In the Zhicheng Zhai store, the brocade guards were still rummaging through the cabinets looking for clues, and suddenly heard a series of exclamations from the attic above, and then, a flame rose suddenly, and while burning the attic, it quickly spread downward.

This incense and candle shop is more likely to start a fire than other shops, and in the blink of an eye, the fire is completely out of control, and it will burn in all directions. Seeing this, the brocade guards quickly turned around and rushed out, and some people directly waved their weapons and slashed at the wall, and after chopping the wooden wall, they hurriedly drilled out.

Their movements were indeed fast enough, before the fire was out of control, everyone had already come out of this small shop, and at the same time, many people were still carrying some sundries in their hands, even at the critical moment of escaping, the brocade guards still did not forget their duties, and tried their best to grab some things in the store.

Lu Zhen was taking people to stay outside, and he was also shocked when he saw this scene, so he hurriedly sent someone to answer it, and asked someone to go outside to find water and call someone to put out the fire. Because he knew very well that if the fire really spread rapidly in this season, the people around him were afraid that they would also suffer.

In the midst of the hurry, someone saw a few figures climbing out of the wall on the side of the shop, so they rushed forward to arrest them, until they saw that it was their own brothers, and these people also carried a few pigeon baskets in their hands, and then changed from taking people to help, helping them to come down from the wall smoothly.

As soon as these people came out of the courtyard, they heard a loud bang, and the ground trembled, and the sparks soared outward even faster, causing everyone to retreat again. But the attic that caught fire first was finally completely burned down, and it was smashed down heavily, making the momentum of the fire more and more dangerous.

At this time, the people on the side were also alarmed, and ran out in a panic with their clothes on, and some of the sober ones had brought water from their yards to help put out the fire. However, the fire in this shop was already burning extremely fiercely, and it was not enough for a few buckets of water to extinguish it, and everyone was dumbfounded when they saw this.

At this time, Lu Zhen didn't bother to investigate why such a serious accident occurred, so he immediately ordered: "Hurry up and let the people pour who is not on fire around this shop, and really spread it with fire prevention." If we really burn down the surrounding houses, this disaster will not be easy to control! "The priority now is to fight fires and provide disaster relief.

The brocade guards and officers and soldiers quickly received the order, and then stepped forward to snatch the buckets from the hands of the people and took action, and at the same time urged the nearby people who had been driven out one after another to hurry home to get water. Soon, the people of the whole street were awakened and mobilized, and countless people rushed out of their homes, carrying buckets and basins to participate in this disaster relief and self-rescue operation.

Although there was no complete fire department in a city like Suzhou at this time, the spontaneous response of the people was quite good, and with the command of people in the government, this sudden fire did not cause too much disaster. Only the other two shops next to this Zhicheng Zhai were affected by the fire and the damage was not small, but there were no casualties among the people elsewhere.

It's just that Zhicheng Zhai is full of all kinds of flammable things, and once it burns at this time, it can no longer be controlled, and everyone can only watch it burn like a huge torch, soaring into the sky

The flames and black smoke turned almost the entire sky north of the city red......

Such a fire naturally alarmed not only the people in the north of the city, but also people in many parts of Suzhou City woke up from their sleep, looking at the sky-high fire with a surprised face from the windows or courtyards of each house, discussing where the fire broke out and how many people were going to suffer a catastrophe.

Among these people who are talking about it, there are Yin Xiang'er and Gao Ming, who escaped from Xinyue Nunnery before and are planning how to leave Suzhou safely. When she saw that the fire started from Beicheng and the flames were so strong, Yin Xiang'er had already vaguely guessed what was wrong.

"Wu Cheng said before that he would meet us tomorrow morning, right?" Yin Xiang'er asked with a worried face.

Gao Ming also nodded with a heavy face: "There are still some hands and tails in his store that need to be dealt with." He's a cautious person, and he has to burn things with his own hands to feel at ease......"

In this way, this fire should have been sent by Zhicheng Zhai, and he was forced to release this fire in desperation. I'm afraid that the government has already found him, and in order to prevent the government from succeeding, he lit this fire and burned everything! Even he himself is afraid ......"

Gao Ming didn't answer this time, and only gritted his teeth after a while: "These government minions are really smart enough to have a good nose, and their movements are really fast enough, and they have found our last stronghold in only half a day." If they know the true use of Zhicheng Zhai, they are only afraid of those people at sea......"

