Chapter 449: Trickery
What's going on?
The hall is already in chaos!
"Smash open the window, maybe get out!"
Someone figured out a way and came up with an idea.
Jian Mingyue and Gu Sheng were puzzled, there are so many guards here, and it is an exam related to many tests, and besides, this is a palace dedicated to the founding emperor and queen, and the fire and water are ruthless, could the firefighting measures be so weak.
But from the beginning of the fire to the present, no guards have come forward to maintain order and rescue the fire, and no one has come to rescue and guide these bachelors to leave, but quietly.
These reactions are so perverse!
Jian Mingyue raised her head fiercely and looked at Gu Sheng, who also had some comprehension, and the two nodded.
Well, this Emperor Cheng Yuan 10 is more talented, and this palace exam should test the students' ability to adapt to changes, not the questions on the test paper.
Jian Mingyue and Gu Sheng rolled their eyes, can you not be so unreliable!
There are so many people here! If one is not good, the fire cannot be controlled, and it will really cause a catastrophe.
When the time comes, once the students are in danger, the civil and military officials are not fools! There are so many guards and Praetorian Guards, which add up to a large number of people, and who can not know the inside story of this kind of test, and when the time comes, the people will know that the students died because of the mistakes in this kind of test, and this is to arouse the people's anger, and then let the people who have a heart provoke it, I am afraid that before the Eight-Nation Alliance Army fights, the century-old foundation of the Chengyuan Kingdom will be destroyed in the hands of their own people.
Did Emperor Cheng Yuan X's brain get caught in the door?
Such a bad idea can be adopted casually, and I am not afraid of the destruction of the country!
The two of them were really speechless.
Seeing the large vat under the porch by the window, it was very strange for them to come in just now, there is a large vat filled with clean water every thirty steps, there is neither fish nor green aquatic plants, it is very abrupt to place here.
Now the two of them understand what this is about.
Okay, Gu Sheng picked up the stool he used just now, the weight is really not light, smash the window!
smashed open the window, stirred it with a bench, swept away all the broken glass stubble around the glass window, and then folded his hands to form a ladder, "Mingyue, hurry up!"
Jian Mingyue comprehended, pulled up the group pendulum, tied it around her waist, raised her foot and stepped on the palm of Gu Sheng's hand, jumped up with her strength, climbed out of the window with both hands, and shook her body before standing, but the smoke outside didn't seem to be as big as she imagined, and there was no obvious flame.
"Mingyue, get out of the way!"
Gu Sheng motioned to Jian Minghang to come over and go up.
Jian Minghang hesitated, this is the prince, is it appropriate to step on it yourself?
A bachelor next to him squeezed over, pushed Jian Minghang away, and rolled up his sleeves, "He doesn't go up, I'm up, I'm offended!"
Lift your feet and go up.
Gu Sheng stepped back, the bachelor stepped on the air, and fell to the window, his face was cut by the glass ballast, and he shouted at Gu Sheng with bared teeth: "What are you doing?
touched the blood in his hands, and couldn't help but start crying for his father and mother.
"Help! it's bleeding, it's going to kill!"
The people around looked around, but no one was nosy, they were all anxious to find a way to get out! At this time, when they saw Gu Sheng smashing the window, they immediately understood how they wanted to get out.
Trapped here, I was afraid of death, and I immediately began to learn the same.
Pick up the bench and smash the window.
The bleeding one, seeing that no one was paying attention to him, gradually lowered his voice.
"Even if you are a prince, you can't bully people!"
Jian Minghang pushed this, "Let's let, if you want to get out, figure it out yourself!"
Then squeezed over, "Lord Wang, I'll come, you go up first, remember to take care of my sister!"
Fold your hands up.
was slapped by Gu Sheng, and the ladder had already been set up.
"Go up, you don't go out! Mingyue will be worried, you are her eldest brother! Let's take care of her together!"
Motioning outward, "Go up!"
Jian Minghang looked at it and knew that he couldn't delay, so he stepped on it and climbed up.
Finally flipped out, Gu Sheng gestured to Qi Minghao and nodded.
