Chapter 58 is on fire
"Mu Lingshu, Mu Lingshuβ" Ling Xiaoqi's anxious voice sounded outside. "I'm here, I'm inside!" Mu Lingshu's heart was roaring, but she couldn't make a sound in her mouth.
Fortunately, Ling Xiaoqi found Mu Lingshu and rushed out of the fire with her in his arms.
The more he thought about it, the more he didn't worry about her living alone in the mountains, so he thought about coming to see her from afar, and if she was doing well, he wouldn't bother, who knew that he would see smoke billowing when he first came.
"If it's on fire, don't you know how to run?"
If I could run, I would have run a long time ago, who would be waiting to die there!
Mu Lingshu maintained the posture of being clothed and stood before, glaring at Ling Xiaoqi, her eyes could turn now.
"No injuries." Ling Xiaoqi wanted to check, but Mu Lingshu clutched the quilt tightly.
"It's okay, let go!" Mu Lingshu was still clutching the quilt.
Suddenly I can control my body again,
"Wow-"
Mu Lingshu burst into tears.
Two consecutive moments of life and death, no one can bear it.
At this moment, I regained control of my body, I couldn't control it anymore, and all my fears, fears, and worries turned into tears and poured out.
"I won't say it, I won't say it, don't cry, I don't mean to blame you." Ling Xiaoqi looked at Mu Lingshu at a loss.
I want to be comforted but I don't know how.
"Wow, wow, wow-" Looking at Ling Xiaoqi, Mu Lingshu cried even more.
It took a while to stop crying, and with red and swollen eyes, he asked, "Do you see what's on fire?" β
"Nope."
She had pulled out all the grass around the hut to form a barrier, and she hadn't lit a fire, and it wasn't a hot day, so she couldn't imagine anything that would cause the thatched hut to burn.
"Did you see anyone on the way here?" Mu Lingshu suspected that it might be Mu Lingqiao's fire.
Ling Xiaoqi shook his head, even if there was anyone on the road, he didn't pay attention, his mind was on Mu Lingshu at that time.
I just want to hurry up, hurry up, for fear that something will happen to Mu Lingshu, how can I take care of anything else.
"I came here when I saw white smoke."
White? Could it be white phosphorus?
Normal combustion would not be white, and if it was, the first thing that came to her mind would be white phosphorus combustion.
Mu Lingshu picked up a branch, covered her mouth and nose and walked to the original site of the thatched hut that had been burned to ashes.
"What are you looking for?"
"Don't come here." Mu Lingshu stopped Ling Xiaoqi.
Chemistry is still far away for them, and they don't know that much of their so-called heavenly punishment can be explained.
If Mu Lingshu's guess is correct, this is really a fire caused by the spontaneous combustion of white phosphorus, then a white powder of phosphorus pentoxide will be produced.
This is an acidic corrosive product, which can be fatal if touched, inhaled, or ingested.
If it was really man-made, it would definitely leave clues, and Mu Lingshu didn't find anything after walking around.
"Was my guess wrong, or was it ......"
"Can you fetch me some water?"
Ling Xiaoqi nodded, not knowing what Mu Lingshu was going to do, but he still went.
This is a grass house, it is enough to make a fire point with a little white phosphorus, and the phosphorus pentoxide produced will not be very much, so it is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack.
Ling Xiaoqi brought the water, and Mu Lingshu surrounded the ashes of the grass and trees, and gently flicked the water up with his hand.
Phosphorus pentoxide dissolves in water and releases heat and toxic corrosive fumes. As long as there is smoke, Mu Lingshu's conjecture can be verified.
"Sure enough." After seeing the smoke, Mu Lingshu stepped back.
Although it was only a wisp of smoke, it was enough.
"What was that?" Intuition told Ling Xiaoqi that this matter was not simple.
"Spontaneous combustion of white phosphorus will be accompanied by a large amount of white smoke, causing a fire, and the combustion will leave behind a white powder, and that white powder will smoke when it encounters water." Mu Lingshu explained simply.
Ling Xiaoqi walked towards the ash pile of grass and trees, "Don't go over, that white powder and smoke are poisonous." β
"Then you ...... just now" Ling Xiaoqi pulled Mu Lingshu to see the doctor.
"The amount just now is very small, I have covered my mouth and nose, it's fine." Ling Xiaoqi didn't listen to her explanation, and pulled Mu Lingshu to see Dr. Li.
"The girl has a good complexion, and there is nothing wrong with being full of energy. It's Brother Ling, looking at the spring breeze and radiant ......"
Doctor Li winked at Ling Xiaoqi, leaned into his ear and said, "Reconcile, this lovesickness has been cured." As a person who has come over, I have to remind you to take it easy. β
Ling Xiaoqi pushed Dr. Li away, peeked at Mu Lingshu, and his face turned red.
Doctor Li was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "Old decay, there are good remedies for the kidneys, do you want Brother Ling to come with two." β
Shopkeeper Li looked at Ling Xiaoqi with a pair of cunning little eyes that pierced everything.
This Dr. Li is not as old-fashioned as he usually receives medicine, honestly.
Mu Lingshu heard the meaning of Shopkeeper Li's words, and couldn't help but cover her mouth and chuckle, waiting to see Ling Xiaoqi's joke.
"Tonifying the kidney?"
"Brother Ling, we are all old friends, so there's nothing to be embarrassed about."
There is an extra woman in Ling Xiaoqi's family, Dr. Li has heard of it, and from the first time he brought Mu Lingshu to sell medicinal materials, he saw the clues.
Although the outside opinion of Mu Lingshu is one-sided and poor, the Ling Xiaoqi he knows is very shrewd, and he will definitely not buy a maid like those women said, either stupid or deceived.
Judging from Mu Lingshu's several dealings with medicinal materials, it is not the kind of fox that they use to tempt people.
He is happy to see it, after all, Ling Xiaoqi is not small, but there are rules in the carpenter's business, and if you follow the master to learn art, you can't start a family, and people like Ling Xiaoqi are generally married and have children.
Seeing that he really didn't understand, and he was afraid that what he said would be too clear, the little lady was thin-skinned and scared people again.
leaned into Ling Xiaoqi's ear and whispered a few words, and Ling Xiaoqi's face turned green with a brush.
Mu Lingshu snickered on the side, like this, more excessive meat talk than this, she and the little sisters didn't say it, Dr. Li's is still too pediatric.
Mu Lingshu looked like she was waiting to watch the show, pretending to look at them with a puzzled expression.
"Don't bother." Doctor Li was pushed away again, pulled Mu Lingshu and walked out.
"Shopkeeper Li, what did I tell you just now?" Mu Lingshu pretended to ask unclear.
"Nothing."
"If there is a disease, it must be treated, and the disease should not be treated." Mu Lingshu rarely saw Ling Xiaoqi deflated once, and couldn't hide her smile.
"I'm not sick." glared at Mu Lingshu, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.
Mu Lingshu smelled a hint of danger and put away the smile on her face, "If you're not sick, you're not sick, you're not sick." β
"You know medicine, and the doctor should know a thing or two, or you can check it yourself to see if I'm sick or not."
"No, no." Mu Lingshu stepped back against the wall.
"Let's take the pulse, lest you get cranky."
"I believe you, no, I don't know how to treat doctors, I don't know how to see a doctor." Mu Lingshu moved to the side against the wall.
"You already knew what he was talking about, didn't you?" Ling Xiaoqi followed and moved in front of her, warning and danger flashing in his eyes.
"What? I don't understand. He smiled and looked at Ling Xiaoqi stupidly.