After parting, Nanny Qingyan ran back to the main house from the courtyard gate with her fur coat in her arms. She happened to meet Old Lady Jiang who had finished dressing and was chatting and laughing with Nanny Qingyun as she was about to go out.

"Old Lady!"

"You're an adult, yet you're still so irritable. What happened?"

As Old Lady Jiang spoke, her gaze gradually shifted down to the emerald green fur coat in Nanny Qingyan's hand.

Seeing that there were still little maids around, Nanny Qingyan didn't say anything, but just stood aside holding the fur coat.

Seeing this, Old Lady Jiang knew that Nanny Qingyan had something to say, and she turned her head to glance at the little maids following behind her.

After they wisely stepped back two or three steps, Old Lady Jiang said, "Come in with me. You wait outside."

The first "you" refers to Nanny Qingyan; the second "you" refers to the group of maids serving her.

Old Madam Jiang and Nanny Qingyan entered the main house one after another. The door was closed from the outside and guarded by Nanny Qingyun.

"This fur coat..." Madam Qingyan sighed softly, considered her words, and continued in a low voice, "Old Madam, to be honest, this matter shouldn't be my responsibility. In the past, the Second Branch secretly bullied the Second Young Miss, and you turned a blind eye, thinking it was to protect the Second Young Miss. But... the Second Branch is really too bold. Now they are openly bullying us. Not only did they snatch the Second Young Miss's marriage, but they also..."

During the pause, Nanny Qingyan glanced at Old Madam Jiang's expression and continued, "The Second Young Miss is truly pitiful. She lost her parents at a young age and is left alone. Now she's being bullied and no one can stand up for her. Take this fur coat that the Fifth Young Miss gave her, for example. The Second Young Miss seems to know nothing about it and treats it like a treasure. She touches it again and again, holding it in her hands and refusing to let go... Her hands have been pricked until they bleed... The Second Young Miss is still a child after all, with a simple mind. She doesn't understand the Second House's tricks, let alone the need to be wary of certain people..."

Hearing this, Old Lady Jiang opened her eyes slightly, the smile on her face disappeared in an instant, and her expression darkened.

Nanny Qingyan hurriedly and carefully handed the fur coat wrapped around her arm to Old Lady Jiang, and reminded her, "Old Lady, be careful here."

Old Madam Jiang glanced at Nanny Qingyan suspiciously, then took the fur coat and kneaded it until her fingertips felt something strange, and her heart skipped a beat.

Carefully turning over the tufts of fur, Old Lady Jiang found a palm-sized piece of patchwork fur and saw several silver needles so thin that they were barely noticeable mixed in the soft white fur.

"Why is there such a filthy thing?"

Old Lady Jiang threw the fur coat in her hand heavily to the ground, and spoke in a tone that almost jumped out word by word.

It was obvious that Old Lady Jiang was angry, and very angry.

As Nanny Qingyan picked up the fur coat, she said, "The Second Young Miss is still young, how could she know anything about needlework? The servants do all the rough housework in the mansion. Such a tiny silver needle would be invisible unless pointed out. Poor Second Young Miss, even though she was injured, she didn't dare to say anything, and just suffered in silence... If the Master and Madam were still here..."

The expression on Old Lady Jiang's face was dark and ashen at this moment. People who knew her knew that this was the prelude to a rage.

Although Jiang Fugui was raised in the countryside elsewhere before she was thirteen years old and did not grow up with her, she was still her granddaughter and the only child of the eldest son.

It had only been a short time since she returned home, but someone was already rushing to use the secrets of the rear quarters to deal with her. Their intentions were obvious!

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