His tone was ice-cold, sending a chill down the spine: "What are you doing?"
"M-Master." Mammy Chen’s legs turned to jelly as she braced herself against the wall. "I—I was looking for the Madam’s jewelry. A bird snatched it and dropped it somewhere around here." Even with death staring her in the face, she was still lying.
"Then go call the servants to catch that unruly bird. Once caught, make it point out exactly where it dropped the jewelry. If you keep searching blindly like this, you’ll never find it."
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