Who are you both?" She asked unhurriedly. Her manner and aura both elegant and graceful.
Seeing her calm demeanour, the housekeepers from the Gu Residence were stupefied for a moment before taking a breath and calming themselves.
'She is just a little girl. What elegance? What calm demeanour? It's nothing but just a front.'
'Otherwise? Heh. She just want to increase her impression in our eyes after looking like a village girl.'
'Hmph. She is just a pretentious country bumpkin. She is nothing like our true young ladies in the Residence back in the capital.'
'True.'
Both housekeepers exchanged glances before sneering. Their eyes were filled with disdain and mockery for Gu Yanyan for pretending to be a true young lady.
Gu Yanyan, "...."
Yang Xumei "...."
Other maids"....."
What true? You are nothing but stupid. Why would our young miss pretend for you?
Hmph.
All the maids exchanged glances, including Yang Xumei.
"We came from the Gu Residence in the capital. " one of the housekeeper answered, feeling very smug about her identity.
"And?" Gu Yanyan didn't cared about their smug faces and asked them to continue.
'Tsk. Still pretending.'
"We are housekeepers of the Gu residence. You can call me mother Zhang and she is mother Liu. I'm the right hand of Madam Yun and she is...." Mother Zhang paused and looked at Mother a Liu with a smirk.
"And I'm third young lady's Nanny." Nanny Liu looked very smug telling her about her, Nanny Liu's identity. She was trying to provoke her with the smugness on her face.
But Gu Yanyan was not so interested in their pointless games.
She usually gets annoyed easily when talking to useless people and since they are only housekeepers in Gu Residence, she didn't see any use in talking with them.
"So you both are only housekeepers." Gu Yanyan said taking a pause making the housekeepers puzzled "I thought you were the masters of the Residence."
"What are saying miss, how could we be masters? We are just slaves under our masters." Mother said with a stiff smile.
"Oh, but the way you both acted, it didn't seem like." Gu Yanyan said, taking another sip of her tea calmly.
But the housekeepers were not so calm. "Stop slandering us miss. We never acted like masters." Mother Zhang Interrupted hurriedly. If rumors spread that they are trying to become masters, the least would be that they will be punished and in worst cases they could beaten and sold or even death was not something rare in such cases.
How could a slave dreamed to become a master?
No matter how much favored they are by their masters, no master could bear her slave acting like master.
"You say Mother Zhang and Mother Liu-" Gu Yanyan paused and put down her tea cup and looked at them "forget about how you acted after coming in the manor in my absence or how you insulted and called me names-" at this she stopped at looked at her assistant for something.
"Uncultured and.... uncouth." Yang Xumei answered.
"Yes. These names, uncultured and uncouth. You didn't even stood up after knowing my identity as the eldest young lady of the Gu family and greet me as your eldest young lady and apologise me for your insolent behavior.
It really makes me think how you see me, Gu Yanyan, the eldest young lady of Gu Residence?" Gu Yanyan instantly released her domineering aura of her past life.
Both housekeepers instantly felt their knees go weak and their heartbeat faster.
They really hadn't taken it seriously, after all a thirteen years old little girl who had been abandoned by her family, how much influence she would have to make them feel scared.
But now when the things had been put this way, out in the open, it really makes them ignorant and insolent for not showing enough respect in front of the eldest young lady of the house they are serving.
It really makes them look like, they don't respect the masters of the family and trying to become masters themselves.
And once this thought entered their consciousness, they felt the panic all over their body.
They looked around them at once and their were more than a dozen of maids and all were maids from Madam Lin, Gu Yanran's mother and Xie family, Madam Lin's grandfather's family.
If were to spread things about this not only these two families but the whole capital will know about their actions.
So the both housekeepers exchanged
glances and plopped to their knees in instant.
"We are really sorry eldest young lady, we are old, we forgot about the etiquette after traveling so far. Please forgive this old servant." Mother cried pitifuly.
"Yes yes. We are two old fools, please be magnanimous and forgive these slaves for their ignorance." Mother Liu also joined Mother Zhang crying pitifuly and trying to show herself as miserable as possible.
They thought after doing this, the present maid would think bad of Gu Yanyan and labeled her as a bully.
But who would have thought, instead of garnering pity, they were seen as two clowns, singing their own song.
Seeing the meaningful glances in the maids eyes Mother Zhang and Mother Liu both abruptly came to halt and didn't know if they should continue or should stop, receiving more scornful gazes from the maids, feeling embarrassed they forgot to cry.
Seeing their stupefied expressions, Gu Yanyan waved her hand and ask them to stand up and take their seats.
No matter what one of them was the personal nanny of the mistress of the house, if people come to knew her making cry the mistress nanny, they would really label her as a bully and who doesn't respect her father's wife as her mother.
'Forget that. Even if they were looking good on the floor begging her to spare them, it's not the right time.'
After they were seated, they once again resumed their elegant and dignified aura after wiping their faces with their handkerchiefs.