The Lady's Sickly Husband

C70. A Visit to Jian Mansion

This was a long-decided date. Mo Qianxue got slightly dressed up, took over the food box that Yunyao handed her, and got onto the carriage.

Jian mansion had great gardens, and Mo Qianxue strolled along the corridor accompanied by Jian Qingyou.

On the way, she met a few of Jian Qingyou's cousins and illegal sisters. They showed respect to Jian Qingyou and also smiled at Mo Qianxue.

Despite the smile, there was disdain and contempt in their eyes. The way they looked at Mo Qianxue exactly resembled that of the women in Jia mansion regarded grandma Liu when she had her first tour to Daguan Garden in the famous novel of A Dream of Red Mansions.

They made the courtesy, yet the eyes were were screening through Mo Qianxue.

They had heard that the first young lady invited a country girl here. Why didn't she kneel down and kowtow to them when she saw these luxuriously dressed up noble ladies? Was she really planning to accept their courtesy?

As long as this country woman was scared by the exaggerated fanfare and kowtowed to them, it meant face-losing for the first young lady and extreme trample and ridicule on her fame. Later in the future, she couldn't be as unparalleled noble, self-possessed and flawless as ever before.

However, Mo Qianxue wasn't a bit daunted and looked right in their eyes and smiled, politely accepting their courtesy. Just a bunch of short-sighted spoiled young ladies. If she really cared, it would be real self-degrading. She was a guest, a guest of Jian mansion's legal first young lady, so she must maintain a high profile.

Running up against a stone wall, those ladies instantly changed their expression, but they couldn't find an excuse to accuse her.

With no one to stop or hold them, they only had to finish the courtesy, bending down and bowing to say hello.

Mo Qianxue nodded back and greeted them with a few words of politeness to express her thanks.

Jian Qingyou looked indifferent, totally ignoring those illegal sisters and cousins, waved her hand to let them retreat after the formalities, and continued to show Mo Qianxue around the garden.

Nanny Yuan followed them, shocked.

She knew that this Mrs. Ning had skills in doing business but didn't expect that she also had such a sturdy character.

When things changed, her frame of mind didn't, and she never took into account other people's opinion, be it praise or humiliation.

She didn't intend to please others or become humble in front of them, but all her manners demonstrated nobility and grace.

Jian mansion's garden was huge, and the scenery became better as they went deeper inside. Nanny Yuan's expression got better as well.

This garden was the best one in Tianxiang city. The construction and repeated restoration lasted a century, and the grandeur design awed most of the noble young ladies at their first tour here.

In the greenhouse, there were various of rarely-seen flowers and plants which vied blossoming beautifully even in winter.

However, this country woman seemed to regard it as a common sight.

Hence, she was more confirmed that Mo Qianxue wasn't an ordinary woman, so she got increasingly hospitable.

The corridor was long with twists and turns all along. On the sides of the corridor, high or low, there were artificial hills, flower beds and bamboo forest.

It was not as good as the gardens in Suzhou in modern times, but similar.

Straight bamboos, lush pines, dense trees and long grass.