NCCnovel Chapter 159 Imperial Prison?
Chapter 159 Imperial Prison?
"There is no problem with the body search, but the issue of the pass not matching needs to be determined."
As soon as Huo Qingyun finished speaking, Tang Hao came forward and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes! Come, take her to the military headquarters for questioning."
After Tang Hao finished speaking, four guards came up to Luo Xiaoran with a fierce look in their eyes. One of them took her horse, and the remaining three wanted to take her away.
Tang Hao turned to look at Li He and said, "Master Huo and I just came back from an official business trip. We still have a lot of business to deal with in the yamen, so we won't delay Master Li from catching the assassin."
Luo Xiaoran stepped back to avoid the guards, glanced at the expressionless Huo Qingyun, gritted her teeth and said coldly: "Men and women should not touch each other. I have committed a crime. I now admit my mistake and voluntarily go to the government office to be punished."
The order Li He received was to catch the assassin. Since there was no problem with the little girl dressed as a woman, he didn't bother to care about the pass and continued to watch the city gate.
The Bingmasi is located in an alley in the northwest of Dongcheng District. Luo Xiaoran followed the guards through many twists and turns and gained a certain understanding of the topography of Dongcheng District in Kyoto.
The guards brought Luo Xiaoran into the hall and then left. Tang Hao was not in the room. Only Huo Qingyun was sitting on a high seat with an upright posture. He picked up the pile of documents on the table and began to read them, as if he was waiting for something.
Luo Xiaoran blinked twice and waited for a long time, but Huo Qingyun didn't speak, so she took the initiative to say:
"My brother and I are from Yangzhou. Our family was in trouble, so my father ordered us to come to Kyoto to look for our uncle to borrow some money.
Who would have thought that my brother died unexpectedly on the way, and my pass was lost. In the end, I had no choice but to disguise myself as a man and use my brother's pass to enter the capital. I did not intend to deceive anyone, so please give me a lighter punishment."
After saying that, Luo Xiaoran raised the pass in her hand, but there was no other clerk in the room to present the pass, so Luo Xiaoran had to put the pass on Huo Qingyun's desk herself. She also stole a glance at Huo Qingyun before retreating.
Huo Qingyun put down the document in his hand, his long eyelashes drew an arc from bottom to top, his black jade eyes made it impossible to tell what he was thinking. From a distance, his whole body exuded a noble and indifferent air, which was really inconsistent with the heavy and solemn environment of the Bingmasi.
Maybe Luo Xiaoran's expression was too sincere. Huo Qingyun stared at her for a long time before saying calmly, "Why do you smell of blood and have a dagger hidden on you?"
The busy sounds of the servants in the office could be heard outside the house. Luo Xiaoran froze in place with her back tense.
Just now she was curious about why Huo Shui didn't tell anyone even though he had clearly touched her dagger. Now it seems that Lord Huo had instructed her in advance not to expose him.
However, since Lord Huo had helped her out of the predicament in front of Li He, why did he bring her here alone now?
"There is indeed blood inside my cloak, which was stained on my brother's body when he died. As for the dagger, I am a little girl walking outside, and I can feel at ease with something like this."
Luo Xiaoran looked directly at Huo Qingyun, and then she realized that the other's eyes were not only black, but also deep, as if he could see through anyone.
Hearing this, Huo Qingyun seemed to have a faint smile on his face. He picked up the document in his hand again, and asked while reading it:
"Since I'm asking you, there is already evidence that you are a suspect. You don't have to lie to me."
Seeing that he looked calm and composed, Luo Xiaoran felt annoyed. Although her explanation was flimsy, it was also reasonable and flawless. How did he know that she was lying?
Let’s not worry about that for now. We are on his territory now and he can’t say anything that is detrimental to me even if you kill him.
Thinking of this, Luo Xiaoran rubbed her neck which was a little sore from leaning back, and said stubbornly:
"What I said is all true. Sir Huo, please help me to review the case of the inconsistent road permit as soon as possible. In this way, I don't have to feel uneasy about taking up Sir Huo's time."
"Your brother's name is Yun Da, what's your name?" Huo Qingyun asked suddenly, but his eyes did not move away from the official documents.
"My name is Yun Xiao." Luo Xiaoran made up this name in a second.
When Huo Qingyun heard Luo Xiaoran's answer, he paused flipping through the documents and called someone in: "Come here, take this little girl Yun to the imperial prison for three days and then interrogate her."
"Wait a minute!" Luo Xiaoran stretched out Erkang's hand, her eyes widened. Could this imperial prison be the kind of prison she imagined?
The semi-basement was dark and damp, with extremely poor air quality. It was isolated from all sound and light. Only a faint candlelight could be seen, but the screams from the torture could be heard clearly...
Staying in this kind of environment was a complete torture both psychologically and physically, which she resisted even more than the first time she went to chop zombies.
Luo Xiaoran shook off the goose bumps on her body, bared her teeth, and smiled, "I wonder if you are dissatisfied with my name, sir. I can change it."
I can bend and stretch, and I can speak softly.
Huo Qingyun's eyes moved from the official documents to Luo Xiaoran. He was very patient and decided to give Luo Xiaoran another chance: "What's your name?"
"Luo Xiaoran."
"Take it down!"
Two yamen officials pushed the door open and walked in, one of them holding a pair of shackles in his hand, and walked straight towards them.
Luo Xiaoran really didn't want to be locked up. Once she was in the imperial prison, would she still have a chance to get out?
"My real name is Luo Xiaoran. I used to have an alias called Luo Caicai. If someone tells you that my last name is Zhu, that's right. I also had the last name Zhu for a while. I swear, I have given all my names and I have not concealed anything."
Huo Qingyun waved his hand, and the two yamen officials behind Luo Xiaoran retreated again and closed the door tightly.
Seeing that there was hope, Luo Xiaoran secretly breathed a sigh of relief and clasped her fists, saying, "My Lord, you are wise."
Unexpectedly, Huo Qingyun, who was sitting in the upper seat, smiled, picked up Luo Xiaoran's pass and said:
"Your brother's surname is Yun, and your surname is Luo. For a while, your surname was Zhu. Isn't that absurd? I'm afraid you forged this pass! If so, you are a person without a pass and should be imprisoned."
Luo Xiaoran: @￥%……\u0026*There is a sentence I don’t know whether I should say it or not.
I was really blinded by the imagined devil's prison and fell into such a small trap. How shameful!
"My Lord, I can explain this!
The reason why my brother has the surname Yun is because my mother’s surname is Yun, and my father is a son-in-law from my maternal grandfather’s family, so my brother took my mother’s surname Yun.
After I was born, my grandfather said that he had to leave a descendant for my father, so he let me take my father's surname, and in the future he would marry a live-in son-in-law, and the child would be named Luo. "
Having come to this point, Luo Xiaoran felt a little thirsty. She looked eagerly at the tea on Huo Qingyun's desk, but finally swallowed her saliva and continued to make up a story. Ahem, she continued to explain:
"As for my surname Zhu, it's because I have a sworn brother with the same surname Zhu, so he gave me a pseudonym named Zhu. Sir, everything I said is true!"