"But you've convinced them?" Ye Shuhua asked.

Li Zhen smiled faintly.

"It's just that I scared them with the Gu family's affairs, and they are all willing to donate."

The two of them came to the hall and sat down, and Ji Cui served hot tea and stepped aside.

Ye Shuhua nodded, she was confident that Li Zhen could convince them.

"With their donations, the disaster relief will go smoothly and the people's hearts will be reassured. But I have something more important here. ”

Li Zhen took a sip of tea and looked at her: "What's the matter?" ”

Ye Shuhua said with a serious face: "I suspect that the Gu family and the people in Liyang City are colluding to make weapons privately, and the person who connects them is the Seventh Master." ”

"Seventh Master?" Li Zhen twisted his eyebrows.

Ye Shuhua naturally knew who he was thinking of, and said: "The seventh master of Huaguo is Liyun, he has died a long time ago, so it can't be him, this seventh master has someone else." I originally guessed that it would be the person of the third prince, but how do you look at it. ”

"Is there anyone else secretly accumulating power?"

Ye Shuhua nodded, "Gu Jiu'er said, he heard that there is another batch of goods, we can wait for this batch of goods to catch one." ”

This year's autumn is exceptionally short, and because of this heavy snowfall, it directly ushered in a cold winter.

They sent people to keep an eye on them for several days, but there was no movement in the Gu Mansion, and no suspicious people came.

Almost all the people in Tongyu Town, including the surrounding towns, were given rice noodles, winter clothes and quilts, and they were also distributed to everyone.

However, in just one month, the disaster relief has had an effect, and the praise of the people's livelihood has already drifted to Liyang City.

The Three Princes' Mansion.

Yuan Jin arched his hand and said, "Lord Wang, now is a good time." ”

The third prince had a cold face, glanced at him, and said angrily: "What a good time, is it a good time to make a name for Liji!" Didn't you say that the king should fight with him for disaster relief, so that he would go to disaster relief and wait to see him embarrassed by the rich merchants? Well, now he has not only dealt with the rich businessman, but also made a reputation! ”

Yuan Jin's expression did not change, and he still said indifferently: "Disaster relief is a long process, appeasing the people's hearts and distributing rice and grain to the people's hearts is only a symptom but not a cure. ”

"Including the entire granary of the rich merchants, what about the situation? How famous you are now, how badly you will be scolded when the time comes. ”

Hearing this, the third prince became interested and looked at him, "How to make their rice and grain out of condition?" ”

In the Zhizhou Mansion, there is not much silver charcoal, and there are more so-good cigarette charcoals.

When you burn it, the inside of the house is full of smoke, but if you don't burn it, it is extremely cold inside.

At this time, a small servant in the house came up with an idea, to lead the stove to the outside, and the smoke to the outside, so that the room was both warm and not smoky.

Ye Shuhua thought this method was good, so she asked someone to do it.

This little guy is also a good person, and he has already prepared a chimney.

The smoke was indeed drawn outside the house, but when the charcoal fire burned enough, the sparks would fly out along the chimney.

Ye Shuhua was afraid of going to the water, so he ordered Zhuying and told the subordinates in Zhizhou to pay attention at all times.

She also checked, and most of the sparks flew out of the chimney and went out.

Then he looked at the location of the granary, which was far away from his house, and it was all right.

The weather outside was dry and cold, and the wind was biting.

Ye Shuhua didn't want to go out, so she only nested in the house and read.

Gu Jiu'er is young in the end, her body recovers quickly, and she can get out of bed now.

The swelling on his face has also subsided, revealing his original appearance, and he looks well-behaved and cute.

If he can get out of bed, he will come to Ye Shuhua.

Gu Jiu'er has a sweet mouth, and Ye Shuhua is fine, but she also likes him to talk with her.

He was very interested in Go, so Ye Shuhua taught him to play Go.

By noon, the room began to get stuffy, and a layer of sweat broke out on my nose just by sitting on my nose.

Ye Shuhua went to tell Ji Cui to open the window to breathe.

But I heard an exclamation.

"Ah, Miss! It's on fire outside! ”

Ye Shuhua looked up and looked out at this time, he hadn't paid attention to it before, and then he saw that the fire below was spreading upwards.

She kept the doors and windows closed, and she didn't pay attention, and when the fire started, she didn't notice it.

