In the guest courtyard, Zhu Jingcheng looked at Luo Kedi who was kneeling under the porch. casually took a sip of tea and asked lightly, "Is the captain unconvinced?" ”

No matter how straightforward Luo Kedi was, he knew that he couldn't answer "yes" at this time, but he was really unconvinced in his heart, so his expression was a little stiff: "The lower officials don't dare!" ”

Zhu Jingcheng smiled coldly and didn't speak, and Lin Zimo, another captain standing beside him, spoke: "Captain Luo, if you really don't dare, how can you have an unconvinced expression?" The prince is kind enough to you! As the captain of the Prince's Mansion, you actually led your subordinates to leave their posts without permission, ignoring the prince of the world, is it still reasonable?! ”

Luo Ke said hostilely that there are dozens of brothers in the compound here, so what does it matter if there are two or three fewer people? Where did you put the son in danger? This Lin Zimo has always been yin and yang, because his martial arts are not as good as himself, and he is not as popular as himself in the personal guards, so he says some sour things from time to time, and now he finally seizes the opportunity to attack himself, don't you do everything possible to slander in front of the prince? So he said coldly: "I just think that this Gu family is also a relative of the palace, and these days I have been treating the prince with my heart, and his family is in trouble." The prince must be going to help, and it's not good to disturb the peace of the prince in the middle of the night, so he just took the two brothers to help first! With Captain Lin and so many brothers by his side, how can it be dangerous?! ”

Lin Zimo was stunned, gritted his teeth, and then scolded: "Hugh has to force his resignation!" Do you think you're still who you used to be?! When you are on an errand in the palace, you have to recognize the master! The safety of the prince, the princess and the prince is the most important thing! Everyone else is second! Even if you really want to save people, you have to say something before you do it, you don't say hello and bring someone over, as if you are afraid that the prince will not agree......"

"That's it!" Zhu Jingcheng saw that the more he spoke, the more explicit became, he interrupted, raised his eyes and stared at Luo Kedi for a while before saying, "That's it, I originally planned to send someone there, but you took the first step, which made me embarrassed." Although you have good intentions, but rules are rules, if everyone makes their own decisions when encountering problems, how should I behave? Today's punishment will be noted for the time being, and then discussed later, you go down, the good student is guarding the gate of the hospital, I don't speak, don't go around! ”

Luo Ke secretly sighed at its coldness, but his face complimented and retreated. When he walked to the gate of the courtyard, he saw Liu Dongxing coming towards him, and he looked at him with a little worry in his eyes, and he couldn't help but feel warm in his heart and smiled at him.

Liu Dongxing stepped forward and grabbed his arm, looked him up and down, and then let go of his hand with confidence, and asked with a smile: "I've heard everything, are you okay?" ”

Luo Kedi smiled: "Send it for the time being, and discuss it later." In fact, I was reckless, and when I was at the border in the past, I asked the villain to take the handle. ”

Liu Dongxing had a little bit of use of him, and wanted to inquire about the army from him, and he had been with him for a long time these days, but he had a little admiration, and he comforted him when he heard the words: "The villain's trick will not last long, the adult is a military attache registered in the imperial court, and others can't easily move you, so you don't have to worry." ”

Luo Kedi smiled, and saw that half of his body was stained with blood on the placket of his clothes, and there was also a bloody wound on his forehead. Then he frowned and said, "Is this hurting?" Why don't you bandage it with some medicine? Aren't you a relative of the Gu family? Your aunt is still here, why doesn't she care about you?! ”

Liu Dongxing sneered: "If she cares, I have to worry!" I came here because I was worried that something would happen to the adults, and I had to go out again. He slowed down his tone again, "It's okay, it's just that the thief smashed it and scratched a little skin......"

Before the words fell, he heard Lin Zimo's voice: "Yo, isn't this the eldest young master of the Liu family?" The two looked back, only to see Lin Zimo coming over with a smile, ignoring Luo Kedi, and just said hello to Liu Dongxing: "Our prince also said that he felt familiar when he heard the voice, let the little one come out to see if it is you, just in time!" The prince wants to ask you to speak, please come in, please come in! When even enthusiastically pulled Liu Dongxing into the house.

Luo Kedi smiled coldly, gave Liu Dongxing a reassuring look, and turned back to meet his subordinates. A soldier came up and asked worriedly: "Boss, did the person surnamed Lin speak ill of you in front of the prince again?!" The other soldiers were also very concerned: "Is the boss alright?" Luo Kedi stretched out his hand to stop: "It's okay, you continue to be vigilant!" After driving the people away, he turned his head, looked at the main room, and sighed lowly.

He walked around the guest yard, and saw a room of Gu family people noisy in the front yard, it seemed that because the long house had no empty yard to accommodate them, they could only be arranged in the front yard near the carriage shed, the family was very dissatisfied, and had to ask the second master of the Gu family to understand, but the second master Gu didn't know where to hide. Only two stewards were there to deal with it.

