Chapter 32: Fire
As soon as the little chef who went to visit the letter came back and told the truth, several masters in the kitchen fried the pot. This kid is too unwilling, just sneak to live, have food to eat and starve, sleepy can sleep, we see that he is young, lonely, and Mrs. has told us, we will turn a blind eye, but this kid actually stole the master's braised pork, it is really a death!
At that time, Wang Biao listened to the teacher and asked the guilt.
The big and small masters lowered their heads with gray faces, as if they had done something wrong, and did not dare to raise their heads.
Wang Biao pointed at the noses of several of them and scolded: "You guys are so big, what's going on, it's better to tell the truth, dare to have half a word of nonsense, and then all get out!" ”
"Master Kaig, let's say we say ......" After several masters in the room looked at each other, they couldn't care about the entrustment of the hostess of the house, and told the matter of Shangguan Feng, after all, it is a person who is not for himself, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed.
Wang Biao was almost angry when he heard it, and he roared like thunder, "Wow, wow...... Dare to eat inside and out...... Go get that slut for me! ”
Several masters in the room were scolded for their blood, and they didn't dare to make a sound.
Someone agreed, turned around and went out, and invited Feng to go.
"Wait!" Wang Biao's two fierce eyes turned and stopped the man.
"How dare this little wild seed be sent to the door? The account between us has not been settled, Lao Tzu is soft-hearted and soft-hearted last time I let you go, you don't know if it's cheap and dare to come back, it's no wonder Lao Tzu, heaven has a road not to go, hell has no door to vote, this time Lao Tzu will let you have no return! ”
After making up his mind, Wang Biao immediately changed his mind, and in an instant, he saw that his two faces changed and he was no longer so ugly.
He picked one of the cooks and called him to a no-man's land.
"Xiao Chu, how do I treat you on weekdays?"
This person's surname is Chu, because the slave follows the master's nature, and he has changed his surname to Wang Chu for a long time here, and everyone is usually called Xiao Chu, who is in his 20s, thin, black, and has a pair of small eyes that are shrewd.
Wang Biao knew him five years ago, and now Wang Biao has become the master of the Wang family, and Xiao Chu was the first to support and curry favor with Wang Biao, so this time Wang Biao fell in love with him.
"The old man brings the grace of Xiao Chutian to the high earth."
"Well, I need your help with one thing right now, are you willing to do it?"
"If the lord has something to order, the villain must do his best."
Wang Biao was overjoyed, "Okay, come here with your ears." ”
Xiao Chu stretched his head over, and Wang Biao muttered a few words in Xiao Chu's ear.
"Huh?" Xiao Chu was frightened.
Seeing that Xiao Chu was scared, Wang Biao took out 20 taels of silver from his pocket and weighed it, but he didn't put it in Xiao Chu's hand, but wanted to let it go, staring at him with two eyes: "Remember that this is a natural and man-made disaster, and it has nothing to do with you." This is 20 taels of silver, you take it first, and after the deed is done, there will be 30 taels of silver. ”
50 taels of silver for one life, no, two to be exact.
Human life is at stake, Xiao Chu's black and thin little black face twitched, and after trembling, recalling Wang Biao's words, he still took the 20 taels of silver with trembling hands.
Money can make the ghost grind, that is 50 taels of silver driven, or tattooed silver, tattooed silver is also called official silver, is the best silver, of course, more valuable than ordinary scattered silver.
Wang Biao was happy, "Remember that if the matter is revealed, you will leave and you don't have to come back, lest the people from the yamen come to you again." ”
"The villain understands." Xiao Chu picked up the silver, turned around and left.
Three days later, a month of dark and windy evenings. After the second watch, a thin black shadow sneakily came to Shangguan Feng's room.
The dark shadow turned from the front to the back, and seeing that there was no one around, he first reported a few bundles of dry wood from the darkness, piled them up at the back window, and then brought a bucket of fish oil. He poured oil on the pile of dry wood, and with a snap the fire broke out, and the light of the fire illuminated his squishy but greedy and terrible face.
As if holding two lives in his hands, he finally bit his teeth, and the fire folded a beautiful arc, and ignited the firewood with a bang, and the mixture of firewood and oil suddenly made the flames run high, and under the advantage of the wind, the two old houses were still wooden main structures, and the raging fire was completely burned......
That night, Wang Biao ordered the word to be passed down in advance, and the little master was not allowed to come to their room.
Feng didn't think much about it, thinking that Wang Biao had to do things with him again, as a lady, he had to serve her husband first, and there was a lot of inconvenience in the little master's house. Wang Biao is in the prime of life, and Feng is only in his 20s this year. The two of them can be described as dry firewood.
In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard someone shouting, "It's on fire!" Come and put out the fire...... "There are those who shout, there are those who shout, and there are those who beat the gong."
The cacophony woke Feng from his dream.
Feng Shi hurriedly woke up her husband, Wang Biao slept really dead tonight, and it took a long time to wake up Wang Biao.
