Hearing that someone's hanging body was found, Shen Zhonglei hurriedly found an excuse to come over from the banquet.
When he walked into the courtyard, he saw Shen Tianshu standing at the door of a Zen room with a serious face, and asked quickly: "Shu'er, what happened?"
Shen Tianshu lowered his eyes and said, "Father, Grandma Guo died as a martyr and has followed mother."
Martyrdom?
Upon hearing this word, everyone in the yard shuddered involuntarily, and looked at Shen Tianshu with fear in their eyes.
From the time when the body was discovered to when Shen Zhonglei came after hearing the news, it took less than a cup of tea, and the eldest girl had already thought of such a thoughtful excuse.
Many people only heard that the eldest girl is different from before, but today they really learned the lesson.
Shen Zhonglei couldn't react for a moment, and subconsciously asked: "The person who died was Grandma Guo? What on earth..."
But before he finished speaking, he understood what Shen Tianshu meant. No matter how Grandma Guo died, now was not the time to pursue the case.
The rhetoric of martyrdom is both dignified and does not leave anyone with a reason to say anything.
"What's the trouble for Mother Guo? Even if she has been with Yurou for many years, she shouldn't have...sigh..." Shen Zhonglei marveled at his daughter's calmness in her heart. On the outside, she sighed and said, "Mother Guo is so loyal to the Lord." , our Shen family cannot treat her family badly.
"Go back and ask someone to send you twenty taels of silver, and get some clothes for Grandma Guo. Tomorrow you will be mourning with your mother, and they will be sent back to your hometown for burial."
"Yes, father, don't worry, I will arrange it."
Returning to the mourning hall from the meditation room, Shen Tianshu no longer had the appetite to eat the cold vegetarian meal.
She first went to see Shen Yunhui and Mo'er, and then urged her servants to take them to wash and rest.
"Father takes care of things outside and won't affect us. We are all tired today. Let's rest early. We have to get up early tomorrow!"
Shen Tianshu put the two of them to bed before going back to his room.
As soon as she opened the door, she suddenly stopped, twitched her nose in confusion, and sniffed a few times.
Mingyu was blocked behind for no apparent reason, and said: "Don't worry, girl, your residence was tidied up by the slaves personally, and we brought all the bedding and covers ourselves, so it must be clean."
Shh!
Shen Tianshu raised his finger and made a silencing gesture towards her.
She could smell an unfamiliar aroma in the room. It was neither the one she usually used nor the smell that a Zen room should have.
Girl, what's wrong?
Mingyu asked silently.
Shen Tianshu said silently, there was someone in the room.
Anyone? Mingyu was shocked when he heard this.
When I packed up and left, everything was still normal in the house. There were people from my own family inside and outside the yard. But after a while, why did someone else come into the house?
Mingyu raised her finger and pointed to Shen Yunhui's room, indicating to Shen Tianshu to go back first and find someone to check.
Shen Tianshu nodded and was about to leave when he suddenly noticed a breeze blowing against his cheek.
The wind brought more smells, which actually smelled a bit familiar.
Shen Tianshu stopped and looked at the room carefully. He saw that the window inside was not closed tightly, leaving a small crack. The wind might have blown in from here.
Shen Tianshu continued to check around the cracks in the window, and soon found more clues.
Bend down and tilt your head slightly, you can see a few unclear footprints, passing by the window and disappearing beside the bed.
There were several unnatural wrinkles on the edges of the sheets that Mingyu had just laid out, and the quilt hidden under the shadow of the bed tent was also slightly bulging slightly abnormally.
Shen Tianshu smelled it carefully again, and felt that he had smelled this fragrance on someone before.
So she deliberately found fault and said: "Mingyu, who made the bed today? You didn't even notice that the quilt was dirty here? You were too careless in doing things."
Mingyu was quite smart, and immediately followed Shen Tianshu's thoughts, and said hurriedly: "The slaves were fine when they laid the shop just now. Maybe whoever came in to put things away got them dirty. Fortunately, I took them out when I went out this time. There are two sets of luggage, and I will give you a new set right now.”
As she said this, she was about to walk towards the bed, but Shen Tianshu grabbed her.
Shen Tianshu stepped in place, making the sound of footsteps and pretending that someone was walking into the house.
The master and servant stared at the bed with their four eyes, and sure enough they found that the quilt hidden in the shadows shook slightly.
Mingyu was so frightened that the hairs on his body stood up, but he still took a step forward to block Shen Tianshu, stared in the direction of the bed and shouted: "Who is it? You'd better come out now. If I wait for someone to arrest you, If you come out, you will suffer the consequences!"
The movement on the bed became louder and louder, and finally a man with disheveled hair and a messy appearance emerged from the quilt.
"Ah——" Mingyu screamed in fear, grabbed Shen Tianshu and started to run out.
At this time, Shen Tianshu had confirmed the identity of the uninvited guest and said straight to the point: "Miss Song, what are you doing?"
Song Rongqian, with disheveled hair, was about to crawl out of the bed to scare people. After hearing these words, her whole body froze in place, motionless as if frozen.
She has already made herself like this, and yet someone can reveal her identity with just one word?
"I smell the incense on your body. This scent is quite special. I've never smelled it on anyone else before. I guess Miss Song brought it here from the capital, right?"
Song Rongqian didn't expect that she would capsize because of the incense. She combed her hair with her hands in embarrassment and climbed out of bed.
Shen Tianshu didn't ask why she was here, nor why she was pretending to be scary. He just told Mingyu, "Hurry up and prepare something for Miss Song to dress up again."
"Yes!" Mingyu knew that Shen Tianshu wanted to get away from him.
But she didn't understand Song Rongqian, and she couldn't put her mind at ease, so she responded with words but hesitated in her steps, not wanting to give Shen Tianshu and Song Rongqian a chance to be alone.
"Girl, how about I call Minghui over..."
Shen Tianshu stretched out his hand and pushed on her back and said, "Okay, I'm still pushing back on the job, so hurry up!"
Before Mingyu went out, he raised his head and looked deeply at Song Rongqian, as if to warn her not to cause trouble. Finally, he reluctantly turned around and went out, and closed the door for the two of them with his backhand.
Shen Tianshu sat down and looked at Song Rongqian's clothes. It was obvious that she was not here for a funeral.
Otherwise, even if she wanted to dress like this, Mrs. Cheng would not allow it.
At this time, Song Rongqian also saw clearly Shen Tianshu's filial piety. Then she remembered that her family was doing some ceremonial matters, and she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. She could only secretly be glad that it was her stepmother who passed away and not her biological mother. Otherwise, she would be really disrespectful by doing this. .
"We haven't seen her for many days. Miss Song is really becoming more and more lively." Shen Tianshu said, his eyes deliberately looking at the window with a gap left.
Song Rongqian knew that she was mocking her for climbing into the house through the window, and couldn't help but blush.
She was just thinking about how to find an excuse to fool people, when Shen Tianshu suddenly asked again: "The Cheng family just left the party one after another, are they looking for you?"
Song Rongqian immediately tensed up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and looked at Shen Tianshu with wide eyes.
