Don't Ask Where People Go After Time Travel

Chapter 1405 Making an exception

"Zhuge Yu has come to see your inn's owner, Dugu Linxiu." Zhuge Yu said word by word, "Or does your inn only recognize Madam Fu?"

"We don't know who Miss Dugu is or who Madam Fu is." The waiter looked like he was trying to get rid of the customer. "If you don't want to buy cakes, don't make trouble here. Go away!"

Zhuge Yu seemed to have expected this, and sat down on the chair next to the door. "It's okay, I can wait."

The clerk looked worried and said, "No, this shop is a small business, please don't delay our business here."

"With over a thousand taels of silver in a year, can this be considered a small business?" Zhuge Yuren sat upright, but spoke with a hint of sarcasm, "Even in the capital, only Sufangzhai can do this."

The clerk laughed dryly, "Are you kidding? How can our store earn thousands of taels of silver in a year..."

"Whether you are joking or not, you will know it after looking at the account book." Zhuge Yu smiled slightly, "Since the owner of your store does not want to meet me, then I can only resort to this last resort."

"What do you want to do?" The waiter looked alert, and then he saw Zhuge Yu took out a token from his pocket and showed it in front of him, "I need to borrow your store's account book for the investigation."

"Whatever you say is what it is..." The clerk stood in front of Zhuge Yu angrily. Before he could say anything more, he heard another voice behind him, "Give the account book to Master Zhuge."

Hearing this, Zhuge Yu looked past the waiter and landed on Dugu Linxiu who was walking towards him. "Ms. Dugu, thank you very much."

"Master Zhuge, Fu Congnan is determined not to divorce. Even if you get the account book, it will be useless." Dugu Linxiu looked depressed. "What's more, the account book in my hand is only a very small part of it..."

She didn't say anything else. Zhuge Yu looked at her steadily. "If it was useless, why did Miss Dugu come to get the account book after listening to Fu Congnan's words?"

Dugu Linxiu was silent for a long time, until the clerk brought the account book and handed it to Zhuge Yu, she said: "Master Zhuge, goodbye."

Zhuge Yu took the account book, bowed to Dugu Linxiu, and left the bakery.

However, he had only walked two blocks when he was stopped by Dugu Ming in a secluded place. "Master Zhuge, my sister is willing to hand over the account book to you, but I don't want to."

"No wonder I didn't see General Dugu just now." Zhuge Yu pondered for a moment, "General Dugu, do you know what is recorded in this account book?"

"I don't know." Dugu Ming's expression became a little fiercer, "But I know that it was the bargaining chip for my sister to save her life."

"Life-saving chips?" Zhuge Yu repeated, curling his lips and saying, "General Dugu is underestimating your sister."

"What do you mean?" Dugu Ming's face was as gloomy as water, while Zhuge Yu's smile became even brighter, "You really underestimate me."

Before he finished speaking, a figure appeared in front of him, blocking Dugu Ming's sight. "Master Zhuge means - this account book, General Dugu, why don't you take it back?"

"Madam, the prince." Dugu Ming looked at Fang Zilan who fell from the sky, with a hint of murderous intent in his eyes, "If I insist, what will you do?"

"Young General Dugu, are you going to fight me?" Fang Zilan smiled with interest, "Think it over carefully. Lord Zhuge is here as a witness. If I make any mistake, how will the Dugu family explain to the Miluo Zhongzheng Palace, and how will they explain to His Majesty?" Dugu Ming clenched his fists, and Fang Zilan continued to talk to herself, "By then, the crimes of the Dugu family will be far more than what is recorded in this small account book."

"Madam, what exactly are you going to do?" Dugu Ming almost gritted his teeth. Fang Zilan suppressed her smile and said seriously, "Young General Dugu, just make sure you don't get dragged into this. I'll take care of the rest."

"Other things?" Dugu Ming obviously didn't believe Fang Zilan's words, but she didn't care at all and said directly: "For example, negotiate a deal with Mr. Xie and use this account book to exchange for your sister's safety."

Fang Zilan went out and went to see Wang Lingyuan with Shangguan Min. She also talked with Chu Bin and Xiao Xuan'er, and finally figured out the whole story.

After Ouyang Zongrui proposed a method to frame Ouyang Zirou, he promised Madam Ouyang that he would bring her back to the Ouyang family safely. Madam Ouyang then acquiesced to his use of Wei's connections to bribe the soldiers in the camp outside Beijing to give false testimony, and subsequent events did develop as he promised.

Although the Jingzhao Yinfu detained Ouyang Zirou, they did not punish her. However, something unexpected happened after Wei Mao reorganized the camp outside the capital. All the soldiers who had given false testimony disappeared overnight.

On the one hand, Ouyang Zongrui was afraid that Wei Mao would expose his fraud to the public, and on the other hand, he tried to overthrow Ouyang Zirou and take over the Arsenal naturally. However, no matter whether it was Wei Mao or Ouyang Zirou, as long as one of them opened his mouth, he would inevitably be ruined. So he decided to go all out and make sure they could never open their mouths again.

Ouyang Zongrui had neither the ability nor the courage to kill Wei Mao, so his murderous intent naturally fell on Ouyang Zirou, who was trapped in prison and unarmed.

However, when Ouyang Zongrui and his men were planning, they were unfortunately overheard by Ouyang Juncheng's wife Wang Lingyuan. He suddenly had an idea and captured her, forcing Ouyang Juncheng to give up the fight for the position of head of the family.

Ouyang Juncheng was hesitant, but Ouyang Zongrui was afraid that he would complain to the head of the Ouyang family and that Madam Ouyang would find out, so he ordered people to send Wang Lingyuan out of the capital and hide her. However, not long after they left the city, they met Shangguan Min and Huangfu Xin who had rushed to the capital.

When Shangguan Min saw her sister being held hostage, she and Huangfu Xin rescued the person without saying a word, thus preventing a tragedy.

But Ouyang Zirou was not so lucky. According to people from nearby villages, a group of vicious men threw a bloody person into a mass grave, and no one dared to go and see.

Only the girl Qiao Nian, who was isolated because of the incident with the monk Ji Ran from Longyan Temple and lived alone near a mass grave outside the village, saw that the fallen person was still breathing, so she went down without hesitation to save him.

Qiao Nian took great pains to bring the person up, and when she found out that it was a seriously injured girl, she thought of Fang Zilan. Apart from Fang Zilan, she didn't know who else would lend a helping hand.

So Qiao Nian took the hatchet and, relying on his courage, carried people on his back and walked to the capital, which led to the scene at the city gate.

After Fang Zilan heard this, her clenched fingers left crescent-shaped marks on her palms, but she didn't feel any pain at all.

"Master Fang..." Xiao Xuan'er called out hesitantly, but then Fang Zilan asked, "How is the Ouyang family doing now?"

"Mrs. Ouyang ordered people to seal off the Ouyang family home. No one can enter or leave. We don't know what's going on inside." Xiao Xuan'er frowned slightly. Fang Zilan was also stunned. "Doesn't the head of the Ouyang family care?"

Xiao Xuan'er's expression became more serious. "This is the strangest thing. I heard that Patriarch Ouyang is seriously ill and unconscious and unable to manage the affairs."