Seeing how eloquent and clever her third grand daughter was, old Madam Gu finally eased her frown and revealed a kind smile on her face as she looked at her eldest grand daughter.
"Look how thoughtful you younger sisters are towards you, you shouldn't have think that they don't love or not care for you. Instead, as an elder sister, you should try to get along with them, OK?" Old Madam Gu looked at Gu Yanyan and asked her to take initiative, as if it is the way it should be.
She, Gu Yanyan, should take initiative on her own to mingle with the little girls in the Gu Residence? Were they worthy?
Hmph.
Gu Yanyan internally rolled her eyes for god knows how many times.
But still kept a pitiful and fragile up front.
"But grandmother, would that be appropriate? I mean I was away from home for so many years and when I returned, they didn't even greet me and other than second sister Gu Yanjie and third sister Gu Yanran, I don't even know any of their names." Gu Yanyan said, a little embarrassed and a little awkward remembering how her younger siblings didn't respected her as their eldest sister.
Old Madam Gu also could feel the pain in her voice at being neglected by her own younger siblings whom she hadn't seen or met for nearly a decade and only then she realized how things had been going in the house.
No wonder, Gu Yanyan refused to come out of Water Pavilion and mingle with the other children in the Residence, it's not because she didn't want to but it's because she could feel how others didn't treated her as their real eldest sister.
Realizing sich a blunder, old Madam Gu immediately glared at Madam Yun.
After all as a mother, it was her responsibility to teach her children how to be respectful towards their elders.
She was already old and as she had always been feared and respected, she had long gotten used to the younger generation's submission and had always seen how obedient they are in front of other elders in the Residence too.
And as she herself didn't think Gu Yanyan more than a pawn, she didn't care to warn younger generation to be respectful and polite towards Gu Yanyan when she first returned.
But now when the things were already laid open in front of her and Gu Yanyan had already cried her grievances in front of her as how her younger siblings didn't respect her and treat her as their elder, old Madam Gu couldn't help but vent her anger by glaring at Madam Yun.
Feeling old Madam Gu's glare again at her, Madam didn't how to deal with this little girl.
When old Madam Gu and Gu Tianhao decided to bring that brat back, she thought how stubborn a little girl who had been abandoned by her father and family and had been living in countryside among lowly servants, would be? So, she happily let them bring her back.
But only now Madam Yun felt her mind go crazy. This little girl whom she had been assuming a little dog turns out to be a master b*itch.
Since the first day this girl had entered this Residence, no matter how many jabs she had thrown on her to provoke this little b*itch, she only got defeat in return.
Thinking all this madam Yun took a long breath to calm herself down before putting her signature 'kind and loving mother' smile on her face.
"This child, how can you think of that? Of course your younger siblings treat you as their elder sister and respect you as one." Madam Yun coaxed Gu Yanyan gently while cursing under her breath.
"Oh! Is that so?" Gu Yanyan wiped her remaining tears of her cheeks and asked Madam Yun.
"Yes of course. Why would mother lie to you? And here our Yanran loves you the most and respect you. Right, Yanran?" Madam Yun looked at her daughter and signaled her through her eyes to coaxed this little girl with her sweet nothings and Gu Yanran quickly took up the task.
"Yes, eldest sister. Yanran loves her eldest sister the most and respect her." Gu Yanran looked at Gu Yanyan with her gentle eyes, showing her love and respect for Gu Yanyan.
"Then why didn't third sister greeted me just now when I entered the hall? According to the rules, it should be me who should sit closer to our grandmother because there are no one older than me other than mother who had already been seating close to grandmother, then my I ask why third sister went ahead and took my seat?" Gu Yanyan questioned Gu Yanran one after another while looking at her as if she was looking at the biggest lier in the world.
Gu Yanran was speechless at being called out so suddenly and openly in front of old Madam Gu and for a moment she didn't what to say or what to do.
Only after a while she registered Gu Yanyan's words and realized how stupid she was to give away so big of loophole in front of Gu Yanyan.
She immediately wanted to say it was not like that and she just forgot it for once.
But she would be stupid to think that Gu Yanyan who had be eloquently and cleverly defeating her mother in her verbal battle for so long would suddenly accept her such lousy excuse.
And she was totally right.
Gu Yanyan was really not going to admit her defeat. Because if she did, she would have to seat with those annoying little girls to mingle with them, play and learn with them. And Gu Yanyan was surely not going to waste her time with those annoying flies, so, she had to win this argument at any cost.
And what cost these stupid mother and daughter duo could get from her? A few more sentence from her?