"She asked me why I was specifically looking for the old Duke. I answered truthfully, saying that I had to inform him when the second young lady returned."
"But she was furious. She said she didn't take her grandmother seriously. She didn't even go to see her during the New Year. She also said that the young masters of the first house were ignorant, unruly, and disrespectful to her as a grandmother."
"I'm afraid I've caused trouble."
Caiyu was anxious.
Yan Xinghe sat down leisurely. "The second and third wives didn't go to see her this year. Why did she ask someone from our first wife to go alone?"
The second and third wives are the most snobbish.
Now that they see that the power of managing household expenses is no longer in the hands of the old woman, and that she does not help them arrange marriages for their younger generations, they ignore her.
Hong Qingyi patted the back of Yan Funing's hand and said, "You don't have to be afraid of her."
"Of course my daughter is not afraid. She is just waiting to see what happened back then." Yan Funing said.
Yan Xinghe added, "A woman who is nearly thirty and still unmarried always seems a little off. The people from the second and third houses must have sensed something, so they brought their respective concubines in this year."
"Old aunt?" Yan Funing looked at her mother and second brother blankly.
Hong Qingyi glared at her son and explained softly, "Don't listen to your second brother calling them that. They were your grandfather's two concubines, so they are actually your step-grandmothers."
Yan Xinghe continued, "These two concubine grandmothers are the biological mothers of my second and third uncles. They also lived in the East Garden in their early years. The old woman was afraid that they would compete for her favor, so she drove them away to the manor. The condition she proposed was that their sons be registered under her name and become legitimate sons. For the sake of their sons' futures, they agreed."
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