Chapter 101: Zhu Mansion Walks the Water
The night is pitch dark, the wind is gusting outside, and the occasional rustle of leaves can be heard in the wind, giving people a pale and bleak eerie feeling.
At midnight, several black figures crossed the sky and entered the Zhu Mansion in Baihua Town, and after a while, wisps of white smoke rose from all corners of the Zhu Mansion, and then, the white eyes were replaced by dazzling firelight, and the figure instantly jumped out of the Zhu Mansion and disappeared not far away.
"Ahem, cough~! Wake up, sir, the house is on fire! A little concubine in a red belly pocket looked at the white smoke that kept coming in from the hall, and stretched out her hand to shake the sleeping landlord Zhu who was like a dead pig.
"Oh no, it's out of the water!"
"Hurry up and put out the fire!"
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Hearing the instant screams outside, the concubine looked at the landlord Zhu who was still snoring through the room, couldn't help sweating on her forehead, hurriedly got up to find a piece of clothing to wear, and took out a few hundred taels of silver tickets under the bed, and hurriedly put them into her chest.
"Master, it's on fire, get up quickly, it's too late!" The little concubine shook the body of the landlord Zhu again, and her tone was a little nervous and hurried.
Landlord Zhu felt that someone was arguing around him, and his breathing was becoming more and more difficult, so he suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the smoke in the house, and the beautiful concubine beside him was looking at him with an anxious face.
"Master, you're awake, quick! Let's get out of the window! When the little concubine saw that he was awake, her face was immediately happy, and she helped Landlord Zhu to the window, and the two climbed through the window to the outside.
I saw that the whole courtyard was in flames, and the landlord Zhu, who was still in a daze, saw that his face changed greatly, and he pushed away the beautiful concubine beside him, and ran towards his yard with strong steps.
Seeing that his yard had been burned to the ground at this time, only a pile of wooden frames remained, and he felt that his eyes were dark, "It's over!" Before he fell down again, he only had time to say these two words, and the person lost consciousness in an instant.
"Master, master, wake up!" Mrs. Zhu over there just ran over in a hurry, and just saw the picture of Landlord Zhu falling to the ground, and her face was suddenly shocked.
"Quick! Here, get water! ”
"The fire is heavier here, come here first!"
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Although everyone in the Zhu Mansion was trying their best to put out the fire, unfortunately, it was still too late......
After the landlord Zhu woke up, he saw the ruins in front of him, and immediately cried, "My silver! Oh my house! It's gone, there's nothing! Woo woo woo~! ”
He hid all the money in his cupboard, and his wife had told him to take it to the bank to save it, but because he felt that it was like putting it in someone else's hands, he always felt uneasy, so he put it in his cupboard, and now a torch burned it all out!
"Woo woo woo~! Sir, our son is gone! Mrs. Zhu was sad on the side, it turned out that Zhu Taijun was too dead to sleep, and the concubine next to him was too tired because of being tossed by him, and both of them slept to death, and they didn't know what was going on outside.
When Mrs. Zhu arrived, she saw that her son's house had been burned to ashes, but she didn't see her son outside, and she suddenly fainted in the dark, and when everyone extinguished the fire, only two charred corpses were brought out.
Those concubines and subordinates saw that the Zhu family had been burned down and the money was gone, and they all immediately rolled up the money that the Zhu landlord had rewarded them before and fled.
Mrs. Zhu shook her head and sighed when she looked at the scene in front of her, I'm afraid that it can't be separated from that little girl, right? My brother is only afraid that he will be kicked in the knife hole.
She doesn't have much feeling about Zhu Taijun's death, she really doesn't like that nephew, at a young age, she doesn't know anything, she will only indulge in the gentle countryside all day long like his father, and he is a lazy master.
If his younger brother hadn't had the rich property left to him by his father and aunt, he would have been living on the streets a long time ago!
"What's the use of crying, crying, now only I can take you two in, why don't you hurry back to Fucheng with me, do you still want to stay in this ruin?"
Mrs. Zhu looked at the two of them who were crying as if they were about to die, one kept crying for her son, and the other kept crying for silver, which really made her hate in her heart.
"Not leaving?" Seeing that Mrs. Zhu was already impatient, the two of them got up from the ground with grief on their faces.
Early the next morning, the news of Zhufu's water movement instantly spread throughout Baihua Town.
"Have you heard? That Zhu Mansion walked on the water yesterday, and I heard that a lot of people died, so I didn't dare to pass by from that side in the future! ”
"What do you know, I heard that only two people died, one is the son of the landlord Zhu, Zhu Taijun, and the other is his concubine!"
"What do you know, I heard that all the people in the Zhu Mansion were burned down, not a single person was alive, this morning the people from the Yamen went to see it, except for a ruin, there was not even a single figure, I heard that the people were burned to ashes!"
"Phew, it's good to be dead, this Zhu landlord used to do a lot of evil, and now he can't even look at it, so he will burn everyone to death."
"That's it, it's good to be dead!"
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Wushuang heard everyone talking about the Zhu Mansion along the way, and she was a little puzzled, who did this Zhu landlord offend besides himself? actually let that person do such a desperate job, it seems that this Zhu landlord has offended a lot of people! You don't have to do it yourself, just right, save a worry.
How did she know that the reason why that person did such a desperate job was not all because of her......
"Girl, you're finally here! Xiao Luo took those people back to Lingshan Village, and the ox cart left in the backyard also rushed back, leaving this kid here, saying that he was waiting for you to take him away! When Donald saw that Wushuang was coming, he immediately stroked his beard with a smile and said.
Wushuang glanced at Jiang Qi, who was standing beside Donald and kept his head down and didn't speak, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he originally wanted to cultivate him, but looking at his submissive appearance, he immediately dispelled this idea.
With his appearance, he is afraid that he will not be able to kill a chicken, let alone kill him, it seems that he can only send him to Fucheng to help his brother-in-law and uncle-in-law.
"Jiang Qi, do you know arithmetic?" Wushuang stared at him for a long time before asking.
"Yes, my father was a shopkeeper in a restaurant when he was alive!" Jiang Qi glanced up at her and replied.
Wushuang nodded secretly, that's good! At least he can have a good position for him, and although he is a little cowardly, he is quite kind, and his eyes are very clear, not like those who are cheating and cheating.
"In that case, you can clean up, and we will go to Fucheng now." Wushuang said lightly, many things have not been carried out yet, and even if she wants to go to Beijing, she can only delay it until later, for the sake of today, I hope that Xiao Luo can find someone for her as soon as possible.
Jiang Qi didn't ask anything, just obediently went into the previous ward and picked up his baggage and walked out.
"Grandpa Tang, we're one step ahead!" Wushuang said goodbye to Donald with a light smile, and Donald didn't say much, just stroked his beard and nodded, and watched the two walk out of the Rejuvenation Hall.