First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 30 The Inexplicable Fire

29. Inexplicable fire

Zhu Zhijin gritted her teeth tightly, her eyes were full of fierceness, upon hearing Gao Deru's words, an insane smile appeared on her face, "Just as long as the governor is satisfied."

"Satisfied, of course satisfied", the half-drunk and half-awake Gao Deru suddenly said loudly, "I have been looking at your little concubine for a long time, that little appearance is very attractive, hahaha".

Then he continued to babble and babble, with an indescribable smile on his face, "Tonight, I must take care of... next time, pamper me very much."

Zhu Zhijin clenched her fists tightly, and the veins on her arms were exposed. At this moment, there was a panic outside the door, "Who are you? Come, there are thieves..." followed by screams.

The two school captains, Guo and Chen, rushed in from the back door, chopped anyone they saw, and soon came to the middle hall, seeing Gao Deru, who was drunk, was overjoyed, and was about to kill him with a knife.

Zhu Zhijin hurriedly stopped, "Let's leave it to Tang Gong's people to deal with it."

Guo Xiaowei was taken aback for a while, and then said anxiously: "What if Mr. Tang spared him?"

"Impossible", Zhu Zhijin looked at Gao Deru who didn't know what had happened, and said with a sneer, "He will definitely die."

The two didn't say much when they saw this, they immediately responded, pulled off the cloth belt and bound Gao Deru tightly, Gao Deru reacted at this time, and just about to shout, Zhu Zhijin picked up the wine jar next to him and smashed it on the back of Gao Deru's head, Gao Deru groaned and then passed out, Guo and Chen, who were looking straight at him, murmured in their hearts.

"Wait a moment," Zhu Zhijin hesitated for a moment, with a gloomy face, snatched a horizontal knife from the soldier, and went straight to the back house.

Xiaowei Chen's eyes popped when he saw this, and he was about to say something, "This...", but Xiaowei Guo stopped him, "Don't meddle in your own business."

Chen Xiaowei hurriedly said in a low voice: "Zhu Shuzuo is too cruel, it's not as bad as his family."

Captain Guo saw that Zhu Zhijin had gone far away, "Do you know why Gao Deru was dragged drunk by him?"

Captain Chen shook his head blankly.

"I heard that Zhu Zhijin gave Yueniang to Gao Deru," Xiaowei Guo said in a low voice.

"Ah? Yue Niang? Is that the beautiful concubine that Zhu Shuzuo took in some time ago?" Chen Xiaowei was shocked and dumbfounded when he heard this.

Xiaowei Guo hurriedly covered his mouth, "Who else could be, so this guy surnamed Zhu is a ruthless man, he can even give away his own woman, we'd better not meddle in other people's business."

Zhu Zhijin came to the back house with a knife in her hand, went straight to a brightly lit bedroom, opened the door and entered.

"Ah? Ah Lang, why are you here?" There was only a woman sitting on the bed.

That woman has icy muscles and bones, bright eyes and bright teeth, exuding gentleness and weakness all over her body. She is really rare in this northern land. This woman is Zhu Zhijin's concubine Yueniang. Seeing Zhu Zhijin come in with a knife, Huarong paled, "Ah Lang, you... what do you mean?"

"Don't blame me", Zhu Zhijin looked at Yueniang, feeling a little bit reluctant, "Leave you, I will always be in fear", before the woman could react, she slashed across her neck as white as jade.

Zhu Zhijin took the candle and threw it directly on the bed. The lamp oil splashed on the silk and satin and instantly ignited a raging fire. The servants and guards in the prefect's mansion were alarmed and shouted in panic to put out the fire.

"Take Gao Deru with you, I'll leave the city overnight." Taking advantage of the panic caused by the fire, Zhu Zhijin and others quickly arrived at the gate of the city by virtue of their familiarity with the prefect's mansion and Xicheng.

With Gao Deru in his hand, Zhu Zhijin suddenly opened the city gate, and everyone went straight to the Tang army outside the city.

