Chapter V: Emergencies
The smoke couldn't help but look at the sky and rush straight up, like a dark cloud covering the sky and poverty, shrouded in the sky above the county town of Qinghe, like a devil's face in the firelight, distorted and hideous. The red firelight illuminates the sky, like fiery clouds in the sunset, and like the gorgeous morning glow in the east at dawn. The county town of Qinghe was boiling at this moment, and countless people walked out of their homes and looked up in the direction of the center of the city, with various expressions on their faces. Some people are surprised, others are happy.
In Cui's Mansion, countless subordinates were busy fighting fires with water basins and buckets, and some people were knocking on gongs to deliver news. However, there was still a quiet area around the Cui family's ancestral hall, and countless dead soldiers of the Cui family who were hidden in the grass all held their breath and stared at the building in front of them. They did not dare to slack off in the slightest, because this was the next place where the attack was most likely.
Time passed like this, the fire was brought under control, and the burning small building was in the center of the backyard, where was the embroidery building of your youngest daughter, the current head of the Cui family, ranked seventh in the entire Cui clan, known as Miss Seven. This night, when the fire broke out, this Miss Cui was asleep, and she woke up from her dream in a hurry when the fire spread, and then ran downstairs in a hurry. She was still sleeping, wearing only a lake-green coat and a moon-white close-fitting nightdress. Like a knife-sharpened fragrant shoulder, the fullness that the small clothes can't hide completely falls in the eyes of the person who is hiding on the side.
The lotus arms are as white as jade, slender and soft, and a face with a panicked look looks delicate and lovely in the firelight. Behind her, two maids were holding their clothes. Hurriedly chased after her, trying to put her clothes on. But at this moment, Miss Cui was as if she was greatly frightened, panicked like a deer chased by a hunter. With a panicked look, he ran quickly in the garden, and his mouth was still shouting unconsciously. The speed was so fast that the maid behind him couldn't catch up, and he could only watch the countless people who came to fight the fire with a surprised look and a different kind of gaze at the young lady's body.
Li Kuan hid in the shadows, looking at the woman who was running around. I was a little surprised, I didn't expect such a thing to happen. At that time, I just picked a small building and burned it down, how could I have thought that there would be such an almost absurd scene. But now the facts are in front of us. He couldn't help but be dumbfounded. It's just that after that, he couldn't move his feet a little.
This woman who is almost naked in the era of the Tang Dynasty, Li Kuan actually knows, no, it should not be said that he knows. It's that there was a one-sided relationship. It was actually the woman I saw at the foot of Jade Mountain that time. At that time, it felt familiar. And there was speculation and speculation, but because she was wearing a veil, she was not sure, and now that she saw all her faces, she found that it was really the case, and there would really be two similar flowers in the world.
So Li Kuan didn't leave, but just hid in the dark and looked like this. Miss Cui was running in the garden in front of her small building, and she was not wearing shoes at her feet. With bare feet, running on the bluestone path. The clothes on his body were disheveled. It looks like a wolf bèi. At this time, all the people around were sent back, leaving only a few maids and old mothers chasing the young lady who couldn't stop. Because the young lady is disheveled at this time, how can a man see it. As for the small building that is still burning, let it burn, and the Cui family has no shortage of this small building.
Finally, she was stopped under the chase and interception, and then several people hurriedly put clothes on her. They all looked worriedly. I don't know why, this seventh lady has been afraid of fire since she was a child, and she is even afraid of the candles illuminated in the room, so the head of the Cui family who loves her even did not hesitate to replace all the candles in this young lady's boudoir with night pearls. The Night Pearl is priceless, just to arrange that small embroidery building, it made Qinghe Cui's pay a lot of price. Although they don't know what kind of secret there is, they can also feel the master's love for Miss Seven. Now that Miss Seven's embroidery building is on fire, this kind of thing must be no good fruit to eat.
Cui Jing, the head of the Cui family, is now in the capital, because at this juncture the capital is stormy, the major families have launched a game with the royal family in the capital, which is related to the relationship between the family and the royal family in the future. Therefore, the heads of the major families, as well as the current heads of various functions, all went to the capital. Therefore, these subordinates do not know what kind of punishment they will suffer from the head of the family in the future, but the more unknown they are, the more frightening they are.
Li Kuan hid under the shade of the tree, looking at the panicked scene in front of him, and he did feel a little ashamed in his heart. It would be nice if this victim didn't look so much like that person, but now there is such a coincidence, which really makes Li Kuan's heart uneasy. So he stood there all the time, not leaving, not doing what he had designed and arranged, but waiting until the chaos here was over, and the seventh lady had settled down before disappearing into the dark night.
The words were divided into two ends, talking about the ancestral hall, the arrow that hit the pillar of the court was still trembling slightly, making the three old men sitting in the ancestral hall nervous. The subordinates who had been in charge of guarding around hurriedly stepped forward to check, and found that the arrow was fixed on the courtyard pillar, and the arrow had all fallen into the courtyard pillar made of nanmu, and there was a silk silk on it. Hurriedly took it down and sent it to the ancestral hall.
"Thank you for your waiting, Liuxiang is very frightened, but Bai Yuming Yuezhu has already smiled, Liuxiang will no longer express his gratitude one by one, if there is any rudeness, look at Haihan!" Seeing this sentence written on the silk silk, the three old men felt a burst of panic, that place was far away from the Cui Mansion, and it was very secret, plus the two commanders of the Cui family were guarded, was it actually taken away like this? That's impossible!
