Chapter 58 - 29 Formidable Wet Nurse_2
This is not even the hardest part; the hardest part is that the wet nurse and the cousin just can’t get along. Whenever they meet, no matter how much the cousin tries to yield, the wet nurse just finds her objectionable, openly chastising her as hypocritical, pretentious, insincere, and so on. It’s bad enough that she says these things, but she also insists on agreement, leaving herself stuck in the middle, fed up like a mouse in a bellows. Letting her go home to enjoy her old age in comfort wouldn’t be too bad.
"You’re right, the wet nurse should indeed go home and enjoy some peace, but," Shi Fengju said with a smile towards Gu Fangzi, half-joking, half-serious: "You’ve never gotten along with the wet nurse, why do you suddenly speak up for her? This is not like you!"
She has always been clear about her grudges and affections, resolute and straightforward; how could she be speaking up for the wet nurse?
Although Gu Fangzi would not dare to confront Mrs. Li directly, she always ended up venting her anger and not relenting towards Shi Fengju afterwards, and it would take all his sweet talk and placation to finally appease her. And Gu Fangzi, indeed clever, would let others know how Shi Fengju would please and coax her to obedience, which Mrs. Li would hear about, leaving her half-dead with anger but helpless!
Feeling both sorry for Shi Fengju’s submissive behavior and annoyed at his lack of spine, letting a woman manipulate him.
Hearing Shi Fengju ask this question, Gu Fangzi immediately got both angry and annoyed, glaring with her narrow phoenix eyes and angrily saying: "Not like my temperament? What do you think my temperament should be? She is your wet nurse after all, can’t I even understand such basic principles? In your eyes, I, I—"
Gu Fangzi’s eyes reddened with grievance, nearly bursting into tears.