Zhang Tieniu patted his leg and regretted: "Oops! There was a dead man lying on the lantern shelf outside the Wantong shop, and I looked through it, but I didn't find a stone jar underneath. Blame me, blame me, too careless! ”

He was not the only one who was careless, including Qi Shan, they only looked at the deceased who was lodging at the door, and did not realize that there was a small stone jar in the pile of lanterns under the deceased.

Xiao Ding was not injured, but He Siyuan was hit in the corner of the eye by someone else's elbow in the crowd, and his hand also drew a few wounds when turning the bamboo frame, and there were some dried blood stains on the brocade clothes.

Lu Xiaoyi kept holding Xiao Ding's hand, and this kind of surprise that was lost and recovered contained a strong fear, which made her unhappy at the moment, and she felt that her heart was full of pain. Xiao Geng also snuggled up and called the second sister.

At this time, Xu Wu, who went to look for someone, came back, he just went to one of the largest human dents in the city, but he didn't expect that the kind words could not be asked, and he was angry with the evil men under the people's teeth, and he quickly knocked down the front one, and then escaped. At this time, seeing that Xiao Ding had come back safely with the door of Buzhuang open, Xu Wu was very relieved, and only said: "It's good to come back!" "There is not a word about the thrill of his invasion of people's teeth.

Yu Liang and Qi Feng came back together, followed by a group of He family members. It turned out that Yu Liang first went to He Fu to inquire, and learned that the third young master of the He family had not returned, so he informed the He family of what happened.

Now Xiao Ding and He Siyuan are back without danger. Both sides rejoiced. When saying goodbye, Lu Zhong and Qi Shan thanked He Siyuan again and led everyone back to the Qi family's shop.

Lu Zhong and the others had already discussed it along the way, and they couldn't tell Yulan Xiaoding about his loss, especially telling Xiao Geng not to say anything about it.

Yulan was already anxious like an ant on a hot pot, and she didn't know what was going on, and then she heard the sound of someone running and exclaiming outside the courtyard, and guessed that something must have happened in the city, although she was anxious but she was still sensible. Thinking of Lu Zhong and Qi Shan and the others together. Even if something happens, she can come back safely, she is a woman, and it is impossible for her to go out alone late at night to find someone, so she can only wait quietly.

When Qi Shan and the others appeared in the backyard of the shop. Magnolia was startled. Go out and get dressed up. At this time, they were all embarrassed, and Qi Feng was the worst, as if he had been beaten by someone. His face was swollen and his clothes were barefoot, "What's going on?" Magnolia exclaimed.

Lu Zhong stepped forward to help her, "The lantern festival suddenly went out of the water in the middle of the festival, and everyone was so frightened that they fled in all directions, fortunately, Brother Qi took us to hide in a small alley, and waited for the crowd to disperse, and the official came back after interrogation." ”

"Gone out of the water?" Yulan breathed rapidly, "I hold a lantern festival every year, how can I say that I will go to the water?" ”

Lu Zhong said: "Who knows! Just as I was looking at it, someone shouted that the water was gone, and everyone was crazy and seemed to be running around, so we should hide quickly, otherwise we will suffer. Lu Zhong didn't say that those who were trampled to death and injured were afraid of scaring Yulan.

Lu Xiaoyi said: "Mother, Uncle Qi, they have worked all night to protect us, let them rest quickly, and I will tell you more about tonight's events tomorrow." ”

Yulan nodded, and thanked Qi Shan and the others, Qi Shan said ashamedly: "No need to say thank you, I invited you here, I should protect you thoroughly, don't rest early, and I'll talk about it tomorrow if you have something." ”

The full moon has set in the western sky, most of this long night has passed, and in the rest of the time, no one has closed their eyes to sleep, even Xiao Geng, who has the best sleep, wakes up from time to time, holding Xiao Ding's arm.

The rooster in the city is as dutiful as the rooster in the country, crowing when the time comes.

The eventful night finally passed, Lu Xiaoyi couldn't sleep and turned over, his eyes were sore and sleepy, but his mood was extremely relaxed, seeing that Xiao Ding was about to get up, Xiao Yi hurriedly held her down: "You sleep more." ”

Xiao Ding shook his head, he must get up.

Lu Xiaoyi pointed at Xiao Geng and said, "Don't move, Xiao Geng just fell asleep, don't wake him up." ”

Xiao Ding glanced at the little brother beside him, and had no choice but to give up.

"Uncle Qi, they're tired all night, I'll go boil some porridge and let them get up for a hot breakfast." Lu Xiaoyi put on his shoes, tiptoed out the door, and saw that Wang Dongmei had gotten up, the two looked at each other and smiled, and went to the stove room to make breakfast together.

The surplus food also came later, helping to carry water and chop firewood.

Lu Xiaoyi was very familiar with the Qi family's stove, and together with his aunt, he boiled mung bean porridge, steamed small meat buns with green onions, and cut some shredded sour radish.

After boiling hot water and taking it to the front yard, I saw that everyone had already gotten up, Qi Shan was lifting a big stone on the pier, Zhang Tieniu was playing with his nine-ring knife, and Xu Wu was practicing with the wooden stake, and there seemed to be nothing abnormal.

Wang Dongmei went to the East House with water, and Lu Xiaoyi beckoned Qi Shan and the others to wash and eat.

Qi Shan yelled at the West House: "Rabbit cub, don't you get up yet?" Time to eat. ”

Qi Feng quickly came out of the West House, dressed neatly, obviously he got up early and was embarrassed to come out, the redness and swelling on his face had not subsided, and he looked at Qi Shan with a silent face.