Luo Kedi guessed that this family was probably picked up by Liu Dongxing just now, and he himself had heard the cold words of some Gu family members when he was saving people, and he was not in the mood to pay more attention to it, so he turned around and wanted to go back, but he heard someone coming from the front door: "Second master!" Second master! Oh no! Startled, the second old man Gu came out of nowhere: "What's the matter?!" Even the noisy Gu clan people stopped talking.

Luo Kedi frowned, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask what was going on, only to hear the man crying: "The person sent to Qianzhuang to report the news...... I'm back with an injury! said that before he got closer, he was intercepted by several thieves, Uncle Lu was slashed, and he didn't know if he was alive or dead, and the others were all out of breath, only one Lu San was left, who was stabbed in the back, struggled to escape, and took a detour before coming back...... He also said that he saw from a distance that the fire in Qianzhuang had grown larger, and that the houses had collapsed, and that the fire had burned all the way to the woods in the east, and that it was about to burn to the back of the village......

The second old man, Gu Yiyong, was taken aback, and said with a pale face: "This ...... How good is that?! "But I was at a loss.

Luo Kedi frowned, took a step forward and grabbed the man's collar and asked, "Speak clearly!" What's the situation out there?! Wasn't it good before?! ”

The man trembled with fright, and replied in a trembling voice, "The little one sees it from afar...... The fire in Qianzhuang has not been extinguished...... A lot of people are gathered there...... The person who went to deliver the letter was cut back. I don't know if the people in the front village found out that the back village was robbed...... The woods in the east, from the entrance of the village to the edge of the back village, are on fire, but they are not big, and they are still hundreds of zhang away from here......

Luo Kedi pushed him away, turned his head and ran back to the guest house, ignoring Lin Zimo's arrogant face, he reached out and lifted him aside, and then broke into the house and reported: "Lord Shizi! The thieves intercepted the people who went to Qianzhuang to report the news, and now the fire in Qianzhuang has increased and has burned to the forest in the east. It's just a hundred feet away! ”

Zhu Jingcheng's expression on his face was a little heavy, and he frowned when he heard this, and asked: "So, even if the people in Qianzhuang know that there are thieves, they may not be able to spare their hands?!" ”

Luo Ke said to the enemy: "Lord Shizi, relying on this Gu Zhuang person alone is not enough to deal with the three things of firefighting, killing thieves and guarding at the same time, it is better to send a letter to the Pingyang Mansion as soon as possible!" ”

Zhu Jingcheng was a little unhappy, the prefect of Pingyang had no friendship with the Dongping Palace, and he had been persuading him to leave the village as soon as possible. Then he said: "What can the Pingyang Mansion know about?" Their men were all drawn to Pingnan Town. ”

Luo Kedi was anxious: "Not all of them are gone, as long as there are dozens of more people, plus our brothers, how can a hundred and eighty rabble be our opponents?!" Even a few more people can put out the fire! Lord Shizi, when it is broken, you can't lose a big one because of a small one! ”

Zhu Jingcheng's face sank, and Lin Zimo immediately screamed: "Luo Kedi!" How do you speak?! "Luo Kedi knows that he has lost his words, but the situation is urgent, and it is important to save people, besides, the son of the world is here, once there is a mistake, he will have to be charged with dereliction of duty, where can he take care of a lot?

Zhu Jingcheng's eyes rolled, and he fell on Liu Dongxing, who was worried on the side, and sneered in his heart: Even if he is a cousin, a person without eyes has no value, since he can't be used by the palace, why should he spare his talents? Then he said, "Why don't you take a trip to Cousin Liu?" Thinking about how many cousins came in and out, he picked up a lot of Gu clan people, and the high level of martial arts can be seen, this kind of trivial matter should be just a piece of cake for cousins, right? ”

Liu Dongxing squinted, and he didn't care about continuing to disguise. He could naturally hear that Zhu Jingcheng had bad intentions, but Luo Ke's enemy had already pointed out that Gu Zhuang's current situation was not optimistic, and the people in Qianzhuang couldn't take care of Houzhuang's people for a while in order to put out the fire. At this time, a person who can pass the martial arts must break through the village and enter the city to report the news and move the rescuers, otherwise, there are still a few hours before dawn, and there are still more than ten people in the Gu family who have not moved over, and there will be a mistake at any time, and if the thief has the intention to act, the fire will spread to the entire Houzhuang, and it will only be a moment and a half.

Thinking of Wen Yi in the house, he couldn't calm down, the house of Wen Yi's ancestors and grandchildren is still here, if it is damaged...... He raised his eyes, stared at Zhu Jingcheng, and said lightly: "Since it is invited by the prince, should you dare to go east?!" It's just that if you care about the safety of the family, you have to ask the prince to send someone to take care of it! Then he turned and left.

