What surprised Wei Changying was that, Mrs. He, who had always been termagant and aggressive, didn't wait for her to introduce Mrs. Huang after they met, instead, Mrs. He directly greeted Mrs. Huang with surprise and delight, "Am I dreaming? Are you really Sister Huang?"

Mrs. Huang winked at her with a smile, and said, "I heard that First Miss had a cough yesterday? Although she feels good now, it's better not to get in a draught."

Mrs. He did not feel that Mrs. Huang had taken her power to give orders as soon as she came. On the contrary, Mrs. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes, look at me. I completely forget about First Miss after seeing you, my sister!"

Being surrounded by them and entering into the door, Wei Changying was puzzled. After sitting down, she invited her two grannies to sit down as well, and asked, "Just now my grandmother said that Granny He and Granny Huang knew each other. I wonder if you could tell me about it?"

Mrs. He had been staring intently at Mrs. Huang for a long time, and it looked like she had lots of words to pour out. On hearing Wei Changying's words, she started talking without thinking, "First Miss, you don't know. Sister Huang and I could be said to have grown up together, just like Zhu Shi and Zhu Lan now. After the day you were born, I happened to haven't weaned yet, so I became your wet nurse. However, when you were more than five months, I accidentally ate something wrong, making you spit up milk for two days in a row. For that, I almost lost the chance of serving you. Thanks to Sister Huang's medicinal dishes to tone my body, I could continue to stay with you!"

Wei Changying looked at Mrs. Huang in surprise, "Granny Huang, you can do medicinal diets? Are you proficient in medicine?"

"Sister Huang's medicinal diets are not much worse than Lu Yuan's." Mrs. He had always been happy these days. Now at the sight of the old friend who hadn't seen each other for more than a decade, she was very excited and forgot some taboos, blurting out that, "After all, they were all taught by Miracle Doctor Ji step by step!"

Before Mrs. He's voice had died away, Mrs. Huang still had a smile on her face, but she undoubtedly snatched the initiative to speak, "We haven't seen each other for more than ten years. Yet Sister He, you have never changed your temper. Now First Miss is here, but you seem to focus on talking about the old days, forgetting what First Miss was used to doing at this time.”

Wei Changying had long heard that Madam Song mentioned the taboo of Ji Qubing, and at this moment, she would never dive to the bottom of the truth. However, seeing that Mrs. He couldn’t keep things to herself in the slightest, Wei Changying also sighed in her heart and secretly murmured, "No wonder my grandma always wants to exhort Granny He. Granny He is good at everything, but she can hardly retain her composure when she gets excited. If this is told to my grandmother, I am afraid that it will cause some serious problems...But Granny Huang always keeps a straight face. After all, she is the one my grandmother treasures."

Though Wei Changying sighed like this, she didn't think that she would detest Mrs. He for this reason. Nevertheless, she attached a little more importance to Mrs. Huang, and said, "I usually don't do anything special at this moment, but now it is a good chance for you, my granny, to recognize my people—Qin'ge and Yan'ge, go and call everyone."

After the eight maidservants in the Xianshuang Court had met Mrs. Huang, Wei Changying asked Mrs. He to accompany Mrs. Huang to see the cleaned houses. Mrs. He smiled and said, "These houses have been empty for years, which contain high humidity. It's raining now. I live alone and the room is quite spacious, so I just asked someone to tidy it up. So, how about letting Sister Huang live with me first?"

Wei Changying asked Mrs. Huang, "What does Granny Huang think?"

Mrs. Huang surely had no problem.

Wei Changying made small talks with Mrs. Huang for a while, and it was fairly late. Noticing that Mrs. He had an obvious desire of pouring out her heart with Mrs. Huang after parting for so long, Wei Changying couldn't help laughing and said to them, "I feel a bit exhausted. My grannies, you may suit yourselves now, letting Yan'ge and Qin'ge sit up with the night."

Mrs. He answered with great happiness, "First Miss, thanks so much for your consideration!"

