Chapter 71: Offense is the best defense 2 (2/2)

The women began to murmur when they heard the word 'you are no longer a maid'. These women grew up being told the importance of having noble blood in your vein. They didn't like it when improvised women dare to join their ranks. To these women, Su Liya who had no strong lineage and yet married into a powerful family like the Lu family was nothing but trash.

They didn't like her no appreciate her methods since it was similar to the underhanded methods employed by concubines. A few of the madams wished to arrange marriages between their family and the Empress family but thanks to Su Liya they couldn't realize that.

They saw Su Liya as an eyesore, a fox who got the marriage by playing dirty tricks and seducing a nobleman. The women began to look at Su Liya with an ugly expression but Zhu Feifei pretended not to notice anything. She acted role of the kind older sister and turned to eldest Madam Yuan to say

”Eldest Madam please take good care of this little sister of mine. I don't mean to insult your management of your servants but it is just that my sister is new. She isn't used to our ways, she is also quite shy and doesn't know how to talk to people. You know how it gets”.

Eldest Madam Yuan was a veteran in the games of words, she quickly understood what Zhu Feifei was hinting towards ”Don't bother your highness, I will take good care of the Princess”.

Su Liya felt her blood run cold as she heard Eldest Madam Yuan's words. She could already guess that this ”taking care of the Princess” would be disastrous to her.

Zhu Feifei seeing that Eldest madam Yuan understood her words smiled smugly to Su Liya and holding her gaze said ”I will leave this little sister of mine to you, while I go greet old madam Yuan”. She walked past Su Liya and got into the pavilion to the left.

Eldest Madam Yuan didn't waste any time in attacking her, she said mockingly ”I guess the rumours about the new princess is right, you are quite the beauty. I guess that must be what attracted Yunzhu Marquis to you. Men are always fickle in front of beauty, I thought the Marquis was different from other men but... He is still cut from the same cloth”.

Su Liya's eyes narrowed on the plump face of eldest Madam Yuan. When she heard about Su Liya's father's principal wife, she had expected to see beautiful and majestic but the eldest Madam was surprisingly plain-looking. She had a prejudice against her, Su Liya had noticed eldest Madam Yuan giving her a bad eye since she arrive.

Zhu Feifei was allowing eldest Madam Yuan to take out her frustration on her. Su Liya didn't know how best to handle things, she didn't want to cause scenes in public since that could negatively affect the Lu family and Lu Yaozhu.

She didn't say anything and just kept silent. The silence annoyed eldest Madam Yuan who saw it as being ignored. Meanwhile, Su Liya heard the women around her whisper the words ”slut” ”gold digger” ”fox” and many more but pretended otherwise.

Madam Lu's instructions from yesterday played softly in her mind. She didn't which to cause a mess and just bowed to the eldest madam and walked aside. She had only walked a few steps when she heard a female voice call her name.

”Liya! Is that you” an average heighted older lady, dressed in a mauve coloured gown rush forward, all smiles.

The people around began to whisper between themselves, ”what is going on?” ”who is this?”

One of the madams stepped forward to ask ”this is?”

The maid following the new arrival replied confidently ”this is madam Xiao Nuan”

The mention of the name Xiao Nuan made her heartbeat still. Su Liya gave Xiao Nuan a thorough look down, Xiao Nuan was very pretty, Su Liya got a few of her features such as her tanned complexion and bone structure. She never expected to run into Xiao Nuan at this place and was a little surprised.

Xiao Nuan must have been too favoured that she got stubborn and never understood her place because as soon as the women found out that this was just a small concubine, they all hissed. Eldest Madam Yuan immediately felt embarrassed, she instructed her maids ”quickly, take madam Xiao Nuan away” two maids rushed to stand at either side of Xiao Nuan.

As soon as the maid's hooked hands on her arm Xiao Nuan fell to her knees and cried out

”Eldest Madam please have mercy, this little one hasn't seen her daughter in some years and just wanted to have a look”

While the guests murmured the question ”daughter?” ”Who is her daughter?” ”Did eldest Madam Yuan send her daughter away?” ”I heard that the two male sons of the vice-minister were born by a concubine is this the concubine?”

Xiao Nuan seeing that she got the women's attention took her performance up a notch. She looked at Su Liya sorrowfully and cried out once again ”Liya, my dear daughter. How I missed you!'