After Yalian and Yunbi left, Shi Manman pulled out a scorched black copper lock from his sleeve.

Xiao Lei glanced at the stone vines, and then looked at the copper lock on the table. The scene that he ignored today was instantly recalled, and his face sank without Shi Manman's words, he also knew Shi Manman's intentions.

"Where did you find it?" Xiao Lei's throat was slightly injured after being smoked, and he looked hoarse when he lowered his voice and asked at this moment.

"Next to the book door." Shi Manman felt a little surprised, it turned out that Xiao Lei seemed to know her intention in bringing this lock.

Xiao Lei picked up the copper lock, observed it carefully, and spoke for a long time: "Last night, I slept in the study. When I woke up from the smoke, I found that the study was on fire, but I had to push the door open and leave...... The outside of the door has been locked. ”

"How did you find out?" Xiao Lei asked.

"When I rescued you yesterday, I caught a glimpse of this lock by the door. Later, I felt that something was wrong, so I went back to see it. Do you know who did it? After listening to Xiao Lei's words, Shi Manman couldn't help frowning.

This seemingly unexpected fire doesn't seem to be an accident.

Xiao Lei shook his head: "There are not many people in the Xiao family......" Before the words fell, a noisy voice suddenly came from outside the courtyard.

"Childe, Miss Shi. Yalian, she was taken by the ancestor for questioning. Yun Bi seemed to rush in the door in a panic and said to the two, but the calm in her eyes and a hint of forbearance gloating did not escape Shi Manman's eyes.

But at this time, it is not to investigate whether Yun Bi's expression is different. Xiao Lei was almost killed in the fire yesterday, and today the maid next to him was arrested for questioning. What else is there not to understand about this? Yalian is just an ordinary maid to her, but if she is convicted of arson, her master will also be to blame.

"Yunbi, you go and ask someone to carry the sedan chair." Xiao Lei once again forgot about his foot injury, and it was not the maid who was in a hurry, but Shi Manman.

Yun Bi looked at Xiao Lei's painful face, and secretly gritted her teeth, but still turned around to find someone to carry the sedan chair.

Shi Manman saw that this entry and exit was too time-consuming, so he said to Xiao Lei: "I'll go over and have a look first." After saying that, he got up and left, Xiao Lei looked at the back of Shi Manman's departing in a hurry, and after a helpless smile, his face suddenly became heavy.

The Xiao family really can't tolerate her.

"Look, this is your thing?" Sun Niang spread her hands in front of Yalian in disgust. In the palm of her hand lay a piece of tapestry, a very ordinary cloth, the edges of which were blackened and rolled up, as if it had been burned by fire but not burned out.

Although Yalian was forced to kneel on the ground, her back was still straight. She is a maid of Shi Manman, not a maid of Xiao Mansion, and she has nothing to fear. But it wasn't until she saw the ordinary tapestry that her heart beat violently.

The only remaining corner of the tapestry was embroidered with half a lotus flower, and the other half was already smiling beyond the blackened edge.

Seeing the shock on Yalian's face when she saw the thing in her hand, Sun Niang was even more sure in her heart, and her eyes also showed anger and scolded: "Yes and no?!" ”

Yalian didn't know why Sun Niang was so angry, but the piece of brocade in her palm seemed to be the embroidered handkerchief that she had cleaned and dried in the courtyard not long ago and disappeared. She also thought that she was not fixed and was blown away by the wind. How could this appearance appear in Sun Niang's hands?

Although she is occasionally arrogant and arrogant, she is not a fool. Looking at the appearance of Jinpa, thinking of yesterday's fire, and looking at the cold and slightly annoyed expressions of the people around her, she didn't know that she had been framed.

"This is my embroidered handkerchief, but it was gone a few days ago." Yalian did not deny it, because the lotus flower in the corner of the embroidered pan was embroidered by her own hands, as long as her embroidery was taken out to identify, she would know the authenticity at once.

Seeing Yalian's admission, Sun Niang stopped asking, and snorted coldly and stood back beside Grandmother Xiao.

"Yunxi, you say." From the moment Yalian entered the door, Grandmother Xiao's eyelids never lifted, and her hands exchanged the jade Buddha beads in her hands, and the speed of each stroke was not in a hurry.

When Yunxi saw Grandmother Xiao calling her, she immediately walked out of the maid on one side respectfully, knelt on the ground and said crisply: "Back to the ancestors, yesterday the slave maid went to the Huanyi Pavilion to get clothes as usual, and I didn't want to wait for the slave and maid to return to the courtyard, and there was already a fire in the courtyard. When he went to call someone, he caught a glimpse of Yalian sneakily appearing near Mo Yuanju. ”

"You're lying! Yesterday I was in a shallow residence all day, why do you come to say this! Yalian still had a trace of luck, but at this moment, Yunxi's red-mouthed and white-toothed people came to wronged her, how could she not be in a hurry to return the favor.

"Do you have any witnesses?" Yunxi seemed to be very confident and asked rhetorically.

Yalian was suffocated, and yesterday because of Shi Manman, she locked herself in the room, and no one was seen. She was also happy and didn't have to wait beside Shi Manman. So I was lazy and went back to the wing room to rest by myself. Later, she was woken up by the chaotic shouting outside the house, and only after she realized that Mo Yuanju was on fire, she hurried to report to Shi Manman.

At this moment, she secretly regretted why such a big thing had to happen when she was lazy once, but she was really sleepy yesterday.

Yalian's speechless appearance was seen by everyone, and Yunxi hooked the corners of her mouth when everyone paid attention to Yalian's expression.

"Why are you doing this? Who gave you the courage to do this? Yunxi saw that Yalian's expression gradually became flustered, and then said.

Sun Niang couldn't help frowning when she heard this, and when she looked at Grandmother Xiao, she saw that the other party still fiddled with the jade Buddha beads in her hand as if she hadn't heard Yunxi's questioning.

"Do you mean that I gave Yalian the courage to do so?" A familiar and cold female voice came from outside the door, like a mountain spring flowing through everyone's angry hearts, which eased the oppressive atmosphere rising in the room.

"Slaves don't dare." Yunxi's tone was casual, in her eyes, Shi Manman was just a different birth from her, but she became the slave of the Xiao family, and the woman in front of her, who pretended to be high, was about to become the master of this mansion.

"The vines are coming? Lookouts. Grandmother Xiao only opened her eyes at this time, smiled kindly at Shi Manman, and asked people to bring chairs.

After Shi Manman thanked Grandmother Xiao, he didn't sit down, but walked in front of Yunxi and looked down at Yunxi who was kneeling on the ground and asked word by word, "Did you really see Yalian appear near Mo Yuanju?" ”

Yunxi looked up at Shi Manman, her back was straight, as if she was resisting the coercion emanating from Shi Manman's body, and she didn't let herself fall behind.

"Yes." Yunxi replied simply, and he couldn't even see the slightest weakness in his eyes.

"If you don't tell the truth, no one will be able to protect your ......" Shi Manman saw Yunxi's answer simply, and said in Yunxi's ear in a voice that could only be heard by the two of them.

She used her wide cuffs to block the view of the people around her, and she held a pitch-black copper iron in her hand to reveal a corner. Yunxi's body retreated slightly when Shi Manman leaned towards her, and with the movement of Shi Manman's hand, his gaze fell on her palm.

Yunxi saw the pitch-black copper and iron, his pupils closed, and then he heard a quiet voice in his ear that seemed to be urging his life: "I know you have the key......