Chapter 13: What the Midnight Fire Is?

The two of them wanted to show it, so as to reverse the thoughts in the hearts of the people, but just after rushing out a few steps, Zhang Zhong shouted there: "Zhan Zhubo, Xiao Xiancheng, don't help when you come, what are you doing with an empty bucket?" That's how you usually do that? Is that irresponsible?

Now is not the time for the Wenxian order, this official will never allow the people in the yamen to do nothing well like before, and they don't think about the people, put away all your previous practices, when did this come? I'm really waiting for you, the house has already burned down, and it's not enough to get things done."

Xiao Xiancheng and Zhan Zhubo were stunned when they heard Zhang Zhong's words, and they couldn't think of what to say for a while, but when they said this, it was like hitting them in the face, especially the people who came to help, they all looked at them with disgust, if it wasn't for the fire over there, they really wouldn't have found it.

"Master Zhang, aren't you just a little early? Didn't the two of us come over and sleep, can't we wake up once in a while, right? Xiao Xiancheng retorted dissatisfiedly.

"Early? Do you know when I came over? I've been looking at those case files left behind at night, you, as a county magistrate, are helping the county magistrate to do things, the county magistrate has already come first, your county magistrate hasn't arrived yet, you sleep, don't you sleep, look at these people, they don't sleep? Are you a pig? ”

Zhang Zhong happened to be able to promote his reputation at this time, so he didn't leave any affection at all, and said all the cruel words.

After all, the people saw what was going on, and the people didn't know that the two people had just slept at night, and they had drunk some wine, and they only saw that the fire had just come together, and the county magistrate rushed out of the courtyard behind the Jinlai Building, and led people to start fighting the fire.

And the two people of the county and the lord Bo did not appear until this time, and they got up later than them, and they didn't know who got up first, and shouted there: "Zhang County Ling is a good official." ”

The others also began to shout, shouting while fighting the fire, the bucket in the hands of the lord Bo and the county was also snatched and used, the two people stood there, wanting to say something, but found that the words they said were suppressed by the surrounding voices, and no one could hear them.

Zhang Zhong was still there with a simple loudspeaker made of iron sheet that was large in the front and small in the back, and the surrounding people and officials all listened to his orders.

I don't know how the fire burned, buckets of water poured into it, it didn't have any effect at all, and after the fire was a little smaller, it suddenly became bigger.

Waiting for the day to dawn, the fire over there is almost burning, this is only a little smaller, but standing here, you can still feel a hot breath coming to your face.

As the day dawned, Zhang Zhong said directly: "You don't have to rush back for a while, go to Jinlailou to eat something, thank you for getting up at night to help put out the fire, otherwise you may jump into the private house, that is the real disaster." ”

The people have been working for so long, they are already tired, and they are about to go back, when they heard the words of the county order, they let out bursts of cheers, usually they don't dare to go to Jinlai Lou to eat, the things there are so expensive to death, now it's okay, there is a chance to go once, all because of the new county order.

"Xiao Xiancheng and Zhan Zhubo, you two stay here and check how the fire burns, you can't occupy a position and don't do anything at all, the others will leave with me."

Zhang Zhong ordered two ugly-faced people to investigate here, and those officials and people were called by him to walk towards Jin Lai Lou together, and Jin Lai Lou had already prepared some gruel, side dishes and buns at this time.

The people and officials surrounded Zhang Zhong and left, leaving Xiao Xiancheng and Zhan Zhubo looking at each other, the two of them really couldn't understand what happened tonight, these two hours made the two of them feel as if it had been two months of hardship.

At the beginning, the two of them were snatched back, and they were ready to just take a look, but they couldn't stand the contemptuous gaze of the people who passed by him after receiving the water, and there was no way, so the two of them found a big wooden basin again, and went to the well to wait for someone to fill the wooden basin with water, and the two of them were going back to put out the fire.

I didn't find it when I was working just now, but now I stopped, and the two of them only felt that there was no place on their bodies that was not uncomfortable, standing there was the upper eyelid straight down the eyelids, and the body was shaking back and forth, I really wanted to go back to sleep, but I didn't dare, and it was better to be blown by the cold wind in the early morning.

"Brother Yong, what should we do? Zhang Zhong asked the two of us to find the cause of the fire, where do we have to start? Zhan Zhubo said depressedly there.

Xiao Xiancheng was also puzzled, what he couldn't understand was not how to start the fire, but why the fire had been burning for so long, the warehouse was already empty, couldn't it be extinguished after burning for a while?

