readytorunbook Chapter 262: Collusion, not playing by the rules
Chapter 262: Collusion, not playing by the rules
After everyone left, Shen Youran's face changed. She wiped the tears from her face vigorously and cursed, "Bitch! Country bumpkin! Not only did she oppose me everywhere, but now even my grandmother is on her side! In order to please the old lady, I get up before dawn every day, go to pay my respects, and give her massages. I have suffered so much, but as soon as she came back, she took all the credit! How can I accept this!"
"Miss, calm down, we will think of a solution!"
"You told me to calm down! Think of a way for me!" Shen Youran slapped Dongmei in the face, and soon there was a slap mark on her face. The other maids all lowered their heads and shrank, fearing that a look would upset the young lady.
Dongmei was her personal maid, and being beaten was common, not to mention the humbler servants like them. Shen Youran's ferocious appearance in the yard was completely different from her usual quiet and well-behaved appearance.
Dongmei knelt on the ground: "I know I was wrong."
"Useless thing! Go get ready and go out of the house."
"Yes! Miss! But Madam has gone to that bitch's yard to select a maid for her. Should we go there first?"
"Well, I almost forgot about this. Clean up your things so that no one can see anything unusual. Let's go over and take a look."
Shen Youran restrained his expression and walked towards Yao Qingnian's yard.
Inside Mingde Hall.
After hearing what Shen Youran said, Shen Wenting rushed over angrily and saw the old lady chatting and laughing with Chen and others. She didn't look hurt. "Mother, your son is here to pay his respects to you."
"Wen Ting, you're back, come and sit down." The old lady waved her hand, and today she seemed to be in better spirits than usual.
"I heard that girl Nian used a needle to treat you. She doesn't know any medical skills, so why is she making such a fuss? Are you okay? Your son will ask a doctor to come and see you." Shen Wenting is a filial son. His mother worked hard to raise him, and he always remembers it in his heart.
"No need, I'm fine! After this injection, my head feels a lot younger and the pain is gone, haha!" The old lady looked at Shen Wenting with kindness.
"What does she know? To be on the safe side, let's ask a doctor to come and take a look!" Unable to persuade her son, the old lady nodded in agreement and asked someone to invite the court physician. The court physician said that there was nothing serious, and Shen Wenting was relieved.
Yao Qingnian rolled her eyes in her heart. If she didn't need to gain a foothold in the mansion and investigate the truth, she wouldn't have been cured even if she was begged!
When Shen Wenting saw that his mother was fine, he said he had official business to attend to and left. He gave Yao Qingnian a meaningful look before leaving.
At this time, a servant came to report: "Madam, Madam, Miss, the human traffickers are here."
A few days ago, she said she wanted to buy a maid, and Chen Shuhua told the matchmaker to find some good ones. Then she made careful selections and brought the selected maid here in a hurry today.
"Okay, you go down first and bring the person to the young lady's yard, we will come back later." Chen Shuhua asked the servant to go down first, and talked with the old lady for a while before taking people back to the yard.
Chen Shuhua took her back to the courtyard, where many maids and servants were already standing. When they saw someone coming in, the maid coughed twice, and those people immediately saluted and stood in line.
"Madam, I heard that you wanted to choose a better maid. These two days, I, an old woman, have carefully selected and brought here the best maids and servants in our pawnshop. You can take a look and pick the ones you like. It will be their blessing." The matchmaker came forward and introduced with a flattering look on her face.
"Grandma, didn't you promise to pick a few maids for me?" Shen Youran put aside the unpleasantness of the morning.
Some of the maids around her were old and were going to get married, so she needed to select a few to replace them. She looked at the crowd, her eyes full of a look of control.
As for the selection of maids and servants this time, Yao Qingnian, who had just returned to the mansion, was mainly asked to choose first. However, the old lady thought that she had lived in the countryside since she was a child and might not understand these things, so she asked Shen Youran to choose first and set an example for her: "Grandmother, have you forgotten what you promised? Haha, you! Shuhua, let Youran choose first?"
Shen Youran also thought that she would definitely not be able to choose, so she deliberately pretended to be humble and yielding to her sister: "Grandmother, mother, my sister just returned home and is short of people. Let her choose first!"
Unexpectedly, Yao Qingnian agreed to her words directly: "Okay, thank you, sister! Then I won't be polite! But my sister has been staying in the countryside and doesn't know how to judge people. Why don't you help me pick a few and I will definitely serve you well."
Seeing that Yao Qingnian was so ignorant and didn't know how to give way to her sisters, the old lady felt even more contempt and displeasure in her heart. But the words were said by You Ran, and she didn't want to offend her, so she had to let them do as they pleased.
She had only said it casually, but she didn't expect this bitch to take it seriously. She was indeed from the country, ignorant and vulgar, and even the maid wanted to snatch it from her. However, she had been prepared. After she looked at the matchmaker, she immediately put on a smiling face.
"Of course. I'll pick out a few good ones for you right away." She had a smile on her face, without any dissatisfaction at all.
Shouldn't she be angry? Yao Qingnian saw her and the mother-in-law looking at each other just now, and thought there was something fishy going on.
"Thank you, sister." Yao Qingnian said calmly.
Shen Youran quickly picked them out: "These ones all look smart and well-behaved, with kind faces. What do you think, sister?"
Seeing that her selections were all good, Mrs. Chen and the old lady nodded in satisfaction.
Yao Qingnian walked over, took a few casual glances, then turned to Chen and the others and said, "What my sister picked are all very good. Just now, I wanted to learn from you how to choose. Since you like these, take them all away! I have learned how to choose. It's a good opportunity for grandma and mother to take a look and see if they are good. If there is anything bad, please tell me."
When Shen Youran heard this, her face turned pale. Yao Qingnian did not play by the rules at all. After planning for so long, he ended up making things difficult for her.
It turned out that Shen Youran had already colluded with the matchmaker. She had placed some of her own people among them, and then the matchmaker mixed them in with the maids she liked and sent them into the mansion.
All the things she had just selected were arranged in advance, but she didn't expect that the bitch didn't want any of them. At this moment, she was really shooting herself in the foot.
"You are such a clever girl. Go ahead and pick. Grandmother will help you." The old lady's expression improved when she saw that she had given the people she had picked to Shen Youran. It turned out that she wanted to learn. It would be better to say it directly. She was beating around the bush. She thought she was ignorant and even wanted to snatch her sister's maid...