Chapter 690: The Foot-Washing Girl Wants to Get to the Top (33)

"Miss, what are you doing?" Nanny Zhang grabbed Yuanyuan who was taking off her clothes, guessing that she was provoked by the Second Wife.

"My clothes are dirty." Yuanyuan took advantage of the force of her hand to take off her clothes, turned a corner and walked towards Xia Garden.

This road is remote and narrower than other roads. The servants in the clan mansion are basically unwilling to pass through here. Therefore, she was not worried that her conversation with the nanny would be heard by others.

"Miss, be careful not to catch a cold." Nanny Zhang held her clothes and hurried over in small steps.

Yuanyuan suddenly stopped and turned to look at her, "Caught a cold? I'm afraid you're the only one who really cares about me in this mansion."

"What are you talking about, Miss?" Aunt Zhang quickly put her clothes on her and comforted her, "The second wife also cares about you."

"Care about me?" Yuanyuan's eyes were more lonely, "If she really cares about me, she wouldn't do such a thing to ruin the family's reputation."

"My Miss." Aunt Zhang covered her mouth, looked around to make sure no one heard their conversation, and lowered her voice, "You can't say such things in the mansion in the future."

"She did it, so I can't say it?" Yuanyuan pulled away the big hand of the nanny and continued to walk along the path.

Because few people walked on this path, it was full of weeds, which were over people's ankles. The tall trees on both sides of the path were stacked up, blocking most of the sunlight, and only spots of sunlight shone on the ground.

"Miss, in this mansion, you must be careful in what you say and do." Aunt Zhang followed closely behind her, not daring to fall behind.

"No one can hear our conversation here." Yuanyuan continued to move forward, her voice lowered by half a degree, and said with a certain threat, "Unless Mammy takes the initiative to tell others."

Mammy Zhang felt unhappy. How could the introverted and gentle little girl she watched grow up suddenly change? She actually felt that this child was a little strange.

"Mammy, do you think I have changed?" Yuanyuan continued to move forward without looking back, because the path she chose could not be turned back. The only person she could really rely on in this mansion was herself, and she had to fight for her father's love and trust.

"No...no..." Mammy Zhang was hesitant to speak, but Yuanyuan didn't care.

"Since I was born, it has been you, Mammy, who has been with me. In my heart, Mammy is closer than my mother." She stopped under the eaves, looked at the almost dark forest, and said pitifully, "If Mammy is unwilling to continue to accompany me, then who can I really trust in this mansion?"

She once believed in the second person besides Mammy Zhang. That person stayed in the same room with her for two weeks, taking care of her illness. She also thought that the other person was trustworthy. So she told the other person's mother this little secret... However... It soon proved that the person she trusted was unreliable.

"Miss, the second wife is the one you can really trust. Everything she does is for your good." Aunt Zhang didn't want the mother and daughter to have a grudge, so she advised earnestly, "Miss, think about it carefully. Although the second wife has not been close to you over the years, she has never given you anything she deserves. The second wife loves you from the bottom of her heart." Although she sometimes couldn't understand the second wife very well, the second wife's future depended on the eldest lady, right? As a servant, she made the mother and daughter enemies. How could she live a good life in the future?

"Love her? Has she ever loved me? If she really loved me, she wouldn't have driven you away when I had a high fever." Yuanyuan thought of the pain when she got measles that day and her mother's indifference, and countless resentment surged in her heart.

From the moment she could remember, she knew that her mother didn't like her. Therefore, she never deliberately went to her mother. She just hoped that her mother could continue to be her second wife, and she would continue to be the eldest daughter of the Zong family, and grow up slowly until she got married.

However, her mother didn't even satisfy this small wish. In order to give birth to a son, she had to have an affair with others, becoming a joke known to everyone in the Zong family mansion. It also brought shame to her as a daughter.

In the future, when she grew up and chose a husband to marry, once others found out about her mother's character, she would have no chance at all.

"It would be better if she died now. Daddy would love me more." She said the most vicious and truest thought in her heart.

"Miss..." Aunt Zhang wanted to persuade her again, but she had already turned a corner and went to the Xiayuan courtyard.

Aunt Zhang didn't expect that the eldest daughter had such hatred and resentment towards the second wife. As a servant, she helped the second wife to speak, which would chill the eldest daughter's heart, and helping the eldest daughter would be suspected of instigating. She should just keep to herself and do her job well.

After they left, two figures walked out of the dark woods.

Sui'er and Shi Yi looked at each other and quickly left this place of trouble.

Finally, they came to a truly secluded place, the courtyard of the East Courtyard. Sui'er made her request, "I want to tell the master about this."

Shi Yi glanced at her and said lightly, "Are you a child? You should keep these angry words from a child in your heart."

"I'm afraid you want to be partial." Sui'er folded the corner of her clothes, looked at the big ants moving in a line on the floor tiles, and said sarcastically, "When someone had a good relationship with the eldest lady, the eldest lady went to the master specifically to ask someone to serve in Xia Garden."

"Tell me, what are your conditions." Shi Yi saw through her little thoughts at a glance. Of course, Sui'er came to her today with a purpose. Now, bumping into the conversation between the eldest lady and Aunt Zhang just gave her more bargaining chips to make conditions.

"Conditions?" Sui'er looked at her straight, "Can you promise to achieve them for me?"

"If I can do it, I will definitely help you achieve them." Shi Yi did not tell her that because of the reason why she came to the East Courtyard to serve again, she had become a real thorn in the eyes of the eldest lady.

"Then I will return to serve the master. My status and position must be higher than yours." Sui'er patted her shoulder and smiled proudly, "I am the maid with the highest status in this mansion. I can't let you, a little beggar, ride on my head." She noticed the unnatural look on Shi Yi's face for a moment, and knew that Shi Yi cared about this "beggar" identity, but she knew it and still said it, just deliberately said it to stimulate Shi Yi.

Shi Yi was of course clear in his heart, but he didn't want to affect the influence of the eldest lady in the master's heart, so he finally agreed to her.

(End of this chapter)