Chapter 32)
"Hmph. So what if I wasn't sent by my young miss to ask for your well being? It didn't prove that I was only here to spy on you. I.. I was just passing by.. yes. Just passing by from here." Mother Liu made another poor excuse and even she, herself knew it was so poor that she couldn't help but stammer before finishing it.
"You were just passing by?" Yang Yuri again chuckled at her poor excuse.
Seeing how these lowly maids were not letting her off and were even questioning her, mother Liu couldn't help but flew into rage and her eyes went red.
"Yes. I was just passing by. So, now step aside and let me go. My young miss is waiting for me. If were to be late, you all be prepared for the consequences." Mother Liu was more determine this time and didn't forget to drag Gu Yanran in her threat to intimidate Gu Yanyan and her servants.
How could Gu Yanyan not hear the blatant threat in mother Liu's words.
"Hmph." Gu Yanyan put her hand on Yang Yuri's shoulder and make her step aside but before mother Liu could be happy for intimidating Gu Yanyan, Gu Yanyan, herself stepped forward and stood in front of mother Liu.
She raised her hand slapped mother Liu's right cheek, making her face look symmetrical now.
Pleased with her creation, Gu Yanyan finally revealed a smile of satisfaction.
She so much wanted to do this to that mother and daughter pair in the An Shui hall just a while back but since time was not right and she couldn't do it to them, then why not to Mother Liu who had delivered herself to her door step on her own.
Seeing the symmetrical marks on mother Liu's both cheeks, all the servants present there, giggled among themselves without any fear of mother Liu's wrath.
Since their miss herself had taken action then there was no need for them to feel restrained or scared of a mere nanny.
"You you-" enraged with the laughter around her, mother Liu pointed her finger towards Gu Yanyan but didn't know what to say next.
"What me?" With her one brow raised, Gu Yanyan pressed mother Liu with her dark and cold gaze.
Too scared to speak, mother Liu pushed one of the maid beside her and fled the scene with her tail between her legs. So embarrassing.
Other servants also laughed at her embarrassing run.
"But miss, what if third miss complained to Old Madam about you raising your hand on her personal nanny?" Ever so diligent, Yang Xumei could still be concerned about the consequences of Gu Yanyan's a moment of action.
"It's OK Xumei, Gu Yanran won't be that stupid to go crying and complaining in front of old Madam after how I performed in front of old Madam just a while ago." Gu Yanyan chuckled and patted Yang Xumei on her shoulder.
"And what you all are looking at? Drama had already finished, go, do your own works." Gu Yanyan looked at the crowd of servants around her who were still giggling and talking about the little play that played a while ago.
"Yes miss." Everyone replied in unison and went to their works.
Meanwhile in Jade courtyard..
"Miss, please, do justice with this slave." What Yang Xumei was concerned about, mother Liu was doing the same.
"Look.. look how that eldest young miss had done with my face. First she let a lowly maid slap and when I told her that she should be afraid of consequences for making me late to return by your side, she become furious and slapped my other cheek too. Miss, she didn't even care about your face while slapping your personal nanny." Mother Liu was crying on the cold floor very pitifuly looking miserable with tears all over her wrinkled face.
Gu Yanran was becoming more and more annoyed hearing mother Liu's crying like a little kid who had been bullied outside.
Irritated and frustrated, Gu Yanran so much wanted to scream at Mother Liu to stop but she knew, mother Liu was one useful pawn that her mother had put by her side.
Thinking this, Gu Yanran took a deep breath and calmed her frustrated mind, putting a conflicted and pitiful look on her own face she went forward and lifted mother Liu up from the cold floor by holding her hands.
"Please, don't kneel in the cold floor nanny Liu, you know I don't like to see you kneeling in front of me. You have raised me since I was young and you are a mother figure to me. How can you kneel in front of me?" Gu Yanran said in her gentle and soft voice with glossy eyes as if mother Liu didn't get up from the floor immediately, she would cry a river in heartache.
"I know miss, you have always treated me like your elder but the way eldest young miss treated me today, made me realize that in the end I am just a slave who can be scolded and beaten by her masters at any time. But miss, even if I'm slave, Madam have given me to you and you are my only master. Others don't have any rights to discipline your slaves miss. Miss, I can't stand how eldest miss is crossing her boundaries and teaching your people. Miss, you have to stand up for your slave even if it's just for your face." With the way Mother Liu twisted her words it showed how she hadn't wasted all her life in the backyard of this aristocratic families for nothing.
Indeed.
Just as Gu Yanran heard how Gu Yanyan had crossed her boundaries and had punished her, Gu Yanran's people without behind her back, Gu Yanran was filled with rage.
Her eyes which were filled with tears a while ago had turned red with fury.
She gnashed her teeth and twisted her handkerchief until it almost turned into shreds.
"That little bitch-"