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Chapter 174 Block the Maid on the Way to Buy Time
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2024-10-29 19:42:56A maid in the blue padded jacket rushed toward Foggy Courtyard. As she walked in a rush, she walked so fast that she nearly tripped over a stone.
The maid took a sigh of relief when she found herself at the gate of Foggy Courtyard. She wiped the sweat off her forehead with a handkerchief and was going to walk into the courtyard.
"There are many guests in our manor today. You are walking in such a hurry. What if you disturb the guests?" Lanning walked out from nowhere and said crossly, staring at the maid.
Hearing that, the maid was taken aback. When she found that the person in front of her was the first maid Lanning, she immediately argued for herself, "Sister Lanning, Third Young Lady asked me to find Mammy Luo and tell her to put the account books which Fifth Young Lady had sent here at a safe place so that they won't be stained."
"Mammy Luo is at Foggy Courtyard?" Lanning asked, pretending to be surprised. Mammy Luo was ver
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