Twenty years of dust

  Gu Man didn't mind that she still had some trouble, nor was he in a hurry to find fault with this Liu Baozi. After all, the person had already been brought in and there were still many days ahead, it wouldn't be difficult to catch her mistakes at all.

  She handed the gloves to Qi Bao, then turned back to ask Pei Qin: "Go and see where Shanhu and Biyu are. The nanny has been calling them for so long, but they haven't shown up yet. If you didn't know any better, you'd think they were the young ladies!"

  Jiuniang Gu Man had a very big temper, and everyone in the mansion was aware of it. However, Jiuniang was also the most pleasant master to serve. She was very protective of her own people, and as long as someone entered her chambers to work, they were considered her own. She was very lenient with her own people.

  Pei Qin and Pei Yin exchanged a glance with Qi Ya, then looked at their master's face, which was cold and unhidden, and both of them shivered.

  Qī's mother was taken aback, she hadn't expected her own daughter would get so angry.

  This Moon Building has never been very particular, and Gu Man also likes to joke with these maids. Not to mention the few who follow the young lady's side and attend to her, even the small maids in this house who help with chores have often joked with Gu Man. Over time, she herself has become accustomed to these maids being lazy and playful. At this moment, seeing Gu Man angry, she tentatively said: "I thought you were watering flowers for the young lady in the west wing, didn't hear anything."

  In the western warm room, there was an incense burner. Usually, Gu Manzi would do needlework and read books in the western warm room. There were several pots of extremely good narcissus flowers inside, which needed to be taken care of by Ya Tou every day.

  Gu Man sneered: "They've long been spoiled into being young mistresses, and can also stoop to doing the work of a maid? I suppose they must have been somewhere getting warm by knocking their teeth together."

  Shanhu and Biji were not very good maids in their previous life, but they were good at saying pleasant things and were considerate of Gu Man's feelings, which made Gu Man like them a lot. Usually, Gu Man was also very indulgent to them.

  Once, Coral accidentally broke Gu Yan's jade pendant, and it was Gu Man who personally begged for forgiveness and compensated her with an even better one.

  It was these two maidservants, whom she had trusted so much, who, after her downfall, did not hesitate to steal all of her remaining private money and Pei Yin's jewelry, and fled to Gu Yan.

  What's the point of keeping such people around? They'll eventually bite you, but someone like Liu Pozi who doesn't care about anything can stay. However, those who serve me personally must be completely loyal to me, and I absolutely cannot show any leniency in this regard.

  Moreover, after being reborn and having experienced two lifetimes as a human, she finally discovered that there were hardly any people in Mingyue Building who truly belonged to her.

  The several old women guarding the garden were arranged by Madam Ma to watch over these plum blossoms, while the several old women keeping night watch at the gate of the courtyard were sent in by the Wu family and were people of the Fan clan. The two nursemaids who had been summoned openly claimed they were sent by Old Mistress, but Gu Man knew that their true master was Fifth Mistress Liu.

  As for those maids who do rough work and attend to flowers, sweep the inner chambers, it's even more unnecessary to mention them, they come from all over, living in such an environment without knowing it, no wonder their previous life was so miserable.

  She slowly curled up a cold smile at the corner of her mouth and said to Pei Yin, "Go, bring them over for me! I'll be waiting in the west wing!"

  Pei Yin raised her head and met Gu Man's dark eyes filled with cold intent. She hastily lowered her head in response, saying "yes".

  She always felt that Gu Man's anger this time was strange, Shanhu and Biyu had also been lazy before, and they had gone to other places to visit more than once, but she had never seen Gu Man get so angry.

  She vaguely sensed that the current Gu Man was somewhat different from the previous Gu Man.

  Coral and Bixi each went to a different place: one to the Jade Washing Pavilion to play with familiar sisters, and the other to Chunyi Residence to ask for flower patterns from Fifth Wife's maid to make shoes. When they heard that Peiyin had sent someone to look for them, they were all bewildered and didn't know what was going on.

  When they saw a serious-looking Pei Yin, he was somewhat surprised to greet her: "Didn't you go to the old lady's place to pay your respects? How did you come back so soon?"

  They all knew that today was the day when their aunt would return to the mansion, and they thought that Old Lady Gu would keep everyone together to meet with this aunt. Unexpectedly, Peiyin had sent a little maid to fetch them, so they all rushed over in a flurry.

  They were all second-class maids like Pei Yin and Pei Qin, following Gu Man to attend to her personal needs, but each had different responsibilities, so they smiled when they saw Pei Yin.

  "Pei Yin didn't say much this time, only telling them: 'Jiu Niang asked me to find you and bring you back, come quickly.' Then she led the way into the garden."

  Three people went straight into the Mingyue Building, and Pei Yin saw Qi Niangniang leading two small maids standing under the eaves. Seeing them coming, she called out: "Hurry up, Ninth Miss is about to send someone to urge you."

  Shanhu and Bixi thought it was strange, but Peiyin knew that this time Huan might be really angry, her heart skipped a beat, and she took Shanhu and Bixi to the west wing.

  The west warm room had a heating kang, and the narcissus was in full bloom. Compared to the outside, it was like spring. Gu Manzheng was leaning against the incense burner looking at the flowers when she saw them come in, and coldly said: "Where did you come from?"

  Coral and Jade exchanged a glance, both seeing the dissatisfaction on Gu's face, so they quietly replied: "This morning we originally wanted to make shoes for our young lady, thinking that she had said she liked high-heeled red shoes, so we went to ask Sister Rouge for a shoe pattern."

  "Oh?" Gu Man calmly handed the scissors in his hand to Pei Qin, who was following him, and said lightly: "Aren't you going to Yu Ge Pavilion to find Fourth Miss?"

  As soon as these words came out, Biyu was still okay, but Shanhua's face turned pale in an instant, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

  Yu Ge's maid, Mo Qi, was actually her cousin, and the two had a lot of interactions. However, although they were cousins, they entered the manor in different batches, and their interactions were infrequent, so not many people in the manor knew about their relationship.

  Today she also took advantage of Gu Man's visit to pay respects to the old lady, knowing it would take some time, so she ran off. Now seeing Gu Man speak smoothly, she panicked and hastily kowtowed: "Miss, I just went to find Mo Qi for a shoe pattern, I didn't dare do anything that would wrong you, Miss, please don't misunderstand!"

  The room was silent, and Biyu's heart was raised high, fearing that Gu Man would drive her out of Mingyue Building. Although she loved to take advantage of small benefits, the fourth girl was generous with her gifts, but she also understood that the fourth girl occasionally gave her clothes and towels because she could speak up in Mingyue Building. If she were driven out, she would have nothing!

  Gu Man finally raised his head to look at Shanhu, not stopping her from kowtowing, and pointed to Biyu who was standing beside him in a daze, asking: "Tell me, did she say where she was going when she left the house this morning?"

  It's really annoying to talk about betraying one's master, but it can't be denied that sometimes everyone has their own helplessness, I'm writing and writing and it's getting more and more difficult...

  I always feel like I'm being abused when I write about myself.

  Roar one more sentence... Please collect and recommend. Look at how frequently I use ellipses, you'll know how much I don't want to say this... Hmm, although I still said it - covering my face and running away.