When they were talking, they had already arrived at the outside of the Jianjia Court where Song Zaishui lived. Before they went in, they first heard waves of birds singing and sometimes the cries of maidservants. When Wei Changying was about to say, "Cousin's court is as noisy as expected," Song Zaishui's face suddenly changed and hurriedly said, "Too bad, does Snowball pick up the parrot to eat again?" She didn't have time to explain to Wei Changying, and she ran inside while holding her dress.

Seeing this, Wei Changying hurriedly followed up.

When she entered the door, she smelled the fragrance of flowers and heard the sound of the birds. The whole courtyard was clean and tidy, and the green brick floor was swept spotlessly with thin brooms so that there was not even a single fallen flower or leaf. There were lush trees all around, with colorful flowers in between. On some flower branches that were a little taller than people, there were ten bird shelves on them and a parrot with colorful feathers was standing on each of them.

Several of them already knew how to talk, and now they were shouting "help" and "help" in a crisp girl's voice. Some of the parrots were obviously better trained. They fluttered their wings and called, "First Miss is back." The shelves were staggered, the flower branches shook, the petals and feathers flew together.... It was indeed extraordinarily lively.

When Wei Changying felt that there were too many things to see, she saw a large group of maidservants rolling up their sleeves and running from the east porch to the west porch back-and-forth to chase a Chausie.

This Chausie was exactly the same as what Song Zaishui described. Its entire body was snow-white. While it was fat like a ball, its movements were still very vigorous so that every time it was about to be caught, it was able to escape. In such chaos, while Wei Changying and her party felt speechless, Song Zaishui rolled up her sleeves and joined in chasing. After all, Song Zaishui was its master. She did not tiptoe up to catch but just walked next to the Chausie and gave a loud cry, "Snowball! Why don't you just get out and take the blame!"

The Chausie whose name should be Snowball looked up with a fat face at its owner. Wei Changing thought it would make a coquettish meow, but it didn't. After a closer look, she understood: this cat's fat face was wriggling, and the corners of his mouth were still showing a corner of the green wing. Did it just take a parrot from the shelf and eat it? It was busy with his mouth, how could it make any sound?

Snowball swallowed the parrot quickly, then ran to Song Zaishui. It wiped its mouth on her dress, meowed flatteringly, and grabbed her skirt, and tried to climb up.

... Surely Song Zaishui would find her dress laddered later.

Song Zaishui squatted down angrily and slapped away Snowball that wanted to pounce into her arms to fawn. She grabbed its head and ordered the people next to her, "Hold it down! Let me see if Cuiyin'er can be saved!"

Wei Changying had already laughed so hard that she almost fell down. She went over to persuade Song Zaishui while wiping her tears, "I watched it swallow, how can it be saved?" She pointed to the empty shelf which was still dangling not far away and asked, "Is the parrot supposed to be there? There is just a shelf, and you don't have a cage. Don’t you know that there's no cat that doesn't like to be greedy with eating? So you should not blame it for eating it!"

Song Zaishui had already made a concerted effort to open the mouth of Snowball with Chunjing at this time. As expected, the parrot named Cuiyin'er was already gone. She couldn't help but be greatly frustrated, "Cuiyin'er is the best-trained parrot. It can say hello and sing several songs. I was going to show it to you, but I was just one moment late that it was eaten by this cat!" Thinking of this, she picked up Snowball and threw it on the ground resentfully and rebuked angrily, "Why didn't you eat other parrots, but Cuiyin'er? You are not allowed to eat today or tomorrow!"

Snowball was thrown on the ground by its owner. Not knowing whether it was too fat or was just pretending, it struggled two times before getting up. It made the sound of meowing while crawling to the edge of her dress to ingratiate pathetically.

Song Zaishui raised her head and ignored her. She tidied up her hair and reorganized the introduction of her court, "The parrots are scared fiercely now. Chunjing, take people to put them away until being comforted. Xiajing, take Snowball into the house and lock it! Changying, come and have a look at the fish. I planted all the water lilies in the fish tank myself. If you think they are good, you can take them along with the tank. They have all grown-up now so that you don't worry about them at all. Just leave it in the courtyard or in the house."

Wei Changying looked at the eight cylinders in a row not far away and murmured, "Have you thought of anything?"

Song Zaishui was stunned and said, "What?" Following her line of sight, she saw the water was ticking on the edge of the vats, and the lotus leaves in the jar seemed to be sparse a lot. She suddenly realized something, ran over to have a look, and immediately got angry and asked loudly, "Granny Ann, Granny Ann, come here! How do you look after the court? Not to mention that Cuiyin'er was carried away by Snowball, why do even the fish.... Fish tanks and water lilies were also messed up by it?"

A woman in an ultramarine skirt came up in fear and said, "I know I'm guilty. First Miss, please punish me!"

Song Zaishui angrily shook her sleeve, "You! You all will not have your salary for this month!"

Mrs. Ann answered with an obedient attitude. Song Zaishui walked back and forth next to the fish tank and unwillingly plucked away the water lily leaves to look for a long time in the muddy water that had not yet been clear yet. Finally, when she saw a little bit of red flashed by, she could not help but said happily, "I knew it! There are eight tanks of fish. No matter how greedy Snowball is, how can it finish all of them?" Then she asked Wei Changying to come over to have a look.

