Chapter 114: Nameless Fire
Chinese Yuan Shizhao naturally didn't know that someone had targeted him, and he was annoyed by what had happened to him recently. He never thought that when he had a falling out with the old lady who had worked hard to pull him up, he would marry the Hu family, and he would be a shameless adulterous person!
He couldn't help but wonder if his two-month-old son was his own!
Suspicious of the dark ghost, since he had this thought, he felt that the child was not pleasing to the eye when he looked horizontally, and not pleasing to the eye when he looked vertically.
In the inner house, since Hu died, her companion room was naturally sold by Yuan Shizhao, and everything was taken care of by no one, and it was a mess.
The nurses and maids who served the little young master saw that the old man did not want to see the young master, and they were all lazy, but the child, who suffered from the wind and cold a few days ago, has not been well, and these close servants belong to the care, and the condition is getting worse day by day, and when Yuan Shizhao found out, the child was about to die of menstruation.
Yuan Shizhao was furious and reprimanded those subordinates.
The nurse was not convinced, and said in a weird manner: "Master, don't hurt other people's children!" ”
This nurse Ge Shi is only twenty-three years old, and her apricot eyes and peach cheeks are very beautiful, and she wants to climb high branches, so she is dressed up in flowers, opposite Yuan Shizhao, smiling before speaking, and the corners of her eyes and eyebrows are all amorous.
Yuan Shizhao's heart is itching, he has been sleeping alone for a few days, enjoying the gentle township, how can he endure being lonely? Then he was a little moved, and said, "How do you be?" ”
Ge Shi said: "Why don't you let the old man confess his relatives with blood?" ”
Yuan Shizhao had nothing to do, ordered someone to prepare the things to be applied, and first pricked his middle finger with a needle and dripped a drop of blood.
Ge Shi volunteered, took a steel needle and pierced the little master's delicate fingers, which made the child cry in pain, and soon his voice was hoarse.
Yuan Shizhao was unmoved, but in his heart he already decided that this child was not his own.
Who knows, those two drops of blood slowly fused together and were inseparable.
Yuan Shizhao was shocked, and Ge's face turned white.
Yuan Shizhao suddenly lost his thoughts, raised a foot and kicked on Ge's heart, and scolded: "You wicked woman! When he rushed to see his son, he was crying so loudly that he choked on his breath and turned his back on his face.
He had no experience in taking care of children, so he had to be in a hurry.
Ge Shi endured the pain in his heart, crawled over on his knees, and stretched out his hands: "Master, hand it over to the slave and maid......"
Yuan Shizhao's face was hideous, he hugged the child tightly, gritted his teeth and kicked out again: "You wicked woman! I still want to kill my son with my own hands, but I can't! ”
The back of Ge's head hit the bluestone floor, his head broke and he was bleeding, and he fainted.
The maid and the maid knelt on the ground tremblingly.
Yuan Shizhao didn't look at the woman, looked down at the son in his arms, but saw a layer of death on the child's face, he trembled and stretched out his hand, put it in front of the child's small nose, but he couldn't feel a trace of breath, and untied the swaddling clothes, probed the heart, and there was no beating. The small body slowly cooled down.
"Ahh
This is his own flesh and blood!
"Someone!" He looked like he was crazy, and he jumped to his feet and scolded, "Sell all these ungrateful bastards!" Sell them all into the kiln! ”
The room full of maids and wives kowtowed, but in a moment, everyone's foreheads were bruised and swollen, and some of them were still bleeding.
Yuan Shizhao was unmoved.
Servants rushed in and dragged the women out. The women cried and begged for mercy, and the men and women of the family came to beg for mercy.
There was a lot of chickens and dogs jumping in Yuan's house.
A month's money also beat gongs and drums for his son to do a full moon, but after a month, he held a funeral for his son.
Yuan Shizhao felt that he had aged ten years overnight.
It was easy to calm down, and the next person came to report that the grange and unprofitable shops he was going to sell were pressed to a very low price, and even if they were sold, it was not enough for a few months' expenses, and he jumped up: "Who is it?" I don't know if the master is a celebrity in Jincheng? Dare to bully the market like this! Go, take my name post, and go see Lord Zhizhou! We sue him! ”
"Master," said the person with a bitter face, "people are a reasonable deal, and others refuse to buy it, so they say that they can't afford to pay a lot of money, so if we don't sell it...... The two granges had failed for two years in a row, and the tenants could not afford to pay the rent; Those shops are also losing a lot of money, and they can only lose money if they keep it......"
Yuan Shizhao's forehead was bruised, and his eyes widened: "Fart!" Keeping the price so low, or is it a fair deal? ”
The man was so frightened that he stood trembling and did not dare to say any more.
Yuan Shizhao turned around the hall twice with his hands behind his back, and finally gritted his teeth: "That's it!" Cheap them too! Sold! Look at the shops and granges that can be sold at home, they are all sold and converted into cash, big deal, sir, I won't stay in Jincheng! ”
The man muttered in a low voice: "The shops in the master's hands are almost not profitable, and the best ones are just even." On the contrary, the old lady's grange in the countryside has a good harvest every year, and the few shops in the old lady's hands are also prosperous......"
