Gu Jiaojiao is truly sweet-talking. Ever since her wedding day, she has been inseparable from Fanghua Garden, and she is especially close to her.
“My mother-in-law is alright, but the food there is like feeding pigs. There are only four dishes per meal. Even Steward Qin in our mansion eats more than four dishes.”
"Was that deliberately tormenting you?" Madam Xu immediately became displeased.
"I've only been gone for two days, what can she possibly do to me?" Xie Xiangxiang was very satisfied with her mother's protection. "Mother, don't worry, Prince Gu will let me have my way."
If there's anything that's dissatisfying in the Marquis's residence, it's Xie Zhaozhao.
“Mother, you have no idea how arrogant she is. Yesterday morning when I was serving tea, she actually told me to kneel down! When I was serving tea, I called her ‘elder sister,’ but she refused to take the tea and even encouraged Grand Secretary Gu to throw away the teacup I offered.”
Upon hearing this, Madam Xu was furious: "So what if she married Grand Secretary Gu? I'm going to find her and ask her what she's trying to do and why she's treating her own sister like this?"
Xie Xiangxiang stopped her: "Mother, don't go. She and Grand Secretary Gu are all lovey-dovey. If you offend her, she'll whisper in your ear, and if Grand Secretary Gu tells Father, you and I will be the ones who suffer in the end."
Xu had harbored a grudge ever since she was forced to chant sutras at the family temple for a month before their marriage. She had lived her whole life in the shadow of Xu Zhiyan and could not bear to let her daughter live under Xie Zhaozhao's oppression.
She stormed off to the old lady's courtyard, determined to get an explanation from Grand Secretary Gu!
Before she even reached Wutong Garden, she heard a commotion at the entrance, with someone shouting, "The imperial edict has arrived!"
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