"Second sister, third sister, please entertain my cousins. I'll go see how the refreshments are prepared." After everyone was seated, Yun Qiuchen said with a smile.
Yun Qiufang glanced at Yun Qiuchen and curled her lips. A smile appeared on her face. "Big sister, you're being too polite. My third sister and I are the hosts, and the Ren family cousins are the guests. Even if you don't say anything, we'll just treat it as a treat. Could it be that Big sister only thinks of me as a Miss Yun?"
Although Yun Qiufang had been joking along the way, it was clearly just out of courtesy and politeness. A closer look revealed a rather grim expression on her face. Seizing on Yun Qiuchen's words, she couldn't help but exploit the situation.
The Ren sisters also heard that there was something wrong in Yun Qiufang's words, but no one pretended to hear it.
Yun Qiuchen was very well-mannered. She was not angry at all after being provoked by Yun Qiufang. She just smiled and nodded to everyone, then went out with her two maids.
After leaving the waterside pavilion, Yun Qiuchen stopped and asked the head maid Nanzhu with a slightly frowned face, "Has mother returned?"
Nanzhu lowered her head and said, "Yes, Miss. As soon as the aunt arrived, you asked me to send someone to find the eldest wife. The eldest wife just entered the mansion and went to the old lady's yard."
Yun Qiuchen nodded, lowering her eyes slightly as she gazed at the pond before her. The two maids knew their mistress must be lost in thought, so they stood quietly behind her without interrupting her.
After a while, Yun Qiuchen asked, "Did the people sent to investigate hear what my aunt and grandmother said?"
"Last time, because the housekeeper in the old lady's courtyard accepted money from the Third Madam and copied a book of ancestral medicinal recipes from the Yun family, the old lady got angry and sent several of the senior maids away. Only a second-class maid went in to serve tea and heard the old lady mention the horse ranch."
"The Su family's horse farm on the border?" Yun Qiuchen was a little surprised.
"Didn't Madam say yesterday that the Su family's horse farm suffered heavy losses due to the Tangut invasion? I guess Madam came back to tell the old lady about this matter."
Yun Qiuchen paused for a moment, "This is the Su family's affair. My aunt wouldn't have come back to the Yun family to complain about it, and she wouldn't have dismissed everyone. There must be something else going on."
"Then shall I send someone to inquire?"
Yun Qiuchen shook his head: "Forget it, since Mother has returned, let's wait for news from her."
"That's right. Madam will never hide anything from Miss. If there is anything, she will definitely tell Miss."
The other maid, Yinzhu, was younger. She wasn't as calm and sophisticated as Nanzhu, so she couldn't help but ask, "Our Yun family is the aunt's family. She wouldn't come back to plot against her own family, would she?" Yinzhu sensed that both the eldest lady and the young lady were wary of the aunt marrying into the Su family.
Yun Qiuchen didn't seem angry at the maid's question, and simply replied calmly, "As a woman, you should obey your father at home, your husband after marriage, and your son after your husband's death. Although my aunt's surname is Yun, it will be the Su family who will offer incense to her a hundred years later."
Yinzhu thought about it and felt that it made sense, so she didn't dare to say anything more.
Nanzhu couldn't help but think. The current Princess of Yanbei was also the Yun family's aunt, and she always prioritized the interests of the Yanbei Palace. Even when the old lady had hinted to the Princess several times that she wanted the eldest son to marry the princess, the Princess blocked her move, arguing that the princess's marriage was decided by the Prince.
"Obey your father at home, obey your husband after marriage, and obey your son after your husband's death." This is how the Yun family has always taught their girls. This is a family rule that the Yun family has for their children.
"Miss, would you like the old lady to arrange a few more people to go into the yard?" Nanzhu asked.
Yun Qiuchen thought about it and shook his head: "Forget it. Grandmother is very taboo about this now."
Yinzhu curled her lips. "It's true that the Third Madam and the Third Miss are like mother and like daughter. If the Third Madam hadn't tried to steal the Yun family's medicinal recipes last time, the two sisters in the old lady's room wouldn't have been implicated. She knew that the Yun family's ancestral recipes were always passed down to the eldest daughter-in-law and eldest daughter. The Third Miss was the same. She even embarrassed you in front of the guests today. Wasn't it that the old lady only entrusted the matter of the Thousand Gold Banquet to the ladies and you, the young lady. Didn't she let her and the Second Miss interfere? Don't you think about your own abilities..."
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