Chapter 846 Matchmaking
Wei Ting ran back home with two pots of white peonies. As soon as he entered the house, he happily went to find his grandmother and mother and gave them a pot each.
Madam Wei and Madam Wei were very happy. Looking at the flowers presented to them, they couldn't help but hold Wei Ting's hand and praised him, "You still know how to honor us."
When Master Wei came over and heard this, he frowned slightly and asked, "Today is neither a ten-day holiday nor a festival, so why did you come home?"
Wei Ting's body stiffened, and then he remembered that he had climbed over the wall to get out.
However, Wei Ting was used to skipping school, so he remained calm and lied directly, "I heard from a classmate that there were pure white peonies out there. I thought my grandmother and mother would like them, so I asked for half a day off from school and will go back to school tomorrow."
Master Wei also had experience dealing with truants. He narrowed his eyes and asked, "Really? Then you have to do your homework well. Someone, go to Mr. Zhai's house and ask what the homework is for the young master today."
Wei Ting's legs became weak, so he limped to school the next day.
Bai Shan had just arrived at the school and had just put down her school basket. When she looked up and saw him limping in with gritted teeth, she asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you?"
Wei Ting sighed and said, "I was so proud of myself yesterday that I forgot I was skipping school. Why didn't you remind me?"
Bai Shan said calmly, "We forgot too."
Wei Ting had no doubts at all and sighed, "My father sent someone to talk to Mr. Zhai yesterday, and I will be punished by him soon."
Ji Hao couldn't help but ask, "What did you do when you went out to study yesterday?"
"I went to see Manbao's peonies," Wei Ting said with regret, "It's a pity you left too early yesterday, otherwise you really should have gone to see them. Her peonies are really beautiful."
Ji Hao raised his voice and asked, "Did you buy it?"
Wei Ting nodded and said, "I bought two pots of white peonies."
Ji Hao breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Are Yao Huang and Wei Zi still here?"
"Of course they are. Those flowers are so expensive, how can we afford them? But I told my grandmother about it, and she is quite interested. She said she would go and see them today." Wei Ting said, "Those two pots of flowers are indeed beautiful. Does your mother want to see them?"
Ji Hao was silent for a moment.
His mother is also very interested, but she probably won't go there in person. Instead, she will send a nanny to get it.
Ji Hao rubbed his forehead and asked Wei Ting, "Can't you give the flowers to my mother?"
Wei Ting frowned and said, "This is the adults' business. How can we, as the younger generation, interfere? Let them bid the highest price and win."
He doesn't care, so what does he care about?
Ji Hao didn't say anything.
The two of them didn't know that it wasn't just Madam Ji and Madam Wei who wanted to buy the two pots of flowers. Manbao went out early in the morning to the pharmacy. After finishing his business at the pharmacy and going back to class, before the school was dismissed, Manbao asked Zhou Silang to go out with a pot of white peonies.
Daji asked, "Miss Man, aren't you going to the prefecture school today?"
Manbao: "No, let's go to the county government office today."
Manbao went to give flowers to Mrs. Tang. Although she prefers orchids, it doesn't mean she doesn't like peonies.
Mrs. Tang saw the pot of excellent white peonies and smiled, not accepting it. "Manbao, you and my husband are friends. If you have any problems, just tell me. I will definitely help you if I can. There's no need to give such an expensive gift."
Manbao smiled and said, "This pot of flowers is not very valuable. It is only worth sixteen taels. If Madam Tang thinks it is valuable, you can give me sixteen taels."
Mrs. Tang didn't believe it. She was from Chang'an, where peonies were famous, so she naturally knew how much a peony of this quality was worth.
"How can it be only sixteen taels?"
Manbao said, "The first pot of flowers sold for sixteen taels and three cents, so the rest are only worth sixteen taels."
Mrs. Tang blinked and asked, "Who bought the first pot of flowers? From what you said, you still have a lot of white peonies?"
Manbao smiled and said, "I have a total of twenty-two pots. I kept one pot for myself, and the remaining twenty-one pots were sold outside."
Mrs. Tang finally believed that she had only priced the flowers at sixteen taels. She asked with a smile, "So why did you come to see me this time?"
"I'd like to ask Madam Tang to invite Madam Huang and Madam Ming. I have two pots of Yao Huang and Wei Zi at home. I wonder if they would be interested." Man Bao said, "People from the Ji and Wei families have already wanted to come and take a look."
Mrs. Tang was surprised, "You are going to..."
"I'd like to invite you ladies to admire these pots of flowers first. Beautiful flowers naturally deserve people who love them."
Madam Tang laughed and said, "You are quite courageous, daring to invite so many ladies to come to your house at once. Fine, then I will hold a banquet at Ganxiang Tower and invite the four ladies to come and have a look. However, this way, your pot of flowers will seem too few."
Manbao nodded. "Flowers should be in pairs. I'll ask my fourth brother to send over another pot of similar white peonies. It will be more pleasing to the eyes of the Madam."
Mrs. Tang couldn't help laughing. She loved talking to smart people the most.
Manbao actually asked Zhou Silang to send another pot of white peonies. The two pots of peonies were immediately placed on the porch of their home. When County Magistrate Tang returned from the front office for dinner, he couldn't help but stop to admire them. He asked with a smile, "Madam, where did you buy these two pots of flowers?"
Mrs. Tang smiled, "Guess?"
"Chang'an?"
Mrs. Tang shook her head.
County Magistrate Tang laughed and said, "It can't be Luoyang, right? You even sent people to Luoyang?"
Madam Tang glanced at him and said, "Am I so unreliable that I would send someone all the way to Luoyang just to buy a pot of flowers?"
County Magistrate Tang smiled and said, "Of course Madam wouldn't do that. That's why I'm curious where you bought these flowers."
"Your little friend gave it to me." Jiang Manbao told her that he wanted to sell flowers and that he had two pots of Yaohuang and Weizi flowers at home.
County Magistrate Tang was stunned for a moment and asked doubtfully, "Zhou Man? Are you sure she wants to sell flowers?"
"How could I not recognize her?" Mrs. Tang said, "I thought she was good at growing orchids, but I didn't expect she's also good at growing peonies."
County Magistrate Tang was puzzled and didn't understand why she was interested in selling flowers at this moment.
Mrs. Tang didn't think much about it and told her that she wanted to help her matchmake, "I think your little friend is quite interesting."
County Magistrate Tang came back to his senses and said with a smile, "It's rare for someone to talk to you, so you two should get along well."
At this time, Manbao in the courtyard had just sent away the people from the Ji and Wei families. Both families sent their stewards to look at the flowers and prepared money to buy them back, but they didn't expect Manbao to refuse.
The Ji family was fine, after all, Manbao still had some kind of relationship with their family, but the manager of the Wei family did not look very happy.
However, they didn't dare to say anything in front of the Ji family. They smiled and said goodbye to Manbao, got in the car and left.
Bai Shanzhi glanced at their backs and said to Manbao, "Ask Madam Tang to schedule the date for the day after tomorrow. I'll take ten days off and go with you."
Manbao nodded without any objection.
The next update will be around 7pm
(End of this chapter)
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