Rebirth: Contract Husband Falls in Love with Me
Chapter 145 - 73: Reporting Without a Change in Expression

Chapter 145: Chapter 73: Reporting Without a Change in Expression

"Miss, does it look alright now?" Lan Xiang carefully asked as she inserted a silver lotus hairpin into the bun.

Gu Fangzi lifted her eyes to look, and apart from the silver hairpin, there were also silver hairpins with flower designs on her hairdo. Even though the carving and craftsmanship were decent, silver was still silver, and it looked cheap no matter how one saw it!

"That will do, let it be!" Gu Fangzi snorted coldly, plotting in her heart to have her cousin get her some white jade or green jade jewelry no matter what. In the past, she only liked colorful and bright various gold filigree, gold carvings, kingfisher feathers, and ruby and sapphire cat’s-eye jewelry, disdaining jade for being too plain and pure. But now she couldn’t wear any of those previous pieces! Not only could she not wear them, but they had all been scavenged by that cheap woman Sang Wan!

Gu Fangzi couldn’t help but feel a pang of heartache, secretly determined to make her spit them all out.

After she finished grooming herself, the maid brought breakfast, consisting of a bowl of eight-treasure lotus seed and lily porridge, a bowl of red rice porridge, a plate of crispy sesame cakes, a plate of vegetarian steamed dumplings, along with two or three small side dishes to go with the porridge.

"Is this all?" Gu Fangzi’s face darkened all of a sudden.

Lan Xiang understood her meaning and hurriedly whispered in response: "Miss, you are currently in a mourning period, so the food is all vegetarian..."

The mourning period again! The grievously tormented Gu Fangzi held back her anger once more and silently sat down to eat the completely vegetarian breakfast.

"Let’s go, we should pay respects to Auntie!" After breakfast and rinsing her mouth, Gu Fangzi stood up and said.

Lan Xiang wanted to remind her to properly arrange Master Gu’s tablet and light an incense first, but she opened her mouth and then closed it again.

Walking on this once all-too-familiar path, the scenery remained the same as ever, but Gu Fangzi’s heart began to feel uncomfortable again.

After all, her entering the house was a joyous occasion, wasn’t it? It was understandable to not wear red and bright colors, but there wasn’t even a symbolic celebration, not even the lanterns hanging on the corridor or the potted flowers placed on the steps showed signs of being redecorated with care!

Is she really so negligible?

Sang Wan! Gu Fangzi clenched her teeth in hate, despising Sang Wan even deeper in her bones, yet she conveniently ignored Mrs. Li.

Mrs. Wang had just woken up as usual, still in her nightclothes, casually draped in a wide robe embroidered with large peonies, and doing her hair.

Hearing "Cousin Miss has come to pay respects to the Mistress!", Mrs. Wang was startled and then smiled: "Why so early? This child, really, how could she suddenly become a stranger! Quickly, ask her to come in and sit down!"

The maid had yet to leave with an acknowledgement when Gu Fangzi already lifted the curtain and stepped in, smiling and saying, "Auntie! Fangzi is here to pay her respects!"

"Hehe, good, good!" Mrs. Wang turned her head for a glance. Gu Fangzi, donned in simple and clean clothing with equally understated hair ornaments, actually appeared more pure and elegant than usual, prompting sympathy.

Thinking of her parents’ deaths and her lonely and miserable state, Mrs. Wang’s heart softened even more, and with pity, she said with a smile: "Did you rest well yesterday? Why did you get up so early! Please sit outside, Auntie will be ready in a moment!"

"Mhm, I was fine yesterday, thank you Auntie for your concern! Auntie has always been the best to me!" Gu Fangzi nodded and smiled, moving forward to take the ivory wide-toothed comb from Mrs. Jiang’s hands, saying with a laugh: "It’s been a long time since I combed Auntie’s hair, let me do it!"

Remembering that she was in her mourning period, Mrs. Wang stiffened a bit, but couldn’t bear to reject her kind intentions, and with a chuckle let her be.

Gu Fangzi first used the wide-tooth comb to carefully smooth out Mrs. Wang’s hair, then used a delicate sandalwood comb to style it. Putting down the comb, her dexterous fingers flitted through Mrs. Wang’s hair, glossy as black satin, quickly creating a beautiful peony and talisman bun, and then carefully decorated it with a gold ruby and sapphire grass and mushroom auspiciousness hairpin and a caterpillar and kingfisher hair ornament.

"Auntie’s hair is still so nice! It’s like satin, so black, shiny, and smooth!" Gu Fangzi said with a smile while complimenting.

Mrs. Wang looked at herself in the mirror and was also quite satisfied with Gu Fangzi’s handiwork, holding her hand and smiling: "Hehe, Auntie is starting to get grey hairs, it’s not as good as you say! But your skills, they’ve improved since before! You comb it both quickly and well, exactly to my liking!"

Gu Fangzi continued to help Mrs. Wang stand up while busily smiling: "If Auntie likes it, I can comb your hair every day from now on, how about that?"

"That—" Mrs. Wang gently patted her hand and said with a smile: "You still need to observe mourning, how can you run here and there every day like that, it’s too tiring!" Having said that, she sighed, "You poor child, you’ve suffered!"