044 Riding Fire to Loot and Provoke Anger*
"It's nothing, you get busy first." Wang Yuan waved his hand and didn't ask any more.
He returned to his study alone and pulled out a stack of drawings from a dark compartment on the shelf. Then sit down and look through them one by one. Finally, after looking through many photos, I stopped.
A deep gaze converges on the yellowed paper, which depicts the specific steps of how an object is made. In the upper right corner of the paper, the name of the item written in carbon black is "glass".
"Sure enough, it's glass. How would she know? ”
Could there be someone like Luo Shen who can predict the future? Will the girl Hu Er mentioned also have the bloodline of the Dugu clan?
Wang Yuan immediately wrote a letter and asked people to send it out with carrier pigeons. Maybe Luo ginseng will have some ideas.
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On this day, Du Ruo, as usual, came back from the construction site of the post house. In Shuiyue Nunnery, I had dinner with Aunt Xu and Aunt Qiushui.
Outside, the frogs are much less vocal than before, and the cicadas are no longer chirping. The deep blue sky is lined with the cool weather.
After Aunt Qiushui finished eating, she took the plain towel handed by Mother Xu and wiped her mouth. Wei Yi raised his eyes and looked at the sky, and saw that the western corner was orange and red.
At first, I didn't pay much attention to it, but after a while, the orange and red slowly spread. There was also a cacophony outside the walls.
"Seems to have happened?" Du Ruo also saw this orange red.
Soon, shouts were heard outside.
"Oh no!"
"The inn is out of the water!"
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At this moment, there was an urgent knock at the door.
Du Ruo bounced up from his seat. Ran to the door.
Mother Xu reminded in the back: "Be careful, don't fall." ”
Even Wu Qiushui's eyes showed worry.
When I opened the door, it turned out to be "dwarf winter melon" Zhang Wurong. His anxious face was covered with sweat, and large beads of sweat flowed down his face. Before Du Ruo could ask, he took her hand and wanted to leave. Say as you walk:
"Hurry, the post house is out of water! Come with me to put out the fire! ”
At this time, Xu Ma also followed. Hearing that the inn was running water, he hurriedly brought a wooden basin to help. Wu Qiushui also stood at the door worriedly, looked out, and told Xu's mother to pay attention to safety.
Everyone gathered in front of the post house that had not yet been built. The post house has begun to take shape, and according to Wang Yuanwai's drawings, it has been put on the beam. This is the result of everyone's joint efforts to contribute money and efforts, and it seems that it is about to be completed, but for some reason there is a fire.
Tongues of fire spread their teeth and claws, mercilessly enveloping the smoke and devouring the wooden post house. The masonry and wood crackled in the heat. The heat wave is blowing in the face, baking the skin of the person, and the clothes on the body seem to spontaneously combust if they get closer.
Residents of the whole county are on the move!
Each person had a basin or ladle in his hand. Some carried buckets. One by one, they poured water into the flames without stopping.
A bucket of water was thrown into the fire and a piece in front of him was extinguished. But soon, the flames came one after the other.
The county magistrate trotted over, followed by the servants who lit the lights for him. The county commander's brows were deeply furrowed, and his face was full of sadness.
"Ahh
I was in a hurry, and I even tripped over something, and struggled to get up and rush to the scene.
"County master, you're here!" The foreman of the post house had a scorched black face, and he was still holding a basin of water in his hand.
"How's it going?" As soon as the prefectural order came up, he grabbed the foreman's arm.
The foreman sighed, shook his head and said, "Eh! It's almost burned out! The fire is too big to be extinguished! ”
"How can you walk in the water?"
The foreman was also full of doubts: "Before everyone returns after work today, everything is fine." When I came out of the meal, I heard that the water had gone away. No one saw what caused it. Huh! ”
The county order also had no clue: "Quickly tell everyone to come out, let's put out the fire first!" ”
"Hmmm! I'll go! ”
Soon, more people joined the team to extinguish the fire.
Du Ruo and the large team took the wooden basin and waited for the uncle at the mouth of the well to fill the basin. Then he rushed to the fire with the basin of water.
was about to put out the fire, and the basin in her hand was snatched away by Zhang Wurong.
"Stay away, don't get hurt!"
Du Ruo thought to himself that the "dwarf winter melon" was quite manly, and he was a little grateful in his heart. But it didn't stop much, so he went to the well again to fetch water.
"Be careful, too!" Du Ruo said to Zhang Wurong.
At this time, Zhang Wurong's head and body were soaked with water or sweat. His face was also black and charred. He glanced at Du Ruo, who ran away, and was stunned for a moment.
There is an illusion that Du Ruo should be a good-looking girl, not such an ordinary appearance.
But the thought flashed through him, and he had more important things to do.
The people of Wenxian County were busy in the fire, and they would not have thought that this fire was deliberately carried out. At this time, the culprits of arson took advantage of the big guy's rush to fight the fire and kicked open the rear home where only the old and weak women and children were left.
It's all about robbing with fire!
"Boss, what a wonderful trick you have!"
The gang that robbed them was a gang of bandits. Usually camped in the deep mountains around Wenxian County, rarely haunted. He claims to be "Black Tiger Village", and his nickname is "Black Tiger Digging Heart Yi Shadong".
"Hmph, these idiots, they're still there to save the rubble. I don't know that the really valuable belongings are already in our pockets. Hahaha! ”
Yi Shadong said with a wild laugh, very satisfied with tonight's action.
"Boss Wise!" The cottage brother on the side was still filming Yi Shadong's sycophants, which made him feel even more proud.
The Black Tiger Village swept through the clouds, and then quickly took the trail and left.
"Oh no! Oh no! Bandits are coming! ”
Women, children, and old people ran out to find their men. And those who were fighting the fire finally found out that they had fallen for the bandits' scheme.
Everyone put down their belongings and ran home to see if there was anything wrong.
"Black Tiger Village! It's the Black Tiger Village! ”
"These beasts! I killed them! ”
Du Ruo was also busy running towards Shuiyue Nunnery, and then hurriedly pushed the door in.
"Auntie! Are you okay? As soon as she entered, she shouted for her aunt. I'm afraid something will happen to her. Seeing her aunt safe and sound, Du Ruocai breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that the bandits did not come to rob the Suigetsu Temple.
Tonight is really a wave of unevenness. The post house built by the efforts of the people of Jiwen County was burned down. The fire was so great that the part of the ground could only be seen burning to ashes.
What is even more poignant is that people's homes have also suffered heavy losses. Household belongings were looted and family members were harmed.
Who can swallow this breath?
"The big guy went up the mountain with me and took the old nest of the Black Tiger Village!"
"That's right! Serve their nest! ”
Grandpa Zhang felt that it was not good for everyone to be so impulsive: "The Black Tiger Village is in the deep mountains, so it's not easy to find." ”
"But we're going to let them go?"
"No way!"