Rebirth of the Tang Dynasty's strongest consort

Chapter 439
At three o'clock, the internal government office in Caozhou was silent, and as a puff of smoke rolled up, Fan Jin, who was sleeping, suddenly coughed.

"cough cough"

When Fan Jin got up from the bed, his eyes were immediately illuminated into crimson red.

"Fire!"

While putting on his unlined clothes, Fan Jin shook his wife beside him, and said loudly, "Go and take care of your mother and Ba Duan, and I will save your wife!"

After finishing speaking, Fan Jin walked out of the room quickly, stood in front of the door of the west wing and looked around, the inner office was already in flames, and only the main room was the most violent.

"Ma'am, ma'am!" Braving the fiery flames, Fan Jin repeatedly slammed on the door. After a while, there was no response from inside.

"It's broken! Ma'am must have been fainted by the thick smoke!" Thinking of Fang Yiai's exhortations before leaving, Fan Jin's heart surged. Kicked at the door.

After kicking it a few times, the door was not damaged at all, and looked carefully under the light of the fire, but saw that the door was locked from the outside!
"There is something strange about this fire! Something is wrong!" Fan Jin yelled loudly, and rushed to the firewood room, and came to the main room again with a hatchet.

After a lot of effort, Fan Jin finally cut a crack in the lock ring, stood up sideways, and with a slam, the door swung open.

Entering the room with a hatchet in hand, Xie Yaohuan was lying on the ground, the flames spread rapidly all around, and would surround him in a short while.

Seeing this, Fan Jin ignored "the difference between men and women", picked up Xie Yaohuan, and rescued Xie Yaohuan from the flames at the last moment when the sea of ​​fire engulfed the entire main house.

Fan Jin's family of three, together with Ba Duan, who kept crying, stood in the middle of the courtyard, chattering around Xie Yaohuan. Rao knew the way to save people, but Fan Jin was so poor, so how could he dare to go? A woman who has her finger on her family's legacy.

"Miss, hurry up and press Madam's chest, Baduan and I will open the back door!"

When he came to the back door, Fan Jin asked Ba Duan to run out to call someone, while he returned to the inner yamen with a bucket of water in a hurry.

"How is it? Is Madam awake?"

"No, my husband, is your method effective?"

"Let's go! Women and Taoists don't know how to do things!"

Seeing Xie Yaohuan wake up for a long time, Fan Jin bravely poured a bucket of cold well water on Xie Yaohuan.

"Wow!" With the sound of being exhaled, Xie Yaohuan sat on the ground and coughed repeatedly. Looking at the inner office that was in flames in front of her, her first thought was not to escape, but to go to the main hall of the public office to find the magistrate. big seal.

As soon as Xie Yaohuan staggered up, Mrs. Fan grabbed her sleeve, "Ma'am, what are you going to do?"

"The magistrate's official seal is of great importance, I'm going to look for it!" Xie Yaohuan shook off Mrs. Fan's palm, and walked forward staggeringly, completely ignoring the burned-out government hall.

"Ma'am, the fire in the public office is raging, let's escape quickly." Fan Jin stood in front of Xie Yaohuan, seeing that the fire was about to spread to the firewood shed in the backyard, he shouted repeatedly in chaos: "The fire will spread to the firewood shed later. We can't get out!"

At this time, the south wind was blowing, although the four of them avoided the burning of the fire in the courtyard, the billowing smoke was like a tiger, and quickly rushed towards them.

"Ahem." Xie Yaohuan coughed for a while, covered her mouth and nose and said, "The official seal is the proof of the magistrate, it is very important, if you lose it, you will be punished!"

Seeing that Xie Yaohuan insisted on finding the magistrate's seal, Fan Jin cupped his hands while covering his mouth and nose, and said loudly: "The official seal is made of raw brass, I'm afraid the fire can't do anything to it, let's escape quickly and call the messenger Let the officials put out the fire and search again."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Xie Yaohuan's response, Fan Jin gestured to his mother and wife, the two understood, and dragged Xie Yaohuan out of the inner office.

The government office was built in the central area of ​​Caozhou City. A fire caused the people of Caozhou to come out to watch the fire. The township guards and government servants were arrested quickly, and even led the people to start a firefighting operation against time with wooden basins and barrels. .

During this period, Fan Jin asked his wife to take his mother and Baduan to the previous Tongsan Mansion to rest, while he himself followed Xie Yaohuan every step of the way, for fear that the female prefect would once again have the idea of ​​rushing into the fire and looking for the seal.

