Near dusk, Zhang Bin sent someone to inform Pei Gai that the affairs in the city were over, that Gou Chun and his accomplices had been beheaded, and Qu Bin's body had also been found in an empty room, and it was said that he was still talking...... In addition, Xuan An and Diao Ying closed the city and searched the city, arrested many stalwarts in the original Gou Xi army, and planned to cut off their heads or bury them alive after a rough interrogation.

When Pei Gai heard this, his mood did not change - and he didn't know how many heads were about to fall to the ground, although these people were not innocent...... In this troubled world, people kill each other, is there really any difference between them and beasts? He sent the visitor away, returned to the dormitory gloomily, sat silently for a long time, and finally patted a few cases lightly - I can't care so much, now is not the time to be compassionate, let's solve my own problems first.

Looking out the window, the red sun was sinking in the west, and half of the room was already shrouded in darkness. Looking down at the case, the bronze lamp had just been filled with oil, and the wick was still enough. So Pei should first take out a long prepared hemp rope from his sleeve, soak it roughly in the lamp oil, and then tie each end to a roll of bamboo slips, and then set up two rolls of bamboo slips, and place them on a few cases or so—the hemp rope is straight, about two feet long.

At last he took a few pieces of wood and loose slips, and laid them on the table, just between the two scrolls, and carefully poured half of the lamp oil......

Pei Gai held the oil lamp in his hand, stood up, pushed open the door, and called out loudly: "Pei Ren, the fire is coming!" He himself blocked the doorway, holding out only the oil lamp in his hand, believing that no one could get past him and see the already rather dim interior of the house, especially near the cases. Not far away, Pei Ren agreed, and after a short time, he took a piece of firewood that was still burning from under the stove, wrapped it in his hand, and lit the oil lamp in Pei Cai's hand.

Pei Gai turned around and entered the house, slamming the door behind his backhand. His room was almost full of bamboo slips and wooden slips, and only a small space was empty for entertaining guests, and sleeping at night, and he was usually ordered that no one should enter without command—I was sorting out the books, and who was the mess?

At that moment, he took a long breath, carefully held the oil lamp, placed it in the middle of several cases, and then pulled out the hairpin on his head, gently picked up the wick, and adjusted the height of the lamp flame - only a millimeter away from the taut hemp rope, I believe that a random burst of lamp can lick it.

Everything was arranged, Pei Gai left the dormitory, got on his shoes, pretended to say that he was going out to pay respects, and ordered Pei Xiong to lead the horse over. When Pei Xiong was preparing for the saddle, Pei should look at the small courtyard again - it was slightly smaller than his residence in Xuchang, and the original owner did not seem to be a noble family, the sky was getting dark, and the scenery was blurry - his heart said that if he put it in the future life, this would be dinner, but fortunately he was used to two meals a day in this life, otherwise without prior agreement, it would be suspected of rubbing the meal to visit guests at this time......

When he stepped on his horse and walked out of the courtyard gate, he saw that the whole street outside was full of guards left behind by Xuan'an. When a young general saw Pei Gai, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute and asked, "Where is Mr. Pei?" Pei Gai replied casually: "I'm afraid that the general and others will kill in vain, and I want to persuade each other......" Before the words fell, I heard the hoarse shouts of the old servants in the courtyard: "Oh no, it's on fire~~"

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When Zhang Bin heard that Pei Gai's house was on fire, he hurried to visit him - in fact, he might not have gone out in person unless there was news that Pei Gai had been burned half to death...... But Pei Gai just saved his life not long ago, so how can he not hurry over to say hello and offer condolences?

By the time he got to the place, the fire had been extinguished, and he found that Zhixiong had come first - Zhixiong had often been dragged by Zhiqu Liu recently, and he went to listen to Pei Gai talk about the ancient times at night. Suddenly, when he heard that Pei's house was on fire, he rushed over as soon as possible.

Zhang Bin greeted Zhixiong and asked him how he was doing. The expression on Zhixiong's face was very strange, both bewildered and contemptuous, he said: "I don't know, what is good about those wood and bamboo chips." Although Mr. Pei often said that the ancient things he talked about were all recorded on the bamboo and wood, I think that oral and verbal transmission is not enough? Why bother? ”

Zhang Bin frowned: "General Zhi, what do you mean?" "I asked you what the situation was with the fires and firefighting, and how did you tell me about the role of the article?

Zhixiong pouted and said: "The fire went out when I came, it is said that Mr. Pei forgot to put out the lights before going out, and somehow ignited the bamboo and wood in his house - there are so many bamboo and wood piled up in the room, I said it was too unsafe." Fortunately, there were many soldiers guarding outside the gate, helping to draw water, and the fire was quickly extinguished, but Mr. Pei ......"

