“Oh yeah, later on, Hongyu, you should come to my room. I’ll give that hairpin to you. It’ll surely look good on you.”
“Then I really thank you. I won’t be modest with you.”
Hearing Luo Qing Luan and that woman from the brothel conversing smilingly, appearing both happy and intimate. Wang Xue Ru, who had already been waiting until her buttocks became numb, felt her lungs nearly blow up in rage. But she simply couldn’t express anything. As before, she appeared nonchalant. Slowly, she put down the teacup. A smile was even plastered on her face.
Only after she entered did Luo Qing Luan seemed as if she just saw Wang Xue Ru and said with a smile, “Oh, is Father’s Concubine drinking tea? Just now, I coincidentally ran into Hongyu. They said that they wanted to come pay their respects to you. I was thinking that I haven’t seen you for several days, so I followed them.”
Without waiting for Wang Xue Ru to say anything, Luo Qing Luan sat down as if just minding her own business.
An attitude like that was exactly as if Graceful Orchids Courtyard belonged to her. Watching this, Wang Xue Ru hated to the point her heart burned.
Were it not for consideration of Luo Qing Luan’s status, which reminded her to not offend at all times, she would’ve taught Luo Qing Luan a lesson early on. Wang Xue Ru could only swallow this anger as she turned her gun around and pointed it at the three young women standing before her. These were the opponents who she currently wanted to slap in the face.
“Greetings, Elder Sister, Hongyu wishes Elder Sister good health.” As she was thinking, to the front, a gentle and beautiful voice sounded. Hearing it, Wang Xue Ru’s eyelids trembled.
With a sweep of her eyes, she sized Hongyu up indifferently from head to toe.
Dressed in a light apricot color embroidered top which set off her pleated light purple skirt underneath, her thick hair was like silk, with a pair of round eyes which contained quite a few expressions. Her eyes were slightly lowered, as if she was being very respectful, while not looking at her at all. But once she saw Hongyu’s somewhat slightly swollen lips, an obscure fire flared up.
Last night, she and the Master on her bed were……this damn vixen, deserving of someone coming from a brothel. She surprisingly seduced the Master to do this to her. He actually practically bit her lips swollen. Moreover, this vixen even caused her to see it openly. Wasn’t she deliberately showing off?
Wang Xue Ru had already been together with Luo Cheng for twenty years. Although ordinarily, Luo Cheng could be said to treat her pretty well, in the end, their relationship was no longer new like before. Even the frequency with which they did those things became less and less. She even thought that it was because Luo Cheng was getting along in years and no longer had these desires. Who could have imagined? Seeing Hongyu now, she was both jealous and envious in anger.
Not saying a word, Wang Xue Ru looked indifferently at Hongyu curtsying with half bended knees. After that, her gaze turned towards the two women behind her.
Once they saw her gaze sweeping over them, the two women also saluted in a neither servile nor overbearing manner. They said softly, “Greetings Elder Sister, wishing Elder Sister good health.”
Wang Xue Ru knew that these two women were also arranged by Luo Qing Luan to come. One was named Zhangzhi, the other was named Songzhi. As for where they came from, she wasn’t clear about.
Zhangshi and Songshi’s appearances could be considered pretty, but were merely like the majority of young women. When it came to looks, at most, they were only half as good as Hongyu. However, although Wang Xue Ru did not know them, she could still faintly sense that this Zhangshi and Songzhi had an imposing manner about them, as if they did not come from small, irrelevant families. But she wanted to carefully observe. These two women only half lowered their heads and waited. She could not perceive any characteristics from them at all.
Since she couldn’t tell, Wang Xue Ru took it as her being overly sensitive and didn’t say anything in reply. She even ignored Hongyu, who had paid her respects previously then coughed while saying indifferently, “Recently, the weather turned cold. Dujuan, later on, tell the kitchen to make some nourishing soups. It’s better if it’s sleek.”
Dujuan immediately replied, “Yes, Side Madam. You usually like to drinking bird’s nest with white fungus soup, is that alright?”
“En. Let’s have that, it’s acceptable. Remember to remind them to use the best blood swallow, the best blood swallow from Nine Treasures store.”
Mistress and servant conversed slowly, without looking at the three women still standing with bended knees before them.
Wang Xue Ru glanced at the three of them, and remained silent as before. Instead, she looked at Luo Qing Luan, “Oh yeah, Qing Luan, yesterday, your Elder Sister sent someone to invite me……”
She hadn’t finished speaking when Luo Qing Luan already broke her off. She seemed to also have just thought of something, saying with a smile, “Sigh, Hongyu, stop standing there so rigidly. Father’s Concubine and I are having a conversation. You should sit, too. Also Zhangzhi, Songshi, you guys can also stop standing already. The General’s Mansion really doesn’t have as many rules as the place you resided formerly. Sit.”
Hearing this Wang Xue Ru’s gaze constricted and saw that Hongyu indeed stood up. She even pat her knees appearing not worried in the least. After that, she walked to Luo Qing Luan’s side and sat down. Whereas Zhangzhi and Songzhi was even more respectful as they spoke to Luo Qing Luan, “Yes, thank you Miss Luo.”
Unexpectedly, they didn’t attach any importance to a side madam like her? Instead listening to Luo Qing Luan? Seeing Zhangzhi and Songzhi walk and stand behind Luo Qing Luan, in a docile manner, as if Luo Qing Luan was actually the lady in charge here, simply not placing her in their eyes. They claim to have come to pay respects to her, but they’re simply just……
“Even though the discipline in General’s Mansion can not compare to that of some families, it’s still not as if this place has no discipline.” Wang Xue Ru really couldn’t stand it anymore. She coldly adopted the attitude of a mistress of the house. “Did I tell the three of you to sit down? You’re merely three minor concubines so you unavoidably don’t know too much about acceptable behaviors.”
She even thought that once the words left her mouth, Hongyu and the others would all be scared. Unexpectedly, only Hongyu smiled a bit before responding, “Elder Sister, it’s like this. Actually, early this morning, when Master left, he told me that I don’t need to go to pay my respects to you today. He took pity on me for my tiredness last night and allowed me to rest well. Since Elder Sister said that I need to be well-behaved, then tonight I’d better ask Master again.”