Rebirth and madness, I am no longer the mistress of this high-class family!

Chapter 53: Discovering the accomplice by chance (please vote for collection recommendation)
  The top floor of Jinyifang.

Shen Yuan glanced at the woman who was trembling like chaff with an unknown yellow liquid dripping from her body. She turned her attention to Miao Sha, who was comparing two sets of clothes carefully, and asked her, what could she see?

"At first glance, the stitching looks the same as that of the batch of winter clothes we sent, but if you look closely, you can find that there are still quite a few differences. I just compared it carefully, and it is indeed the embroidery technique commonly used by the embroiderers of the Wang Family Garment Shop. ,but"

"But half of the embroidery techniques look no different from those used by the embroidery women in Shen's clothing shop, right?"

Shen Yuan took the two sets of winter clothes handed back by Miao Sha and threw them together in front of the woman. Her slender wrists with white jade bracelets hung on the chair supports, and her index and middle fingers tapped rhythmically: "You are the Wang's Clothing Store Someone sent here, right? If you reveal the person behind the scenes now, I can spare you one more time and won't send you to the government to report you."

According to the laws of the Yan Dynasty, anyone who maliciously disrupts the order of a store and causes the store's reputation to be damaged will be punished by being detained for seven days and slapped with a slap in the face. Additional penalties will be added later depending on the degree of damage to the store.

With a woman's body, it was already difficult to hit ten boards one after another in the past. If she really hit fifteen big boards, she would probably lose half her life.

"No, don't send me to report to the official. I said, I said, yes."

"Whoosh!!"

Before the woman could finish her words, a sharp arrow shot through the air and hit the woman between the eyebrows.

"Uh" The woman's pupils were dilated and she fell down on the spot.

Shen Yuan frowned and stood up, looking in the direction of the arrow and asking the guards to chase it.

At the same time, a guard was left to let him check the woman's breathing.

The guard squatted down to explore, and shook his head when he stopped his hand: "I'm out of breath."

Miao Sha asked worriedly: "What should we do? Are we going to suffer this dumb loss like this? If this happened today, the reputation of the cotton-padded clothes we sell will definitely be affected."

The most intuitive manifestation is that before they took the woman upstairs for interrogation, one-third of the customers still chose to return the goods.

This is just the beginning, rumors never stop with the wise.

Not to mention the ancient times where information is blocked, people follow what they say, and even the slightest bad thing will be amplified and rumors spread. It will definitely not work to just let the situation continue like this.

Shen Yuan glanced at the dead woman, not wanting to suffer the loss of being mute, and she had a rough idea of ​​the mastermind behind the scenes.

She had been offended twice in total at the Wangjia Shop. The only person who could reach out to the clothing store was the manager of the Wangjia Garment Shop whom she met last time.

Miao Sha, who has worked with Wang's clothing store many times, knows a lot about this person.

When Shen Yuan asked about him, she quickly told him all the news she knew.

After getting a general idea, she asked Miao Sha to take her to Xiaochun Lane, and she went to meet the embroiderer there.

The current situation is obviously that there is a mole, and he worked with the embroiderer of Wang's clothing store to sew a cotton-padded coat with mouse droppings inside.

There were a large number of embroiderers, and she specially sent guards to guard Xiaochun Lane. The incident happened on the woman's side. It is estimated that the people from the Wang Family Merchant Shop had not had time to attack the embroiderers.

We have to rush over as soon as possible to see the situation.

Manager Zhou of Jinyi Square was in charge of the business in the shop. Seeing that today's business was probably not going to be done, he simply helped Shen Yuan and suggested a shortcut that even Miao Sha didn't know about. He walked there with only two cups of tea. After two-quarters of an hour's journey, we arrived at the place.

Xiaochun Lane is close to the suburbs, and there are many restaurants around it, so there are many stray cats and dogs.

When Shen Yuan got off the carriage, he saw many wandering raccoon slaves gathered in the distance, squatting on the roof of a room with a chimney. They seemed to be keeping warm near the chimney.

"Ms. Shen, the door is over here." Miao Sha put on the cloak given by Shen Yuan and walked towards the small courtyard made of gray tiles and blue bricks. On the way, a few raccoon slaves jumped down from the roof and rubbed against Miao Sha. Meow Meowed.

Shen Yuan followed Miao Sha and found that there were many raccoon slaves in the house.

In this environment where cats are everywhere, it is indeed difficult to breed rats.

Dozens of Shen family guards were stationed in the courtyard.

Seeing Shen Yuan coming, he saluted one by one. Shi Cong, the chief of guard, came over after hearing the news and asked Shen Yuan if he had any orders to give?
  "Go and summon all the embroiderers in the house to the main room. If you find any signs of escaping, just catch them."

But she guessed that the embroiderer was not that stupid. If she ran away now, wouldn't it mean that there was no three hundred taels of silver in this place?
  Sure enough, when all the embroiderers were summoned, she didn't even hear Shi Cong say that anyone had escaped.

There are nearly a hundred embroiderers present. If you want to check them all out, one day will definitely not be enough.

Shenjia Shangfang's ready-made clothing store has been waiting for a few days to launch a new trial. Time has been dragging on for a long time. If the pilot project at Jinyifang fails, Shenjia's ready-made clothing store will definitely not be able to follow up with new styles and quantities of cotton-padded clothes.

Shen Yuan glanced at the faces of the embroiderers, most of whom looked confused and confused, and made up her mind.

"I called you here today because a large sum of money was lost in the courtyard yesterday, and we need to find the culprit as soon as possible. Don't panic. Come in later and listen to my questions one by one. Just answer truthfully."

After that, the guard came forward and asked the embroiderers to line up one by one. Those who had finished asking questions were not allowed to whisper to those who had already said hello, and the interrogation began.

Shen Yuan's interrogation style remained almost the same. He either asked them where they went yesterday, or asked if they had seen any other suspicious candidates.

She also made it clear that if she saw other suspicious candidates and could provide useful information, she would reward them with ten taels of silver.

Ordinary people will definitely think about it if they have this opportunity, and actively work hard to get these ten taels.

Several of the embroiderers named a few candidates they found suspicious.

But when it comes to an embroiderer named He Hua, her behavior is completely different from others.

After Shen Yuan asked her, she didn't even think about it, she just shook her head and said no.

"Really not?" The girl flipped through the book containing He Hua's personal information and raised her eyebrows at her.

He Hua avoided Shen Yuan's gaze, stared at the toes of her shoes and shook her head.

"I understand, Shi Cong, arrest her."

Shen Yuan stretched out and met He Hua's eyes with her shocked gaze.

Her beautiful face illuminated by the sky was full of confidence, and she didn't seem to think that she had found the wrong person.

"What are you doing, girl? Why are you arresting me when I haven't done anything?"

"Whether you do it or not, you have a clear conscience. The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit. ① Your monthly salary as an embroiderer is only 3,000 taels of silver. I will give you the temptation of 10 taels of silver. , but you don’t even look at it, and you don’t intend to take this opportunity. If you don’t have something in your heart, what else could it be?”

He Hua was born into a poor family and had a bunch of younger brothers and sisters waiting to be raised. When such a good opportunity was presented to her in such a situation, her first reaction should be like that of those similarly poor embroiderers. She should at least think about it, but she didn't. , then it is clear at a glance.

He Hua's face turned pale instantly. Shen Yuan asked the guards to protect her life, while she asked Miao Sha to lead the way to He Hua's bed room.

If nothing else, the physical evidence is there!
  　①: From Pre-Qin Dynasty, "Six Taoist Proverbs".

　　
  　
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