The Fourth Lady novel Chapter 6

After taking a glance at the small pouch and whispering a few instructions to Baizhi, Qingyan took Zizhu and Lue with her and headed towards the old madam's Meixiangyuan*. As soon as she entered into Meixiangyuan, she heard someone say, "Old Madam, the fourth young miss came."

(*TN: Meixiang is the name of the residence roughly meaning the fragrance of plum flowers, and Yuan mostly means courtyard. The entire Su residence is made up of different houses gated together and each relative has their own 'yuan'.)

Instantly when she heard Qingyan, Su Jiashi walked out with her cane. Qingyan walked up to support her as she said, "Grandmother is getting older, just leave it to me." With a face full of smiles, she helped Su Jiashi back into the room.

"Fourth young miss came just in time, Old Madam was just about to eat." Yunxiang was setting the table with the dishes when she saw Qingyan slowly coming in with Su Jiashi.

"Yan'er, have you had breakfast?" Su Jiashi said this as she held onto Qingyan.

"Yan'er was thinking that grandmother has yet to have breakfast, thus came to eat with you." Qingyan looked to Su Jiashi with a mischievous smile, "Grandmother won't not welcome Yan'er, right?"

Listening to Qingyan's words, Su Jiashi poked her forehead, "This child, truly mischievous, when have I ever not welcomed you."

Qingyan saw how Su Jiashi was still full of smiles. When she looked at Su Jiashi it was like seeing her grandmother in the past. That time, when she was being rejected by everyone, the old madam protected her. She wasn't able to properly protect her grandmother that time, but now, she will properly protect this grandmother in front of her.

Qingyan smiled as she personally pulled out the chair for Su Jiashi, even personally pass her food.

After breakfast, she sat down next to Su Jiashi and said with a difficult expression, "Before was all Yan'er's fault, Yan'er wasn't being thoughtful and made grandmother sad, from now on I will definitely refrain from doing those foolish things."

Listening to Qingyan's words, Su Jiashi patted her head, "Silly child, how could grandmother blame you, seeing as you are now, grandmother is very happy."

Taking the opportunity, Qingyan cried into Su Jiashi's embrace, "From now on Yan'er will definitely be good to grandmother."

Su Jiashi listened to Qingyan as she embraced her, she comforted her in a soft voice, "My child, don't say such things."

After saying that, Su Jiashi wiped Qingyan's tears with a handkerchief. Feeling the warmth, she lifted her head to look at Su Jiashi. Taking the handkerchief, she wiped her tears and playfully replied, "Grandmother, from now on this grandchild will come here everyday to steal food from you."

"Haha yes yes." Su Jiashi said this as she patted Qingyan's hand, "Huixiang ah, bring that top quality Liuyunjing* that Duke An sent yesterday for my Yan'er."

(*TN: Liuyunjing - type of silk used to make clothes with)

After receiving the request, Huixiang went to prepare the tapestry, however she didn't expect that she would run into the second house's Ning Siyao and Su Qingyuan heading in this direction.

"Greetings Madam, First young miss." Huixiang bowed to them.

"Hmph" Ning Siyao glanced at Huixiang before entering the room with Su Qingyuan. However, she didn't expect that she would see Su Qingyan massaging Su Jiashi's leg.

"Oh what's this?" Su Jiashi looked at the mother-daughter pair and said this in an unfriendly manner.

Hearing Su Jiashi's tone, she replied smiling, unconcerned, "Mother-in-law, yesterday our Yuanyuan fell into the water because of her, I hope mother-in-law would testify for our Yuanyuan."