Chapter 44: The Firelight
'On the 17th day of the seventh month of the fourth year of Jianwen, in the evening. ’
"Look at this cloudless day, and tonight is a clear night." Bao Yuanqian raised his head and sighed as he watched the brilliant sunset in the sky fade away.
Sweating profusely, Bao Butong and Bi Che were panting to gather firewood in the courtyard and set up a grill on which was half a fan of mutton that they had bought in the market during the day.
Sarenya was sitting on the Taishi's chair, eating fruit one by one, and directing Bao Bu and the two to do hard work.
"Hey, Bao that Yuan Qian, are you the stargazer of the Taishi Academy? You're going to help your brother! Look at the small bag tired. Seeing Bao Yuanqian's 'hands-off shopkeeper' watching the sky at night, Sa Renya couldn't help but call, "Xiaobao, come and eat a peach to quench your thirst." ”
As she spoke, she threw the peach on the square table beside her to Bao Butong, who took the peach and didn't care about dirty hands, so he bit down and greedily sucked the sweet peach juice.
"Thank you, Sister Sa."
Bao Butong wanted to be called a princess before, but he was 'ordered' to call her sister.
He didn't know Sa Renya's full name, thinking that this Sarenya's surname was Sa, so he called Sister Sa, and Sarenya was informal, but he didn't care.
Bao Yuanqian ignored Sa Renya, he got up and didn't go to the grill, but went to the courtyard, carefully checking the 'siren' he had arranged on the courtyard wall.
He was born as a sentinel, and in addition to his outstanding ability to bow and horse, this vigilance and anti-reconnaissance ability has been accumulated over the years.
"Bao Yuanqian, you're looking at your 'weird' stuff again, aren't you?" Sarenya got up and walked over to him, and did the same as he was, and looked 'carefully'.
Bao Yuanqian said helplessly: "This is not a strange thing, since Shangguan asked me to take care of you, I naturally have to be conscientious." ”
Sarenya's jewel-like eyes turned, and she turned Bao Yuanqian and said, "Are you afraid that I will slip away?" ”
Bao Yuanqian shook his head, "I'm not afraid that you will go out, but I'm afraid that someone will want to come in." ”
He knew better than anyone else who there were so many Warat spies in the city, and the collusion with the rice bucket was unclear, and the situation of Sarenya was not safe.
Since I have eaten this bowl of rice, I can't eat vegetarian food.
If you have an extra eye on everything, you can't go wrong.
As he was thinking, he suddenly felt a chill in his wrist, and a soft feeling came, and he saw Sarenya reach out and grab his wrist, and wanted to pull him to the grill.
"Okay, since it's mutton for four people to eat, then it should be four people participating together, let's go help them."
The two walked to the grill and saw that Bao Butong had lit the fire, and immediately started to work with Bao Yuanqian, hung up the mutton and began to make food.
Although Sa Renya said that she would let Bao Yuanqian bake it for her, she was happy to participate in it, and the light of the bonfire was printed on her face, shining brightly, which complemented her lively temperament.
The mutton was roasted by the bonfire, the oil and water overflowed, and the crackling sound, and Sa Renya was so excited that she simply got up and danced an Andai dance under the beat of the beat.
The horse-faced skirt floated up, rotating melodiously with the wind, and Sarenya's graceful posture was like a fairy on the grassland, jumping and flashing, dancing to make out the shadow, and the firelight reflected the moving temperament.
Bao Yuanqian found that this princess of Beiyuan was very capable of making fun of suffering, even in the trough and predicament, she was not so self-pitying, but could say yesterday's sorrow for tomorrow and tomorrow's sorrow.
He enjoyed the dance of the princess of a country, smelling the gradually fragrant mutton, as if he had returned to the night when his mouth was full of oil.
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"It smells so good, do you smell it?" As soon as he entered the roof, on the roof of the courtyard, a sergeant on duty was in high spirits, and he inhaled sharply with his nose.
