"They?" Shenyi found the key words very keenly.
The kind tone gradually became solemn, "You mean, it was not just the big girl who was taken away by the officers and soldiers, but also other girls in the village."
Tie Zhu nodded numbly, ignored the kindness, and walked towards the mountain with eyes blank.
Sheng Yi shouted several times behind Tie Zhu, but Tie Zhu didn't respond. Sheng Yi had no choice but to go to other people in the village and continue to inquire about the news.
After some digging around, Sheng Yi also learned some extremely resentful news.
After she left that day, a group of officers and soldiers suddenly came and took away all the women of the right age in the village without saying a word. Of course, that includes Da Niu.
The fate of the big girl was really tragic. She finally escaped the fate of marrying a pervert, but she turned around and was captured by a group of officers and soldiers.
However, Da Niu's incident sounded a wake-up call for Shenyi. Because of Governor Li, every move of all the soldiers in Jiangnan was under the eyes of Kyoto. They would never dare to act so recklessly.
The group of soldiers that the villagers mentioned may not be real members of the army, but may be the private soldiers kept captive by Governor Li.
After Sheng Yi collected almost all the information, he took Ying Yue to the border of Jiangnan on horseback.
Jiangnan was much more depressed than the last time they came. Perhaps because Jiangnan had just fought a war not long ago, there were not many people in Jiangnan City.
Shenyi found a clean and cheap inn and took Yingyue to live in it. After taking a comfortable bath.
Sheng Yi put some disguise on his face, changed into men's clothes, and went out alone.
Yingyue was not worried in the inn, because Yingyue knew that the eldest princess had been sending people to secretly protect them. As long as the princess did not disappear under the eyes of the secret guards, there was no need to worry too much about the princess's safety.
Yingyue thought about this and drank the tea with peace of mind. Gradually, Yingyue noticed something was wrong.
Yingyue felt that her head suddenly became dizzy. She tried her best to pull out the silver hairpin on her head. After carving a symbol on an inconspicuous corner of the table, Yingyue fell down unwillingly.
Shenyi went out for a walk and didn't find much useful information. So Sheng Yi returned to the inn.
The first thing she did when she returned to the inn was to find Yingyue. But what is unexpected is that Yingyue is not in the room.
Sheng Yi thought it was Ying Yue's first time traveling far away, and she thought it was novel, so she went out for a stroll. Without any further speculation, Sheng Yi returned to his room and took a nap.
It was almost evening when she woke up, and Shenyi came to Yingyue's room again. Yingyue's room was still empty.
Sheng Yi suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart. After calling the secret guard out to look for someone, Sheng Yi was not idle either.
I started asking around the inn about Yingyue's whereabouts.
Facing the portrait that looked exactly like Yingyue herself, everyone in the inn kept silent about Yingyue. Such a tacit understanding seemed to be deliberately concealing something.
Sensing a hint of something fishy, Sheng Yi did not alert the snake. After putting away the portrait, Sheng Yi turned around and returned to his room.
Before he even sat down on the bench, someone suddenly knocked on Sheng Yi's door.
Shenyi walked over quickly, gently opened the door a crack, and then looked at the person outside the door.
Outside the door was a child. Although his clothes were a little tattered, he was clean and tidy.
He was just a child, so he didn't take it too seriously. After opening the door wide, the child walked in cautiously.
After closing the door, the little boy raised his head and looked at Sheng Yi with bright eyes: "Master, if I tell you the whereabouts of that sister, can you reward me with some silver?"
He drank tea politely for a moment, and after a while, he raised his eyebrows and looked at the boy, "Oh, then how do I know if what you said is true?"
Seeing that Sheng Yi really didn't believe it, the child became anxious and quickly took out a silver hairpin from his arms. Hold it up in front of good intentions and ask for credit.
"This hairpin is evidence. I saw that sister take it off her head and throw it on the ground. Master, you can tell by looking at it."
Sheng Yi's original suspicion disappeared instantly after taking the silver hairpin.
Sheng Yi squeezed the child's arm nervously and asked in a low voice, "Where did you meet that sister?"
The little boy said calmly, "I saw her in the hall, at the table by the window, and the sister gave me a piece of pastry to eat."
"Later, the sister drank a cup of tea, fell asleep on the table, and the hairpin was suddenly pulled out and thrown to the ground by the sister while she was asleep."
After hearing the child's explanation, Sheng Yi had already roughly guessed what happened.
If the guess was correct, Yingyue was not asleep at all as the child said, but was drugged and knocked unconscious.
Jiangnan is a place that really beats her.
The last time she came to Jiangnan, she suffered so much and suffered injuries all over her body. This time she came to Jiangnan, and someone actually dared to kidnap her maid in broad daylight.
Kindly sneered, "Jiangnan is really a place of crouching tigers, hidden dragons."
The child raised his head and tugged on Shenyi's sleeve, "Sir, I've given you information. Shouldn't you reward me with some money?"
Shenyi squatted down and looked at the child at eye level. "Of course I will give it. The little guy is so brave. I have to give you more money to be worthy of your bravery."
The child who got the money was very happy for a while before carefully opening the door and walking out.
As soon as the child left, the smile on Sheng Yi's face disappeared.
Shengyi opened the door, walked to the hall, and found the table the child mentioned. Shengyi sat there pretending to be casual.
Suddenly he felt a dent in his hand. Sheng Yi calmly took a quick look at it while serving tea and pouring water.
As expected, that indentation was a unique symbol used by the eldest princess's mansion for communication, and it should have been left by Yingyue.
I don’t know what is happening to Yingyue now, or what the purpose of those who kidnapped Yingyue was.
Could it be that pervert Chen Yan did it?
As soon as this idea came up, he shook his head and shook it out.
Impossible, she returned to Jiangnan as soon as she recovered from her injuries. That pervert Chen Yan would never have thought that she would be so fearless of death that she would return to Jiangnan again.
Maybe there is another possibility.
A bold guess gradually emerged in Sheng Yi's mind.
Maybe the group of people who kidnapped Yingyue in broad daylight were the same group of people who kidnapped Da Niu.
The same audacity, the same kidnapping of young women. The intentions behind the scenes make people think deeply.
