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

succeeded in stealing vegetables for

repeat her sinister act again

asked Zeke to arrange workers to plant all

a bunch of the daffodils from outside the fence-i t

and consumed them as chives, she would learn a miserable and unfortunate lesson from

poison was not lethal, admission to the hospital and several days of treatment was

after consuming those toxic daffodils. During the time they were in 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, no one could

was next door, happened to see the truck come to unload the cargo from the balcony on the

and awe when she saw the workers unloading clusters of green

It was chives!

fresh and

lunch at noon. Thanks to Charlie's fresh greens, the hearty

and savory. In fact, it was a very healthy and balanced

fresh chives being unloaded in Charlie's house because chives were her

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

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