"Let's go, go over there!" The fat old man mentioned yì first, he had lost his rational judgment and just wanted to see the results.
"Can't go, this is not necessarily true, what if it is a diversion of the tiger from the mountain, just like the fire in the backyard before, it is a conspiracy of thieves, so what should I do?" The old man with the goatee spoke to stop it, he felt that the matter was probably not as simple as it seemed on the surface, this was probably because the other party had discovered the ambush of his people, so he would release the smoke screen so deliberately. It's cheating them.
"Yes. The thief doesn't necessarily know that the white jade moon bead in this ancestral hall is fake, and he does this to transfer us people so that he can take advantage of the opportunity. Moreover, there has been no news from Ah Man's side, and the other party may not really find out. So it's better to wait and see what happens. The white-eyed old man also said.
"But what if it's true? We were very careful when we transferred. But it is still possible to be discovered by the other party, with the skills of the thief, if it is a sneak attack, Ah Man and the two may not be able to resist it! The fat old man was still worried, because he was really a little scared of this thief who called himself Chu Liuxiang, and when he remembered that he woke up that morning and saw the small flying knife next to his pillow, he felt a chill in his neck.
"Then you bring some people to check it out. We're here to stay! The white-eyed old man said.
"If you divide it, you are weak, and the other party is not necessarily just one person!" The fat old man hesitated, though he felt that he was right. But when he was asked to take a team to check, he retreated again.
"So what do you want? It won't work to move all of them, and we might be leading the way for the thieves when we go! The old man with the goatee muttered.
"Forget it, I'll go. You cowardly fellow! The white-eyed old man walked out of the ancestral hall as he spoke. Then with a wave of his hand, the dead soldiers of the Cui family, who were hiding in the dark, suddenly appeared in a group of more than a dozen people, and then they turned around and left, heading towards the outside of the Cui Mansion, straight to the north of the city, where there was an independent courtyard against the city wall, which was very remote. And it's also easy to get out of the city from there, not far from the city is a forest. It was a small branch of the Qilian Mountains.
Li Kuan didn't stay long, and after coming out of Cui's mansion, he went directly to the south of the city, and the people on the street were still looking, they all looked at the direction of the fire, and no one paid attention to the person who walked straight by them.
In the south of the city, the city gate has been closed, and because of the previous fire, it is now heavily guarded, and one by one the soldiers broke out in the previous lazy state, holding spears and horses, wearing iron armor and silver helmets, standing on the city wall, staring fiercely at the direction of the fire. They didn't dare to slack off, because it was the Cui family who caught fire, and it was the overlord of this Qinghe County, and the slightest disturbance of this family would form a storm in the entire Qinghe County.
Li Kuan walked and slowly approached the city wall, because the Cui family was on fire, so the curfew in Qinghe County seemed to be paralyzed, and countless people poured into the streets, and the Wuhou who patrolled couldn't control it, plus Li Kuan's agility, he hid far away when he saw these patrol guys, so no one noticed him yet.
At the base of the city wall, Li Kuan looked at the city wall three zhang high, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, this Qinghe County is worthy of being the base camp of the Cui family, and it is really running well, at least the city wall is a little lower than that of Chang'an City, and the rest of the sturdy Cheng Dù and the maintenance and maintenance on weekdays are not worse than Chang'an City. It is built with bluestone blocks and glutinous rice to thicken it, and such a wall is much more solid than the rammed earth walls of countless other cities.
Three zhang high, it is difficult to Li Kuan, I didn't see how to move, Li Kuan took out a roll of rope and tied an iron hook at one end, which is the most common necessary tool for the snitch in later film and television dramas. Li Kuan, the guest thief, is also definitely equipped.
With his current strength, throwing this iron hook onto the city wall is just a piece of cake, but he has to be careful not to be discovered by the soldiers above, so Li Kuan is still cautious. Fortunately, his current skills are stronger than any special forces king, and it only takes more than ten seconds to climb the three-zhang high wall with a rope. Therefore, when Li Kuan landed on the city wall as lightly as a tanuki, he still did not alarm anyone. Then it was easier to go down the city wall, and with his skills, he jumped directly unscathed. After all, ordinary people can jump from three floors without physical injury after exercise, not to mention Li Kuan, whose various physical functions have surpassed the limits of ordinary people.
Put away the rope, and then jumped straight down from the city wall, landed a few rolls, although the clothes were dirty, but also almost silent, plus the attention of the soldiers on the city wall was still focused on the other side, Li Kuan left Qinghe County in this way, a small cloth bag in his arms was attached to his chest, turned his head to look at the black Qinghe County, and the illuminated sky, Li Kuan sighed softly, turned and left.
It's just that what Li Kuan didn't expect was that this qiē seemed to be just the beginning, and the grievances between him and Qinghe Cui had just revealed a hint.
Cui Mansion, the backyard, the ashes fell from the air and sprinkled in the small garden, like snowflakes flying in the cold winter. Miss Cui Shiqi was wrapped in a silk quilt and sat in a small pavilion in the garden, but at this time, her eyes were distracted, she lost her previous agility and cunning, her face was pale, and the corners of her mouth seemed to twitch uncontrollably.
"Miss! It's time to go inside and rest, it's cold outside! A little girl came to her side timidly, this is the little girl who accompanied her to Yushan to play, and now only she dares to approach Miss Seven, this qiē seems to be subtle.
"Chun-Li, right? You go down first, I want to be alone for a while! Miss Seven's slender hand gently rubbed her temples and said lightly. (To be continued......)