"It doesn't matter if those people live or die, after all, we only work with them, and we have benefited them a lot before. It's a pity that these strongholds that we have worked so hard to run have been destroyed by them like this. Yin Xiang'er's eyes reflected the flames in the dark night, and there seemed to be two ghost fires burning: "That Lu Zhen of the Jinyi Guard is really the nemesis of my Holy Sect, not only did he spoil my good deeds in Kaifeng before, but now he actually came to Suzhou in a ghostly manner, and disrupted our plans again." If we had known it was him, we would have gotten rid of him in Kaifeng that day! ”

Gao Ming smiled bitterly silently, since this Lu Zhen is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, how can he be so easy to deal with? Didn't he send Cai Jiuru, a master in the sect, to assassinate him before, but it didn't go wrong. not only put Cai Jiuru's life into it, but also made things further out of control, so that Jinyiwei began to attack the Holy Sect.

It was only at this time that he really understood Lu Jin's horror, so after a little hesitation, he said: "Holy Maiden, now Suzhou City can not stay for a long time, we must leave this place immediately tomorrow." Otherwise, let these guys find any more clues, I'm afraid it will be ......."

"Well, if he sees through our plans one after another, we can only put the big plan on hold. The only pity is our previous agreement with the grassland, as long as there is a fire in the Central Plains, it is time for them to take advantage of the situation......" Yin Xiang'er sighed helplessly.

In this regard, Gao Ming did not answer. He still has a lot of opinions about the practice of the Holy Maiden uniting with the Mongolian people, but since this is the idea that the other party came up with after thinking hard, it is not easy for him as a subordinate to oppose it too much. Now that things could not go on, he was a little relieved.

Although the scope of this fire is not too wide, it has lasted for a long time

It took half the night for the incense and candles in the shop to burn out, and the fire was slowly extinguished after dawn. But even so, the officials who arrived later did not dare to take it lightly, and hundreds of people stood by the ruins where the fire had been extinguished for two days, ensuring that there could be no more embers before withdrawing.

At the same time, there are many people in Jinyi who are in a depressed mood. Because in this operation, Jinyiwei really lost a lot. There were three lieutenants, as well as one hundred households who died in the line of duty. Especially the hundred households named Ji Chong, but now there are a few good hands in the Suzhou Thousand Households, and he actually lost his life in this errand that should have been captured, which naturally makes people's hearts full of indignation.

Of course, this indignation is not directed at Lu Jin, the one who gave the order, and now no one in the Jinyi Guard dares to have any disrespect for his own governor, but Lu Zhen himself is also blaming himself for a while, if he hadn't been too big this time, there would not have been such casualties.

However, now is not the time to be sad, and can only turn the guilt and grief in the heart into actions to comfort the souls of the deceased in heaven.

It's just that because this fire burned too hard and burned too thoroughly, Zhicheng Zhai, which should have had a lot of clues, has completely become a white ruin, and it is impossible to find any clues from it. The only thing left is some candle incense sticks that were rescued by everyone when the fire started.

But these things are too ordinary, even if a few of them are really found to contain soft tendons, it can only show that this Zhichengzhai is indeed the subordinate stronghold of the White Lotus Sect, and there are no other valuable clues.

Eventually, everyone's attention was drawn to the little things that had almost turned into roast pigeons, but had been taken out of the store in time.

"This should be the tool that the White Lotus Sect uses to communicate with the Quartet. It's a pity that we can't track down the flying pigeon, otherwise it's a good clue. Someone sighed.

But Yao Gan's heart moved: "My lord, did you say that the thieves on the sea relied on this pigeon to know the specific situation of the official merchant ship, and then shot at sea?" ”

Lu Zhen nodded: "This official also thinks so. So if you want to sweep away the problems at sea this time, you have to rely on these pigeons. ”

"But Lord Lu, this matter is still difficult to do. We don't know what the wording they used, or even if there were any secret words to convey the message. Wouldn't it be in vain if we used this pigeon and they saw that there was a problem? Xiao Wen unified his face and said in a tangled manner.

"Now that our internal problems have been solved, in fact, the threat of these thieves at sea to us has been greatly reduced, so it is not too risky to gamble, even if we lose, we will not lose much. But if you win, it's a big achievement. So the official thinks this matter is worth fighting! Lu Zhen had his own meaning, staring at the cooing pigeons and said, "Use these pigeons to lure the snake out of the hole with one hand, so as to wipe out the enemy!" ”

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