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So Gu Yanyan asked her maid to give his gift to Madam Yun for the moment and apologize Madam Yun for inconvenience and asked her to deliver this gift to her third brother on her behalf.
Madam Yun smiled at this and said, it was not a problem at all and instead thanked her, Gu Yanran on behalf of her son, Gu Shandong.
After distributing the gift Gu Yanyan finally felt relived.
Doing a thankless had never been easy for anyone, specially when the other people are someone, you don't even wish breath in the same air as them...
"Oh yes mother! I've brought some fresh vegetables and some grains from the manor. Please let the servants know where to put them. And there are some pigs and some fouls too, if you like, we can have barbecue with everyone. The servants had went to mountains to gathered some herbs so they also hunted some wild animals, I've asked them bring them along since I was coming here today." Gu Yanyan informed Madam Yun about the 'garbage' she brought with her in more than a dozen carriages.
"This child! Why did you have to bring so much with you. You've suffered for nothing. Were you scared that we won't have enough grains to feed you or what?" Madam Yun scolded Gu Yanyan in a playful manner with her eyes full of doting for her. As if they were really mother and daughter.
Her acting was so natural that if Gu Yanyan didn't know the truth behind the fake motherly expressions, even she would have fooled by her 'mother' like appearance.
Gu Yanyan just shook her head and smiled.
"It's what I should do."
Madam Yun had already gestured her maids to make arrangements for the crops Gu Yanyan had brought with her.
When the maid returned with the list of the things in her hand, her hands were visibly trembling.
Seeing this, Madam Yun's smile got more wider than ever.
She thought of the 'garbage' Mother Liu had mentioned when she asked about the things Gu Yanyan had brought with her and unknowingly her eyes were sparkling with excitement even though she tried her best to conceal it.
'Here comes the main show.'
After receiving the high grade yellow jade and seeing how valuable and thoughtful gifts she had brought for everyone, Madam Yun had lost hope for any excitement but after seeing her maid's stunned and scared expressions she thought, 'the excitement will now come'.
She didn't reached out to get the list but instead ask the maid to tell her why hands were trembling but in response the maid only handed her the list and said nothing.
Not succeeding in embarrassing Gu Yanyan through the maid's hands, Madam Yun could only twitch her lips and took the list from her hand and glanced at it.
At first glance she thought she was hallucinating but when she read it again, she was also stunned just like the maid.
It's just that, years of experience had made her to control over her much faster than the maid and she looked at Gu Yanyan with a puzzled and complicated expressions on her face.
"What happened mother? Why are you looking at sister like that?" Gu Yanran had also received the 'information' from the mother Liu about the 'garbage Gu Yanyan had brought and after seeing the excitement in her mother's eyes when she saw maid's trembling, Gu Yanran could read her mother's mind and after seeing her mother's stunned and complicated expressions she thought she knew what to do and 'played along' her mother.
But Madam Yun didn't cared about Gu Yanran's 'cooperation' instead she turned and handed the list to Gu Tianhao.
"What is it Madam? Why are you acting like Yanyan had brought some strange things over that shouldn't have been brought." Gu Tianhao was really impatient and annoyed at Gu Yanyan for bringing some 'garbage' that she shouldn't have brought and making his wife worry for nothing.
"This-" But just as he read the content in the list he was also tongue tied for a moment.
Gaining his senses back he looked at Gu Yanyan and asked about the crop-
"This sweet potatoes and sweet yellow corns... what are these?" He thought may be they are some wild fruits with the similar name but different species and varieties. After all how could a mere thirteen years old young lady who had been abandoned by her home could own such precious crops that only the last year in far north and was sent to Imperial court as a tribute to let the nobles to have a taste of these new but delicious crops'.
But how wrong he was... when he heard his eldest daughter's next words.
"Father, these are the new variety of crops found by northern merchants from some foreign lands. I don't know the specific but my eldest uncle from the Xie family had someone deliver a few sac of these crops when he last year sent the gifts." Gu Yanyan said sweetly.
"F-few sacs?" Hearing what Gu Yanyan said Gu Tianhao was sure about the variety of the crops' but hearing her next words make him choke.
Not only him even old Madam Gu and eldest master Gu were speechless.
'What do you mean by few sacs? We only got to taste one or two per person in our household while you got to eat a few sacs?'
"Yes. You know what, these sweet potatoes and sweet yellow corns are very delicious but it was only a few sacs and it ended very quickly after sharing with the servants in the manor." Gu Yanyan said sadly.
"Yiu even these sweet potatoes and sweet yellow corns with your servants?" Gu Tianhao looked at Gu Yanyan in disbelief.
"Yes. They also said, It was delicious." At this Gu Yanyan smiled brightly and proudly.
"So where these sweet potatoes and sweet yellow corns came which you brought full of carriages?" Madam Yun asked, thinking, Gu Yanyan had surely begged Xie family to send more.