Chapter 117 Part 1 The Grand Wedding (Part I) : Xiangfu under Investigation(2/2)
Admittedly, Hua yiniang's words of compliment, would naturally be what the old madam loved to hear the most.
Particularly when Hua yiniang had pointed out that the old madam would be the one in charge of the entire household in the future, and that of Yun Qian Meng being merely just a daughter to be married off. The spilt water, even if she was going to enter Chu xiangfu in the future, she would no longer be associated with Yun xiangfu, her chosen fate would no longer get involved with Yun xiangfu.
Merely thinking of this, it made the old madam exposed a smile in her eyes, feeling Hua yiniang looked more and more pleasing to her eyes, also thinking that this Hua yiniang was truly considerate and thoughtful, then she fixed her gaze at Hua yiniang alone, smiled and said, “I shall take Hua yiniang's lucky words. Now that these housekeeping matters, I wouldn't have the heart to think about them anymore. As long as the two brothers, Yi Heng and Yi Jie, would stand out among their peers, even if I die now, I shall close my eyes in death and die contentedly. Or else living in this world, I will be just an old lady being ignored by other people, indeed I'm being useless. I simply couldn't compare with our da xiaojie, not only attaining the father's love, even in the future she would be greatly cherished by her future husband, look at things that were being delivered by Chu Xiang and Chu Wang to our Yun xiangfu, those were genuinely precious things, no wonder the da xiaojie had treasured them and kept them away!”
Seemingly envious words, yet they were full of deeper meaning, which had caused Hua yiniang and all the others to feel that Yun Qian Meng was truly a stingy person. She had just recently received those precious things, then impatiently keeping them away, for the fear that other people might snatch them away from her.
Consequently, speaking this way it made the few other people to be even more envious of Yun Qian Meng.
Their ages were not that old, just merely a few years older than Yun Qian Meng', but Yun Qian Meng was indeed the da xiaojie of xiangfu. While they could only blame their low birth, thus having no other choices but to be sold by their parents to xiangfu as slaves and servants. Even though now they attained their positions as yiniang, but in front of these honorable masters they were still slaves after all, as a result they would always admire Yun Qian Meng.
But with these words from the old madam today, the admiration in their hearts gradually turned into jealousy, regretting themselves for not being born from aristocratic families, wishing they would be able to seek the best man in Western Chu as their husbands. Henceforth they would be able to enjoy high position and great wealth.
Thinking of themselves being able to get married with Yun Xuan Zhi who was still courteous and smart, but as compared to Chu Fei Yang who had gradually ascended up like the rising sun, a few of them were becoming utterly upset in their hearts. Those smiling expression in their eyes glinted with an expression of one unwilling to be reconciled to their fate.
The old madam caught sight of the drastic changes on the faces of the few people, her heart was secretly delighted. These few people were just yiniang of Yun Xuan Zhi, even if they did not have the ability to cause any harmful effects in front of Yun Qian Meng, but being able to see Yun Qian Meng's problematic face, the old madam still felt pleased.
While during this time, Rui Mama took quick steps as she stepped inside from the outer room, after which she approached beside the old madam, bending her waist as she whispered a few statements beside her ears, seeing the old madam looked a bit helpless, she immediately smiled and spoke, “I am too old, I'm feeling a bit drowsy, you have already accompanied me for almost half of the day, perhaps it's too boring. I wouldn't make you all stay, you may now go home early to take some rest.”
The activities inside Qiu Bi Ju was quite huge, how could Hua yiniang and the others not heard those nosy sounds coming out of it. This time seeing the old madam speaking like this, it sounded like an excuse, then one by one they smiled and stood up simultanuously, took their bows facing the old madam, after which they in turn retreated out of Bai Shun Tang.
“This girl doesn't have the patience! If she had even just half of Yun Qian Meng's courage, then Yun Qian Meng wouldn't be the one who will marry into Chu xiangfu now!” Seeing all the people retreated out from her own room, the old madam's face suddenly went gloomy, her hand with hanging Buddha beads violently beaten the desktop, she immediately stood up, leading Rui Mama as they walked towards the direction of Qiu Bi Ju.
At this time there were no spaces left for someone to set their feet on. Yun Yi Yi had already smashed off all the breakable things inside, and she still could not feel any slightest bit of satisfaction, those dusty embroidered shoes violently kicked the hollow carved mahogany stool.
