"Reason?" Gu Yanyan also resumed her interrogation.
"Hm? Wh-what reason?" Mother Liu asked stupidly.
Other maids giggled in silence at their stupefied expressions.
"Ahm ahm. Miss asked the reason you dignified ladies came here for?" One of the maids explained slowly and cautiously.
Seeing her being cautious when answering them, the housekeepers' lost ego instantly soured to sky.
Not knowing that their fear didn't came from them, the housekeepers, but from their young miss.
Seeing then acting all high and might again, not only maids, even Yang Xumei and Gu Yanyan were speechless.
They internally rolled their eyes at their smug faces.
"We are here to take you back." Mother Zhang replied, gritting her teeth at the end, as if reluctant to finish her sentence but somehow end up saying.
After speaking, both Mother Zhang and Mother Liu looked Gu Yanyan to see her excitement for returning home.
But. They were destined to be disappointed because instead of excitement what they saw made then choke on their own saliva.
Annoyed?
Irritated?
Frustrated?
And in the end helpless?
"Why? Why they want me back when they didn't cared for me for the last ten years" Gu Yanyan asked in whined not hiding her annoyance and reluctance to return with them at all.
Both housekeepers were stunned at her attitude.
'Is she really doesn't want to return or just pretending in front of us?' Mother Zhang asked mother Liu silently.
'I think she is just pretending.' Mother Liu also answered her silently.
'Hmm.'
'Hmm.'
Both housekeepers blinked at each other in affirmation.
"Master asked you to return today itself. And since you don't have much valuable stuffs here, we can just set off right away." Mother Zhang notified her impatiently. Not wanting to stay one more second there and make herself laughing stock in front of these country bumpkins.
"It's really hot here than the Residence back in the capital, don't you think?" Mother Zhang asked Mother Liu while fanning herself.
"Yes, you said right. And there is also some strange smell here, no?" Mother Liu continued with Mother Zhang, pointing out one after another imperfections in the manor in contrast to the Capital.
Hotness? Bad smell? whole manor was filled with green plants and flowers. In the west there is a canal and in the south a whole green mountain. Cold breeze would always sway right and left making manor feel fragrant and cool all day.
People from the capital really knows, how to make things up. Hmph
"Since the decree had already came then prepare to set off. Ready the carriage, we're going to capital." Gu Yanyan made the announcement. Uff.
"Umm. Eldest young lady, we have come in a carriage, so you don't have to prepare anything... you just have to clear yourself and we can go in our carriage itself. Mistress said, she'll prepare everything for you at the Residence and that you don't have to bring things from the manor with you." Madam Zhang said with very pretentious politeness.
Gu Yanyan looked up with the same polite smile on her face and said "Oh, then please ask forgiveness from mistress on my behalf because there are few little things that I want to bring with me."
So without waiting for her to repeat her words, servants at the manor already started to prepare things, which had to be taken away.
Mother Zhang and Mother Liu sat there stiffely and let others prepare what they had to prepare, while sipping on their tea and complaining inside their hearts to their hearts' containt.
All the servants in the manor move with the lightning's speed and gathered things.
After two hours Mother Zhang and Mother Liu were standing outside the manor, looking at more than a dozen carriages standing in line, ready to set off.
"This....." both Mother Zhang and Mother Liu were speechless at the scene.
"Just a little few things?" They both questioned their concept of little few things.
"What garbage this little girl has gathered to take with her. Doesn't she know, Gu Residence is not a garbage can where she can bring all her garbage?" Mother Liu complained to Mother Zhang in whispers.
"Hmph. Who will tell her. I'm not going to advise to not bring her garbage with her lest master will be angry. Anyway, we will not be the one's who will bear the brunts. We just have to tell him truth and clear ourselves from this mess." Mother Zhang said with an evil gleam in her eyes.
"Yes, and we can also take revenge on her by adding the fuel in the fire by saying that we had informed her to return in only her clothes and not to bring anything as it was what mistress had ordered us to inform 'Eldest young lady'". Mother Liu added with a scheming look on her face.
They both exchanged glances and to each other at their little scheme.
After arranging everything, a male servant came to inform Gu Yanyan that everything had been prepared then Gu Yanyan also came out of the manor and stood at the manor gate, looking as elegant as a fairy descended on earth.
So beautiful.... even more beautiful than the young ladies at the Gu residence.
Not only Gu Residence, even in whole of the capital, they hadn't seen so beautiful young lady.
Dressed in light pink in inner side and peach pink as outer robe, her black satin like straight and silky hairs with half of her hair held at the top of her head with the help of a few simple but elegant hairpins while the other half was left down on her back to float with the wind.
Her carved but delicate eyebrows which painted with dark green eyebrow shades in the shape of high mountains.
Pink cheeks, cherry like red lips with pearly teeth to match them, her snow white skin complimenting her swan like neck, she was really an ethereal beauty hiding in the mountains.