The housekeeper glanced at her and opened his mouth after consideration, "Just a few days ago, after the master came back from the Taimiao, he said, ......"

"Say what?" Yu Ruoxu had some bad premonitions in her heart.

"It's said that there is no money for this year."

Yu Ruoxu's heart sank, and the memories of the day when Taimiao begged for rain flooded back to his mind. She knelt in the apse for nearly three hours, but then she was gone.

She has always been a little lucky, thinking that she would just get past it, but she didn't expect that Yu Zhongjun would block a lot of punishments for her.

"Miss don't worry, fortunately, the situation in the Langzhong gold mine is not bad, and it is more than enough to cope with the current expenses." Seeing that she was silent, the housekeeper thought that his young lady was worried about the livelihood of the house, so he hurriedly spoke up and said with relief.

"It's me who is overthinking." Yu Ruoxu pulled out a smile, feeling a little nostalgic in her heart.

I don't know how many disasters Yu Zhongjun has hidden from her and blocked for her.

"That's right." Yu Ruoxu remembered the matter of visiting Zhou Yuanzhao, and ordered, "You will give me a post to the Zhou Mansion tomorrow, just say that I will visit on the third day of the next lunar month, and thank Lord Zhou for my father." “

"Yes." The butler answered.

This night was a little tossing and turning, and in the middle of the night, Yu Ruoxu really couldn't sleep, so she simply got up and lit the lamp, leaned on the bed and read a book. The night was like water, and she could faintly hear the breathing of Xiu'er outside, but for some reason, she was a little upset, and the words on the pages were dense, but she couldn't read a word.

"Miss, Miss!" Li Afu's loud voice came, and then there was a knock on the door hard, which startled Yu Ruoxu and Xiu'er, Xiu'er jumped up from the bed at once, and scolded while getting dressed, "Why are you so loud in the middle of the night?!" It's scary......"

"Miss, the water is running in the wing, and the master asked the little one to call Miss!" Li Afu's voice was also a little anxious. Yu Ruoxu was startled, closed the book with a "snap", put on his robe and ran out.

"Where's Daddy?" Yu Ruoxu remembered that Yu Zhongjun could barely see anything at night, and he didn't care about his disheveled and disheveled appearance, so he pulled Li Afu and asked urgently.

"Miss, don't panic, the master is resting in the patio in front. The little one will take Miss and Miss Xiu'er to find the master. After speaking, Li Afu stretched out his hand and wanted to pull Yu Ruoxu away. Yu Ruoxu was stunned, and took a step back like an electric shock, Xiu'er opened her eyes angrily on the side, "You are tired of life, you dare to pull Miss ......"

"Alright, let's go out first." Yu Ruoxu interrupted Xiu'er's words and said to Li Afu, "Xiu'er and I know how to go, you go to the wing room first to see if there is anything you need help with." “

Li Afu was a little stunned, and when he heard this, he nodded hurriedly, "The little one understands." After saying that, he pulled his legs and ran to the wing.

Yu Ruoxu took Xiu'er to the patio to find Yu Zhongjun, and along the way saw the family members carrying buckets, hurrying to the wing, and kept shouting loudly, "Go to the water-" She looked in the direction of the wing, the sky faintly greeted the orange fire, and there was also the sound of "crackling" burning wood and the screams of the maids and servants.

"Ruoxu!"

Yu Ruoxu saw Yu Zhongjun walking towards her in three steps and two steps under Pei Changyuan's support, and his big thick hand held her shoulder, "Are you okay?" Are there any injuries? Were you frightened? “

Yu Ruoxu saw that he was only wearing a robe, his brows were furrowed, and his fluttering eyes couldn't hide his anxious look, so he hurriedly comforted, "I'm fine, what about Daddy?" “

"After discovering the water for a long time, I immediately notified my father." Yu Zhongjun listened to her, although her breath was a little short, her voice was not weak, and her hanging heart could finally be put down.

"How did you get out of the water?" Yu Ruoxu looked at Pei Yuanyuan and asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know much about the little one, but I'm in charge of inspecting the study tonight, and it's about three o'clock in the ugly hour, and there was a commotion in the wing, and then I saw the fire." Pei Changchang replied.