Yuan Shizhao clapped his hands: "That's right! How could I forget! I'll give her a book to repair the old man, and you can send it over quickly......" As soon as the thought turned, he immediately changed his words, "No, I'll go myself!" Go, prepare the sedan car! ”
Outside the gate, the sedan chair was just ready, and someone from the family came to report: "Master, it's not good!" The backyard is out of the water! ”
Yuan Shizhao was shocked, and the backyard: "Where?" ”
"The ear room next to the upper room!"
Yuan Shizhao ran back with his robe, the ear room was his private warehouse! What's in there...... Even if all the property in the family is gone, he is not afraid, the things in it are enough for him to squander at will for several lifetimes!
By the time he reached the main courtyard, the transept had been completely engulfed in flames.
Yuan Shizhao was so anxious that he jumped to his feet and scolded his family: "What are you doing stupidly? Don't hurry up and put out the fire! How did it catch fire? What do you all eat? Master, I raised a bunch of waste like you with the silver of the white flowers? Rubbish! It's all rubbish! ”
The family members had risked their lives to extinguish the fire, but the fire was too big, not only did the fire in the ear chamber not be extinguished, but also implicated the main house and the cloister, most of them were injured, their bodies were stained with sparks, and their clothes were incomplete, but they did not get any recognition from the owner, and everyone felt that their loyalty was ignored.
Yuan Shizhao saw that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, thinking that there was still some soft hidden in the bedroom, and he didn't worry about letting his subordinates go in to get it, so he immediately tucked his robe into his waist, took a basin of water from the servant next to him and poured it on his head, and rushed into the fire with his head low.
There was an uproar among the people, and they said everything.
But it was said that Yuan Shizhao rushed into the bedroom, and went straight to the couch in the fire and smoke, the smoke was billowing out, so that he couldn't open his eyes, and in a trance he saw a young woman sitting on his stepping bed, with a very delicate appearance, but the dress was peculiar, a bit like a man, and the movements were rude, crossing Erlang's legs, and his toes were still little by little, grinning at himself.
"Who are you?" Yuan Shizhao's throat was so dry and aching from the fire, and his mouth was hoarse.
The woman smiled and looked at him with the eyes of a fool: "This is robbery while the fire is burning, do you understand?" He raised the brocade box in his hand, stood up, paced to the back window, stretched out his hand to push open the window, and smiled back, "Master Yuan, let's see you back!" Holding the windowsill with both hands, the milk swallow threw herself into the forest and ran out.
Yuan Shizhao was furious in his heart, his eyes were about to split, and he rushed over with all his might, but he didn't even touch the corner of the woman's clothes.
At this time, the smoke in the room was getting bigger and bigger, crackling and popping sounds came and went, the tent on the bed, the tables and chairs on the ground, and the beams above his head were already burning, Yuan Shizhao was so distressed that he stomped his feet, and only had time to pick up the makeup box on the dresser, turn around and run out in a hurry.
The housekeepers outside shouted at him to get out.
In a panic, he actually went in the wrong direction, hit his head on the pillar of the hall, the Venus in front of him was shaking, his hands and feet were weak, and it was easy to climb to the door, but the lintel fell down, and he was smashing on his shoulder, "whew", not only smashed his shoulder, but also burned his hair, eyebrows, beard, and clothes on one ear.
The family members did not dare to slack off, rushed over and tore him away, and some people even splashed buckets of well water, although they burned one ear, burned their cheeks, burned most of their eyebrows, beard, hair, and shoulders, but their lives were not harmed.
Yuan Shizhao was still holding the makeup box in his hand.
Looking at the slowly collapsing house, Yuan Shizhao had the luck of the rest of his life after the catastrophe in his heart, and at the same time he was secretly annoyed in his heart, that woman was not just a snitch from where, she dared to take advantage of the fire to rob! After a while, you must let people take their name cards to the Zhizhou Yamen to report the case!
In the end, because the fire was too big, it alarmed the Yamen of Yousi, and sent officers and soldiers to carry a few small water hoses to help, so that the fire was slowly extinguished.
Fortunately, it was only the Yuan family who suffered, and the houses around them were not implicated.
Listening to the insincere persuasion of Zhizhou, who came to check in person, Yuan Shizhao was full of grief and indignation, wanting to cry without tears, this unwarranted disaster, burned down seven or eight out of ten of his own houses, but less than one percent of the valuable things were rescued!
If you don't have money in the future, you have a great talent, and you are trapped in a corner of Jincheng, how can you put it in your eyes? To put it nicely, he's just a down-and-out literati!
In the next three days, Yuan Shizhao checked the rest of his family's wealth and found that it was even less than he expected. But there are still so many mouths waiting to eat at home......
In desperation, he had to dismiss the servants and maids of the family, and finally left only two maids and two small servants around him, holding the makeup box to the outer study of the inverted seat to settle down. But the original furnishings in the study are gone, and someone must have stolen them by fishing in troubled waters.
Before settling down, the little guy next to him came to report in a panic: "Master, someone has sued you, and now there is a prisoner car outside, waiting to arrest you!" ”
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