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"Later, the young master ordered me to keep an eye on Cao Lingling, but he never said to treat her as a proper visiting lady, so I treated her as a maid, having her help clean the yard on a regular basis. When the young master found out about this, he didn't make a sound and even said that treating her as a maid was fine, since the Cao Family originally wanted her to be a maid anyway. Today's incident was because I was being lazy for a moment, seeing that two people couldn't finish carrying the food, I called her to help. But Madame can rest assured, the food was personally prepared by me, I didn't let her assist, and it was also me who packed the food boxes. I only had her carry them along the way and I kept an eye on her while setting up the meal, so she had no chance to tamper with anything. I will never again give her the chance to do such a thing, so please forgive me this once, Madame."
After speaking, Sister-in-law Li knelt and kowtowed to Yang Chuxia.
