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Chapter 405: Escape, Fa Zheng seeks help from Zhen Mi
After returning to his room in the inn, Fa Zheng didn't even have time to eat, and began to check the account books sent by Zhen.

However, the more he investigated, the more confused and shocked he became.

Because these account books are real, and they couldn't be more real. They record in detail the income and expenditure of the Zhen family through various channels.

Through these account books, Fa Zheng was able to get a glimpse of the enormous wealth of the Zhen family and how much profit they had secretly embezzled over the years.

And this is exactly what shocked and confused him.

These account books could be used as evidence to convict Zhen, so why would Zhen hand them over so easily?

"What exactly is going on……"

Fa Zheng's eyes were complicated, and he muttered to himself after closing the account book.

He couldn't understand what Zhen was doing.

This move is really abnormal.

The fact that the evidence was handed to him so confidently made him doubt whether he had checked the accounts wrongly and wrongly accused Zhen.

Or did Zhen feel that even if she was proven guilty of embezzling court wealth, the emperor would not punish her?
Fa Zheng was puzzled and his thoughts were in a mess.

Finally, he gave up on this question and said with a long sigh, "Forget it. I'll go see the head of the Zhen family tomorrow and have a frank talk."

"If Zhen really intends to cooperate with the audit and confess his guilt, then everything will be easy."

In Fa Zheng's opinion, Zhen's voluntary confession of guilt was actually the best option. Given the emperor's character, he would only lift people up high and then let them go gently in the end.

After all, Zhen also had the merit of following the emperor.

It's just that he didn't think that the Zhen family would willingly plead guilty, and he was prepared for a long-term battle with the Zhen family. But now it seems that he may have underestimated the head of the Zhen family.

Let’s wait until tomorrow to discuss everything.

……

Zhen's mansion.

After the elder of the second branch handed the account book to Fa Zheng, he returned to the Zhen Mansion and then summoned the elders of the third and fifth branches.

"How are you preparing?"

As soon as he saw the two people, the elder of the second branch asked.

He was responsible for sending the accounts to Fa Zheng. The elders of the third and fifth branches were responsible for covering up the news to prevent Zhen Yi from finding out, and arranging the arson respectively.

The elder of the third branch said, "The head of the family was ill and went to bed early. I also sent all the children of the first branch away. No one knew that the account book was sent away."

The Fifth Clan elder also said, "I asked the people at the post house to send some good wine to the guards of the imperial envoy's team, and they drank a lot."

"We have also selected a few trustworthy members of our tribe to disguise themselves as servants and enter the inn. At midnight tonight, they will set it on fire and lock the doors and windows with iron chains."

"There are tung oil cans placed throughout the inn. As long as the tung oil in these cans is ignited, the fire will quickly burn the inn clean!"

The arrangements made by the fifth clan elder were extremely thoughtful.

He put a lot of thought into this arson.

The second clan elder nodded and said, "That's right, but remember to leave a few guards alive to prove that the fire was an accident and had nothing to do with my Zhen family."

"clear."

The fifth clan elder nodded, indicating that he understood.

After confirming the details of the operation one by one, the second clan elder said in a deep voice: "This matter concerns the future of our Zhen family. We can only succeed, not fail!"

The elder of the third branch hesitated for a moment and asked, "What if Fa Xiaozhi didn't die in the fire and escaped by luck?"

"Then kill him and throw him into the fire!"

The second branch elder's eyes flashed with murderous intent, "I will have my second branch's children prepare themselves. If Fa Xiaozhi is not dead, we will kill everyone and leave no one alive!"

The imperial envoys sent this time, including the guards, only had a total of dozens of people. Wuji County was his Zhen family's territory, so killing these people was easy for him.

Of course, it would be best not to take action if possible, and leaving witnesses would help prove that the fire was an accident. But if you have no choice, you can only kill them all.

……

The night is deep and everything is silent.

The long journey had exhausted Fa Zheng both physically and mentally. He was so tired that he didn't even have dinner and went to bed early.

However, just as he was sleeping soundly, he heard a commotion outside, with faint sounds of anxious shouting.

"The fire is coming! The fire is coming--!"

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Fa Zheng sat up from the bed, looked outside the room, and then he suddenly woke up.

I saw a raging fire outside the house at some point, and a lot of thick smoke was pouring into the room through the gaps between the door and windows. At this time, the room was already filled with smoke!
"The fire broke out? Not good!"

