even worse. Why did Aunt Gong come to take care of Yan Zhaoning's drying of beans?

Yan Zhaoning hooked Yan Zhaohua's arm affectionately, wanting to invite Yan Zhaohua in, Yan Zhaohua said:

"I won't go in, my aunt still wants me to find sister Rou."

Yan Zhaoning pouted and said, "Big Sister treats Sister Rou better than me. Although we are not siblings, we are also half-brothers. Sister can't be partial!"

Regarding Yan Zhaoning's coquettish remarks, Yan Zhaohua responded and said consolingly: "I'm not partial, and I didn't give her snacks at Sister Rou's."

Yan Zhaoning then laughed and said:
"Oh, I'm just saying, I'm just joking, why should Eldest Sister take it seriously. Hurry up and send it to Elder Sister when I finish the sachet in the past two days."

Yan Zhaohua said thank you, didn't stop, and left Yan Zhaoning's yard with Ranxiang.

In the afternoon of the next day, Yan Zhaoning unexpectedly delivered the finished sachet to Yan Zhaohua. Yan Zhaohua was surprised at her speed and said, "It's ready so quickly? Are the beans dried? "

"It's done, it's done. I was afraid of not doing it yesterday, so I put it on the stove to dry overnight. The pattern on the outside of the sachet has already been selected."

Yan Zhaoning wrapped the goose-yellow silk cloth with blue silk, a green leafy orchid in the lower left corner, and the word "Hua" embroidered next to the orchid, which seemed to be done with care. After Yan Zhaohua thanked him, he let Dye Xiang accepted it.

After delivering the sachet, Yan Zhaoning left.Ran Xiang couldn't put it down because of this sachet, and asked Yan Zhaohua which outfit he was going to wear with it.

Yan Zhaohua's eyes fell on the sachet in Ranxiang's hand, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I don't wear any clothes, just find a box to put them away."

It's not that she's suspicious, it's just that she has suffered too much in her previous life, and she is instinctively alert to the things Yan Zhaoning sent. What's more, it's really strange, she seems to be in a hurry, and she was still letting people dry beans yesterday , Today, the sachet has already been prepared and sent over. Yan Zhaohua doesn't know what the hell she's doing, but it's always right to be careful.

Ran Xiang didn't talk too much, she did what Yan Zhaohua told her, and found a small box that used to hold rouge and put away the sachet.But before putting it in the cabinet, Yan Zhaohua said to her again:
"Wait, bring it here and let me have a look."

Ran Xiang took out the things again, Yan Zhaohua put the sachet on the table, stared at it for a while, and saw that the sachet was completely sealed, so he said to Ran Xiang: "Bring some scissors."

Yan Zhaohua took the scissors and was about to cut them off, but Ran Xiang hurriedly stopped her and said, "Miss, is that how you cut it?"

Before he finished speaking, Yan Zhaohua had already cut off the head of the sachet, exposing the cotton wool inside, and then holding the outer shell of the sachet in one hand, Yan Zhaohua used scissors to pick out the contents of the sachet. When it came out, there were indeed only three things, cotton wool, dried jasmine flowers, and seven or eight grains of acacia beans, and none of the strange things Yan Zhaohua had imagined.

His eyes fell on the few acacia beans, and Yan Zhaohua poked them with scissors, and found that these beans were not dried in the sun. He poked them with scissors, and the red skin was broken, revealing the meat inside, and some red pulp , Yan Zhaoning couldn't wait to send her a sachet with no problems, why?Pick up the shell and cotton wool and smell it, there is really no strange smell.

After struggling for a long time, Yan Zhaohua asked Ranxiang to put the things she had cut into the box just like that. Ranxiang did as she did, first the outer shell and cotton wool, then the dried jasmine flower was also put into the box, and finally the hand came Above Acacia Dou, Yan Zhaohua suddenly stopped:

"and many more."

Yan Zhaohua stared suspiciously at the beans, why didn't Yan Zhaoning dry them and put them in a sachet for her?Wouldn't the beans that hadn't been dried in the sun get damp and deteriorate in a few days?Suddenly, I thought of Yan'er, the flower-growing servant in the corridor. She picked a lot of beans with her hands yesterday and wrapped them up for her, but today, her hands had moss... When recruiting maids, it is impossible to recruit one. A maid with such a disease came in.

Yan Zhaohua didn't let Ranxiang touch it, so he used scissors to put the beans one by one into his handkerchief and wrapped them up.Going downstairs, Ranxiang didn't know what Yan Zhaohua was going to do, so he could only follow closely. Yan Zhaohua searched around on the ground, and finally stopped at the edge of a stone. Ranxiang leaned over to look, yes Yan Zhaohua asked:

"Miss, are you looking at... the ants?"

Yan Zhaohua was silent for a moment, then turned to Ranxiang and said, "Go get some powdered sugar."

Ranxiang is a little speechless, my lady is 12 years old, why is she still playing things that children of seven or eight years old don't play anymore, playing with ants with powdered sugar, thanks to the lady can think of it.

Qingzhu also saw Yan Zhaohua squatting in the corner, so he brought out a small bench for Yan Zhaohua to sit down, and quickly took out the fragrant powdered sugar. After thinking for a while, he pulled out a jade hairpin on his head, crushed the crimson fruit with the head of the hairpin, added some powdered sugar to the red liquid, and picked it up with the head of the hairpin. Some of them were placed next to the ant cave in front of the crevice of the stone, and then they sat there and observed quietly.

On the second floor of the bamboo garden, Pei Xuan propped his hands on the window sill, watching what happened in the courtyard next door, what the hell is that girl doing?

Yan Zhaohua sat there motionless for a long time, when Ranxiang and Qingzhu called her, but she didn't respond, she just stared at the ground intently.

After about half a stick of incense, the group of ants finally found the piece of candy. Several swarmed up and touched it with their tentacles, and gradually more ants came over. Yan Zhaohua looked at these little things Crawled into the sugar dip mixed with fruit pulp, but after a while, the ants in the sugar dip could no longer move. At the same time, all the ants next to them, as long as they were dipped in sugar liquid, could not move. , died in front of the cave.

Only then did Yan Zhaohua raise his head in shock, and his eyes fell on the remaining acacia beans on the veil. These are not acacia beans, they are life-threatening beans!The ants died immediately after touching the sap. The day before yesterday, Yan'er picked it with her hands, and the next day she developed hand moss. This is probably because she just touched it with her hands. If someone accidentally swallowed it, the consequences... would be unimaginable.

But, how can acacia beans be highly poisonous?Looking at the black color on the top of the bean, Yan Zhaohua couldn't talk to himself for a long time.

After thinking about it, he couldn't sit idly by after all. After wrapping up the poison, he went to Gu's.

When Yan Zhaohua rushed to Mrs. Gu's place, Mrs. Gu was not in the bedroom. After asking the maid, she found out that the imperial physician in the palace came to ask for pulse today, so Mrs. Gu went to the flower hall, while Zhaohua went to the corridor, Staring at the two rows of green plants full of acacia beans, because Mrs. Gu liked this, she ordered someone to set up a chair and a coffee table, and she would sit here when she wanted to have free time.

Yan Zhaohua was not sure if it would be a problem if it was not contaminated, but thinking of the death of those ants, Yan Zhaohua only felt his scalp tingling and his heart beating violently. Who on earth wanted to harm Mrs. Gu, and still used such vicious Yan Zhaohua still can't tell whether Gu's discomfort these days is because of this, but there must be something wrong with such a poison outside her window.

(End of this chapter)