However, Old Madam Wu has already realized that this plan will not work. Once Old Madam Yang is beaten by a junior at the tea party held by the Wu family, and the Wu family stands idly by, it will not only be Hua Zhi's reputation that will be damaged, but also the Wu family's. The value of the Wu family's garden will be greatly reduced.
"What are you thinking, young lady? How could the Wu family wrongly accuse you? All of us saw it. The old lady fell down by herself. You can't be blamed. What do you think?"
Although they didn't know why the Wu family said that, this tea party was headed by the Wu and Yang families. Since the Wu family said so, they naturally responded in kind. For a moment, the atmosphere was somewhat harmonious.
Old Mrs. Yang's moans suddenly became louder. Everyone stopped talking tacitly, but no one came forward.
Old Mrs. Wu had no choice but to sit next to her and comfort her gently.
Old Madam Yang held her hand suggestively, tightening it again and again, her eyes almost twitching, but Old Madam Wu pretended not to notice. She agreed to stand on the side of the Yang family, but did not agree to sacrifice the Wu family's reputation.
The doctor came very quickly, and coincidentally, it was Doctor Chu.
He was slightly startled when he saw Hua Zhi was also here. Having been visiting various families for many years, he was very cautious and treated Hua Zhi in no special way. He bowed to everyone and sat down to feel Madam Yang's pulse.
After a moment, he withdrew his hand and said, "The old lady has excessive liver fire, so she should take some medicine to reduce the fire. I will prescribe a prescription, and please send someone to get the medicine."
The Yang family girl glanced at Hua Zhi and asked, "Is that all?"
"If you don't believe it, you can ask the doctor for another consultation. I won't prescribe the medicine for you." Doctor Chu put the paper back into the medicine box. He never showed any sign of annoyance, but everyone could see that what Yang's daughter said was too much.
Doctor Chu is quite famous in the capital, and every household is willing to invite him. One reason is that he is tight-lipped, but another important reason is that he has excellent medical skills. No one wants to offend such a doctor, so every household has been very polite to him.
Madam Wu stepped forward to make peace, "The little girl is just worried about grandma's health, and she has no intention of offending you. Doctor Chu, please don't bother with her. Please write a prescription, and I will send someone to go with you to get the medicine."
Since the host had already spoken, Doctor Chu could not get angry anymore and spread out the paper again to write a prescription.
As for the humiliated and angry look on Yang's daughter's face, no one paid attention to it.
As soon as Doctor Chu left, Hua Zhi also stood up and said, "In that case, I will take my leave as well."
Zheng tried to persuade him to stay, "Don't be in a hurry. I know you are in mourning so I specially arranged a vegetarian feast for you. Don't leave just because of this. Otherwise, today's tea party will be too low quality."
"I probably won't attend such a time-wasting party again." Hua Zhi didn't care that her words had changed the faces of several people in the room. "I was quite curious before I came here, but when I got here, I found that it was nothing special."
He bowed slightly to everyone and said, "Goodbye."
"Wait." Old Madam Wu called her subconsciously, but when she really called her, she didn't know how to start. She was worried, what would happen if Hua Zhi went back and made things difficult for Haitang
Hua Zhi smoothed her sleeves and said, "Before I came here, Fourth Aunt told me that if the old lady said something unpleasant, I would ask her to forgive me for her sake. How would the old lady face this protection?"
Since she's a whore, she shouldn't pretend to be a good person. She did things to hurt Fourth Aunt but pretended to care about her. She didn't have the kindness to comfort her and just wanted to do whatever she could to make people unhappy.
After kneeling again, Hua Zhi walked away.
No one noticed that the final say was always in Hua Zhi's hands from the beginning to the end, and everyone was following her pace.
Madam Wu forced a smile and said to everyone, "Today is indeed... why don't we just go away first."
