After lunch, Zeke made arrangements to send a truckload of daffodils to Charlie's house. 4

The daffodils he sent were all high-quality grades that were very lush and green, and none of them were flowering as per Charlie's request. 1

Daffodils looked very similar to chives especially when they were not blooming. 3

People in the city could not distinguish plants very clearly. Also, most people who ate chives had only seen chives sold in the market that were tied in a bundle, but they had never seen chives growing in the ground, so they were unable to differentiate chives and daffodils in plain sight and would often get confused by the similarities. 1

Chive was a vegetable fancied by many people. It was an indispensable amazing ingredient when it came to stir-frying, soup, making pies, or dumplings. 5

However, daffodils were not edible.

Why? Because daffodils contained narcissus.

Narcissus was a toxic alkaloid. 1

When Elaine told Charlie that Lady Wilson liked to eat chives, he immediately thought of daffodils. 1

that after the sneaky Lady Wilson succeeded in stealing vegetables for the first time, she

her sinister

he asked Zeke to arrange workers to plant all these daffodils on the villa's wall.

the daffodils from outside the fence-i t would be very easy to steal them.

as chives, she would

the poison was not lethal, admission to the

the hospital, he would hire some people to turn all the fences around the villa into walls and build a glasshouse for his vegetable garden. That way,

the truck come to unload the cargo from

she saw the workers unloading clusters of green slender leaf

It was chives!

fresh and glistening chives!

at noon. Thanks to Charlie's

savory. In fact, it was a very healthy

she saw the fresh chives being unloaded

series of unfortunate events-becoming homeless, suffering the devastating changes in her family,

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