Xie Mulin and his entourage took a boat to Wangjia Hutong, and the sun had already risen high after only half of the road. Xie Yingrong's stomach also growled.

She eats and drinks enough every day these days, and she doesn't have to do any physical work at home, and there are small snacks specially prepared by Sister Zhang Qiao, which can satisfy her hunger at any time, where have you ever been hungry? I didn't expect such a show. She blushed in embarrassment and lowered her head, but she still secretly looked at others, for fear that someone would laugh at her.

Xie Mulin looked like he hadn't heard anything. In the morning, she also reminded Xie Yingrong to eat more, people don't appreciate it, and now that she is offended, she just needs to be happy in her heart, and she doesn't have to show it on her face and make people hold grudges.

Xie Huizhi sneered generously, and glanced at Xie Yingrong and said: "People kindly remind you to eat more, you don't take it seriously, and now you are at a loss, right?" If you don't listen to good people, do you really want to harm you in the family?! ”

Xie Yingrong's face was about to turn purple.

Xie Jinzhi walked out of the cabin quietly, and it didn't take long for him to come back with a hot baked cake wrapped in paper and hand it to Xie Yingrong. From time to time, he would buy some cheap pen, ink, paper, and inkstones, write down memorized books from memory, and sell them to bookstores. Although I don't earn much, I still have three or five hundred dollars, in addition to the cost of taking medicine and supplements, I can also spare some pocket money, buy some food, and there is no pressure at all.

Xie Yingrong was not very worried about the food sold outside, and hesitated to know whether to take it or not. Xie Mulin would not indulge her delicate temper, and rolled his eyes: "You don't eat less food bought from outside every day, and you still dislike this?" Do you think Granny Li and Sister Zhang really have the leisure to cook you three or four breakfasts every day?! ”

Xie Yingrong listened, and after all, he couldn't resist the temptation of the smell of baked cakes, so he took it and ate it. Because she was in a hurry to eat and had no water, she choked.

Xie Huizhi sneered again and handed over the bamboo tube tied around his waist. Inside is Xie Mulin's herbal tea, which not only quenches thirst, but also prevents colds and maintains his throat, and Xie Huizhi will go out with a tube every day. Even the bamboo tube was designed by Xie Mulin with the idea of a screw cap, and he asked Li Xianglang to help make it, and the latter also made one himself, which is easy to carry, light and convenient, and very easy to use.

Xie Yingrong took the bamboo tube with a red face and took a sip of tea, his face was hot.

Xie Hui went to talk to the boatman he knew. He knew that the boatman often went to the city to ferry passengers, and he was very well informed, so he asked the other party if he knew about the fire in the royal family.

The boatman really knew: "Wang family, I know, I was still a family with them five hundred years ago!" But we are poor people, and we feed our families with our own hands, and the money we earn is clean. Their family's glory and wealth are inexhaustible, but no matter how beautiful they are, they also earn a lack of virtue and silver, and it is only a matter of time before God accepts them! ”

Yo, it sounds like this big brother Wang is still a person with a story.

Xie Mulin gave Xie Huizhi a look, and the latter asked knowingly: "Brother Wang, it sounds like you know something?" ”

Brother Wang snorted coldly: "Don't look at your brother Wang only begging for a living on the river all day long, those who do our business are also common in the three religions and nine streams, if there is any wind and grass in the city, don't try to hide it from our eyes!" In order to prove his words, he detailed the news he knew about the fire in the Wang family, such as the middle of the night when the fire started, for example, there was no one else in the Wang family at that time, only the mother and daughter were left, and for example, Wang Angui's case......

But at this point, the accuracy of Brother Wang's information has been discounted, and he described Wang Angui as: "Greedy for the silver on the river work, the dog is guts!" Last year, the Yellow River burst its banks, killing tens of thousands of people, all of whom were harmed by him! Such a scourge, how can God say that God can tolerate him? Look, isn't this being caught and beheaded by the government? ”

Wang Angui is obviously on death row, and he is suspected of being killed, why did he become beheaded by the government? Where did this Brother Wang get the news from?

