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

Lady Wilson succeeded

her sinister act

to arrange workers to plant all these daffodils on

out and grab a bunch of the daffodils from outside the fence-i t would

chives, she would learn a miserable and unfortunate

lethal, admission to the hospital and several

people to turn all

the truck come to unload

when she saw the workers unloading clusters of green

It was chives!

and

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

and savory. In fact, it was

when she saw the fresh chives being unloaded in Charlie's house because chives were

it had been a long while since she had eaten eggs and chives dumplings after the series of unfortunate events-becoming homeless, suffering the devastating changes in her family, and the

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