The other person also sucked hard after hearing this, "The meat is fragrant, what about this general flag roasting meat in it?" ”
"Hey, third!" The man saw that on the roof of the second house on the right opposite, a person beckoned to him, and he didn't care about the smell of meat, so he waved back to the man.
The third is a sergeant on duty on the right side of the street, and he was unlucky to draw a sign for a secret sentry, and the two sentry posts on the opposite side complement each other, just in case.
This secret whistle means that he is alone hiding in the inconspicuous corner of the second household on the right, he is alone in the whole compound, no one talks to him, he can't sleep, and he is lonely, so he will wave to the two people opposite from time to time.
Bao Zongqi, who came from the new day in the daytime, adjusted the armament, and concentrated the number of people to shrink back into the courtyard of the second household on the left, and only set up two dark posts in the other two courtyards, and the bright whistles on the second household on the left are horns of each other, if the whistle is touched, the dark whistle can also play a key role.
The third child said hello, rolled down the roof and hid in the corner on the eaves of the second floor, yawning, thinking that it was so cold tonight.
While he was sleeping, he suddenly heard a soft sound of rustling, which made him feel excited, and he was completely sleepy, and listened carefully with his ears pricked up!
I saw that in the dark night, on the other side of the eaves in my yard, more than a dozen black shadows were crouching on the tiles.
The third child was frightened, he was on the left and the dozen or so figures were on the right, only about twenty paces away, he covered his mouth hard, and he didn't dare to make a sound in a cold sweat.
There was another sound, and he raised his eyes to look at the silent and uninhabited street, only to see more than a dozen figures leaning against the wall, touching the edge and gradually touching the second house on the left.
This is a dead end, except for his own dark whistle, the opposite whistle is not visible.
I saw that the gang touched the corner of the wall, and a few hooks probed on, and climbed onto the wall with their dexterity, and the two sentinels were still gagging, completely unaware that danger was coming.
The third saw the four people touch it, and held down the two from behind, and as soon as his hand moved, the two sentinels were silent!
The four people said hello, and the dozen or so people in the courtyard of the second household on the right had already searched the house and the courtyard, but they didn't find the third child hiding in the corner of the eaves on the second floor.
When the third child saw them climb out of the wall, he trembled and touched his hand to the crossbow machine in his hand.
The rice bucket was hung with bandages, sticking to the wall and directing people to constantly climb over the wall, and his heart said that he was lucky today, so he directly put down the sentry and sneaked in along the eaves of the high wall, and as a result, the life of Yuan Qian!
was stealing fun, only to see a flame on the eaves of the second floor of the second household on the right opposite, exploding a firework above his head!
"Someone touches the whistle, be careful!!" Zhang Mule in the courtyard was shocked when he saw the crossbow sounding in the dark whistle, and hurriedly looked at the roofs around him and shouted.
"! It's a signal crossbow! The rice bucket scolded, "These dogs haven't even touched other people's sentry posts, I'm afraid I won't be able to rob the princess this time." ”
"Fire fold, light the fire, burn it for me! Let's make a fuss!! Burn!! ”
He shouted angrily, and the nearly forty people stopped tiptoeing, and immediately lit a torch, and threw a bag of fire oil on his back on the eaves of the gate, and in the courtyard building, the fire oil dripped down the eaves of the tiled roof, and the wooden houses were most afraid of fire, just one point!
There was a bang, and everyone threw the torches, and even though it was a prairie fire, the fire dragon roared and ignited a monstrous fire along the oil trails!
"It's out of the water!! Fight the fire quickly! ”
Each of them carried several copies of the fire oil and threw it frantically into the courtyard, the fire oil was sticky and easily ignited.
Zhang Mu and the others in the courtyard were forced to retreat into the courtyard of the second entrance, and when they saw that the people who came only set fire to the wall and outside the courtyard, and did not kill them, they had to put out the fire first!
For a while, the silence of the courtyard was interrupted by a shout, and the dark streets were brightened by the skyrocketing firelight!