"Master Hou, the eldest lady is from outside the city!"

Just when Chen Xu was anxiously waiting for news from Chen Yong and others, the housekeeper outside the door came to report that Shui came from the courtyard in the middle of the night.

Chen Xu hurriedly went out and Shui gently greeted him, looking at Shui Qingrou's worried face, he could only quickly comfort a few words and tell him about the fire in Zhao Gao's mansion.

Seeing that Chen Xu was fine, Shui Qingrou's mood had completely calmed down at this time, but after listening to it, his face was slightly weird and said, "Husband, I heard that Zhao Gao's mansion has been vacant for many years, why did it suddenly catch fire?" ”

"I don't know, but today I arranged for Chen Yong and others to deal with Zhao Gao, I don't know if it was caused by their mistakes!" Chen Xu shook his head a little worriedly.

"In this way, it should be that Zhao Gao has already left the palace, maybe he wants to go back to get something, and then Chen Yong and the others followed, and the fire was caused by the fire candle that was overturned during the battle, if this is the case, Chen Yong and they should have news soon!"

"I guess the same, but more than an hour has passed since the fire, but Chen Yong has not returned, and now the forbidden army is tracking down the arson suspects all over the city......

"Master Hou, the officials of the Lieutenant's Mansion are coming to visit!" Just as Chen Xu and Shui were talking softly, the doorman hurriedly came to report.

"Since my husband is fine, I will return to the other courtyard to tell Wan'er and the fifth princess the news, so as not to worry them!"

"Well, it seems that I can't sleep tonight, you be careful on the road!" After Chen Xu admonished him, he put on his coat and followed the housekeeper to the front yard.

An official of the Lieutenant's Mansion was already waiting in the living room, and after seeing Chen Xu, he hurriedly bowed and said, "The Lieutenant's Mansion Zuo Zhonghou Xie Kui has seen Zuo Xiang!" ”

"Excuse me, how's the firefighting?" Chen Xu didn't have time to greet him, so he asked directly.

In the middle of the night, the lieutenant's mansion came to the door, and it must have been because of the firefighting.

Sure enough, Xie Kui said anxiously: "Zuo Xiang, the fire has gotten out of control, because of the difficulty in getting water, the fire has already ignited the two mansions adjacent to the Zhao Mansion, Lord Lu asked the lower officials to come and ask the Hou Ye to come over and help with the firefighting strategy!" ”

Chen Xu couldn't help but twitch a few times and said, "Without further ado, let's go, have you ever informed the right minister of this matter?" ”

"Lord Lu has already arranged for someone to go to the right minister's mansion, and the right minister also lives in the south of the city, so I think I should have arrived at this time......"

Xie Kui followed behind Chen Xu, and the two hurried to the courtyard, a group of guards and grooms were already in the car, and soon the two carriages kicked out of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion in the night, and went straight to the south of the city where the fire stained half the sky under the escort of a group of guards.

However, when Chen Xu arrived at the street where the fire was on fire, he knew that the fire was much more powerful than he imagined, at this time there was already a row of three courtyards burning, the flames in the sky were dozens of zhang high, whistling and shaking in the night wind, the scorching heat wave could be felt from hundreds of meters apart, and occasionally there was a roaring sound of collapse coming out of the flames, and the sparks splashed and scattered in the raging flames, which provoked the screams of the people involved in the firefighting.

Tens of thousands of people are rushing back and forth to fetch water, countless forbidden soldiers are shouting sirens, and in the distance, countless civilians have climbed onto rooftops to watch the fire not seen in decades.

At the corner of the street, the lieutenant's office ordered Lu Huanzheng to gather with Feng Quji, Meng Yi and a group of officials from the three provinces and six departments who had arrived in a hurry, pointing and discussing how to suppress the fire.

At present, the situation is very complicated, one is the weather, the most important thing is the difficulty of getting water, the houses on both sides of the street are opened, but because most of the courtyards have been abandoned for a long time, the pond is unmanaged and basically there is no water, although there is water in the well, but it is tantamount to a drop in the bucket, the nearest water source is still two hundred zhang away, if the fire cannot be extinguished in time, maybe the scope of the fire will continue to expand.

The only good news is that the houses are uninhabited, and no casualties have been reported.

"Qinghe Hou is here!" As someone shouted loudly, the people surrounding the street also quickly dispersed on both sides, and soon saw Chen Xu's carriage kicking and trampling to stop on the side of the street, Chen Xu got down from the carriage, everyone gathered around and bowed their hands to say hello, after a simple greeting and greeting, Chen Xu also took the time to watch the fire and asked Lu Huan: "What is the difficulty in fighting the fire now?" ”

"Zuo Xiang, it is too difficult to get water at the moment, and it can't keep up with the speed of the fire, if you can't suppress the fire, maybe the whole street will be affected!" Lu Huan looked very embarrassed at this time, he didn't wear a set of golden armor on weekdays, he was wearing a casual brocade robe, his hair was messy, and even his belt was tied crookedly, as if he had just gotten up from bed in a hurry.

