After rebirth, I joined forces with my mortal enemy to seek revenge.

Not only was he tired from traveling all night, but his clothes were also dirty. After watching Li Xiujing go out, Pei Jiaoran couldn't wait to step into the tub and take a bath.

Pei Jiaoran couldn't help but curl his lips as he looked at the fragrant soap and shampoo items on the wooden plate beside him. She really didn't expect that Li Xiujing could be so careful and could even think of these details. She narrowed her deep eyes and splashed water on her face.

Letting the water slide down her face, she raised her neck slightly.

After the water temperature gradually cooled down, Pei Jiaoran got up from the tub. He grabbed the clean clothes next to him and put them on, then wrung his hair dry. Under the attack of sleepiness, he leaned on the couch and fell asleep.

When Pei Jiaoran woke up two hours later, the sky was still dark, and the sound of thunder came from outside accompanied by the sound of rain. She raised her eyes and turned to look at the door. She frowned and stood up, taking out her robe and putting it on.

He lifted the curtain and looked out, just in time to see Li Xiujing walking from the gate of the camp. The two couldn't see each other clearly through the rain, but the other party still walked over quickly.

"Are you awake?" Li Xiujing smiled.

Looking at Li Xiujing, Pei Jiaoran nodded, "Let's go. I'll tell you about my plan."

After squinting his eyes at her, Li Xiujing followed in.

The water vapor in the house has not dispersed, and there is a lingering fragrance. Li Xiujing's eyes turned around Pei Jiaoran, then landed on the exposed half of Hao's neck, and quickly moved his eyes.

"He Zan and Wu Chengbi of the Fuping Salt Institute colluded with the salt dealers and sold official salt privately." After taking a sip of tea, Pei Jiaoran continued: "I think the reason why your Majesty sent me here is because he knew about the situation in the Salt Institute and wanted to borrow some money. I will use my hands to eradicate moths like He Zan. As for Yuan Yanchong, he probably knows more about the truth than I do, so he was put in a position by He Zan and others."

"You mean they both took bribes?"

Pei Jiaoran nodded, "The reason why Yuan Yanchong was set up by them was not because they found out the problems in the account books. It was because they were asking for bribes from the beginning." She said with a slight sneer, "So I thought about it for a long time. Since Your Majesty hopes that I can find something in the Salt Courtyard, so why don’t I just turn the Salt Court upside down. I lit a fire in the Salt Courtyard last night, and they couldn’t hide it from the fire."

After listening to Pei Jiaoran's words, Li Xiujing focused on her.

He already knew what her plan was.

Pei Jiaoran was ordered by the emperor to go to the northwest salt pond to investigate the salt benefit, but during the investigation, he encountered a fire in the salt yard. As long as someone deliberately spreads the matter, the people in Yanyuan are afraid that she will find something, so they will set fire to it. When the emperor is furious, a thorough investigation will be carried out, and the entire Northwest Salt Institute will be trapped in a cage.

There's just a drawback to this.

"Then Qingjia, how are you going to explain to His Majesty. How did you escape from the fire?"

Upon hearing this, Pei Jiaoran raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course it means that thanks to His Majesty's blessing, I was able to escape."

It didn't matter how she survived. The important thing is that what the people in Fuping Salt Academy did was to challenge the prestige and power of the central government and even the emperor.

No emperor would allow his ministers to murder the court's envoys.

Emperor Wei's temperament would not allow Fuping Salt Academy to behave in such a rebellious manner. She even wonders if she found out something that led them to burn her to death and cover up the truth.

This is her purpose.

She asked Emperor Wei to personally issue an order for the Third Division to investigate the matter.

"But. I still need to borrow Yuan Yanchong." Pei Jiaoran smiled, with a cold look in his eyes, "Use his hand to send a message to Wang Yu. I think Wang Yu will be happy to step in."

"Since you have an idea about this matter, I won't interfere. Qingjia, tell me about Hui Yi?" Li Xiujing said.

Pei Jiaoran smiled gently, "Of course."

She was just halfway through talking about Pei Zhanran's affairs in Huiyi, when the curtain was suddenly opened.

The two looked back and saw Yuan Yanchong striding in, dragging Zhou Mancao. The two of them stopped talking.

"Yuan Yushi, what are you doing?" Pei Jiaoran frowned.

"Why did you bring her back?" Yuan Yanchong stared at Pei Jiaoran and said in a bad tone, "I want to take her back and hand her over to Dali Temple. Find out who instigated her to frame the court officials."

Looking at him sideways, Pei Jiaoran said in a deep voice: "Yuan Yanchong, are you too presumptuous? Don't forget that Li Xiujing and I are above you in rank. Even if you are the censor, you cannot tolerate shouting. Yell."

"It is the duty of the censor to check for violations." Yuan Yanchong glanced at her, "I want to take her away, and neither of you has the right to interfere."

"I won't stop you from taking her away. However, I have to tell you something. When I was in Yanyuan last night, a fire suddenly broke out in the house. It was the vines that saved me." Pei Jiaoran smiled, "I think it was them. Afraid that if I find something, I will kill him and silence him."

"What did you find?" Yuan Yanchong let go of Zhou Mancao and asked.

When asked, Pei Jiaoran chuckled, "What do you think? Since they dare to set up a trap to kill you, it's not unusual to kill me."

Yuan Yanchong frowned and stared at her intently. As if thinking about how credible her words were.

Too lazy to pay attention to Yuan Yanchong, Pei Jiaoran turned around and walked towards Zhou Mancao.

She took out the medicine box from her sleeve pocket, dipped her fingertips in the ointment and applied it to Zhou Mancao's wrist.

Li Xiujing, who was standing with his arms folded, glanced at the medicine box in Pei Jiaoran's hand and frowned. Mo Mo took out a box of ointment from his sleeve pocket and stuffed it into her hand.

"Use mine." Li Xiujing said dullly.

Turning his head to look at Li Xiujing, Pei Jiaoran chuckled, "Stingy."

"What do you want me to do?"

Yuan Yanchong, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke.

After hearing this, Pei Jiaoran put away the ointment and said in a calm tone, "Tell Wang Wei everything that happened here."

"Are you so expecting something to happen to He Zan and the others? Aren't you from Jia Gonglu's family?" Yuan Yanchong looked at her with disdain, "Pei Jiaoran, it's still too late for you to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side."

"He Zan and the others took action first. Can't I give them a blow? What's more, this does not conflict with my position." Pei Jiaoran muttered.

"I will inform Mr. Wang about this for you, but you must give Zhou Mancao to me."

With a smile on his lips, Pei Jiaoran turned his head and looked at Zhou Mancao. Although she didn't like Yuan Yanchong's behavior of threatening her, but in the current situation, if Zhou Mancao was not handed over, the people behind him would not let her go easily.

"Okay. I think Mr. Wang has always been upright and will not embarrass Madam Zhou." Pei Jiaoran smiled warmly on his face, "What does Yuan Yushi think?"

Yuan Yanchong said: "This is natural."

He knew in his heart that Pei Jiaoran said this on purpose, in order to force him and the people behind him to promise that they would not torture Zhou Mancao to extract a confession. If she wanted to use severe torture to extract a confession, she could always turn an army against him.

After saying that, Yuan Yan rushed away with a puff of sleeves. Zhou Mancao was left standing there helplessly.

"Thank you, Mrs. Pei." Zhou Mancao said to her.

"Don't worry, I will try my best to take care of everything for you." Pei Jiaoran reached out to hold her hand and said warmly: "No matter what they say, you don't know. Leave the rest to me."