The girl found the maid and pretended to borrow a sanitary pad, using the topic to segue into a discussion about makeup and dressing up.
Once the conversation turned to beauty, all the girls perked up their ears to listen.
Thus, the girl and the maid got on very well, chatting like they had endless topics to talk about, true confidants indeed.
The maid was stopped by the girl, the Earl was held back by the rock band member, and the real Gardener was intimidated by Ji Guang’s semi-threatening tone, too scared to enter the garden.
At this moment, the middle-aged male entertainer disguised as the Gardener had already handed all the tulips over to someone outside the doghole.
In the faint moonlight, he couldn’t see clearly what the person outside the doghole looked like, and the person outside likewise couldn’t see his face.
"The number is wrong," came a surprised voice from outside the doghole.
"Hmm?" the middle-aged male entertainer asked nasally.
"I asked you to increase the amount, why didn’t you add more? Five hundred, we need at least five hundred a day! You want to make money too, don’t you? Why only two hundred?"
After a while, when the person outside the doghole didn’t hear a response, the voice became agitated, "Didn’t you say you needed money fast? That I should find more buyers? As long as the price is high, you could get as many tulips as needed, right?"
"I..." the middle-aged entertainer began, trying his best to imitate the Gardener’s voice.
He had barely uttered one word before there was silence, and then the person outside the doghole started to crawl in.
The middle-aged male entertainer panicked, worried that coming closer would reveal his disguise, and quickly reached out to block the doghole, saying urgently, "What are you doing? You’ll be discovered!"
He tried his best to imitate the Gardener’s voice, and it sounded quite similar.
When the middle-aged male entertainer had no acting jobs, he worked as a voice actor to make ends meet and learned some vocal techniques, so he was quite skilled at voice imitation.
"Move your hand, let me in!"
"What’s wrong with you? We agreed on five hundred tulips, and now there are only two hundred. If you’re not going to make it right, I’ll pick them myself!"
But in the end, he couldn’t stop the person inside the doghole, who charged in with great force, accidentally knocking off the middle-aged male entertainer’s hat.
The middle-aged man hurriedly picked up the hat, cursing inwardly, "I’m done for!"
But the other person didn’t shout out that he was a fake!
Could it be that the other person didn’t know what the Gardener looked like?
Instead of putting it back on immediately, the middle-aged man allowed his face to be exposed a little longer.
The other person appeared indifferent and didn’t notice anything off about the Gardener before him.
The middle-aged man guessed that maybe the other person had face blindness, recognizing clothes rather than faces. Or perhaps, they had never really seen their "partner’s" face clearly before, so there was no surprise.
"Don’t block the way; I need to go pick the flowers!" the other person was very irritable, their bellowing voice carrying far into the night.
"Shh! Keep it down. Do you want to draw everyone here?"
"What if I do? What can they do to me?"
The middle-aged man couldn’t stop him at all, suspecting that this had been the case earlier as well.
He didn’t follow further but went to find Little Taotie to explain the situation. Before the other person left, they decided on the next step of their strategy.
While the other person was picking tulips in the garden, he estimated that gathering three hundred would take a long time, so he quietly approached Little Taotie.
He recounted the infuriating events of the day, emphasizing how the girl was being such a nuisance.
Little Taotie was silent for a while before analyzing, "This deal must be very important, or else he wouldn’t have been in such a rush to come in and pick the flowers."
"I had thought of that too," said the middle-aged male entertainer.
"The disappearance of five hundred tulips would definitely catch the Earl’s attention..."