Wei Changying, who was not very interested in water lilies and goldfish, sighed and said, "Cousin, I just said, I'm a bit dizzy. Let me sit down first. When the water is clear, I can take a closer look, alright?"

Song Zaishui was preoccupied with showing off her flowers and pets to her cousin, but she forgot that Wei Changying had just traveled in the carriage today and was not feeling well all the way. She always prided herself for being shrewd so that she was a little ashamed and uneasy. She hooked on Wei Changying's arm complaisantly, "It's stuffy in the room during this weather. Shall we ask someone to bring a soft couch and put it next to the fish tank? There are sweet-scented osmanthus trees as the shade and wind. And we can talk happily here."

Someone went in and carried the soft couch, the table, and the incense burner out. Wei Changying saw the incense burner and said, "This is the season of ample fragrance of flowers. There are so many flowers planted in this court, and there are water lilies next to us. So there is no need to burn incense, right?"

"This kind of incense does not have any smell." Song Zaishui said, "There are many flowers and trees so that there are also many mosquitoes. This is to expel them away."

After burning the insect-repellent incense, the two sat apart on the soft couch. Qiujing and Dongjing dished up the seasonal fruits as well as a large pot of the Agarwood drink and a pot of Wumei drink. Song Zaishui told Wei Changying to have them at will and took a fan to pounce for her. She smiled and said, "Are you hot? If it's hot, I can ask someone to carry the ice here."

"Didn't you say the wind is cool here?" Wei Changying waved her hand, and Qin'ge came to pour her a Wumei drink. She took a sip and said, "This Wumei drink is good. Its sweetness is just right."

Song Zaishui picked up a cherry and said, "I think it is a little bit sweet, but I knew your taste is a little sweeter than me. So I told them to put more sugar in it."

Wei Changying said with satisfaction, "It is my cousin who loves me the most!"

"I can't help it. I don't have lineal sisters. So I can only take good care of you!" Song Zaishui sighed.

Wei Changying said with a smile, "I don't have my lineal sisters either. So as your sister...."

"Your heart of being a sister almost messes people to death!" Song Zaishui glared at her. Obviously, during those months in Fengzhou, she had a deep impression, "Fortunately, you don't have your own sister. Otherwise, you won't be able to live without getting beaten three times a day!"

"How would my own sister willing to beat me?" Wei Changying smiled and fawn, "Cousin, you don't even willing to beat me."

Song Zaishui spat, "It is only because I don't even have the power to even bind a chicken so that I can't beat you! Or I would have beaten you long time ago! Besides, didn't I beat you in Fengzhou?"

Wei Changying propped herself up on the table, held her cheek and smiled, "Oh, cousin, so that gently hit was meant to beat people? I thought you were just joking with me!"

Song Zaishui took a fan and knocked it on her arm and said angrily, "You still talking about that? I'll beat you again!"

The two laughed for a while, and Wei Changying suddenly got serious and asked about the matter of Duanmu Wuse, "How did you deal with her?"

Song Zaishui said in a disdained way, "How? I directly told my father and the second brother everything and proposed to go back to Jiangnan to look after my grandfather and grandmother so that I would never hinder Duanmu Wuse eyes in my whole life!"

Wei Changying hurriedly asked, "What happened next?"

"It's actually very unfair for the second brother." Song Zaishui said annoyingly, "Father couldn't reckon with his daughter-in-law, so he put all the accounts on the second brother. The second brother was punished by the family doctrine and was asked to regulate his wife!"

"Then what happened to the second cousin?"

Song Zaishui hooked the corner of her mouth and said with a sneer, "The second brother has been loved me a lot. After knowing what Duanmu Wuse said to me, he was so angry that he didn't even confess his crime after being beaten by his father. He went straight back and dragged Duanmu Wuse into the carriage and asked someone to send her back to the Duanmu Family!"

"Ah? Then why is she still getting in and out of the mansion? Listening to what you just said, she even became the housekeeper?" Wei Changying asked in surprise.

Song Zaijiang meant to drive Duanmu Wuse back to her mother's home and did not want her as the daughter-in-law anymore!

"The second brother didn't want her anymore, but the Duanmu Family visited our family and talked a lot. Duanmu Wuse's mother even came to me in person. The only thing she didn't do is kneeling outside the Jianjia Court...The second brother was soft-hearted, so he allowed her to come back." Song Zaishui said with a cold smile, "But her life was not easy after she came back. Father could not deal with her directly because of her identity, so he used the excuse that the second brother did not have children yet to let the first sister-in-law pay attention to other proper women. The first sister-in-law bought several beautiful women from fine families for the second brother. Duanmu was colorless and was easy to get jealous, and the second brother was easy-going. So, originally, he followed Duanmu's ideas to not to have any concubines and sent out all the maidservants who have served him before. At present, the second branch is very lively!"

Wei Changying said at this point, "Duanmu Wuse is well deserved! But what about the matter of the housekeeper?"

"The first sister-in-law had a miscarriage a few days ago, and she wanted to leave the matter to me for several days." Song Zaishui had a cold face and said, "I haven't said anything yet! Duanmu Wuse could not wait to say that I have lost the appearance that I have to wear a hat when getting around. Therefore, it is not convenient for me to be the housekeeper, and it is better for her to do it."

"Why is this woman so annoying?" Wei Changying tickled her teeth and suggested, "Shall I find an excuse and beat her up later?"