Across half of the long street, on one side is the fire raging and the mourning is like a tide, and on this side the sheng song has rested and is calm as usual.

Jiang Yuelou was only three floors at the beginning, and it was not special in this street where high-rise buildings and squares gathered. Later, when the business started, Jiang Hechuan thought about rebuilding, but he didn't dare to make a big move for a long time.

When Gu Qingning was sixteen years old, Jiang Hechuan was going to get her an extremely precious South China Sea pearl as a birthday gift, Jiang Xiange said in front of her, but before the pearl arrived, Jiang Hechuan received a picture made by Gu Qingning - that year, the most satisfactory birthday gift Gu Qingning received was to preside over the construction of Jiang Yue Tower.

Since then, Jiangyue Tower has become the tallest restaurant in Chang'an City, standing on the east side of Jiufang Street.

The small seats in the lobby on the first floor are endless, the wine room and the tea room on the second floor are facing each other, one side is the ink guest to buy drunk and the other side is the Yashi tea, the third floor is the size of the elegant room banquet talks, the tea and wine in the high hall are all powerful up and down, the fourth floor of the guest room is expensive to stay overnight, the fifth floor is a private attic, the tea room of the Jiang family is far away from the Qin Pavilion of Jiang Xiange, and now the Qin Pavilion is empty.

Gu Qinghuan listened to the situation reported by others downstairs, and climbed up floor by floor, passing by every floor without stopping, and when he reached the fifth floor, he slowed down, took a breath, and retracted his reluctant gaze somewhere.

He entered the tearoom again, looked at Gu Qingxuan and Jiang Hechuan, who were sitting on the edge of the teahouse and drinking tea by the moonlight, and then walked towards Gu Qingning by the window.

In this unlit tea room, Gu Qingning stood at the highest point on Jiufang Street and looked at the scarlet night sky not far away.

Knowing that Gu Qinghuan had come to her side, she couldn't take her eyes off and asked, "Are you sure she's in?"

Gu Qinghuan told her: "Lu Yuansi did go in...... But...... It's out again...... is not dead, only Yin Qixiu is afraid that his life will not be saved......"

Gu Qingning turned her face suddenly, "She's not dead, did this make her come out alive?" her tone was cold and resentful, and she patted the window lattice.

Gu Qinghuan said: "Hmm...... Originally, he only entered Yin Qixiu, so he left him a way out, but he didn't expect Lu Yuansi to not go in, but later she went in, the strange thing is that Yin Qixiu didn't escape, but let her save her life...... Eh, it shouldn't be arranged like this, how much difference is there between one death and one pair?"

Gu Qingning looked over there irritably, smiled bitterly indignantly, and shook his head: "I just want her to die......"

Listening to the wailing sound of the street outside, Jiang Hechuan seemed to be able to smell the smoke that filled half the street, frowned, and sighed: "I can't bear to see it...... A fire, a human life, stirred up the city and the world...... What a ...... of evil."

Gu Qingxuan raised his eyes to look at him, "This is a bloody road full of killing...... It's not the fire tonight that's scary, it's that it's just the beginning. ”

"Start?" Jiang Hechuan's shoulders trembled, and he looked at Gu Qingxuan's dark face by the moonlight: "Aren't you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of? retribution? maybe...... However, I would like to know if there is such a thing as retribution in this world, but it is more practical to judge things by success or failure. He said.

Jiang Hechuan thought for a while and said: "But I'm afraid, I still have fear in my heart, I'm afraid of the cycle of cause and effect, and finally retribution will come to the door, my daughter is already his family, and I don't have a son, I'm afraid that in the end, I won't even have someone to collect my body......"

"Don't you still have me?" Gu Qingxuan patted the back of his hand.

Jiang Hechuan smiled, "You collect the corpse for me?"

Gu Qingxuan shook his head with a smile, and said calmly: "I'm afraid not, if there is really karma, I will die in front of you, and when I go to hell, I will bear all the sins alone, I will go to the purgatory of Daoshan Mountain, and you can enjoy the wealth in the world." ”

Jiang Hechuan said: "Forget it, everyone has a life, how can they get away with it? You just let me do less of this kind of thing in the future, I still want to enjoy a few more years of glory and wealth in the world, and I have to accumulate some yin virtue for myself, otherwise what is the meaning of everything I have created in the past 20 years of hard work? You have your achievements, I always have to have some utilitarian ...... of my own."

