"Heh" Gu Yanyan chuckled at Mother Liu's 'hardwork' and went towards her to give some assistant whith Yang Xumei and another maid, Yang Yuri.
Basically, all maids Gu Yanyan had, had the same surname as Yang Xumei which implied that they were her subordinate and their task was to assist and serve Gu Yanyan as their master along with Yang Xumei.
Meanwhile Mother Liu was on her tip toe to peek inside the Water Pavilion through the cracks of wooden door when she suddenly felt a tap on her left shoulder.
Busy peeking inside through the door Mother Liu slapped the hand that was disturbing her from 'task'.
But she didn't expect that the insolent person would be so audacious that thus time he not only disturbed her but instead of tapping, directly slapped her back.
Mother Liu could swear, that slap was so bad that she almost hit her head in the door of Water Pavilion.
Soothing her left shoulder with her right hand, mother Li turned towards the 'audacious' person, all filled with rage and fury.
One had to know, since the day, mother Liu was promoted as the nanny of the third young miss, Gu Yanran, no one had been so disrespectful towards her other than mistresses of the house and their personal nanny's and maids.
Even the concubine's of the master and their young misses had to show some respect when they saw mother Liu but here in front of Water Pavilion, she was so disrespectfully slapped on her shoulder, how could she take it lying down.
Greeting her teeth mother Liu turned and without seeing the person's face, just by judging from their appearance she could recognized them as the one of the servants from Water Pavilion, as their dress code was different from the dress code of the rest of the servants of the Gu residence.
Mother Liu raised her hand to slap the maid in front of her without thinking about the consequences.
"Pah"
But just before her hand made a contact with the maid's left cheek, mother Liu felt her own left cheek stinging with pain.
Her eyes widened and body stiff, mother Liu didn't know where to put her hand; whether to let her hand fall on latter's cheeks or sooth her own cheeks.
But as soon as she made eye contact with the little girl behind the maid, mother Liu was stunned at her place before taking a step back.
As she stumbled back, she hit her back to the wooden door of Water Pavilion, mother Liu didn't if it was intentional or unintentional but just as her back touched the wooden door as she had anticipated the support of the wooden door, it didn't came instead the door behind her opened and Mother Liu's fall came.
It was really an embarrassing sight.
A middle aged woman, laid in the ground, her all four limbs stretched in the four directions and her face in a very embarrassing shape.
Tsk tsk
Who had seen mother Liu in such a embarrassing state in past decade or so?
Here, in front of these lowly servants of a lowly eldest young miss, falling on the ground, mother Liu had lost all her face, she had accumulated in all her life.
"Aaaah!" After getting her butt hit the ground, mother Liu let out a loud screeching sound.
Only mother Liu would know, if that scream came because of pain she felt when she hit her butt on the ground or because she felt embarrassed after finding herself in such situation.
Anyway, the servants in the Water Pavilion took their sweet time to enjoy the scenery before one of the kind maid servant went forward to help mother Liu up from the ground.
After getting her butt hit the ground one time, mother Liu was less resistant towards the lowly maid of the lowly eldest young miss and let the maid servant help her up.
After getting up, mother Liu held her waist and albeit reluctant but still bowed down to greet the lowly eldest young miss in front of her with very difficulty, she still hadn't forget how this eldest miss had accused her for not respecting the eldest daughter of the house and slandered her for imposing herself as the master of the house.
"Hmm." Holding back her giggle, Gu Yanyan nodded at Mother Liu before pointing her chin towards the Water Pavilion's gate she asked, "May I ask, what mother Liu was doing sneaking around my courtyard and trying to peek through the gate of my Water Pavilion?"
After being discovered, mother Liu was panicked at first but after all these ordeal, she had manage to calm herself down.
Straightening her back she took a breath and cleared her throat.
"That... my young miss was worried about you... so.. she asked me to come and ask to you... if you need something." No matter how arrogant mother Liu was, in front of Gu Yanyan, she for some reason felt guilty when lying and darted her gaze around and didn't dare to meet her gaze as she was used to with the other illegitimate misses in the Residence.
Hearing mother Liu's poor excuse, not only Gu Yanyan even the maids beside her chuckled.
"But your third young miss herself met my young miss An Shui hall but forget about asking for my miss' wellbeing, she didn't even greet her. Are you sure, your third young miss really sent you to look for young miss and to spy on my young miss?" Yang Yuri, who had slapped mother Liu to ground just a moment ago asked with chuckle. Her eyes filled with ridicule for mother Liu's poor excuse and ever poorer acting.
Feeling the mocking gazes on her from all around, mother Liu's face was flushed red in embarrassment and instantly she flew into rage.
She narrowed her shrewd eyes at Gu Yanyan.
Feeling such poisonous gaze on herself, for a moment Gu Yanyan felt her hairs stand on it's end but after hearing mother Liu's next words, Gu Yanyan couldn't help but chuckle.