Mrs. Huang helplessly glanced at Mrs. He. They both thanked Wei Changying, and retreated together.

The next day.

Wei Changying made preparations for Mrs. Huang's getting up late. Even if she didn't, her appearance would be somewhat languishing. After all, Mrs. He already had the desire of spouting in front of Wei Changying yesterday. When Mrs. He slept with Mrs. Huang on the same bed after more than 10 years, just a few things would be enough for Mrs. He to talk about the whole night, or at least for the most of the night, till she became so sleepy that she couldn't continue.

Mrs. Huang just arrived yesterday, and had been exhausted from a long travel. Moreover, she was disturbed by Mrs. He for another night. Therefore, it would be abnormal for Mrs. Huang to be in good spirits today.

Thinking of this and seeing that the rain hadn’t stopped, Wei Changying planned to find something to do. Hardly had she asked someone to lay out the paper and grind ink when Mrs. He and Mrs. Huang entered the door together. Though not being energetic, they were not as depressed as expected.

Not waiting for Wei Changying to show an unexpected look, Mrs. He and Mrs. Huang had already awkwardly confessed to her, “ We get up late, First Miss, please punish us!"

"Granny Huang was on her way yesterday, and it's okay to get up later this morning." Wei Changying smiled and said, "Granny He hasn't seen Granny Huang for more than ten years. It's human nature for you to accompany Granny Huang."

Wei Changying showed some consideration for Mrs. He in her words. After all, the most likely reason for their late arrival was that Mrs. He held onto Mrs. Huang for chatting and stayed up late. However, Wei Changying's words had attributed the reason for being late to Mrs. Huang's getting up alone, and Mrs. He was just waiting for her.

It seemed that Mrs. Huang did not mind taking the blame for Mrs. He. In the meanwhile, Mrs. Huang thanked Wei Changying for her tolerance with Mrs. He together. Then Mrs. He greeted Wei Changying in every aspect according to her usual habits and asked Jiaoge and others who had been serving from time to time. Mrs. Huang stood beside, listened attentively and remembered carefully.

Till the afternoon, Wei Changying looked at the copper clepsydra in the corner of the house, sipping her tea served by Jiaoge, and slowly said, "Yesterday my grandmother handed over an errand to me. I think it is better to do it as soon as possible. However, I am still young. My grandmother and mother used to handle everything for me in the past. Now it's my turn for the first time and surely I will have some problems. So I may need your help, my grannies.”

Although it was said so, it obviously meant to test Mrs. Huang.

It was not that Wei Changying deliberately found fault with Mrs. Huang. In the Xianshuang Court, Mrs. He was originally the head of the servants. Now Mrs. Huang came, although Mrs. He didn't make it clear, her attitude to be led by Mrs. Huang was quite obvious. Mrs. He and Mrs. Huang grew up together, and it seemed that Mrs. He admired Mrs. Huang very much. The problem was that Mrs. He was willing to submit under Mrs. Huang, but these people including Qin'ge were not necessarily the same.

Originally, four maids including Zhu Shi were trained by Mrs. He, and they naturally obeyed her. The other four including Qin'ge used to be secret guards and they were new here to serve Wei Changying. Absolutely they didn't dare to neglect Mrs. He, who took care of Wei Changying from childhood till now—but as for Mrs. Huang who suddenly appeared, why could she become the leader of the crowd as soon as she entered the Xianshuang Court?

Of course, due to the attitudes of Old Madam, Wei Changying and Mrs. He, people like Qin'ge didn't have the courage to speak out. But this didn't mean that they were genuinely convinced.

It was better to simply look for an opportunity to let Mrs. Huang show off her skills. In that way, both the old and the young maids would know why Mrs. He, who was not easygoing, submitted to Mrs. Huang the moment she arrived at the Xianshuang Court. Otherwise, if servants were always suspicious of Mrs. Huang, they would inevitably bear a grudge as time went by, which was very unfavorable for the unity of the whole family. As for the thought that Mrs. Huang would be defeated, Wei Changying had not considered this possibility at all. Didn't she know her own grandmother?