The charcoal fire in the stove in the house crackled almost like the sound of burning wood, and she didn't think it was on fire when she heard it.

There was smoke in the house, and she didn't care about it, it was a charcoal fire that was smoking, and the smoke from the chimney would be more or less left in the house.

But it was these that caused the fire to burn in front of her.

"Quick, take Gu Jiu'er away!" She didn't have time to think about it, and directly pushed Gu Jiu'er to Ji Cui.

"Sister, let's go together."

The fire became fierce again, directly enveloping the entire door and window, and the tongue of fire was like the claws of the devil, directly enveloping the entire room.

"Ji Cui quickly take Gu Jiu'er away, I have a way to go!"

Ji Cui had to listen to the young lady's order, and jumped out of the window directly with Gu Jiu'er in her arms.

But after jumping out, Ji Cui was even more dumbfounded.

The entire Zhizhou Mansion was shrouded in flames.

Zhu Ying went to follow the order to keep an eye on the Gu family, and Li Zhen and Fang Zhizhou were also out on patrol.

At this time, there was only Ye Shuhua in the Zhizhou Mansion.

Ye Shuhua looked at the raging fire, and the smoke was so choking that she couldn't breathe.

She held the soaked handkerchief, gagged her mouth and nose, and breathed hard.

The fire came too strangely.

And just now she saw something in the stove in a trance.

She slowly approached the stove and picked up the chimney with a stick in her hand, and there was stone scale powder inside!

Stone scale powder is very rare and special, ordinary people do not need it, and the nobles of the high gate do not bother to use it.

It can spontaneously combust when it encounters fire, but it can only spark and cannot burn.

And Mars can float far away at extremely low temperatures, and even if you can't see the starlight, in fact, it still has temperature and can rekindle.

Especially if it falls on flammable materials, it will ignite instantly.

And the stone scale powder is a bit expensive, so expensive and not suitable for things that will cause fires, ordinary people don't use it.

In addition to the above reasons, there is also a point that the nobles have a safer and more reliable thing to light charcoal, and there is no need for stone scale powder to light charcoal fire.

It stands to reason that there should not be such a poor town as stone scale powder.

Moreover, she clearly remembered that the charcoal burned was soot charcoal, and there was absolutely no stone scale powder.

But there is it in this furnace.

The fire had already enveloped Ye Shuhua, and the beams of the house were also burned and fell down.

Ye Shuhua reacted very quickly, dodged in time, and was not hit.

But the smoke was getting thicker and thicker, and she had to get out of here quickly.

There was also a basin of water beside her, which she was afraid that the house would be too dry, so she asked Ji Cui to put it.

She poured a basin of water on herself, changed a cloth soaked and covered her mouth and nose, and looked around, the fire on the left was the weakest.

Without hesitation for a moment, he rushed out directly over the flames.

She was extremely fast, covered in water, and the falling sparks and flames did not burn her.

Escaping from the house, she was not surprised to see that the entire Zhizhou Mansion was engulfed in flames.

But when she saw that the fire was about to spread to the granary, she panicked!

At first, she didn't know why the other party did this, just to burn herself?

Thinking about where she came from so many enemies, but seeing this moment she knew,

The other party's purpose is to burn down the granary!

The granaries are heavily guarded and inspected every day to prevent flooding.

Water tanks are also placed around the granary, just to prepare for the water.

The man couldn't get into the granary to light the fire, but he thought of such a trick.

Without having time to think about it, she ran straight towards the granary.

According to the young lady's order, Zhuying always monitored Master Gu.

saw a suspicious person, and the other party's movements flashed very quickly.

Without waiting for the bamboo shadow to chase after him, he disappeared.

Just when Takekage wondered who that person was and why he just appeared like this.

She saw that the granary of the Gu Mansion was on fire!

It was the man who set the fire!

After Gu Zhusheng found the location of the grain and gold that he had secretly hidden, he moved the grain and gold back to the house.

After all, these things are the most reassuring to keep by your side.

Naturally, all that grain was placed in the granary.

If the Gu family's granary catches fire, it means that all the grain will be destroyed.

Ignoring the possibility of being exposed, Takekage rushed in to put out the fire.

The guards stopped her at first, but when they saw that the granary was on fire, they didn't care who she was, and they all put out the fire.

They moved quickly, but the fire was so fast that even if the fire was extinguished in time, half of the food was destroyed.