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  Reminder from 79 Web: You can quickly find us at "79 Free" or "79 Web". Chapter 48 As soon as he revealed a big smile, he bowed to the few people and said with surprise and delight: "It's actually Little Niang. I'm Cao Wanjun, the host of this place."

  He Wu Lang hurriedly returned a courtesy and looked at her in confusion, how did she know this person?

  Before Peony could respond, Cao Wenyong took the initiative to apologize: "I'm really sorry about what happened last time. Please don't take offense at my rough manners."

  "It's nothing, it's nothing." Peony was somewhat puzzled. This Cao Wanrong, last time he was so fierce and unreasonable, how could he be so polite this time?

  Cao Wenyong turned his gaze to Zhang's wife: "This lady doesn't look well, and the city is far away. There's a good doctor nearby, why not rest in the pavilion here and have someone invite the doctor over to take a look?"

  He Wu Lang saw Zhang Shi's face as pale as gold paper, weak and leaning on his own arms, with dull eyes, and couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache. Seeing that it was still early, he replied: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

  "It's no trouble, I'm looking forward to your next visit." Cao Wanrong called over a young servant to accompany He's family to invite the doctor, while he himself led the way, leading everyone to a nearby pavilion by the water. He had people bring tea and fruit, being very attentive.

  He Wu Lang had money and didn't think he was too enthusiastic, just thought it was business as usual, and would pay him back later. Before long, the doctor arrived, took Zhang's pulse, and congratulated He Wu Lang repeatedly, it turned out that Zhang was pregnant and there was nothing seriously wrong with her.

  He Wu Lang's eyebrows danced with joy, and he thanked the doctor with extra generosity. The crowd had come on horseback, but now Zhang's horse was unable to ride. Cao Wan Rong stood far away, seizing the opportunity to say: "My family has a sedan chair, borrow it from you."

  He Wu Lang smiled and thanked him, took out the money to calculate the cost of tea and fruit, and the cost of hiring a sedan chair. Cao Wan Rong just waved his hand, refusing to accept it: "I'm looking at you as a talented person, I have a heart to make friends with you, invite friends to drink a cup of tea, send friends' family back home, where can I collect money? This is humiliating people!"

  At first, he was willing to wait by the pool for several days to buy a flower from Zou Laoqi. When someone else bought it, he disregarded morality and competed with Liu Can to buy it. After failing to outbid him, he even threatened Zou Laoqi. It can be seen that such a person is not a good guy. Now, being so generous and showing off, who knows what evil intention is behind this. Peony frequently gave He Siliang a meaningful glance, hinting that this was not a good idea. He Siliang understood and firmly refused to give in.

  "Cao Wanrong said: "How can you be so stingy with me, Cao Wanrong? Do I really lack these few pieces of money? If you look down on me, that's fine, but why must you humiliate people like this? If you want to give the money, then don't lend the sedan chair."

  At this time, men are most afraid of being called henpecked. He Siling's face was somewhat unbearable, and he said straightforwardly: "We appreciate your good intentions, but we can't accept rewards without doing anything. Besides, you're the one who opened this garden, and setting such a precedent is really not appropriate. Is there anywhere we can make it up to you?"

  Cao Wanrong glanced at the peony and looked embarrassed, hesitating for a moment before saying: "To be honest with you all, I am from Lingnan, and I've heard that people love peonies. Among all the flowers in the world, only peonies are considered true flowers. I came to the capital with great admiration, and after six or seven years of hard work, I finally built this garden. My greatest wish is to collect all the famous flowers from around the world in this garden. However, there are many rare species that I have tried every means to find but cannot get. I heard that your esteemed residence has many precious varieties, could you spare two for me?"

  Peony had completely understood what he was after and didn't know where he got the news from. At this point, she tactfully said: "As it happens, I'm also a flower lover, and those flowers were given to me by my parents as dowry, so I don't plan on selling them."

  Cao Wanrong was extremely disappointed, but still said: "In autumn, can you sell me a few flower buds? My price will definitely be higher than the market price."

  Peony thought, although she would also sell flower buds in the future, this person was her most powerful competitor. Since her own conditions were not yet mature, selling to him at this time would leave her with nothing to maintain the expenses of Peony Garden and make a name for herself. She couldn't sell, so she just shook her head.

  Cao Wanrong was extremely disappointed and wanted to say more, but He Wulang had already said: "Don't say any more, my sister loves flowers like her life, she can't bear to part with them."

  Cao Wanrong's eyes rolled around, and he said: "If you like flowers, I have a few peonies here that are quite good. Guaranteed to be better than the Dahurian lily of yesterday. Little girl, want to take a look? We can exchange?"

  The peony was somewhat moved, but thinking that the most important thing at this time was to send Zhang back home, he refused: "I have something to do today, let's come again another day."

  Cao Wanrong urged: "It's really good, fortunately it's a late-blooming flower, otherwise it would have withered early. You come again in two days, I'm afraid you won't be able to see the flowers anymore. If you're worried about the patient, let them leave a few people for you and go back first."

