"There's a fire!"

Zhu Gaochi suddenly woke up from his sleep and heard the shouts of "Guifei" Zhang. He also opened his eyes and immediately began to cough, a choking smell rushing to his mouth and nose! The smell was not only the smoke of burning plants and trees, but also the most unpleasant smell was a dizzying stench.

Tung oil flavor!

Zhu Gaochi struggled to get up, and there was smoke in front of him, and the fire flickered in the smoke.

He grabbed his clothes and covered his mouth and nose, and saw his "concubine" Zhang in a hazy way, and the shout just now was Zhang's voice.

Zhang looked panicked, holding Zhu Gaochi tightly with both hands, coughing "cough cough" and saying a simple sentence from time to time, probably to save the child.

Zhu Gaochi was speechless for a while, and hurriedly struggled to get out of bed. But he didn't take two steps before he didn't know what he had kicked under his feet! Zhu Gaochi, who was already inconvenient to walk, let out an "ouch", plopped and fell to the ground, feeling that he almost broke his bones! He had been in severe pain. It was also difficult to breathe at this time, and he coughed incessantly, and his intuition was spinning.

He crawled in the direction of the door. Fortunately, Zhu Gaochi often does not go out in the house, and he is very familiar with this place; He walked through a partition and could faintly see the door. By this time, the fire had already burned to the roof, and the smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and he was almost fainting, and covering his mouth and nose with his sleeve to exhale was no longer of much effect.

Zhu Gaochi and Zhang finally insisted on reaching the door of the room.

He immediately reached out and touched the latch of the door and pulled it out, and when he opened the door with all his might, he couldn't open it! In the sound of "crackling" wood burning, Zhu Gaochi heard the sound of the copper lock shaking.

Previously, Zhu Gaochi smelled the smell of tung oil, and he already felt strange, because they didn't use tung oil for the palm lamp! But he didn't think much about it just now, until now, the door was actually locked from the outside! He finally determined that this was not a fire at all, but a deliberate arson!

"Second brother...... Ahem, ahem! Zhu Gaochi shouted in despair, "You are ...... to your own brother You can get your hands on it!? ”

Zhang said: "Open the door quickly, save people!" ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "It's useless." The second brother wants me to die, who can save me? ”

He was so dizzy and uncomfortable that he sat down on the ground and looked up and let out a long sigh of despair.

At this time, Zhu Gaochi had been smoked to tears, and his body was getting hotter and hotter by the fire, but his heart was already cold. In this world, people can even kill their own brothers, and the world has become hell!

"Help......" said a faint voice.

Zhu Gaochi suddenly struggled to get up, and continued to step forward and desperately pull the wooden door, but with his and Zhang's strength, he couldn't open the locked door. This door is open inside, but it's useless to hit it!

Suddenly, there was a "bang", and a piece of wood with flames fell from it. Zhu Gaochi shouted, quickly retreated, his body fell to the ground again, and when he tried to get up again, he couldn't even get up, his chest was dull and suffocated, and his mind became less and less conscious.

Faintly, he heard Zhan Ji's cry for help, and the voice cried: "Second Emperor Uncle, I was wrong, I didn't burn you to death...... Help me! ”

…… Near the gate of the courtyard, there were several eunuchs living there, mainly to keep an eye on the waste prince's family, not to let them go in and out, and to hook up inside and outside.

The courtyard and walls of this temporary "Easy City" did not have much protective effect; After all, the place is in the imperial city, and there are higher walls and defenders outside.

The main role of the people inside is only surveillance.

The eunuchs also found out that there was a fire, and they wanted to go in to save people, but the place leading to the inner house was a hall. There was already a fire burning in the hall, and people couldn't get through!

One of the eunuchs said: "Go to the treasury and move the ladder, go to the outer wall and enter the inner house, and save people first!" Go to one more person and call the soldiers from the left-behind division to come in to put out the fire and bring the waterwheel! ”

Several eunuchs went their separate ways. When they rushed out of the courtyard, they saw that many soldiers were already running in formation! The defenders saw that there was a fire inside, and they also temporarily transferred troops into the imperial city.

Everyone found the ladder, and several eunuchs and generals climbed into the wall. But I saw that all the corridors and halls inside were on fire! The flames were blazing and the smoke was billowing out. There seemed to be firewood piled up outside the bedrooms, and the fire was burning the most, where could people rush in?

Seeing this, a military general who stayed behind in the division ordered: "The waterwheel can't get in!" Find some buckets and bring in water from the big vat outside, and put out the fire at the door of the gallery before you can go in and save people! ”

After a while, some civil servants also came with people. In a panic, people carried buckets to scoop water into a large tank nearby.

There are large clay pots in the imperial city, which have only one use: to prevent fires! Every once in a while, someone makes a special check to fill the tank in case of emergency.

However, when everyone opened the clay pots, they found that they were empty! At this time, someone found that the bottom of those clay pots had been knocked out, and the water had already leaked!

A civil official said: "Hurry up and send someone to carry water elsewhere, and then call the soldiers to tear down all the doors and windows of the nearby houses!" If you're not careful, the entire imperial city will have to be burned down! ”

The military general said: "Now you want to save people, you all know who lives inside?" ”

A group of soldiers returned to the smoky inner house, where they brought in a large piece of wood. Then the soldiers slammed the door with the log, and with a loud bang the firewood and the door of the house were easily knocked down.

