Chapter 494 - 494 Can't just let it go like this
494 Can’t just let it go like this
The night was getting darker and darker, but Xiao Hanzheng and Shi Qingluo were not asleep.
Hearing a few meows, the two of them turned off the lights and quietly opened the door to go out.
Not long after, they saw a flame in the backyard.
Xiao Hanzheng didn’t call for help immediately.
Instead, he waited for the fire to get bigger and bigger before he walked out of the yard to call for help.
“Fire! Hurry and put out the fire!”
His voice was very loud, and Prince Yi from the courtyard next door was the first to come to put out the fire with his people.
Xiao Hanzheng’s men also deliberately went to the street and shouted, “The county office is on fire! Put out the fire!”
The commoners were woken up and were all shocked.
When they opened the door, they saw a huge fire in the direction of the county government office.
They immediately fetched water from buckets and carried them to put out the fire.
Xiao Hanzheng also brought his men and blocked the maidservant who had set the fire.
At this moment, the commoners were also rushing over.
Xiao Hanzheng looked at the servant girl coldly and asked, “How dare you! Who are you? Why did you set the fire on purpose?”
The maidservant seemed to have been shocked by the sudden discovery, and her face turned pale.
However, she was arrogant as she snorted coldly, “I’m from the Prince Jin’s residence.
“Who asked you to bully my princess consort and princess? I am deliberately setting the fire.
“I’m one of the people from Prince Jin’s residence, and it was the princess consort who asked me to set the fire. What can you do to me?”
Xiao Hanzheng had asked her to act arrogantly on purpose.
This was the only way to highlight how arrogant and despotic Prince Jin’s princess consort and the ordinary princess usually were.
She snorted again. “You’re lucky that you didn’t burn to death.”
These words made the people gasp in amazement. Wasn’t Prince Jin’s princess consort too crazy?
This maidservant was so arrogant even after being caught, it could be seen that her masters were even more unyielding.
And who bullied the princess consort?
She was the one who brought her people here to silence the old Madam.
Did she think that everyone was blind?
An old man who had retired from the battlefield with an injured leg and couldn’t live within his means anymore, but was hired by Xiao Hanzheng to guard the gate, pointed at the maidservant angrily.
“You guys are too much. Even if you have a grudge, you can’t burn down the houses and kill others!
“Mr Xiao’s family is such a good family, how could you do that?”
Mr Xiao took in many retired soldiers who couldn’t find a job, or who couldn’t finance their daily needs.
Allowing them to work and earn an income to live on was their greatest blessing.
No matter what, they couldn’t just watch Mr Xiao’s family get killed.
The other people also began to criticize the maidservant.
Not only was the maidservant not afraid, but she also glared at them one by one. “Lowly commoners, shut up. Do you have the right to speak here?
“Our ordinary princess has long wanted to slaughter all of you. The princess consort asked me to set fire on all the lowly commoners’ houses after setting fire on the county government.
“Prince Jin’s residence is very powerful in the northern border. Even if we were to kill all of you, this matter was just from a sentence from the princess consort’s mouth.”
After serving in the Prince Jin’s princess consort, she had also learned 90% of the two’s arrogant and haughty appearance.
As expected, the moment she finished speaking, everyone present was furious.
“No matter how powerful Prince Jin is, Prince Jin’s princess consort can’t treat human lives like grass!
“Yes, it’s a good thing that Mr Xiao happened to have work tonight and was in office the whole time.
“Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
“She even dared to murder an official from the imperial court. Prince Jin’s princess consort really doesn’t care about the law.”
“Not only did she want to kill an official from the imperial court and the princess, but she also wanted to kill the people in Heyang County. Only those from the Ge Kingdom would do such a crazy thing.”
“The Ge people don’t dare to do this now. Prince Jin’s princess consort is even more ruthless than the Ge people!”
“No matter how powerful Prince Jin is, they can’t just massacre the entire city.”
Many people started to talk about it, and some of the conversations were deliberately led by Xiao Hanzheng’s people.
When the maidservant heard this, she said even more arrogantly, “The northern border is my master’s world, and my princess consort is the most respected. If she wants to kill you lowly people, why can’t she?
“All of you are just a bunch of ants in the eyes of the princess Consort. She can trample all of you to death at any time.”
When the commoners heard this, they were all furious.
Prince Jin’s princess consort was really too insolent.
They were already very protective of Xiao Hanzheng’s family, and now that everyone’s lives were in danger, they couldn’t wait to surround the place where Prince Jin’s princess consort lived.
“I must ask the emperor to make a decision for Mr Xiao on this matter!”
“Yes, yes. Since Prince Jin allowed his princess consort to do such a crazy thing, he definitely wouldn’t care about this matter. We can only ask His Majesty to make a decision.”
“This is murdering an official from the imperial court. We can’t just let it go like this.”
Shi Qingluo saw that everyone was filled with righteous indignation and immediately stood up to say, “Let’s take her to Prince Jin’s princess consort now.”
Tonight, no matter what, they had to establish the fact that Prince Jin’s princess consort and the ordinary princess were getting their people to set the fire.
Everyone’s anger was stirred up, and they didn’t want to let go of that crazy Princess Consort.
“Yes, yes, let’s go to Prince Jin’s princess consort to confront her.
At this moment, the county government’s people had also put out the fire, so everyone went to the courtyard that Liang Mingyu had bought.
Although it was late at night, Xiao Hanzheng asked his people to prepare torches. Almost the entire county was out, and with thousands of people, it looked quite powerful.
Since Prince Jin was still living in the courtyard, his secret guards discovered that the county government office was on fire.
They had wanted to report this to Prince Jin, but they were too tired and had fallen asleep.
They thought further and decided not to disturb him.
They only sent someone to investigate.
The person who was tasked to investigate did not expect that the princess consort’s maidservant who had gone out previously was the one who set fire.
No wonder she had not returned.
Seeing that Xiao Hanzheng and the others had brought some people to surround the courtyard with torches, those who were asking around were also shocked.
He didn’t care whether it would disturb Prince Jin and immediately asked Prince Jin’s personal attendant to report this matter.
Prince Jin was sleeping soundly when he was woken up. His face was gloomy. “What’s the matter? ”
He also knew that his personal attendant would not wake him up in the middle of the night if there was nothing important.
The personal attendant carefully reported, “Master, the princess consort sent her maidservant to the county government office to set the fire, but Xiao Hanzheng found out and arrested her.
“Because the fire was not small, the entire county was alarmed.
“The people are following Xiao Hanzheng to the courtyard, saying that they will bring that maidservant to confront the princess consort.”
He couldn’t help but curse the princess consort in his heart for doing such a stupid thing.
When Liang Yujun heard this, he came to his senses.
“What? The princess consort ordered someone to set the fire?”
“Have you checked if it’s true?” he asked again.
Although this was a question, he felt that it was most likely true.
Because that stupid woman had wanted his son to do this before.
However, he really didn’t expect that the woman would still let her maidservant do this even though he had already come to the county.
He wondered how her brain worked.
If Xiao Hanzheng and his wife were so easy to kill and be burned to death by a maidservant, how could they be so important to all parties?
And did she think the secret guards the emperor sent to protect Xiao Hanzheng and his wife were dead?
Sure enough, the personal attendant nodded his head.
“It’s been confirmed. She’s indeed the princess consort’s maidservant.”
Liang Yujun only wished he had never married such a stupid woman.