At present, for Shen Guifang, there is nothing else to do except nest in the small courtyard to 'collectively recuperate', but for Julu County, especially the two remaining lone seedlings, Xue Zhutou and Lord Chen, bad luck is still 'shining' on these two unlucky eggs.

Julu County usually has no accidents for decades and decades; But now that this accident has happened, it is a big thing! According to the laws of Beiyan, if the number of civilians who die unnaturally in a county exceeds ten per year, the local magistrate yamen has no right to deal with it on its own, and must make a summary report, and then the government and county government yamen of the prefecture and county will send a special person to come down for re-examination; If the death toll exceeds 50, the Futai Yamen will issue a separate investigation file and jointly report it to the local governor's yamen; If the number of deaths is more than 100, then the governor's department yamen has no right to close the case, so he can only summarize the three files of the county government, the government office, and the state government and send them to the yamen of the criminal department in Yanjing City, and the adults of the criminal department will jointly approve it; Or send it directly to Zhongshu Province, present it to the two prime ministers on the left and right, and then they will personally hand it over to His Majesty Emperor Tianyou for personal decision.

And the two fires that happened in Julu County last night are no longer the things that can be 'topped' down by his Chen Zhixian wearing a black veil and adding his necked head! From Lord Chen's current perspective, the two 'intentional arson cases' last night can be investigated together! Because the fire that ignited at the Huashen Merchant Regiment's residence was done by a 'black-clothed masked man' with his own eyes, then in other words, the second fire that followed should also be done by the masked man!

Regardless of whether the 'masked thief' can be arrested or not, anyway, his 'Chen Youlang' will definitely not be able to escape responsibility. Because no matter how dilapidated his small county yamen is, he always represents the supreme imperial power! Now, this 'symbol of imperial power' has turned into pieces of charcoal under his 'negligence'...... Just this one crime is enough to kill his Chen family!

However, after Mrs. Chen was also 'buried in the sea of fire', his Chen family was full, and now he is the only one left......

Once a person is driven to a dead end and has nothing to lose, even if he has completely untied the shackles and shackles on his body. When Master Chen came to his senses and sat in front of the bench and wooden table borrowed by Xue Liu, he only felt that his thinking was unprecedentedly clear:

"Xue Liu, I originally wanted to be a good official with the help of you and Mr. Cheng, and benefit the blind date fathers and elders of Julu County; But now...... Hey, that's it, it's really 'everything is fate, and it's not up to anyone'...... You see, this fire has taken away not only my dear relatives and friends, but also those things outside my body...... I, Chen, am now a penniless and poor ghost with nothing! Xue Liu, this county knows that it is impossible to escape the blame, so it will not do what he thinks; But I don't want to drag you into the water! I don't think it's as good as this, if you go to Huashen Taoist Temple for a while, you will say that you have borrowed some 'silver' from them on the orders of this county, and no matter how much they give, you can take it all, and you should pay for the passage back to your hometown in Jinzhou! However, if they refuse to borrow money, there is no other way for the county......"

Xue Liu heard Lord Chen's 'last words' at this time, as if he remembered something, his eyes flew for a few weeks, and he suddenly slapped his thigh and screamed, and then he was stunned for a long time, and then said to the 'innocent and lovely' Lord Chen with sadness:

"My lord, my lord, Xue Liu would like to thank you for your kindness! But until now, do you still think that I can use your banner to lend a penny of 'travel expenses' from the Huashen Sect? ”

Master Chen, who was ragged and blackened, immediately shook his head with a wry smile after hearing his words:

"yes... Oh, yes... This person is warm and cold, the world is hot and cold, I still expect those people to be able to send charcoal in the snow? Now in the entire Julu County, who doesn't know that I, Chen, am going to be unlucky? At this time, it is too late to dissociate itself from me, and who wants to throw silver into the 'sea'? But Xue Liu, I think you're still going to try your luck, right? Your way back to Jinzhou is long and mountainous, if you don't have silver by your side, how can you go back to ......?"

"My lord, I'm not talking about silver! Take a good look around, how many people are left near the yamen of our county? ”

Lord Chen glanced around and found that on the entire 'Yaqian Street', apart from himself, only Xue Liu, who was also 'scorched black', was left......

"Good! That's great! Those who tend to be inflammatory, what use does Chen want him to do? As the saying goes, the road knows the horsepower, and the people will see it over time! I didn't expect that one day when someone Chen was at the end of his rope, there would be you Xue ......"

