Dingbei Hou's doctor brother

Chapter 233 Order

Lu Ziqing woke up and the people in the house smiled again. After Xi Yunling gave Lu Ziqing an acupuncture injection, Xiaoliu fed him medicine.

Xiao Yan whispered a few words to Su Chengfeng outside the door, and then Su Chengfeng left.

When Park Yoo-jin came back, she saw people coming in and out of the main room from time to time. She walked towards Kazar with a smile on her face and asked the others, "Is the master awake?"

"Yes, the young master is awake." Xiao Wu said with a smile, "He is taking the medicine right now. Miss Park is back so soon."

"Didn't I say I'd be back soon?" Park Yoo-jin said with a smile, "I'm so glad you woke up, my lord. I was so scared."

"Since you're back, don't leave." Xiao Yan said to Su Chengyi and ordered in a deep voice, "Tie them both up."

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, only Su Chengyi obeyed the order, drew his sword and walked behind Park Youzhen and the other two. Xiao Wu looked at Xiao Yan in a daze.

"Master, they...why did you tie them up?"

Without waiting for a response, Park Youzhen started to feel terrified and aggrieved, "Why did the Marquis tie us up?"

Xiao Yan did not answer. He just walked down the stairs with his hands behind his back and an expressionless face. His eyes were so cold that they seemed to be able to kill people. Park Youzhen stepped back in fear.

Kazaar grabbed her clothes from behind and stepped back, just in time to touch Su Chengyi's knife. She was so scared that she trembled and almost cried.

Xiao Yan looked down at the two of them and said in a cold voice, "You have joined forces with evil people to murder an official of the imperial court. According to the laws of this dynasty, you should be executed. If you confess the mastermind, you may die more easily."

Before the person concerned had finished being terrified, the others were surprised and surprised. Xiao Wu asked, "Master, you said they were the ones who murdered the young master? This... doesn't seem..."

Before he could finish his words, he was shut up by Xiao Yan's cold gaze. Park Youzhen was holding the scene.

"I don't know what the Marquis means. My sister and I are here to serve the Master by order. The Master has no grudge against us. The Marquis is slandering us by saying this for no reason."

"You still have a few minutes to argue now." Xiao Yan stared at her, "Once the people from the Qinghua Pavilion join you, you won't have time. Take me to the Imperial Prison."

Park Youzhen didn't know how terrible the imperial prison was, she only knew it was a prison. She was scared and broke free from Su Chengyi and begged Xiao Yan for mercy.

"Please spare me, Lord. We are just following orders. It has nothing to do with us. We were told to do this by others."

"Who is it?" Xiao Yan asked.

"I don't know anyone at the Qinghua Pavilion either," Park Youzhen confessed honestly. "Not long after that eunuch Feng sent us here, someone came looking for us. Any information is collected at the Qinghua Pavilion. My Lord, everything I said is true."

Xiao Yan stopped asking questions and gave Su Chengyi a look. Su Chengyi and Xiao Liu took the man away. Xiao Yan went out and rode his horse to Qinghua Pavilion. Xi Yunling followed him out to get medicine.

She hadn't walked far when the curtains of the carriage parked diagonally across from Lu's street were lowered. Xining angrily slapped the wall of the carriage.

"I knew that he hadn't returned to the Marquis' Mansion recently because of Miss Xi."

Su Xin was upset. "Even if the Marquis wants to find that woman, isn't he being too impatient now? They've only been married for a short time."

Xining went back home with anger. When she passed by the corridor, she saw a few dirty and muddy servants carrying a bunch of green plant seedlings. She became more and more upset and asked them casually.

"What are these plants?"

The servant bowed his head in fear and said, "Madam, these are osmanthus seedlings. Steward Wen is waiting for them in the back garden. We were just about to send them over to plant."

"Osmanthus seedlings?" Xining asked, "Why are you planting so many? I like peonies. Why don't you replace all these osmanthus seedlings with peonies?"