Qi Shan glanced at him and reprimanded: "Manly man, dare to act, change when you know your mistakes, don't be like those who pretend to be in their heads, they don't repent when they make mistakes!" ”

Qi Feng nodded, "Dad, the child knows that he is wrong!" ”

"This is the last time, the next time you make the same mistake, you will get out of this house!" Qi Shan moved the big stone under his feet back to its original position, patted the mud on his hands, "What are you still doing in a daze, fetch water for Lao Tzu." ”

Qi Feng sighed, and hurriedly ran to the stove room, and Qi Shan followed up with a sentence: "From today onwards, two hundred piers will lift boulders every day!" ”

Qi Feng almost fell, but in the end he didn't complain and took the initiative to fetch hot water for his father.

After breakfast, the Lu family was about to say goodbye, but Lu Xiaoyi secretly said to Lu Zhong: "Dad, last night thanks to Xiao Ding, the young master of the He family, he was safe and sound, we should buy some gifts today and send them to officially express our gratitude to the old man and wife of the He family." ”

Lu Zhong patted his head, "I was thinking about this last night, why didn't I forget it today, fortunately, you reminded me, I'll buy it." ”

Qi Shan also wanted to go after learning about it, and he was also grateful to the young master of the He family, if it weren't for his cleverness, Qi Feng would have committed a big deal this time, so the two went out together to buy gifts and give gifts. Zhang Tieniu and Xu Wu went out to inquire about the news, after all, Yifu City had not had such a serious incident of casualties in the Lantern Festival in all these years.

Qi Feng stayed in the shop to sell cakes, Yu Liang and Lu Yong went to help, and the rest of the women and children stayed in the backyard to talk about last night.

Lu Xiaoyi gave a lecture, Wang Dongmei occasionally added, and Xiao Ding and Xiao Geng did not speak.

Yulan was shocked when she heard this, stroked her chest and gasped, "I'm scared to death, something like this happened to the good lantern fair, how is it good to kill and injure so many people!" ”

"The lanterns of Yifu City are famous far and wide, how many people come here, plus there are so many people in the city, the entire West Street is crowded with people, and it is difficult to even turn around. As soon as they heard that the water was gone, everyone panicked, and how many people were squeezed down and trampled under their feet, and they were trampled to death. The more Wang Dongmei spoke, the more frightened she became, and finally her voice trembled.

Magnolia hurriedly recited Amitabha.

Lu Xiaoyi gritted his teeth and said: "I don't know who shouted to go out of the water and killed so many people!" ”

Wang Dongmei scolded: "Those who went to hell eighteen times did not go to the water at all." ”

Yulan was puzzled: "I also wonder, it is said that West Street is so prosperous, once the water and fire are in the sky, I should be able to see it when I stand in the courtyard!" ”

Lu Xiaoyi said: "I came to see later, many shops along the street are equipped with buckets, once the lantern fires should be extinguished in time, the man shouted to take the water, and the people around him also shouted, and fled in panic, this matter is definitely not so simple." ”

Yulan said: "Someone must take the opportunity to make trouble, and the people in the government are not stupid, they will definitely be able to arrest this wicked person." ”

"Yes, blood debts and blood repayment, killing so many people, he must be punished with death." Wang Dongmei hated.

The results of the inference of several women in a few words coincided with the news circulating in the streets and alleys of the city, and they all guessed that someone did it deliberately, and as for who did it deliberately, it was necessary for the people of the government to investigate it carefully.

Lu Zhong and Qi Shan came back after sending gifts, and it was still early, so they took their family to say goodbye, and Qi Shan sent Zhang Tieniu to send a trip, and they would come back together after replenishing the goods in the afternoon.

Out of the Qishan shop, along the way, people in twos and threes gathered together to talk about last night's events, if there were soldiers patrolling over, everyone was immediately silent, and when the soldiers went away, they continued to mumble.

Lu Xiaoyi found that the number of soldiers patrolling today had increased, especially near the city gate, there were two neat rows of saber soldiers standing, and the people who went out of the city were silent.

Yesterday, in order to see the lanterns, there was a long queue of people entering the city. Today, like hiding from the plague god, people out of the city lined up again. The officers and soldiers stationed at the city gate were very strict in checking, looking through all the baskets and baskets, and checking all the inside and outside of the car, which made people panic and wanted to go out of the city as soon as possible.

Lu Xiaoyi lifted the curtain and looked out of the carriage, only to see that the city gate was crowded, but there was no sound, and he could vaguely hear things such as: Stop! Get down! Open it! Release! and other cold and fierce words.

The officers and men inspected very carefully, and the speed slowed down as a matter of course, and the people in line were anxious, but they did not dare to complain in the slightest.

Lu Xiaoyi saw a middle-aged man carrying a burden standing outside the carriage, close to the carriage, and followed the carriage in parallel. A small snail crawled on the middle-aged man's flat shoulder, leaving a thin strip of mucus where it crawled, which reflected a faint fluorescence after drying.

It was such a snail, which had been behind the pole before, and now it had climbed in front of the pole, and the speed was even faster than the carriage in which she was riding. It's really unbearable for uncles and aunts, Lu Xiaoyi reached out and picked off the snail that was close at hand, and the little thing shrank into its shell in fright.

So, the three sisters and brothers were bored watching a little snail and waiting to get out of the city.

Finally, when it was the turn of the officers and soldiers guarding the city to shout "stop" to the carriage she was sitting in, the people in the carriage did not wait for him to shout "come down" and left the carriage one after another.

Everyone who left the city breathed a sigh of relief, and there was a feeling that they would never want to enter the city again. (To be continued.) )