Chapter 172: Sudden Wildfire
A short officer and soldier delivering a letter, drops of sweat were falling from his face, his face was red and his neck was thick, he couldn't breathe, and he inhaled again and again.
After breathing for a while, the man hurriedly said, "On the mountain, the mountain is on fire!" ”
What the? On fire?
Jiang Xihu's face was stunned for a while, he didn't expect that why a good person suddenly caught fire?
Hill fires? No, not at this time.
I don't know what's going on with this letter in front of me, so it's better to see it for yourself.
"Send all your troops and follow me!" Jiang Xihu immediately said.
Things are definitely not that simple, is it possible that Li Jicai made the ghost?
Thinking that it might be Li Jicai, Jiangxi Lake suddenly became excited.
"Yes, yes, yes." His subordinates hurriedly responded.
Jiangxi Lake took the lead in striding out of the door and rushed to the foot of Cuiluo Mountain with everyone.
After Li Jicai finished setting the fire, he hurriedly returned to Dr. Shi's house, anyway, she was thin and small, and no one could pay attention to her, so she did these things secretly.
And Wanniang came out after boiling hot water and found that the cottage was on fire, so she hurriedly rushed back to her room to find Zhao Wuxian and tell Zhao Wuxian about the fire.
At that time, Zhao Wuchen was sitting on the bed in a daze, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't take off the dirty clothes on his body.
"Hall Master, there's a fire outside, go and take a look." Wan Niang's tone was just right with a slight sense of urgency, as if she was really worried about the situation outside.
Zhao Wuxian sat on the edge of the bed and didn't move, he glanced at his late mother strangely.
"Where have you been? So long. Zhao Wuxian didn't ask what the fire outside was burning.
"I, I'm going to boil water for you." Wan Niang said inexplicably, she didn't show anything abnormal, and Zhao Wuxian shouldn't have noticed anything wrong with her.
"The window on the left is open." Zhao Wuxian said a word, looking at the evening mother's eyes like a hungry wolf ready to eat.
Somehow, the late mother's heart suddenly fell with a bang, and the fingertips on the side of her legs unconsciously tightened the hem of her skirt. The pink gauze skirt was pinched tightly by her, wrinkled, and slightly sweated.
"The window on the left is open, what's wrong?" Wan Niang bit her lower lip lightly, and her body already had the desire to retreat.
Did Zhao Wuxian find something? However, she obviously checked carefully and carefully, and there was nothing negligent.
"You never opened the window on the left before. Tell me, what did you do? The remaining blood stains on Zhao Wuxian's face had dried up and turned purple-black, and in this flickering candlelight, it was even more ferocious in the eyes of the late mother.
The two confronted each other for a while, but neither of them spoke, and between their eyes, whoever admits defeat first means that they are weak-hearted.
Wan Niang couldn't stand it in the end, so she took the lead and opened her mouth first.
"Nothing has been done." Wan Niang flatly denied it, she knew that if she admitted it, then this little life would have to be confessed here.
"I'm almost going to trust you." Zhao Wuxian finally sighed and shook his head, and then in the frightened gaze of Wanniang, Zhao Wuxian rushed over and strangled Wanniang's neck with a big hand.
After a while, Zhao Wuheng let go of his hand, and Wanniang's body fell directly to the ground.
His eyes bulged, his face turned purple, and he was already out of breath.
Zhao Wuxian thought that Wan Niang had been with him for so long, leaving her a whole corpse, if she had admitted what she had done at the beginning, maybe he would not have been a killer, but unfortunately, Wan Niang was stubborn, how could she never admit what she had done, instead of forcing her to ask her and consuming her own effort, it was better to give her a good time, Zhao Wuxian thought to himself, maybe because he drank too much wine, he was a little upset, and he was a little annoying.
Letting Wanniang lie on the cold ground, Zhao Wuxian felt that his head was a little dizzy, so he went back to his bed, then lay back, lay down, closed his eyes and fell asleep groggyly.
At this moment, there was already a noisy fryer outside, but no one thought of coming to Zhao Wuxian's room to find him.
Zhao Wuchen drank too much and killed the owner of the village, if any of them dared to rush up, what if Zhao Wuchen became fierce and killed them again?