"Ah?" The servant was embarrassed and looked at each other. "This..."

Seeing this, Su Xin became furious. "What's this? Madam asked you to replace the osmanthus flowers with peonies. Why are you making such a fuss about such a small matter?"

"Madam, we are not deliberately making things difficult for you," the servant said. "Besides the lotus and peach trees, the main flowers in the mansion are osmanthus. We do have other varieties of greenery, but there are only a few flowers, and even fewer peonies."

"Hey, I'm telling you..." Su Xin scolded them, "If there wasn't one before, there should be one now. Our princess loves peonies, so why are there so many osmanthus flowers in the mansion? Replace them all."

"This..." the servant said, "Madam, it's not that we don't want to change, it's that the Marquis doesn't like peonies. He has been growing these for so many years. Last month, he transplanted a lot of osmanthus flowers to the house in Chongbeifang. Now we have to make up for the shortfall."

"What do you mean by that?" Su Xin asked angrily, "Our princess asked you to replace these flowers. Do you think you have to ask the Marquis for permission? Are you rebelling now? The princess can't even order you around, right?"

Upon hearing this, the servant immediately knelt down and said, "We dare not. If Madam likes peonies, you can ask the Marquis and we will replace them immediately."

As soon as Xining heard about Lu's residence in Chongbeifang, she thought of Xi Yunling. For that woman, she couldn't even change the flowers she liked. After all, as a princess, how could she be treated with such contempt and humiliation?

The frustration in her heart suddenly surged up again, and she stared at the servant and spoke coldly.

"What a loyal servant you are! Today, this princess insists that you plant the peonies for me and throw away all these osmanthus flowers."

As she said this, she stormed off to the back garden, and the servant followed her anxiously, holding the osmanthus seedlings.

Wen Zhong and several servants were squatting in the open space, pruning and repotting other potted plants. They were discussing the problem that some flowers and plants had withered due to poor maintenance, when they suddenly heard an order.

"You all stop."

Everyone turned around and saw Su Xin standing in front of them. They all stopped and saluted Xining to greet him.

Wen Zhong patted the mud off his hands and asked with a smile, "Madam, what are your instructions?"

Xining didn't say anything, so Su Xin spoke for her, "Replace all these osmanthus flowers with peonies, and plant chrysanthemums in that patch over there. In short, don't allow any osmanthus flowers to grow, and..."

She pointed to a patch of small green bamboo not far away and said, "There are too many bamboos in this mansion. We need to cut some down and plant some peonies."

After hearing these few words, Wen Zhong and the servant were completely bewildered.

Puzzled, he said, "Madam, the Marquis's Mansion doesn't plant peonies. Furthermore, those bamboos are what the Marquis likes and can't be cut down, and the osmanthus flowers can't be replaced. If you like peonies, I'll choose a small plot of land here for you to plant. Is that okay with you?"

Su Xin was about to attack, but Xining raised his hand to push her away, took a few steps forward and stared at Wen Zhong.

"Since I was little, no servant has dared to disobey me. Why am I still looked down upon in this Marquis' Mansion? Steward Wen, I think you need to understand that even though I married into the Marquis' Mansion, my status remains that of a princess and the mistress of the household. Everything here is up to me. As for the trivial matters of the plants and flowers in the mansion, it's best to just obey me. After all, jobs in the Marquis' Mansion aren't something anyone can do. Steward Wen is an old man too, so you should consider your own actions."

Butler Wen broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this. After weighing the pros and cons, he lowered his head and replied, "Then, I will do as the princess says."

Xining withdrew his cold gaze and turned to leave. Wen Zhong looked at the departing figure, then looked at the small green bamboos, potted plants and seedlings around him, sighed, turned around and gave instructions to the servant.

"Go cut down all the bamboos. Don't plant these osmanthus seedlings anymore. Dig up the ones that have already grown. Go to the flower market and pick out some good peony varieties. Bring back some of each."