I'm a humble concubine. My acting skills are off the charts. You can check my performance.

Zhao Fanglan understood the hidden meaning in her words, but everyone in the room was not stupid, except Zhao Fangyun, who could not hear the accusation in her words. He just crossed his feet and watched the fun.

Zhao Fangyu was talking and smiling as he came down from the official hat chair. He walked gracefully to Zhao Fanglan and slowly helped her up.

Zhao Fanglan was unmoved and continued to kneel on the ground, looking as if she was about to cry but not yet. This made Zhao Fangyu laugh: "Why don't you get up from your kneeling position, Third Sister? Do you have anything else to say?"

"Mother, is there a rule in our family that children must kneel before they can respond?" Without waiting for the eldest lady's answer, Zhao Fangyu did the same as Zhao Fanglan, he opened his jacket and knelt gracefully. However, unlike Zhao Fanglan who was like a delicate flower beside him, Zhao Fangyu was like a steadfast orchid, he did not need to make any movements or expressions, he had his own character that others could not learn.

The eldest lady smiled and said, "There is no such rule in the Zhao family. Your third sister is thinking wrongly. Everyone, get up."

She then turned to ask if Zhao Fanglan was too busy and therefore a little distracted. Zhao Fanglan was so scared that he quickly said no. However, the eldest lady found out something wrong with him from his words and locked him up in the Cherry Pavilion for a few days, under the pretext of recuperating his spirit.

Once Zhao Fanglan was at peace, life in the entire inner courtyard became peaceful.

Zhao Fangyu was busy researching new perfume, and her family built a huge greenhouse for her to grow flowers.

She asked the eldest lady for help and a few close friends to open a perfume shop in another place.

The eldest lady also said bluntly: "Normally, when a girl gets married, her parents will give her a roommate and maids as a dowry. Although you are not old enough, you see it clearly."

"These are the concubines I have prepared for you. Take your pick. If you find one you like, just let me know. I will manage your property for you now, so you don't have to change hands after you get married."

"Since you plan to pass on the skill of making flower dew, you must keep a close eye on the person who knows this skill and never let her have any bad intentions."

Zhao Fangyu nodded and suddenly thought of someone.

"Mother, when my third sister framed me in Shou'an Hall, is her personal maid still here?"

The eldest lady was surprised, but she immediately sent someone to investigate. For a moment, she didn't understand why Zhao Fangyu asked about her.

Zhao Fangyu sat beside the eldest lady, and he and Zhao Fangjin hugged the eldest lady's arms on the left and right, acting like little girls: "She has a pair of good eyes. When I saw her, I thought she was good."

The eldest lady didn't know what happened to the girl. She couldn't remember clearly what happened to her. She only remembered that Zhao Minshan ordered her to be beaten with thirty boards.

Zhao Fangjin was also puzzled, and the mother and daughter looked at Zhao Fangyu at the same time.

Zhao Fangyu pursed his lips and leaned on the eldest lady's shoulder and said, "I was also puzzled at the time. How could someone risk his life for someone like Third Sister? Such a person is either extremely loyal and Third Sister has helped her or saved her life. Or, she has something on Third Sister."

"The Zhao family's backyard has always been peaceful. It is unlikely that someone could save my life. The kindness of being recognized and appreciated in the backyard is not worth the risk of losing one's life at any time."

"So it should be the latter. That girl must have some leverage in the hands of Third Sister. The leverage that she is willing to risk her life to protect for Third Sister is most likely a close relative rather than an object. As long as I keep her close relatives by my side and treat them well, and teach her the craft of making flower dew, I can send a team to send her to places in Jiangnan that have a lot of flowers. Then I can open a branch in Jiangnan and ship the extra flower dew to the capital."

The eldest lady nodded and thought so too. She probably thought Zhao Fangyu had already set his eyes on that girl at that time.

It's a pity that the timing was bad, otherwise that maid should have been trained by Zhao Fangyu to become a senior maid and kept by his side.

"Let Mother Cui go and ask around. After thirty strokes of the cane, I don't know if he's still alive."

Within a few days, Mother Cui brought news.

"It's cold, Mama Cui, come in and have some tea."

Zhao Fangyu's life is better now, and the tea he uses to entertain Mother Cui is also the best spring tea this year.

Without waiting for Mother Cui to speak, he handed her a small purse and said, "I heard that Mother Cui had a grandson a few days ago. This is a gift for the wedding. Mother Cui can't refuse it."

Zhao Fangyu's lips were curved red, and the sunlight shining in from outside cast a layer of soft light on her face. Two small eight-treasure Ruyi hairpins and a bunch of fresh jasmine were pinned on her loosely tied bun. She looked beautiful and elegant.

Mother Cui smiled so hard that her teeth were showing but her eyes were not. Even with her eyes narrowed into slits, she did not forget to praise, "Fourth Miss, you make a great scented dew and you grow great flowers. It's late autumn and you can still see such fresh jasmine. It's rare!"

Zhao Fangyu smiled, and Mother Cui continued, "The person the young lady wanted to find has been found. Her name is Qiaoxun. She was ordered to be beaten with thirty boards, but she survived. However, she has a lame leg. I don't know if the young lady still wants her."

"She does have a younger sister, who was previously assigned to the Third Miss's Courtyard. Later, the Third Miss was taken to Shou'an Hall, and the people there were dismissed. Her younger sister then went to the outer courtyard to do the cleaning."

Zhao Fangyu nodded: "When mom asked her, did she mention me? Does she have any resentment towards me?"

Zhao Fangyu somewhat wanted the girl who had eyes as black and bright as weeds, but if she had hatred in her heart, then the person she found would not be a helper, but a troublemaker instead.

Mother Cui immediately shook her head: "No, she is too grateful to express it."

Zhao Fangyu nodded and asked Mother Cui to bring Qiaoxun to Jiaolu.

Mother Cui took special care to wash her and change her into clean clothes before bringing her to Zhao Fangyu.

Qiaoxun has a limp. When she walks slowly, her skirt covers it so it's not noticeable, but when she walks fast, it's inevitable that one leg is higher than the other, and it's very obvious.

The people in the inner courtyard of the Zhao family had never seen a maid walking like this. When they saw Qiaoxun coming in from outside, they all looked sideways. When they saw the lame Qiaoxun entering the fourth lady's yard, they all wanted to pop their eyes out!

Qiaoxun never thought that she could return to the Zhao family mansion, and she never expected that the one who wanted her was the fourth girl whom she had helped the third girl to frame.

The interior of the hut was elegantly decorated. Qiaoxun only looked up and then quickly lowered her head, looking at Mother Cui's heels and limping behind her.

Mother Cui brought Qiaoxun to pay a visit to Zhao Fangyu. Zhao Fangyu had just been served breakfast by Xiangyao and Suer. There was some leftover food, so she shared it with the senior maids.

Zhao Fangyu treated Mother Cui to a bowl of milk cake before turning around to look at Qiao Xun.

"What's your name now?"

Qiaoxun bowed to Zhao Fangyu with some difficulty and said respectfully, "Miss, I can still call you Qiaoxun now."

Zhao Fangyu nodded, looked at her for a while, and suddenly smiled: "I heard that you have a younger sister who sweeps the outer courtyard. What's her name?"

Qiaoxun's face turned pale instantly and she looked at Zhao Fangyu in horror. Her thin body, as thin as a bamboo pole, even began to tremble slightly.