"My lord! Don't be in a hurry to sigh yet! That's not what I mean! Let me ask you first, when we rushed to Lord Feng's mansion to put out the fire yesterday, how many people did we bring with us? ”

Master Chen looked stunned, and after carefully recalling it, he replied hesitantly:

"I remember that the local yamen soldiers registered in the county yamen were about fifty; After that, you called some local villagers...... How do you count it, there should be sixty or seventy people, right......? ”

"And now?"

"Let's ...... two"

"Do you understand?"

Xue Zhutou looked at Master Chen who was still in a daze, sat beside him, and carefully sorted out all the 'strange things' that had happened in the past two short days for him.

Just like a blind man touching an elephant, everyone has their own perspective on the problem; The conclusions drawn are naturally different from each other.

In the eyes of Xue Zhutou and Lord Chen, the whole thing was a different story.

First of all, it is to find the real culprit of arson. Because Lord Chen chose to 'go back to the government to avoid danger' in advance, he didn't see the 'aunt' Chi Zhong who appeared later, so in his heart, he merged the two arson cases into one and planted them all on the head of the 'masked Shen Gui'.

So what is the identity of this masked man who set fire twice?

Since Xue Zhutou only found two corpses in the county government fire, he naturally detained the black pot and burned them alive in the prison, but now they are gone. Of course, Lord Chen didn't know that the children of the three rich families did not leave, but were locked in a black prison by Xue Zhutou; But now that I heard Xue Liu's detailed explanation, I recalled it a little more, and then I suddenly realized that the two rich sons and black-clothed men who had a relationship with them were really similar in shape......

When Xue Lao Liu told Master Chen about his long-term 'cooperation' with Master Cheng and the Huashen Business Group, and occasionally made a small fortune, this Lord Chen was even more incredulous! He not only recalled that 'Zhang Yuan' and his own 'instant acquaintance', but also recalled that the Huashen Sect spared no effort to help him; also remembered that since the fire broke out in the county government, they completely stopped obeying the dozens of local officials commanded by Xue Liu; I even remembered that the seemingly law-abiding Huashen business group had already firmly choked the economic lifeline of Julu County 'quietly'......

The combined guessing of these two people belongs to the most typical afterthought! The reason why the Huashen Sect was able to invade Julu County on a large scale was definitely not the 'quiet' they said, and even the two of them themselves were one of the many accomplices of the Huashen Sect!

Moreover, the real situation of the whole thing is far more complicated and serious than the so-called 'conspiracy' guessed by the two of them......

When the so-called 'secret investigation' of these two 'light pole commanders' had just been carried out on the third day, Cai Ning Cai Anguo, who was stationed in Yecheng on the orders of the emperor, rushed to Julu County with twenty soldiers under his command.

And the 'whole truth' of these two fires, under the investigation of General Cai, has become a different appearance!

These two arson cases are clearly because of this Chen Zhi County, together with the county government's master and the three head catchers, who poked out a big mess together. It was because they couldn't get bribes from the 'travelers', so they put a man and two women in black prison; this method of 'making a fortune' is not new, but I didn't expect that this time Lord Chen's bad luck hit the iron plate! These three people were originally bandits and rogues on the rivers and lakes, and in order to vent the sullenness in their hearts, they set fire to the 'accomplices' Huashen Business Group and the 'mastermind' Julu County Ya, and his Cai Ning's 'father-in-law' Feng Qiling was implicated in the fire because of these three bold and insatiable villains......

What else can I say about these two greedy and incompetent people, Cai Ning? However, in line with the principle of listening to both sides and not killing good people in vain, he still asked his subordinates to do an unannounced investigation; And the results of the investigation also show that this Lord Chen is really not a good bird, and his reputation among the people is even worse......

Therefore, this General Cai didn't think much about it, and directly ordered his subordinates to pull those two 'unlucky guys' to the ruins of Feng's mansion, and one of them rewarded them with a knife, and all of them were corrected on the spot! When the two heads flew in the air, the surrounding people clapped their hands and shouted, "Long live Your Majesty, long live Beiyan" like a tsunami......

However, due to the Yecheng garrisoned by Cai Ning's troops, although it is not far from Julu County; But in the final analysis, it is also under the jurisdiction of Zhongzhou and Yanzhou. And although he Cai Ning is the eldest son of the right son, his official position is the governor of Zhongzhou; Therefore, according to the laws of the imperial court, he has no right to intervene in the cases that occurred in Yanzhou! So when he returned to Yecheng, he immediately sorted out the file of this 'arson case' that he thought he had investigated, and sent it to the Right Prime Minister's Mansion in Yanjing City with a letter asking His Majesty for guilt and a handwritten letter.