Daughter Reborn as the Head of the Family

Chapter 223 The Secret Room of the Flower Room

Author: Yu Shao

When he arrived at the backyard of the Zhao Mansion, Zhao Zhu stopped and said to the ladies: "Sisters, because the doors and windows are closed, the space in this greenhouse is slightly smaller, and the maids who are following you should wait outside.

Come on, okay?"

Zhao Zhu said it sincerely, and everyone understood it.

One by one, he ordered his maids to wait outside.

Qiu Yun was a little worried and wanted to go in with her young lady.

Song Jinyue saw that no one had brought their maid with them, so she couldn't be different from others.

And since the greenhouse is right in the courtyard, I don't think anything could go wrong.

Then he said: "You all just wait outside. No matter who calls you to do other things, you just don't need to pay attention. Just stay here and wait for me."

After the explanation was completed, Song Jinyue followed the ladies into the flower room.

The windows in the flower room are bright and clean, and pots after pots of red, purple, green, pink and other chrysanthemums are placed on the long black bench.

There are two bronze furnaces burning silver charcoal.

Everyone is naturally curious, and the purple, green and red chrysanthemums are the most rare. These are rare varieties from foreign countries. Although they are widely available in the market, the price is particularly high.

Therefore, unless an aristocratic family specially held a chrysanthemum appreciation banquet, they would not spend a lot of money to buy these chrysanthemums.

Everyone dispersed and admired the chrysanthemums alone.

Song Jinyue did not come closer, only watching from the side.

The fragrance of chrysanthemum is thick and has a light bitter medicinal aroma.

She doesn't like the fragrance of chrysanthemums very much. If Mrs. Zhao hadn't specially asked her to come today, she would definitely not be willing to attend the banquet.

I just wanted to see what medicine Mrs. Zhao was selling in her gourd.

Zhao Zhu approached Song Jinyue and asked with a smile: "Princess, you don't like it?"

Song Jinyue was slightly displeased with Zhao Zhu's sudden approach to her, frowned, and replied casually: "Miss Zhao Er misunderstood, I like to stand far away, embracing all the flowers, and each chrysanthemum has its own unique

Your own sense of beauty.”

"The princess's knowledge is really different from mine. I really feel ashamed in front of the princess."

Song Jinyue smiled, but did not answer. After all, she didn't know what Zhao Zhu was thinking at the moment.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Zhao Zhu said again: "I really like the bracelet the princess gave me."

Song Jinyue was stunned. She didn't expect that Zhao Zhu would suddenly mention this matter. She couldn't help but look at her wrist, "I didn't see Miss Zhao Er wearing that bracelet."

"Princess, I don't know, but when I returned home yesterday, my father saw the bracelet on my wrist and asked me to take it away." Zhao Zhu's expression suddenly turned cold, and he looked at Song Jinyue with a cold light in his eyes.

"Thanks to the princess, I spent the whole night kneeling in the ancestral hall as punishment."

Zhao Zhu twitched the corners of his lips and sneered.

Song Jinyue frowned, but she didn't expect Master Zhao to deal with it like this.

But what does this have to do with her?

It was Mr. Zhao who made Zhao Zhu kneel down in the ancestral hall, not her.

If Mr. Zhao is really so worried about the bracelet, he should be blamed on her, not Zhao Zhu.

And she gave the bracelet away through Zhao Zhu in order to test Mr. Zhao.

After all, Mr. Zhao is secretly looking for Peony, and Mrs. Zhao is probably aware of this.

"Second Miss Zhao, why is Mr. Zhao angry at you, but he is trying to apologize because I gave you a gift?"

Zhao Zhu saw Song Jinyue acting like it had nothing to do with him, gritted his teeth and glared at Song Jinyue angrily.

Suddenly she chuckled twice and said, "I think my father thought that I caused trouble to the princess at the Duke's Mansion yesterday, so he punished me."

This sudden change in attitude gradually made Song Jinyue suspicious.

"Princess, today's banquet is hosted specially for you by my mother."

There was a meaningful smile on Zhao Zhu's lips.

Song Jinyue stared at Zhao Zhu intently, trying to get some clues from her expression.

All the aristocratic families in the flower room were just admiring the chrysanthemums in the room, and no one noticed anything strange between the two of them.

"I heard that Mr. Qin is the confidant of His Highness the Fifth Prince. I wonder if the princess still knows about it?" The smile on Zhao Zhu's lips deepened, as if he was a victor.

Song Jinyue's heart dropped, and when she came to her senses, she thought that Zhao Zhu had deliberately angered her.

She took steps forward, wanting to put some distance between herself and Zhao Zhu.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Zhu suddenly took Song Jinyue's arm and said quietly: "Princess, aren't you curious about how the cousins ​​of Mr. Qin from the Qin Mansion came to the capital?"

With just this sentence, Song Jinyue believed 70% of what Zhao Zhu said.

Because the cousins ​​of the Qin family are the sons and daughters of Imperial Physician Xu.

She has confirmed this.

Because they had never set foot outside the Qin Mansion, few people in the capital knew that such a pair of siblings still lived in the Qin family.

"Princess, come with me, I have something good that I want to show the princess."

After saying this, Zhao Zhu pulled Song Jinyue across a screen in the flower room. Behind the screen was a bookcase, and behind the bookcase was a long row of bookshelves.

There are a dazzling array of books on top.

Song Jinyue frowned, instinctively wanting to reject Zhao Zhu.

But suddenly the tip of my nose smelled a strange and faint floral fragrance like jasmine. There seemed to be a hint of sourness in it. I couldn't tell what kind of spice it was.

But Song Jinyue's head sank and she felt dizzy, so she let Zhao Zhu pull her forward.

I saw Zhao Zhu casually turning the oil lamp placed on the bookshelf, and the bookshelf immediately turned slowly inward.

There is clearly a secret room inside.

Zhao Zhu pushed Song Jinyue in and closed the darkroom door.

She straightened her clothes casually, then crossed the screen with a calm face and went to join the ladies outside.

All the ladies in the room stood there with their eyes downcast.

Like pieces of puppets.

Zhao Zhu walked to the incense burner, took the wooden shovel from the tray on the side, shoveled a shovelful of spices from the side and threw it into the incense burner.

Immediately, the faint and strange fragrance of jasmine spread out in the room.

The room was filled with a thick scent of sandalwood. After a while, all the ladies came back to their senses. They thought they had just taken a nap. They looked at each other and each laughed slightly awkwardly.

No one noticed that Song Jinyue was no longer in the greenhouse.

"Miss Zhao Er, we have been out for a while. I think my mother is waiting in front and is anxious. Let's go back first." The speaker was Lin Luoxia, the granddaughter of Taifu Lin's family.

She smiled lightly, but there was something strange in her eyes.

There was no such strong sandalwood fragrance when she entered the flower room before. She has always been very knowledgeable in spices.

She clearly remembered that when she first entered the house, there was a faint fragrance of jasmine in it, with a hint of sourness in it.

I still thought I would go out later and ask Miss Zhao Er for some spices.

Unexpectedly, when he was looking dazed just now, the spices in the room had actually been changed.

This made her feel that this matter was strange from the bottom of her heart, so she refused to stay here any longer, and she didn't know if the lady next door had discovered that there was something fishy about it.