"Where is that lad from the Lin Family?" A voice boomed from behind.
Hearing voice, everyone present looked over there and saw old Madam Gu coming in and housekeeper Jing was supporting her by holding her hand.
"Mother!"
"Mother!"
"Grandmother!"
"Old Madam!"
One after another everyone greeted Old Madam Gu and both Madam Yun and Madam Shen went forward to help Old Madam but Old Madam Gu waved her hand and dodged their support while pressing her gaze at her two good sons.
"You two! Tell me, what happened?" Looking at her sons dark faces and not seeing Lin Chenfeng with them, old Madam Gu already had her answers but she still wanted to ask her sons the reason of this result.
"Mother. That...." Gu Tianhao started, however he didn't know how to put such embarrassing event into words and trailed off.
Seeing this, Gu Tianshui could only grit his teeth and continue his brothers words.
"That lad, Lin Chenfeng, didn't came with us, mother." As Gu Tianshui said this he couldn't help but lower his head in shame and embarrassment as he remembered Lin Chenfeng's mocking words.
"He asked us, why didn't we send reinforcement to find him all these years ago. We were still trying to find some possible excuse when he already boarded his carriage and left us standing at the palace gate looking like two fools." One could trace anger and rage in his voice as he recounted the scene from the palace gate.
Hearing Gu Tianshui say this, all Gu family members were stunned and frozen in their places and some could even feel their all dreams and schemes being shattered like a precious bronze mirror.
"Did you mentioned Gu Yanyan to him? Did you told him, how much Yanyan is missing and is waiting for him to visit her?" Old Madam Gu still had some sane mind as she looked over his sons hoping that they wouldn't have disappointed her, but alas.....
"We were still talking about Gu Yanyan's mother and her love for Lin family and Lin Chenfeng when he suddenly asked that question... we hadn't mentioned Yanyan..." As Gu Tianhao neared the end his voice almost become inaudible. If the room was not that quit that even a falling needle's sound could be heard, others definitely couldn't have heard his mosquito like mumbling.
"Hmph. Moron." Old Madam Gu hmphed and greeted out one word to describe her sons' intelligence.
"Sorry mother." Both masters of Gu family lowered their heads in guilt and shame in front of old Madam Gu as if they were three year old kid and had done something wrong and now they were waiting for old Madam Gu to punish them then give them some solutions for their problems.
"What I'm going to do with your sorry??" Old Madam Gu snorted her sons' and looked at her second daughter-in-law.
"You. " Old Madam Gu called for Madam Yun and she immediately stepped forward.
"Yes mother." With her hands in front of her belly, dressed in cheerful maroon dress Madam Yun greeted Old Madam Gu.
"Go and visit Yanyan. Bring some experience and valuable accessories and fabrics with you as gifts. Girls at her age might like some cheerful colors with petals and flowers as embroidery, bring one of those new dresses that you had made for Yanran on the New Year. I've seen Yanran wearing the other dress, that should still be new, make sure Yanyan like that. And talk nicely with her." Old Madam fired her orders at Madam Yun not caring about the worsening faces of both Mother and daughter duo in front of.
"Why don't you bring Yanran with you too. Both girls are of the same age, I'm sure they could find something that Yanyan would like to do with Yanran." Gu Tianhao suggested in the middle.
Before today he wouldn't have cared to give a damn about that little girl but since the moment he had saw how His Majesty The Emperor's favorability towards Lin Chenfeng and Lin Family and how he had demoted Yun Jingzhou without batting his eyes for a second, Gu Tianhao knew whom to set as his priority.
Thus he looked at Gu Yanran and gave her a look that left no room fir argument and Gu Yanran could only grit her teeth and clenched her fingers in a fist before leaving with her mother to please Gu Yanyan.
"Mom! Do I really have to give away my new dress and my favorite accessories to that damn Gu Yanyan?" Gu Yanran asked gritting her teeth in anger and resentment towards Gu Yanyan for snatching their grandmother and their father's favour from her.
She had been pleasing that old witch and that greedy fool since the day she could remember but today for a little benefit from the Lin Family, they didn't thought for a second about her feelings before forcing her to grovel at the feet of that abandoned girl and please her until she was satisfied.
"Just give her the dress you were wearing at the new year's banquet. Anyway, no one is gonna tell her if that dress was new or second hand. She'll already be very pleased that she could wear such high quality fabrics with such a high quality embroidery on it. Heh" Madam Yun told Gu Yanran her plan and snorted at the thought of that girl being grateful to them for giving her such expensive dress.
"As for accessories.... just give her a few pieces that you are already from wearing. Accessories are just that, Jade, silver, gold. Who cares if it's new or old, right?" Madam Yun looked at Gu Yanran with her gleaming gaze which was filled with evil schemes till the brim.
Yes!
It didn't matter, if it's new or old as long as it's jade or gold. But.... it would start to matter when people would notice tge eldest young miss of Gu family wearing her younger sister's jewellery.
At that time no matter hoe Gu Yanyan would explain, she already would have labelled as a young miss who had worn her younger sister's second hand. And when the time would come, she just have to say..... she didn't mean it. She didn't thought such things would happen. And that.... those piece of jewelleries were elegant and beautiful, Yanran always liked to wear those so she thought Yanyan would also like them. With a few drops of tears and a look of guilt and remorse, who would come to find fault wit her? Tsk