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Chapter 22 Body Contract
The carriage stopped at the side door of Duke Wei's mansion, and Tang Wenjing, who had already received the news, was waiting nearby.

Qiuyu got out of the car and said, "I am Qiuyu, the first-class maidservant of the County Lady. May I ask who is in charge?"

Tang Wen looked at the three people who were carried out of the carriage and tied up like dumplings. His attitude became more respectful and he said with a bow, "Tang Wen, the head steward of the front yard."

Qiuyu saluted, "Manager Tang, I am here at the order of the County Lady to come to the Duke of Wei's mansion to see the stepmother."

Tang Wen led everyone in the palace into the front yard and said, "Young lady, please wait a moment. I will go and report to the lady."

"Thank you."

In Shengning Garden, Stepmother An was drinking medicine to preserve her pregnancy. Upon hearing Tang Wen's message, she slammed the jade bowl down on the table and sneered, "Well, I haven't even started to punish her yet, and that little bitch has the nerve to send someone to my house. Call them over. I can't handle that little bitch, and I can't even teach a servant a lesson."

Madam Zhao quickly tried to calm her down, "Madam, why are you fussing over a servant? Be careful not to hurt the prince in your belly by getting so angry."

Ever since An's reputation was ruined, the child in her belly has become her only hope.

"What should I do? Am I just going to watch that little bitch ride on my head and act wildly?" An's eyes turned red with hatred. "When I first came into the mansion as a concubine, even that bitch Song didn't dare to humiliate me like this."

That's because Song is kind-hearted, Zhao Ma sighed, Madam is lucky, although she is a concubine, she has her aunt as her mother-in-law, her cousin as her husband, and the mistress is a kind and simple person, so she has lived a comfortable life for nearly twenty years.

But looking at that eldest lady, no, now she is the county lady, she is not someone to be trifled with.

"Madam, the county lady has sent someone here to cause you trouble. If you get angry, not only will you hurt yourself, but you'll also be in trouble if you hurt the young master."

When An heard the word "County Princess", she was dazed for a moment before she realized that it was addressing that little bitch Tang Zhao. Thinking of how that little bitch had robbed her money and made her lose face, while she had risen to the top and been canonized as County Princess, An clutched her handkerchief tightly, her eyes reddened.

But what Zhao Ma said was right. Her aunt had already taken away her power as housekeeper, and the Duke was about to return to the capital. He didn't know how to punish her after hearing what happened in the capital. If she didn't have the baby in her belly as a talisman...

An couldn't stop trembling. "Mammy is right," she cried in grievance. "No matter how great the humiliation is, I will endure it for the sake of the child in my belly."

Nanny Zhao felt sad. She never expected that the lady who had enjoyed a glorious life for ten years would be forced to this point by the person who had once bullied and beaten her at will, and they could only give in step by step.

When someone came from Shengning Garden to meet a guest, Tang Wen, who had been waiting for a long time, breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to invite the person.

Nanny Zhao helped An to wash and dress, and then helped her to the main courtyard.

Qiuyu knelt and saluted, "I am Qiuyu, a maidservant of the Lady Zhaoshan, and I pay my respects to Madam."

An pretended to drink tea and deliberately left her alone for a while. Seeing that she was neither arrogant nor impatient and was smiling, she felt as if she had punched cotton and suddenly felt a tightness in her chest.

"Get up," An frowned, "What are you doing back here for no reason?"

She scolded him, "A married daughter is like spilled water. Don't go back to her parents' home easily, or people will gossip about you."

Qiuyu curled her lips and didn't respond, saying to herself, "This time I came here to bother you, Madam, with two matters."

An frowned, "What's the matter?"

"First, return them to Madam," Qiuyu clapped her hands. The palace guards dragged Nanny An and the other two into the house and threw them on the ground. "These three are dishonest and have repeatedly stolen the County Master's property. Their crimes are truly heinous. However, because they are servants given by their elders, the County Master is reluctant to punish them. Therefore, they are being sent back to the palace for Madam to deal with."

Nanny An was pressed to the ground, whimpering with a rag stuffed in her mouth.

"We have to ask the servants to sort it out," An said unhappily. Zhao Ma stepped forward and took the rag from An Ma's mouth.

"Madam, I am innocent, I am innocent!" Nanny An wailed. "I have been with you for over twenty years and have always been honest and dutiful. How could I have ever stolen a single needle or thread? It was that little bitch." Under Nanny Zhao's fierce gaze, she changed her words. "It was the county lady who framed me!"

An squinted his eyes and asked, "What do you say?"

Qiu Yu was unhurried. "May I ask, Madam, do you believe the County Master, or this old servant?"

An choked. Who could she trust? Of course she believed in Nanny An, but she couldn't say that!
"Of course, I believe the county lady," An gritted her teeth.

"That's right," Qiuyu glanced at Nanny An provocatively, "Could it be that the dignified Lady of the County would wrongly accuse a servant?"

Nanny An wanted to rush over and smash Qiuyu's smug face, but she was pinned down by the guards and could not move. She could only ask for help, "Madam, Madam, I am innocent!"

"What do you want?" An was furious.

"Madame An is Madam's dowry nanny, so naturally she should be handed over to Madam for disposal," Qiuyu said, lowering the bar. "The county lady has promised to keep this matter secret from outsiders."

An's delicate eyebrows almost stood upside down. What that little bitch meant was that if she withdrew her spies, the little bitch would not accuse Nanny An of stealing. If she didn't, the little bitch would prove that Nanny An was stealing.

Nanny An is her dowry nanny. If a servant steals, the master's morality will be questioned. She is not her biological mother, and then people will say that her stepmother is unkind!

This little bitch is holding her vital point tightly!

An's voice trembled with anger. "Come here, Madam An is unfaithful to the master. Drag her away and lock her up in the woodshed to await your punishment!"

"What about these two?" Qiuyu reminded.

An looked at Shanhu Feicui's miserable yet beautiful face and felt disgusted. This was a gift from her parents after she became pregnant. "Drag them away together!"

Seeing that everything was just as the girl expected, Qiuyu felt much more at ease. "The second thing is, Madam, please give me some indentures."

She pointed out Song Kai and the others, "The county lady has few people around her, and it's rare that these people are loyal and favored by the county lady. The county lady ordered this servant to shamelessly ask the lady to give up their love."

An smiled wryly, "There are hundreds of dowry servants, how can you only need these few?"

Qiuyu: "The county lady also wanted to keep them, but they were obsessed with their mistress, and the county lady didn't want to force them, so she let them return and continue to be loyal to their old master."

"How could the Duke's Mansion still have any use for such a person?" An deliberately ignored Tang Zhao. "Since she was given to the County Master as a dowry, she is naturally the County Master's person. How could she come back?"

"Madam Zhao, go get all the slave indentures that came with the county lady's dowry," An said, taking a sip of her tea. "Either we take them all away, or we leave them all behind."

"Miss Qiuyu, you decide for yourself!"

Qiuyu gritted her teeth. The girl definitely didn't want those traitors, but if she didn't want them, the An family would definitely not give the indentures to Song Kai and the others.

How can this be good?

(End of this chapter)