Chapter 212 - 211 Misstatement
Zhou Biyao didn’t care about Ye Xinyan’s motion and mildly chastised her, "Sister, you’re always treating me like an outsider. With so many nannies and servant women in your household, how can you allow a guest to be bumped into?" As she spoke, she deliberately glanced at the servant from Anshun’s household next to Nanny Liu and asked, "How come your household has even more family members than a few days ago?" And they all have the air of servants from distinguished families. So many servants... Can the Qi family really accommodate them all?"
Ye Xinyan looked at the servant women of the household and was also helpless. Her home really couldn’t fit so many people, but after all, they were powerful and had the authority over life and death. She was just a runaway girl, struggling to survive with her family between various forces. Whether or not she needed so many people, she didn’t have a say.
"Well, it is indeed a bit more, haha. They are hereditary servants of wealthy families, but they’re just here to lend a hand for a few days. Once the job’s done, they will return. By then, there will be fewer people in my family."
Zhou Biyao immediately had other thoughts when she heard ’wealthy families’, "Is Sister Qi referring to Sixth Master Rong’s Mansion?" she asked cautiously, glancing at Nanny Liu and Anshun’s household servant, her voice slightly lowered, "Are they sent by Sixth Master to serve Sister?"
Zhou Biyao thought that, with already so many people serving the Qi family, if His Highness Prince Yu were to send more servants, Qi Ye must be really extraordinary. Thinking this, Zhou Biyao looked at Ye Xinyan with a hint of insinuation in her eyes.
The servant from Anshun’s household frowned upon hearing Zhou Biyao’s words. What did this Zhou family girl mean by looking and asking questions like that? Was a little daughter of a local official allowed to rudely guess about the masters of Duke An’s Mansion?
The expression of the servant from Anshun’s household grew stern as she spoke indifferently, "I arrived late, and do not know which household Second Miss Zhou comes from. Has the household never hired a nanny for the young ladies of the family? How can you speak and act without any decorum?"
Zhou Biyao had yet to reply when her companion, Nanny Zhong, indignantly spoke up for her mistress, bending her knee to Anshun’s household servant and saying, "This nanny might be new and doesn’t know the affection between my Second Miss and Lady Qi. My Second Miss has a good relationship with Lady Qi and her words are of admiration and closeness to her sister, with no other intention."