Brother Wang was still there and continued to say what he heard: "His wife and daughter still want to cry out for him, saying that the queen mother and the prince have harmed him." This is simply shelter! Who are the queen and the crown prince? If you really want to hurt him, it's over with a single word of command, and you still need to spend that effort? It's just that I thought that I was a relative of the Cao family, and I could rely on the queen mother and the prince to be lawless. How did he know that the queen mother and the crown prince were shengming! I wouldn't let these relatives who couldn't be beaten by the eight poles mess around, and I would have asked the emperor to deal with it impartially, so I killed the head of the surnamed Wang. The women of his family poured sewage on the heads of the good people indiscriminately, and even God couldn't stand it, so they sent down heavenly punishment in the middle of the night and burned their mother and daughter to death! ”

Xie Mulin could probably guess who had released the news.

Is this to prevent others from talking about the contradictions between the two Cao families a few days ago and attacking the Cao family? But to be honest, the second room of the Cao family was calculated by Wang Angui's eldest daughter, it is inevitable to get angry, and it is normal to go to his house to talk ruthlessly, secretly suppress it, and arrange a not very good place of exile for the mother and daughter of the Wang family, it is a reasonable guess, but if the second room of the Cao family hates the Wang family so much that it wants to set fire to the door...... Not really, right? The Cao family is not all straw bales, Miss Cao has not yet entered the palace, and she has not officially lost the qualification to enter the palace, why should the Cao family have extraneous branches at this time?

So, what the hell is the fire all about?

The ship soon reached its destination. Xie Huizhi skillfully paid the fare, took the other three ashore, and walked all the way to Wangjia Hutong.

Before they arrived at the place, they could see from a distance that the area around the entrance of Wangjia Hutong was crowded with people watching the excitement, and there were officials and officials there to maintain order. The cries of women can be faintly heard in the Wang family's field, probably the family members of the victims of the fire, right?

Xie Mulin was wearing a light blue cloth shirt today, a dark blue cloth skirt, a sauce-red half-sleeve on his head, his hair was combed into two high braids, coiled into a double mustache, except for a red head rope and a small silk flower, there was no decoration, no different from the little girl who ran errands in the common mansion door in this area. She blended in with the crowd with ease. Xie Jin's dress as a young scholar, Xie Huizhi is like a little girl, and he is not very conspicuous.

Only Xie Yingrong is dressed very decently, and she looks a little like a big girl in the house, but she is young and well-born, but she is a fresh face. She stood there for a while, and then someone came and asked her where she belonged from. She wanted to get rid of it, but she got rid of one, and another came forward, which annoyed her.

Xie Yingrong didn't see anything clearly, and the person he wanted to find didn't find it, Xie Mulin had already listened to the discussion of the people around him: "I heard that there was thunder in the sky in the middle of the night, and a fire fell from the sky, burning the sguilty's family to death!" ”

"Shelter! What kind of nonsense can you believe? If it was really God's will, then why did the fire still burn the Wang family in the other room? I heard that several girls died, and there was an aunt and a mother-in-law who guarded the door. The garden of the sixth room of the Wang family was burned down! ”

"I heard there are fugitive slaves! Isn't the sixth room of the Wang family always have a good reputation? Why is there still a girl in his family who is unwilling to stay on an errand and is willing to run away? ”

"It's not necessarily a fugitive slave, maybe they went out, the officials don't know, and they think they have escaped."

"How do you know they're out? When the girl in the family goes out, even if outsiders don't know, the housekeeper and the porter always know. ”

"Didn't you burn a mother-in-law who was guarding the door? She must have let it out. At the beginning of last night (21 o'clock in the evening), I saw with my own eyes a small carriage coming out of the alley next to the sixth room of the Wang family and heading to the east. Isn't that car what the girls of the Wang family often sit when they go out? ”

"How can there be a girl who goes out of the house at night? You're going to be dazzled! ”

"You're dazzled! I'm an errand boy in the doorman's house, and I came over for a shift yesterday, and I saw it for real! I'll tell you! ”

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