In the camp of the Tang army, Li Jiancheng and others had been waiting for a long time. Seeing that Zhu Zhijin had brought Gao Deru to vote, he promised a big reward in person, and then Jiang Baoyi, Liu Hongji and others led the army to quickly break through the city and occupy the four gates.

Seeing the fire, he hurried to the prefect's mansion. The place has been turned into ruins, and many places are still smoky. Li Shimin frowned, "What's going on?"

Zhu Zhijin was also a little dazed when he saw this. He burned the bedroom just to destroy the corpse.

Unexpectedly, because of Gao Deru's disappearance, coupled with the panic in the city, all the county soldiers and guards failed to put out the fire, causing the fire to spread from the backyard mansion to the front mansion.

The entire prefect's mansion was burnt to ruins, but fortunately, the prefect's mansion was independent, surrounded by wide roads, and no private houses were involved.

"This...should be the panic caused by the kidnapping of Gao Deru, which caused a fire accidentally," Zhu Zhijin bowed hurriedly, and looked at Guo and Chen while lowering his head.

"As Zhu Shuzuo said, after I kidnapped Gao Deru, I heard the chaos in the mansion, and then there were sporadic fires."Guo Xiaowei hurriedly bowed to agree, but Chen Xiaowei was a little dazed and didn't react for a while.

Li Shimin seemed very dissatisfied, but he didn't want to explode, "You, you command the troops to put out the fire quickly, cut off the source of the fire, and don't disturb the people." Gao Chong hurriedly took orders to see Zhu Zhijin and the others' reactions , he always felt that this fire was a bit weird.

Li Jiancheng was also thoughtful, smiled and comforted: "Zhu Shuzuo, you will have to work hard for you to spread the safety notice overnight to stabilize the people's hearts."

Zhu Zhijin's face was full of smiles when he heard the words, and his attitude was extremely respectful, "The eldest son is serious, it should be done, I will do it now."

After Zhu Zhijin left, Li Jiancheng also restrained his smile and looked at Wen Dayou, "I'll trouble General Yan to appease you, so let's keep an eye on Zhu Zhijin by the way."

No matter who is there in Wen University, Li Jiancheng doesn't need to say much, but he understands it and immediately agrees.

After Gao Chong extinguished the fire, Yang Mao was about to ask someone to clean up the scene, but was stopped by Gao Chong, "Chen Sima, do you think this fire was man-made or intentional?"

Chen Yanshou was taken aback when he heard this, and was a little puzzled, "This... the lower officials don't understand."

"Lieutenant Yang, you send people to guard here and block the scene. No one is allowed to enter without my permission. Even if the two young masters come, you have to inform me. I will come to investigate again at dawn tomorrow."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Chen Yanshou, "I don't think Zhu Zhijin is quite right, I always feel that there is something to hide, let's come and see tomorrow."

Not long after Gao Chong left, Zhu Zhijin came in a hurry and was about to go in, but was stopped by Yang Mao, "Stop, no entry."

Zhu Zhijin was stunned, and hurriedly said: "General Haojiao learned that I am Zhu Zhijin, the judicial secretary. When Gao Deru was captured last night, I lost an important item inside, and I need to go in and look for it urgently."

Yang Mao frowned, and glared at Zhu Zhijin, "Someone said no entry."

Seeing this, Zhu Zhijin felt helpless, stomped away.

Early the next morning, just after dawn, Gao Chong came to the ruined eunuch's mansion. After hearing Yang Mao's report, he suddenly felt that he had guessed right. Then Zhu Zhijin must be hiding something. Even though he didn't know what happened, Gao Chong was very nervous Don't like this feeling.

At this time, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and others who got the news also came, "Youzhi, I heard that you want to find out the cause of the fire?"

Gao Chong responded, and looked up, but Zhu Zhijin, who was seeing Li Jiancheng behind him, panicked.

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