Luo Kedi hurriedly chased after him and said, "Little Brother Liu! My horse is stronger than the usual one, and it can run fast, so ride my horse! ”

Liu Dongxing saluted him with a fist, and then went in the direction of the carriage shed, passing by the second gate, he couldn't help but look inside, but he didn't see the person in his heart. He pursed his lips, glanced at the glowing red sky to the northeast, and resolutely turned his head away.

When the news reached Ermenli, Liu Dongxing had already set off. Wen Yi heard the discussion of the subordinates, saying that the thieves surrounded Houzhuang, and as soon as someone wanted to go out, he took a knife and cut it up, and he couldn't help worrying about Liu Dongxing. It wasn't until he heard others say that he saw Liu Dongxing riding a horse past a few thieves to Qianzhuang that he put his mind at ease, thinking that it should not be difficult to deal with a few bandits with his martial arts.

The courtyard has been crowded into the four-room clan, there are a lot of mothers-in-law, girls and daughters-in-law, and there are children crying, so that Mrs. Lu is not at peace, so she has to stop sleeping, sit up, and whisper to the girls. She saw Wen Yi standing in front of the window, looking worried, so she summoned her granddaughter over and persuaded in a low voice: "He can deal with more than 20 people independently, it's easy, what do you have to worry about?" ”

Wen Yi blushed, bowed her head and said, "What did grandmother say?!" The granddaughter is ...... It's worried about the masters of Qinglian Nunnery, as well as Mr. Luo, who is a boudoir...... Du Shanchang went home for the holidays, and now there are only Mr. Luo with a few maids and servants in the boudoir school, and I don't know if there will be thieves, will the people in the long house take them over? ”

Old Madam Lu was silent, and after a while she sighed: "The owner of the nunnery mentioned to me a few days ago that he wanted to go into the city with that Master Ruzhen to make a dojo, I don't think it is in the nunnery, but it is difficult for others to say, as for Mr. Luo...... The people in the long house don't speak, but we can't speak. If you want to come to the boudoir to learn that small courtyard is inconspicuous, the thief shouldn't notice it for a while, right? ”

Wen Yi was still worried about her boudoir, but it was Jiufang who passed the bad news first.

Due to the proximity to the woods to the east of Zhuangzi, several rooms in the back house of the ninth room caught fire, and Gu Yitong, the fifteenth old man who was packing up his belongings, was smashed by the burning and falling tiles, and his head immediately broke and bled out, and he is now unconscious. The servant of the long room who went to pick up the people urged the people in the ninth room to leave quickly, but the fifteenth wife, Xu, was worried that her husband's injuries would worsen and refused to move, and the two sides froze. The servants of the long house helped to put out the fire, so they took advantage of the fact that it was still peaceful outside, and ran back to the long house early to report the news.

The second wife, Duan, and the aunt, Liu Gu, both shut up when they heard the reports of the servants. One of the servants said boldly, "Second wife, aunt wife, fifteenth lady said...... The fifteenth old man has not woken up, and if he moves indiscriminately, he is afraid that it will aggravate the injury, so he asked the second master and the second wife to send a few people over to help guard the door. ”

Duan asked, "What did the second master say?" ”

"The second master told the little ones to go back and forth to the second wife, saying that the second wife and the aunt should be in charge of everything, and he was busy in front."

Liu Gu was a little reluctant. She didn't have much friendship with the cousin of the ninth room, and she was not willing to let the Changfang and Dongping Wangfu guards share a part of the manpower, so she got up and said with a smile: "This is the Gu family's business, I don't want to interfere, the second wife, I'll leave it to you, I'll go back to the house to see my mother." "I just left.

Duan's face sank, his eyes rolled, but he smiled, and said to the jade fly beside him: "Go, invite the seventh young master over." ”

There are two or three hundred servants in the long house, but most of them are women, and the male servants who are on errands in the front yard add up to less than a hundred, among which there are many young servants and old and infirm people, so there are only dozens of young and strong people, not to mention that some of them are still fighting fires in Qianzhuang, guarding the back door, reporting news, and folding a few. The people of the few houses who have now been transferred to Xuanle Hall, although they have their own servants in their prime, most of them have stayed in their own houses to guard, and even a few people have been quickly incorporated into the guards of the long house. Therefore, it is not enough to send people to the nine rooms to guard and send people to pick up other clansmen, but it is not enough to rely on these people, in the end, they still ask to go to the prince. The Duan family specially asked Wen'an to come forward on behalf of the Gu family, and invited Liu Dongning to go with him to help talk about the item.

Wen Yi was worried about Liu Dongxing's safety, so she kept standing at the gate of the side courtyard and waiting for news, but she saw Wen An and Dongning go out of the second gate together, and after less than a cup of tea, the former walked back with an angry face, and Liu Dongning behind him looked embarrassed, stiff, and his face seemed to be a little red. Wen Yi couldn't help frowning.