Hong Xiu shook her head: "Young officials, we don't know each other and have never met you."
Ye Xue'e also said: "Everyone, thank you for your hard work. We are all ordinary people. How can we know the heavy criminals of the imperial court!"
The soldiers also made simple inquiries. They knew that the people living in Yanghuafang were poor common people.
Fang Chen had managed Yanghuafang before, so he had a good relationship with the senior managers here.
Those high-level officials had been arrested long ago, and the remaining people followed the procedures and orders to conduct a blanket search.
But Ye Xue'e has been in the yard all the time and is not well informed about the changes outside now.
Several officers and soldiers went inside to search and found that Ye Xue'e had long hidden the paintings in a secret cabinet inside the closet.
Previously, Hong Xiu said that when the soldiers were arresting Bai Ling'er, Ye Xue'e had an evil idea.
If the officers and soldiers really come to search and find the paintings she painted, there will definitely be a lot of trouble, so she hid the paintings early.
Ye Xue'e didn't want to burn these paintings. She had sketched them out one by one and would give them to Fang Chen in the future.
After searching for a while, the officers and soldiers found nothing unusual.
Just as he was about to leave, an officer and soldier searched for a while from the garbage basket in the yard.
Suddenly, several crumpled pieces of paper were found inside.
When Ye Xue'e and Hongxiu saw this scene, they secretly screamed.
Those pieces of paper were Ye Xue'e's paintings. Because the paintings were not very good, they were crumpled into paper balls and thrown away.
The two women also didn’t understand why they even overturned the garbage basket when catching serious criminals here?
This is too serious!
Soon, the soldier opened the three pieces of paper. Two of them showed profiles of faces, and nothing could be seen.
But one of them is a frontal face. Although it has not been finished yet, Ye Xue'e's painting skills are so good that anyone who has seen or knows Fang Chen can recognize it at a glance.
"Captain, come and take a look, there is something discovered here!"
Originally, the captain led the others away, but the soldier shouted and they came over again.
If there is any important discovery or information about the criminal, they will be rewarded, so they will not miss any details.
The captain led the people over and was startled!
The portrait in front of me is so similar to Fang Chen's portrait, it's definitely the same person.
Several officers and soldiers gathered around and continued to ask questions.
"Who are you? Why are there Fang Chen's paintings?"
Hongxiu's face turned pale with fright, but Ye Xue'e was very calm, "Several officials, let me tell you the truth. The little girl admires Lord Fang's poems and music scores more, and Lord Fang admires him more, so I had nothing to do, so I drew a few pictures of Fang.
A painting by an adult."
"Really?" the captain asked, "Did you know that the people you drew are close friends of these prisoners? If you find someone who knows Fang Chen, you may be able to find out where the prisoners are!"
Ye Xue'e hurriedly explained: "My lord, that's not what happened. Mr. Fang defeated a generation of saints, Tian Xuzi, and became a new saint in the minds of many people. We common people worship Mr. Fang more. This is normal. Paint a few pictures of Fang.
The adults’ paintings are reasonable, right?”
The captain said coldly: "You are right, it is indeed reasonable."
"But the portrait you painted is so lifelike. This can only mean that you and Fang Chen definitely know each other. You are a woman. Do you also know these prisoners?"
Ye Xue'e did not expect that these officers and soldiers were not easy to fool.
She hurriedly explained: "My lord, at a poetry conference before, the little girl did have a relationship with Mr. Fang. It's not that we know each other. We just exchanged poems and songs, and there was no other interaction."
However, these officers and soldiers thought that the matter was not that simple, especially when their eyes were carefully looking at Ye Xuee's body. She was so beautiful that she could be said to be the beauty of the country, and the red sleeve next to Ye Xuee was also a beauty.
For a woman with such an outstanding appearance, she lives in a slum. Things are not that simple.
What's more, if this woman has a close relationship with Fang Chen, she may also know the criminal, and they are both women, and there may be traces of Bai Ling'er.
No matter which point, it is worthy of further study.
The captain lost his patience and ordered: "Come here, take these two people away!"
Ye Xue'e and Hong Xiu were shocked.
Ye Xue'e hurriedly took off one of her earrings and gave it to the captain: "Master, we have nothing to do with the prisoners. Please, let us go!"
Hongxiu also knelt on the ground and begged: "Master, please let us go. We are really ordinary people and we really have nothing to do with repeat criminals."
"Come here, take it away! Take it away!"
The captain still gave the order and took the two men away.
No matter how much the two of them begged, it was of no use.
After arriving outside, I found that there were more than a dozen people outside who had also been arrested. Anyone who was close to Fang Chen and Bai Ling'er, or anyone who said the wrong thing, would be arrested.
Officers and soldiers arrested a total of 248 people on Yanghuafang Street.
Many people were arrested by mistake, but they wanted to receive merit and rewards. Anyone who mentioned Fang Chen or Bai Ling'er would be arrested.
Next, the arrested people were locked up in a large warehouse with more than a thousand people inside. Men and women were separated and interrogated by specialized personnel.
Once the interrogation is over, he will be released if there are no questions asked.
People with problems will be locked up in a room in the warehouse.
Because too many people have been arrested in the past two days, and the cells are full, so we have to find other places to detain people.
It will take at least several days to complete the investigation of these more than 1,000 people.
The captured people were in the warehouse without bedding or food, and were only provided with some water.
It was terribly cold here at night, and the wind was biting outside. Everyone was shivering from the cold, and some women couldn't bear it and were sobbing constantly.
People huddle together to keep warm, which is better.
The soldiers were warming themselves over a fire in the distance, eating meat and even drinking wine.
The people who were captured were very angry when they saw this scene.
Some men asked the soldiers to provide them with food and bedding, but the soldiers refused.
Some people couldn't help but make trouble, but they were dragged out and beaten severely.
Early the next morning, a different group of people came to interrogate.
This wave of people are palace guards because of the shortage of manpower.
In addition, people from important departments were all arranged by Luo Longyu to be his own trained personnel, as well as some Jianghu forces.
Therefore, these palace guards were arranged to come here to do some dirty work.
The palace guards were very dissatisfied. On weekdays, their duty was to protect His Majesty and the empress in the harem in the palace.
And for what happened that night, the palace guards were also severely punished.
First there was a fire in the palace, and then there was a prison robbery in the palace, but the palace guards did not find anything unusual, which undoubtedly showed their incompetence.
Therefore, he was sent to do these things.
The palace guards drank tea leisurely.
One person after another, they were interrogated slowly, and some people even vented their anger on these ordinary people.
Soon after, it was finally Ye Xue'e and Hong Xiu's turn.