After dressing up, Gu Yanyan was looking even more beautiful than the third princess in the palace, who was the most beautiful young lady in this generation of young ladies in The Great Tan Empire.
Looking at the pretty face which has emerged from the dirty mud two hours ago, both Mother Zhang and Mother Liu's mouth were wide opene and if it were possible, their jaws would have already been fallen to the ground.
Heh.
Other servants all exchanged a meaningful glance among themselves after seeing their reactions at their young miss's fairy like appearance.
They all stiffled their laughters at their naive expressions.
Well they can't blame them for looking like this, after all they are not the only ones who become stunned after seeing their young miss's true appearance, even they, who had seen their young miss grown from a child to a beautiful young lady, sometimes fell into trance after being mesmerized after seeing her godly beauty.
They could understand those two housekeepers' feelings.
Sigh.
After getting green flag from Gu Yanyan, more than a dozen carriages set off towards the capital.
"Hah. Finally."
Leaving the bumpy roads of dusty village when the wooden carriages started to run on the official road, only then, Gu Yanyan took a breath of relief.
"You've been here for thirteen years and still can't adjust with this wooden carriage." Yang Xumei laughed at her young miss's misery.
"Hah. As if you have already adjusted with this arrangements, forgetting your ever so smooth life filled with internet and wifi. And your oh so hot male idols. Don't think, I've not seen how you like to ogle those good looking scholars whenever they come to pay a visit." Gu Yanyan teased her maid while throwing crumbs of sweet potato chips that she had been munching off.
They both laughed and tease each other for the rest of the journey.
Meanwhile in the other carriage.
"Say Zhang Momo, even if garbage, what do you think this eldest young miss had put that it had filled these dozens of carriages?" Mother Liu gossiped to Mother Zhang to decrease her boredom while Mother Zhang's mind was somewhere in other world.
Because when mother Liu didn't paid attention, Mother Zhang peeked in the list of the 'garbage' and after reading that, her mind almost went blank.
'One full carriage of rice grains, one full carriage of wheat grains, one full carriage of fresh vegetables, half a carriage of dried vegetables, half a carriage of pickled vegetables, one full carriage of sweet potatoes, one full carriage of sweet yellow corns, two dozens of pigs, three dozen of fowls, three wild boar, two wild deer.... medicinal herbs and all kinds of spices and so on'
The list of the 'garbage' was like the never ending east sea, vast and deep.
Rice grains and wheat grains were normal to be added in the list because she was practically living among the farm fields and if they won't grow these grains, how would they survive this famine but those other names?
One Has to know that sweet potatoes and sweet yellow corns were rare tributes sent from Youzhou and Liandong from far north to Imperial court this year and only one basket of each crops were given to every high ranking official in the court as the rewards on the New Year.
Gu Residence had received two basket of each crops because both brothers were high ranking officials in the imperial court but even then each young lady got only one of each corps to eat after new year's feast as a treat.
She had heard from Madam Yun that these crops were brought by wealthy merchants in the Youzhou from foreign countries when they were traveling by the sea.
And now that she had seen this abandoned eldest young lady to bring these crops back to the capital in carriages, she really didn't know how to react.
And those one dozen female maids and one dozen male servants she was taking with her...
How was she gonna explain these to her mistress who had instructed her to only bring the lady and her personal maid?
In her daze, after five long hours of journey, a line of more one dozen of carriages entered the city gate.
At 3:00 in afternoon, a dozen or so carriages stopped and both housekeepers came out of the wooden carriage, where Mother Zhang was still in daze, Mother Liu's eyes were already gleaming with evil schemes.
After coming down from the carriage, she instantly went to Gu Yanran's carriage to welcome her 'home'.
"'Eldest Young Miss', We've already reached the Gu Residence, please come out the carriage." Mother Liu announced with a rare enthusiasm, which Gu Yanyan hadn't seen since she had met her at the manor.
"Young miss, what evil scheme do you think she had planned for us that she is so enthusiastic?" Yang Xumei asked with a chuckle.
"That... we will know, once we cross the bridge." Gu Yanyan replied with the same leisure on her face.
After giggling to themselves for a while, finally both the ladies came down from the carriage one after another.
After coming out from the carriage both young ladies stretched their limbs in a very.... unlady like manner.
Seeing this Mother Liu scrunched her nose in disgust and looked back at the Mother Zhang to exchange glances with her but Mother Zhang was as emotionless as a frozen fish, from the moment they had sitting in the carriage she had been like this.
Tsk
She looked around to see but there were two dozens of servants were surrounding the whole area, it would probably be very difficult for others to see this eldest young lady's unlady like manners.
Tsk.. these servants are really clever, to know how to cover up for your masters, they surely are not simple servants.
Maybe Lin family knew about their granddaughter's glorious deeds that's why they had carefully chosen these clever servants.
Hmph.