Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 179 - 12: Arrogant After Success (Third Update)

Not to mention the "turmoil and changes" during the meal, after eating, Susu sighed and prepared for Yun Duo and Ming Xiang to each give Nanny Liu and Nanny Qi a large red gold woven pocket, with a gold ingot inside, saying, "Please forgive me, nanny."

Nanny Liu and Nanny Qi kept refusing, Nanny Qi said, "We came here under the Old Madam’s order to fetch you, making a fuss in front of you was wrong of us, how can we accept such a generous reward from you?"

Nanny Liu, aware of Susu’s loyalty to the Old Madam, hesitated for a moment and said, "It’s not that I’m being talkative, but if you return to the manor, perhaps you could mention to the Old Madam, ever since you left, she has to look after the Heir’s wife’s health and the young misses, the staff in Sui’an Hall are forming cliques, which is quite inappropriate. Nanny Qin is getting on in years, also not in the best of health, she’s less involved in management now. Even Ning Xiang and Yun Tong, being so young, have been marginalized a few times."

Upon hearing this, Susu looked at the two nannies in disbelief. The Old Madam’s birthday was on the first of August, she left on the second, today was the fourteenth, counting fully she had only been gone for twelve days, and already Sui’an Hall was having issues with ’forming cliques’? Even Ning Xiang and Yun Tong were bullied?

Nanny Liu and Nanny Qi looked at Susu’s star-like eyes, and also sighed slightly in their hearts, not everyone has the composure of their master here, some people, as mentioned before, "a dog’s stomach can’t hold two taels of sesame oil," upon gaining high position, without any restraint from above, it’s inevitable they become conceited.

Although Susu was a little displeased with Yun Duo earlier, since she left the manor, it wasn’t convenient to meddle in affairs of Sui’an Hall, but if it was truly as the two nannies said, she couldn’t ignore it. She didn’t care about how the servants behaved, but if it tarnished the Old Madam’s reputation, Susu wouldn’t mind showing her means, and even if it required making an example, she would not let Sui’an Hall become chaotic and corrupt.

Thinking of this, Susu changed her clothes, had the gifts prepared for the manor’s masters and essentials for Yang Liu and others loaded onto the carriage, then boarded with four maids.

Yun Duo and Ming Xiang initially wanted Susu to ride in the same carriage as them, but had to give up upon seeing this, Nanny Liu, unable to hold her anger, relying on being a native-born servant, an old hand in Sui’an Hall, while walking towards the black painted carriage behind, muttered in a voice neither too loud nor too soft, just enough for Yun Duo and Ming Xiang to hear.

"Still thinking of riding with Miss Su? Such audacity! She’s someone whom the Old Madam ordered to be regarded as a close relative, a proper master, do you even realize your status in comparison, with Mei Xiang sworn in as siblings, you’re all slaves, who do you think you are looking down on?"

Hearing this, Yun Duo and Ming Xiang were momentarily stunned, Ming Xiang glanced at Yun Duo who was biting her lip, secretly amused, not expecting even people like Yang Liu and Susu to misjudge sometimes! Did they think everyone could be like Susu? Becoming a top maid at such a young age? This one in front didn’t even respect Bisi now, who had the effort of getting Nanny Qin to back her up.

Yun Duo, secretly biting her lip, which was her habitual action when nervous. Nanny Liu was giving her a piece of her mind because of what happened at the banquet. Yun Duo was naturally angry, but more so afraid, she was too unsettled now, even Nanny Liu could see through her mood, not to mention Susu.

If she returned to the manor and said something to the Old Madam, considering how much the Old Madam favored Susu, if she fell out of favor, even her adoptive mother wouldn’t speak for her, as she and Nanny Qin were only like mother and daughter midway through, now her real mother was summoned, although publicly claimed as an aunt. Ever since Susu left, she had slacked off, not as attentive to her adoptive mother as before.

Even with Nanny Qin’s wisdom, fearing she’d notice something and scheme against her. No, she needed to come up with a plan, Susu loves to appear sympathetic and protective, why not seize a moment upon return to cry and plead to her when no one is around?

Leaving aside Yun Duo’s scheming thoughts, Susu sat inside the carriage, thinking of the Old Madam, thinking of the young ladies, before she left, the Second and Third Young Masters were already engaged, they were just waiting for the Heir’s wife to give birth and complete the Postpartum Confinement to hold weddings.

The Third Miss’s wedding was set for next January, Fourth Miss was to enter the palace for selection next spring, her future was already determined. Weddings were aplenty in the manor, but it was exhausting the Old Madam, even if the Heir’s wife helped, she was still young.