Thinking of this, Xiao Xiancheng said to Zhan Zhubo: "I'll go to the granary and see what's going on." ”

After speaking, Xiao Xiancheng walked directly over there, saying that he was going to take a look at the granary, but in fact, there was no warehouse here anymore, and he had already been pulled down by someone to put out the fire.

Zhan Zhubo followed behind, and the two of them walked to the place where the heat was still emitted, and when they walked, there would be a sound of rushing water under their feet, which showed how much water had been poured just now.

Waiting to get closer, both of them were stunned at the same time.

"No wonder it has been burned for so long, who brought this grain here, no, it's not food, it seems to be just straw, what are you doing with so many hungry straws?"

Xiao Xiancheng finally sent something to this time, and the reason why it took so long to extinguish the fire was all because of the straw in the granary.

Circling around the granary, the two of them found that the fire had not been extinguished, and when they were thinking about what to do, a servant who went to Jinlailou came over, and there was a big bun stuffed in his mouth, and the one he ate was called a fragrant, so that Xiao County Cheng and the station owner Bo couldn't help but be greedy.

"Two, are you still here? The food over there is delicious, don't believe me, look at this bun of mine, it's stuffed with meat, you two can taste it? The official who came was concerned about the two of them, and sent the buns that had been held in his dirty hands to the two of them.

"Eat, we're not hungry, do you know what's going on with the straw in these granaries?" Xiao Xiancheng really didn't want to eat the thing with the black handprint, even if the two of them were really hungry, they couldn't eat it.

After hearing this, the man was not polite, stuffed a bun into his mouth, chewed it vigorously, swallowed half of it, and then said: "This straw was sent by the county magistrate in the middle of the night, saying that the officials in the yamen usually can't even drink hot water, and with these straws, you can cook two meals a day for the county officials."

My lord, now that our straw has been burned, what can we do in the future? It's a pity, someone must have made it bad, unwilling to let us officials eat some hot food and drink some hot water. ”

Xiao Xiancheng and Zhan Zhubo listened to the words of this servant, and felt that the status of the two of them had dropped a little, they looked at each other, and they really couldn't guess how the fire started, these straws were only under control now, and no one knew what was going on inside.

Zhan Zhubo found a pole that was used to top the wall, and pulled it up among the straws, but it was good that he didn't touch it, but this time, the straw with sparks in it was blown by the wind and burned again.

The fire borrowed the wind, the fire that was extinguished just now has become bigger again, the two of them have no choice, beckoning the official who came to see the excitement, the three of them began to carry water to extinguish the fire, the official has done a lot of work, and now he is too full of food, and when he does it again, he doesn't have much strength, and walks back and forth slowly.

Most of the water was poured by the main Bo and the county, and the two of them were tired enough, but they didn't dare to ignore it, in case a bundle of burning straw flew up and fell on top of other houses, their responsibility would be greater, and they were asked to guard it here, did it look like this?

Fortunately, the surrounding places have already been dismantled and isolated, and the fire did not spread to other houses, only burning in that one place, and the two of them worked for another half an hour, and Zhang Zhong finally came back with those who had finished eating.

As soon as he saw the fire ignite again, Zhang Zhong first shouted for everyone to help put out the fire, and then said to Xiao Xiancheng and Zhan Zhubo: "What else can you two do?" You can make a fire even if you look at it here, do you know how to start a fire? ”

Lord Bo and Xiancheng shook their heads gently, now the two of them have no heart to say anything to refute, they are tired like two dead dogs, if they don't fall here directly and let the people see it, they really want to sleep, and they are not ready to take care of anything.

So far, they haven't rested for two days and two nights, and if they continue like this, they will exhaust themselves to death.

After Zhang Zhong finished talking about the two of them, he began to command again, and after an hour, there were still people over there who turned up the straw from time to time for people to water, and the fire was completely extinguished.

"Okay, let's start doing things, you can't do nothing all day, this official looked at the cases of those 120 or so people last night, and found that some of them should not be sentenced at all, you two write a document to change the sentence, and I will release the people."

Zhang Zhong didn't know where to take out those case files and let the two people change the sentence.

"My lord, no, this can't be changed easily, you have to read it one by one." Zhan Zhubo said there.

"Okay, let's look at them one by one, when you understand it, when you go back and rest for a while." Zhang Zhong said in a good manner.