When the maid who had gone grocery shopping returned and set the items down, she went upstairs to check on An Xiaomian, only to find that An Xiaomian was nowhere to be found. Terrified, the maid began shouting another maid's name. The other maid, yawning, walked out of her room: "What's going on? Why are you yelling?"
"Miss An is missing." The maid who had been grocery shopping screamed in panic, then ran over to confront the maid who had been sleeping, "What were you doing just now? Didn't you see Miss An?"
The sleeping maid was shocked and horrified upon hearing this. She stammered, "Could... could it be that she's... she's not in the room? I tied two ropes on her! Without help, she couldn't have untied them herself. Plus, she's a lunatic—when she's lucid, she'd scream and shout. I didn't hear a single sound just now..."
"Then why is she missing? What now? If the Second Young Master comes back and finds out we lost Miss An, we're dead..."
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