Shen Shen Shen doesn't pursue men, only money

Retracting her thoughts, Shen Shenshen opened the first can on the table. The can was almost full of fine tea leaves. She put her nose close to it and sniffed it. It was the Junshan Yinzhen yellow tea she drank this morning. Produced in Junshan in Dongting Lake, Yueyang, the tea leaves are as thin as needles, hence the name. Hmm~ good tea.

The second can was more than half full. She leaned in and sniffed it. The tea was called Saishang Chunxue. Oh my god. Shenshen couldn't help but complain in her heart: Jasmine plus Longjing? What a waste of natural resources! The Longjing tea in the Houfu is a first-class good tea. When mixed with flower tea, the flower smell affects the mellow and rich taste of Longjing green tea. She rolled her eyes in her heart.

The third jar was Dayi Wucha, which was the Pu'er raw tea from her previous life. The color showed that it had been fermented for at least 10 years, and it had a strong Pu'er tea aroma. Good tea, good tea.

The fourth can, Jiuquhongmei. Black tea, a good tea for warming and nourishing the stomach. Because of its red color and clear fragrance like plum blossoms, it is named Jiuquhong. Shen Shenshen smelled it carefully, good tea.

The fifth jar, Ginseng Dragon Tongue. Isn't this Concubine Lan? Shen Shenshen felt that the ancients were hypocritical in naming. Although Concubine Lan originally had a very fragrant smell, Shen Shenshen keenly smelled that the smell of this jar of tea was wrong. In addition to the fragrance of Concubine Lan, there was also an indescribable smell.

She held it under her nose and sniffed it, thinking over and over again: Could it be that the tea leaves are also the problem? I wonder how much the original owner drank. And didn't the original owner suspect anything when she smelled the tea that was obviously wrong? Or was it the tea with problems when she first drank Concubine Lan's tea? So she always thought that Concubine Lan's tea smelled like this. But even if the tea leaves were swapped later, the original owner couldn't have known it with her brain.

While I was thinking, Zhenying opened the curtain and came in: "Hey, Miss, why did you bring all the tea cans into the house?"

Shen Shen ignored her and pointed to the last jar of Lan Guiren and said to Chunmiao: "Go make a pot of Long Tongue Tea. I want to drink it now. The jar is here. You can take some tea leaves to make it. You can put the other tea leaves away."

"Yes, miss." Chunmiao took the tea from the fifth jar and called the two servants in. Except for Concubine Lan, all the other tea jars were put away. The two men carried the box and were led out of the main house by her.

Sister Zhenying continued, "Miss, Madam has agreed that you can leave the house tomorrow. I have already sent someone to get the badge, so you can leave the house directly tomorrow. Madam said she will arrange the carriage and guards. Also, the eldest lady said she will not leave tomorrow because she is busy embroidering her wedding dress."

Shen Shen nodded and said, "Okay, then you and I will leave the house tomorrow."

Soon Chunmiao came in with brewed tea and poured a cup for her. Shen Shen took the tea from the maid and smelled it out of habit.

The fragrance of the tea was rich and she didn't smell anything wrong with the tea. She took a few sips carefully and found the tea was fragrant. It was good tea. But she knew tea too well and still tasted a faint strange taste from the tea.

The smell was like something that had been fumigated. So, she was sure that there was something wrong with the tea.

"Zhenying, call Madam Liu over."

"Slave, go now."

After a while, Nanny Liu was led into the house by Zhenying.

Madam Liu is less than fifty years old. She has slanted eyes and a sagging face. She has many wrinkles, yellow skin, and obvious sun spots. She wears two pendants on her ears whose material is unknown. She wears a clean blue coarse cloth dress. The fabric of the dress is custom-made for servants in the Marquis' Mansion. She looks like a servant of a prominent noble family wherever she goes.

As soon as she entered the room, she bowed politely to Shen Shen.

"Second Miss, what do you want from me?"

Shen Shen sat at the table and said calmly, "Madam Liu, are you responsible for buying all the tea for my room?"

"Replying to Second Miss, this old servant is responsible for everything."

She pointed to the jar of orchid on the table and asked, "How many times have you bought ginseng and dragon tongue?"

"My dear Second Miss, this tea was purchased and brought into Second Miss's courtyard before you were three years old. I remember that you liked to drink this tea very much when it was first purchased. You brewed a pot almost every day, so the amount was quite large. I replenished tea for you more than 10 times in this year. Every purchase is recorded in the small kitchen account book, and Second Miss can check the account book."

Did you start drinking it three years ago?

"Which store did you buy it from?"

"I always buy this tea at Ting'an Tea Shop, the fifth shop south of Zhuque Street."

"Did you pick this tea yourself?"

"It was the young lady who asked me to go." Madam Liu recalled, "One time the fifth young lady came to you to ask for some tea. She liked it very much and asked the fifth young lady where she bought it. The fifth young lady said it was from Ting'an Tea Shop, so you asked me to go buy it. I have been buying tea for three years."

Sure enough, it has something to do with Aunt Du and her daughter.

"Did you buy the other teas at Ting'an shop?"

"My dear Second Miss, not all of them. Junshan Silver Needle and Saishang Chunxue are from Madam's own dowry shop, so they are delivered regularly by the shop. The tea bestowed by the Emperor is used to entertain distinguished guests in the Marquis's mansion. Apart from these two teas, the rest of the tea for the concubines and the young masters and young ladies can be purchased with silver. The Jiuquhongmei you drank was purchased from Zhang's Tea Shop on East Street. Dayi Wu Tea was purchased from Liu's Tea Shop in Yanyu Lane next to Ting'an Tea Shop."

"Didn't you buy all the tea from your mother's dowry shop?"

"Madam said that the masters of the family have to have personal relationships. If she controls everything tightly, it will inevitably make people resentful and cause trouble. Giving some authority to the masters of each courtyard, the housekeepers in charge of purchasing, and the maids can save a lot of trouble."

Wonderful, my mother is indeed a daughter of a rich family, she knows the truth that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish. Shen Shenshen did not expect that his mother had some management talent: in my era, with the top-notch looks of a beautiful woman plus her brains and means, she would be a senior professional manager, and it would be unjust if her annual salary was less than one million.

"Zhenying, go with Madam Liu to get the purchase account book. Madam Liu, go and do your work. I'll come back to you if I have any questions."

After paying her respects, Nanny Liu and Zhenying turned around and left.

Shen Shen lowered his eyes and thought. The man behind the scenes was not very clever, but very effective. He used his body to ruin the marriage of an ancient woman. He was very vicious.

Even in modern society, people advocate diversified beauty, and it is not necessary to be thin, but if a girl is too fat, she will indeed be treated unfairly. She will not be as popular as girls with normal body shapes when looking for boyfriends and jobs, not to mention the old times that were conservative and feudal. Shen Shenshen felt that even if she relied on the powerful family background of the Houfu Shen family, even if she married into a well-matched family, because of her body shape, it is very likely that her husband would not love her, her mother-in-law would hate her, and the servants would laugh at her. People with worse character would probably suffer from depression and die early.

He had already ruined the second daughter's figure, so why did he still want to kill her? What was the grudge?