Gu Yunni comforted her for a few words before asking the question.
The other person looked up at Gu Yunni with a puzzled look in his eyes. "Are you here to ask about my daughter? Are you acquainted with my daughter? She shouldn't have a friend like you. She's been doing rough labor since she was a child. How could she have friends like you?"
"Sister, you misunderstood. Your daughter and I are not friends. I just happened to hear about your daughter's story and was curious, so I came here to ask."
Gu Yunni smiled, didn't reveal too much, and made up an excuse casually.
"You're interested in my daughter? Who are you? If you want to harm my daughter, then step over my dead body!"
The woman's tone suddenly became tough, and she looked at Gu Yunni with a determined expression.
She could talk about other things, but when it came to her daughter, she would never act rashly.
Gu Yunni's patience was exhausted and her tone turned cold.
"I never intended to harm you. I just came here to inquire. If you don't believe me, I can only tell you that what I'm investigating is related to the imperial court. If you continue to conceal it, don't blame me for throwing you in jail!"
Since soft tactics didn’t work, Gu Yunni had to resort to hard tactics.
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, the woman's face turned even paler, full of disbelief.
"How did we get involved with the imperial court again? We are just ordinary people, why did we get into so much trouble? Just tell me, who are you? If you really are here to buy pork, how about I give you a few pounds of pork? No money."
"You'd better tell the truth. My patience is limited. There are many guards hidden around. They will surround us at my command."
Gu Yunni had a smile on her face, but what she said scared the woman so much that she looked around and became more and more frightened.
"Of course, hurry up. I don't want to waste any more time with you. Your son should still be in the house, right? If the guards rushed out at this moment, he would have survived."
The woman thought for a long time, and finally looked up, as if she had made up her mind, and looked at Gu Yunni.
"Okay... I'll tell you, I only ask one thing of you, please don't hurt my son, he's innocent."
Things were finally back on track, and Sheng Mingyu stopped standing outside and walked in.
The woman felt a sense of oppression and began to shiver again, but it was a little better than before.
"I still have the same questions as before. Just tell me when you've made up your mind." Gu Yunni played with her hair, her tone light.
"The Liu Mansion I'm talking about is the Liu family shop that sells dim sum on Central Street in the capital. If you go there often, you should be able to see their shop. The dim sum they sell is delicious, and many customers fall in love with it after just one visit."
The woman took a deep breath and told the truth.
"As for my daughter, she was indeed sold into a brothel. Back then, our conditions were poor, and she volunteered to do so for the sake of my son's studies. Fortunately, she worked hard and met Boss Liu in the brothel. She became his concubine and successfully helped our family."
When she said this, the woman's tears couldn't stop flowing.
She was also a woman, so she naturally knew what it meant to step into a brothel.
But for the sake of her son, she had to lose her conscience and pretend that she knew nothing.
"The one who often comes to get pork is the Liu family's housekeeper. Our pork is of good quality, and my daughter has gained some status in the Liu family because of the pork. I don't know anything else. I don't know why my husband suddenly became rich, and I don't know what he did outside."
After the woman finished speaking, she looked up at Gu Yunni with a serious look in her eyes, as if she was not lying.
She shook her head helplessly and looked at Sheng Mingyu.
"Sister, I didn't mean to embarrass you. If I hadn't investigated thoroughly, I'm afraid your whole family would have been thrown into jail. It's all thanks to you that you're willing to tell the truth today."
Gu Yunni put on a gentle smile again and turned around to greet him.
The woman shook her head and refused to pay attention.
In her eyes, Gu Yunni is not a good person either.
"I wonder when your husband will be back? Can I see him? There are some things that only your husband knows."
Gu Yunni continued to ask questions with a bit of embarrassment on her face.
In an instant, the atmosphere became somewhat quiet.
The woman was a little unhappy. "Do you think I've lied to you? If you don't believe me, forget it. There's no need to bother my husband. He's busy all day long, trying to make a living. I don't want him to hear these things."
The woman frowned, very dissatisfied.
"I don't know why you suspect my husband of doing something bad. I'm cooperating with you, and if you insist on making things difficult for me, I have nothing to say."
Her tone was stiff, which startled Gu Yunni. After a moment's pause, she spoke again, "We are working for the court. If you have any dissatisfaction, you can go to His Majesty and complain. What I say is well-founded, and you will understand when the truth comes out."
Seeing that Gu Yunni was not afraid at all, the woman didn't dare to say anything more.
But his words remained unchanged, and he refused to reveal the butcher's location to her no matter what.
"You should know that we are not simple. It is not difficult to find your husband. At worst, I can have people wait outside your house every day, or capture his wife and children. I really don't believe that he won't show up."
As more and more time was wasted, Gu Yunni's temper became more and more irritable.
"I'm willing to sit here and talk to you today out of respect for you. If you don't want this respect, I don't mind using other means."
Her threat worked. The woman's expression changed again and again, but she had to lower her head and her tone became better.
"My husband has been helping out at the slaughterhouse lately. Although we have a lot more money at home now that our daughter is taking care of us, we don't want to hold her back, so we're doing whatever we can."
"Then I will wait here for your husband to return. Don't worry, I will not waste your time. Just do what you need to do. We will be in the small courtyard next to you and will not appear."
"No!" The woman stood up and refused without thinking.
"It's not that I don't want you to stay at home, it's just that the house is too messy, and someone from the Liu Mansion will be coming over later. If you stay here, you might not feel comfortable. Why don't you leave me your address? When my husband comes back, I'll have him come find you."
The woman also realized that she was too emotional and explained immediately.
Gu Yunni was a little surprised, but didn't care about it.
"I'm not trying to discuss this with you. I see there's a wonton stand at the end of this alley. If you don't feel comfortable with us staying at your house, we can go to the wonton stand."
"Okay." Seeing that Gu Yunni had made up her mind, she didn't say anything more.
After sending the two away politely, he returned to the house, sighing and feeling anxious.
"I told you that suddenly getting rich isn't a good thing. I don't know what these father and daughter did to provoke the higher-ups to come after them!"
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