Qi Minghao was a little embarrassed, he basically had no intersection with this King of Guyang, and people were willing to help him like this.
"Hurry up, you want to die, I don't want to die yet!"
It's really a mother-in-law.
Qi Minghao gritted his teeth, stepped on it and turned it out.
Gu Sheng withdrew his hand, lifted the hem of his clothes, tugged at his waist, and jumped out.
As soon as he jumped out of the window, he was hit by a fireball.
"Be careful!"
Jian Mingyue shouted.
Gu Sheng dodged one by one.
The fireball smashed into the window, causing a burst of flames, and a smell of rapeseed oil rose, which was an oil bomb.
Immediately a fire broke out in the house.
Gu Sheng turned around, only to find that in the courtyard, where there should have been no fire, there was a firelight everywhere, and there were constantly fireballs flying in, causing a flame.
If it was a temptation just now, then now it is 100% dead.
The walls of the courtyard were all engulfed in flames, and the gate was also in flames.
The guards couldn't see the shadows, but the other side at the gate was overwhelmed by two guards who had been killed with a single sword.
Since the others can't be seen, they know with their ass that either they have the same ending and die.
Or someone else led them away.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for no one to come to the rescue.
Jian Mingyue approached Gu Sheng and grabbed his sleeve, "What should I do?
Now it is simply impossible to rush out.
The fire was too big.
If you rush out rashly like this, you will be burned if you don't burn to death.
The main thing is that they don't know what awaits them outside now!
These fireballs kept coming in, which only meant that there was a group of people outside who were making fires, and now they were smashing fireballs, but if they went out, would it be archery.
With so many people, even if they wanted to hide, there was nowhere to hide.
To go out is to die, and to die inside is to die.
This time it was a ruthless move.
Gu Sheng frowned.
At this moment, many scholars had already jumped out and stood in the courtyard full of flames, all with surprised faces.
When I came out of the house, I found that there was still no way to live.
"It looks like you can't get out. In this way, take off your outer clothes, go to the vat over there to get wet, cover your mouth and nose, and don't choke on the smoke. "Gu Sheng looked! The least flame here burns in the house, and the main hall is the place with the least fire, so it should be possible to avoid the fire.
But if you burn like this, I'm afraid you will be able to escape for a while, and you won't be able to escape for a lifetime.
The outside of the courtyard was full of flames, and only in the distance from the courtyard to the main hall, there was no shelter from the house, and there was nothing to burn.
But if you are running around in such a panic, sooner or later you will be dragged down.
"Everyone, run for your life, the emperor wants the lives of all of us!"
I don't know who shouted it, and people are even more confused.
Many people were flustered like headless flies scurrying around, and some of the bachelors were in a mess and rushed towards the gate of the courtyard.
It's like slamming open the door and escaping.
As a result, the gate did not open, but the dense fireballs concentrated on this position, and more than a dozen people were hit by the fireballs, and immediately some people were on fire.
Wailing and screaming and running madly in the courtyard, the burned people have gone crazy, and the faster they run, the bigger the fire really becomes.
But no one thought about it anymore, only that they didn't want to be burned.
All of a sudden, everyone can see several fireballs rampaging through the crowd, and if this continues, those who are not burned will also be burned, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to control at that time.
Many people couldn't help but dodge, and soon a large area was vacated.
"Your Majesty, if you want to burn me, if you don't let us escape, let's just fight!"
"Left and right is death, you can't just die in vain, even death, I also want the world to know what kind of tyrannical emperor Emperor Chengyuan is, so many people have been killed like this, we can't be unjust ghosts!"
Gu Sheng turned his head and looked at the scholar who spoke, this one looked like a student, no wonder, there are more than two thousand bachelors, who can know whom.
"What does His Majesty the Emperor want to do? We are scholars from the Chengyuan Kingdom, and we are all here to participate in the palace examination, and in order to cope with the competition of the envoys of the eight countries, we were burned to death, what good is it for Your Majesty?" someone asked angrily, but this was really to the point.
"Don't ask such stupid words, no matter why, we're all going to be burned to death anyway, we're all dead! โ
"I don't want to die!"
"We rush out, we can't die!"
