Chapter 028: Arson
In the depths of the bamboo forest, there are hidden villains, the purpose is unknown, but it is definitely not good for the Chen family.
Chen Qiuniang analyzed the shape and made a decision in an instant: sacrifice this bamboo forest, make things bigger, force the gangsters to retreat, and keep the family temporarily safe.
So, she remained silent, as if nothing had happened, still holding a lantern in one hand and patting the fallen leaves of the bamboo path with a wooden stick in the other, and babbling: "I'm not afraid of anything." β
In the eyes of outsiders, her actions are just a little girl walking at night to embolden herself. But she silently remembered the pile of bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest. Yesterday, when she was free, she took Qiusheng and Qiuxia to gather the bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest into a few bamboo groves, and waited for the sun to bask for a few more days, and then put them back in the kitchen to cook on the fire.
Chen Qiuniang turned a clump of bamboo, got closer to the man, pretended to fall next to the pile of dried bamboo leaves, and shouted, "Oops, I fell to death", but her hand took advantage of the situation to let the lamp light the dried bamboo leaves.
"Ah, it's on fire." She pretended to be panicked and muttered to herself, and immediately got up and stepped on the fire indiscriminately, as if trying to extinguish the fire, but in fact she pushed the dried bamboo leaves into the fire to make the fire burn even stronger.
When the fire got bigger, she was like a errant child who couldn't hold the fire, and immediately ran again. Chen Qiuniang tried her best to stumble in the night road due to fear. Then, she fell again in a hurry, and set fire to another pile of bamboo leaves
She did the same, and lit four piles of bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest. The bamboo leaves burn quickly and spread after a while. The whole bamboo forest was bright, and the fire launched a fierce attack on the green bamboo leaves, and in the confrontation with each other, the smoke rolled out of the bamboo forest was scattered everywhere.
The fire, the smoke, almost overturned the entire bamboo forest.
Chen Qiuniang covered her nose and hurriedly ran to the ridge outside the bamboo forest, shouting in horror as she ran: "Come on, come on, put out the fire." Fight the fire. β
She ran a few steps, staggered a few steps and fell to the ground in pretending to be afraid, and then struggled to get up. In fact, the moment she fell to the ground, she saw someone coming from the twisting ridge. She looked at the way the man came through the faint light of the sky, as if he had run from Liu Cheng's house.
"What's wrong?" Someone asked. It was a quiet male voice, using the Shuzhong dialect, but it was obviously not the accent of the Meizhou region. Chen Qiuniang heard that the person was the man in black who sold snakes.
Someone in Zhang's hunting team was injured and was treated at Liu Cheng's house, and this person must have secretly inquired about the news to find out if the injured person was Zhang Ci.
But secretly probe, why did he expose himself in front of him. Isn't this too much to look down on children?
"What's wrong?" The man approached and asked in a low voice.
"I, I don't know." Chen Qiuniang's tone was full of horror. The lamp in her hand had long since been extinguished by her and hidden in the wheat bushes in the field. However, by the light of the nearby bamboo forest, she vaguely saw this person's face, and it was indeed the uncle.
"Don't be afraid, the fire is not big, someone will come to put out the fire in a while, it's fine." This person comforted her, but he stood beside her, obviously not meaning to go to the fire, let alone to see the orphans and widows of the Chen family.
Your uncle, I dare you to come as soon as possible, but he didn't come to put out the fire, and he claimed that the government was catching fast. Chen Qiuniang secretly despised this person in her heart, but she pretended to be very scared on her face, her body trembled, and she cried and said: "I'm afraid, my brother, grandma is still at home, my family, bamboo forest, no, no money." β
The man didn't speak, but he bent down and pulled her up from the ground, and she stood up, but with a "ahh
"Girl, what's wrong with you?" The man asked.
"The wound hurts, and when I ran just now, it seems to have hung on the wound." Chen Qiuniang replied timidly, her tone becoming more and more pitiful.
"Wounds? What injuries did you have? The man's questioning tone was suddenly a little unpleasant.
Chen Qiuniang supported one foot and held the stick she had used to beat the grass and scare the snake with one hand, and chattered: "Uncle, it's the bite of the snake." Liu Langzhong cut the snake venom for me, and it hasn't completely healed yet, so I just went to Xiao Liu Langzhong to get today's medicine. He went up the mountain to collect medicine during the day. I just looked at the fire, and ran in a hurry, as if I had been hung up by something. β
She chattered for a while, told the origin of the wound, and complained aggrievedly: "Uncle, don't make fun of me." Everyone said that it was ominous that I was even dead and still alive. This is known to all the dogs and cubs within a radius of three hundred miles. Don't say you're still living in the village. β
The man's back was in the direction of the bamboo forest, and the firelight was behind him, and his face was deliberately hidden by him. He stood there upright, letting Chen Qiuniang chatter.
"You lied, you said someone would come to put out the fire." Seeing that the other party was indifferent, Chen Qiuniang finally cried, "Look at the fire is getting bigger and bigger, my family is in danger." β
"It's not dangerous. You wait here, someone will come soon, I'll go first. He was stunned for a moment, and finally said this.
"Hey, uncle-" Chen Qiuniang shouted, originally wanting to pull the corner of his clothes, pretending to be innocent and aggrieved and afraid, but she shouted, and the man ran through a few wheat fields and disappeared in the woods not far away.
This guy is really good. It's just that his actions tonight are really contrary to common sense. Someone from the Zhang family's hunting team was injured and was treated at Liu Langzhong's house. He is the one who chased and killed Zhang Ci, he lost his target, and he wanted to go to Liu's house to find out the news, it must be a secret operation (well, looking at his night clothes, you know that he must be secretly watching), then, he doesn't have to come out, anyway, someone must come to put out the fire. Besides, since it came out, it didn't put out the fire
This man behaved strangely, selling a worthless snake for silver, and appeared in front of her house in the morning like a nervous man, and so many other acts at this time.
