Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 309: No One in Shen Family

Chapter 309: Chapter 309: No One in Shen Family

Nanzhi opened the interrogation, and naturally Liu Jie was overseeing the questioning of Cui Tian himself.

In the end, he was sentenced to six months in jail, and he admitted and signed his name, indicating that it was Wu Er who had instigated him.

Wu Er was still bewildered when he was brought to the county government.

He never thought he’d be implicated.

Criminal charges for hooligans causing trouble when drunk could be dismissed for just five taels of silver. He had done this many times and knew the drill well. How then did he end up with a six-month sentence this time?

"Wu Er, why exactly did you have Cui Tian cause trouble at Sanwei Residence?" Nanzhi looked at Wu Er in confusion.

Hongfu building and Sanwei Residence have different clientele and there’s no overlapping. Why would she have to deal with a bully causing trouble at her place?

Moreover, she and Wu Er had no grievances. It wasn’t like she had offended someone.

"Miss Lin, what are you implying? I bear no grudges against you and wouldn’t do such a thing." Wu Er had cold sweat on his forehead as he looked at Nanzhi.

He had overheard that the current manager of Yan City, Liu Jie, called her ’sister-in-law’.

While he didn’t understand why this unmarried woman was being called ’sister-in-law’, he did know that he had crossed someone he shouldn’t have.

"Then you should ask Cui Tian that," said Nanzhi calmly before taking a seat to one side.

"Lord Liu, this really is a misunderstanding." Wu Er defended himself, wiping sweat from his brow. He hadn’t left any evidence when he had given Cui Tian the silver. Regardless of what Cui Tian said, without any evidence, he wouldn’t face any consequences.

The only thing he feared now was Liu Jie issuing fifty lashes regardless of evidence.

"But Cui Tian insists that you gave him the silver and sent him to cause trouble." Liu Jie sat on the court bench, feigning confusion. "He also claims that it was you who came up with the idea. Is he lying to me to get a reduced sentence?"

Wu Er kneeled before the court, continuously kowtowing. "Lord Liu, I’m really innocent! I’m just a minor manager at the Hongfu building. I bear no grudges against Miss Lin of Sanwei Residence. Why would I do such a thing?"

"So you’re saying Cui Tian is lying?" Liu Jie looked at the panicked Wu Er kneeling before him and asked.

"May your wisdom reveal the truth!"

As Wu Er’s voice fell, Shen Yuntian, hidden behind the screen, finally released his grip.

Cui Tian was tied up behind the screen. Hearing Wu Er’s words, his heart fell silent.

He knew he couldn’t escape this time, but now that Wu Er had claimed innocence, he hadn’t any evidence himself.

Liu Jie let Wu Er go. After expressing her gratitude to Liu Jie, Nanzhi promptly left, accompanied by Wang Jingzhi and Shen Yuntian.

Upon seeing Cui Tian, Liu Jie chuckled and said, "Now that the verdict has been finalized, I’ll give you three days to return home to honor your mother. A government official will come to get you in three days. Do you understand?"

Cui Tian, who originally felt like a dead man, was stunned after hearing Liu Jie’s words. He wondered if criminals had a grace period before imprisonment.

"What? Don’t want to go home?" Liu Jie’s tone rose, scaring Cui Tian into kowtowing and apologizing immediately.

"Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord!"

"Alright, I’ve given you three days’ grace. Go and get registered first so no one will suspect and bring you here."

"Ah, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord." After a few more bows, Cui Tian limped away with a government official to get registered. He then got held up with some chores at the yamen. It wasn’t until the sky turned dark that he was finally released from the county government.

When Nanzhi returned to the Sanwei Residence, she didn’t see Shen Miaomiao. According to Uncle Ping, she had still been at the restaurant in the morning. Only a child came to deliver a letter, and then she disappeared.

"Uncle Ping, did Miaomiao say anything before she left?" Nanzhi’s eyelids twitched, giving her a bad premonition.

She knew she couldn’t outsmart her son. With her eyelids twitching like that, something bad was sure to happen.

"Miss Shen didn’t say anything. She just left in a rush." Uncle Ping shook his head.

Miss Shen had been in quite a hurry this morning. He tried to ask her what was going on, but before he could, she was already gone.

"Alright, Uncle Ping. Please close up the women’s building later. I will stop doing business for now. I have to go out for a while, please take care of a few things for me." Nanzhi, unable to let go of her worry for Shen Miaomiao, quickly made arrangements for other matters at the restaurant and then hurriedly hailed a carriage to go to Shen Miaomiao’s home.

A child delivered a letter, Miaomiao didn’t know many people in Yan City. Who would have a child deliver a letter to her?

Twelve always had Adai deliver small letters to her, so it couldn’t be a letter from Twelve.

But who else could it be?

While thinking about all this, Nanzhi’s heart was extremely anxious. She couldn’t help the random thoughts running through her mind.

What was more, Shen Miaomiao had mentioned a few days ago that the lease on their current residence was about to expire. She planned to rent a house next to Nanzhi’s so the two families would be closer together and could discuss things more conveniently if anything happened.

The Shen family’s place was quite far away. Even despite taking a horse-drawn carriage, it took almost half an hour for Nanzhi to get there.

Seeing the Shen family’s closed gate, Nanzhi offered a silent prayer, before getting up to knock on the gate.

"Aunt Guihua, Miaomiao! Are you home?" After knocking for a while and hearing no response, Nanzhi’s eyelids twitched again, and she quickly started knocking harder.

"Aunt Guihua! Miaomiao! Uncle Shen! Are you home!"

After knocking for another while without getting any response, Nanzhi’s mind went blank for a moment.

Wanting to knock again, yet feeling the futility of it, she saw the neighbor’s gate was open, so she quickly went to knock on their door. Seeing a six or seven-year-old child playing in the yard, Nanzhi smiled and asked, "Child, can you help me with something?"

The child was playing with a dog’s tail grass in the yard and saw a beautiful lady squatting outside the gate. He twisted his head to look but didn’t speak.

Seeing that the child had no reaction, Nanzhi took out five copper coins from her pocket and asked again, "Little brother, I want to ask you something. If you tell me, I’ll give you this five-wen coin. Is that okay?"

Seeing that he had a chance to earn five wen, the child finally came closer and nodded, "Ask."

"Little brother, do you know where the people from the house next door have gone?"

The child thought for a moment before responding, "This morning, a man came to their house. Granny Guihua gave me three wen to call Sister Miaomiao back. Then they all left together."

Upon hearing him say that a man had come to the Shen family house, Nanzhi was dazed.

Could it be Miaomiao’s uncle?

But she remembered Miaomiao saying that her uncle had left Yan City a few days ago. So, who else could it be?

And what sort of matter would require them to be out from morning till afternoon without returning?

"Are you looking for Sister Miaomiao?" Noticing Nanzhi’s daze, the child knew she was looking for someone. He patted his chest and said, "If you give me another five wen, I’ll take you to find them."

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