"Don't be stupid, rush out, those who are on fire, you can't see them, and you want to be burned again?"
"Then wait here to die?"
Jian Mingyue looked at Gu Sheng, "Save it!"
Gu Sheng had no choice but to agree, and the two of them quickly rushed out, knocking one of the fire men covered in flames to the ground, and Gu Sheng covered the man with his wet clothes with his face just now, so as not to burn on himself.
Jian Mingyue quickly shouted in the man's ear: "Listen, if you want to live, listen to us!"
"Help! I'm going to burn to death! I don't want to die, I'm Li Ziming from Hejian Daofu, I finally entered the palace test, if I die, I'm sorry for the hard work to support my mother and sister!"
Li Ziming on the ground cried loudly, hoarse.
In fact, there are not many flames on his body, but when a person is burned by fire, where is there still a brain to analyze calmly, it is estimated that the only thing that comes to mind is to run.
Seeing that there were living people jumping into the water tank to extinguish the fire on his body, and there were also people who helped pour water on him, but the fire was small for a moment, and he continued to rub up, which didn't work at all.
Li Ziming, who was so frightened on the ground, only knew that he was crying.
Water can't extinguish fire, who would have thought.
Gu Sheng shouted: "Roll on the ground, fast, don't be too fast, just roll slowly one after another!"
These fireballs have kerosene in them, which are oil bombs, and water cannot extinguish such fires.
Li Ziming has been burned numb, and he can't extinguish the fire when he sees that the water, so if he goes on like this, he will die, so just try it according to what King Guyang said.
endured the burns on his body and the burning of the flames, and began to roll on the ground according to Gu Sheng's instructions.
Someone ridiculed, "King Guyang, you are the prince, but you can't let people die in vain like this!
Li Ziming's tumbling body paused, and Gu Sheng said in a deep voice: "Go on, don't stop!"
Li Ziming had no choice but to continue rolling, one after another.
"Look, everyone, the fire in this man is extinguished. โ
"King Guyang's method works!"
Li Ziming rolled back and forth, and there were already onlookers around.
Sure enough, the burning flames on his body had gradually been extinguished, except for the tattered clothes, which were smoking, but the fire was indeed extinguished.
Gu Sheng shouted: "The people who are on fire are lying on the ground on the spot, rolling slowly, don't be in a hurry, slowly rolling one by one, those who want to help, go to the side to find some sand and soil for the people with big fire to sprinkle on the flames, which can extinguish the fire." These are kerosene bombs, which are lighter than water, and they can't be extinguished with water!"
As soon as the remaining few people who were on fire heard this, they quickly lay down on the spot and began to roll slowly! Some people also helped dig up some mud and sand from under the trees next to them and sprinkled them on the flames on their bodies, and sure enough, the fire became smaller and smaller, and soon all the flames on several people were extinguished.
Several people lay on the ground and cried, this feeling of escaping death is not acceptable to everyone.
Li Ziming turned over and got up, kowtowing to Jian Mingyue and Gu Sheng, "Thank you for the great kindness of the two princes, King Li Nan and King Guyang, Li Ziming will definitely be a cow and a horse in his lifetime, and he will never give up to repay the kindness of the two of you!"
Jian Mingyue helped him up, "Li Ziming, we are all classmates, and now when we encounter a disaster, we should work together to survive, these fires that cost people's lives will not only burn to death! There is no distinction between the common people and the prince." It's all the same to burn. โ
"So what now, wait for death?" the voice reappeared.
Gu Sheng squinted, he was a scholar wearing a square scarf, although his face was a little black and gray, but there was no injury on his body, but his eyes were dripping and rolling, and he was very lively.
"If you rush out, you will be burned by a fire bomb, and you will be burned inside. Are we going to be burned here today?"
"We are here to take the exam, but we are going to be burned to death by His Majesty the Emperor, it really makes us feel cold!
"Death also makes us understand ghosts!"
"Now you still take care of this, and you don't want to think about who will be the biggest beneficiary of this fire, could it be His Majesty Cheng Yuan X? What good is it for him to burn us to death, what good is it for Cheng Yuan Kingdom?" Jian Mingyue shouted.