Chen Qiuniang couldn't guess it, but it seemed that this person was harmless at the moment, so she put it aside and didn't waste her energy for him for the time being. Now and now, what needs to be done is to put out the fire. So, she opened her throat and shouted: Come on, help, save our family.
Her acting skills are excellent, and her crisp children's voice is extremely frightened, and she tears a little hoarse in that crisp life. It sounds like this kid is screaming extremely miserably and terrified.
After a while, the entire willow village was alarmed. The first to come was the nearest Zhangfu hunting team on duty outside Liu Cheng's house, Chen Qiuniang's heart-rending cry alarmed the leader of the hunting team, so he ordered a third of the people to be dispatched to fight the fire. After that, the men, women and children of Liucun all came to fight the fire with utensils, and the village chief also went to the scene with crutches to command.
The fire was quickly extinguished. The village chief was still not at ease, so he asked a few experienced men in the village to inspect the bamboo forest and thoroughly extinguish the place where there might be a smoldering fire.
After being busy like this for nearly an hour, the fire was extinguished, and almost the entire Liucun was on a few ridges in front of Chen Qiuniang's house. After discussing for a while, there was no result, but in the end, it was Li Butcher who raised his voice and reintroduced the ominous identity of Chen Qiuniang's corpse under the pretext of the fire.
"Yes, this fire came for no reason. And in front of her house again. Wan Sanniang raised her voice and said.
"Look, how many people have come to this willow village recently? In the past, I couldn't come to a foreigner for a year or two. Li Butcher continued.
"According to me, if you didn't burn her in the first place, you just gave her a blessing." Another man hid in the crowd and said aloud.
After two fields, Chen Qiuniang could still hear the willow dog next door to the village chief barking. She ignored it on her face, and only stood beside the village chief, limping and sobbing, but she thought in her heart: dare to seize the opportunity to Yin Lao Niang. There are times when you kneel and beg the old lady.
"It's just that I didn't burn her, which is a blessing. I should be grateful to leave. Someone else chimed in.
Chen Qiuniang cried and said, "Grandpa the village chief, I am also from Liucun." My grandmother's ancestors have always been in Liucun for hundreds of years. β
Before the village chief could speak, Chen Qiuniang cried again, and her voice became louder, she said, "Why am I ominous?" Li Daochang is a cultivated person, and the master is also a celebrity, and he is a famous family. You did an exorcism for me that day, and you all saw it. And these days, Daochang Li also helps me transfer every day. Now you are also throwing this inexplicable fire monster on my head, are you suspicious of Daochang Li? β
When Chen Qiuniang said this, she stopped, looked at the crowd, and then stared at Li Yinyang and asked, "Daochang Li, haven't you tried your best?" Yanagimura believes in you like that, and I believe in you too. β
Ya, sprinkle the old lady's charm water every day, and drag you down to black.
When Li Yinyang heard this, he immediately exploded and screamed, "How is it possible? I tried my best. This baby's anger is almost gone. β
"And tonight's fireβ" someone immediately retorted.
"It's caused by dry weather. Isn't that exactly what happened in the past three months? Have you all lived in vain? Ma Si snorted coldly and said unhappily.
Li Yinyang seized the opportunity to clear his suspicion and immediately echoed Ma Si. At this time, the village chief also made a summary and said that this was a fire caused by dry weather, and everyone had recently paid attention to fire prevention, and everyone dispersed.
People just talked about it and dispersed, anyway, they were still worried about Chen Qiuniang's corpse.
Chen Qiuniang had to touch the lantern hidden in advance, and returned home with a lame leg to comfort her younger siblings and grandmother, and then touched the door of Liu Cheng's house.
She just walked in front of Liu Cheng's vegetable field, but was stopped and scolded for not moving forward. She said crisply: "I came to find Brother Cheng to get medicine." Brother Cheng said that my injuries still need to be dressed. β
"I'll come back tomorrow." The man scolded.
Chen Qiuniang was aggrieved and showed that her leg hurt a lot. The man drew his sword and came out to block Chen Qiuniang, and said viciously: "Come back tomorrow, if you take a step forward now, don't blame me for being polite." β
"Third child, this is just a child, you stop it, why do you say such cruel words." Said another person patrolling next to him.
"Don't forget, over the years, have we suffered less from our children? The kindness of a woman. The third man's tone was cold.
Chen Qiuniang just stepped back and shouted crisply: "Brother Cheng, I'll get the medicine, they won't let me in." β
In fact, Chen Qiuniang also knew that the excuse of taking medicine was not too good, if the other party forbade outsiders to enter, she could ask Liu Chengbei to take it out. Of course, she shouted this, one is to round the lie she just told to the man in black, and the other is to see how the people inside will react.
When she walked over here and saw that this was almost a standing guard posture surrounding Liu Cheng's family, she didn't expect that the other party might let her in.
"I'll get you the medicine you want. You're standing here. Sure enough, the patrolling man next to him said.
"Oh, there's Uncle Law." Chen Qiuniang's tone was well-behaved. In my heart, I sighed that this person was quite clever.
"Let her in, Dr. Liu said that her injuries need to be examined before she can be dispensed." Someone in the room commanded aloud, and the voice was quiet, with a northernal accent, and it was the young man who was in the lead.
Hey! I didn't expect to be able to go in. I don't know if it's Yoo Seung's credit or something else. Chen Qiuniang was really surprised.
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