"Master Fan, can the accounts and files in the study be placed in the iron box?" Xie Yao looked around the sea of ​​fire, and asked with a frown.

Fan Jin clasped his hands together, drooped his head and sighed softly, "Madam, even if the accounting files are placed in the iron box, the sea of ​​fire will probably be smoked into a ball of ashes!"

"That's what to do, why was the head of the writing just found out, and he was completely burned by a fire!" Xie Yaohuan couldn't help wandering, looking at the government office that collapsed from time to time, wishing he could rush in to rescue the accounts and official seals.

"This fire." Fan Jingang was halfway through speaking, and with the sound of a huge building collapse, Nuo Da's court immediately disappeared. Although the officials and the people struggled to put out the fire, they encountered a wooden structure of the government office, a few wooden barrels, etc. Wooden tubs, obviously a drop in the bucket, are useless.

After about an hour, the sea of ​​fire gradually came under control, but Nuo Da's government office and internal office had already collapsed in sevens and eighties, and what remained were only ruined buildings, brick walls and rubble.

The yamen servants found Xie Yaohuan, and hurried to the magistrate, knelt down on one knee, and began to plead guilty in defense of themselves.

"Fu Zun, we are all unprepared for this fire, and the objects in the government office may not be spared."

"Fu Zun, Xiao Zhi and others have done their best."

Facing the apology from the yamen servants, Xie Yaohuan frowned, and said with an autumn frosty face: "Who is on duty in the government office tonight?"

"It's Wei Haogu and Bu Xiuwen."

"What about the two of them?"

"I'm afraid I've already lost my life in the flames."

As soon as this remark came out, Xie Yaohuan immediately took a few steps back, her resolute face became a little more tired, and she said weakly: "You should do your best to rescue, the government should go back to Tongjuan's house to write down the official documents, and report to the Taiwan Yamen is the right way .”

After finishing speaking, Xie Yaohuan turned to look at Fan Jin, cupped his hands and said, "Master Fan, I'm sorry to trouble you to watch here, you must do your best to find the official seal and accounts."

"Students take orders." Fan Jin nodded solemnly, and then said to the policeman in more than one condescending tone: "Both of you escort Fu Zun back to the house!"

"Yes, Master Fan." Fan Jin has already become the number one master in the Caozhou government office. Facing his orders, the arrester who knows that he has failed in his duty dares to disobey in the slightest.

Back in Tongpan's courtyard, Xie Yaohuan left the main room and walked straight into Dongkua courtyard instead.

Pushing open the door, looking around at the empty old houses, Xie Yaohuan, who had a resolute face in front of people, finally couldn't hold back the panic and hesitation in her heart, lightly covered her red lips and began to cry silently.

"Fang Lang, what should the slave family do?"

"Fang Lang, Huan'er misses you so much. If the official is here"

Halfway through the choked words, Xie Yaohuan's pretty eyes flashed two touches of determination, wiped the tears off her face with her sleeves, walked slowly to the desk, and then began to pick up the pen with a faint white light He began to write eloquently on the rice paper.

After about a stick of incense, Xie Yaohuan stopped the brush in his hand, looked at the five thick rice papers on the table, and murmured: "This matter is determined to be framed by the Cai thief, I only hope that this book will be delivered to Chang'an as soon as possible."

Taking out the letterhead, Xie Yaohuan put the rice paper into it, sealed the letterhead with yellow wax juice, and then carried it close to her bosom.

After hastily washing his cheeks with clean water, Xie Yaohuan walked out of the Dongkua courtyard in unlined clothes, looked at the sky at the beginning of the sun, and said with a sullen face: "I'm afraid I don't need to write this document, the Daotai yamen will send someone here when I am young!"

In Xie Yaohuan's mind, this fire was absolutely inseparable from Cai Shaobing and Changsun Anye, and it was most likely caused by the two of them working together.

"This fire is strange."

"There are people on duty day and night in the government office. If it wasn't for the villain deliberately setting fires everywhere, how could the flames ignite the inner government office in an instant?"

"I'm afraid Cai thief deliberately framed it, so that I can't check the accounts, so that the evil deeds of the eldest grandson Anye and Guan Long's faction will not be announced to the world!"

"This time, the eldest grandson Anye falsely reported the disaster situation and withheld the disaster relief money. It is a certainty. They burned the accounts and revealed the fox's tail!"

Just as Xie Yaohuan was looking at the sky and muttering to himself, Fan Jin, who was in charge of looking after the fire scene and looking for the big seal, hurried back.

"Madam, the governor and Zhizhou have arrived!"

(End of this chapter)