Chapter 454: The Fall
(Girls' Literature)
Qi Miao and Bai Xiyun hurriedly ordered people to prepare carriages and horses, put on warm and thick cloaks and went out.
In October, the weather was dry and cold, and Qi Miao forgot to bring a hand warmer when she went out, and the fingertips of her hands were frozen. Bai Xiyun held her hand in his palm and gently comforted, "Don't worry. Let's just go and see. ”
Bai Xiyun's true performance did not make Qi Miao feel much better. She knew that Bai Xiyun was a soft-hearted person, although the Bai family was not good to him, but in the end, he had the grace to nurture him, and he was ruthless, if the Bai family really couldn't escape this catastrophe, she thought that Bai Xiyun would definitely be sad. The last thing she wanted was for him to be sad.
Qi Miao gently shook his hand back.
And what she didn't know was that Bai Xiyun had all the things in her past life in her heart, and she only had hatred for the Bai family, so how could she really be so sad? The only remaining kindness to the Bai family was also paid to Bai Xilan and Bai Xixi, who had not deliberately persecuted them in their previous lives. If you really say that you are in a hurry about the Bai family's affairs, you can't really talk about it, but you are suddenly a little shocked when something happened.
Who did it to the Bai family? He could only think of the second prince in his heart. Those who know the truth of the year, the two princes will be eliminated one by one. Now that he is grounded, he can't get rid of the emperor in the short term, so he can only hit the best person with his idea. These people on the left and right are all to be killed, what is the difference between who kills first and then kills?
The carriage galloped all the way, and soon arrived near Baifu, and before it could get closer, I saw black smoke rising into the air from a distance, covering the sky and the sun into a large area, and the surrounding people were all blocked at the intersection and surrounding the scene of the fire, pointing and discussing. Looking inside, the people of the Water Dragon Bureau and the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division were pouring water to save people, together with the people who lived in the neighboring mansion and the few remaining people of the Bai family.
However, this is only a drop in the bucket.
The weather is dry and dry, and there is a lot of west wind blowing today, which is the most likely weather to fuel fires. Bai Xiyun and Qi Miao got out of the carriage and stopped on the side of the carriage to look silently in the direction of the Bai family, frowning at the heat wave that hit their faces.
It's so far away, and you can still feel the heat rushing to your face, what about the people who haven't run out of the house?
How could such a large mansion burn down all at once, and how could the people in the mansion not notice it at all? Qi Miao looked at those who were busy putting out the fire.
Some of those people are descendants of the Bai family. The subordinates can run out, and the master is stupid not to know how to escape.
The more I thought about it, the more uneasy I felt, Qi Miao conceived countless possibilities in her heart, the most likely one is that the masters were stunned by people.
Maybe that's really the case!
Even if there is a mistake, it is still a fresh life, not to mention little girls like Bai Xixi and Bai Xilan, they don't understand anything, they haven't done anything, what's wrong with them? Why was they tired of losing their lives by Bai Yongchun and his wife?
I don't know if it was smoked by the heat or in a hurry, Qi Miao sweated a lot, and even the cold hands that had been cold just now were warmed by the hot sweat.
"It's out, it's Madame who is out!"
Just when everyone was anxious, they suddenly saw a group of people coming out of the collapsed gate that was burned by the fire, and two men were holding an embarrassed woman.
Zhang was already semi-unconscious, his long hair was scorched by the fire, and there were blurred traces of burning flesh and blood on his arms and legs, and as soon as he arrived in front of him, the two men handed him over to a thick servant woman in the outer courtyard, picked up a bucket and poured it on his head, and then turned around and went straight into the house.
Bai Xiyun twisted his eyebrows.
That man is not from the Bai family, nor does he look like a person from the neighbors.
Who will brave the fire at this time to rescue the Bai family?
Qi Miao had already taken Bai Xiyun's hand and rushed to Zhang's at this time. She hurriedly said: "Let me see, I'm a doctor!"
The embarrassed servant woman turned her head and saw Qi Miao and Bai Xiyun, they naturally recognized it, and nodded again and again to put Zhang on the ground so that Qi Miao could diagnose and treat her.
When Qi Miao inspected the Zhang family, Bai Xiyun asked the servant: "What the hell is going on, why are the masters inside?"
The servant woman had already been stunned by the fire, and when she saw Bai Xiyun at this time, she remembered that Bai Xiyun was also the son of the Bai family, and the future master, all of a sudden, as if she had the backbone of the master, she choked up when she heard the words, and whimpered: "The slave and maid don't know, they are taking a nap in the house after lunch, and suddenly they hear someone shouting that they are taking water, and when they come out, there is black smoke in all directions, and it has already burned." I want to go to the upper room to save the master and come out, but the fire in the upper room is very big, and the slave and maid are powerless!"
The servant woman cried sadly, and the more she cried, the more she felt wronged and sad, and she was really pitiful to see a handful of snot and tears.
Bai Xiyun did not scold them for protecting the lord unfavorably. After all, the Bai family has never done anything good to make the servants feel reliable, they don't know how to buy people's hearts, and it is common for no one to help at critical moments, who is to blame for doing their own crimes?
