Shopkeeper Zhu sat in a carriage in a dejected manner, and went straight to the street in front of the prefect's yamen to find Yang Mingde and his wife to make amends.

He actually knew from Sun Dalang that this new shop was only part of the whole plan, and it was also a trick to confuse Yang Mingde and his wife, and it was just a trick to lure the snake out of the hole, and the shop was also borrowed by them.

His carriage came to the door of the shop, but found that the door was locked, and there was no one looking in through the crack in the door, but it turned out that Yang Mingde and his wife had already taken advantage of the fact that it was not dark to find a new shop, and they were ready to move the next day, so they were not in the shop.

Shopkeeper Zhu waited at the door for a long time, but he didn't see Yang Mingde and his wife come back, but his stomach was growling, and he decided to go back to eat first. If you come to make amends after dinner, it's better to bring your own family with you, so that you can be more sincere.

So, the shopkeeper Zhu got into the carriage again and returned to the jewelry store.

When Mrs. Zhu saw him like this, she was taken aback again, and after hearing what had happened, she was also dumbfounded, and said anxiously: "Didn't this stab the hornet's nest?

Shopkeeper Zhu nodded dejectedly and said: "How did I know that Xiao Lang was so capable, and the entire Yamen prefect and county all valued him so much? Alas, I didn't think it through, wait until a little later, let's kowtow and make amends, no way. ”

As soon as he said this, he heard someone screaming loudly in the distance: "Go water, go water!"

Listening to the sound was very similar to the maid in their house, I couldn't help but be surprised.

His jewelry store is the front shop behind the house, the whole residence and the shop is Grandma Sun's house, suddenly heard that the water is gone, that is the fire, the two glanced at each other, quickly walked through the back hall, came out of the back door to see, couldn't help but be frightened. I saw smoke billowing from the roof of my yard, and dark red flames had come out of the roof, and there was more than one place, and several houses actually emitted flames at the same time.

This is not a fire, but someone deliberately set it on fire, otherwise it would not have been possible to set fire at the same time.

Shopkeeper Zhu immediately thought that it must have been done by the macaque, this person was so vicious that he actually set fire to his house. Although this house belongs to Grandma Sun, the furniture in the house and countless jewels are all owned by his shopkeeper Zhu!

Shopkeeper Zhu shouted anxiously: "Hurry up and put out the fire, hurry up and put out the fire, go and report to the Yamen Fire Dragon Team, quickly!"

Zhang panicked and ran towards his master bedroom with black smoke, and the box under the bed in the bedroom was full of her dowry, gold and silver jewelry.

The maids in the house had all run out and stood in the yard, Zhang shouted, asking the maids to rush in to help carry things, but it was important for these maids to save their lives, at this time, they sacrificed their lives to help him save things. It's all desperately going backwards. Zhang had to grit his teeth, cover his nose with one hand, and rush into the smoke-filled room.

The crackling burning sound in the house was very terrifying, but it had not yet burned to the master bedroom, the fire was burning from the side of the wing, but the smoke had filled the whole room, he bent over, with memory, touched the bedroom, and laboriously dragged out his box full of dowry gold and silver jewelry from under the bed, and wanted to pick it up and go out, but the box was too heavy, before that, she wanted to take things from the box, and they were pulled out with the help of her own personal maid, she never did this kind of work herself, I don't know how heavy this box was, and now I know that she can't hold it at all。

But how could the contents be buried in the fire? She gritted her teeth and grabbed the clasp of the box, and pulled it backwards and desperately pulled it out, until it reached the door of the bedroom, and there was a high threshold that could not be pulled over, and had to be carried out. So she gritted her teeth, held the buckle in both hands, and tried hard to lift it up, but she only popped out halfway, and she couldn't cross the threshold.

The smoke in the room choked on his cough, he couldn't breathe, and he was reluctant to put down the treasure box. At this moment, she heard her husband's voice coming from the courtyard: "Madame, Madame, come out! Escape for your life, the fire has burned through the roof, come out quickly!"

Zhu Shi coughed and shouted desperately: "Come in and help me carry things, I can't lift it!"

Shopkeeper Zhu ran to rescue the jewels in his warehouse, but he couldn't get in when he got to the door, because his jewelry warehouse was the first to burn, so the whole flame burned quickly. There was already a sea of fire in the house, he couldn't rush into it at all, he could only exit, and found that the lady was gone, and asked the maid to know that the lady ran to the bedroom to save things, and at this time the flames had burned through the roof of the entire bedroom, and the master bedroom was about to fall into the fire. Therefore, I couldn't help screaming in a hurry.

When he heard his wife's coughing cries for help, he gritted his teeth and rushed in.

The flame had burned to the top of the bedroom, and the blazing flame was so hot that the shopkeeper Zhu wanted to pull his wife and run out, but when he saw his wife dragging the box, he knew that the box contained his wife's dowry, which was worth a lot of money, so he gritted his teeth, crossed the threshold and went inside, grabbed the other end of the box, and said, "Carry it out, quickly!"

