"What? The midwife is back?"
Jiang smashed a red coral hairpin with a snap, stood up from her dressing table, and asked, "When did she return? Wasn't she trapped in Jizhou?"
The maid knelt on the ground, trembling with fear, and replied, "This... this servant doesn't know either. This servant only saw the eldest young lady enter the general's mansion with an old nanny and a little girl. This servant inquired around and heard from the people in Guihua Garden that one of the two was Granny Liu, and the other was the eldest young lady's adopted sister in Jian'an City."
"Useless! All of you are useless!"
Enraged, Jiang threw all the bottles and jars on the dressing table to the ground, where they clattered and crashed.
She turned around furiously and yelled, "What kind of people did you send? They can't even handle this little thing! I just asked them to kill an old woman, and they haven't even managed to kill her in almost two months. She just came back unharmed! What are they if not good-for-nothings?"
"Madam, it's just that the old woman has too many skilled fighters around her. Not only are the generals sent by the master, but there's also a group of people who came from who-knows-where. They are all highly skilled and have great martial arts. Every time we send a group of people, a group of them die. They can't get close to the old woman at all!" the maid explained.
But Madam Jiang was in no mood to listen to these explanations. The presence of Granny Liu was like a cleaver hanging over her head, and she didn't know when it would fall.
Granny Liu is the only person in the General's Mansion who knows her secret!
If she reports her, all her hard work over the years will be ruined!
Shen Wei probably won't tolerate her anymore!
Jiang turned around, looking at her face with fine lines at the corners of her eyes in the mirror, and touched her reflection. She had endured so many years; her daughters had become two crown princesses, and her two sons had yet to be ennobled. Her good days were just beginning, and she absolutely could not let an old woman ruin them!
Thinking of this, a strong killing intent flashed in Jiang's eyes.
So what if that brat brings that old woman back to the general's mansion?
Once we're right under her nose, aren't we completely at her mercy?
Killing someone in the general's mansion is much easier than outside!
Madam Jiang turned around, flicked her sleeves, and looked at the kneeling maid: "Who are the servants serving in Osmanthus Garden?"
"Reporting to Madam, I know someone named..."
Before the kneeling maid could finish speaking, she was interrupted by another maid who ran in from outside.
"lady!"
Seeing that the person who returned was a maid who had been sent to the study to inquire about the news, Madam Jiang sat down by the table and asked the maid to come forward and report.
The maidservant stepped forward and whispered a few words in Jiang's ear. After listening, Jiang glanced at the maidservant sideways, her tone tinged with doubt: "Are you telling the truth? That old woman really has amnesia?"
"Reporting to Madam, this is absolutely true; it was that old woman herself who said it..."
Xiao Ling didn't listen to what was said after that. He closed the roof tiles and left Wude Courtyard silently.
study.
"You mean, you lost your memory after falling off the cliff? You don't remember anything? Yuan Yuan was in your arms at the time, and you couldn't find her parents, so you took her home and raised her? You named her after the embroidery on the swaddling blanket?"
Old Madam Shen looked at Granny Liu with suspicion, "Are you pretending to have amnesia to deceive us in order to escape the General's Mansion's accountability?"
Shen Yuan said in a deep voice, "I can testify for Grandma; she never lied!"
“Yuanyuan, your father knows that you and Granny Liu have a deep bond after more than ten years of getting along, and he doesn’t want us to punish her. Your father can promise you that he won’t punish her, but she must tell us the truth about what happened back then!” Shen Wei leaned back on the soft couch, holding the old quilt that Granny Liu had given him more than ten years ago, which had wrapped Shen Yuan in, and stared intently at Granny Liu.
His pupils were jet black, and his gaze was sharp as a sword, as if it could see through everything.
In the military camp, a single glance from him was enough to make prisoners of war kneel down and beg for mercy.
But Granny Liu met Shen Wei's gaze with composure and said, "General Shen, what good will it do me to lie?"
“You say I’m from the Liu family in Hongluo Lane in the west of the city, and that I have a husband and children here. Since I have my own home and children, why would I steal your General’s mansion’s child and secretly raise him for seventeen years thousands of miles away? What am I after?”
This question left Shen Wei speechless, and even Old Madam Shen couldn't understand the reason.
To be honest, Granny Liu really had no motive to steal the child.
But why did she stay in Jian'an City with Shen Yuan for a full seventeen years?
Jian'an City is a thousand miles away from the capital. What is she trying to achieve by living in such a far place?
Just as I was thinking this, I heard Granny Liu say, "You suspect that I stole the child and am now pretending to have amnesia. I also suspect that you sent people to hunt me down back then. Otherwise, why would I have run all the way from the capital to Jian'an? Jian'an is so far away. If it weren't for escaping for my life, who would leave their home and run so far away?"
Hearing what Granny Liu said, Shen Wei frowned. He felt that Granny Liu's words made some sense.
Something must have happened back then that he still doesn't understand!
Shen Wei lowered his head and pondered, "Granny Liu, I will definitely investigate the matter thoroughly and give you justice. I will also ask a doctor to treat your amnesia."
After saying that, Shen Wei stood up, supported by the soft couch, and looked at Shen Yuan.
“Now that Granny Liu has returned, she can testify about your origins. Once I recover, I will go to the ancestral hall to add your name back to the family genealogy.”
Shen Yuan shook her head. "Whether my name is on the Shen family genealogy or not is not important to me."
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