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Chapter 254 A Mysterious Middle-aged Woman
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Of course, Qingyu didn't happen to stay at the gate of the backyard. Since Ning Xueyan found the strange item of Ning Zu'an's account, she cut the cost and let Qingyu wait around the backyard gate where she had seen someone come to look for Ning Zu'an in her last life.
Usually, only a few people would go out of the manor, so it was not easy for others to enter the manor even through the backyard gate. But today was different. In this manor, many people were coming and going. To go the easier way, some servants directly passed in and out of the back door. Thus, these guards at the entrance were much less vigilant than usual. If someone wanted to go into the manor to find Ning Zu'an, today was his or her best opportunity.
Ning Xueyan also checked the background of the older female servant who guarded the back door. She worked neither for Madam Ling nor the Madam Dowager. Instead, she was the mother of Ning Zu'an's former subordinate, who was disabled on the
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