“You silly girl, until when will you stop throwing tantrum? What kind of matter seemed unsatisfactory to you? For going so far as to use these things inside the room to quench your anger?” Seeing the floor full of shattered pieces of porcelains, the old madam was faintly hurting inside her heart, it was already too late for her to give these things to her youngest son, everything were already destroyed by this useless granddaughter, how could it not make her feel such pain?
Facing the old madam's interrogation, Yun Yi Yi did not even show any expression of fear in her face, without consulting anyone she sat down with an angry look in her face, pointing at the direction of Qi Luo Yuan she angrily exclaimed, “Grandma, why would we live our lives with Yun Qian Meng bothering us? Her surname is Yun, am I not also Yun? Now that even a small yiniang bullying us around! Grandma, how can you tolerate such manner? They had joined hands together and blocked off our guests who came to congratulate us outside of the door, were they deliberately not allowing us to get in touch with the influential officials, weren't they afraid that I might fight over their limelight?”
Seeing Yun Yi Yi's infuriated look, the old madam who had calmed down at this moment, pulling along Yun Yi Yi's small hands as she slowly comforted, “You are too honest, lass. With such temper like yours, they might take us as a laughing stock now. Even if they wanted to bully us, they only had a few days left to do that! Wait until your brother becomes this year's top scholar, at most we could move out of xiangfu, and follow behind your older brother as we enter the Imperial Top Scorer fu. When that time comes whoever you wanted to meet, it will be up to you, right? There's no need to annoy this little hoof Yun Qian Meng for the time being, especially now that her status is completely different, even your uncle has to tolerate her behavior like that, there's no need for you to provoke her, what if it contradicting your older brother, would it not mean that you will forever be under her control? Why don't you endure for the time being, then slowly take your revenge on Yun Qian Meng in the future! Besides, those who came today were just low-rank officials, there's no need to take them into great consideration, and flattened down our own status!”
Hearing the last statement from the old madam, the anger in Yun Yi Yi's heart had slowly dissipated away, unlike her conflicting mind a while ago.
Looking at the situation, Rui Mama immediately filled up the teacup with a slightly cold tea and gave it to Yun Yi Yi, enabling her to reduce and eliminate her fury.
After Hua yiniang and the others left Bai Shun Tang, they did not directly return to their respective courtyards, instead under the encouragement of Hua yiniang, a few of them even arrived at Qi Luo Yuan asking an audience with Yun Qian Meng.
But, during the moment when Hua yiniang and her people had stepped inside of Bai Shun Tang, Liu Han Yu then had assigned people to come to Qi Luo Yuan and report to Yun Qian Meng. As a result, before Hua yiniang and her people could not even take a step inside the gates of Qi Luo Yuan, they were already being blocked off by Mi Mama and her people.
Although a group of people still harbored anger in their hearts, yet they would not dare to behave rudely in front of Mi Mama, they could only leave Qi Luo Yuan in a crestfallen manner.
“Xiaojie, that Hua yiniang is becoming more and more presumptuous!” Mu Chun and others were accompanying Yun Qian Meng as they stood in the attic, witnessing every details of the incident with their own eyes.
No matter how hard Hua yiniang tried to behave respectfully in front of Mi Mama, but the expression she had when she was leading a few yiniangs as they stammered inside Qi Luo Yuan, was already being clearly seen by the few people in the attic.
“She was actually harboring evil thoughts! But, the person inside Bai Shun Tang was actually the one fanning the flames! Or else based on Hua yiniang's courage, she wouldn't dare to take the risk of trying to break inside Qi Luo Yuan!” The moment when Hua yiniang stepped inside of Bai Shun Tang, she became the main target of the old madam, as long as she could make her feel ugly and uncomfortable, even for the powerless person, the old madam wouldn't simply let her off.
And besides, Hua yiniang was Yun Xuan Zhi's concubine, so the old madam would naturally want to see Yun Xuan Zhi's rear courtyard to set into flames.
But, whether it was the old madam's little trick or Hua yiniang's little thoughts, it was all the same in Yun Qian Meng's eyes.
What made her feel worried right now was actually two additional things; the first one was, whether or not Chu Fei Yang had successfully discovered the treatment for the smallpox; and the other one was, the currently strange and unpredictable imperial examinations.