When Zheng Haizhu woke up, he found himself lying on a bamboo couch in the middle of the medical hall.

She was awakened by the burning pain on her forehead and the backs of her hands, the discomfort of her wet clothes covering her body, and the sound of conversation that slowly became close from far away in the sky.

"Wake up! My aunt is awake! ”

Zheng Shoukuan, who was in front of the couch, was the first to see Zheng Haizhu slowly open his eyes, breathe a sigh of relief, and turned around happily to report.

Immediately afterwards, the faces of Han Ximeng and Lu Xiangsheng also appeared above Zheng Haizhu.

Zheng Haizhu, who regained her senses, remembered the previous frames of sound and painting.

Flames that suddenly rose without warning, people who fled screaming, ox carts that shook violently.

She fell into the flames, instinctively retracting into the cocoon-like robe.

Before his mind could be completely occupied by the fear of dying, suddenly there was a loud bang, and the overwhelming river, as if outflanking the rebellious thieves, rushed straight to the burning white horse.

The shining and dazzling ball of fire was swallowed up by the muddy river in an instant, but the woman in the white horse who was good enough to save people hit her head the frame......

At this moment, Zheng Haizhu's eyes fell on Lu Xiangsheng, who was drenched.

Most of them were picked up by this Lu Xiandi?

Han Ximeng made the final decision on the hero's deeds of saving the beauty: "Ah Zhu, when we were waiting at the Chenghuang Temple, we suddenly heard that the ox cart caught fire and fell into the river again. It scared us to death, but fortunately Lu Gongzi was there at the time. ”

Zheng Haizhu became more and more sober, stared at Lu Xiangsheng and said, "Thank you Lu Gongzi, someone called Liu Daqiang's name at that time, is it also you?" Daqiang and his sister, are you okay? ”

As soon as she opened her mouth, she immediately felt that her voice was good, and there was no sign of coughing when she spoke, which showed that she had not inhaled smoke to burn her airway, and she was relieved to be relieved.

Lu Xiangsheng replied in a flat tone: "Daqiang is very brave, help me drive the cattle down the river together." He and his sister just heard from Lang Zhong that you are okay and have gone home, so as not to worry about your grandmother. ”

Zheng Haizhu settled down, and immediately said to his nephew: "You go back to the house quickly, take the two hairpins in my money box as pawns, make up thirty taels of silver, and send them to the Liu family, his family is in a hurry to use the money, and he has to sell his little sister." ”

Zheng Haizhu was not the kind of person who had to shout about the privacy of the beneficites, but now that she is in trouble, she can't do it herself, and I'm afraid that if she doesn't explain it truthfully, her nephew won't know the urgency.

When Han Ximeng heard this, he said urgently: "Is that Liu Zhutou's family?" What hairpin are you selling, the pawnshop guard is in a hurry, and the price must be lowered. Don't bother with it, I'll give you thirty taels. ”

The eldest lady took a breath, and then used words to block Zheng Haizhu's excuse: "Ah Zhu, I know that you are arrogant and self-controlled, and you should do your own good deeds, and you will never let me get involved." I didn't give it to you for nothing, I turned around and deducted it from your monthly silver in our Han family, it's done, right? ”

Zheng Shoukuan looked at the hostess, and then at his aunt, until he heard his aunt say weakly, "Okay, I'll listen to Miss", and then stopped his steps to step out of the door.

In his heart, what he was concerned about because of doubts at the moment was, of course, the cause of the fire on the white horse, and he was really in no mood to go to the pawnshop.

Fortunately, Lu Gongzi seemed to be very concerned about today's strangeness, so he had already told him what he saw at the time, and he didn't even want to change into dry clothes, waiting for his aunt to wake up and ask what was going on.

At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng went straight to the point and said: "Miss Zheng, my brothers and sisters of the Liu family and I are very close to your ox cart, and at that time, the circle around the ox cart was crowded with the female rolls of the silkworm family. If someone goes to light a fire, how can everyone not be seen? If it is said that it is the spark of firecrackers in front, where will it suddenly burn so strongly? So, Miss Zheng was in the car, condescending, did she see suspicious people and things? ”

Zheng Haizhu frowned, pondered for a moment, and said with certainty: "I'm not a corner of the troupe, I'm really not used to watching the crowd, so I looked down at the square inch around me, the flames did suddenly rise, and the four horses' feet caught fire at the same time. ”

She paused and looked at Lu Xiangsheng inquiringly: "Does Lu Gongzi know the flint used as an ever-bright lamp in the ancient tomb?" ”

Flint, which is an ore containing phosphorus, is immersed in water by the grave keepers, and when the wooden door is opened, air enters, and the flint, which has a very low ignition point, lights up when it encounters oxygen. The stone door closes, the oxygen is cut off, and the flint goes out again.