It's not easy to mess with, it's not easy to mess with, and you don't dare to mess with it.
There was water outside, it burned in more than one place, the smoke was billowing and choking, and the fire drove everyone out of the house.
When Jiangxi Lake arrived at the bottom of the mountain, most of the bandit village on the body had been burned, and the firefighters did not save it after saving it, because there was no water, or they were afraid.
Because water is needed to extinguish the fire, a few tanks of water in the village are not enough, and there are many trees around the cottage, and they are all very close to each other.
In the dark night, people are scurrying around, like headless flies, and no one knows what to do.
Gradually, the fire could not be controlled, and people began to run outside the stockade, one by one, down the mountain.
At this time, only by running down the mountain can you get a glimmer of life, and the fool will stay in the burning village, and the open space is not enough to stand, and there are hundreds of people.
But at this moment, Jiangxi Lake led a large group of men and horses to guard the mountain.
Come one to catch one, come two to catch a pair.
There is no doubt that internal and external troubles are true.
The noisy, chaotic night tossed until dawn.
In the process of descending the mountain, many people accidentally stepped into the traps, which were originally prepared for people who went up the mountain, and now they are running away in a panic at night, digging their own pits and jumping for themselves.
As long as you fall into the trap, you will not die and be injured.
No one dared to go up the back hill behind the stockade, because behind the stockade was a cliff, and the difficulty of climbing down the mountain was tantamount to climbing to the sky.
So they can only go down from the front, and the people who run to the bottom of the mountain are all caught for Jiangxi Lake, who will tell the people who turn back that there is an ambush under the mountain, so that they don't come down.
Overnight, hundreds of people fled from the mountains.
The owner of the village died, no one led them, Zhao Wuzhen went crazy by himself, hid in the room and did not come out, and the other hall masters also fled with their own soft baggage.
Perhaps everyone thinks that they have reached the end of their crossbows, and they are already scattered.
Originally, when Xiao Qiang organized them to retreat, they were already retreating, knowing that they couldn't fight those officers and soldiers and could only flee, and their hearts were disheartened.
Now Zhao Wuxian killed the owner of the village and did not come out to guide them, resulting in the dragons being leaderless, and the village tree was scattered, and there was no help.
The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits.
Zhao's daughter-in-law at the foot of the mountain, although she didn't know what was going on in the cottage, was extremely beneficial to him in terms of the current situation.
The bandits in these stockades, Jiang Xihu, did not go up the mountain to hunt them down, but they themselves obediently came down and sent them to the door.
His men were all stupid, and they didn't know why the situation suddenly became like this, and somehow those bandits came to the door.
Obviously, in the days before, they were deliberately beaten by these mountain bandits.
The adult is really a clever plan.
Because of this incident, Jiang Xihu's subordinates, including the officers and soldiers in the Kua Yi official mansion, all had a great respect for Jiang Xihu.
Of course, there are also people who think that the fire in this mountain happened accidentally.
But when Jiangxi Lake announced that he was going up the mountain to search in the village, he said that there was his internal response in the village, and everyone realized that Jiangxi Lake had sent people to sneak into the inside of the village to say that the cottage was on fire.
This wildfire is man-made.
So what kind of capable person did this Jiangxi Lake invite, and he was able to steal the mountain fire smoothly.
Jiang Xihu and his men squatted at the bottom of the mountain all night, arrested many people and sent them back to the government, but he himself stayed at the bottom of the mountain and waited until the sky was just slightly bright before taking people up the mountain.
He checked it, and there was no bizarre figure among the people arrested, thinking that it was Li Jicai that her hands and legs were broken at that time, how could she run down the mountain in a numb way.
This girl was burned by fire not long ago, and now she has set it on fire, is it possible that there is no shadow in her heart?
As the saying goes, once bitten by a snake, ten years afraid of the well rope.
Is this mind so determined?
Jiangxi Lake couldn't help but start to have some changes to Li Jicai.
originally thought he was just an opportunistic and flattering businessman, with a stupid brain, and he loves to admit death, and he likes to raise the bar.