Mrs. Zhu raised the other end and leaned on the threshold with great difficulty, and after putting it on the threshold, he had no strength to carry it out, so he could only step out of the threshold, and turned around to carry the box again. At this moment, I heard a click, and the burning roof had completely collapsed.

Mrs. Zhu saw a huge burning beam by the light of the fire, which smashed directly on her husband's head, knocking him to the ground, and seeing that he was no longer alive.

Mrs. Zhu saw her husband die, she was so frightened that she turned around to run, and a collapsed beam fell down, pressing her to the ground, fortunately the beam was supported by the wall and did not press her down, but this time, her leg bones and pelvic bones were broken, and the whole person fell on the bluestone floor in the living room, screaming.

The maid outside the house shouted anxiously, "Madam, climb out quickly!"

Mrs. Zhu climbed over the threshold of the hall with difficulty and rolled down the steps. At this time, several maids rushed up with the audacity, grabbed her hand, and dragged her to the clearing.

Mrs. Zhu looked back and saw that the entire master bedroom had fallen into a sea of fire, and her husband was also dead, crying loudly.

The fire that suddenly rose at night quickly lit up the night sky of Xuanzhou. The yamen has a special lookout platform, on which two officials are on duty all night, mainly to observe the fire. When the fire was discovered, a gong was immediately sounded. The sound resounded throughout the yamen. The other hurried downstairs and ran to report to Lei Dutou, who was on duty today.

When Lei Du heard that it was the location of Yang Xianmao's pharmacy, he was immediately startled, and immediately ordered everyone in the yamen to rush to put out the fire, and at the same time, he sent someone to urgently run to call the fire dragon team of the prefect yamen to quickly rush to extinguish the fire.

Lei Dutou and horse archers rushed to the street in front of Yang Xianmao's Rejuvenation Hall, where there were many people watching the fire. Some people wanted to go up to put out the fire, but the fire was too big for anyone to take the risk.

Lei Du looked at it fixedly, and the fire was still two or three houses away from Yang Xianmao's Rejuvenation Hall, so he immediately ordered the horse archers who followed him to dismount and demolish a row of houses in the jewelry store next to Yang Xianmao, so as to ensure that the Rejuvenation Hall would not be destroyed by the fire.

The horse-step archers immediately jumped off their horses, drew their swords, and went forward to smash the pillars of the house with them. The jewelry store and Yang Xianmao's house are built separately, and they have their own shops, so the demolition of this house will not affect the house of the Rejuvenation Hall.

Some of the soldiers cut down the pillars, and some tied the beams of the house with ropes to pull the whole house down.

These people are not good at building houses, but they are still good at demolishing a house. As horse archers, they are all cavalry, once a fire breaks out in the city, they are the first to arrive, if the fire can no longer be controlled, then their task is not to fight the fire, but to demolish the house, to remove the separation belt as soon as possible, so, for them, this job has been familiar.

When the fire was about to burn to Yang Xianmao's Rejuvenation Hall, half of the jewelry store had been demolished, and the onlookers also stepped forward to help, and together they moved the collapsed beams on the ground, so as not to attract the flames. These people were willing to help, so hundreds of onlookers came over, lifted the pillar to the side of the street away from the fire, and forcibly dismantled the barrier.

By this time, the fire had spread to the barrier, swallowing the remaining jewelry stores into a sea of flames.

Some people were going to make up their minds to rush in and rob and grab some jewels, but there were officials and soldiers nearby, and none of them dared to move, so they could only watch the countless jewels in the jewelry store die in the flames.

The fire dragon team that arrived later began to put out the fire, and their other soldiers also arrived one after another, including the fire dragon team sent by the prefect, and began to spray water to put out the fire.

This tossed and turned, and it was not until dawn that the whole fire was brought under control. A large area that was added to the center of the jewelry act was burned into a field of rubble.

Lei Dutou has been directing the fire fighting at the scene, seeing that the Rejuvenation Hall has been saved, he is relieved, no matter how many other houses are burned, it is estimated that the problem is not big, as long as the Rejuvenation Hall is saved, the prefect and the prefect will reward him, he believes this.

And just as he was busy directing to extinguish the remnants of the fire, suddenly, he found that among the crowd of black onlookers, there was a goldfish eye and a smug face, and it was also looking at the ruins and sneering, it was the macaque.

The macaque was once arrested by the yamen and imprisoned, but later because he refused to admit it to death and could not find real evidence, he finally had to be released. And this time, Lei Zhutou had already learned about the grievances between the macaque and the Zhu shopkeeper from the mouth of the shopkeeper Zhu, and he knew that the macaque was ruthless, so he immediately concluded that the macaque did it nine times out of ten.

He now saw that the macaque actually came to the scene to see the excitement, presumably he thought that it was his job that others could not catch it, so he blatantly appeared at the fire scene, and Lei Zhutou's eyes rolled a few times, and he had an idea in his heart.