The officials and slaves were all family members of criminal officials. There were eight families living in the two slums in the back alley of Shuntian Prefecture’s yamen. The first thing Shi Jia took Hua Jingyao to see was the one who saw a person standing under the big locust tree.

"The sinner did not see the face of that man, but the man was quite tall. If he was not tall, the sinner might be able to see his face." The street swept the street is a middle-aged woman with silver hair on her temples and a slightly hunched back, but her eyebrows and eyes are beautiful and she has a faint bookish spirit. She used to be a pampered wife.

"Where is the person who left with him? Do you remember the person's dress?" Hua Jingyao asked.

The middle-aged woman's mouth moved, but she still shook her head: "The sinner just saw someone walking over and standing behind the big locust tree, and then the person under the locust tree left with him, but..."

Hua Jingyao looked around the small room. This room was cut from another room, not even a window.

She asked Shi Jia: "Does all the street sweepers live in these two yards?"

Shi Jia understood it and said, "There is another place in the Qianzhao Hutong, which is much better than the conditions here."

Hua Jingyao nodded and looked at the middle-aged woman: "Hear?"

The middle-aged woman bit her lip and thought for a moment, and said, "That man is a lame man, walking. The last time this master came to ask the criminal woman and two other old sisters. After the master left, the three of us chatted together. Sister Sun said that the guards of the wealthy family should be looking for. If she came to find the cripple man she saw yesterday, she would not dare to say she had seen him. Even when she heard Sister Sun talk about the cripple man, the criminal woman remembered that the person who later walked seemed to be a lame man."

Hua Jingyao instructed Shi Jia to look for someone to change the middle-aged woman's residence, and then went to see Sister Sun again.

Sister Sun is nearly fifty years old and thin, but her body is straight. Shi Jia whispered: "This is Sun, the wife of the former Minister of Justice Xue."

The Minister Xue from the Ministry of Justice was exiled ten years ago. Hua Jingyao had never seen this Minister Xue, but unexpectedly he met his wife here.

It is said that the Minister Xue accepted bribes and replaced the serious criminal who had been sentenced to behead the marquis of the prison. After the repeated criminal came out, he did not hide and killed all the eight-member local officials who were sentenced to prison. The daughter of the local officials who had been pregnant happened to return to their parents' home and died together. After the son-in-law finished the funeral, sold the property of the family and brought his eight-year-old eldest son to the capital. The drum of injustice sounded in front of the Dali Temple. The case was tried in the last three sessions, and five people were convicted of the Ministry of Justice Xue.

Hua Jingyao knew about this case. She heard people talk about it more than once when she was in the yamen in her previous life.

When Hua Jingyao learned that Sun was the wife of Shilang Xue, he felt a little more contempt. The local official's family of eight died, Shilang Xue was only sentenced to exile. Although his wife and children could not be frugal, they were at least still alive.

When Sun met the girl with a very stylish look in front of him, she didn't care. She had long seen this kind of look since the Xue Mansion was searched.

Hua Jingyao asked straight to the point, "Have you seen a cripple?"

Sun raised his eyelids and said, "No."

Hua Jingyao snorted coldly and said to Shi Jia: "Put her mouth open."

Sun was stunned. Is he trying to bribe her?

Before she could think about what kind of sugar-coated shell the little girl was going to use to buy her, Shi Jia walked up to her, pinched her chin with one hand, and a dagger in the other hand at some point. Then, the dagger hit her clenched teeth.

Sun understood. It turned out that the little girl said she wanted to pry her mouth open, but it was really prying, not the kind she thought.

Sun gritted her teeth hard, but the cold dagger pried open her mouth...

A moment later, Hua Jingyao received Sun's confession.

Just yesterday, just dawn, when Sun was sweeping the floor on Changrong Street, she kept her head down and accidentally bumped into someone. The man was a lame man. Sun felt that the man looked familiar and thought that she had been sweeping around the street for many years. Maybe she had seen him before, so she didn't care at that time.

But when she came back in the evening, she passed by the yamen gate and accidentally looked at the sign in front of the yamen gate, and was stunned. The signs were posted with administrative notices from the government and official documents from the sea arrest.

There are five official documents for sea capture on the signboard, and the face on one of them is actually 70 to 80% similar to the cripple Sun met.

The man was named Zhu Lu, who was wanted for robbing the official ship.

Shi Jia carried a lantern and illuminated the sea capture document on the signboard.

Hua Jingyao looked at the letters on the notice twice, and saw that Captain Yin had not left yet, so he asked, "Captain Yin, where is Zhu Lu on the sea capture official document? He robbed the official ship, which kind of official ship is that?"

Official ship is a broad term. In the Great Zhou Dynasty, any registered official ship was an official ship, and the officials and relatives were on official ships, and those who transported grain rice were also called official ships.

Captain Yin shook his head and said, "This Zhu Lu committed a crime on the canal, not the case of our Shuntian Mansion. The official documents were issued by the Ministry of Justice. They were posted not only in our yamen, but also in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty. I don't know about this case, but the Chief of Qin's Mansion should be able to find the case from the Ministry of Justice."

When he returned to Wutong Hu, it was already the second day of the year, and Hua Jingyao met Madam You at the second gate.

"The girl is back. Your Highness is worried, so I asked the old slave to wait for the girl here."

Hua Jingyao held Madam You's arm and said with a smile: "Actually, Madam You didn't feel at ease with me, so she volunteered to wait in the second gate."

Madam You patted Hua Jingyao's hand. The girl was really grown up and became more and more sensible. She was getting older, and the eldest princess would not send her to the second door to wait. She was indeed worried and came over with her own initiative.

Madam You looked behind her, A, B, B, D, was like four plague gods. Madam You sighed silently and asked, "Little Li still hasn't found it?"

Hua Jingyao nodded, changed the subject and said, "It's getting late, so I won't go to Jinyuan to disturb my mother. I'll tell you, I'll go there tomorrow morning and let my mother go to bed early."

"Okay, girl, be hungry. I asked the kitchen in your yard to prepare midnight snacks. Girl, go back quickly."

Madam You nagged for a few more words before letting Hua Jingyao go back. Hua Jingyao walked far away and could still hear Madam You scolding her, but it was not her who scolded her, but A, B, C and D.

When she returned to the embroidery garden where she lived, before she could take a shower, the eldest maid Ziwei told her: "Girl, the sixth master of the Gong family sent a lot of fragrance."

"A lot of fragrant dew? How much is a lot of fragrant dew?" Hua Jingyao raised her eyebrows.

Ziwei smiled bitterly: "I counted it, there are more than seventy bottles."

"What? More than seventy bottles? Which shop is this that makes Gong Liukeng like this?" Hua Jingyao has grown so big that she has never seen more than seventy bottles of fragrant dew piled together.
Chapter completed!