I didn't expect her to do the most impossible thing to do. He was supposed to attack it the next day.
When they follow the trajectory of life and find the cottage.
The huge cottage has been burned to the ground, and there are still some people living under the ruins. They are all old and weak, women and children, and there are some sick people, and there are not many of them.
"Search me carefully, and search all the people out for me." Jiang Xihu stood at the door of the stockade and announced to everyone.
His purpose has been achieved, and he can completely let his subordinates clean up the mess, and he doesn't have to be there himself.
It's just that he can't rest assured that Li Jicai wants to come and look for it, but somehow, he doesn't want her to be buried in the fire.
Last time, it was because I felt that she still had some use value, so I didn't let her die and saved her from the fire.
He also set the fire that time, but this time it was different, this time the fire was set by Li Jicai on his own initiative, and it had nothing to do with him.
Li Jicai is a very amazing person, he shouldn't die in vain, maybe he can discover more interesting things after being with her.
Jiangxi I thought so, maybe some things in the dark have already been predestined, Li Jicai hid in the corner of the firewood room and did not step out, surrounded by dense altars, covering his body.
When people put out fires, the first thing they often think of is that the water is to find the water tank, and it is impossible to come to the firewood room to find firewood, and she is also very lucky, the fire did not burn into the firewood room, maybe someone deliberately isolated it.
Li Jicai was carried out.
Zhao Wuxian was escorted out by the officers and soldiers under Jiang Xihu, and the wine had a lot of stamina, and Zhao Wuxian didn't wake up until the morning.
He was caught up in front of Jiangxi Lake, poured a basin of water, and then woke up leisurely.
In front of Jiangxi Lake, there were three people, one was Li Jicai, one was Zhao Wuxian, and the other was the late lady who was carried out with Zhao Wujian.
The body of the late mother was already cold.
When Li Jicai was woken up, he walked around, and when he saw the miserable death of his late mother, he couldn't help but turn his face, and he couldn't bear it.
In the end, Wanniang still chose to believe her.
Last night's plan was able to be carried out unexpectedly, thanks to the opportunity created for her by the late mother.
The last thing Li Jicai remembered was the face of the late mother, who pulled people, and the appearance of her daring to avoid everyone lighting fires everywhere.
This is what she remembers, the last memory of the bandit village on Cuiluo Mountain.
According to the later Jiangxi Hu, he was not able to find Dr. Shi, maybe Dr. Shi escaped, or maybe Dr. Shi died. In short, it is missing.
After Zhao Wuxian woke up, he looked at the surrounding situation in a trance, the village had been burned to pieces, and he was completely unaware of it. The woman next to her is the same woman they picked up that day, could it be?
"You're a spy?" Zhao Wuxian himself didn't notice how much surprise was in his mouth when he said this.
A woman who was seriously injured, her legs and arms were broken, and her body was burned like that, how much pain could be endured, and the other party could be so ruthless and have such a heavy hand.
Li Jicai did not respond to his words, but looked at Jiangxi Lake fixedly, and said to him seriously: "Bury her alive." "Li Jicai refers to the late mother.
Zhao Wujian heard it next to him, and his heart was mixed.
"I'm really negligent, I shouldn't have left you as a scourge for a while, and I was able to make my wife willing to help you."
Li Jicai still didn't reply to Zhao Wuxian's words, and there was nothing to say about these vicious people.
Jiang Xihu didn't feel in a hurry to ask Li Jicai what happened to her in this cottage, or if her body was important, go back and quickly ask the doctor to show her.
"Someone, send him down the mountain first, and then find a doctor to treat her." Li Jicai's failure to die made Jiang Xihu's heart feel a little lighter, and he became inexplicably happy.
"By the way, Li Jicai, how do you want him to die?" It seems that what happened between Li Jicai and this man and the woman lying dead on the ground?
The body of the cottage leader has been found, and he can take it back to his life. This man doesn't matter, Jiang Xihu wants to know what Li Jicai will do with this man.
Li Jicai lay in the arms of Jiangxi Lake's subordinates, and then spit out two words without raising his head: "Divide the body." ”
When the people present heard Li Jicai say this, they couldn't help but be stunned.