On the way back, Aman was still fuming.
“What kind of person was that? To think there are such lechers in this world. It’s a pity about our umbrella, it nearly got broken…”
Jiang Si quickened her pace.
Aman continued muttering, “Miss, that man trespassed into a private residence. We should have taken him to report to the authorities. What if he escapes now that we’ve just left?”
“He’s probably Elder Sister Dou’s brother,” Jiang Si said casually.
Aman’s eyes widened suddenly, “You mean the Elder Sister Dou who arrived today?”
Jiang Si nodded.
Aman was even more shocked, stammering, “M-Miss, he, he was trying to seduce you…”
This was a difference in generational status—no, even peers shouldn’t seduce each other!
However, the generational difference was still too shocking. This was simply outrageous…
Aman carefully observed Jiang Si’s expression but found her mistress’s face impassive, only her footsteps had quickened.
“Miss, don’t lower yourself to the level of such people,” the little maid tried to comfort her, choosing her words carefully.
The young miss looks so calm on the surface, but she must be furious inside.
Who wouldn’t be angry? Being harassed by an elder…
The more Aman thought about it, the more she wanted to go back and give him a few more kicks.
Jiang Si curved her lips, “Who says we won’t deal with such people? When we see the Master later, remember to say this…”
Jiang Ancheng was lounging in his study reading a leisure book. When he heard that Jiang Si had arrived, he hurriedly stuffed the book back onto the shelf and picked up a history book to peruse instead.
“It’s snowing outside, why did Si’er come over?”
Jiang Si stood at the doorway, stamping her feet to shake off the snow. She handed her large red cloak to Aman and entered with her head lowered.
Jiang Ancheng quickly noticed something was amiss and sat up straight, “Si’er?”
Jiang Si looked up, tears hanging on her eyelashes, about to fall but not quite.
Jiang Ancheng was greatly alarmed and stood up abruptly, “What on earth happened to Si’er?”
His daughter was crying.
She could scold the Zhu family to the point where they couldn’t lift their heads in court, so why would she cry now?
She must have suffered a great injustice!
The more Jiang Ancheng thought about it, the more anxious he became. He wanted to support his daughter but it wasn’t appropriate, so he didn’t know where to put his hands for a moment.
Jiang Si reached out and grabbed Jiang Ancheng’s sleeve, “Father, someone harassed me…”
Jiang Ancheng nearly choked on his breath. He steadied himself against the wall and shouted, “Where is he?”
He wanted to kill that scoundrel!
Jiang Si clutched Jiang Ancheng’s sleeve without saying a word.
Aman spoke quickly from the side, “Master, you don’t know, just now when I was accompanying the young miss here, we encountered a man in our garden…”
Seeing Jiang Ancheng’s face turn three shades bluer, the little maid nodded vigorously, “You heard right, there was a strange young man in our garden!”
“And then?” Jiang Ancheng’s temple throbbed, if his sleeve wasn’t still being held by his daughter and if he knew the identity of that scoundrel, he would have already rushed out with a sword.
“Then that lecher came straight for the young miss, blocking her way and not letting her pass. He even tried to grab the young miss’s hand… The young miss and I barely managed to escape, our legs are still weak from fright.”
Jiang Ancheng looked at Jiang Si and asked through gritted teeth, “Is this true?”
Jiang Si nodded slightly.
“Bastard!” Jiang Ancheng kicked away the small stool in front of him.
The poor stool was still 80% new, and now it was in pieces.
After calming down a bit, Jiang Ancheng asked further, “Did that person run away afterward? Do you remember what he looked like?”
Aman avoided the first question and directly answered the latter, “He looked to be in his early twenties, wearing a mouse-gray jacket, not like a servant.”
Jiang Ancheng was stunned for a moment, suddenly remembering someone.
The cousin who had just arrived at the Earl’s mansion today was wearing a mouse-gray jacket…
Thinking of this, Jiang Ancheng’s anger rose, almost bursting through the top of his head to the sky.
To think that an uncle would harass his niece, was simply outrageous!
No, he had to go settle accounts with that scoundrel.
Glancing at his daughter, Jiang Ancheng forcefully suppressed his anger and comforted her, “Si’er, let me send you back to Haitang Residence first. As for today’s incident, you must not take it to heart. Father will find that person and give him a good thrashing.”
“Who could that person be?” Jiang Si asked.
Jiang Ancheng was stumped by the question and touched his nose, “We don’t know yet, but Father will investigate.”
“Aman, you go out first,” Jiang Si said.
Aman withdrew, leaving only the father and daughter in the study.