Chapter 298 - 297 Many Oddities
Jiang Yifan watched Ye Xinyan intently as he spoke, while Ye Xinyan just sat quietly, never responding.
It wasn’t that Ye Xinyan didn’t want to speak, but Jiang Yifan’s words were too shocking for her to digest. Since Jiang Yifan hadn’t specifically pointed anything out, any hasty affirmation or denial on her part might be seen as trying to cover something up.
Furthermore, Ye Xinyan still harbored a glimmer of hope that Jiang Yifan was merely speaking off the cuff and didn’t actually have any concrete thoughts or intentions of uncovering any truths.
Jiang Yifan wasn’t in a hurry, and continued slowly, "Now, Nanny Jin is the one closest to you. Nanny Jin has raised you from a child, and naturally regards you with nothing but kindness. Even if something were amiss, she would go out of her way to find excuses to vindicate you. But others won’t necessarily do the same.
Rather than waiting until someone plants their own people by your side, you’d be better off preparing enough staff early on and training them yourself. That way, even if someone wanted to probe for information, they would find it much more difficult and less likely to succeed."
Ye Xinyan sat rigidly, her nerves almost jumping, compelling her to leap up and leave the room at once. She didn’t know when Jiang Yifan began to suspect her identity; she had barely interacted with him and had not shown any flaws, or so she thought.
The only reason she could continue to sit calmly was that Jiang Yifan seemed to have no ill intent, and even if he intervened in how she employed her maids and old woman servants, he was urging her to buy her own, rather than using people he would send.
"Looking at the current situation, you might have to return to the capital any day now. Duke An is not Lian Gui, and Maternal Aunt Liu does not come from Anshun’s Household. My senior brother merely observed for a few days and was able to spot the inconsistencies in you. If it were someone with malicious intent, they could naturally find even more abnormalities that defy common sense."