Everyone knew what was going on and left after exchanging a few polite words. Old Lady Yang stayed behind last, obviously wanting to say a few more words. Seeing her mother-in-law's expression, Zheng knew that Hua Zhi's words had saddened her, so she hurriedly stopped them and led them out, and also sent away the servants.
As soon as the person left, Mrs. Wu covered her mouth and cried bitterly. Her daughter, her daughter...
***
Doctor Chu had not left the Wu family's gate yet. Hua Zhi was just about to go up to say hello when a carriage suddenly rushed over, slowed down in front of the door, and entered through the side door. A man jumped out of the carriage, ran to Doctor Chu, said something, and picked up his medicine box. Doctor Chu nodded at Hua Zhi and hurriedly followed.
Hua Zhi didn’t care whether anyone in the Wu family was sick. After all, they were not in the same boat, and the capsizing of the boat had nothing to do with her.
After getting on their own carriage, Hua Zhi ordered, "Go to Green Moss Lane."
This was Hua Zhi's first time coming here this year. She didn't go in, but left the carriage parked at the inner river. She looked at the crowds of people in the alley over there as if they were looking at strings of money.
Nian Qiu was in charge of the accounts and was most aware of the benefits this alley brought to the young lady. She was smiling as she spoke, "Manager Chen has mentioned several times that we need to add more staff, but the mansion is short of staff, and some of the staff were cut off from the vegetarian food before, so Sister Yingchun didn't agree. But Sister Yingchun is already stepping up her training, and I think she should be able to use them in about a month."
"She doesn't need to worry about this matter. Madam Su, you take charge of this matter. Let Madam Zhao and the others take charge. They are good at this matter."
Nanny Su quickly agreed. They were indeed good at torturing servants. She was fine as she was with the young lady all day long. The old sisters were really idle and felt uneasy because of the idleness.
"Nianqiu, when you go back, remember to tell Yingchun to continue buying people into the mansion and let the maids take a look."
"yes."
Hua Zhi looked at the alley on the other side of the inner river that was still closed temporarily. She would then simply demolish a shop and open it up like she did with Green Moss Lane, and then build a bridge over the inner river, so she wouldn't have to worry about bad business.
But she still needs to train a group of people to make some new snacks, and there is also the seafood business, all of which are inseparable from Fudong. How can she separate herself from the vegetarian business
She rubbed her forehead. If she had known this would happen earlier, she would have trained more chefs earlier.
"Go to Zhu's house."
Even when everything was going well at the Hua family, Hua Zhi would only visit her maternal family once a year during the New Year. At that time, the Zhu family cared about Berlin, so they didn't care whether she came or not.
This is her first time back since the incident at the Hua family. It has been almost a year.
Yes, in the blink of an eye, the Hua family had been falling apart for so long. Hua Zhi was a little dazed, and only came to her senses when the carriage stopped shaking.
The carriage stopped at the back alley of Zhu's house. When Hua Zhi got off the carriage, her appearance had changed. The white flower on her head was replaced with a silver hairpin, and her light blue coat replaced the plain white one. This was the only way to avoid being rude when visiting.
When the servant of the Zhu family saw that it was her, he hurriedly welcomed her in. Another servant quickly ran to the backyard to pass the message. When Hua Zhi walked into the second courtyard, Old Madam Zhu was already waiting there, with Zhu Shan by her side.
"cousin."
Hua Zhi smiled and nodded at her, and greeted her grandmother.
Madam Zhu pulled the man up, her eyes narrowed into slits with laughter, "It's rare for you to come to my house, but what's the matter? Just ask someone to tell me, and don't tell my grandmother about it."
"At the invitation of my uncle, I came to play a game of hand with my grandfather to avenge him."
"Then you picked the wrong day. There's a big court meeting today, and your grandfather won't be back until the afternoon." The old lady took her inside and said, "Your second uncle is here, we'll have dinner together later."
"yes."
PS: I will update twice today. My son is not having a fever today, so give me some flowers! Thank you so much for your concern, I will take a break and then start the chapters I owe, and I also need to sort out the plot.