Out of the room, the officers and soldiers planned to let go of Xiangping and let her go by themselves, but as soon as they let go, Xiangping knelt directly on the ground, looking at them with a pale face, and her eyes were full of fear.

The officers and soldiers looked at her like this, but they didn't feel unfamiliar, how could ordinary people not be afraid when they came to their criminal department, she was just a weak woman, which was understandable.

The officers and soldiers had no choice but to pick her up again and drag her forward.

Xiangping's mind was blank, she didn't have time to think about anything, and she couldn't think of anything, and when she woke up again, she found herself in a room, slumped on the floor.

Before she could think about it, she heard a voice coming from above, "Xiangping? ”

Hearing someone call her name in this unfamiliar environment, Xiangping did not feel relieved, but had an inexplicable fear.

"Bold Xiangping, I didn't hear the adults call you!"

Just when Xiangping hesitated and panicked, a reprimand suddenly came from the side, and Xiangping looked up, and it turned out to be the officer and soldier who dragged her over just now.

Seeing his appearance, Xiangping subconsciously shrank for a moment, and then knelt down in an orderly manner, and it was at this time that she realized that the person who asked her just now was the same senior official who asked the officers and soldiers to arrest them back in Yihong Mansion before.

"The adult spares his life, the slave family did not mean it, the adult spares his life." Xiangping kowtowed vigorously as she spoke, for fear that the adults above would be unhappy and kill herself.

After all, who has never heard of the name of the Criminal Department, people outside say that the people who are officials in the Criminal Department eat people and do not spit out bones, and the punishment of the Criminal Department is even more famous for its cruelty, although she doesn't know this adult, but they are all adults, it must be the person who said the name, how can she not be afraid.

Si Yunlan was speechless when he looked at Xiangping's terrified appearance, he gave the officers and soldiers on the side a color and asked him to stop him.

He was afraid that she would knock like this again, and before he could ask, she would die first.

"Okay, don't dirty your eyes, what the adults ask you, you just tell the truth." The officers and soldiers were also speechless when they looked at her, and she made them look like some heinous people.

In fact, because of the functions of the Criminal Department, ahem, the Criminal Department is in charge of punishment, and the means are naturally not too soft, coupled with the importance attached to corrupt officials and corrupt officials since the establishment of the Dynasty, it also makes the Criminal Department more and more heavy, and at the same time more and more conspicuous.

Even though the people they arrested were corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the Criminal Department had never had a good reputation in the mouths of the people.

Of course, the Criminal Department doesn't care about it, after all, the reputation of the murderer is even more fearful.

Si Yunlan looked at Xiangping, who was trembling like a chick under the reprimand of the officers and soldiers, and stretched out his hand to wave his subordinates away, "Xiangping, you don't have to be nervous, this officer just wants to ask you a few questions."

The laws of the court do not hold accountable those who have not made mistakes. ”

The implication of his words was that if she was the one who made the mistake, then it would be a different matter, Si Yunlan looked at Xiangping condescendingly.

Xiangping didn't know what Si Yunlan was thinking, she only heard that if she didn't make a mistake, it would be fine.

She sat up straight, steady, she made no mistake.

"My lord, please ask, what the slave family knows, they must tell the truth."

"This official asks you, how did you end up in Yihong Mansion? When did it fall to Yihong Mansion? Si Yunlan asked.

"Back to the adult, the slave family was poor, and he was sold to Yihong Mansion when he was young, but at that time, Yihong Mansion was not called Yihong Building, but called Zuihua Building, and Yihong Mansion was changed later.

The slave family was only four years old when it was sold, and it had been fourteen years since the calculation was made. ”

Although Xiangping was still young when she was sold, she already remembered things, so when she talked about the past, she couldn't help but feel a little sour in her heart.

can be a good family, who wants to sell skin and meat.

Si Yunlan had already seen the matter of the drunken flower building that Xiangping said in the case file of the previous investigation, but it was a little old, and not many people knew many things.

"Drunken Flower Building? Then do you still remember when the drunken flower building was renamed Yihong Building? Si Yunlan asked.

"The slave remembers." Xiangping thought for a moment and said with certainty, "It was six years ago." ”

Si Yunlan nodded when she heard this, what she said was basically the same as what he investigated, and she was not lying, the old bustard and begonia in Yihong Mansion also appeared in the capital six years ago.

"You have been in Yihong Mansion for so many years, have you ever noticed anything wrong?" In fact, at this point, the question that Si Yunlan wanted to ask had actually been asked.

Judging from Xiangping's various performances, he doesn't think that Xiangping and the bustards are in the same group, of course, there is a possibility, that is, Xiangping's acting skills are so good that he didn't see her flaws.

But if that's the case, then she won't say anything more.

But Si Yunlan didn't expect that Xiangping thought for a while, and asked with some hesitation on her face, "What the adults said is not right, but the bustard and the begonia." ”

Si Yunlan's eyes lit up when he heard this, "You know? ”

"Hmm." Xiangping nodded.

As Si Yunlan thought, Xiangping, a "native" drunken Hualou person, naturally had a lot of friends with the later bustards and begonias.

Xiangping grew up in Zuihualou since she was a child, she knew what she wanted to do when she grew up, she knew that it was her life, and she never thought that she could change her life against the sky.

She was still young when she came to Zuihualou, and she took ten years to pick up customers in the building.

In the past ten years, her world has been a small flower building, but this small flower building is like a small society.

The people with good colors will be held and loved by their mothers, and the pick-ups are all those high-ranking officials and nobles, rich sons, and the pick-ups with average colors are poor.

Those who are old and decrepit or rejected by their mothers are the worst, what is dirty, ugly and smelly, as long as they give money, they have no choice at all.

Accustomed to this, Xiangping was determined to climb up, and resolutely couldn't let herself fall to that point.

So she has been lively and outgoing since she was a child, befriending people, and pleasing her mother, of course, she first pleased the mother in the drunken flower building, her trick really worked, and the mother in the drunken flower building at that time almost treated her as her own daughter.

However, six years ago, Zuihualou was renamed Yihong Building, and the mother in Zuihualou was also replaced, and all her previous plans were burned.

After the new mother came, she didn't want to please, and with years of experience in pleasing her, she thought it would be easier for her this time.

But she didn't expect that the new mother would not be in the trap, even if she was good to herself, she was good on the surface, and she never regarded herself as her own.

This made her puzzled and dissatisfied, so she couldn't help but observe her, but she didn't expect that she really found something wrong.