"Mother, it's all my fault for not disciplining my maid and letting her mess with the gifts I prepared for our Yanyan. Please don't blame Yanyan for not knowing the truth and wearing this plain clothes." Madam Yun said with a hint of self blame on her face and pleaded for Yanyan along the way, not forgetting to show her motherly love for her 'daughter'.
Then turned to her maid and slapped her.
"Take her away and give her thirty beatings to teach her a lesson for making such a big mistake which almost cost everyone yo have a bad impression of our Yanyan." Madam Yun give the maid beside her hint with her eyes to make disappear this unruly and audacious maid in front of her.
"Madam no. Please Madam... it was just a moment of negligence. Please forgive me....." The voice of the maid was getting farther and farther as the made was dragged away by two bulky amd strong maids.
When the voice of the maids wailing finally disappeared that the peace returned in the dining hall.
"Since the misunderstanding had already been cleared and Yanyan had wore this plain dress just because she thought it was gift from her mother, we won't think too much into this, but Yanyan remember, next time when you stumbled upon such occasions, you've to act accordingly. Even if want to please your mother by wearing her gifts, you have to think if the occasion is righ and would it look good to wear such dress when you are going to meet your elders afterwards." Old Madam Gu preached Gu Yanyan for not reading the situation instead of reprimanding Madam Yun for not supervising her maids well and let them deliver the wrong gift, even though everyone here present know that the maid hadn't made any mistake and it was most likely Madam Yun's own arrangements.
But who cares?
Gu Yanyan just wanted to see these two faced pretentious Gu family members' True face after nearly a decade.
She wanted to know, how sincere they were in treating her 'sincerely' and if she wouldn't regret her choices in the future by making a disaster in the Gu household.
But after seeing their stances, it didn't look like, she would wrong them if she made them feel hell on this planet earth.
Gu Yanyan curled her lips and smiled sweetly, her pale lips turned more whiter after she stretched them a little in a pitiful smile.
"Yes grandmother, grad daughter will remember your teaching." Your teaching of turning white into black and be biased.
"It's good that you are willing to learn." Even though old Madam Gu couldn't bring herself to like her today,after the little fiasco, she chose to ignore her.
"Mother, the dinner is ready and dishes have arrived, let's start lest it gets cold." Madam Yun also Interrupted making the scene totally end with the hot meal.
"Yes let's dig in." Old Madam Gu also nodded towards the dining table.
Everyone followed the old Madam Gu and Madam Yun and took their seats.
Since Gu Yanyan had brought a carriage full of sweet potatoes and sweet yellow corns, and dozens of pigs and fouls. Madam Yun ordered kitchen to make sumptuous dinner for everyone to enjoy till the brim.
Kitchen had also not disappointed Madam Yun's expectations and had made plenty full of dishes filled with both meat and vegetables dishes.
There was also one of the roasted dear that Gu Yanyan had brought with her three days ago from the manor.
After eating both meat and sweet dishes, everyone was fully satisfied and praised and thanked Madam Yun for organizing such rich family banquet.
Madam Yun also took all the credit without any hesitation with no sense of shame or guilt.
Those all grains, vegetables and meat was brought by her, Gu Yanyan and they were thanking Madam Yun? Are they really blind and can't tell or they just feel ashamed for accepting that they were eating what Gu Yanyan had brought with her from her mother's property? So ungrateful people.
What else could she have expected from them..
Just as she was about to leave after greeting old Madam Gu and others, eldest Madam, Madam Shen smiled at her and asked her to come forward.
She gently patted Gu Yanyan's hair and smiled.
"What a beautiful young lady." Eldest master also smiled at her kindly.
What game they are playing together? Gu Yanyan wondered inwardly.
Not only her, even Gu Tianhao and his wife looked at them in curiosity.
Madam Shen waved her hand at her maid Qui xu beside her and Qui Xu brought an arms length rectangular wooden box. From the packaging, Gu Yanyan could already guess it was some calligraphy or some famous painting but she still looked at the box in anticipation.
Looking at her eager look, Madam Shen didn't kept her in secret and took out the calligraphy and give it to Gu Yanyan.
"Your eldest uncle and I saw you that you practice Wang Xizhi's script so we thought to give this famous calligraphy of his when he was still young. You can look at it and practice more. Look if you like it?" Madam Shen pointed her chin towards the calligraphy in her hand.
Gu Yanyan took the calligraphy and unfolded it and revealed a beautiful and excited smile.
"Of course I like it. Thank you Eldest uncle. Thank you eldest aunt, for giving me such a priceless treasure." Even though she had already mastered Wang Xizhi's handwriting almost seventy percent and doesn't need to practice from his old script to enhance her handwriting, Gu Yanyan still accepted the calligraphy from her eldest uncle and eldest with much happiness.
After all in their eyes, she had to look like a vain and ignorant person.
After receiving gift from her eldest uncle and eldest aunt, even Gu Tianhao give her a gift.
It was nothing special, just four treasures of study and asked her to study well since she is still young and there was still room for improvement.