At that time, Huiwei was selecting side dishes in front of the ingredients table, and Zhao He was standing in front of the wooden pier on the side to cut vegetables.

Su Miao listened to Su Yan's words, was stunned, squatted down to check the stove, the fire in the stove had risen, but it was not burning too much, she muttered:

"Could it be that it's been raining heavily for the past two days, and it's too damp in the stove?" She sniffed, but felt that the smell of flames wafting from the stove was a little strange, not like the normal smell of flames.

There were some doubts in his heart, Su Yan had already lit a firewood outside the stove, fanned the fire hard, and said with a smile:

"Maybe, it's been so humid for the past two days, I'll order one more to burn, just burn it dry." As he spoke, he threw the firewood into the stove.

At this time, Su Miao's heart spontaneously had a bad premonition, and the more pungent smell wafted out of the stove, which made her mind flash, like the smell of firecrackers during the New Year. Who knew that it was still a step slower, the firewood in Su Yan's hand had fallen into the stove, Su Miao only had time to push his hand away, and in the next second, a long tongue of fire burst out of the stove violently, licking her hand fiercely with lightning speed, the piercing, piercing pain made her frown, this is a pain she has never experienced before, because she was so surprised and painful, she couldn't even let out a cry of pain!

Su Yan shouted "Second Sister" in a panic, subconsciously stretched out his hand, and hurriedly pulled Su Miao's hand out of the raging fire, faintly, the smell of burnt skin and flesh came!

Su Miao hadn't had time to react to what was going on, and she hadn't had time to check how terrifying the injury was. It all came so quickly and so suddenly, and there was a sudden rumbling vibration in the hearth, as if a thousand elephants were stepping on the ground. At this time, the stove made of green bricks suddenly became a monster in the eyes of people, Su Miao's intuition was not good, and before she had time to investigate what was going on, she reflexively pulled Su Yan and ran out!

Before he had run two steps, he heard a deafening explosion behind him, and only heard a "bang", and a violent shock wave hit from behind. Su Miao's mind was stiff, it wasn't that she didn't know what was happening at that moment, although the whole person was blank. She subconsciously guessed something, so she instinctively grabbed Su Yan, threw him to the ground, and protected him with her body!

It's not intentional. It's just an instinct. In her heart, she has always regarded Su Yan as her most precious brother, so at the moment of the explosion, when she knew that there was no way to escape, she reflexively protected Su Yan under her body!

The deafening sound of explosions resounded throughout the west square of the city, screams and panic were incessant, and in the midst of the smoke and dust, the stage collapsed in half, and the VIPs in the VIP seats were all protected by the guards in an instant. Even the judges' benches were affected, and several judges were injured by the flying stones that had blown up the stage. Even Tong Ran and Aftertaste fell into ruins in an instant. It's just that the two of them are more agile, although they are standing on the ruins, they are standing steadily, unlike Tong Ran's assistants, who all fell in the ruins, and they were all injured to varying degrees.

Zhao He was also injured, he was closer to the edge of the stage, the shock wave was more powerful, and when there was an explosion, he overturned his whole person and flew under the platform, his age was not young, his bones were relatively brittle, and his body was huge, such a big impact caused several fractures on his body, and he fell to the ground in pain.

However, the most "tragic" thing is Su Yan, when everyone was deeply trapped in the fear of the explosion and did not come to his senses, he had already come out from under Su Miao's body, knelt aside, shook Su Miao in panic with his eyes full of panic, and suddenly became a weak body, bean-sized tears crackled down, his pale face was suffocated, and he actually cried loudly, crying loudly;

"Second sister, second sister, wake up! Second sister! ”

When he was crying, he looked like a mournful concubine, and was looked at by outsiders, thinking that his second sister had gone to the west.

Aftertaste thinks so, stunned by Su Yan's loud cry, when he looked over, he saw Su Miao lying on the ground with a pale face, his eyes closed, blood stains on his body, his eyes shrank suddenly, his face turned white, he was shocked, he rushed over, knelt on the ground, helped Su Miao's body, shook it gently, his tone was trembling with panic, he called out in a stack:

"Miao'er! Miao'er! ”

"Second sister!"

