After a few days, there was nothing to do, this night, a rare good sleep, suddenly, there was a sound of banging pots and gongs in the distance, this big night, who is still beating the gong, Qian Yuning was a little irritable, turned over and continued to sleep face in. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not wanting to get louder and louder, mixed with noisy shouts, and what was said didn't seem to be very clear, Qian Yuning opened his eyes and shouted, "Xia Ying, Xia Ying." "It's Xia Ying on an errand tonight, there was an answer in the ears outside, and after a while, I saw a little firelight move in, Xia Ying came in with a wax table and lit the candles on the table in the room, and the bright firelight illuminated the whole room at once.

"What's going on out there? Noisy. Qian Yuning frowned and asked Xia Ying, who was rubbing her eyes with one hand.

Xia Ying yawned: "Auntie, the slave doesn't know either, or Auntie, you should sleep first, and the slave and maid go out to have a look." ”

As he was talking, there was a knock on the door outside, "Xia Ying, Xia Ying, is my aunt awake?" "It's Grandma Sun's voice.

Xia Ying took the wax table in her hand to open the door, the door creaked open, and Grandma Sun hurriedly ran in, panting and said to Qian Yuning: "Oh no, auntie, there is water outside, the slave saw Liu Shishi when she opened the door, and asked him what was wrong, he said that it was Qingzhuyuan, he ran fast, and was about to inform the little marquis." ”

Qian Yuning asked, "Where can I inform the little marquis?" ”

Mama Sun hesitated: "This, the slave didn't ask." ”

Qian Yuning asked again: "Have the two children woken up?" ”

Grandma Sun continued to hesitate and be dumbfounded: "The slave hasn't had time to see it yet." ”

Qian Yuning simply got out of bed, took a piece of clothing and put it on, and asked Xia Ying to comb her a simple bun at will, and took Xia Ying and Grandma Sun to see the two children first, fortunately, the children were sleeping well, and there was such a big movement at this time, Jing did not wake them up.

Stretched out his hand and combed the small quilt that slipped off their bodies, covering their stomachs, although the summer weather is hot, but there are some cold at night, and the children's stomachs must be covered with a thin quilt anyway, otherwise they will still get cold and diarrhea.

Qian Yuning pointed at Lichun and Fang and said, "You two look at the second son and the third girl, I'll go out for a while." Then he said to the others: "The two grandmothers are guarding the courtyard with Dongxue, waking up a little, I will take Xia Ying and Xiaoman out to see and come back, so big movement, I don't know what Qingzhuyuan has burned, if there is anything wrong with people, I have to go and see." ”

Qian Yuning commanded, and there was always a bad feeling in his heart, which made people feel uneasy.

After explaining the things in the yard, Qian Yuning took Xia Ying and Xiaoman out, and after going out, she told Mama Liu to close the gate of the yard, and said: "Close the door quickly, latch, you are just guarding in the hall, wake up, if I come back, I will knock on the door, don't fall asleep, watch the people in the yard, no one is allowed to sneak out to see the excitement, you know?" Mama Liu answered, closed the door inside, Qian Yuning stood by the door, heard the sound of the door bolting inside, and then took Xiaoman and Xia Ying to walk towards Qingzhuyuan with confidence.

Along the way, a few people ran over in a panic from their side, all holding basins for washing their faces and feet, and some people were holding large clay pots, the more they walked towards the Qingzhu Garden, the more they could hear the noisy sound, and from a distance, Qian Yuning saw that the Qingzhu Garden was still burning, and it seemed that it had burned a third of it, and she quickly accelerated the pace on her feet.

The green bamboo garden is planted with all kinds of bamboo, live in the summer, the most cool but, the garden covers an area of one acre more, there are more than 30 rooms, when repairing is divided into the winter courtyard, the west courtyard, the rooms and patterns on both sides are the same, open the door opposite in the form of a triple courtyard, enter the door is a separate small courtyard, go out to the right across the east courtyard, go out to the left is the gate of the green bamboo garden.

