Chapter 182
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"Who was the one driving the carriage? Do you still remember the appearance or the characteristics of the driver? The breed of the horse, the color, the carvings on the carriage, and other information. As long as you remember, no matter how big or small, tell me everything. "
Ning Shu thought that the eleven witnesses here would at least give some useful information. Unexpectedly, the eleven of them shook their heads at the same time, "We didn't see clearly …"
"There are so many of you. How can you not remember a single one?" Ning Shu asked with a frown.
The beggars looked at each other guiltily, and then shrank their necks and said, "Because that person threw a bag of broken silver at us. Then we were busy picking up the silver and didn't look carefully … When we finished picking up the silver, the carriage had already run away with the people …"
Ning Shu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. That person could be considered to have a good understanding of human nature. This trick was really good.
At the side, the official who participated in the interrogation whipped the beggars and said angrily, "A group of good-for-nothings who only care about money!"
The beggars dodged and cried, "Let the Lords know. We thought that some manor was punishing a disobedient servant or a concubine who made a mistake. When we saw that the person in the bag was crazy, we didn't dare to provoke her. Who would have thought that it was Hou Fu's daughter? If we knew the truth in advance, even if it was ten thousand taels of gold, we wouldn't dare to pick it up."
This kind of meaningless whipping did not have any effect. Ning Shu reached out and stopped them. She thought for a moment and continued to ask, "Where is the cloth bag that contained the fourth daughter of the Qi family now?"
A beggar at the side took out the cloth bag from his arms and volunteered, "It's here."
Ning Shu took the cloth bag from his hand and carefully looked at it from front to back. Her eyes flashed, and then she used her fingers to pinch a few fine grass pieces from the gap of the cloth. She put it to the tip of her nose and sniffed it. Her eyes looked thoughtful.
"Do you remember the direction that the carriage came from?"
"I remember that one. It's from the north of the bridge!"
After Ning Shu asked the last question, she walked out of the prison with Tan Siwei and the others. She put the grass to the tip of her nose and sniffed it a few times. Then, she deliberated and said, "Lord Tan, please send your officers and brothers to search the northern part of the city from house to house, with the bridge as the center, to search for cattle, horses, sheep, and other peddlers, or those who sell livestock and fodder. The distance should be within five li, at most ten li."
An official from the Supreme Court saw how arbitrary she was and asked suspiciously, "Why is that?" She was a woman, and a woman with a bad reputation at that. So what if she had solved the Phoenix Terrace case? Didn't they all say that she had an expert guiding her from behind? Moreover, the interrogation just now was really nonsense. How did she come to a conclusion? Could it be that she was deliberately mystifying things?
Ning Shu was not the least bit annoyed by the questioning gazes around her. She had experienced so many vicious glares and curses that this was nothing to her.
Ning Shu curled her lips into a decent smile and explained in detail in an orderly manner, "There are city patrol officers patrolling the capital every night. If the other party was driving a carriage at night and was accidentally seen by the city patrol officers, they would definitely be questioned. If I were the other party, I would definitely not take a detour to transport the Qi family's fourth young mistress out of hiding. Instead, I would choose a place that was relatively close or not too close or not too far away to abandon her and leave immediately. This way, I would have the greatest chance of avoiding the city patrol officers. "
"In addition, my daughter's nose is naturally more sensitive. Although these grass have been left here for a long time and have long dried up, there is still a lingering smell. It is very similar to a type of fodder called alfalfa that is used to raise livestock. Therefore, my daughter secretly thought that this cloth bag was undoubtedly used to store fodder. In addition, before I came to the Supreme Court, I saw the Qi family's fourth young mistress and smelled, um … an unpleasant smell on her body. "
Ning Shu did not say directly that the smell on Qi Juanyu's body was the stench of livestock manure.
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