Fa Zheng was so frightened when he saw this that he got out of bed and ran out of the house without even having time to put on his shoes.

However, after running a few steps, he remembered that there were seven or eight boxes of account books in the house, so he turned back and dragged the boxes of account books to the door with great effort.

During this process he inhaled a lot of smoke. The smoke in the room was getting thicker and thicker, choking him and making him cry. Moreover, the fire was beginning to show signs of burning into the room.

Fa Zheng did not dare to delay and stretched out his hand to open the door, but the door did not open when he pulled it.

Then he looked through the crack in the door and saw that a thick iron chain had been hung on the door at some point!

"Why is the door locked?!"

Fa Zheng's face changed, and he quickly ran to the window, trying to open it and escape.

But this time the result was exactly the same as before, even the windows were locked!
"how so!"

Fa Zheng was now completely panicked. The room and windows were locked with iron chains from the outside, and the room became a big urn.

And he is the turtle in the jar!

Fa Zheng was extremely anxious and wanted to move the table to break down the door, but he had already inhaled too much smoke and felt weak all over and dizzy.

Not to mention lifting a heavy table, even standing steadily was difficult.

The fire spread very quickly and had already invaded the room. Fa Zheng felt it was becoming increasingly difficult to breathe and his consciousness was becoming increasingly blurred.

"I, Fa Xiaozhi... am I going to die here?"

"No, I won't accept it, I won't accept it!"

"I still have ambitions to realize, and I have not yet been valued by His Majesty. How can I fall in a place like this!"

Fa Zheng crawled towards the door with difficulty.

In a trance, he saw the door being kicked open from the outside, and a familiar figure holding a sharp blade broke into the room.

"Legal Censor!"

Qingzhu became very anxious when he saw Fa Zheng lying on the ground. His duty on this trip was to protect Fa Zheng's safety. If anything happened to Fa Zheng, he would not be able to survive.

Lord Jia will not let him off easily!

Qingzhu sheathed the knife, went forward to carry Fazheng on his back and ran out of the house. Fazheng forced his eyes open and pointed at the boxes and said, "Accounts, account books..."

Qingzhu ignored his words and ran out without looking back.

The fire is now growing bigger and bigger. If they don't run out now, both of them will be buried in this sea of ​​fire!
After Qingzhu ran out of the yard carrying Fa Zheng on his back, he wanted to call for help, but Fa Zheng behind him said weakly: "Hide quickly, don't let anyone... find us." After that, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

"Legal Censor, Legal Censor!"

Qingzhu was very anxious. He glanced at the people who were putting out the fire in the distance, gritted his teeth and decided to follow Fa Zheng's instructions, tiptoeing into the darkness.

After the fire had been burning for half an hour, members of the Zhen clan hurried over, and the leader of the team was the elder of the second branch of the clan.

He ran straight to a guard and asked anxiously, "Why did the posthouse catch fire? Where is the Censor Fa now?!"

The guard was badly burned, with half of his face burned. Hearing this, he endured the pain and said, "The fire started suddenly. I don't know where the censor is now. The fire was so big that I didn't see him."

"Maybe... he's still in the inn."

The Second House elder was overjoyed, but his face showed anxiety. He said, "The Fa Yushi is an imperial envoy sent by His Majesty. Nothing can happen to him!"

"Put out the fire, put out the fire quickly! We must rescue Censor Fa no matter what!"

The second clan elder turned around and spoke to the many clan members behind him.

"Yes!"

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Many members of the Zhen family responded in unison and then joined in the firefighting.

But this was in vain. The fire was too big and the well was in the yard of the post house. There was simply not enough water to put out the fire.

Zhen Yi was the last to arrive. When he learned the news and rushed to put out the fire with people from the eldest house, the inn had already been burned down. Only charred debris was left on the ground, emitting wisps of black smoke.

"How could this be so..."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhen Yi was shocked beyond words. He kept searching the crowd but could not see Fa Zheng.

A bad feeling arose in his heart.

He looked at the Second Branch Elder with a sharp gaze and said gloomily, "What the hell is going on! Where is the Legal Censor?"

The second clan elder also had a heavy expression on his face. He sighed and said, "The posthouse caught fire. When I got the news and brought people here, the fire was already out of control."

"I'm afraid that the Fa Yushi has met with disaster."

Hearing this, Zhen Yi almost fainted again, but this time he managed to stand with the help of his clansmen.