Walking halfway down the road, Qian Yuning looked up and saw that in the dark night, the direction of Qingzhuyuan was blazing, reflecting half of the Hou Mansion.

Walking a little further, you can see that half of the west courtyard has been burned, and now even the east courtyard is also on fire, the west courtyard is Xiangmo, and the east courtyard is Xiangshu, and I don't know what happened to them.

Walk closer, you can hear the sound of hoarse screaming for help in the green bamboo garden, now the gate of the green bamboo garden is burned, Xiangshu Xiangmo plus Sister Yu and the maids and women waiting in the yards on both sides, a total of seventeen people are trapped in the fire.

The people inside couldn't get out, desperately shouting for help in the fire, and the terrible shouts and cries were endless, making people feel frightened when they heard it. Qian Yuning listened attentively, and could vaguely hear the crying of children inside, very familiar, it was Sister Yu'er's voice, she couldn't help but feel a little flustered, such a young child......

There were originally a few large water tanks outside the walls of the green bamboo garden and in the yard, but recently the sun was big, the water vapor evaporated quickly, and the water in the tank dried up, so no one added it to it.

This bit of water is obviously not enough to see, fortunately, not far from the Qingzhu Garden is the lotus lake, the people lined up to fetch water from the lake to fight the fire, and the work was in full swing, roughly calculated, there were about 100 people, and some were on the way, and they had not yet arrived.

The people, regardless of the maids and women, men and women, were all shouted by the wooden housekeeper to put out the fire, and everyone shouted and rushed over, but the summer weather was already hot and dry, and the fire was very fierce, and when the people came, the fire had burned half the sky.

When Qian Yuning came, Zhu Rong and Chunjuan had already arrived, and the two were directing their subordinates to put out the fire, and the others were the Hou, Song, and Shen families, and now they were surrounding Zhu Rong, looking at the raging fire in front of them with a frightened face, and they didn't see the two sisters Meiyun and Meiyu.

After saving for a long time, the fire still did not have the momentum to be extinguished, but it burned bigger and bigger, although it suppressed the flames for a while, but it will soon burn again, and it has no effect at all.

The little marquis arrived in time and saw that everyone was pouring water into the fire, but the fire was still burning vigorously and had no momentum to be extinguished.

He stood aside and looked at it, and immediately called all the housekeepers and guards at the scene, as long as it was a man, and began to do it, tearing down the houses and walls around the fire that were not yet burning, and digging up the bamboo and some other trees that were not yet burned. The women, on the other hand, continued to fetch water from the lotus lake to extinguish the fire.

In this way, the fire was left with nothing to burn, and with the constant watering, the fire was quickly brought under control.

Seeing that the fire was small, the little marquis summoned a few Hou Mansion guards, asked the maids to pour the water in the basin on them, and after getting wet, he asked someone to bring a few thick cotton clothes for winter, and one person wrapped himself in a wet thick cotton coat and rushed into the fire to save people.

He also got one himself to wear in, and was pulled by the wooden butler, who was in tears, begging: "Little Marquis, you can't go!" If you make a mistake, the life of the old slave will be explained! Little Hou Ye, you can't go, there is a big fire inside, and the beams of the house have been burned again, what if you want to be accidentally smashed. ”

Seeing that the fire was getting smaller and smaller, and there were cries for help from inside, mixed with the frightened crying of children, Cui Shuyan listened to her daughter's crying that was getting weaker and weaker, raised her foot and kicked over the wooden butler, put on a cotton coat and jumped in.

At this time, the sky has begun to light up, and there are more and more people fetching water to water the fire, and as pots of lake water are poured on it, the fire is finally getting smaller and smaller.

At this time, the old Hou Ye and Mrs. Hou also rushed to hear the news, and stepped forward to ask, the little Hou Ye entered, and the two of them immediately became anxious, like ants on a hot pot, Mrs. Hou Ye was the first to get angry, and dragged the poor wooden butler down and beat the twenty boards. The old marquis kept walking around with his hands behind his back, stopping from time to time to look inside. (To be continued.) )