Chapter 54: A Sea of Fire
So Princess Shuying was born in Jingtongyuan.
This time, arranging Chen Hongkuan to live in Jingtong Garden actually has a meaning. Let him always remember that everything he is now is from the emperor and the princess, and don't forget his identity and duty.
Whether he Chen Jiahui is brilliant or not is Chen Qiuhe's business, and it has nothing to do with Chen Hongkuan. But if he did something wrong, it would affect the entire Chen family.
It's a pity that Chen Hongkuan didn't expect this.
Yao Chuxi ate a lot of things during dinner, and from time to time he fell asleep, and was helped back to the back room by Luoxia to sleep.
The lights were also turned off in the west hall where Han Shang Palace was located, and Luo Shuang also received a basin of hot water to wash Han Shang Palace's feet before going to bed.
Washing your feet with hot water is the most relaxing and invigorating your blood, and the whole person is warm.
Luoxia kept vigil today, afraid that the master would not be able to hear the sound when he got up at night, so he didn't dare to sleep too much.
After Jiang Liu closed the door from the door, he deliberately made a round, and after making sure that it was okay, he went back to the house to sleep.
It was supposed to be an ordinary night, but it was destined to be extraordinary.
Chen Hongkuan jumped in from the backyard wall, but the flower cloth on his shoes scraped the branches and floated back to the other side of the wall.
After cursing secretly, he walked around to the back of the west hall.
My sister didn't tell him where Yao Cairen lived, because she didn't know, so she only told him to act at the opportunity.
If you jump out in vain and leave footprints, the emperor will inevitably find someone to check it.
It's better to set a fire, not only can burn Yao Cairen to death, but also cover up the only evidence.
The house has turned into a handful of ashes, presumably there will be a lot of palace people fighting the fire by then, who can pay attention to the footprints in the mess?
Chen Hongkuan took a deep breath and listened through the wall.
At this time, it was already late at night, and there was no summer insects and cicadas and birds, and the winter night was quiet, so quiet that I could only hear my own heartbeat.
The one-person-wide window was carefully pried open by him, and then he took out the rice paper and fire oil he had brought with him, lit it and threw it into the window immediately.
Han Shanggong had back pain at night, and he didn't want to wake up the frost, so he quietly turned over and stretched out his hand to hammer it.
It was at this turn that she heard the sound of the window being pried open.
There were two windows in the back room, and the window that opened to the backyard was directly opposite her bed. Next to the window are wardrobes and wooden boxes, as well as paper and pens on the table and table.
She held her breath and squinted her eyes as she stared quietly at the window crack on the other side of the bed.
The lit rice paper was thrown in and fell on the table, instantly igniting the paper on the table.
Han Shanggong didn't dare to delay, endured the back pain and got up and pushed the frost, and told her in her ear, "Don't make a sound." ”
Frost woke up and didn't know what was going on, but she realized when she saw the fire in the house.
She and Han Shanggong secretly got off the ground and went out through the main gate with a suppressed voice.
The east hall was also set on fire by Chen Hongkuan in the same way, but it was not as serious as the west hall.
Han Shanggong went down to the house to wake up Luoyu and Xue and Jiang Liu, and Jiang Liu immediately came out with a few eunuchs and a few eunuchs.
When her master was sleeping, Luoxia was afraid that someone would come in, so she deliberately locked the door, and Luoshuang knocked for a long time before she woke up Luoshuang.
The place where she kept vigil was far away from the main entrance, but I was afraid that the inner room was already burning by this time.
Chen Hongkuan didn't run in a hurry, but was worried that the fire would not burn, so he deliberately put his hand into the window and poured some oil into the window.
With that, the spark scurried into the sleeve of his coat and burned two small holes.
He heard the sound of falling frost knocking on the door, and it was the east hall when he heard the sound.
It stands to reason that the fires in the east and west halls have not yet been completely burned, so how did the palace people in the lower room know?
When the fire burned his brows, he couldn't allow him to think, and after pouring all the fire oil he carried, he hurriedly climbed over the wall and walked out of the Yunyan Pavilion when Jiang Liu led people to put out the fire.
Yao Chuxi was dreaming, in the dream, she was holding a child in her arms, and the emperor was criticizing the excerpts next to her, looking at her and smiling.
Suddenly, there was a fire in her dream, and in reality she felt that someone had pushed her, so everything in the dream began to blur, and the child in her arms disappeared in an instant.
"Little Lord, wake up! There's a fire in the house! "It's the anxious voice of Luoxia and Luohuang.
Yao Chuxi opened his eyes and woke up, quickly sat up from the bed, and paused when he saw the fire in the room.
"Run, little master!" Luoshuang hurriedly put a cotton coat on the back of his master, and took her away without saying anything.
At this time, the fire had already burned in front of it, and the curtains and bed tents were nothing more than the best combustibles. When the fire touched the bed tent, it burst into flames, as if in celebration.
The knock on the door that had just fallen revealed Yao Chuxi's location, which was why the fire in the east hall was so strong. Chen Hongkuan is here to burn her tonight, if he lets her live, wouldn't it be in vain?
He sneaked up to the door and set another fire before jumping over the wall to escape.
At this time, the east hall had fallen into a sea of fire, the fire was red all over the sky, and the breeze mixed with the fire seemed to devour the people in the east hall.
