Thin Dogs 2

"Sister Ah Jiao, when I went to get the food, I heard from Aunt Wang in the kitchen that Miss Yun Shu is back!"

Shen Mingjiao stopped trimming the flowers.

Previously, she felt that there was something strange about Miss Yun Shu, so she asked Feng Lisheng to send someone to Jiangnan to ask around. She continued to stay in the Zhao Residence and waited for the person who asked about her to return.

After all, Miss Yun Shu's situation was too similar to her sister's.

And now, Miss Yun Shu has appeared again at this critical juncture…

She couldn't help but ask, "Then where is she now? Official Zhao didn't say anything!"

Seeing that Zhao Ke held a grudge against Mrs. Zhao, logically speaking, he would never bring Miss Yun Shu back if he found out that she had escaped when he got in trouble.

Xiao Die said, "I heard that Official Zhao lost his temper and sent her back to her old courtyard. He told everyone not to approach her."

"I heard from Aunt Wang that he only did not kick her out on account of his good friend."

…

Shen Mingjiao left the courtyard and went to a secluded place. She took out her whistling arrow and threw it into the air, but after a while, no one came.

She recalled that Feng Lisheng had said that they plan to capture Madam Lian today, so she thought that everyone had been transferred away. After all, Madam Lian was not an easy person to deal with.

And that was indeed the case. At the moment, Feng Wu had led everyone to follow Madam Lian.

The servant girl named Xiao Rui volunteered to be the bait to lead Madam Lian to the courtyard where the thin dogs were imprisoned.

Shen Mingjiao originally planned to return to Mrs. Zhao's courtyard.

However, she suddenly recalled how her sister had suppressed her immense fear and mustered up the courage to lure the bandits away to protect her in the past. Shen Mingjiao could not help but walk towards the courtyard where Miss Yun Shu lived.

She knew that Miss Yun Shu was strange, but she was there now. She kept wondering what if she was really her sister!

She turned left and right along the way, and the road got increasingly remote. However, her walk there went really smoothly. She must have been here many times before.

From afar, she saw that the main door which was usually shut tightly was now left ajar. Her heart skipped a beat as she stepped into the courtyard hesitantly.

However… the moment she stepped into the courtyard, her heart skipped a beat and she instinctively felt danger.

She subconsciously wanted to rush out, but she heard a creak as the old wooden door slammed shut.

Shen Mingjiao turned around. When she saw the scene in the courtyard, her pupils constricted!

She saw more than ten thin dogs with dark fur standing silently in the courtyard. Pairs of abnormally red eyes stared straight at her.

Shen Mingjiao took a step back and subconsciously pulled out the whistling arrow from her waist.

Just as she raised her hand, she heard a high-pitched voice.

"Stop her!"

As soon as the voice ended, the thin dog closest to her suddenly jumped up and pounced at her arm that was holding the whistling arrow. It widened its mouth to bite the whistling arrow in her hand with its sharp teeth and its sticky mouth brushed past her palm.

Shen Mingjiao instantly felt a chill run down her spine. Her body stiffened and she did not dare to move.

Looking at the thin and strong dogs in front of her, she couldn't help but think of the massacre in the Luo Capital and the people whose throats had been torn apart.

The thin dogs were originally hunting dogs and due to their characteristics, they became dogs which were raised by some advanced nobles. They had strong memory, a sensitive sense of smell, long hind limbs and strong muscles. They were also good at hunting and they had shocking strength and power.

She clenched her fists and tried her best to calm herself down as she looked towards the source of the sound.

Madam Lian stood quietly not far behind her. By her feet, the maidservant called Xiao Rui was tied up and whining at her.

Madam Lian kicked her away and looked up at Shen Mingjiao with a smile. "Should I call you Mrs Feng or the Princess Consort?"

Shen Mingjiao was not surprised at all that Madam Lian had seen through her identity. After all, at this juncture, she must have a motive for trapping her.

Shen Mingjiao asked directly, "Tell me, what's your motive?"

"Don't tell me that you want to use me to threaten Feng Lisheng!"

She pretended to scoff helplessly. "I think you should have heard that His Highness, the Prince, admires Prime Minister Su's daughter, Su Qing. He married me because he had no choice. In his eyes, I'm just like a decoration in name!"

Madam Lian sneered. "So what? Even if it is just in name, you're still the Princess Consort. I don't think the Prince will be unwilling to exchange my lousy life for the Princess Consort's."

Shen Mingjiao also sneered at her. "How naive are you? Do you think I can be compared with the 20 million taels of silver that the Luo Capital had lost?"