She likes peonies, but she doesn't like peonies as a gift from him.

Jiao Niang was thinking this in her heart, but she couldn't say it out loud, so she could only say: "I like it, thank you, Your Highness." Ying Che smiled slightly, and she added: "But please, Your Highness, don't give it to me anymore in the future."

"Why? Didn't you say you like it?"

Jiao Niang bit her lip, "But-but we still need to take care of some gossip."

Ying Che was stunned for a moment, then smiled lowly, "Just ignore the gossip. Your sister is my concubine, so you are my sister-in-law. As a brother-in-law, why not give something to your sister-in-law?"

"

The girl who said this was speechless. If ordinary people really don't care, Ying Che——

The girl had reservations in her heart.

When Ying Che saw that the girl was silent, he asked again: "Besides peonies, what else do you usually like?"

The young lady pondered for a moment and shook her head.

Ying Che lowered his head slightly and said with a playful smile: "You still like butterflies?"

The girl remembered that day when the butterflies fluttered on him, her face flushed with embarrassment and her head hung lower.

Ying Che saw that she was so shy and stopped teasing her, "Why didn't you come to Sister Yu's 100-day banquet at the beginning of the year?"

Jiao Niang replied obediently: "I'm sick." She didn't want to argue with him anymore, so she bowed and said, "It's late at night, Jiao Niang will go back first, Your Highness can help himself." She was about to leave in a hurry.

Ying Che nodded and watched Jiao Niang leave. When Jiao Niang disappeared, he lowered his head and bent down to pick up the silk handkerchief on the ground. There was also an albizia flower on the silk handkerchief. He picked it up and smelled it, with a smile on his face.

A meaningful smile.

It was even harder for the girl to fall asleep after she returned. Her eyes were as wide as bells, and she lay on the bed rolling from the head to the end of the bed, sighing from time to time, and spent the whole night in this state of mind.

I gradually fell asleep the next morning and slept until about three o'clock in the morning. Fortunately, the old lady said it was hot these days and I didn't need to go to say hello, otherwise I wouldn't have had a good night's sleep.

After lunch, Qiao Niang sat on the porch, watching Qing Huan watering the flowers and scanning a few books. Qiao Niang was taught embroidery by Mrs. Cheng every noon in the past few days. She was an embroiderer specially invited from Lincheng.

My mother taught me that I wanted to give Qiao Niang some bad advice, so that she would not be laughed at by my husband's family when I get married.

Qiao Niang complained to her every time she came back, saying that her fingers were about to be pricked. But according to Jiao Niang, it was time for Qiao Niang to learn how to be a female celebrity, which would save her from having to make two copies of the purse fan pendant.

"Girl, these flowers are so beautiful. I have never seen them before. Especially the few pots sent by Prince Rui, they are the most beautiful and luxuriant. I heard people say that every pot sent by Prince Rui is full of flowers.

It’s the best, and it’s worth a lot of money.”

While watering the flowers, Qing Huan looked back at the girl and kept mumbling, "I used to think that Prince Rui was so arrogant that he wouldn't even enter our house. Now it seems that I was wrong. I can give the girl away."

Such precious peonies can be seen as a sign of love and care for my sister-in-law. I must say that the eldest girl is really lucky to be able to marry such a noble, handsome and considerate husband. Now I only hope that you can do the same.

Find someone like Prince Rui."

The girl just took a sip of water and almost didn't choke. She covered her mouth for a few times and said, "When your tongue won't stop, I will ask the doctor to prescribe some dumb medicine one day so that you can never speak again."

talk."

Qing Huan stuck out her tongue, and Shuixiang came out with an embroidered quilt and joked: "Girl, you don't need to find a doctor, why don't you give me the money to find a doctor, and I'll sew her mouth shut with needle and thread."

Jiao Niang smiled and said: "This is a good idea, there is no need to change the date."

Qing Huan pouted and stamped her feet, "Young lady bullied me, Shuixiang you bullied me too, I can't live anymore."

Jiaoniang and Shuixiang looked at each other and smiled, so happy.

While she was smiling, a maid came in and announced that Prince Rui had sent someone to deliver something to Jiao Niang. Qing Huan smiled and said that she didn’t know what kind of peonies they were. The smile that was still on Jiao Niang’s face slowly faded, making her

Put it in.

"Huh? Why are they butterflies?" Qing Huan held a crystal-clear bottle in one hand. There were about a dozen butterflies in it. There was a pinhole-sized hole on the top of the bottle. She carefully brought it to the girl, "Girl,

You see, this Prince Rui is really interesting. He sent flowers, but he was afraid that there would be no accompaniment, so he sent butterflies."

Jiao Niang thought about last night, her eyes flashed, "Let them go."

"Let go?" Qing Huan stared at her in disbelief.

"If you don't put it away, why don't you just keep it in the bottle? If it's like raising a bird, it's better than nothing if it's kept in a golden cage." The girl glanced at the butterfly in the vase and said, "Butterflies are beautiful when they pick flowers."

Qing Huan nodded, opened the lid, and let the butterflies out. For a moment, she felt butterflies dancing all over the sky, landing on the peonies, and it was a beautiful scene of picking flowers.

Qing Huan asked casually: "Does the girl like the flowers sent by Mr. Cheng Yu, or the flowers sent by Prince Rui?"

Jiao Niang's expression condensed, she naturally liked what Cheng Yu sent. Because she knew that every pot Cheng Yu sent was carefully selected by him, and the one sent by Ying Che, no matter how precious, was only for him.

Just mention it casually and someone will take care of it.

