webnovelfull Chapter 141 It turns out he was just a lackey.
Chapter 141 It turns out he was just a lackey.
Upon hearing this, the two mothers who were about to take action hesitated. This was the granddaughter of Chief Steward Lai. Chief Steward Lai's family was very influential in the mansion, with many kinship ties and godparent relationships. They were currently the most respected people in the mansion.
The two mothers are at odds; I don't know if they'll fight or not. What if they retaliate against each other later?
Upon hearing this, Jia Hu realized it was Lai Da, a man he knew well. The Jia family could build a grand garden, and Lai Da could easily have a smaller one. He had momentarily overlooked Lai Da's family, but now that they'd barged in, he wouldn't hold back.
Jia Hu chuckled and stood up. Lingmiao immediately broke free from the two mothers' hands, stroking her hair and about to speak, when she heard Jia Hu say:
"Hehe, I thought it was someone else, but it's Lai Da."
The light words reached Lingmiao's ears, and she looked at Jia Hu in disbelief. Her grandfather was the head steward.
Even the elders would give him some face and address him as Steward Lai, let alone the younger generation. How could Jia Hu directly call him "Grandpa" like that?
Jia Hu continued:
"I thought he was someone powerful, but it turns out he's just a lackey."
Lingmiao shouted:
“Young Master Hu, how can you be so disrespectful? My grandfather was a servant of the Duke, and my grandmother was a servant who took care of the old lady.”
Jia Hu said impatiently:
"Oh, so what? She's still a servant. Didn't you say yourself that she's supposed to serve? She talks too much. Get her!"
Upon hearing this, the two mothers immediately took action. The young master was right; no matter how powerful someone is, they can't be more powerful than their master.
Lingmiao's face was hit hard several times, and her beautiful face immediately swelled up.
The other two maids, trembling with fear, knelt and cried out:
"Young Master Hu, we know we were wrong! We know we were wrong!"
Jia Hu raised his hand, stopping the two men. The deterrent effect was achieved; he had no interest in watching gory scenes.
Lingmiao's face was in pain and she couldn't touch it with her hands; she was finally starting to get scared.
Jia Hu:
“Tell me, who sent you to gossip about my brother? Remember, my patience is limited.”
Liu Jiang immediately said:
“I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you. We’re all old ladies who were arranged to come here because we were worried that there wouldn’t be enough people in the young men’s courtyard.”
But when we arrived, we could only do trivial things and couldn't go inside to serve anyone.
Later, Lingmiao suggested that we whisper some sweet nothings to Young Master Zhu, so that if he listened and trusted us, he would obey us, and we would have a chance to enter the house and serve him.
Jia Hu gave a cold laugh.
"That's it?"
Lingmiao endured the throbbing pain on her face and said:
"Young Master Hu, please don't believe them!"
"It was clearly a collective decision made together, and now they're trying to get away with it by smearing me."
Another maid, Liu Hong, retorted upon hearing this:
"It was clearly you who said that your grandfather, Steward Lai, sent you here so that you could serve several young masters."
If I gain favor in the future and can serve the three young masters, I can travel around with them more often.
"You said you're pretty. If we could always serve you closely, we'd definitely get you. With the favor of those older men, maybe they could even take you in, and we could all benefit from it."
Liu Jiang said:
"That's how it is. You say you have connections, and then your eldest and second eldest uncles will take you in because of your grandfather."
But ever since we came to this courtyard, we haven't had a chance to get close to the three young masters.
You got impatient and thought of sowing discord among the three young masters. Thinking that Young Master Zhu was young and easy to manipulate, you approached him.
Lingmiao was furious. These two despicable women, seeing her current state, were throwing all sorts of mud at her, even though they clearly intended to do the same.
"You two little bitches, wasn't it you who said Liu Hong!"
You said that Young Master Hu is hard to handle, and Young Master Zhen is from that household.
"Only Young Master Zhu is so young. Could we coax him into listening to us and only trusting us?"
Jia Hu felt disgusted. It turned out that not only were they eyeing his courtyard, but they were also eyeing his father and second uncle, and even planning to control his younger brother in the future.
Jia Hu was so angry that his expression became even more blank.
Dong Yun's hands were trembling with anger. If Young Master Hu hadn't found out about what happened today, and if Young Master Zhu had really believed it, wouldn't she have made a huge mistake?
As a head maid, deeply trusted by her master and in charge of managing the courtyard, she had made such a huge mistake.
Dongyun angrily went up and kicked each of the three people a few times. How could these people be so vicious!
She was also angry with herself for not stopping the decision to send people to the hospital.
The old lady had only asked casually at the time; she hadn't explicitly said she would send someone.
Thinking of this, Dongyun suddenly frowned. That's it!
It was Lai's mother who kept saying that the young masters shouldn't be wronged, which is why the old lady decided to send someone over.
No wonder! It turns out he was bringing his granddaughter over.