Qi Miao frowned and got up, and immediately a servant woman lifted the Zhang family onto a door panel and covered it with a quilt.
"Mrs. Bai has a broken arm, burns on the back of her hand and calf, and she is now in a coma. Qi Miao whispered in Bai Xiyun's ear.
Bai Xiyun said: "Someone really went down." ”
Qi Miao nodded, and just as she was about to speak, she saw another man coming out of the mansion.
If you look closely, it is Bai Xiwan and Bai Xixi. Bai Xixi was still in a coma, so naturally a woman took it and took it to the side, and there was a doctor from the medical hall who had already arrived to diagnose and treat him.
Bai Xiwan was still awake, after this catastrophe, he suddenly saw Bai Xiyun's relative, and tears couldn't stop falling: "Second brother, Sister Lan is gone, Sister Lan is gone!"
Qi Miao's heart jumped when she heard this, and she said with a pale face: "What did you say about Sister Lan!"
"When I rushed to Qinfangyuan, I saw Sister Lan protecting Sister Xi under me. The beam of the house smashed on Sister Lan's head......"
Qi Miao's head buzzed, and she looked at Bai Xiyun with a pale face. She just talked to Bai Xilan and Bai Xixi this morning, promising to wait for the old lady's affairs, and she thought about arranging a future for their sisters. It's only been half a day's work, and the people are gone!
Bai Xilan went to save Bai Xixi......
Qi Miao's tears couldn't help but fall immediately,
Bai Xiyun's eyes were also red, and he was just about to ask Bai Xiwan about something, when he saw Bai Xiwan's eyes roll over. Fortunately, someone on the side helped to catch it, otherwise the person would have fallen directly to the ground.
Qi Miao hurriedly stepped forward to treat Bai Xixi, and hurried to see Bai Xixi's pulse.
It only took a short time for Qi Miao to realize that something was wrong.
Bai Xidu's pulse does not seem to have been hit**. Bai Xixi was really stunned.
She told Bai Xiyun about it. Bai Xiyun frowned, and gradually felt that things were more strange.
The fire of the Bai family shook the entire city of Kyoto. The fever was not extinguished until the next morning. The servant woman of the family burned half to death, the master directly damaged the three people, and the old lady's splendid garden was in ruins, and a few charred corpses were barely found from it.
Jin Xiangyuan was also burned to ruins, including Bai Yongchun's aunt and Zhang's maidservant, a total of five died. As for the other courtyards, there are also people who have died. Because the fire was too big, Bai Xilan had been stoned to death again, and he didn't even have time to take back the corpse, and it became a charred corpse.
Bai Yongchun left a whole corpse. He was carried out by the men who rushed in to rescue him, and it seems that he was stunned and then suffocated to death by the smoke of the fire.
Now the tragic situation is really indescribable. In the entire Bai family, there was only one seriously injured Zhang and the unconscious Bai Xixi, and Bai Xidu, who was delirious and had a high fever.
After Qi Miao checked the condition of the three of them, he made sure that there was no major problem, and slowly walked to the courtyard. At this time, they were in the medical hall facing the street, and as for the Bai family fire, even the neighbors were implicated, and the people of the Five Cities Terracotta Division had to be busy for a while.
Bai Xiyun came in from outside, and when he walked, the royal blue cloak was wrapped around his body, with a trace of solemnity in the morning light, and it was difficult to hide the tiredness and depression in his eyebrows.
Qi Miao stepped forward and asked, "Ah Zhao, how is the situation?"
"The rest of the family was only injured, not fatal. The yamen has already arranged for a work to inspect it, and I believe that the results will be available soon. How are you here?"
Qi Miao said: "People are still asleep, Madame Bai's condition is more serious, but it is not fatal." It's just that Mrs. Bai and Sister Xi have shown signs of being hit, but Zimo is fine. ”
Bai Xiyun nodded and said, "I know." I temporarily rented a house on the street, and my eldest brother had already taken someone to clean it up. My sister-in-law has been more than six months now, and I didn't dare to tell her about the situation here, but I guess I can't hide it from her...... Later, when the people over there have cleaned up, they will come to pick up people, and they will temporarily take Mrs. Bai Zimo and Sister Xi to the mansion. ”
Qi Miao nodded when she heard this: "Today happens to be Qi Wu's wedding, and if this happens, we don't have the heart to attend any wedding, so let's call someone to talk about it later." ”
"Okay, I'll call someone later. ”
As he was talking, he saw Bai Xiyuan and Luo Yong enter the courtyard of the medical hall one after another, with a small servant and a thick mother-in-law behind them.
Qi Miao and Bai Xiyun met with Bai Xiyuan and Luo Yong, and ordered someone to carry Zhang and the others into the carriage, carefully transport them to the house, and pay the medical fee, and then followed them to the newly rented courtyard.
Along the way, Qi Miao and Bai Xiyun didn't speak, and the two of them, who had not slept all night, were a little nervous physically and mentally at this time.
In the other carriage, Bai Xiyuan's eyes were red.
Although he is the eldest son, he has not been treated well by Bai Yongchun and Lao Taijun all these years, but in the end, people's hearts are made of meat, and now that he heard that his father and grandmother have gone, he will inevitably feel sad.