After Granny Shen and another person arrived at the Qingping Marquis's residence in a carriage, they immediately delivered the old lady's invitation.

As soon as the old lady's invitation was delivered to the gatekeeper, the gatekeeper hurriedly went to the main courtyard to announce it. Although it was just a servant delivering the invitation, it was still an invitation from the old lady of the Yongning Marquis's residence. Even if the Lady of Qingping didn't care about anything else, she still harbored some fear of the old lady of the Yongning Marquis's residence.

Lady Qingping instructed her capable maid to greet Granny Shen at the door and led her to the banquet area in the main courtyard.

Lady Qingping said, "It is a rare honor for Granny Shen to grace us with her presence. Please have a seat."

Granny Shen bowed to Madam Qingping and said with a smile, "Greetings, Madam. I've come today because of the invitation I sent to our eldest daughter a few days ago. It's been several days now, and we haven't received a reply or seen our eldest daughter return. Our matriarch was furious this morning, saying that our third master is in Ganzhou with his whole family. She misses them very much, so the third master sent our ninth daughter and seventh young master back. The mansion has sent an invitation to our eldest daughter to come home so that her brothers and sisters can get together."

At this point, Lady Qingping blushed. Of course, she had seen the invitation. The gatekeeper had delivered it to her room. In the past few days, Lady Qingping had almost placed Xu Gao under house arrest in an attempt to force him to hand over his dowry. Xu Gao didn't care about anything else, but he remembered the teachings of his grandmother and mother before his marriage. They said that the Qingping family was wealthy and powerful, and he must never use his dowry to supplement the Qingping family. Once it happened, it would happen again. The dowry was something his family gave him to rely on, and he would have to rely on it to raise his children in the future.

Xu Gao gritted her teeth and refused to budge, so Lady Qingping wouldn't let her leave the courtyard. Just then, the Yongning Marquis's residence sent over an invitation. Seeing that it was from the Yongning Marquis's residence, Lady Qingping assumed that Xu Gao's dowry had said something back home, which made her even angrier. So she simply didn't even hand the invitation to Xu Gao. Xu Gao, of course, didn't know that his ninth sister and seventh brother had returned from Ganzhou.

Judging from the expression on the face of the Lady of Qingping, Granny Shen guessed the situation pretty accurately. She felt sad for her eldest daughter. Not only was the eldest daughter beautiful and kind, but her ability to manage a household was also cultivated in the mansion from a young age. Marrying into the Qingping Marquis's mansion was considered a marriage below her station. It was only because the old lady and the Marquis had both taken a liking to Cheng Kai that they married their daughter into the Qingping Marquis's mansion.

Granny Shen smiled and said, "Madam, this old servant is here on the orders of the old lady to ask our eldest daughter why she, as the eldest sister, did not go home after receiving the invitations when her sisters returned from afar. Even if she had something she couldn't get away from, she could have at least explained it to them."

Upon hearing this, Lady Qingping kept giving a wink to one of the old women beside her. The old woman slipped out quietly. Granny Shen naturally saw this, but pretended not to, and just kept smiling at Lady Qingping.

At this moment, Lady Qingping was truly in a difficult position. Thinking that her confidante had already gone to Xu Gao's courtyard to instruct him, she smiled and said, "She's young, so she might really have something going on. Granny, why don't I invite our eldest young mistress over so you can ask her properly?"

Granny Shen smiled and said, "How can I, a mere servant, let my master come and explain to me? How about this, Madam, please have someone escort me to our eldest young lady's courtyard."

Lady Qingping had no choice but to arrange for someone to deliver it to Xu Gao's courtyard. After Granny Chen left, the Qingping family members angrily threw their teacups on the ground and said, "Are they here to cause trouble in our house? Listen to this, listen to this! They keep calling her their eldest daughter. Their eldest daughter is now a member of our family, our daughter-in-law!"

Some of the servants covered their hands with handkerchiefs to pick up the broken pieces of porcelain on the ground, while others served the Qingping Earl's family another cup of tea. Still others, who were favored by the Qingping Earl's wife, stepped forward to comfort her. After everyone had been busy, the Qingping Earl's wife finally calmed down.

Granny Shen, accompanied by two old women she had brought, followed a woman who seemed to have considerable influence in the Qingping Marquis's residence, and walked towards Xu Gao's courtyard.

When Xu Gao came to deliver the dowry, Granny Shen had come to see it so that she could go back and tell the old lady. Granny Shen felt something was wrong as she walked, so she called out to the person who brought her there and said with a smile, "Sister, this road doesn't lead to our eldest daughter's courtyard, does it? I remember our eldest daughter's courtyard is behind your lady's courtyard, near the garden."

The old woman looked around and, seeing that no one was around, whispered, "Sister, our young master and mistress have already moved to a courtyard in the back."

Granny Shen stood there and looked around. She said in surprise, "This is almost to the back wall of your Qingping Marquis's mansion! Our eldest daughter is the wife of your heir. How can she move to such a remote place?"

The old woman said, "Our mistress consulted a fortune teller who said that it would be beneficial for the young master and mistress to have children if they lived here. So the young master and the eldest mistress moved here in the spring."

Granny Shen turned pale with anger and said, "How can this be? Your young master is the first master of your Qingping Marquis's mansion. How can he live in such a remote place?"

The old woman sighed and said, "Old sister, we are all servants, how could we know what our masters are thinking?"

Granny Shen secretly took out a purse from her sleeve and handed it to the old woman. The old woman squeezed it and felt that there seemed to be a folded piece of paper inside. She was surprised to find that it was a silver note. Everyone said that the eldest young mistress of the mansion was rich, but that was because the Yongning Marquis's mansion was rich. It seemed that it was true. Even a nanny who went out was using silver notes to tip people.

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