Yu Ruoxu glanced at the fire on the side of the wing, the fire seemed to have been suppressed, but there was still smoke faintly, "Daddy, I want to go to the side room to see the situation." “

"Go ahead, be careful yourself." Yu Zhongjun knew that she couldn't rest assured, and her eyes couldn't see, so she had no choice but to agree.

After Yu Ruoxu instructed Pei Changchang to take care of Yu Zhongjun, he took Xiu'er to the side room.

The wing room is the place where the maids and ladies in the house live, located in the northwest corner of the entire Yu Mansion, and it is naturally more remote than the hall house. Yu Ruoxu saw many maids and servants standing aside with their faces covered in cigarette ash, and their trembling appearance made people feel pity.

"You, there's still a little fire over there, and another bucket of water will put it out completely!"

"And over there, you don't see it's still smoking!"

The housekeeper stood in the courtyard and loudly commanded the family and the rough mother-in-law to extinguish the fire, and the entire wing room and the courtyard behind it were almost burned to ruins, and from time to time there was the sound of the beams collapsing, and the choking smoke was billowing out of it, and everyone was in tears.

"Miss is here!" A maid saw Yu Ruoxu and Xiu'er coming from the direction of the study, and couldn't help shouting in surprise.

The housekeeper was stunned, and when he saw that Yu Ruoxu's hair hadn't had time to comb it, and he was wearing a crescent-colored robe and hurried over, he was suddenly startled, "Ouch, my miss, it's so messy here, why are you here?" ”

"How's it going here?" Yu Ruoxu asked bluntly.

"The fire has been suppressed, and the little one is sending someone to count the number of maids and daughters-in-law to see if there are any missing. As for this courtyard...... "the butler paused, "I'm afraid it will be ruined." “

Yu Ruoxu looked at the wing room that had been burned black, "There are still a few vacant rooms near the warehouse on the east side, you quickly ask someone to clean up and vacate them for living." “

"But that's our guest room......," the butler hesitated, "I'm afraid it's not right?" “

"Is it possible to let them sleep in the yard?" Yu Ruoxu asked rhetorically, "Let's do it." ”

"Little obedience!" The housekeeper couldn't help her stubbornness, so he could only turn around and instruct some rough mothers-in-law who seemed to be relatively sober, "Mother Zhang, Mother Li, you take a few people to the guest rooms in the East Courtyard to clean up, Miss said, everyone will be temporarily settled over there tonight!" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and said in unison, "Thank you, Miss!" Many people followed Mother Zhang and Mother Li to the East Courtyard, and at this time, a thin second-class maid suddenly screamed, "Where is Mother Liu?" Did everyone see Liu's mother? ”

Yu Ruoxu's heart sank, and she saw that everyone was shaking their heads, and some people were discussing, "That Mrs. Liu, who is chattering all day long, I don't know where to hide now to worship the wild immortals!" ”

"Butler, butler-" Li Afu staggered out of the house, his frightened voice trembling slightly, "There's a mother-in-law who died inside, ouch hey, that looks scared me to death, Amitabha Buddha ......"

"What is all this fuss about?!" When the housekeeper heard that the dead man was dead, he was horrified, "Which mother-in-law died inside?" ”

"How do I know this, I came here on the first day today, and I can't even recognize my face......" Li Afu's face was black from the smoke, but he couldn't hide his frightened look, "You better go in and have a look......"

The housekeeper was about to scold, when he saw Yu Ruoxu standing next to him with a pale face, he couldn't hold back his anger, and before he could say anything, he heard Yu Ruoxu say, "Are people burned and deformed?" ”

"Not really." Li Afu took a breath and replied, "It's the first room over there, it seems to have been smashed to death by the burned beams, and the eyes are wide, and it looks very terrifying......

"The first room?" Yu Ruoxu took a few steps inside, and Xiu'er hurriedly grabbed her, "Miss, it should be Mother Liu's room, didn't you come here once last time when we found out that there were little ghosts in the backyard?" That's where the slave remembers. ”

Yu Ruoxu took a closer look, although the entire wing room was scorched, but Liu's mother's room seemed to be particularly badly damaged, the doors and windows were burned to the core, and through the black windows, you could faintly see the burned beams and rafters inside.