The name "phosphorus", as well as its characteristics as a spontaneous combustion fire, is recorded in the "Naturalist Chronicles" of Zhang Hua of the Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng, who is a native of the Ming Dynasty and has always loved to study fire oil artillery, answered without hesitation: "The phosphorus fire that Miss Zheng said is ignited without ignition, and I am also pondering this reason." However, at the moment, it is hot in the afternoon, and the phosphorus powder will ignite as soon as it is exposed. If phosphorus powder is placed under the horse's feet in advance, the ox cart will not be able to move a few steps, and the horse will burn, how can it take so long to suddenly catch fire? ”

Zheng Haizhu fell silent, secretly lamenting that his chemistry was poor, and he only knew that white phosphorus would spontaneously combust in the air, but he didn't know what chemical method there was to control the timing of spontaneous combustion of phosphorus-containing substances.

Han Ximeng on the side, who is obviously also a liberal arts woman, heard it in a fog, but she has a clear mind on a more critical issue.

"Ah Zhu, Lu Gongzi, no matter what method is used to start the fire, what is the purpose of the person who started the fire? Burn Azhu to death? ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Zheng Haizhu: "The girl has offended people recently? ”

Zheng Haizhu laughed: "In the past year, I have offended too many people, stabbed the water bandits over there in Qiandun Town, found out the Hui businessman who killed people and blamed the blame, and also provoked the eldest son of the sea merchant Li Dan on the Fujian Sea. ”

She looked at Han Ximeng, and was about to say, "Isn't it that Grandma Sanfang hates me for exposing my uncle", but when she saw the door curtain opened, Lang Zhong of the medical hall respectfully invited two women in Chinese clothes to come in.

"Little aunt, auntie."

Han Ximeng hurriedly stepped forward to salute the juniors.

The person who came was Mrs. Miao of the Gu Mansion and the daughter-in-law of the family, the Shen family.

Zheng Haizhu was also struggling to get up, but Mrs. Miao stopped her in a gentle voice: "Girl, you are lying down, Ah Tai is tired, you have been robbed." ”

Shen also personally came up to support Zheng Haizhu, and said softly: "After watching you get on the float today, Ah Tai went to Sheshan Temple to enter the incense Buddha. ”

When Shen came in, he had already seen Lu Xiangsheng who was drenched.

On that day, she deliberately took Han Xiying to meet Mrs. Miao in the backyard of Gu Mansion in the name of asking for embroidery patterns. Mrs. Miao wanted to ask this Miss Han San, how was the school at Zheng Haizhu's end.

Han San relied on Shen's advice, and said that the Zheng School was good and good, and praised it every word. After the third lady left, Shen looked for an opportunity, and seemed to mention lightly that Zheng Haizhu invited a weak crown from Yixing to come and settle in the library, saying that he admired the talent and was grateful for his knowledge of teaching the boy, but in fact, he and Miss Han San could see that the two of them were quite a concubine.

At that time, Mrs. Miao listened, and sure enough, according to Shen's judgment, although she did not judge Zheng Ya's move, she sighed meaningfully, the third lady of the Han family did not look at her young age, her mouth was very tight, and she didn't care about people behind her back. As soon as Shen turned around, he naturally fed this praise to Han Xiying as a sweet fruit, so as to continue to drive her to do things.

At this moment, Shen saw that the person who saved Zheng Haizhu was Lu Xiangsheng, and the disappointment in her heart for today had finally dissipated.

The old lady should believe it even more, this girl surnamed Zheng is a woman who has a bad style, whether it is to make a living or to love in spring, no wonder she will be punished by God.

Just when the curtain came in, he heard Lu Xiangsheng and Zheng Haizhu discussing the cause of the fire, and after introducing Lu Gongzi to Mrs. Miao, Shen sighed lightly, made a look of half hesitation and worry, half sincere expression, and complained: "This fire, if it is released by any splashing skin, my family is not so worried about Miss Zheng." ”