As soon as they walked out of the door, they ran into Ling Xiao.
Ling Qingwan was so anxious that she didn't notice Ling Xiao. She rushed straight into the carriage.
Ling Xiao was worried, so he followed immediately.
Only after the carriage had traveled two streets did Ling Qingwan feel a little calmer.
"Wanwan, Uncle Song, what happened to you?" Ling Xiao was confused.
When Ling Qingwan came out just now, he felt something was wrong. Ling Qingwan looked serious, and it was obvious that she had encountered something. And Song Tian was also with her, which made Ling Xiao even more worried.
Song Tian glanced at Ling Qingwan, and when he saw Ling Qingwan nodded, he told Ling Xiao everything.
"You're telling me such a big thing now?"
Ling Xiao was shocked after hearing this.
If the carriage wasn't so big, he would have wanted to bounce it up directly.
"Things are still uncertain now, everything is just speculation. I want to wait until it is settled before telling you." Ling Qingwan explained.
She didn't mean to hide it from Ling Xiao, but she didn't want to make a big fuss before things were certain and let everyone know.
Moreover, during the investigation and evidence collection stage, the most taboo thing is to alert the enemy.
"If someone really did it on purpose when you were abducted, then that person deserves to die." Ling Xiao gritted his teeth.
Ling Qingwan was only three years old when she went missing, and he was already seven years old at that time, and could vaguely understand what was going on. Ling Xiao knew how dark that period was.
Except for that period of time, in the following ten years, Ling Xiao rarely saw Ling Shenshi laugh sincerely.
Of course, the one who suffered the most was Ling Qingwan.
She was obviously the daughter of a marquis's family and should have been brought up in a pampered environment, but she became a child bride of a fool and had been separated from her biological parents for more than ten years, suffering a lot of hardships.
Thinking of this, Ling Xiao felt sorry for Ling Qingwan, but also hated the person who kidnapped Ling Qingwan.
Soon, the carriage arrived at the general's mansion.
At this time, the five people were already waiting in the hall.
The few people who were still young at the beginning have now matured a lot in the past ten years. Among them are three women and two men. All of them are wearing coarse linen clothes and kneeling in a row.
"The three maids are named Caiyun, Caixia and Caifeng. The two servants are named Jinchuan and Qiu Peng." Song Tian introduced to Ling Qingwan.
"My lady, please be magnanimous and spare us."
"It was indeed our negligence that happened more than a decade ago, but I did not lose you on purpose. I have felt bad all these years. Please spare our lives, Miss."
As soon as Ling Qingwan walked in front of the five people, several maids began to beg her for mercy.
The two guys were also trembling and standing aside, at a loss as to what to do.
It was because of their negligence that Ling Qingwan had to live a miserable life. Now that Ling Qingwan was back and angry, she wanted to cause trouble for them, which was understandable.
"Calm down for a moment." Song Tian frowned. "The lady brought you back not because she wanted to kill you, nor did she want to embarrass you."
"Really?" Several people were a little unconvinced.
"What else? If the young lady really wanted to avenge what happened in the past as you think, she could have just killed you in Jingzhou. Why would she have gone through so much trouble to bring you to Tokyo City?" Qiao'er said unhappily.
Humph, a bunch of people who judge others by their own mean standards.
If it were her, she would definitely not be as open-minded as Ling Qingwan. It was also because of this that Qiao'er admired Ling Qingwan so much.
After hearing Qiao'er's words, the five people finally reacted.
Yes, if Ling Qingwan really wanted to kill them, she could have killed them in Jingzhou. And no one had ever troubled them on their way from Jingzhou to Dongjing City.
Thinking of this, they felt relieved.
"I called you here because I have many questions about what happened on the day I was thrown away, and I want you to answer them." Ling Qingwan said. "I wonder if you still remember what happened that day."
"I remember it very clearly!" Jin Chuan replied. "Although this happened more than ten years ago, we have been so careless that we have never been at peace. So we all remember clearly what happened on the day you went missing."
After saying this, the rest of the people echoed.
"Then tell me what the situation was like at that time." Ling Qingwan asked.
"I remember that there were five of us, plus Zhang Liang and the wet nurse, seven of us went out together. Because it was a lantern festival that day, there were a lot of people and we were separated by the crowd," Jinchuan recalled carefully.
"You mean, you weren't here when I was really lost?" Ling Qingwan frowned, her heartstrings tense.
This matter is extremely important and cannot be neglected in the slightest.
"Yes." Qiu Peng agreed. "At that time, several of us were separated. The younger one searched for a long time and was the last one to reunite with them."
"What about you?" Ling Qingwan turned and looked at the three women.
"I and Caixia are together." Caiyun told Ling Qingwan.
"I was alone at first, and bumped into Jinchuan on the way, and then we found our wet nurse and Zhang Liang together." Caifeng then added on her situation at the time.
"That is to say, at that time, all of you were separated by the crowd. Caiyun and Caixia were together, and the other three went their separate ways. Caifeng met Jinchuan halfway, and Qiu Peng was the last one to join them, right?" Ling Qingwan integrated what several people said.
"Yes! That's it!" several people said in unison.
"Then among the five of you, who was the first to reunite with the wet nurse?" Ling Qingwan asked again.
"It's Xiao and Caifeng." Jinchuan raised his hand.
"So when you met the nanny, was Zhang Liang there?"
"Yes." The two nodded without hesitation.
"When you were separated, did anyone see Zhang Liang?" Ling Qingwan already had a vague answer in her mind.
"No."
All five people gave the same answer.
"Okay, I've finished asking questions." Ling Qingwan said slowly. "You guys stay in the backyard first, and tell me anything you think of about what happened that day."
After that, the five people followed Song Tian to the backyard.
"It must have been that nanny and Zhang Liang who did it!" Ling Xiao endured it for a long time, and finally waited until those people left so that he could vent. "You were young at the time, and you were only close to your nanny. After you were separated by the crowd, Zhang Liang and the nanny followed you. They teamed up to get you lost!"
This also explains why only the wet nurse and Zhang Liang died among the seven of them.
"What happened? What's the noise?"
Shen Chengzhou could hear Ling Xiao yelling from a distance.
"Grandfather."
Ling Qingwan and Ling Xiao called out when they saw Shen Chengzhou coming in.
Afterwards, Ling Qingwan told Shen Chengzhou the process of interrogating the five people.
"It seems that this matter is very likely done by the two of them."