There is no difference between being careful and not being careful.

After the butterflies flew away, the girl was no longer in the mood to enjoy the flowers, so she went to Mrs. Xiao's place to play with her nephew. The little boy was only four months old and was already dishonest. He wanted to change his mind. Mrs. Xiao thought that the child would.

When you turn over, you have to keep an eye on it at all times, so that you don't notice for a moment, and you turn over happily and get out of the bed, so he lifts his legs and moves it over for him.

Brother Fu took pleasure in this. When Xiao pulled it over to him, he stretched it out again, pulled it over, and stretched it out again. Xiao was so angry that he just left him alone.

Mrs. Xiao's natal family was not a wealthy family, her father was just a small official, and he had been on good terms with the Cheng family in the past. Mr. Cheng saw that she was a good person, so he decided to marry her.

It was said that it was a blind marriage. She and Hua Junrui had never met each other before they got married, but their lives were good now. Hua Junrui respected her very much. In addition to a man called Huazhu whom Cheng had arranged for him earlier, there was no one in the room.

The only married woman was Xianghe, who was married to Xiao.

Although these two maids had served Hua Junrui, in order not to make Mrs. Xiao sad, he never carried their aunt to them.

After playing with Brother Fu for a while, he drooped his eyelids and became sleepy. Brother Fu was good at this, he never made a fuss and would sleep when he was sleepy. Mrs. Xiao said he was easy to feed.

The nanny who took care of Brother Fu's son, everyone called her Ping Ma. She was in her mid-twenties, had two sons at home, and a husband who was missing a leg. She said she had been playing a gambling trick earlier and was discovered.

It was chopped.

Now she has two sons to raise. Her husband lost a leg, so he has no labor force and cannot earn much money. The burden of the whole family falls on her alone.

Fortunately, she found this job and was able to make ends meet. The Hua family was a kind family, and her mistress was kind to her, and she always received constant rewards. She was grateful and took good care of Brother Fu.

"Second Grandma, you're feeling heavy, it's better for me to coax Brother Fu to sleep." Ping Ma took Brother Fu over, patted him gently with her hands, and hummed a tune that made people fall asleep. After a while, Brother Fu fell into a deep sleep.

.

The weather today was a bit dull, as if a heavy rain was coming. Someone opened the beaded curtain outside, and Xianghe brought melons and fruits drizzled with ice. Mrs. Xiao smiled and said, "Look at my memory. I'm pregnant. I can't."

The one who ate ice even forgot to bring some snacks to my sister to relieve the heat."

Behind Xianghe was a little maid, holding a stew pot in her hand. Xianghe brought it up and said, "Grandma, this is rock sugar snow pear. I saw grandma coughing twice yesterday, so I made this. Please try it and see if it works.

Will it be sweet?"

This rock-sugar snow pear is made by first taking out the pear meat inside and keeping the outer shell, then adding the pear meat, rock sugar, and Sichuan scallops, cooking them together, and putting them into the shell. It tastes like a pear, and the Sichuan scallops can be blended with rock sugar.

of sweetness.

Mrs. Xiao took a mouthful and said, "Not bad, it tastes just right."

Xianghe waited for her to finish her evaluation, smiled, and then left respectfully.

Xianghe came to Hua's house with Xiao. Xiao was pregnant at the time and was afraid that she would not be able to serve Hua Junrui and let Huazhu take over, so she gave Xianghe to him to balance Huazhu.

This Xianghe is a loyal and honest person. Even after serving Hua Junze, he is still as respectful to her as before, even more respectful.

"Why don't you see that one waiting in front of you?" Jiao Niang was talking about Hua Junze's other roommate, Huazhu.

Speaking of flower plants, they are the same as fragrant lotuses, but it is the maid's life that has longed for the young lady's heart. When Mrs. Xiao first came in, she relied on Mrs. Cheng's arrangement to get in, and she was somewhat favored, so she did not treat Mrs. Xiao

In my eyes, I was in trouble with her several times.

Maybe it was because she was pretty and was the oldest woman in Hua Junrui, so she was arrogant and dared to be disrespectful towards her mistress.

Seeing that Mrs. Xiao gave in every time she was in trouble, she intensified her behavior and seemed to change her position in front of Mr. Xiao. Unexpectedly, she was bumped into by Hua Junrui. Hua Junrui was not the one who spoiled his concubine and destroyed his wife. She was immediately

He got so angry that if Xiao didn't plead for mercy in the end, Huazhu would have been kicked out long ago.

Since then, Hua Junrui has grown tired of her and never goes to her room again.

Ms. Xiao was also very tolerant. She endured it until her belly became pregnant, and she didn't even say a bad word to Hua Junrui in front of her.

Jiao Niang thought that Xiao's keeping of the flower plant was not necessarily because she was kind-hearted, but because the flower plant had completely fallen out of favor. There was no threat to a person who fell out of favor by her side. On the contrary, the always well-behaved He Xiang might be more attractive to her.

Hua Junrui pity.

Xianghe is sincere now, but there is no guarantee that one day she will have delusions, so she keeps the flower plant to warn Xianghe.

"She is sick, I asked her to rest." Mrs. Xiao said calmly.

"Sister-in-law is so kind to her." Jiao Niang glanced at her, "If it were me, I would never be as big-hearted as my sister-in-law to keep her."

Mrs. Xiao smiled silently, "They are all women, why do we need to kill them all? As long as she stays safe in my courtyard, I can give her a place to live and settle down."

These words were spoken in the tone of a superior, like a kind of charity, which shows that the flower plant has also been conquered by her.
Chapter completed!