"Ah fifth sister Yanwen also came to play with eldest sister Yanyan?" Fourth young miss of the Gu family and first master Gu Tianshui's third daughter Gu Yanshi asked in her gentle tone while her eyes filled with obvious mockery for at the sight of Gu Yanwen.
Gu Yanshi never liked Gu Yanwen for acting like a little flatterer front of Madam Yun and a free side kick for Gu Yanran. She even felt disgusted by Gu Yanwen and always had a look of disdain whenever she would look at her.
While Gu Yanwen also had the same hate for Gu Yanshi who always like to act as a noble and elegant young lady of an aristocratic family when they both knew what status they held in the eyes of those legitimate young ladies of other aristocratic family.
For trying to act like a true young lady of the Gu family, Madam Shen had always punished Gu Yanshi by restraining her from attending high end banquets and parties at other aristocratic family's Residence.
But this Gu Yanshi had never learnt her lessons and like to make the same mistake whenever she would get another chance to improve herself.
At least, she, Gu Yanwen was better than her, Gu Yanshi in this aspect. At least she knows her place and by performing good in front of Madam Yun and second sister Gu Yanran she had attended various high end banquets and parties at the other aristocratic and noble family's Residence and one time she could even attend at Duke of Wu's mansion and she was sure after today's performance she could definitely get permission from Madam Yun to attend the banquet that was to be held at Duke Zhanglie's house.
Thinking this Gu Yanwen smiled to herself and then turned to look at Gu Yanshi with her chin held high.
"Why? Does fourth sister Yanshi not want me to be present here?" Gu Yanwen raised her brows as she asked.
"Of course not. Why would I won't want you to be here? It's just that we all have seen how you were dissatisfied with eldest sister when she first returned a month ago. So, I thought you wouldn't want to accept her invitation and come to Water Pavilion to play with her, right sixth sister?" Gu Yanshi turned Gu Yanwan who was only a month younger than Gu Yanwen and had strong competitive sense towards Gu Yanwen.
"Yes fourth sister Yanshi. You are totally right." Gu Yanwan chirped in in her child like voice.
Seeing both sisters from first family singing their own tune one after another, Gu Yanwen snorted coldly before walking away from there.
Yang Xumei had made arrangements to welcome the young ladies and then invited them to the gazebo made beside the lotus pond.
The lotus had still to bloom but the lotus leaves had already covered the surface of the pond and the transplanted chinese peonies and wild orchids were in full bloom making the garden look colourful and air smell fragrant.
Under the shadow of gazebo, all the sisters took their seats and lifted their tea cups to sip enjoy their tea.
It was the longjing tea which was plucked in ming qian (first picking session) and was considered premium longjing tea. It was delivered at the manor from Hangzhou city from Zhejiang province just a weak before and was sent to Gu Residence just three days ago.
Gu Yanyan had thought to gift this premium tea to her cousin but.....
It's good to let these little girls have a taste of premium tea once in a while.
"Eldest sister Yanyan your courtyard looks really beautiful." Gu Yanran said as she pretended to look around and Gu Yanjie immediately added after her "It's fragrant too."
See, the entertainment is on....
As they both one after another, they exchanged their gazes and then coldly snorted in disdain and looked away.
"It's just a few flowers nothing much. While doesn't have a few variety of flowers blooming in their yards in the mid of spring. And om the top of that, it's just common chinese peony and some orchids. It's not like our third sister Yanran's pink and white cherry blossom or white magnolia blossoms. Hmph. It's not even the plum blossoms that sister Yanran uses to make plum tea for our grandmother. If I really want to admire fragrant and colourful blossoms, I would rather go to third sister Yanran's Jade courtyard to admire them, I hope third sister Yanran won't forbid me at that time." Gu Yanwen pouted as she made a cute but pitiful face at Gu Yanran after showing her enough disdain towards Gu Yanyan's flowers.
While Gu Yanwen busy singing her tune and trying to suck up to Gu Yanran, Gu Yanran herself was stunned and frozen at Gu Yanwen's bluntness.
Even though Gu Yanran was a little happy and smug from inside that at least there was that fool Gu Yanwen who was ready to take one notch down Gu Yanyan but it was not the time to offend her and make her happy with such petty tricks.
If her father knew that Gu Yanwen made Gu Yanyan unhappy while trying to suck up to her, Gu Yanran knew it won't end in her favour.
Instead, it would made her look like that she was the one who instigated Gu Yanwen to disrespect Gu Yanyan and flatter her in front of her on purpose because she wanted to show Gu Yanyan her real place in the Residence.
Everyone knew that since young after Gu Yanyan left the Gu residence, Gu Yanran had always taken pride being the only eldest daughter of her father in the Residence and sometimes she would even disrespect Gu Yanjie as the second young Miss of the Gu family since they were only a week apart.
As the little sidekick of Gu Yanran, Gu Yanwen had also sworn many time that the only elder sister she recognize in the second household is Gu Yanran and not some abandoned eldest young miss of the Gu family.