Chapter 118: Fire

Rao Beiying.

  Xia Zhihua sat next to Lu Shiyan and asked in confusion: "Then what happened to General Song? He actually sent us to suppress pirates?"

  They were all new recruits!

  They had only practiced for a few days, but they were already eager to send them out to suppress pirates.

  I'm afraid that suppressing the pirates is a lie, but letting them die is the real thing.

  The day before yesterday, Lu Shiyan was called to speak by General Song. Afterwards, everyone praised him on the grounds that he had served as a general at the border. When he was finally promoted to a commander, he felt that something was wrong.

  Today it really came true.

  Although the situation was very pessimistic, he didn't panic. "Don't worry, I promised Manager Xia that I will keep you safe. You can rest assured and go to bed quickly to recuperate. Don't delay our departure tomorrow."

  They said this He was taken to the woods for training!

  However, after only a few days of training, Lu Shiyan suddenly received an order to lead troops to suppress pirates.

  Xia Zhihua couldn't sleep, but there was nothing he could do if he couldn't sleep.

  He was just a new recruit who had just joined the army. There was no way he could do anything. In the end, he could only place his hope on Lu Shiyan.

  Not to mention Rao Beiying in advance, Jiang Tangtang and Zhao Jia went back to Zhuangzi that day. They originally planned to stay in Zhuangzi that night, but they remembered that they had something to do, so they hurried back to the county seat to get busy and wait for their return. When we arrived at the shop, it was already dark.

  Jiang Tangtang was so tired that he just wanted to go back and wash up and sleep. However, he didn't want to go to the back door of the courtyard. He saw someone secretly pouring something into the wall. When someone came back, the person dropped the things and ran away.

  But how could Guo Yu let him run away like that? He immediately rushed over and pushed the person to the ground.

  "Who are you? What were you doing just now?" Guo Yu grabbed the person and said in a rough voice.

  "I didn't... didn't do anything. Let me go..." the man said, shrinking his neck.

  Jiang Tangtang picked up what the man had thrown away and smelled it. A look of violence suddenly appeared in his eyes. He stepped on the man's chest and said, "You poured sesame oil into my house to burn down my house? Do you have a grudge against my family? Or is it someone else?" Did you come here?"

  "You actually want to set a fire!" Guo Yu slapped the man on the ear a few times and said angrily: "Be honest, or I will send you to the government!"

  "It's really none of my business, someone did it. I paid ten taels of silver and asked me to dump the things in your yard. I really didn't know he wanted to set a fire!"

  The man wailed: "If you don't believe me, you searched my body. There's no fire on me. How could I set a fire ?" ."

  Guo Yu carefully searched his body and found nothing except ten taels of silver and a few copper coins.

  Guo Yu kicked him twice angrily and said unwillingly: "Sister Jiang, what should I do? Are we going to let him go like this? Or I'll beat him to death!"

  "Sir, spare your life, I will never dare to do it again. Just spare me! As long as you spare me, my life will be yours from now on, and I will do whatever you ask me to do!"

  The man knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Jiang Tangtang and Guo Yu.

  Jiang Tangtang pursed his lips, glanced around, and said to Guo Yu, "Don't fight yet. Bring the person in. I'll ask you carefully. Pay attention. If anyone suspicious comes, arrest him."

  "Yes!" Guo Yu Yu tied up the man and threw him into the yard. He climbed up a tree on the side of the road, huddled up, hid in the leafy trees, and carefully observed his surroundings.

  With such a loud movement, everyone in the room was awakened and came out of the room to check.

  Everyone was shocked when they saw the tied-up man on the ground. They all asked Jiang Tangtang what was going on.

  Jiang Tangtang briefly explained what had just happened and then said: "Guo Yu is guarding outside. You should also be alert and don't let people burn the house."

  Several servants lowered their heads in shame.

  If Jiang Tangtang and the others hadn't come back in the middle of the night and happened to meet him, the house might have been burned down.

  Jiang Tangtang ignored the people, lit the candles, and looked at the man carefully.

  It was dark outside just now, so I couldn't see the man's face clearly. Only then did I realize that this man was actually pretty good-looking, and he didn't look very young. He seemed to be in his mid-twenties.

  He was born with a good body, but he became a thief!

  Jiang Tangtang sighed inwardly and said coldly: "The person who gave you the money is a man or a woman. What does he look like? Will you recognize him again when you see him again?"

  "A man!" The man shrank his neck carefully and hesitated. After a moment, he said, "It was too dark, so I couldn't see clearly. I only heard his voice."

  "How did he find you?" Jiang Tangtang stared at his face to judge whether he was lying.

  The man couldn't speak and said: "I just... I really don't have any money. I wanted to steal... steal something. Then he gave me a jar and said that as long as I pour it in your house, he will give me ten taels of silver."

  " What if you only accepted the money and didn't do what he said? What else are you hiding from me and not explaining?" Jiang Tangtang suddenly said in a stern voice.

  "No..."

  "You won't tell me, right? If you don't tell me, I will send you to the government!" Jiang Tangtang said and was about to call someone.

  The man was anxious and said hurriedly: "Don't..."

  He gritted his teeth and stammered: "I just went to Beijing to get the household registration certificate for the exam! I... I also know that stealing is wrong, but I was stolen and paid for. I really There was nothing I could do, but I didn't want to have evil intentions, and someone caught me. He said that as long as I followed his instructions, he would return the household subsidy to me, and then give me another hundred taels of silver. Come to Beijing for me to take the exam."    