He stared at the second clan elder for a long time before gritting his teeth and commanding, "Find him for me! I want him alive or dead!"

A clan member nearby carefully advised, "But Patriarch, with such a big rage, the Fa Yushi..."

Zhen Yi roared hysterically: "Find it for me!!!"

"Yes! Patriarch!"

The second-branch elder looked at the many Zhen clan members who went out together to search for Fa Zheng, his lips curled up slightly, with a hint of pride in his eyes.

His plan succeeded.

……

After Qingzhu carried Fa Zheng out of the inn, he hid in an abandoned temple and began to take good care of Fa Zheng.

He lit a fire to keep warm, took off his clothes and put them on Fa Zheng, and boiled water.

Fa Zheng is only wearing an inner garment now. It is so cold that he might freeze to death outside.

After a long time, Fa Zheng finally woke up from his coma.

Qingzhu was overjoyed and quickly stepped forward to ask, "Fa Yushi, how do you feel now? Are you feeling unwell anywhere?"

"I boiled some hot water, drink it quickly to warm yourself up."

Fa Zheng shook his dizzy head and asked, "How long have I been unconscious? Where am I now?"

He only remembered that he fainted after Qingzhu carried him out of the fire, and he had no idea what was going on now.

Qing Zhu said, "We are now in a dilapidated temple three miles away from Wuji County. You, the Fa Yushi, have been unconscious for four hours."

"If you, the Fa Yushi, still haven't woken up after an hour, I will really have to go to the city to seek help from the Zhen family."

Hearing this, Fa Zheng sighed and said, "Fortunately you didn't go. If you had gone, you and I would probably not have survived."

"what?"

Qing Zhu was stunned when he heard this, and asked in confusion: "What does Fa Yushi mean by this?"

He didn't quite understand what Fa Zheng meant.

Fa Zheng's eyes were gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "There was a big fire last night, and the doors and windows of my room were all locked with iron chains. It's obvious that someone wants me to burn to death."

"If my guess is correct, the fire last night was set by Zhen's people."

"If you go to Zhen's, wouldn't that be courting death?"

Last night, between life and death, he figured out what was going on - it was Zhen who wanted him dead!

Why did Zhen take the initiative to send the accounts?

He just wanted to burn the accounts along with him, and then disguise it as a normal money laundering to evade investigation!

That's why he asked Qingzhu not to let anyone discover his whereabouts, because if he hadn't died in the fire, Zhen would never let him go.

"So that person is from the Zhen family?"

Qingzhu's face changed. Last night while he was on patrol he discovered someone secretly pouring tung oil in the inn. After being discovered by him, the man ran away directly, so he went to chase him.

Halfway through the pursuit, he discovered that the inn was on fire. Worried about Fa Zheng's safety, he hurried back.

If he had arrived a step later, Fa Zheng would have been burned to death.

"How dare the Zhen family attack the imperial envoy? This is a heinous crime that could lead to the extermination of nine generations of the clan. Are they crazy?"

Qingzhu was incredulous and said that if this was really done by the Zhen family, then they were too bold.

Fa Zheng said expressionlessly, "What can't be done in the face of interests? There are serious problems with Zhen's accounts. Once the evidence is proven, they will never be able to control the financial power again."

"I thought Zhen Yi was a smart man, but now it seems... humph, just a fool."

"When I report this to His Majesty, it will be the end of Zhen family!"

Zhen took the initiative to send the accounts, and he thought Zhen Yi chose to plead guilty honestly, but he didn't expect to give him such a big surprise.

Qing Zhu asked, "But, Censor Fa, we don't have any money on us now, and we don't have a carriage, how can we return to Yecheng?"

"And I found that Zhen's people were searching everywhere, as if they were searching for us."

Yecheng is a long way away and it is winter now. If you don’t travel with a caravan or a merchant caravan, it is easy to get into trouble on the road.

And a very crucial point is that there are Zhen family businesses in all cities of Jizhou, big and small. Once their traces are discovered, there will be big trouble.

When this question was mentioned, Fa Zheng's expression froze.

He had indeed overlooked this matter. At present, his identity must not be exposed, and he must not let Zhen find out that he was still alive.

But given their current situation, it is almost impossible to return to Yecheng, and they must have help.

After thinking about it, a figure appeared in Fa Zheng's mind. Finally, he made up his mind and said to Qing Zhu, "We can only take a gamble."

"Let's go ask Concubine Zhen for help."

(End of this chapter)