Quick Transmigration: Reversing the Life of a Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character

The next day, Zhou Boheng went out as soon as he got up in the morning, leaving a message saying that he would be back for dinner that evening.

Lu Zhiyao heard him get up and talk to the servants outside, but she pretended not to wake up and fell asleep again. At the beginning of Chenshi (7-9 AM), she woke up naturally.

"Madam, Fifth Master said he'll be back for dinner tonight."

"Hmm." Today she was going back to her parents' home. Lu Zhilan was very efficient. Less than ten days had passed since she last visited her, and the person in charge of the inner house had already been chosen.

Today's return will be another tough battle. Lu Zhiyao didn't bring Zi Ning with her; she went back by herself.

Inside the courtyard of the old lady of the Lu family mansion.

"Yao'er, let your mother take a look."

"Mother, do I look much better?" Lu Zhiyao asked coquettishly, clinging to the old lady.

"Much better, much better, much better than when you came back last time. I heard Lan'er gave you two cooks who are good at medicinal cuisine?"

"Yes, the doctor said that medicinal diets are gentler and we can gradually recuperate."

"That's wonderful, Yao'er. When I think about how my negligence back then caused you so much suffering, I feel like slapping myself twice." The old lady, Madam Fan, raised her handkerchief to wipe the corner of her eyes.

Granny Xinrong stepped forward to comfort her, "Madam, there's no need to torment yourself like this. You couldn't have considered everything back then, so I'm sure Sixth Miss won't blame you."

Somehow, a cup of hot tea that was on the table was knocked down by Granny Xinrong's elbow and spilled on Lu Zhiyao.

"Ah, it's so hot! Mother, save me!"

"Yao'er, quickly, fetch a doctor!" Madam Fan hurriedly ordered.

Granny Xinrong was stunned for a moment, then quickly stepped forward: "Sixth Miss, you..."

"You old hag, you're not even as nimble as you used to be. Get out of here!" Madam Fan was the first to attack. Her precious daughter had just recovered a little when she was burned, right under her nose by a servant. This touched a raw nerve, reminding her of the childhood trauma of being neglected by servants.

Xinrong immediately knelt down: "This servant deserves to die, please punish me, Madam."

Just as Madam Fan was about to speak, Lu Zhiyao grabbed her hand: "Mother, it hurts."

As soon as her daughter said it hurt, she didn't care about anything else and reached out to lift up her daughter's clothes: "Someone, bring some scissors. These clothes can't stay on her body like this."

The maids surrounded her and pushed Granny Xinrong aside to kneel down.

The tea wasn't too hot, but Lu Zhiyao was so pale that her left thigh was completely red, a shocking sight. When the female doctor came to apply medicine, she was in so much pain that she grabbed her mother and cried with tears in her eyes.

Soon after, Madam Xue arrived, her breathing quickening as she entered, indicating how rushed she had been.

"Little sister, what happened? How did you get burned out of nowhere?"

"Granny Xinrong is clumsy and knocked the teacup down. Ouch, that hurts."

Madam Fan's face was pale, and her eyes were red with heartache.

After the female doctor finished applying the medicine, Lu Zhiyao took her mother's hand and said, "Mother, the head nanny by your side can't be such a clumsy person. Let's find someone else."

At this moment, with her mind and eyes completely focused on her daughter's injuries, Madam Fan had no time to think and responded to whatever her daughter said: "Okay, okay."

"When she came back last time, my daughter noticed that she was distracted and worried that she wouldn't be able to take good care of her mother. So she asked my elder sister to find one of your maids, someone younger and very quick-witted. Should we bring her up and give her a try?"

Madam Fan paused for a moment, then nodded hesitantly: "Okay."

Seizing the opportunity, Lu Zhiyao immediately ordered someone to bring Lin Shi into the mansion. Lin Shi was actually an internal steward whom Lu Zhilan had been training for several years, disguised as a servant of the old lady Fan Shi, because this identity was easier for the old lady to accept.

This shows that Fan's confusion was multifaceted; anyone could be stuffed into her room and successfully disguised as a servant.

To make it more realistic, Lin Shi has already been sent to a manor outside the city, and it will take some time to pick her up. Lu Zhilan, having received news that her sister had been scalded, will arrive even faster.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw my younger sister lying on the couch with her left leg sticking out. Her leg was covered with yellow and green medicine. My mother was sitting by the bed, my elder sister-in-law Xue was standing at the foot of the bed, and there was also Xinrong, the old nanny, kneeling on the ground crying and begging for forgiveness.

"What are you doing? Xinrong, you're an old man now, why are you crying and wailing in front of your master?" Lu Zhilan immediately stopped the scene: "No wonder Yao'er said you're unreliable, has your mother spoiled you so much that you don't know your place?"

Lu Zhiyao, feigning weakness on the couch, suppressed the corners of her mouth that were turned up. As soon as Xinrong, the old nanny, heard that someone was to come in to serve her mother, she knelt down, first begging for forgiveness, and then began to recount the years she had spent with the old lady while crying extremely miserably. Xue Shi could not speak up at this time, and the old lady Fan Shi almost softened her heart.

"Zhilan, after all..."

As soon as her mother spoke, Lu Zhiyao cried out, "Ouch, ouch, ouch! Mom, please fan me!"

"Where does it hurt? Let me see." As soon as she heard her daughter cry out in pain, Madam Fan quickly grabbed a fan and went over to her.

Lu Zhilan continued her work: "Xinrong, considering you're an old servant who took care of Mother, we only spared you from being sold off because we scalded Sixth Miss's hair. Are you still not satisfied? Now that a new maid has arrived, you're crying and wailing in front of your master. When has the Lu family ever been so unruly?"

"This servant did not burn Miss Six."

"How dare you! Even now, you still dare to argue?"

"This servant is devoted to the old lady."

"Xinrong, look at who's standing here saying such things! You think you're devoted to your master? Your heart is only for your adopted son now, where is your master anymore?" Lu Zhilan spoke calmly, yet her words were filled with despair: "Last time, those two maids of unknown origin, you lied to Mother that they were daughters of the servants' household, didn't you?"

Madam Fan asked in surprise, "Weren't those two girls chosen from the estate? Their indentures are all correct."

Who would be so audacious as to impersonate someone else and send them to the Lu family?

"Mother, the contract is right, but that doesn't mean the person is right," Lu Zhiyao silently added.

"What are they trying to do? They went through all that trouble to get into the Lu family just to become concubines for the young masters?" Although Madam Fan was muddle-headed, she had grown up in a life of luxury and naturally didn't think that a few premarital concubines could affect the young masters' marriages. She stubbornly insisted on giving them to her grandson, simply because she didn't want her daughter-in-law to be too willful.

"Mother, a woman who is trained like that will ruin the child," Lu Zhilan said simply. As for the true purpose of their mastermind, she couldn't tell her mother, because her mother couldn't hide it from her.

The two women were sent in by the prince, partly out of disgust, and partly to monitor the Lu family and force them to take sides. The father and elder brother originally wanted to observe the situation and even considered keeping them in their mother's courtyard, since the person the Lu family should not have access to the family's core secrets was their mother. However, their younger sister, who had just returned home, took them away, and the elder brother disposed of them as well. They were just pawns; the people who sent them didn't expect them to do anything significant. Their purpose was more of a warning.