Beast Taming Mad Concubine: The Useless Young Lady is Back!

The butler smiled and replied cheerfully, "It's good that you're smart."

“The young lady is a Holy Spirit, and is someone chosen by the master to be useful. If she were just an ordinary maid who serves the master’s daily needs, she would only need to be obedient and would not need to be clever. But someone who is to do some more important things for the master still needs to be clever. If she is too stupid, she will easily ruin the master’s plans.”

Ye Qinghao nodded: "I understand that principle, I'm just afraid..."

The butler glanced at Ye Qinghao's face and said, "Master is worried that the eldest young lady is too clever and might develop some inappropriate thoughts, which would be detrimental to you and to the Ye family."

Ye Qinghao glanced at the butler: "You seem to understand things quite well."

"I have served you, sir, for so many years, that I can naturally guess what you are thinking. But I feel that your worries are completely unnecessary."

"Oh?" Ye Qinghao raised an eyebrow: "Why do you say that?"

The butler smiled and said, "As the saying goes, old ginger is spicier. The fact that you, Master, have been able to reach your current position and elevate the wealth and prosperity of the Ye family to a new level is not due to luck, but to your strength."

“Master knows what the young lady was like in the manor before. Now she has only developed some clever ways to survive because she is struggling to make a living on the estate with her child. But they are not enough to impress Master.”

"Besides, Master has already figured out what the young lady's weakness is. As long as we hold the young lady's weakness in our hands, we don't have to worry about her being disobedient."

"Master is usually good at recognizing and employing people, and he can also make good use of Miss's cleverness..."

Seeing that Ye Qinghao's expression had softened slightly, the butler smiled and said, "Besides, didn't Master invite Abbot Jieran here to test Miss? If Miss is completely unable to cope and is convicted by Abbot Jieran, Master wouldn't dare to use her so easily, would he?"

Ye Qinghao nodded, and after a long while, he couldn't help but chuckle to himself, "Thinking back now, what just happened does make some sense. I didn't expect Qing An to use me as a shield, and I was even more certain that I would speak up for her. But I certainly didn't expect..."

As Ye Qinghao spoke, his face darkened: "I never expected that the other people's reactions would be so interesting."

The steward naturally knew who Ye Qinghao was referring to, but he lowered his eyes and remained silent. Even an upright official finds it difficult to settle family disputes, and these were matters that a servant like him could not interfere with.

"Perhaps it's because I've been neglecting the affairs of this mansion for so long that people think I can really let them run wild in this mansion."

Ye Qinghao pursed his lips and remained silent for a long time, but a hint of murderous intent gradually appeared in his eyes.

After a long pause, he gave the order: "Send people to spread rumors in the city that an imposter, Abbot Jieran, has appeared and is swindling people. Let everyone in the city be on their guard and not be fooled."

"Yes."

When Ye Qing'an returned to the courtyard, Granny Wei came to greet her with a worried expression: "Miss, how is she?"

"I've been thinking about this carefully in my room for a long time, and I feel that this matter is really strange. Recently, many things in this mansion seem to be targeting you, Miss. I wonder if this strange phenomenon is also related to this."

Granny Wei looked Ye Qing'an up and down: "I was getting more and more worried while I was in the room, but now that I see that you've come back safe and sound, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief."

Ye Qing'an's gaze swept over Granny Wei: "Granny guessed correctly, this matter is indeed aimed at me."

"Just now, Abbot Jieran said in front of everyone that there was a femme fatale in the manor who would bring ruin to the Ye family and even plunge the Siyou Kingdom into turmoil and chaos. He then said that when the femme fatale was born, she had a seal on her body that prevented her from cultivating, but recently, by chance, the seal was broken and she was able to cultivate again."

Granny Wei's eyes widened: "Isn't this exactly what..."

"Yes, he was talking about me. Not only that, he also gave me my birth date and time, saying that I was born in a yin year, yin month, and yin hour, which is the most inauspicious time."

Granny Wei was even more shocked: "What should we do then? Why would Abbot Jieran say such a thing?"

“I have never met Abbot Jieran before, so his saying this must be because someone is behind him.”

Ye Qing'an sneered: "Fortunately, I reacted quickly at the time. I said that my birth date and time were just a misrepresentation by my mother because she was afraid that I would be harmed. In fact, I was not born at that time."

Granny Wei's eyes widened: "But Madam..."

“Of course I know that’s not true.” Ye Qing’an walked straight to the chair and sat down. “But things happened so suddenly, I had no other choice.”

"Once I am branded as a femme fatale who brings ruin to the country, not only will I be affected, but the entire Ye family may also be affected. If I anger the Emperor, I may face the extermination of my entire family."

Granny Wei covered her mouth, her face filled with shock.

"So I said that, and then I said that Father was there at the time, and Father knows best."

Ye Qing'an raised her hand to wipe away non-existent sweat from her forehead: "Father probably knew that the situation was serious and that the lives of hundreds or thousands of people in the Ye family could not be risked, so he went along with what I said and admitted that I had indeed changed my birth time."

"That Abbot Jieran was probably just acting under someone's orders, rather than actually figuring out anything. After hearing what my father and I said, he didn't dare to investigate further and just made up some excuse to cover it up."

Granny Wei, who had been holding her breath, finally let out a long sigh of relief, raising her hand to pat her chest: "I was so scared! What on earth happened? Why would anyone be so cruel? Isn't this... isn't this trying to kill Miss?"

"Yes." Ye Qing'an pursed her lips. "Isn't it just that they want to kill me?"

Ye Qing'an remained silent for a while before speaking: "After going through all this, I'm also a bit tired. Granny, could you please make me a cup of fruit tea?"

Granny Wei acknowledged and withdrew. Only then did Zixiao lower her voice and say, "Miss, do you suspect...?"

Ye Qing'an pursed her lips: "I suspect everyone, but it should have nothing to do with Granny Wei. Although Granny Wei may have designs on me, she would never want to take my life."

"If I don't handle this situation properly, I'm afraid I'll lose my life."

“My death will do her no good.”

Zi Xiao pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly. After a while, she asked again, "Then... could it be the Madam's lineage?"