"Who first discovered the fire?" Yu Ruoxu turned around and asked the bunch of maids.

"It's a slave." The thin maid who asked Liu's mother where she was going just now walked out of the crowd, "The slave maid is busy catching up with a pair of embroidery patterns tonight, so she slept late, and just turned off the lights and lay down, she smelled a smell of smoke." The slave was scared to death, and when she got up, she found that Liu's mother's house was on fire, and it burned to our side at once......"

As soon as they heard that the fire was burning from Liu's mother's house, everyone seemed to explode the pot, and a mother-in-law said hatefully, "This mother-in-law Liu really doesn't stop, she must be burning her hair again, and this time she burned us together!" ”

"Yes." Another mother-in-law chimed in, "I finally stopped for a while, but this time I started to have hysteria again, and I said that there are ghosts in the house again, and I secretly burned my hair to exorcise ghosts, and hid it thinking that we didn't know ......."

Yu Ruoxu had a headache when she heard the noise of the maids-in-law, and felt strange in her heart, but she was still a little angry, but she didn't expect Mother Liu to do these things secretly behind her back, "Xiu'er, let's go in and have a look." ”

"Miss!" When Xiu'er heard this, she was suddenly scared, "It's too dangerous inside, let's not go, slave maid......"

"Then you stay here, Ah Fu, you go with me." Yu Ruoxu ordered, "You won't and don't dare, right?" ”

Li Afu looked embarrassed, but still gritted his teeth, "The little one obeys orders!" ”

Yu Ruoxu nodded and followed Li Afu into the first room. Li Afu roughly cleared the window lattices and beams scattered on the ground, sorted out a narrow aisle, and stretched out his hand to point to a piece of ruins, "Miss, that woman is there." ”

Yu Ruoxu raised the lamp in his hand with difficulty, and although he was mentally prepared, he couldn't help but bluff.

Liu's mother was hit by a huge beam, the corners of her mouth were bloody, and her face was particularly hideous, and a small strand of scattered hair and burned candles could be seen not far from her. It's just that Liu's mother's eyes were in the direction of the window, staring like copper bells, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying.

"The little one is right, these eyes are too scary, and the little one who just came in and saw the death of this woman coldly, and his soul was scared out......" Li Afu chattered while chanting Amitabha Buddha on the side.

Yu Ruoxu was silent for a moment, and then said, "You can't let her corpse sit like this, you can ask a few more people to move this beam away and find a place to bury it." ”

This Liu's mother followed her and Yu Zhongjun from Langzhong to the capital, but she didn't expect to die in a foreign land in such a tragic situation.

"The little one understands." Li Afu nodded.

Yu Ruoxu glanced at the charred room again, then turned around and walked out.

It seems that Liu's mother accidentally ignited the house when she burned her hair, causing the fire in the wing room this time. It's just that she vaguely felt that something was wrong, and Mother Liu seemed to have seen something extremely terrible before she died, so she was so blind.

When she returned to the courtyard, she saw that the housekeeper was still waiting there, so she ordered, "You can prepare some silver taels and send them to Liu's mother's family in Langzhong." ”

"Yes." The housekeeper nodded, "By the way, Miss, those maids and wives have all gone to the East Courtyard to settle down." In addition, the small one has already sent someone to guard the door of the Yin Ya in Jingzhao Mansion, and when someone comes, he will report to the official immediately, and ask him to come over and take a look. ”

Yu Ruoxu nodded, "You worked hard tonight." “

"What did the young lady say?" The butler laughed.

She looked at the courtyard, and the maids and ladies had all gone to the east courtyard, so it seemed a little empty, leaving only Li Afu standing behind her. She felt a little strange and asked, "What about Ah Si?" Where did he go? “

"At that time, the yard behind the wing house also burned down, so let the little one go over there and have a look." The housekeeper was also a little puzzled, "This is strange, why has this kid been grinding for so long, and he still hasn't ......?"

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