There was already chaos outside, and the two of them quickly got up from the bed, and as soon as they put on their clothes with the lamp in their hands, there was a sound of slamming the door outside.
"Sir, ma'am, there's a fire." A servant's voice came from outside.
"Where did the fire start?" Wang Biao yawned and slowly shouted outside.
"It's two east wings in the west courtyard......"
This sentence is like a bolt from the blue, because the east wing of the West Cross Courtyard happens to be the house where Shangguan Feng lives, and sometimes if the little master plays too late, he will sleep there.
It's terrible.
Feng Shi suddenly lost all his sleep, and rushed out like a corpse, "How can there be a fire there?" How's it going? What about the teacher? ”
Feng Shi asked a series of questions, impatient, the servant only replied slowly: "Back to Mrs., we don't know how to lose the fire, we just heard someone shouting in the middle of the night that we got up, there was wind tonight, the fire was very big, the whole house was about to burn down, why didn't Miss stay with you......"
"What about Mama Li and Mama Zhang, and Cuihua...... Go and get them for me. "Feng Shi is like crazy, these people usually take care of the little master the most.
At this time, Wang Biao appeared in front of Feng's eyes, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and said slowly: "Slow, what are you tossing in the middle of the night?" Aren't they just two broken houses? There was no one living in it, it was in tatters, and there was nothing of value, so it burned and burned. ”
"Official!" Feng Shi looked at the sky that was red by the fire in the West Cross Courtyard, and was anxious, but Shangguan Feng hid in that room with the little master, she had been ordering people to hide it from Wang Biao, and now she only knocked out her teeth and swallowed it in her stomach, where did she dare to say more.
"What's the matter, lady?" Wang Biao was triumphant in his heart and asked knowingly.
"Oh no...... It's nothing ......," Feng said.
But did Shangguan Feng die in the fire like this? What's more, he also has his own little teacher?
In the end, Feng was so anxious that he cried, Wang Biao pretended to be proud, and on the surface, he scolded Feng as if he was alone, "Lady, will this broken house burn down if it burns down?" It's just right to burn, or not, I'm about to let people pick it up, and it's easy to take me now, where does the lady cry, it's really incomprehensible. ”
At this time, Li's mother, Zhang's mother, and Sister Cuihua, etc., these maids who take care of the little master on weekdays came, but none of them saw the little master tonight, especially Mama Li looked at Mrs. Feng, then looked at Wang Biao next to her, and then looked at the big work over there, and stopped talking, with a stunned face.
In the end, Mrs. Feng gritted her teeth and told the truth of the matter.
"You...... What did you say? Wang Biao's eyes widened in surprise, but he said in his heart, you slut is finally willing to tell the truth, you dare to deserve this kind of thing behind my back!
But Wang Biao was shocked: "You said that the master and that little wild son are in that room...... Why didn't you say it earlier, go and put out the fire, what are you doing in a daze? Wang Biao said as he and these servants and Feng and the others all ran to the west across the courtyard......
The servants of the Wang family were all dispatched, young, old, male and female, except for Wang Biao and his wife Feng, as well as Feng's personal maid Sister Cuihua, all of them took action to extinguish the fire.
Wang Biao was of course the commander-in-chief next to him, and Mrs. Feng had fainted several times now as if she had no soul. Sister Cuihua was also so anxious that she cried red-eyed, they complained that God had no eyes, God was unfair, and the little master and Shangguan Feng were buried in the fire like this......
Two or three hundred people tossed until the fifth watch, when the fire was extinguished, and no other houses were ignited. But look at these two wings that have been burned beyond recognition, and are in ruins.
The servants of the Wang family were all tired and embarrassed, some of them had their hair and clothes burned in the process of putting out the fire, and some of them were dirty from top to bottom.
There was a scorching smell of sogginess in the night sky, and after dawn, several young valets searched for corpses in the ruins, despite the fatigue of half the night.
Sure enough, one was found, and a charred corpse was pulled out from under the ruins, which was already unrecognizable and no longer human. But looking at the size and size, it should be Shangguan Feng, and if you look for it again, there will be no scorched corpses.
No need to ask, the little master is still so small, and such a big fire must have been turned into ashes.
Feng cried to death, and Sister Cuihua and other maids and servants also cried.
Wang Biao pretended to be a good person, and he also pretended to shed tears, but his heart was already happy, and he felt that the 50 taels of silver were too worthwhile. Xiao Chu has done a good job, the remaining 30 taels of silver have been prepared for him, and he will soon find himself to ask for the rest of the silver.
But Wang Biao found that all the people of the Wang family have been putting out fires here since last night, but I have not seen Xiao Chu's shadow, this kid must have hid somewhere to sleep.
If something so big happens, of course you have to report it to the official. Feng fell ill on the bed, leaving the maid and maid to wait, looking for Lang Zhong to see a doctor and grab medicine, Wang Biao hurriedly sent someone to invite someone from the yamen.