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 and shook 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 sternly: "You should know my identity, right? Now my two sisters are gone, and you don't know anything about it." ?If anything 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 nodded on 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 your life will be lost if you take the money?"
The little maid had previously thought that the eldest daughter of the Shen family was really a beauty, but she didn't expect that the beauty's stern face would turn out to be so frightening. She cried and took out a piece of silver and said: "That's all, they're all here! I'm really not a slave. I want to hide it from you, but 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 said that she had already told you not to talk too much, and then she gave her this piece of silver."
The little maid was threatened by two girls from the Shen family one day, and her spirit was almost out of control. 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 asked if she needed some guidance, but Miss Shen Er said that she had been to Mingshui Garden dozens of times a year and was familiar with her own back garden. Just the same, there is no need for slaves to be troublesome."
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 blame me. I’ll settle the ledger 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 servant heard that something happened at Jiuqu Liugang, so I wanted to go over and have a look. On the way, I 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 went 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 him for help. Ask him to take the guards to meet me at the northwest gate."
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. The main reason is to prevent unwanted people from entering the garden and disturbing the nobles, but there is no restriction on the people in the garden. go out.
Shen Tianshu soon learned from the entrance of the northwest corner door that Shen Yunyao and his party indeed exited 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?" Fan Yuru asked.
As soon as Mrs. Huang arrived, she said: "Don't be anxious, everyone. The two girls of the Shen family may have been frightened, so they went back home. 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 what happened to Shen Yunyao, 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 winter gate? You go out to the east gate to find your own carriage and go home, but instead go to the northwest corner gate farthest from home?"
"This..." Mrs. Huang was speechless when asked, so she had to ask, "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. Not far 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 urging 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.
"After they went out, the scolding girl stood still and looked around. Then she led them to the alley over there. She went in and never came out again. What happened next was unclear to the younger one."
Shen Tianshu walked out quickly and went straight to the alley pointed by the door.
Fan Yuru also led people to follow him. This was a very ordinary civilian alley, and there was nothing unusual about it 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 that have not been torn cleanly on the wall, 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 had 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. She didn't look like an official lady raised in a boudoir at all, but more like an experienced head catcher.