IBTSOME Chapter 43 Part 2: Served

I BECAME THE STEPMOTHER OF MY EX-HUSBAND

 

Chapter 43 Part 2: Served

 

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When Gu Hui Yan left, everyone in the inner room were all relieved. Only then did Wan Xing and Wan Yue dared to step forward, served Lin Wei Xi and asked: "Wangfei, it's still early, do you want to go back and lie down for a little while?"

 

Lin Wei Xi looked outside, although the sky was still dark, but at the same time the east was already appeared a brighter blue. When she first got up, she was so sleepy, but after changing Gu Hui Yan's court dress, her sleepiness almost completely disappeared. Lin Wei Xi shook her head and said, "I'm already awake, if I go back to lie down it will be a disgrace. Let’s change the clothes."

 

Because Gu Hui Yan was the only one in the mansion that need to attend the court, therefore when Gao Ran came to pay respect, the mother-in-law Lin Wei Xi had been sitting for a long time. Previously Gao Ran waited for Lin Wei Xi for a long time before the tea ceremony. In addition to the matter of entering the palace yesterday, she already knew in her heart that Lin Wei Xi liked to sleep in, so she couldn't help but become a little sloppy when she went out today. Who knows that Lin Wei Xi actually woke up early today. When Gao Ran saw that Lin Wei Xi was already neatly dressed and sitting by the window drinking tea, she was shocked and could only hurried forward and bowed her head and said: "Pay respect to mother. This daughter-in-law is late today. Mother please forgive me."

 

Lin Wei Xi glanced at her and said nonchalantly, "Didn't you say that you still have burns on your hands? Didn’t I excuse you from morning and evening greetings these few days? Why are you here again?"

 

"Mother is very compassionate to her children, this daughter-in-law is very grateful, and want to get closer and be more filial to mother, how dare to neglect."

 

Lin Wei Xi was no stranger to this kind of routine. If their position were changed and she was pitied by her mother-in-law because of the injury, and being exempted from morning and evening greetings, her lips would say grateful, but her action also didn’t dare to really not going. In Duke Yingguo Mansion, Lin Wei Xi was accustomed to seeing her grandmother’s, Duke Yingguo madam, ways of doing things. Her mother, as the daughter of the Grand Princess, also never dared to neglect paying respect in the morning and evening. In Lin Wei Xi’s impression, only in those few days when her mother Wei shi’s had premature delivery, because she could not get out of the bed, she was exempted from paying respect. Later, Wei shi's health deteriorated and she could not get up to serve her mother-in-law.

 

Lin Wei Xi thought of Wei shi, and inevitably also recalled Han shi and Han shi’s son, her former shu younger brother. Thinking of these unpleasant old acquaintance, Lin Wei Xi’s enthusiasm was waning, and the expression on her face became more and more indifferent: "Shizi Consort has a heart. No wonder I always listened others praised Shizi Consort for her filial piety. I heard that even before you married you already had a good name. Today it seems that name is really not in vain."

 

"Mother is absurd. These words are just other madams giving face to this daughter-in-law. To have a name for filial piety in the capital was just a fluke. How dare this daughter-in-law take it seriously? Mother shouldn't say this again. This daughter-in-law is really embarrassed."

 

She spoke modestly, but deliberately told her that Gao Ran indeed had both talent and filial reputation before she was married. Lin Wei Xi smiled, put down her teacup, and looked at Gao Ran with a smile: "The fame of Shizi Consort is actually this big, my Yan Wang Mansion is really fortunate to have you as a wife. Since Shizi Consort was famous before getting married, then surely serving your parent-in-law, doing housework, needlework and cooking, all would be no problem."

 

Gao Ran's face became a little stiff, for some reason Lin Wei Xi's words made her seems like a maid serving on someone. But even if she was unsatisfied also there’s no other way. The world's requirements for the daughter-in-law were precisely to be like a maid in front of the mother-in-law, like a perfect person in front of the husband, and like a bodhisattva in front of the servant.

 

If Lin Wei Xi really ordered Gao Ran around like a maid, Gao Ran actually could do nothing except to spread the tears to cheat sympathy outside.

 

Lin Wei Xi wiped the corners of her lips with a kerchief and hold the armrest to get up. Gao Ran upon seeing this, even if her heart felt crooked, she could only hurried forward to help. "Be careful, mother."

 

After Lin Wei Xi stood up, she silently shook Gao Ran's hand. She walked to the front hall and asked, "Is Shizi Consort already have breakfast? If you still have not, you can have it with me here."

 

Gao Ran quickly said "Do not dare". Today she was late paying respect. If she had breakfast at Lin Wei Xi's place, wouldn't that leave a fodder for gossip? In contrast, Gao Ran would rather be hungry.

 

Lin Wei Xi was just asking, in her heart she did not want to eat at the same table with Gao Ran. She sat down at the dining table, and the maid brought the refreshment tea, which was still steaming, every dish was exquisite and delicate, and it was worth looking at. After Lin Wei Xi sat down, Gao Ran hurriedly stepped forward and said to the servant girl who was serving food, "I'll serve mother to eat, you withdraw."

 

Seeing that Lin Wei Xi did not say anything, the maid passed the chopsticks to Gao Ran with both hands, then bowed her head and stepped back.

 

Lin Wei Xi smiled politely: "Shizi Consort still has injuries on her hand. It’s too hard for Shizi Consort to do this kind of things."

 

"Serving mother-in-law, how can it be called hard work?" Gao Ran still smiled softly, not showing any stiffness or embarrassment. Lin Wei Xi's eyes only moved a little, and Gao Ran would put the dish that Lin Wei Xi had looked at into Lin Wei Xi's bowl, without her need to say any words. Lin Wei Xi had seen Gao Ran fawn on her grandmother like this when she was still in the Duke Mansion. Although she felt that Gao Ran was just putting on an act of filial piety, she had to admit that Gao Ran's ability on serving people was much higher than her own. If it changed to Lin Wei Xi, she definitely would not be able to do things like serving tea personally or serving dishes diligently, whether for female elders or for her husband.

 

She used to look down on Gao Ran's style very much, but now Lin Wei Xi changed her position and suddenly found that she was quite comfortable. No wonder the Duke Yingguo madam always said that Gao Ran is good, being served so attentively, who wouldn't say good?

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