The sandalwood beam that had been around for more than ten years collapsed and smashed straight in front of Yao Chuxi, scaring her to the ground. Unfortunately, the wooden wardrobe was also entangled in flames, and in a short time there was not much left of the clothes sent by the Shang Yi Supervisor, and the air was filled with dark gray smoke, and the shouts of a group of people and the sound of buckets splashing water to extinguish the fire.
Luoshuang put one hand around his master's waist and the other hand blocked the flames for his master, and his arm was unfortunately burned together.
Luo Xia tore off the burning quilt on the bed and threw it to the ground, extinguishing the fire in an instant, and also leaving a chance for the three of them to escape.
"Run, this won't be long!" Luoxia also ran with Yao Chuxi with Luoshuang.
Yao Chuxi was frightened in his heart, and involuntarily trembled, turning his head to catch a glimpse of Ruyi on the lid of the box in the bed.
This is the emperor rewarded her, she has always regarded it as a treasure, and she only hates not being able to hold it when she sleeps.
In life and wishful thinking, Yao Chuxi did not make a choice.
She went back to the bed and took Ruyi, but when she got out of bed, she accidentally didn't hold it steady and broke Ruyi in order to hide from a burning piece of cloth.
Luoshuang and Luoxia were really anxious, and the three of them continued to flee, but Yao Chuxi's feet were cut by Ruyi.
"Get out of here! Leave me alone! Yao Chuxi was half-kneeling on the ground, the wound on the center of her foot was dripping on the ground, although she covered her mouth and nose tightly, she still couldn't resist the billowing smoke, her facial features were wrinkled together, and her eyes were almost unable to open.
"Little Lord, what did you say? Let's go together! Luoshuang stretched out her hand to help Yao Chuxi, wanting her to hurry up.
She was also a little unbearable, and her head was dazed, as if she was going to collapse in the house at any moment.
Luo Xia squatted directly in front of Yao Chuxi, "The little master comes up, and the slave will take you out." ”
Luoshuang helped his master on Luoxia's back, and then noticed that the master had fainted and was unconscious.
She was choked by smoke for a long time in her dreams, and when she woke up, she was frightened and injured, so it was no wonder that she didn't faint.
The fire in the door was almost extinguished, and Jiang Liu rushed in with a wet quilt and saw the master at a glance.
"Run! The fire is out outside! ”
Several people rushed out of the sea of fire and collapsed directly on the ground, and Luoxia also fainted.
"Little master? How's the little lord doing? Falling rain and falling snow cried together, thinking that something big had happened to their master, kneeling on the ground and holding the master's hand.
Luoyu was still trying to stay calm at this time, and quickly took a quilt and wrapped it around the master's body.
The faces of the few people who came out of the east hall were all black and gray, and Yao Chuxi's nose was still rubbed with black dirt, looking extremely embarrassed.
"Be quiet!" Han Shanggong stepped forward and checked Yao Chuxi's pulse, and said with a solemn expression, "Don't mess around!" Falling frost and snow carried the little master to the side room to let her sleep slowly, and the falling rain took Xiao Yongzi to pass the imperial doctor, remember, you must be fast! Jiang Liu will take someone with me! ”
Obviously, Han Shanggong was also a little flustered, and his hands were a little shaky when he took the pulse, and he didn't know if it was because of the back pain again.
A few people listened to Han Shanggong's words the most, and after agreeing twice, they did what they had to do.
After discovering the fire, the eunuchs patrolling in the back garden immediately participated in the firefighting, and it may not be easy to find any clues.
Han Shanggong walked slowly in the snow with a lantern. Because of the backlight, the back wall of Yunyan Pavilion is not a place to be walked often, so there is no snow clearing, leaving some shallow snow.
Although Jiang Liu immediately surrounded Yunyan Pavilion with his people, he still didn't catch Chen Hongkuan's current situation.
Han Shanggong focused on the footprint at the base of the wall.
There is only one footprint, and the other footprint is just a mass, and there is no shoe print on the road.
"Look around and remember not to step on it." After Han Shanggong finished speaking, he held the stove and watched it from the side.
She has a bad body, she didn't have a good fever last time, and she can't stand her waist when she squats together, so this kind of thing can only be done by young people.
Jiang Liu first searched in the snow, but found nothing, so he went up to the wall.
Standing on the wall and looking around, Jiang Liuwei squinted his eyes and observed carefully.
He saw the cloth scraped off by the branches hanging from the branches that reached out of the wall.
After quickly taking off the flower cloth, Jiang Liu handed the flower cloth to Han Shanggong to see.
"What is this?" Han Shanggong's expression became more solemn, and the flower cloth in his hand seemed to weigh a thousand catties, "You go to the Taihe Hall and invite Father-in-law Pan." ”
"But it's not dawn yet..."
"If something happens to Yunyan Pavilion, I can't care if the sky is bright or not, even if it is Pan's father-in-law, he is destined to not be able to sleep, go quickly!"
On the other side, Pan Zhen'an had already come to the back garden, and he really responded to Han Shanggong's words, and he was frightened when he slept this night, and he didn't recover from Duan Kui's words for a while.
Seeing Jiang Liu head-on, Pan Zhenan knew that he must have come to find him.
"How is Yao Cairen?" Pan Zhenan asked.
"The little master has fainted, and he hasn't woken up yet, but he has already gone to ask for a doctor." Jiang Liu replied.
A few people rushed to the back wall of Yunyan Pavilion after a while.
"Father-in-law Pan, come and see this." Han Shanggong didn't be polite with him, and directly took out the flower cloth in his hand to show him.