Pei Gai had just ridden out at that time, when he suddenly heard someone shouting that there was a fire, and when he looked back, he was so shocked that he fell directly from the horse. Then he didn't straighten his scarf or his clothes, but with a stalk on his neck, he jumped straight into the door and rushed into the fire, saying that he was going to save his books. Fortunately, Pei Xiong had a lot of strength and pulled him out, but his face was already blackened several times, and his scarves and hair were almost burned.

After the fire was extinguished, Pei Cai ignored the smoke and water, rushed directly into the fire, hugged those bamboo slips and wooden slips out one by one, laughed when he held out some complete ones, and cried when he took out some broken ones, and everyone thought he was crazy. Even Pei's family didn't care about showing up, and with the support of the maid Yun'er, they came to the courtyard to visit Pei Gai's situation, and then somehow, the aunt and nephew quarreled......

Zhixiong said that I was impatient to listen to their quarrel, and when I saw that Mr. Pei was free of life, I quit.

Zhang Bin pricked up his ears at this time, and sure enough, he heard the sound of quarrels in the courtyard. When he stepped through the door, he saw Pei Gai covered in filth, sitting on the ground with his back to him, Pei Shi standing across from him, his eyes full of pity.

As soon as he saw Zhang Bin coming in, Pei Shi hurriedly turned his head, turned sideways and continued to scold Pei Gai: "What a real idiot, Shi Gong is just a divorce with you, although he should be loyal wholeheartedly, it is not worth your life!" No matter how important books are, are they more important than their own lives? If you have three long and two short, the deer will be extinct! And I told you again and again in the day, that thou shalt not take any risks and not waste thy life, and I did not listen to ......."

I heard Pei Gai respond weakly: "No matter how much Aunt Hugh says, it's all my nephew's fault...... If I hadn't forgotten to put out the lights...... This has nothing to do with the Lord, it has nothing to do with the office, it is my mission! During the day, he said to Na Gou Chun: 'I'd rather die here, than bear to see the ashes after the catastrophe and then burn the soldiers!' 'Unexpectedly, this ember has been destroyed by myself......" and wept as he spoke.

Pei Shi shouted angrily: "You are a dignified man, and your life is still safe, why are you a woman?!" She leaned sideways and glanced at Pei Gai, only to see Pei Gai wiping his eyes and glancing back, and there seemed to be encouragement in his eyes......

Pei Shi gritted his teeth, suddenly picked up his right arm, and directly slapped Pei Gai in the face - with a "snap", Zhang Bin, who had just come in, couldn't help but shudder a little......

—————————— the slip of paper that Pei Gai quietly handed to Pei during the day, there were a total of five groups of twelve characters, which were originally split word puzzles to type four Chinese characters.

This kind of word puzzle is worthless, but if you don't have a certain amount of knowledge and ingenuity, you may not be able to find the answer to the riddle if you want to break your head. Just like in the past, Cao Cao and Yang Xiu passed by the "Cao E Monument" side by side, and saw the inscription behind the monument: "Yellow silk young woman, grandson Yan Jiu." "Cao Cao asked Yang Xiu, do you understand what this means? Yang Xiu nodded. Cao Cao said don't you want to uncover the mystery first, let me think about it carefully, but it wasn't until he walked out of the thirty miles that he finally suddenly realized-

"Yellow silk" is colored silk, and the word "absolute" is typed; "Young woman" is a young woman, and the word "wonderful" is typed; The grandson is the son of a daughter, and he is typed with the word "good"; In order to bear the pungency, the word "辤" (word) is typed. So the whole mystery is - brilliant words.

Breaking the word and riddle is a game often played by the children of the family, and there are few books in a single family, so it is difficult to play any tricks. And even if it is not an esoteric anagram like "wonderful words", Cao Cao has to meditate for thirty miles, how many Yang Dezu are there in the world? Basically, you don't have to worry about the note falling into the hands of others and seeing through the mystery - except for Pei Gai in the army, how can there be a family? Even Zhang Bin, who has the highest knowledge, has at most a thirty percent chance of being able to guess the riddle.

Unless he is a genius in writing and a little expert in guessing puzzles......

Although Pei is a woman, after all, she was born in a famous family - there was no crazy saying that "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented" in those years - she read a lot of books, and she also competed with her brothers when she was young, so after a little concentration, she got her mind-

The first word is "virgin", which naturally refers to a "woman" rather than a "woman"; The following two words are juxtaposed, "non-present" is naturally "ancient", and "birdfall" is the etymology of the word "to"; Add the words "ancient" and "to" next to the female character, and the result is "aunt" and "nephew" (nephew).

The first word in the second column is "lip to lip to heart", Liu Xin said in "New Proposal": "Giving it to others is like helping each other." Obviously, it must be the teeth that go hand in hand with the lips. The second word is "unworthy", which means that the teeth are not worth each other, that is, they do not match each other distortedly, which is the original meaning of the word "discordant", which is marked very clearly and clearly in the "Shuowen".