  Is the flower important or is family more important? Moreover, this is a city suburb, and it's clear that people are not good here, how can she stay alone? Peony firmly rejected Cao Wanjun's proposal: "It's not urgent at this moment, let's talk about it later."

  Peony saw that Cao Wenyong's face was ugly, and he couldn't help but secretly sigh. He took the money from He Wu Lang's hand, gently placed it on the table, thanked him, and turned to leave. This time, Cao Wenyong did not refuse, his face was indeed very ugly, but the sedan chair was still prepared.

  As they left the Peony Garden of the Cao family, He Wu Lang sighed and said: "This person's temper is really strange. As soon as something doesn't go his way, he flies into a rage. It's rare to see such a short-tempered businessman."

  "Peony Road: 'He's the one who was with us last time we went to buy flowers and competed with us to buy them.'"

  He Wu Lang listened, pouted and said "No wonder". He then went forward to reward the boatman with money and asked about Cao Wan Rong's background. A moment later, he galloped back to Peony's side and smiled, saying "Guess what he used to do?"

  Peony saw Wu Lang's young and smiling eyes, and couldn't help but feel a few points of curiosity: "What do you do? Brother Wu, quickly tell me and let me hear!"

  Wu Lang let out a happy quack and laughed, saying: "This man is quite formidable. In the mountains and rivers of Lingnan, there is a place that produces gold dust, also known as Golden Pond. Some people who slaughter geese and ducks can find gold dust in their bellies. He, on the other hand, raised countless geese and ducks specifically to collect their droppings, which he would then refine to extract the gold dust. Sometimes he could get two taels of gold dust in a day, and sometimes at least half a tael. After raising geese and ducks for over ten years, he became a well-known wealthy man in that area. Later, perhaps because he envied the romanticism of the capital city, he came here to cultivate flowers instead. Don't underestimate him - this year, he presented four pots of peonies to the palace, one red, one white, one purple, and one yellow, all with a thousand petals. While others present flowers to get rich, he spent a lot of effort and money to make his offering. Afterwards, many high-ranking officials came to visit his garden, buy flowers from him, and give him a lot of praise.

  Peony's expression turned solemn upon hearing this, it seems everyone has their own way of doing things. As for how she will cultivate the flowers and open up the market in the future, that is still a long and arduous process.

  The news of Zhang's pregnancy delighted He Zhizhong and Qian's wife, and others also congratulated Zhang. Only Yang and Sun were disappointed, Sun had been married for over a year and still hadn't conceived. Peony saw that Sun was upset, so she took the initiative to talk to her, thinking that these days Qian's wife had intentionally cold-shouldered her and Yang's mother-in-law, which wasn't good either. She invited Sun to come play at her place, bringing pine nuts to chat and laugh together.

  It was originally a personal crazy, recently Peony has been busy with things outside, and the time to accompany it is not as much as before. This makes it very dissatisfied, leading to its instinctive hostility towards people close to Peony who are unfamiliar to it. Seeing Sunshi greeting it, it let out a "ga" sound and turned its head away in disdain. Peony scolded it, but it ignored her, turning around to face Peony with its butt.

  Peony knew it was jealous again, but didn't care and just ate pine nuts in front of it while saying how delicious they were. Swing slowly couldn't bear it anymore, lowered its noble head, looked at Peony with a tilted head, anxiously pacing back and forth on the horizontal bar, and flattered: "Peony is the most lovely, Peony is the most lovely." And self-praised: "Handsome is really lovely."

  Sun saw the situation and couldn't help but burst out laughing, taking the pine nuts from Peony's hand to feed to Swing, looking at Peony softly saying: "Dan Niang, last time I was really worried about you, no other meaning."

  "Peony blinked: 'I always knew Sixth Aunt cared about me.'"

  Sun sighed and said with a bitter smile, "After you left, my sister-in-law scolded me severely, saying that I was thinking about your dowry. In the evening, when your sixth brother came back, he also scolded me severely."

  Sun said while carefully observing Peony's expression, seeing Peony's confused face, she gritted her teeth and continued: "Actually, I just heard that the Liu family wants to take your dowry and not return it, afraid that you will be short of money in the future. I'm worried about you, and at the same time... want to please my parents-in-law. You know, I've been married for so long, but there's no movement on my body, feeling uneasy, always wanting to get along with everyone. Do you understand what I mean?"

  She thought it was a good thing, but who knew it was a trap. Yang's mother-in-law's scolding words were still in her ears: "If it's a good thing, you can show your face and let the whole family know that you care about Dan Niang the most. Why didn't that person ask herself, but instead left this opportunity to you? Let you take the lead? Can't you use your brain?" Sun Shi thought of this and couldn't help but feel hatred and anger.

  "Peony, however, didn't care about all that and gently held her hand: 'Sixth Aunt, you're all thinking too much, I know you're concerned about me. Don't worry either, kids will come eventually, you're only one year older than me, it's still a good age.'"

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