Listening to him, when Gu Qingxuan was silent, in the moonlight, he also saw the wrinkles on the face of the rivers and rivers, a slightly fat body, a brocade jade belt on his body, and a few strands of silver hair on his head......

In a blink of an eye, they are all old, and they are no longer the two cold scholars who drank on the ground at the door of the restaurant more than 20 years ago......

"In my opinion, we have always achieved each other, so we have our own today, what you want, I will also help you fight, what you want to maintain, we will also work hard to help you maintain...... So you signed that complaint...... I can also understand...... "Gu Qingxuan finally broke it, he didn't want to leave this hidden worry between them."

Hearing his words, Jiang Hechuan's hand couldn't help but tremble, this was indeed unexpected by him, he didn't expect that the accusation would be seen by Gu Qingxuan, he didn't want Gu Qingxuan to have a bad heart, so he didn't say it......

Jiang Hechuan explained: "I have no choice, Tao Chunlin has a very close business relationship with me, and he has attracted so many merchants, they have come to me, if I don't stand on their side, then my future business will be difficult to do, I believe you can handle it, so I promised them to sign a joint letter, and I just happened to know Tao Chunlin's plan, so when you deal with him, I can provide you with his background in time, tell you about his relationship with the Yin family, you know, I don't have two hearts, that's just to deal with ......"

Gu Qingxuan patted the back of his hand again, nodded and smiled: "Yes, I know, I understand, I said it, I just don't want to have a secret between us." ”

Jiang Hechuan just calmed down in his heart, thought about it again, and for some reason became a little stunned, shook off his hand, and said, "You already knew, didn't you?"

Gu Qingxuan admitted: "Yes, as soon as the sealing statement was handed over to Zuo Sicheng's office, Du Wanwei showed it to me." ”

"Then why didn't you tell me about it until now?" Jiang Hechuan was slightly excited, and said in disbelief: "Are you testing me?"

He said sharply: "Actually, you can't be sure at all! You still have doubts! So it wasn't until you came to me to discuss Tao Chunlin's affairs...... Until I tell you about his background, you are waiting to see my attitude! Isn't that right? If I didn't take the initiative to help you, what would you think? Heh, Gu Qingxuan, Gu Qingxuan, ......

Gu Qingxuan was a little inexplicable by his anger, and was surprised that Jiang Hechuan would think like this, but he really didn't realize that he was tempting Jiang Hechuan, he looked up strangely at Jiang Hechuan, who was so angry that he couldn't sit still and stood up, and said, "Is it necessary to be so angry? It's not that I signed a complaint against you without telling you......

"So you're very generous, aren't you?" Jiang Hechuan became even more angry and sneered at Gu Qingxuan. "You're still angry in your heart! What are you pretending to be! Gu Qingxuan, what do you think of me? Those court opponents of yours will never be able to see through your mind? I know you well! Don't think I don't know what you think!"

The Gu family sisters and brothers were all frightened by Jiang Hechuan's angry attitude, and they didn't know why it suddenly became so intense.

Gu Qingxuan was even more depressed in the face of his accusation, and asked him: "Really? Do you really know what I will think? If you really know, you wouldn't say such a thing!"

Just like the last string was about to break, as soon as Gu Qingxuan's words blurted out, the Gu family sisters and brothers gasped.

"You ......"

The fire has been ignited, and the destruction of the incineration is imminent......

There was a knock on the door, a savior, pulling them back to their senses.

Jiang Hechuan tried to stabilize his emotions, kept silent, glanced at Gu Qingxuan, went to open the door, and outside the door was Steward Zhang, telling him: "Chang'an ordered the people from Yin's Mansion to come forward, and they want the shopkeeper to come forward and go to the scene of the fire to control the scene......"

Jiang Hechuan responded, stood in front of the door, took a deep breath and relieved himself, turned to look at Gu Qingxuan, and spread his hands and said, "Okay, it's time for me to deal with them, it's in my name, I have to be responsible for all this, and I can only end it." ”

He turned away, Gu Qingxuan saluted with his hand and bowed deeply.

……

The river and river walked to that side, following the direction of the crowd, the chaos, the turbidity, the struggle, the fire burned and engulfed, the tongue of fire rushed up the pitch-black sky, stretching endlessly, no one could resist it, and the tense rescue of buckets of water could not shake the fire for half a minute......

There are things that you have planned, arranged, foreseen, and imagined thousands of times in your mind, but when it is really presented in front of you, you will still be frightened and shocked, and the terrible reality is always more terrible than expected.

