"Aaaahh!!!!" Gu Yanran fell of her seat in a very embarrassing way and scream at the top of her lungs to get the attention of other young ladies.
Hearing her screaming all young ladies looked at her way and seeing her on the ground, all were stunned for a moment before snickering and giggling behind their handkerchiefs before Gu Yanran's nanny mother Liu and maid Xiaolin came forward to help Gu Yanran up and adjusted her clothes.
"Aiya. Third sister what happened to you? How you fell like that?" After snickering and giggling for a while finally Gu Yanjie took the lead to ask about Gu Yanran's fall.
"Yes, Yanran sister. How did you fall?" This time it was Gu Yanwen. Though she also giggled at Gu Yanran but soon she came back to her senses and pretended to be concerned as she asked.
"May be third sister was excited to see our reactions at the gifts she gave to our eldest sister yesterday. Right third sister?" Gu Yanwan chirped excitedly in her childlike voice.
"Umm ye-yeah. I guess I was just a little excited." Gu Yanran said awkwardly as she pretended to adjust her clothes and her hair.
"It's OK third sister. We understand your feelings. It's the first time you've given gifts. It's normal for you to feel excited. You know, when I first had gifted my eldest brother a handmade sachet, I was also quite nervous when he was showing it off to others as I was scared what if others didn't like the design of my sachet or said it was ugly and my eldest brother didn't use that socket anymore." Gu Yanjie said as she reminisced the first she had embroidered a sachet for Gu Shanyan.
"But thankfully, everyone liked the sachet and even praised me for being so skilled and so thoughtful at such a young age." She revealed a goofy smile as if it was not years ago when she had received those praises but just yesterday.
"And I got an reward from eldest brother too for embroidering such a beautiful sachet for him. It was a little bunny shaped lantern that he had made for me by himself." A proud look was plastered all over her face as she said this.
"Oh just stop it second sister. Why are making us all burn in jealousy reminding us that incident." Gu Yanshi showed a fake annoyed expression on her face but all laughed in the end nonetheless except one person.
After pulling and pushing for a while all the young ladies followed Gu Yanyan in her chamber and asked Yang Xumei to take out the gifts from yesterday to show it to her younger sisters.
Under Gu Yanran's panic gaze Gu Yanyan unfolded the first dress.
With the quality of Yun brocade and with the touch of Su embroidery, the dress with little white camellia embroidered at its heam and on the sleeves among the green leaves and green stems of it, made it look like the little clouds flowing in the green fields.
So fresh and so refreshing.
One had to say that choice of fabric and design of embroidery are really top notch.
But too bad.
It ended up I'm Gu Yanyan's evil hands.
Seeing her favorite and most expensive dress in Gu Yanyan's hands, Gu Yanran couldn't but feel a little pinch in her heart.
Yesterday when she and her mother made the plan she didn't thought much of it but seeing today, it made her realise that she shouldn't have been so impulsive while choosing the dress for Gu Yanyan.
"Aah third sister, isn't it the same dress you wore at the chinese new year a month ago?" Gu Yanjie covered her mouth with her silk white handkerchief as she exclaimed in the most dramatic way.
See. This was what she was talking about. Not only she had to give away her most expensive dress now her deeds were also known tk the world.
Gu Yanran cursed her mother's stupidity internally.
"What do you mean second sister?" While Gu Yanran was busy cursing her mother in her heart, Gu Yanyan also came in her character and started her acting.
Looking all innocent and naive little girl, Gu Yanyan looked at Gu Yanjie and then at Gu Yanran with her most confusing and puzzled gaze as if she couldn't understand what was going on.
Her expressions said that she didn't know what was going on and why her dress was similar to the Gu Yanran wore at the chinese new year.
As Gu Yanyan's innocent gaze fell on Gu Yanran, Gu Yanran was already a mess in her head but her expression outside was still as calm as the weather outside.
Bright and warm.
Gu Yanran smiled and stepped forward. Taking the dress in her hand Gu Yanran turned to Gu Yanjie.
"Second elder sister are forgetting that this year mother had made two dresses from the same brocade? This is one of those two dresse. Don't say things without thinking. What if eldest sister misunderstood me thinking that I've given her my second hand clothes?" Gu Yanran said in her gentle and soft tone with a and harmless warm smile on her lips but didn't hesitated to throw a warning glare towards Gu Yanjie and other young ladies in the end.
Even though Gu Yanjie and others knew it was just a excuse made up by Gu Yanran because the other dress Gu Yanran was talking about was made up of the same brocade but the embroidery design on that was not that of white camellia instead it was adorned with purple and white water lilies because water lilies are related to Buddhism so to impress old Madam Gu, Madam Yun had made one with the pattern of water lilies, no one had the courage to go against Gu Yanran and tell Gu Yanyan the truth.
The reason behind their silence was simple; no one wanted to be one on the radar.