It's stupid to read books.
This truth is so simple, do you still need to think about it?
Everyone was stunned.
Jian Minghang said: "I don't need to think about it, this must be someone sent by the envoys of the eight countries to attack us, and they want to burn us to death!
Qi Minghao said: "Needless to say, the envoys of the Eight Kingdoms won without a fight, and by the way, they framed the emperor of Chengyuan State, aroused the anger of the people, led to a mutiny or a civil mutiny, and reaped the benefits!
"The envoys of the Eight Nations are really sinister, this is to kill two birds with one stone!"
"The mind is too poisonous!"
A person slammed into Gu Sheng's body from behind, and Gu Sheng turned around to support this person.
"King Guyang, you have to think of a way, if you go on like this, everyone will die! We must work together, otherwise everyone will die, you can't just bear the title of a prince, you have no action, and you don't have any ability to save your life in fire and water, since you are the king of Guyang, then you have the responsibility to bear this responsibility." "This person is Han Jianxin.
Gu Sheng pushed Han Jianxin aside.
Han Jianxin pulled Gu Sheng, "You are the King of Guyang," and pointed at Jian Mingyue again, "You are the King of Li Nan!"
Pointing to himself," The three of us are the only three exempt bachelors since the founding of the Chengyuan Kingdom, the three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, we have to think of a way, we must save people, this must be a conspiracy, Your Majesty will not let us burn to death like this, once we die here today, there will be rumors all over the world, I think this should be a conspiracy of the Eight Nations Envoy Group, let the people of Chengyuan Kingdom and His Majesty the Emperor fight first, maybe there is no need for the Eight-Nation Coalition to fight over, we have already fought and killed each other, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army took advantage of the weakness to enter, and it was easy to take the Chengyuan Kingdom๏ผโ
Gu Sheng nodded, "It's not stupid!"
Han Jianxin glared, he was born in a big family, and several uncles in the family were all officials, and he would always have some insight into state affairs and discuss them with his nephews and nephews in the family, and there would still be these insights!
"You think you have a brain!"
This Han Jianxin is a man with a poisonous mouth, but he is actually a good son of a family in his heart.
Jian Mingyue pulled Gu Sheng, "Stop arguing!
The wind blows the flames, licking everyone's exposed skin with a scorching temperature, bringing the piping heat of the barbecue.
The hair was bent up in the flames.
Gu Sheng took a look, stroked his palms and jumped onto the big vat beside him, and stepped on the edge of the vat with his legs steadily.
"Listen, listen, listen, I have a way to save everyone, I have a way to save myself! If you want to survive, listen to me! If you don't want to live, you can do it!"
As soon as these words came out, the scholars in the courtyard immediately stopped in disheveled clothes, and involuntarily approached Gu Sheng.
Not for anything else, who doesn't want to live.
Besides, Jian Mingyue and Gu Sheng did save those students who were on fire just now, and they were all blindly obedient!
"Don't worry, someone will come to save us in a while, but before the person who saved us arrives, we still have to save our lives before we can wait for life. Gu Sheng continued.
"King Guyang, what do you want to say, just say, we are all grasshoppers on a rope now, no matter what, follow you to try, it is better to survive, if you die, it will be fate!" Someone loudly supported Gu Sheng!
"Why listen to him, he, the king of Guyang, has only been in office for a day, my life is mine, and I don't want to die with him!"
Gu Sheng glanced at the man, and the blood mark on his face was obvious, it turned out to be the second person who wanted to escape for his life just now.
This voice, he remembered, and it was this voice that made a few noises to confuse the public.
Han Jianxin shouted, "If you want to kill yourself, if you want to stay alive, I will be with King Guyang and King Li Nan, think about it, the imperial court will not send troops to save us, no matter what! There are still two princes here! Take 10,000 steps back, the emperor will not ignore the two princes, then we will follow the two princes, how much will we live!"
Together, there will be life.
Jian Mingyue also said: "Everyone, calm down, follow us or not, it doesn't matter to us, your life is your own, no one can make decisions for you, we just want to live!"