"Sister Miao!" Su Xian and the others were shocked, Su Yan shouted at first that they didn't react, but only then did they react when they heard the aftertaste, their faces changed color, and they rushed over in a panic.

It's just that there are still people who arrive one step ahead of them, and Tong Ran arrived almost at the same time as Huiwei, his face was extremely ugly, he wanted to be one step faster than Huiwei, but he stopped the moment Huiwei picked up Su Miao, and stood one step away from the two of them, and then was squeezed aside by Su Chan and others, and his face was even more unsightly.

Fortunately, the moment he approached Su Miao, he keenly captured a trace of raw breath, and his heart settled down a little, looked at the already sparse stove, frowned, walked to the messy debris in a few steps, squatted down, twisted his fingers on the broken green bricks, and when he lifted it again, a little black powder was stained on his fingertips, and he put it under his nose and smelled it, there was a pungent smell of fire and gunpowder.

His face darkened.

……

The sudden explosion at the King Chef Contest shocked the entire city of Suzhou, and even spread to the neighboring cities, Yueliang Guo, which has been in peace for many years, actually happened to such a thing, the whole country was a sensation, public opinion was in an uproar, and the political envoy of Qin'an Province was anxious, and he was always worried not about the black gauze hat on his head but on his neck, because at the time of the explosion, the people present were not only His Royal Highness King Wen and the two sons of the Rui Wang family who were not in the family tree, but the one who was seriously injured was said to be the future daughter-in-law of Rui Wangye.

The political envoy was dripping with cold sweat, and he instantly felt that his career as an official was too hard.

Su Miao was fine, but was hit in the back of the head by a flying stone and fainted briefly. When she woke up, she was already lying on Ji Chunzhai's bed, and she was sitting in front of the bed, and Su Yan occupied the edge of the bed alone. Grabbing Su Miao's hand and crying so much that the pear blossoms brought rain, it was called a red flutter and watery.

The corners of Su Miao's eyebrows twitched fiercely, and she asked speechlessly:

"Yan'er, can you still become a gentleman for the second sister in this life?"

"Second sister!" When Su Yan saw that she had woken up, she was excited and afraid, and her heart was relieved, and she actually cried again.

Su Miao was dumbfounded.

didn't wait for Su Yan to finish crying. Su Chan and Su Xian had already squeezed him aside and occupied the position in front of the bed, and Su Xian held Su Miao's face. She looked her head to the left and right, examined it carefully, and saw that there was nothing unusual, and then she breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Sister Miao. Do you still recognize me? Chun Niang pointed to herself. His eyes stared at Su Miao's face with burning eyes, and he asked expectantly.

"Of course I do, I'm not stupid." Su Miao twitched the corners of her eyebrows and replied.

Chunniang patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief.

There was a stinging pain in his right hand, and the pain that pierced his heart came in bursts, Su Miao frowned, and looked down at his right hand. The right hand was already wrapped with snow-white gauze, and a strong smell of medicine came from under the gauze. She lifted her hand and looked at it in front of her eyes. It turned out to be wrapped like a rice dumpling, she tilted her head to look at it for a while, and reached out to untie the bandage.

"Don't move!" Aftertaste grabbed her wrist, but the force was very light, as if he was afraid that he would crush her, and then held her hand, put it down gently, and put it into the thin quilt.

Su Yan, who was wiping her tears, came from her heart with sorrow when she saw Su Miao's bandaged hand, called "Second Sister", and cried again.

Su Xian frowned and slapped him twice on the back, this action made Su Yan blame himself even more, he thought that Su Xian was blaming him, so he cried even more sadly.

Su Miao twitched the corners of her eyebrows speechlessly, tilted her neck to look at him for a while, looked at the aftertaste suspiciously, and asked in surprise:

"What, my hand is broken?" She remembered that she had only been burned by the fire, and although the burns were a bit severe, they hadn't reached the point where she was crying to death as if she was dying.

"No, it's just burned." Aftertaste was afraid that she would become more sad because of her misunderstanding, so she hurriedly replied, paused, and felt that it was inappropriate to answer like this, her hand was gently placed on her hand wrapped in gauze, and she smiled with a comforting expression and said, "It's a burn, although it is a little heavy, but the doctor said that it is not in the way, and it will be good to recuperate during this time." I have already asked people to go to my father to get the white jade ointment, which is a holy medicine for the treatment of external injuries in the palace, and it will not leave a scar after using it. ”

Su Miao nodded, he explained too much, which made her feel a little weird, he never liked to talk too much. Burns are nothing new for a chef, and although this burn was the worst of her career, she had been burned by a sudden fire before, so she was quite calm about such injuries.

