From time to time, the long and mournful cries of a girl could be heard between the cracks between the two brown wooden doors.
Xiaolan's first thought was: Did they put the dead maid's body in the storage room?
The second thought is: So this cry comes from...
Xiaolan clenched the door handle tightly, and when the cold sweat on her palms came into contact with the brass handle, it made a creaking sound.
The crying inside the door stopped instantly.
Xiaolan's movements also froze.
After a while, there were a few more panicked footsteps in the door.
It doesn't sound like it's haunted.
Sure enough, before Xiaolan could react, the door suddenly opened from the inside, and a face red from crying appeared inside.
She was the girl who last saw the dead little maid.
The girl's eyes were bright red, and the light in the storage room came from behind her, making her red hair seem to sparkle with golden light.
The girl originally had a look of fear and fear on her face. After seeing Xiaolan, the fear in her eyes became slightly smaller, but soon, a trace of sadness emerged.
"You...why are you here?" The girl's voice was also hoarse.
Xiaolan looked inside the storage room and asked, "What are you doing?"
"I..." the red-haired girl turned her head and wiped her eyes, "We separated here yesterday. Unexpectedly... our bedroom is only a few rooms away from here, but... but..."
Under the girl's slightly surprised gaze, Xiaolan turned sideways and squeezed into the storage room, "You live next to here?"
The girl folded her hands in front of her and lowered her head, "It's very close. Compared with other servants, our room is closest to the storage room."
"Then you didn't hear anything after you separated from her last night?" Xiaolan turned around in the cramped and crowded storage room and looked at the red-haired girl and asked.
The girl still lowered her head. Xiaolan couldn't see her expression, but she was probably thinking.
"You can raise your head." Xiaolan chuckled.
The red-haired girl raised her head slightly, looked at Xiaolan, and pursed her lips, "You...will you tell Miss Yirel?"
"Tell what?"
"It's just...I...I came here...I stole...No, I even took the key..."
Xiaolan reached out and patted the girl on the shoulder, "I won't tell her."
The girl raised her eyes with some gratitude and looked at Xiaolan with wet eyes.
"And even if I tell her, she will understand. It's not a bad thing." Xiaolan added.
The girl's expression suddenly changed. She lowered her head suddenly and shrank back.
"But don't worry, I will definitely not tell her," Xiaolan said quickly, "Are you...are you afraid of Miss Yirel?"
The girl shook her head vigorously and curled up her thin shoulders.
"It's okay, it's okay," Xiaolan comforted, "Actually... I'm actually a little afraid of Miss Yirel."
The girl raised her eyes curiously.
"What are you afraid of?..."
"I think she is very much like the strict eldest sister in my family," Xiaolan said nonchalantly. "She always takes care of me. I thought I could get rid of the eldest sister completely..."
Seeing Xiaolan's humorous look, the girl couldn't hold it back and burst out laughing. She quickly covered her mouth and snickered softly.
Xiaolan felt relieved.
"It's okay, you can laugh," Xiaolan also smiled, "There are only two of us here, there is no scary sister."
The girl blushed and looked at Xiaolan with a much more friendly look, "I thought you..."
"Do you still think I'm a lady?" Xiaolan spread her hands, "I can't help it, everyone thinks so, and I'm very tired from performing."
The girl was amused again, her clenched hands finally parted, and she patted her chest.
"Okay, okay, don't be too loud. It won't be good if you lure Miss Yirui over." Xiaolan moved to the girl's side and looked at her with a smile, "Now you can tell me, why are you afraid of Yirui?"
Miss you?"
The red-haired girl hesitated for a few seconds, then looked up at Xiaolan's friendly eyes. After a few seconds, she whispered, "As you said, Miss Yirel... is a very responsible person."
housekeeper."
Xiaolan nodded.
"If we do something wrong... we will be punished," the girl's eyes trembled, "However, this is also because we are not good and we shouldn't do something wrong."
"Everyone has the opportunity to make mistakes, and no one is right all the time."
After listening to Xiaolan's words, the girl opened her heart and gently told Xiaolan about Miss Yirel's "sternness" word by word. Xiaolan finally understood how the orderly servants like robots were manipulated.
Trained.
"By the way," the girl said, as if she suddenly remembered something, she said nonchalantly, "Last night, it was Miss Yirel who discovered that the two of us always worked together, so she told me to go to other places to clean.
of."
Xiaolan's ears suddenly stood up.
"Miss Yirel?" Xiaolan's voice became sharper inexplicably, "Did she make you separate?"
"Let's put it this way..." The girl's sadness came out again, she lowered her head and wiped her tears, "In fact, Miss Yirel told us early not to be lazy and chat during working hours. It's our fault...
"
It's Yrel.
Xiaolan had a new idea.
"Has there been any change here...compared to when you were separated last night?" Xiaolan looked around.
The girl's tearful eyes also slowly moved around, "We separated last night after we were sorted out. Now... nothing has changed."
It seems that this is not the first scene.
"Then do you know...where she is currently arranged?"
The girl sighed, "She's in the basement."
"Isn't this the basement?"
"This is not," the girl pointed to the ground. "This is just the ground floor, and there is a basement below. That is not a place that a lady like you would know, so..."
"Then can you take me there?" Xiaolan asked quickly.
The girl shook her head, "I haven't been to the basement either. Only Miss Yirel and a few male servants have been there, and the key is with Miss Yirel."
Like this.
Xiaolan stretched out her hand, "Let's do this. Just give me the key you took from Miss Yirel, and I'll return it to her. I won't say you got it."
"This... you..." The girl was a little surprised.
"Don't worry, if she sees it, I can explain it easily, leave it to me."
Xiaolan bid farewell to the red-haired girl, followed the location of Yirel's room pointed by the girl, and walked forward close to the wall.