Chapter 174: Exploring the East City at Night
Outside the house, it was already the beginning of the lights, and the street was dappled with lights, pulling her lonely figure to grow old.
The old king had already been sent back by An Sheng, lest something had just happened in the house and he needed to run around. She looked around, and the unprecedented helplessness and panic gripped her heart.
For a while, she didn't know where she should go.
Back to Xia Mansion? The gloomy clouds and mist of a yard, all everyone can do is to look at each other with tears in their eyes and complain to each other. And as soon as Xue Zhao went, he didn't know how the Xue family had to rely on and how to toss with Aunt Rou.
Without his father, Xia Mansion would not be his home.
An Sheng doesn't want to go back, but he doesn't know where to go?
The people on the whole street are talking about today's fire, and the father was convicted, which is the preliminary statement given by the imperial court. Therefore, from time to time, the father's name was passed from mouth to mouth on the street, mixed with all kinds of ugly insults and vicious curses.
The disaster was even more serious than Ansheng imagined.
If his father is convicted, perhaps, he will also become a street rat in the capital.
After all, the burned grain and rice are the blood and sweat of the people of Chang'an, and they are a reassuring pill in their hearts. In a year of disaster, or if there is a shortage of crops, the grain storage in the grain depot is the foundation for their survival.
Now, the sustenance is gone, and the hard work is ruined, and my father is now the culprit.
As An Sheng walked, he couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Miss Ansheng?" Someone greeted her: "Where is this going?" ”
An Sheng raised his eyes and saw that it was Jia Liu, the shopkeeper of Hutchison Pharmacy.
She lowered her head: "Let's go." ”
The shopkeeper didn't know her identity, and enthusiastically advised: "It's late, you should be careful alone, don't move around." ”
An Sheng "oh": "Thank you." ”
"Also, the soldiers are collecting scald medicine everywhere, catch Langzhong, you have to remind Doctor Leng."
An Sheng's heart moved, and he suddenly raised his head: "What are you looking for Lang Zhong to do?" ”
"I'm afraid you don't know yet, do you?" Shopkeeper Jia said very enthusiastically: "Today, the east of the city is out of water, many soldiers are burned, and the imperial court is recruiting Lang Chinese medicine to treat wounded soldiers. If it weren't for my well-informed, the brothers would have been busy covering up, and Lang Zhong who was sitting in the shop would have almost been called. ”
An Sheng's blood began to boil, and a voice began to shout desperately in his body. She couldn't wait to ask, "Can an apprentice like me go?" ”
Shopkeeper Jia looked at her in surprise: "You want to go?" It's a thankless errand that everyone avoids. ”
An Sheng nodded categorically: "Go, I'll go, I don't know where to sign up?" ”
Shopkeeper Jia waved his hand: "Don't be kidding, Miss Ansheng, the injured people are a group of old men, naked, you are a girl's family, thin-skinned, what's the matter?" Those soldiers, you don't know, they talk obscenely, don't go! ”
When An Sheng heard him, he was a little hesitant. But after thinking about it, there is no other good way, and when I return to the house, I can only wait for the news of my father's beheading, so it is better to fight hard.
She smiled forcefully: "It's not me, it's a friend of mine, who has always wanted to join the army as a military doctor, and I think this is an opportunity." ”
Shopkeeper Jia looked "I see", and stretched out his hand: "The soldier is looking for scald medicine in the pharmacy, you go to the front and say, they don't care if you are a serious Langzhong, and they are happy to bring it back to make up the number." ”
An Sheng thanked the shopkeeper, groaned slightly, looked for a ready-to-wear shop, changed into a green cloth shirt, dressed as a man, and wore a cloth hat on his head to cover his head full of green silk, and immediately searched for it along the street in a panic.
Her mind was blank, wondering what she would be able to do even if she mixed in. Can you save your father? I just know that I should do something, even if it is better to know more than to sit back and wait.
After turning two streets, An Sheng saw several soldiers coming out of the pharmacy, followed by a few people who looked like Langzhong.
An Sheng tried to stabilize his mind, and then stepped forward generously, and deliberately asked in a hoarse voice, "May I ask if this is in the search for Lang?" ”
The soldier looked her up and down: "Yes, what's wrong?" ”
"I'm just an apprentice in a pharmacy, can I only know superficial medical skills?"
The soldiers glanced at each other, probably thinking that this self-defeating kid was a little stupid, and nodded impatiently: "Yes, you can use medicine to bandage." Come with us. ”
An Sheng was afraid of arousing the suspicion of several people, so he asked embarrassedly: "Do you care about the rice?" ”
Several people immediately laughed: "It turned out to be a mixed rice, in charge of rice, and the yellow flour steamed buns are full." ”
An Sheng lowered his head, followed a few langzhong, and was stuffed into an airtight carriage, carrying half a cart of medicine, and went to Dongcheng bumpy.
Along the way, there were real complaints, and several Lang Zhong were sighing indignantly and unlucky. It's not because he was arrested for two days, but because he was afraid that once he left his name, he might be caught on the battlefield and die if he had an errand to fight in the future.