Everyone has compassion, and as a human being, nothing can escape from the feeling of the heart.

Jiang Hechuan approached the fire, surrounded by the heat of the fire and the angry eyes of the people, he gritted his teeth and endured, and as he continued to walk, he commanded the people he brought to dismiss the unrelated people in an orderly manner to help the government maintain order and participate in extinguishing the fire.

When he appeared, they swarmed towards him, and the noise was so loud that he couldn't hear them clearly, except that the angry words were constantly buzzing in his ears, like tongues of fire that spewed everywhere, and had the power to bring people down and destroy.

"Why is there a fire?"

"How could there be such a big fire!"

"Oh my God, it's evil!

"There's still someone in there!"

"Burned! burned alive!"

"This is the fire demon who has come to take his life!

……

Constantly questioning him and scolding him angrily, he could only push away the crowd and keep explaining: "The burning down of the ghost building was reported to the Ling Yin Mansion in advance! The government approved it! There is a permit here! The fire can be controlled! There will be someone inside who is completely accidental! It is the person who trespassed in! It has nothing to do with us! We are already trying our best to rescue it! Those who are innocently harmed will receive full compensation from Jiang Yuelou! We will never shirk the blame for the real money!"

The further he went, the more fierce the anger he endured, and his heart burned like his body. Instead of calming down because of his explanation, people became even more out of control, as if as soon as he came, their anger had a point to vent.

At first, it was just pushing and scolding, when he approached the Yin family, everything was completely out of control, as soon as they heard that he had arrived, they all pounced on him like mad dogs, even if there were people from the government and his own guards to protect him left and right, he still suffered a lot of direct blows, he didn't know who threw the first punch in his face, and the stones, wood, and sundries that kept throwing at him......

Finally, the Yin brothers found him.

Yin Chengyuan's eyes were redder than the fire burning behind him, and as soon as he saw him, he roared hysterically, and three or four people didn't stop him, he ran to Jiang Hechuan, threw Jiang Hechuan to the ground, and pinched his neck madly.

The people around hurriedly separated them, Jiang Hechuan just stood up, and before he could catch his breath, a bucket of cold water hit him head-on, pouring him all over, he shivered, and saw Yin Shaochu's angry face clearly, as well as the wooden barrel flying towards him......

Fortunately, a guard pulled him, he was not hit by the barrel, he didn't stand firm, and the Yin brothers rushed towards him again......

For a moment, he felt like he was on the edge of a cliff, teetering, and with one last push, he could escape the nightmare in front of him.

Yin Shaochu's face was hideous, and he grabbed him by the collar and asked: "Why did it suddenly catch fire? How can you be so cruel! Cruel and inhumane! Are you still human? You burned my brother to death? Do you know? You still have no humanity! You bastard!"

Jiang Hechuan let Yin Shaochu and Yin Chengyuan beat and scold him, and the others kept pulling and protecting him, but he never fought back, numbly bearing their fists and kicks, and when he fell, he got up, and preached to them over and over again: "The burning of the ghost building was reported by the government! We have completely closed it off in advance to prevent idlers from entering! We don't know that anyone will break into it! He trespassed without our consent! It has nothing to do with us! It is they who broke in by themselves! It has nothing to do with me!"

Repeat over and over again......

He didn't know what he was talking about anymore, and he didn't know what he could say, so he could only deal with them with such unconvincing and blunt excuses, and the explanations prepared in advance were perfect and flawless, but they couldn't stop people's resentment.

"You pay for my brother's life! You want them to come out! The surname Gu is there! I want them to pay for their lives!"

"Do you still have humanity?

"Are you still human? Are you human? How can you be so inhumane!"

They yelled at him over and over again, questioning him.

He said, "He broke in on his own! It has nothing to do with us...... It has nothing to do with us."

Later, he felt nothing but numbness, stiffness, and coldness......

He was deaf, he was blind, he lost his voice......

He is like a criminal parade on the street, with the most calm posture, extremely embarrassed to accept the overwhelming condemnation and scolding, as well as those hateful scrutiny......

The signboard of the "Ghost Building" was scorched and fell down......

The couplets on the doorposts on both sides burned with the wooden pillars, and the black broke, and the dead words could not save themselves, so they could only let the living tongue of fire lick themselves into ashes......

There are ghosts in the ghost building, there are no ghosts in the ghost building, and you can not tell the ghost door directly!

People may look like ghosts, ghosts are not like people, hell and earth, who knows if it's true or not?

He's still saying, "...... It has nothing to do with me......"