Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Osmanthus Blooms Beyond Heaven

  Shuang'er had no choice but to follow her words and gave all the tea leaves to the servants. Even a sweeper in another courtyard received one or two tea leaves, and everyone in the mansion was grateful to Han Caiwei. In private, they said that although their master was sometimes fierce, she was still good as long as you didn't provoke her, and besides, she had always been kind to the servants.

  Shuang'er returned from distributing tea leaves and saw Hua Caiwei standing under the osmanthus tree, climbing a ladder supported by Xiaohua and Qiuhua. She was shocked and didn't dare to shout, fearing she would startle Hua Caiwei. Hurriedly, she walked over to the foot of the ladder and looked up at Hua Caiwei: "Miss, please come down! I'll help you pick them, if you fall it won't be good! Xiaohua, you're also too indulgent towards Miss!"

  Xia Hua looked at Shuang Er with a wronged expression, but her hands didn't dare to relax: "Sister Shuang Er, I also have no choice, Master insisted on going up himself to pick it, we servants can't go against Master's wishes!"

  Qiu Hua pouted and said, "Shuang Er sister, Master says that we can't choose the flowers she wants, no matter how hard we try to persuade her, she still insists on going herself. I have no way to stop her, why don't you go get a basket for Master to put the flowers in, so Master won't have nowhere to put them!"

  "This is also a good idea, Shuang'er puckered her lips: 'Then you guys hold on tight, I'll go in and get it.'"

  Han Caiwei didn't care about what was happening below, she stood at the top of the ladder, surrounded by osmanthus branches, her nose filled with fragrance, her eyes full of blooming osmanthus flowers, and in the midst of this intoxicating beauty, she almost forgot that she was in a high place where one careless move could lead to a fall.

  She didn't bring anything to carry things with, so she had to lift her hem and carefully pluck the chosen osmanthus flowers one by one and put them on her hem. Fortunately, she was wearing a skirt today, with a long coat outside, otherwise she would have had to lift her skirt to hold them, although it's not unacceptable but somewhat rustic.

  The osmanthus flowers near at hand were all picked, so Han Caiwei began to move towards the ones a little further away. However, she often had to stretch out her hands to reach them, with one hand holding onto her hem and carrying the selected osmanthus flowers, while the other hand was reaching out to pick more from afar. As a result, she couldn't hold onto the wooden ladder anymore. Nevertheless, relying on her own bravery, she wasn't afraid at all, and continued to move around on the ladder, stretching and reaching for the flowers. Meanwhile, Xiaohua and Qiuhua were watching with bated breath, worried that she might fall off and get hurt. The two of them gripped the ladder tightly, determined not to let it shake even a little bit.

  Han Caiwei saw a particularly beautiful osmanthus flower on the branch not far to her right, which was in full bloom. She stretched out her hand desperately to reach it, but unfortunately, it was just a little bit beyond her grasp. However, she refused to give up and leaned forward with her entire body, with only one foot still on the top of the wooden ladder and the other foot stepping onto a nearby branch as thick as an arm, which allowed her to successfully tread on that osmanthus flower.

  Han Caiwei smiled slightly and tucked the flower into her sleeve, just as she was about to withdraw her foot, but then she heard

  The sudden change startled everyone, and Autumn and Summer didn't dare let go of the ladder, fearing it would lose balance and hit the falling He Caiwei. Erniang happened to be carrying a basket out of the house, and upon seeing this scene, she dropped the basket and covered her mouth in shock: "Good heavens!" Without thinking, she rushed over to try and catch He Caiwei.

  Qiu Hua also urged Xia Hua to hold the ladder steady, and she wanted to reach out to catch Han Caiwei. In the end, she simply lay down on the grass with Shuang Er, planning to be a human cushion for Han Caiwei!

  This scene was coincidentally seen by Li Xiuzhen who had just entered from outside.

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