An Sheng was silent, and his heart was in turmoil.
As soon as you get close to the barn, there is a burst of water mixed with the burnt smell of charcoal ash, and from a distance, there are broken wood and ruins everywhere, and the remnants of the barn can be vaguely seen, hidden in the looming light.
The carriage slowly stopped, and soldiers came to drive a few people out of the carriage.
The place where the soldiers were stationed was brightly lit, and many tents were temporarily erected, and the patrolling soldiers came and went, making the atmosphere solemn.
"There are soldiers with severe burns in the tent, and there are minor injuries outside, so please everyone can spare no effort to treat these soldiers who were injured in order to fight the fire. On behalf of the wounded soldiers, I thanked the doctors. A man who looked like a leader stepped forward and spoke politely.
None of the men spoke.
"For the lightly wounded, they only need to treat the wound and apply the scalding ointment, and for the seriously injured, what herbs are needed, just write a list and give it to the soldiers. Everyone does what they can. ”
An Sheng was self-aware, and according to the leader's instructions, he consciously stood in the line of the minor injured healers.
This is the majority of people.
The leader came over and directly drove several Lang Zhong with half a hundred hairs over, glanced at An Sheng, and saw that she was still immature, and she should be a junior apprentice, so he let her go directly.
In the tent, there was a painful sound, and someone scolded her mother at the top of her voice. From the open tent, An Sheng could see their shocking burns, some of which were torn apart, and a blur of flesh and blood.
An Sheng couldn't help but shiver.
Fortunately, the minor injuries were easy to treat, the burns were not serious, and An Sheng only needed to clean up their wounds.
Occasionally, these lightly wounded soldiers would make a joke.
An Sheng couldn't help but want to ask, but he was afraid that as soon as he opened his mouth, his voice would be exposed, so he endured it vigorously.
She knelt on one knee and lowered her head to deal with the wound, and the person next to her teased the soldier: "Let you eat less usually, but you just don't listen, you see, this is on fire, you can't run fast if you want to." ”
The fat soldier was pained and hissed lightly: "It seems that you are not much better than me?" I was roasted into a paste, and the old owl fell on the pig's belly, and I only saw that others were black, but I couldn't see myself black. ”
The person next to him, Xu Shi, also grinned in pain, and spoke to divert his attention: "Grandma's, this fire is really evil, all of them are up at once, and we can't escape, a few of us are lucky, seeing Lord Xia go away and steal for a while, I was only slightly injured, but I finally picked up a life, Li Shan and they were all roasted into sweet potatoes." ”
When he said this, the few people who were still laughing and laughing suddenly became heavy, and they were silent for a while.
"If I let Lao Tzu know who set this fire, Lao Tzu will have to kill him!" One gritted his teeth and said hatefully.
An Sheng's heart couldn't help but move, his hands trembled, and the wounded soldier shouted in pain: "You light." ”
An Sheng lowered his voice: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”
A person who had been silent next to him said coldly: "What nonsense? It's clearly a heavenly fire. ”
"Phew! What Skyfire? Someone lowered his voice: "So many grains caught fire almost at the same time, and they were engulfed by the fire in an instant, who believes that it was a heavenly fire?" It is clear that someone deliberately set the fire. ”
"You didn't die in the fire, and you still want to cause trouble for yourself, do you?" The man lowered his voice and scolded.
"What do you mean, little white face?" The others asked suspiciously: "You kid usually has a lot of ghost ideas, we are all a bunch of big bosses, and we have something to say." ”
The person called Little White Face glanced at An Sheng, and seemed to have a taboo: "I'll talk to you in detail later." ”
"What are you selling?" Someone urged.
An Sheng turned around and rummaged through the box containing the medicine on the side, pricking up his ears.
"How many of you are stupid? If we say that someone deliberately set the fire, the above will definitely investigate strictly, and who will be interrogated when the time comes? Just a few of us are lucky to be alive, not to mention that the suspicion is on us, that is, we are not suspected, and when the time comes, we will be imprisoned, tortured, and shed a layer of skin if we don't die, and we will feel better, right?
The above is nothing more than a reasonable statement to fool the emperor, let's say that it is the fire of the sky, and when the time comes, catch the two officials and calm down. ”
Immediately, someone objected: "That's not good, that kid who set fire is so ruthless, and he clearly didn't leave us a way to live, can he get away with it?" Worthy of the dead brother? ”
This man's words were immediately echoed.
"Besides, all along, we have been doing our best to manage the warehouse, and the fire prevention, ventilation, and all aspects have been done in place.
Xiaobaimian snorted coldly: "I can say this here, if you don't listen, I can't do anything." Think about your wives and children at home, and then think about it, so many grains are on fire together, or is it under our noses, is that something that one person can do? This hand and eye is the ability to reach the sky, just a few of us, hum ......"
Several people were immediately taken aback: "Little white face, what do you mean?" ”