However, Chen Xu's guess is good, originally Lu Huan was drinking wine and touching the pleasure of holding the little lady in Quyuan with a few friends in Quyuan at night, and suddenly got the news that there was a fire in the south of the city, originally he was on the rise, and only arranged a guard to notify the patrolling forbidden army to arrange firefighting, but he didn't expect that he had just stripped a little lady naked on the couch and was about to carry a gun, the door was knocked open by the guards, and the fire was too fierce to be controlled, so he waited until Lu Huan came to the scene angrily, only to find that the seriousness of the matter was far beyond his expectations, so the forbidden army could only quickly recruit civilians to participate in the firefighting, but they didn't expect the fire to get bigger and bigger, and now it is almost completely out of control.

"It seems that these three mansions can't be saved!" Feng Qujian sighed.

"What's more, if there isn't enough water, I'm afraid this street won't be able to be saved!" Meng Yi's tone was even more pessimistic.

"I heard that there is no one living in this area of the neighborhood?" Chen Xu suddenly asked an inexplicable question.

"That's true, since Zhao Gao was deposed and exiled, Zhao's mansion has been empty, and later I heard that it was haunted, and some people in the neighborhood moved away one after another, and this street is basically empty, and the people of Xianyang privately call it a ghost street......" The Ministry of Industry ordered Zai Hong to hurriedly say next to him.

"So, if this place is burned, no one wants it?" Chen Xu asked a second, irrelevant question.

A group of people, including Meng Yi and Feng Quji, all looked at each other, not knowing what Chen Xu meant by saying this suddenly.

"Zuo Xiang, according to the law of my Daqin house, if the house is damaged due to the disaster of water and fire, if the owner does not go to the official office to register and rebuild, it can be regarded as giving up property rights, the legend here is haunted, I don't think anyone will want it, after all, to build such a large house, it can't be repaired without 1.8 million money, Qi Neishi, you say it......" The one who spoke was Ling Su Yue of the CRRC Mansion, and now he has become Chen Xu's dogleg, at this time he was looking at the internal history Ling Qi Tangpi said with a smile.

"So, Lord Qi also has a mansion here?" Chen Xu understood and asked.

"Yes, this building in front of me is, it was my father-in-law's ancestral inheritance, my father-in-law left it to me after his death, and I didn't live much on weekdays, a few years ago it was said that the neighborhood was haunted, so I moved to the east of the city, and this house has been vacant, if it is burned, I can only consider myself unlucky, and there is no money to repair it!" Qi Tang nodded very depressedly.

"The left phase, the third building on the right is the old mansion of Gao Yanghou, he has also moved away for a few years!" An official whispered.

Gaoyang Hou Zhao is ill, he is a royal family, and he is the uncle and elder of Qin Shihuang like Jiancheng Hou Zhaohai, but now he is over seventy years old, and he has no official position, he is a standard pension Hou Ye, Chen Xu has met a few times, but he is not too familiar, if his house is also burned, he can naturally only consider himself unlucky like Qi Tang, and he has no money to repair it at all.

Under the introduction of a group of officials, Chen Xu also figured out the owners of several mansions on this street, four of which are royal identities, including Zhao Gao's set, and the other three are also the same as Qi Tang's father-in-law, all of whom were ministers with heads and faces in the Qin State before, but they are all ancient now.

Looking at the crowd shouting for help and the flames still burning violently, Chen Xu's face looked very strange under the reflection of the firelight.

He has always wanted to find a large piece of land in the city to build a new project, but unfortunately Xianyang City from Qin Xiaogong moved the capital, after nearly 150 years of development, Xianyang has long been overcrowded, the princes and princes, civil and military officials and wealthy businessmen continue to buy real estate to build houses, to the time of the vigorous development of Daqin, Xianyang can no longer find a place to develop, and every inch of land is gold, any set of three or five acres of ordinary houses need more than 100,000 yuan to buy, The real estate prices in the first-tier cities experienced by Chen Xu in later generations are not far behind, which can be called outrageously expensive.

And this is especially in the south of the city, the princes and princes are vying to squeeze to the south of the city, and it has already been divided up for more than a hundred years, even Lü Buwei, who supported Qin Shihuang to come to power, could not get a piece of land in the south of the city, so he had to build his Xiangguo Mansion in the direction near the southeast, and now it has become Chen Xu's Zuo Xiangfu.

But today's sudden fire seems to give Chen Xu hope.

As long as this large piece is burned out...... Chen Xu silently calculated the current situation in his heart, and estimated how there was an area of six or seven hundred acres, which was more than enough for the project he planned.

However, the premise is to burn it down, leaving a half building with property rights, even if it can be expropriated, it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money, although the money belongs to the state, but after all, it is a people's fat and people's ointment, and it should be used to improve people's livelihood.

Chen Xu didn't speak, and a group of people were also inexplicable.

Originally, Lu Huan brought this group of officials from the three provinces and six ministries to help him come up with ideas to extinguish the fire, but after Chen Xu came, he didn't speak after asking the owners of several mansions, which made him a little dispossessed.

"Zuo Xiang, can you help me think of a good way to put out the fire as soon as possible?" After hesitating for a few minutes, Lu Huan couldn't help but speak.

If we continue to wait, it is estimated that the fourth house will also be on fire.

"At present, the weather is dry and there is a lack of water, so I am afraid that such a fire will be difficult to extinguish in a short time, so Ben Hou suggested that the people fighting the fire should be evacuated first, and the houses and surrounding streets should be isolated, so as to ensure that the flames do not spread to other ......streets," Chen Xu said, pointing to a large area of uninhabited houses in front of him.