After finding out that Xiaomei wasn’t going to be the young miss’s personal maidservant, the feeling of crisis within Yingtao’s relaxed by more than a half. She wiped the tears off her face and asked, “Young Miss, did you also give Xiaomei her name too? She also has a name related to trees [1]!”

When Yingtao and the rest of the personal maids got promoted, they all asked their young miss to give them names. Yu Xiaocao felt that her own name [2] was based off of a tenacious plant, so she also decided to give plant-based names to her personal maids. Thus, the names were: Yingtao (cherry), Pipa (loquat), Yangliu (willow), and Wutong (Chinese parasol tree). Of the names, two of them were related to fruit-bearing trees and two were related to wood-bearing trees. In fact, all of the names given to her maids seemed a lot more elegant than her own…

Yu Xiaocao refuted her guess, “No, Xiaomei was a name given to her by her parents...you two must be tired after sitting so long in the carriage ah! Make sure to rest well today and prepare yourselves. You guys will probably be very busy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow!”

Yangliu somewhat timidly stated, “Young Miss, do you want us to help you make braised food? Although this servant had learned a few dishes from Young Miss while we were at the general’s residence, my skills are nowhere near as good as your own. However, I will definitely do my best...