After hearing a few cat meows, the two turned off the lights, quietly opened the door and walked out.
Soon flames were seen in the backyard.
Xiao Hanzheng did not call for help immediately, but waited until the fire became more and more intense before he quickly walked out of the yard to call for help.
"The fire is coming, come and put it out!"
He shouted so loudly that King Yi from the next yard was the first to bring people over to put out the fire.
Xiao Hanzheng's men also deliberately went to the street and shouted, "The county government office is on fire, hurry up and put out the fire!"
The people were woken up one after another and were all frightened.
When they opened the door, they saw a huge flame coming from the direction of the county government office. They immediately fetched buckets of water and went to put out the fire.
Xiao Hanzheng also brought people to catch the maid who set the fire.
At this time, the people just happened to arrive one after another.
Xiao Hanzheng looked at the maid with a stern face and asked, "How dare you! Who are you and why did you deliberately set the fire?"
The maid seemed to be startled by the sudden discovery and her face turned pale.
However, he was full of arrogance, and snorted coldly, "I am from the Jin Palace."
"Who told you to bully my princess and county lady? I set the fire on purpose."
"I am from the Jin Palace, and it was the princess who asked me to set the fire. What can you do to me?"
Xiao Hanzheng asked her to act arrogantly on purpose.
This is the only way to highlight how arrogant and domineering Princess Jin and Princess Ping are in their daily lives.
She snorted again, "You're lucky you didn't get burned to death."
These words made the people gasp in amazement. Isn't Princess Jin too crazy? The maid was so arrogant after being arrested, so it can be seen that the master is no less arrogant.
And who bullied the princess?
It was clearly her who brought people to kill the old lady to silence her, so did everyone else think they were blind? An old man who had retired from the battlefield with a limp and was barely making ends meet, but was hired by Xiao Hanzheng to guard the gate, pointed at the maid angrily.
"You guys are going too far. Even if you have any grudges, you can't burn houses and kill people!"
"Master Xiao's family is so kind, how could you have the heart to do that?"
Lord Xiao accepted many soldiers who had retired and could not find work or were struggling to make a living.
Allowing them to have work and earn money so they can continue to live is the greatest favor.
They couldn't just watch Lord Xiao and his family get killed.
Others also began to blame the maid.
The maidservant was not afraid, but glared at them one by one, "You lowly people, shut up now, do you have the right to speak here?"
"Our county lady has long wanted to slaughter you all. The princess asked me to set fire to the county government office today and then to the houses of you lowly people as well."
"We, the Jin Palace, are very powerful in the Northern Frontier. Even if we kill you all, it would only take a word from the Princess and the County Lady."
Serving in front of Princess Jin, she was able to learn 90% of their arrogant and conceited demeanor.
Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, everyone present became extremely angry.
"Even if Prince Jin is powerful, Princess Jin and the County Lord cannot take human life so lightly!"
"Yes, luckily Lord Xiao happened to have some official business tonight, and he was working when he discovered the fire, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."
"She even dared to murder an official appointed by the imperial court. Princess Jin really disregards the law of the king."
"Not only did they want to kill the court officials and the princess personally appointed by His Majesty, they also wanted to massacre all the people in Heyang County. Only the people of Ge State could do such a cruel thing."
"The people of Ge wouldn't dare to do this now. Princess Jin is even more cruel than the people of Ge!"
"Even if Prince Jin is extremely powerful, he can't just massacre the whole city whenever he wants."
When the maid heard this, she said even more arrogantly: "The Northern Frontier is our prince's world, and my princess is the most honorable. Why can't I kill you lowly people?"
"You are nothing but ants in the eyes of the princess. She can crush you to death at any time."
After hearing this, the people were extremely angry.
Princess Jin is so arrogant.
They had always been protective of Xiao Hanzheng's family, and now that everyone's lives were in danger, they all wanted to surround the place where Princess Jin lived.
"Your Majesty, please make the decision for me on this matter!"
"Yes, that's right. Since Prince Jin allowed the princess to do such a cruel thing, he will definitely not care about this matter. We can only ask His Majesty to make the decision."
"This is the murder of an imperial official. We can't just let it go like this."
Shi Qingluo saw that everyone was filled with righteous indignation, and immediately stood up and said, "Let's take them to confront Princess Jin now."
Tonight, we must prove that Princess Jin and Princess Ping had someone set the fire.
Everyone was infuriated, and they didn't want to let the crazy princess go. "Yes, let's go confront Princess Jin."
At this time, the people from the county government had put out the fire, so everyone headed towards the yard that Liang Mingyu had bought.
Although it was late at night, Xiao Hanzheng had people prepare torches. Almost everyone in the entire county came out, and the thousands of people looked quite impressive.
Because Prince Jin was still living in the courtyard, his secret guards discovered that the county government office was on fire.
They originally wanted to report it, but Prince Jin was too tired from the journey and fell asleep, so they thought about it and decided not to disturb him.
I just sent someone to investigate.
The people who came to investigate did not expect that the person who set the fire was actually the maid who had gone out with the princess before. No wonder she had never come back.
Seeing Xiao Hanzheng and others leading the people with torches to surround the yard, the people who were trying to inquire were also frightened.
Regardless of whether it would disturb him or not, he immediately asked the attendants around Prince Jin to report the matter.
King Jin was awakened from his sound sleep, with a gloomy face, "What's the matter?"
He also knew that unless it was something important, his attendants would not wake him up in the middle of the night.
The attendant reported carefully, "Master, the princess sent her maid to the county government office to set fire, and then she was discovered and arrested by Xiao Hanzheng."
"Because the fire was quite big, it alarmed people from all over the county."
"At this moment, the common people followed Xiao Hanzheng to the courtyard, saying that they wanted to bring the maid to confront the princess and settle accounts."
At this moment, he couldn't help but secretly curse the princess for being crazy for doing such a stupid thing.
After hearing this, Liang Yujun woke up suddenly.
"What? The princess sent someone to set fire?"
He then asked, “Have you verified that it is true?”
Although this was a question, I felt in my heart that it was most likely true.
Because that stupid woman had wanted his son to do this before.
But he really didn't expect that even though he had come to the county town, the woman would actually let the maid beside her do this.
I don't know how the brain grows.
If Xiao Hanzheng and his wife were so easy to kill, and could be burned to death by a maid setting a fire, how could they have received so much attention from all parties?
And when the secret guards sent by the emperor to protect Xiao Hanzheng and his wife were dead? Sure enough, the attendant nodded inexplicably, "It has been verified, it is indeed the maidservant beside the princess."
Liang Yujun now regretted that he had never married such a stupid woman.
(End of this chapter)
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