Su Xian swept around Su Miao and Huiwei's faces, Huiwei looked at Su Miao intently, with a suppressed look of distress and self-blame, while Su Miao was casually observing her injured hand and didn't notice his expression.

Su Xian pulled up Su Yan, who was still crying, with one hand, and grabbed Su Chan, who didn't want to leave even if she saw it, and dragged the two of them out of the main room. Chunniang and Lin Yan were more knowledgeable, and followed Su Xian out of the door of the main room.

There were only two people left in the room, Su Miao and Huiwei, Su Miao didn't notice that everyone was gone, in fact, she was in a lot of pain, but she was afraid that they would be worried so she didn't say it, but the pain reduced her sensitivity to her surroundings, and she became sluggish, whether it was her ability to move or her ability to think.

She tilted her head and looked at her injured right hand for a moment, deciding that it would be better to look at the depth of the wound before deciding what to do next, so this time she untied the bandage on her hand without waiting for the aftertaste to stop.

Although the initial feeling was only licked by the fire, the burn was still very serious, from the five fingers to the back of the palm of the hand, there was no intact, the blisters had been punctured, and the skin had turned brownish-black, and it was covered with a thick ointment, which was unbearable to look at. Fortunately, the scald medicine used is very effective, and it is applied to the wound coolly, which relieves a lot of pain.

Aftertaste's gaze fell on her hand, her heart tugged fiercely, paused, stretched out her hand, took the bandage in her hand to re-bandage the wound on her hand, and comforted softly:

"Don't worry, the doctor said that there is no injury to the muscles and bones, it is not in the way, as long as you recuperate quietly for a few months, the scab will be fine."

Su Miao nodded, didn't take it to heart, just said:

"It's not good to recuperate, how is the King Chef Competition?"

"Several judges have been affected and injured, the competition has been postponed indefinitely, and scattered fire nitrates have been found in the stove you are using, suspected to be man-made." After all, his identity has been exposed, and there are many enemies who have unilateral grievances with him, and Princess Rui is still living in seclusion in Suzhou City, and it is not easy to trace the fact that it happened so suddenly.

Gunpowder is black powder, spread this accident, fortunately, the gunpowder of Yueliang is not developed, is in the gradual stage of changing from firecrackers to weapons, this early gunpowder is different from the improved explosives in later generations, the early gunpowder is simply an accelerant, that is to say, it will only burn more vigorously in case of open flames, it cannot explode alone, and must be placed in a closed container to have the effect of explosion. The black powder in the stove seems to have been left for a long time, because of the damp draft, the power is weakened, and although the stove is filled with firewood, it can be regarded as a kind of airtight container, but after all, there is still a gap, and the power is halved, so Su Miao was only injured in a few places by the blasted stones, and he was not too seriously injured.

"Who am I offending here?" She frowned, grunted unhappily, wanted to sit up from the bed to lean on the head of the bed, but accidentally pulled the wound on her back, gasped, at this time she knew that it was not only her hand that was injured, the debris splashed when the stove exploded cut her several places, she had to lie down honestly, a pair of black eyes turned around, and asked with a smile, "Is Tong Ran injured?" ”

"Nope."

Su Miao flattened her mouth in disappointment.

Aftertaste was silent for a moment, and once again his hand fell softly on her gauze-wrapped hand, and asked in a low voice:

"Does it hurt?"

Su Miao was slightly stunned, looked at the face that was condensed because of the overly complicated expression, shook her head, and grinned:

"It's not that serious, it's just that it was burned by the fire, and it is not uncommon to be burned all day long!"

Aftertaste hung his head and looked at her hand, looked at it for a long time, and suddenly said softly:

"I was too far away."

Su Miao was slightly stunned, this was not to explain to her, but full of apology and regret, he was regretting that it was his momentary negligence that caused her to be seriously injured, and he was deeply blaming himself for not protecting her. (To be continued.) )