The third household has a new master, everyone in the Song Mansion knows it. Although she's just a concubine, she is a noble concubine and has a child by her side, so her status is more respected than the two childless ones of the old man.
However, besides the old man who can be ignored as he wanders with a concubine outside, there is just this one concubine in the mansion, others are all official wives, so it doesn't warrant the servants rushing to curry favor. After all, it's best to feel things out with the newcomer first.
Yet, with the arrival of the newcomer in the third household, the minds of the mansion's maidservants of the right age became lively. Their usually plain and simple dress suddenly became graceful.
The third lord already has a concubine. Who knows if the other lords might suddenly realize the boredom of having just one beauty and go seeking other flowers?
Maidservants without ambition are like salted fish. Perhaps if they strive, they could rise above others!