Therefore, the mystery of Pei Gai's note should be the words "aunt and nephew" - the two of us must start with contradictions and conflicts before I can make the next plan. But how can contradictions and conflicts arise? When does Bae plan to start this step? After Pei burned the note on the lamp, he couldn't figure it out.

It wasn't until Pei Gai's bedroom caught fire, and then his nephew wanted to rush into the fire to rescue those classics, as if he was crazy, and Pei suddenly realized. She suddenly remembered what Pei Gai said when she quietly handed the note to herself-"Aunt and forgive my nephew for this incident, if there is a next neglect of life, it is not too late to punish him heavily!" ”

It was at this time that Wen Yue asked me to punish him, so that my aunt and nephew seemed to have a discord and make a show for outsiders!

Pei immediately ordered Pei Xiong to hold down Pei Gai and prevent him from going to the fire that had just been extinguished to collect book fragments, and then pointed to his nephew's nose and began to scold. However, at the beginning, Pei's tone was relatively gentle, more pitiful than annoyed - she was not as human as Pei Gai and her two lives after all, and she had seen more dramas, but in this era, there was no even "drama". But Pei should change his previous deferential attitude, you have something to say, I have to speak, keep replying, and even interrupt Pei's words every time, Pei's anger can't help but be aroused.

Just saw Zhang Bin coming in, there was one more audience, Pei Cai projected an encouraging gaze again, so Pei Shi took a long breath and slapped it directly......

After a palm, Pei Shi was also deeply frightened by his actions, and even covered his face and cried loudly, Yun'er saw this, and hurriedly helped her back to the room. Zhang Bin came over to visit Pei Gai, and saw Pei Wenyue sitting on the ground without grace, stunned, and holding a stack of blackened bamboo slips in his arms.

Zhang Bin frowned and comforted him: "Why does Pei Lang have to do this...... What my aunt said is true, no matter how important books are, they are not as important as lives. ”

Pei Gai raised his head and glanced at Zhang Bin, with deep self-blame and sadness in his eyes: "Zhang Jun, even Zhang Jun said the same...... I thought that Zhang Jun knew me, and he knew the importance of these thousands of classical books and the words and teachings of the saints. If the book is destroyed, China will die, and how can I talk about survival in this world! ”

Zhang Bin hurriedly said: "Although what Pei Lang said is true, but books need to be read and protected, if they don't exist, what are the so-called sages, what are the so-called China, and what are the so-called books?" There are Bin and Pei Lang in the world, and these three cars of books have been saved, if there is no Pei Lang, that is, there is no heavenly fire, I am afraid it will be difficult to survive for a long time! This providence is also, since the fire is extinguished, Pei Lang can stop mourning, what good is crying? ”

Pei Gai nodded in a trance: "Yes, this providence is also not my sin...... "As far as you are concerned, Wang Yan and Wang Zan will shirk their responsibilities, and so will Lao Tzu!" - "Fortunately, there are still many ...... remaining"

Zhang Bin said yes, fortunately, the fire was put out in time, and thanks to me I asked Xuan An to leave you with more soldiers - there shouldn't be many books burned, right?

Pei Gai replied: "Rescue seven or eight out of ten...... There are still two or three ......," he said, and suddenly jumped up: "I still have some memory, quickly get a pen and paper, and wait for me to try to write silently!" ”

Zhang Bin persuaded him, and finally let Pei Cai leave the mud, first go wash his face and change his clothes, and find a room to rest - the yard is not small, there are not many tenants, and he has burned out an east house, so he can temporarily live in the west house. Pei Gai kept begging for pen and paper, Zhang Bin had to order someone to bring pen and ink and other utensils from his home, as well as several stacks of plates, Pei Gai claimed that he wanted to stay up all night, and quickly wrote out the chapters he remembered.

Zhang Bin suggested to him, should he go and comfort Aunt Ling first? She was so angry just now that she actually reached out to hit you, and after the beating, she cried with heartache...... Pei Gai ordered someone to light the lamp and candle, sharpened the ink on his desk, and said casually: "Be careful not to listen to the woman's words—don't pay attention to her for now." ”

Zhang Bin couldn't persuade him again, so he had to quit. When he was out of the door, he saw a horse standing in the street not far away, and immediately the knight made a distant gesture at him. Zhang Bin also asked politely: "Is Ziyuan also here to visit Pei Lang?" ”

That person was Cheng Yao, and he immediately smiled: "Since I know that Pei Lang is fine, it will be late at night, so I won't go in." Then he raised his head and looked at the sky: "What day is it, what day is it today?" There were two fires in the city...... Hehehehe~~"