Although the round-faced woman was not tall, she was born with big shoulders and a round waist, and because of her conceit, she had a lot of strength in her hands, so she was taken by surprise, and rushed towards Ji Qingling with her empty hands.

She stepped to the table, and saw that there were two more steps to reach the person to be caught, and was about to reach out and hold down his two arms to restrain the person, and she didn't want to hear a "bang", as if something had been kicked over, and before she could react, she felt that the soles of her feet slipped, and she didn't know what she stepped on, and she couldn't stand steadily, so she only stumbled twice, and then she threw herself straight to the ground, and fell into the mud.

Seeing that the round-faced woman had gone to arrest someone, the yellow-haired woman outside also moved, she put her hands down, picked up a pump in the vat, and smashed it towards Qiu Yue, who was squatting on the ground.

Qiu Shuang, who was standing on the other side pressing the door, saw it and hurriedly shouted, "Sister Qiu Yue, be careful!" ”

As soon as the yellow-haired woman let go, half of the weight of the half-person-high barrel was pressed on the threshold, and the other half was pressed on Qiu Yue, who was squatting on the ground.

Although Qiu Yue lowered her head, she was always very vigilant, and when she heard Qiu Shuang's call, she let go of her hand and rolled to the side on the spot, although it looked ugly, but she made the yellow-haired woman smash into the air.

The pump didn't hit anyone, but only struck the big bucket on the side, and with a "bang" sound, the iron sheet outside the iron pump was deflated.

If such a force hits the head, the bones will have to be cut off.

Qiu Yue gasped, and only then did she really realize that the other party was a killing move to the death.

She turned her head to look at Qiu Shuang, and the two screamed in unison according to the original plan: "Murder!! Set fire!!!! Help me!!!! ”

At the same time, the front yard of the inn was already full of hundreds of people a moment ago.

The fire had started from the second floor of the inn, and there was no one living in that room, and by the time the groom and the city patrol soldiers saw it from afar, the fire had already spread.

They ran to this street, knocked on the door and woke up the innkeeper for the night, and went upstairs to wake up the guests one by one, and before they could make sure that everyone was clean, the fire had swallowed up the entire second floor, and swept half of the first floor into it.

The north wind was howling, and the hot flames, hot soot, and sparks were splashing everywhere, and all the people who were urged out were the residents, some of whom had only time to clean up, and some of whom had only a single layer of clothing, and they did not even have time to put on their coats, and all the money and belongings were burned clean in the house.

At this time, in addition to the cries of children, the angry scolding of men and women, and the cries of some customers.

A few of the soldiers patrolling the city did not even have time to put out the fire, so they had to pull out to stop a few merchants, and in case one of them was not careful, they rushed into the fire to retrieve the soft that they still left in the house.

An old businessman cried and shouted: "I have been running for more than half a year!" I just made a little money! I want to take it back to my family for the Lantern Festival!! He wanted to shake off the soldier next to him and scolded, "I have all my money, what are you doing to stop me!" If you don't let me in, you're killing me, you're eating my blood! ”

He struck with his hands, and hit the soldiers on the side with his head.

At this time, there are only about a dozen soldiers and husbands in the field, and the chaotic scene of protecting more than 100 people is already full of hands and feet, and some people shout for fire, some people shout for help, and some people shout that their son is gone, and some people scold the people next to them for rubbing their own lady's oil, and some people scold the city patrol soldiers on duty for being useless, and some people scold the innkeeper for seeking money and killing people, and it is really chaotic for a while.

Fortunately, since Yang Kui came to Yanzhou City, the curfew was very strict, and the husband found out that it was on fire, and immediately sounded the fire drum, calling the soldiers, the husband, the lieutenant and others from the three streets to organize the nearby crowd to come over to put out the fire.

Not long after, the leader of the armored cavalry who was on duty tonight also came, and he took forty or fifty people, and when he saw that the scene was very chaotic, he divided ten people into a line to maintain order, and prevented the people present from causing chaos, shouting indiscriminately, and organizing the men in the field.

The leader's surname was Sun, called Sun Yue, who was the general judge of Zheng Lin's lineage in the affairs of the state for the time being, he was born in the army, and assigned people to be very familiar, and ordered thirty people to forcibly demolish the houses of the shops on both sides of the inn to prevent the fire from spreading, and assigned the rest of the people to work, or to get wooden barrels, water basins, or to find fire extinguishing equipment, or to knock on the door of which street and which household, and to ask that household to open the door and borrow the well.

He took some effort to calm down the scene, and when he looked up at the fire that was burning more and more, he frowned and asked, "Where is the innkeeper's house?!" ”

A middle-aged man with a black face crawled out.

Sun Yue said: "Where is the ladder of your inn!" What about the anti-water equipment?! Where is the well? ”

The man said in a hoarse voice, "It's all in the backyard, the fire is too big, and it can't be overcome." ”

Sun Yue's face suddenly became ugly.

The anti-water equipment will be sent by the next person after a while, but if there is no water, how to extinguish the fire, only using snow is not a matter after all.

He was about to order someone to find one or two old people on the street, when suddenly a person stood up in the crowd and said, "Sun Guanren, my nephew and daughter-in-law live in the west courtyard of this inn, and there is a well in that courtyard!" ”

Before Sun Yue could ask, someone next to him had already recognized the person and shouted, "Gu Lizheng!" ”

Gu Pingli wiped the sweat from his head and said: "I live not far from here, I heard the sound of fire drums, so I came over, my nephew and daughter-in-law still live in the west courtyard, I will take her home in a while, and vacate that place to facilitate water and fire extinguishing!" ”

Sun Yue didn't think too much about it, and when he heard that it was a lizheng, and heard that there was a well behind him, he immediately said: "You bring twenty people over, move all the utensils over, and then arrange for people to fetch water." ”

Gu Pingli said: "I brought eight family members over. ”

Sun Yue nodded, and suddenly felt that the one in front of him was much more pleasing to the eye, and he still ordered twenty people, including soldiers and residents who came to fight the fire on the street, and assigned them to Gu Pingli and asked him to take them to the West Courtyard.

Gu Pingli led more than 20 people to the back of the inn in a hurry, went straight up and knocked on the door, shouting: "Open the door, there is a fire in front of you, and the yamen wants to borrow the well here!" ”

The guard at the door of the west courtyard was the dart master hired by Gu Yanzhang, at this time, he heard someone knocking on the door, and the front was really on fire again, so he didn't dare not open it, and when the door opened, Gu Pingli saw seven or eight strong men standing inside, and immediately said: "You guys are here, don't go to fight the fire, why are you standing!" ”

And again: "Where is the well?!" Why don't we go and carry the water together! ”

The dart masters are a little undecided, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.

They made a contract to take care of the safety of the people in the West Courtyard, but at this moment, the front yard was on fire, and the yamen was recruited, and they couldn't shirk it from the point of view of reason or conscience.

Several people were hesitating, and Gu Pingli on the other side opened his mouth and was about to scold, but he heard a woman inside shouting: "Murder!! Set fire!!!! Help me!!!! ”

Gu Pingli's face changed suddenly, and he almost couldn't help but scold.

What's going on!

Doesn't it mean to bring people out quietly?!