The few buckets of water that had been brought from the nearby kitchen were poured on them, but they were almost a drop in the bucket and could not completely extinguish the fire.

The general poured the remaining little water on one of the sergeants and ordered: "You go in and carry the man out!" ”

The sergeant was covered in water, and his face turned pale as he looked at the fire in the smoke.

The military general shouted: "Disobey the military order, behead!" ”

The sergeant said: "My family is small, so I will entrust it to Mr. Li Qian." With that, he gritted his teeth and rushed over, jumping into the smoke and fire.

However, the soldiers waited for a while, but there was still no movement inside. The sergeant who just entered the sergeant would not necessarily be burned to death, but with such a big smoke, I am afraid that he will be fainted in a moment!

When General Qian turned his head to look at the other sergeants, several people took two steps back in fear.

Mr. Qian, who had just ordered, sighed: "It's over!" Maybe we'll all die! ”

…… The next day, a messenger from Zhongdu rode fast horses, constantly changing horses at the post station, and hurried for hundreds of miles, and crossed the river; At this time, it was just late in the evening. While the gate of the capital division was not closed, the messenger entered the capital division.

The urgent report did not go to the political department, but was directly sent to the Jinyi Wei Yamen. The Zhongdu Left-behind Division has little to do with Jinyiwei, but the secret letter is written about Jinyiwei's yamen!

Zhang Shengyi, the commander of Jinyiwei and Le Zhihou, got the secret letter and had not opened it yet; He saw the lacquer seal on it

letter, and the words "Eight hundred miles expedited", my heart chuckled, and I had a premonition that something big was wrong!

Zhang Sheng's fingers clenched the envelope tightly, and he was stunned for a moment, and finally did not open the seal. He immediately took his things out of the government office, walked briskly in the direction of Chengtianmen, and entered Chengtianmen, Duanmen, and Noon Gate one after another.

The army guarding the noon gate was the Jinyi Guard. Zhang Sheng went straight into the noon gate, found a eunuch on duty, and asked him to report to the saint.

Zhang Sheng waited outside the Fengtian Gate. The commander of the Jinyi Guard was also allowed to enter the palace in normal times, but according to the rules, he could only move near Fengtianmen, and Zhang Sheng was worried at this time, and he did not dare to exceed the limit.

After waiting for a long time, the eunuch Wang Gui rushed over in person, and said urgently: "The emperor is in Dongnuan Pavilion, come with our family." ”

The two walked a long way to the north, entered the left door of the middle, the left door of the back, and the Qianqing gate, and then walked through the inclined corridor to the outside of the East Warm Pavilion. The burly eunuch Wang Gui said: "No need to report, let's go in directly!" ”

They walked into the Dongnuan Pavilion, and after passing a partition, they saw Zhu Gaoxu sitting alone on a chair in front of the three maps, staring at them.

Zhang Sheng and Wang Gui knelt down and saluted together.

Zhu Gaoxu's voice said: "Where's the thing? ”

Zhang Sheng hurriedly got up and handed over the unopened secret letter with both hands. Sure enough, as soon as Zhu Gaoxu saw the lacquer seal and the words "Eight Hundred Miles Urgent", his face immediately changed.

Zhu Gaoxu tore open the envelope three times and divided five by two, took out the letter paper from it and unfolded it. Zhang Sheng and Wang Gui both bent down and stood in front of the imperial case, not daring to make a sound.

"He's it!" Zhu Gaoxu scolded after reading it. His face was very ugly, angry and sorrowful, and the muscles of his cheeks moved slightly, as if he were gritting his teeth; But fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu did not immediately become angry.

His gaze swept over Zhang Sheng and Wang Gui's faces, and he handed over the secret letter directly. Zhang Sheng, who stood closest to him, followed first and immediately looked at the content.

The waste prince who lives in the imperial city of Zhongdu, his whole family is dead!

There were six people in the family, and they were burned alive in the bedroom late last night. However, there were eight people who were burned to death, one of whom was a sergeant from the left-behind division, and after the sergeant caught fire, he went in to save people and died inside, and there were many soldiers who could testify; The other is the eunuch Wu Zhong, who is in charge of the procurement of the imperial city, he does not live in the "Easy City", but he was burned to death inside.

The Jinyi Guard military generals who stayed in Zhongdu led their subordinates to blockade the "Easy City", and preliminarily determined: The cause of last night's fire was arson!

The Chai He in the firewood room of "Easy City" was moved outside the bedroom of the waste prince and others, as well as through the hall; And when the fire was lit, people smelled tung oil. Remnants of copper locks were also found outside the bedroom. The fire-fighting water tank near Xiaoyao City was also deliberately smashed.

There are all kinds of indications that the arsonist is a person from the Imperial City of Zhongdu, and he is very familiar with the inside and outside of the "Easy City". The suspected arsonist first smashed the nearby water tank; Then he turned into the city, locked a few bedrooms, put the firewood and poured tung oil on the fire......

Zhang Sheng read the content and immediately handed it to the eunuch Wang Gui.

Judging from Wang Gui's shocked expression, this eunuch had just learned.

At this time, Zhang Sheng can still be sure of one thing: this matter is really not the meaning of the saint! Because the people in charge of monitoring the city are the brocade guards and the eunuchs sent by the celebrant supervisor; If the Holy One wants to do this kind of thing, he must know about the Jinyi Guard and the celebrant to do it!

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