"What's going on?" Suti then noticed that there were quite a few people from the Discipline Inspection Office standing in the Reform Department.

They were all wearing red armbands and looked quite aggressive. Their minister stood to the side, his face flushed, as if they were arguing about something.

"I don't know what happened, but they said someone from our Reform Department went into the alley, and quite a few people were caught there and implicated."

“The disciplinary office came to investigate early in the morning, interrogating everyone they saw, including the women.”

"Several female comrades were brought to tears by the questions, and even some canteen aunties who came to wash vegetables for breakfast, all over fifty years old, were not spared. How could they have been inside?"

Zhu Qingling kept grumbling, and she ran out when those people asked her questions.

She didn't care; she was going to tell her dad when she got back that he knew the director of the disciplinary office.

She's not even married yet, and to ask this so openly is embarrassing, but what about her reputation?

"A dark alley?" Suti paused for a few seconds, then quickly realized what she meant.

Are there places like this now? She knew that in the 80s and 90s, many places were glamorous and disreputable.

Even Wei Baidao in his previous life had been to those places quite a bit, and later even started a karaoke business with some people.

She glanced at the group of men being questioned and a few younger women who were crying. After thinking for a moment, she stood still and didn't go over.

"Why are you crying? Are you feeling guilty? We received a report that someone in your Ministry of Development and Reform is a regular visitor there."

"Are you going to step forward yourselves, or wait for us to investigate you one by one? No matter how well you hide, the whole group has already been taken down over there."

“As long as we bring people to identify you, we won’t be afraid of not recognizing you. Then it won’t be so easy to talk to us.”

The people in the disciplinary office are used to being arrogant and domineering, and they act tough wherever they go.

In small towns, it's normal for law enforcement officials to be unreasonable and resort to violence. Luckily, this is Beijing, where you can find someone with connections every few steps.

The people from the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau have been much more polite; at least they haven't resorted to physical violence.

Not to mention, they also know what kind of place this is, and that everyone here has a powerful background.

Their attitude has improved a lot; they only asked questions and did not vandalize or arrest anyone.

"Only men can go there. What do you mean by grabbing us and asking us questions? If word gets out, how will we ever be able to face anyone again?"

The women all felt ashamed; they had lived in a pampered environment since childhood and had never suffered such humiliation.

"We're just doing our job, and we won't let anyone off the hook. What if you know something we're hiding?"

People from all the departments of the Reform Department were called out, one group of women and one group of men, and no one looked happy.

The women felt ashamed, and the men felt flustered.

Some people who have been there are panicked, some people who know others have been there are also panicked, and some people have only heard of the place. Those with relatives or friends who have been there are even more panicked.

They were all prominent figures in Beijing, and some even had relatives who kept children outside the city.

I used to think that dark alleys were nothing, but now that I've heard they've been raided, I'm scared.

There's someone protecting that place, something serious must have happened.

"What are we hiding? Do you have any evidence? Didn't you just say you were going to call someone over to identify them? Then go ahead and call them."

“I want to see what we women can be identified as,” Meng Yixuan said, unlike the other women who were crying and sobbing.

Her father was the Minister of Public Security, and she grew up in the Ministry of Public Security. She had seen all kinds of interrogation scenes.

She wasn't afraid of their threats. How could a woman like her go to a brothel?

"That's right, come back if you have evidence. What right do you have to interrogate us if you don't have evidence? We're not criminals."

"You said someone from our Reform Department went there? Who said that? You just blurt things out. I could say you went there too. Why don't you check yourselves?"

Once someone started it, the people in the Reform Department were even more furious and were not afraid of the people in the Inspection Office at all.

“Comrades from the Discipline Inspection Office, we still have work to do. If you really have evidence to arrest someone, I won’t stop you. But you’re doing this without evidence, trying to investigate and interrogate everyone one by one. That won’t do.”

The minister of the reform department was also furious; he argued with them for a long time, but to no avail.

Seeing that the people in the department were making a fuss, he quickly stood up and said something fair.

He was also angered by what the people from the Discipline Inspection Office said, as if there were no good people in their Reform Department.

"Are you not cooperating with our work?" The disciplinary committee members had never been treated so coldly before.

Where did they go before they were fawned over? But after the director gave them instructions, they've already suppressed a lot of their behavior here.

But these people are still pushing their luck. The women who were arrested in the dark alleys confessed to more than just the Reform Department.

They went to other places, and they caught them every time. If they said their reform department had gone, then they definitely had.

So many people have already said it, how could it be fake? They've already given them face by putting the Reform Department last in the investigation.

None of them who made it into the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection are brainless; truly capable people wouldn't even look at those women.

Even those in the Reform Department are probably just low-level thugs. Those who are truly capable should keep their own. Isn't that cleaner than those working in the shadows?

"How are we not cooperating? You were the ones who started this trouble by being unreasonable, and you have no evidence to make a scene here."

The minister was also anxious. Everyone in his department was someone to be trifled with, and he couldn't afford to take responsibility if something went wrong.

"You...you're all great." The disciplinary office staff were furious, and when they turned around, they saw Su Ti and Zhu Qingling standing at the door.

"What are you two doing here? You seem suspicious to me. Are they from your reform department?"

The disciplinary officers were looking for someone to vent their anger on, and when they saw the two people hiding by the door, they immediately turned their anger on them.

They realized that the women standing there were difficult to deal with, probably because they came from powerful families.

Those two standing at the door are probably just ordinary people, otherwise why would they be hiding at the door, afraid to come in?

"Don't make baseless accusations. Produce evidence, or I'll have my dad talk to your disciplinary office director."

Zhu Qingling had already hidden by the door, but she didn't expect these people to still want to cause her trouble. She must tell her father when she gets back.

The disciplinary office staff: "..." This is another troublesome case.

"And what about you?" The people from the Discipline Inspection Office were persistent; they refused to believe that everyone in the Reform Department knew their director.

"Comrades, let's talk this out calmly, don't get into trouble." The Minister of Reform, who was just angry, suddenly jumped out.