Shen Tianshu first went to the servants in the garden to ask.
"Have you seen the other two girls from the Shen family?"
Several people looked at each other, all shaking their heads to express no.
When Shen Tianshu saw one of them lowering his head immediately after shaking his head, not daring to meet his eyes, he immediately threatened in a stern voice: "You should know my identity, right? Now that my two sisters are gone, you actually don't know anything about it." ? If something happens to them, do you think I will let you go?"
As she spoke, she looked carefully at the expressions of several people.
Sure enough, I saw that the legs of the little maid who had lowered her head just now were shaking slightly.
"You stay, the others can go." Shen Tianshu reached out and touched the little maid's head.
The little maid was so frightened that she almost burst into tears.
"How much money did you receive? How much did you hide it from her?" Shen Tianshu looked gloomy, "Aren't you afraid that you will lose your life if you take the money?"
The little maid thought that the eldest daughter of the Shen family was really a beauty before, but she didn't expect that the beauty's serious face turned out to be so terrifying. She cried and took out a piece of silver and said: "That's all, here it is! I'm really not a slave." I want to hide it from you, it’s Miss Shen Er who doesn’t want this slave to say..."
"Let's talk about it now!"
"Just now, miss, you followed Mr. Fan to deal with Mr. Cheng. Then Miss Shen suddenly said that she was frightened and felt uncomfortable. The servant asked her if she needed to call a doctor. She said that she wanted to go home and take Shen with her. The third girl and the servant girl are about to leave.
"My slave asked me if I could tell you for her. She, she said that she had already told you not to talk too much, and then she gave me this piece of silver."
The little maid was threatened by two girls from the Shen family one day, and her spirit was almost bad. She cried uncontrollably after handing over the silver coin.
Shen Tianshu had no sympathy for her at this time and asked again: "In which direction are they going?"
The little maid raised her finger and pointed to the west, and said with sobs: "We're going over there. The servant also asked if she needed some guidance, but Miss Shen Er said that she had been to Mingshui Garden dozens of times a year, and she was familiar with her own back garden. Just the same, there is no need for slaves to be meddlesome."
At this time, Shen Tianshu became more and more certain that Shen Yunyao was trying to cause trouble.
When they came, they came in through the east gate. The family's carriage naturally stopped on the east side, which was closer to home. If Shen Yunyao really wanted to go home, how could she choose the opposite route.
"Stop crying, go immediately to the servants and ask who has seen my two sisters today after Mr. Cheng's accident. Call them all to see me. If anyone dares to hide it like you, don't tell them. Blame me for settling the accounts with you later!"
Not long after, seven or eight people who had seen Shen Yunyao and Shen Yunhui were brought to Shen Tianshu.
"Everyone said where they saw them!"
"My slave heard that something happened at Jiuqu Liugang, so she wanted to go over and have a look. On the way, she met two girls from the Shen family, and they took three or four servants to the seven-hole bridge behind."
The Seven-hole Bridge is on the northwest side of the whole yard, so it can be seen that Shen Yunyao has indeed gone west.
"What else?" Shen Tianshu continued to ask.
The remaining servants were also Shen Yunyao and his party who met on the road. Based on the location where they met, the final destination should be the northwest gate of the garden.
Shen Tianshu immediately told Minghui: "Go to Mr. Fan and tell him that I have something to ask for help. Let him take his men to the northwest gate to find me."
After saying that, she said to the servants in the garden: "You are still not leading the way!"
Guests come from all directions, so the doors of Mingshui Garden are open in all directions today, but they are also guarded, in order to prevent unwanted people from entering the garden and disturbing the nobles.
Shen Tianshu soon learned from the door of the northwest corner door that Shen Yunyao and his party did indeed exit the garden through this door.
Just as she was about to ask more questions, she saw Fan Yuru walking over quickly with several tall guards, followed closely by Huang.
"Miss Shen, what happened?"
As soon as Mrs. Huang arrived, she said: "Don't worry, everyone. The two girls of the Shen family may have been frightened, so they went back to their homes. I have already sent people to the Shen family. News will come back soon. Maybe it's... What a false alarm!”
Shen Tianshu didn't expect that Huang would act so quickly and bring the matter directly to the Shen family. No matter whether Shen Yunyao was in trouble or not, she, as the eldest sister, could not escape the responsibility of not taking good care of her two younger sisters. .
"Mrs. Jiang said this so easily. Today I took my two sisters into the garden through the winter gate. The Shen family's coachman and carriage are also waiting outside the east gate. If Yunyao and Yunhui want to go home, why don't they just go through the east gate? He went out to the east gate to find his own carriage and went home, but instead went to the northwest corner gate farthest from home?"
"This..." Mrs. Huang was speechless when asked, so she could only say: "What do you think Miss Shen is going on?"
Shen Tianshu ignored Mr. Huang and said all nonsense. If she knew what was going on, would she still need to ask here?
She turned around and asked the doorman: "How long have they been walking? Did you see them going in that direction? Is there anyone else with them?"
The gate in the northwest corner is the most remote. A short walk away is the slum area in the city. Although the gate is open today, no one enters from here at all, so I suddenly saw two noble ladies and their servants coming from here. After leaving, Menzi remembered it very clearly.
"We have been walking for about half an hour. At that time, two girls went out with three maids. One of the maids kept trying to persuade the two girls not to wander around, and the leading girl even scolded the maid , saying that if she wants to follow, she can follow, and if she doesn’t want to follow, she should get out quickly.
"Later, after they went out, the scolding girl stood still and looked around, and then led the people to the alley over there. After that, the younger one didn't know what happened."
Shen Tianshu walked out quickly and went straight to the alley pointed by the door.
This is a very ordinary civilian alley, nothing unusual at first glance.
However, Shen Tianshu's eyes were attracted by a pile of paper scraps by the wall, and he quickly walked closer to check.
The broken edges of the scraps of paper were very clean, and they must have been torn recently.
There are still some pieces of paper on the wall that have not been torn clean, and it can be seen that it is a faded "Going out to meet the bride".
There were fresh hoofprints and ruts next to the scraps of paper. A large hoofprint overlapped one another, and it was obvious that the two ruts left were much deeper than before.
"They got on the bus here." Shen Tianshu straightened up, feeling increasingly uneasy, "And someone has been waiting here to pick them up."
Fan Yuru looked up at Shen Tianshu in surprise. Her powers of observation and judgment were so amazing that she didn't look like an official lady raised in a boudoir.