Many people hesitated, but more people still chose to stand behind Gu Sheng and Han Jianxin Jian Mingyue.
Only three or two people didn't choose a team in the end.
No matter.
If you want to die, who cares.
Gu Sheng jumped off the big tank, pointed to the water tank on the ground, and said: "The only thing that can save us here is these water tanks, we gather these water tanks in the yard into a circle, dig up the soil under the surrounding trees, wrap it in clothes, and soak it with water, this is the thing that extinguishes the fire, fence it around us, we stay in the middle of the water tank, cover our mouth and nose with our clothes dipped in water, and not be smoked, so that no collapsed houses can threaten us, because there are no roof beams in the yard, and they will not burn us here for the time being!" There were almost no walls in the middle of the courtyard, and there was nothing to burn, so if the fire did burn, we could rush out even if we soaked our clothes with water from the water tank, and I believe the fire would not have been so big at that time.
But I'm sure someone came to our rescue by then. As long as we hold out until help comes, we will survive. โ
Everyone couldn't help but nod, this method probably seemed to be the most reliable way.
Immediately everyone started to act, and the four or five bachelors couldn't lift a big vat, and Jian Mingyue, who was in a hurry, couldn't be a weak scholar. In the end, it was ten people who moved the vat and set up a large circle directly in the courtyard.
There is strength in numbers!
Almost two thousand test takers joined the battle, and soon the vats under the courtyard porch were moved to the courtyard, and the city was besieged into a circle, and all the vats were lifted over, and they were stacked into two layers.
Gu Sheng and Han Jianxin had already led people to wrap mud and sand in their clothes into a burden, soak it in the water tank, and stack it one by one to form an encirclement.
All the bachelors climbed over the gap in the vat and stood in the middle of the wet sandbags, because there were so many people, almost shoulder to shoulder, everyone had already torn off the hem of their clothes and made wet wipes to cover their mouths and noses, squatted in the gap, and some even sat directly on the ground, ignoring the slippery and muddy on the ground.
The few bachelors who were unwilling to follow the order just now were also mixed in the crowd in embarrassment.
No one cares about excluding them, and the value of life at this moment is as simple as living.
Everyone stared at the wall, which was completely engulfed in flames, and there would be fireballs just now, and even two people were hit by fireballs and burned.
But now it's quiet outside, and no one continues to smash fireballs in.
It seems that the bad people out there should retreat.
Gu Sheng held Jian Mingyue in his arms and protected Jian Mingyue, the possessiveness of that kind of protection was so strong that it almost made several people around him unable to look at it.
Although this person can be a prince, he can't be too blatant!
Even if Jian Mingyue is only eight years old, she is still a girl.
Han Jianxin couldn't stand it, "King Guyang, etiquette still has to be observed, King Li Nan is always a woman, there are so many people here, there are many people, if you are for the good of King Li Nan! It is better to pay attention to some, otherwise you will be harmful!"
This one is the most disciplined.
Gu Sheng was unmoved.
In such a situation, let him let go of Jian Mingyue and dream.
"I don't let go, who likes to say anything, just go and say, I don't care!"
Jian Minghang raised his fingers.
Domineering!
Unreasonable!
It's like a prince doing it!
Han Jian's heart was angry, "The prince can not follow the rules and ignore the lives of others?"
"The prince can do whatever he wants, the rules are for those who need to abide by the rules and want people to abide by them, I am the rules!"
Gu Sheng doesn't care, he is a prince, and he has to take care of a bunch of rules, so what do he have to do.
You can ask King Li Nan if she was killed by me!"
Han Jianxin looked at Jian Mingyue.
Jian Minghang turned his head to look away! I couldn't bear to watch Jian Mingyue hit Han Jianxin.
He and Qi Minghao had long been used to being hit by Jian Mingyue.
Jian Mingyue is Gu Strange's diehard.
If Gu Strange said that the sky was green and the clouds were black, it was estimated that Jian Mingyue would also agree and support.
Sure enough, Jian Mingyue replied loudly: "How come? King Guyang won't harm me, don't worry!"
Han Jianxin was dizzy.
What is this?
It's nosy to co-author!