Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 185 - 14: Cause and Effect

"It’s nothing special, just take it and wear it. If anything happens in the future, just look for these younger sisters of yours. Though they are a bit younger than you, they are remembered by the Old Madam, and their fathers and mothers are useful in the house. They’re not to be pushed around by just anyone!"

Susu said this lightly, but Ning Xiang and Yun Tong knew that Sister Susu was truly angry. Just look at those four pastries on the table, and she even instructed the small kitchen to specially make them?

It’s obvious that for Susu to want a pastry, she wouldn’t need Yun Duo to "instruct" anything. How could a maid like her have the gall to "instruct" the small kitchen?

Even when Susu and the four major maids like Yang Liu were still in the house, they never went to the small kitchen to order dishes or request pastries. If they really wanted something not in the ration, they would send someone with silver to negotiate properly.

Now Yun Duo was using a small maid to offend Susu and warn them, almost courting death! Did she think that with Nanny Qin backing her, she had nothing to fear? Did she forget who raised her up?

Susu asked Ling’er to leave, looking at the angry faces of Ning Xiang and the others, she sighed and said, "You are still too young. Even if you were three years older, you wouldn’t let people act like this. But on the other hand, if you were three years older, there wouldn’t be a place for her in this courtyard!"

Susu felt helpless, after all, they had misjudged, "Forget it, tell me, how did things become like this in just a few days?"

Chun Feng has always been in the Capital, Wu Tong was bought from outside, Ning Xiang joined the house less than two years ago, and it was Qing Zhu, who was young yet had been in service for three years, who explained to Susu.

"Yun Duo was bought from outside. She became a major maid at twelve, surpassing many others, and even worshiped Nanny Qin as her godmother. If she had the same looks and talents as you, it would be fine. But she caught Sister Bisi’s attention because she was honest, thus receiving Sister Bisi’s promotion, and in turn caught your attention. Privately, many people are naturally unconvinced."

Qing Zhu herself felt that Yun Duo was just that. Sister Bisi thought she was honest and upright, but there are many honest and upright people, so why did she catch Sister Bisi’s eye?

Perhaps, this one seems honest on the surface but hides cunning inside.

Sure enough, a little bit of flattery and she reveals her true nature.

However, Qing Zhu wouldn’t say this. Susu, Yang Liu, and the other sisters seem to have misjudged her, and admittedly, Yun Duo has her skills.

Qing Zhu sighed and continued, "Previously, with Sister Yang Liu and you holding the fort, even if there were some small disagreements, nobody dared to make a scene. But now with you gone, among the servants of Sui’an Hall, apart from Nanny Qin, it’s just the four major maids. Whoever receives some reward or praise from the Old Madam, they fight like chickens with an evil eye."

Chun Feng could not help but say, "Yun Duo has Nanny Qin’s support, becoming increasingly arrogant, but the four sisters of the Ming generation aren’t to be trifled with. They were born and raised here, causing Yun Duo to suffer several hidden losses. Even the Old Madam commented that Yun Duo seemed clumsy."

Ever since that incident with the gossip, the Old Madam asked Nanny Qin to guide Third Miss. She’s been busy and naturally has no time to deal with these little servants’ petty thoughts, especially since it hasn’t reached the ears of the masters.

Who would have expected Yun Duo to try to form an alliance, even aiming her schemes at Ning Xiang and Yun Tong? But the two manage the Old Madam’s small storeroom and only ever took orders from the Old Madam and Susu before. Now that Susu has left the house, they naturally only listen to the Old Madam, and couldn’t care less about her plots.

Yun Duo isn’t broad-minded. She used to be jealous of Susu, and now with others inciting her, she has set traps for Ning Xiang and Yun Tong several times.

Though the two learned from Susu for a year or two, they don’t have Susu’s reputation. They’ve suffered a few losses but have grown wiser for it.

Susu looked at the two young girls, who were still smiling when she left, now thin from worry within days. While angry at their folly, she knew they were still young. Not everyone has a loli body with an older sister’s mind like her.

"How has Yun Duo changed so much?" She seemed like a completely different person.

Chun Feng and Ning Xiang exchanged glances and sighed: "Dear sister, it’s not that she’s changed, she was always this intolerant by nature, she just hid it too well before and fooled us all. There are also some deeper secrets; her ambitions are much larger!"