  "Where and what time?" Jiang Tangtang said coldly.

  "It's just at the entrance of the alley in front. It's three o'clock in the morning."

  When Jiang Tangtang heard this, he was immediately anxious and angry, "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

  There might have been someone hiding at the entrance of the alley just now. The movement they made just now, the other party I'm afraid I'd have run away in shock.

  She immediately called someone to check at the entrance of the alley, but naturally found nothing.

  "Forget it, come back and have a rest. Send people to the Yamen tomorrow!" Jiang Tangtang called everyone to go back and rest.

  But Guo Yu insisted on guarding the tree in case someone set fire to it in the middle of the night.

  Jiang Tangtang thought about sailing the boat with caution, and did not try to persuade her. She just said: "Okay, you have worked hard. I will give you a big red envelope during the Chinese New Year."

  "I don't want a big red envelope, I want to eat what Sister Jiang made." It's delicious." Guo Yu said with a smile.

  "Okay, I'll make you a delicious meal tomorrow as a reward!" Jiang Tangtang said with a smile.

  Several other servants also expressed their intention to stay outside like Guo Yu, but Jiang Tangtang said: "You all have work to do tomorrow. Don't be lazy and go to bed."

  Although the shop was decorated, The food that should be prepared must be prepared in advance.

  For example, winter melon candy, a food with a relatively long production cycle, and pickled salted eggs are also available.

  Jiang Tangtang also washed up and went back to his room to rest. He slept until midnight, but suddenly there was a knock on the door.

  "It's on fire! Sister Jiang is on fire!"

  Jiang Tangtang sat up suddenly, without even putting on his shoes, and ran out with his legs raised, "Quick, quick, put out the fire!"

  "Sister Jiang, don't worry, it's not our house that's on fire. Got it!" Guo Yu said.

  Jiang Tangtang breathed a sigh of relief, "Where did the fire break out? Why didn't you tell me clearly?"

  "The fire broke out over there!" Guo Yu pointed to the billowing smoke in the distance and said, "That location seems to be Jiuxia Silver Tower."

  Jiang Tangtang The heart that had just dropped was raised again, and he quickly went to pick up the man he had caught last night, "Does the fire over there have anything to do with you?"

  The man cried: "No! I really don't know, I was caught You guys were tied up and didn't even move all night. It really has nothing to do with me."

  Jiang Tangtang didn't bother to watch a grown man cry, so he called Li Xiangchen and others over and asked them to look at the shop and the tied up man. Went to Jiuxia Silver Tower with Guo Yu.

  After the two people passed by, they discovered that it was not the Jiuxia Silver Building that caught fire, but the Jingfu Building diagonally opposite the Jiuxia Silver Building that caught fire.

  However, although it was not the Jiuxia Silver Building that caught fire, ancient houses were all lined up in a row and used a lot of wood to build. If the fire was not extinguished, not to mention that the Jiuxia Silver Building would not survive the disaster, and the entire street would eventually be reduced to ashes.

  Everyone came out with water to put out the fire. Jiang Tangtang and Guo Yu also found buckets and participated in putting out the fire.

  It wasn't until the sky turned white that the fire was put out. Not only did Jingfu Tower burn to a great extent, several shops next to Jingfu Tower also suffered heavy losses.

  "What's going on in Jingfu Tower? Why don't you pay attention? Are you trying to kill people on the street?"

  Before the fire was put out, everyone was focused on putting out the fire. Now that the fire was put out, everyone gathered around Jingfu Tower. Fulou's owner held him accountable.

  Yan Yongshou now sat on the ground in disgrace, looking at the burned-out Jingfulou Tower, unable to recover for a long time.

  "Dong Yan, the fire started in your house. It burned my shop like that. Tell me what to do!"

  "That is, my shop was almost burned down. My mother almost died of fright. It was so big. You have to give us an explanation for the loss!"

  The owner of a nearby shop that had been burned down two years ago surrounded Yan Yongshou to ask for compensation.

  Yan Yongshou's eyes were dull, and he was listening to the people's crusade blankly. Suddenly he saw Chu Mingyu in the crowd. As if some switch had been touched, he stood up and rushed towards Chu Mingyu.

  "It's you, isn't it you?" His eyes bulged, and his cheeks turned red because of his anger. "It was you who set my shop on fire, wasn't it?"

  Chu Mingyu got up in the middle of the night to put out the fire, even if it was his opponent's shop that he saved. He was slandered, and he immediately lost his temper and scolded in a cold voice: "Dr. Yan, you are not the one who threw dirty water like this! If you dare to throw dirty water on me again, I will go to the Yamen to sue you."

  "It's not you. Who is it?" Yan Yongshou gasped and said, "You are just jealous of us, so you set fire to my shop!"

  Chu Mingyu shouted: "Why am I jealous of you? I'm jealous that your shop doesn't have as much business as mine, okay? Still remember. You have a villainous face and want to repay kindness with revenge?"

  "You, you, you -" Yan Yongshou breathed heavily in his chest and pointed at Chu Mingyu with his trembling index finger.

  At this time, someone came over crying and said: "Master, Zhou Fu is missing. Could he be buried inside?"