Chapter 451 No Need to Keep an Eye on It
"Yes, madam, this servant doesn't know either."
The little maid was completely at a loss. She wasn't particularly clever to begin with, otherwise He Yin wouldn't have asked her to identify Aunt Qiao.
Seeing that He Yin had also changed her attitude, the little maidservant immediately began to stammer.
"You don't know? You don't know that you're falsely accusing me?"
Aunt Qiao immediately grabbed the little maid's head, and remembering that she had just been torn and beaten, she tightened her grip even more.
"Please spare me, Auntie! Please spare me, Auntie!"
The little maid didn't know what to say, so she could only keep begging her aunt to spare her life.
Seeing Aunt Qiao fighting so irrationally and without any decorum, Gu Yuxin couldn't help but turn her head away.
"Alright, it seems the matter is settled. This little maid made a mistake and then tried to frame others. Second Aunt, you should sell her off as soon as possible! Otherwise, what will happen if she causes any more trouble in the future?"
Gu Shuyan couldn't stand it any longer; she truly despised Aunt Qiao's current behavior.
Gu Shuyan helped Ji Shi up, then glanced at Niao Cui before leaving with her entourage.
Gu Yuxin glanced back at Aunt Qiao, who had been pulled away, and then reached out to pull Gu Yuhe, who was still somewhat reluctant to leave. The two of them followed Gu Shuyan and her daughter and left Aunt Qiao's courtyard.
"Enough! If you dare to cause any more trouble, I will send you to the estate."
Although she herself was unable to sell Aunt Qiao, it didn't mean she couldn't send her away. Having failed to get rid of her today, He Yin was already angry, and seeing Aunt Qiao still causing trouble, she naturally couldn't tolerate it any longer.
Aunt Qiao finally stopped speaking when she heard those words, but her resentful eyes were still fixed on the maid.
"Alright, alright, let's leave it at that for today. No one is allowed to mention it to the master again."
He Yin waved her hand and had someone take the little maid away with her.
"Sister, I'm going back now too."
Everyone had left, so Niao Cui naturally couldn't stay any longer. However, she still acted very respectfully towards Aunt Qiao.
Seeing everyone else leave, and only herself being inexplicably beaten and even mistaken for someone who poisoned the mistress, Aunt Qiao's temper flared up, and she smashed a lot of things before being helped back to her room by her maid.
“Mother, don’t come here again if something like this happens. You know your second aunt’s character. What if she says something unpleasant? Wouldn’t that make you feel uncomfortable?”
When Gu Shuyan saw the chaotic state of the second branch of the family, she didn't want Ji Shi to get involved.
It should be noted that Gu Jin currently has no concubines, so apart from worrying about some household affairs, Ji Shi doesn't need to worry about anything else in the entire Marquis's mansion.
But now that her own family is happy and harmonious, she has to put up with other people's attitudes. Gu Shuyan doesn't want to suffer like this.
"Don't worry, your second aunt won't dare to do anything to Mom. Besides, in your eyes, is your mother so easy to bully?"
Madam Ji looked at Gu Shuyan with amusement. She knew that her daughter was very filial to her, but she was not so weak that she needed her daughter to protect her.
"Yes, Mother is the best."
Gu Shuyan continued speaking in the same vein as Ji Shi. Upon hearing this, Ji Shi glanced at her, and then both mother and daughter couldn't help but laugh.
After delivering Ji Shi, Gu Yuxin, and Gu Yuhe to Yunxiang Courtyard, Gu Shuyan went straight back to her own courtyard.
What do you think of Aunt Qiao's change?
Although Gu Shuyan had previously felt that Aunt Qiao had changed, she thought it was a reasonable change. Now, looking at Aunt Qiao again, she seemed to be a completely different person, not the shrewd and calculating Aunt Qiao she used to be.
Pearl pondered for a moment after hearing this, and said, "I don't know how to put it, but I feel that Aunt Qiao is acting strangely these days. You could say she's really stupid, but that doesn't seem entirely true. Yet, if you say she's not stupid, she always manages to mess things up."
Gu Shuyan nodded upon hearing this and looked at Yu Fei, "What do you think?"
“This servant doesn’t know much about Aunt Qiao, but compared to before, the changes are indeed quite significant. However, to say that time and circumstances have changed a person is too much of a stretch, so this servant suspects that Aunt Qiao did it on purpose.”
Gu Shuyan had been wondering about it, but after Yufei said that, she suddenly understood.
Yes, she had been wondering why Aunt Gu Qiao had become like this, but if it was intentional, then everything made sense.
"It seems we've overlooked too many things. If Aunt Qiao is really pretending to be stupid, or deliberately changing her personality, there's probably some scheming involved."
"Should we have someone keep an eye on her?"
Pearl was best at this. Because she grew up in the Marquis's mansion, she could talk to almost everyone in the mansion, young and old.
So she knew exactly who was the most reliable person to contact and who could best achieve her goal.
"Forget it, Aunt Qiao is just a concubine from the second wife's side after all. Now that she's fallen out with that man, she's already too busy dealing with her superior to have time for any tricks. Just tell everyone in the courtyards to be careful of Aunt Qiao, and let her do whatever she wants as she pleases!"
Gu Shuyan didn't care about Aunt Qiao at all. All she did was scheme and plot to get her position as the legal wife!
It has to be said that Gu Shuyan really underestimated this concubine this time. In the past, perhaps this concubine really only wanted the position of the principal wife.
But now she has long since given up on Master Gu, so the position of the principal wife is nothing more than a decoration to her and is no longer important.
"Yes, I will inform everyone in the courtyards to be careful of Concubine Qiao in a moment."
Pearl agreed, and Gu Shuyan then looked at Mingyu, who had gone to escort Sun Ruoyun back.
Did Sun Ruoyun say anything to you?
In Gu Shuyan's mind, since Sun Ruoyun had come in person today, she must have come with some gains. However, Gu Shuyan could only find the answer to what those gains were from Mingyu.
As Gu Shuyan's confidante, Mingyu naturally knew how much her mistress valued Sun Ruoyun. Although that woman always wore a harmless smile on her face, she was actually very dark inside.
"He didn't say much, just casually asked about the vegetation in the mansion and about the second branch of the family dividing the property."
Mingyu answered truthfully, because Gu Shuyan was wary of Sun Ruoyun, so she was very careful when dealing with Sun Ruoyun.
"Then what did you say about the division of the Marquis's family?" Gu Shuyan frowned.
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