Chapter 546: Lucky Escape
The Zhang family shed tears as he spoke, which made the second monk who listened to it confused.
What's going on?
While guessing, I heard Zhang say slowly: "Back then, when Empress Sima was killed, Ji Yue'e gave me gold as promised, and asked me to leave the country and never come back. At that time, I took the gold, my eyes lit up, and I fantasized about a rich life in the future, but when I inadvertently saw Ji Yue'e's disdainful gaze, my heart trembled for no reason. Leaving the palace in a hurry, I couldn't bear to leave my daughter who depended on me for my life, so I returned home and left with my daughter. But who would have thought...... My daughter died because of this, and she left me forever......" Speaking of this, Zhang's couldn't cry anymore.
If it weren't for her greed, if it weren't for her insistence on taking her daughter away, maybe her daughter wouldn't have been burned to death at such a young age!
That night, if she hadn't gotten up at night and gone to the hut, she would have died!
Recalling the scene at that time, Zhang still remembers it vividly.
From her intermittent narration, everyone understood the ins and outs of the matter.
It turned out that after taking the Zhang family away, Ji Yue'e regretted it, she was worried that the Zhang family would tell the truth one day, so she sent someone to find Zhang's traces, and set a fire in the inn room where the Zhang family stayed.
At that time, Zhang's happened to get up at night to go to the thatched house and escaped by luck. When she reflexively tried to return to her room, she found that the fire had spread to the entire inn! In order to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Ji Yue'e did not hesitate to burn the innocent people in the entire inn!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Zhang family endured the grief of the bereaved daughter and hurriedly fled outside the inn.
Although she survived, her face and body were still burned, so that her appearance was ruined and her left foot was lame.
After finally escaping from the inn, Zhang looked at the fire in the sky and wailed for her daughter, and at the same time, she overheard the conversation of the arsonist, and then she knew that the arsonist was originally ordered by Ji Yue'e!
She gritted her teeth, barely suppressed the urge to rush out, and took advantage of the night to find a place to shelter and heal her wounds.
Knowing who was behind the scenes, Zhang didn't dare to linger nearby, so he ran out for a long distance in one go, and only then did he settle down in a nunnery in the mountains.
She didn't dare to tell her identity, and lied to the outside world that there was a fire in her home, and the whole family died in the fire, and only she escaped by luck.
After the injury was healed, half of Zhang's face was hideous and terrifying, and she had to get half of the mask to cover up the hard mark left by her greed.
Because she heard that Ji Yue'e became the queen, she didn't dare to think about revenge, she hid in the nunnery, on the one hand, she sincerely worshiped the Buddha, prayed to Queen Sima and her own daughter who died because of her, and on the other hand, waited for the opportunity for Ji Yue'e to be deposed, only at that time, she could tell the truth to the emperor and make the emperor believe in herself.
When Qin Aotian heard Sanyu talk about the events of the year, Qin Aotian went to the inn where the Zhang family settled to investigate her life and death.
The fire did not burn all the people to death, through the survivors' accounts, Qin Aotian analyzed that the Zhang family may not have been burned to death, so he sent someone to continue the investigation
The hard work paid off, and with his efforts, he finally discovered the Zhang family in a nunnery within a radius of dozens of miles from the inn.