Old Madam Song had extremely discerning eyes. How could the person she appreciated be a pompous person?

As expected, as soon as Mrs. Huang heard those words, she smiled but didn't say anything, letting Mrs. He asked first, "What did Old Madam want you to do, First Miss?"

"Fourth sister and fifth sister..." Wei Changying only mentioned a bit. Mrs. He's eyes lit up and said, "Was it that Old Madam asked you to deal with the two little... Uh!" Mrs. He was glanced by Mrs. Huang with a resentful look, and subconsciously swallowed back the following words which were obviously not good to hear, and smiled awkwardly.

Wei Changying looked dejectedly at the termagant and arrogant wet nurse who seemed to be subdued by Granny Huang. Though she knew that Mrs. Huang was good for Mrs. He, she still felt a kind of frustration in her mind that her own person was far inferior to that of her grandmother. After a pause, she said, "Grandma hoped that I could deal with this issue by myself. Before I told her my decision, my grandmother didn't intend to interfere. Yesterday, they also greeted me, but I didn't pay much attention to it...Oh, yes, Granny Huang, do you have any idea of what happened? Granny He, why don't we tell Granny Huang the whole thing first?"

Mrs. He smacked her lips, and said briefly, "Sister Huang, it was just what I told you yesterday. First Miss went to the mansion of Duke Jingping to express her condolences."

"..." Wei Changying was silent. Mrs. He couldn't wait to talk about the old days with Mrs. Huang yesterday. They were separated for more than ten years. Even if they only talked about the major events of those years, they couldn't finish chatting the entire night. Seeing that they were quite energetic, they didn't stay up late until midnight. At most, she estimated that they just talked for an hour before going to sleep. As usual, it was even not enough for them to recall their adolescence and sigh with emotion that youth had ebbed nowadays.

Not to mention that, according to the normal reminiscing, after talking about the memories and lamenting the past, Mrs. He would continue to ask why Mrs. Huang suddenly came to Hangzhou...Well, it was not certain that how much time they would spend chatting about this, after all, it was easy to skew the topic to the second branch...

Any one of these topics could be chatted overnight: Whether Wei Shengyi, who was the son of his father's concubine but was capable, living with an ailing lineal elder brother, had the heart to imitate Wei Huan; What situation Wei Changsui was in now, after he almost became Wei Zhenghong's stepson— the heir of the eldest branch; What were the achievements now of Old Madam's past arrangements before returning to Fengzhou; The fighting experiences and triumphant records of Mrs. Huang and Mrs. Duanmu's ten years of mansion fight...What's more, both Mrs. He and Mrs. Huang were old servants. They knew much more about the past events than the descendants of the Wei Family like Wei Changying did—therefore, they talked about them more often.

Nevertheless, now Mrs. He had carefully explained the process of accompanying Wei Changying to the mansion of Duke Jingping to offer condolences to Mrs. Huang. There was only one possibility, which was that Mrs. Huang had completely dominated their conversations. Skipping over reminiscing and lamenting, Mrs. Huang directly asked about Wei Changying's recent situation, or maybe asked straightly about her experience after the assassination till now. After she finished asking these questions, it was almost an hour, and then, Mrs. Huang let Mrs. He shut up and they fell asleep.

...Why did Wei Changying feel that she had lost to her grandmother again? Although Mrs. Huang also took care of her in her infancy, the problem was that Granny He had been her first confidant who was beside her when she grew up for so many years.

"Granny He, you....” Wei Changying secretly shed tears in her heart for a while, comforting herself, "Forget it, Granny He did not mean to compete with Mrs. Huang, and it saved me the trouble of mediation. Anyway, Granny He was not as sophisticated as Mrs. Huang, and it was a good thing for her to give way voluntarily... Well, didn’t I expect them to live in harmony?"

Wei Changying suddenly felt a bit confused....

After listening to Mrs. He's words, Mrs. Huang lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked up and smiled at Wei Changying, "Sister He told me about this last night. What do you think, First Miss?"