Chapter 242: Night Fire
Outside the high Qianfu courtyard wall, countless victims have completely surrounded the courtyard wall.
The heavy gate was supported by several logs in the courtyard, and a high platform was erected inside the gate, and there were steps leading up to the high platform.
The nurse stood on a high platform, and the courtyard wall was waist-high. The family members looked at the countless victims below and even turned pale for a while.
Victims filled the avenue outside the courtyard walls, stretching to the end of the street.
The wide streets, which could accommodate three or two carriages in parallel, were completely clogged with crowds. Perhaps, from the top of the crowd, it is possible to drive three or two carriages in parallel. The dense crowd made it seem that the crowd was flat overhead.
The victims continued to storm the gate, slamming it against the gate together, slashing and smashing it with tables, chairs, sticks, and many other objects in their hands. They were all shouting and shouting, and the door slammed into the ground.
If there is a rhythmic drum beat, it will be beaten on the gate one by one. During the period, there was a "ping-pong" sound of countless small hard objects knocking on the gate, like the accompaniment of the main theme, tirelessly dancing on the gate.
The thick log that held against the gate trembled suddenly, and countless tiny dust fell in waves.
Every time the gate "banged" once, everyone in the courtyard trembled. They kept finding logs to prop up on the gate, but they could still see the gate moaning overwhelmed.
The guards on the high wall watched in horror as the frantic crowd below slammed into the gate in frenzy. They slammed their flesh and blood into the gate, and the people behind squeezed the people in front of them against the gate. The people in front were squeezed by the impact and only rolled their eyes, but they couldn't hear the screams of the people in front of them at all, and could only hear the fanatical shouts of countless people behind.
The guards took a spear more than a foot long, and only listened to the leader's order, and then stabbed at the crowd below.
For a moment, the crowd below instantly saw blood, fell down with a wail, and soon disappeared into the crowd completely.
The guards in the nursing home listened to the leader's order and plunged down one by one. But after all, there are some flesh-and-blood living people, not cats and dogs, and some young men still can't bear it, and they hesitate for a while.
A spear stabbed hesitantly, soft and slow. Someone grabbed the shaft of the spear, and several people joined hands to pull it down, and the young man was caught off guard and was dragged off the wall at once.
Like a small wave in the waves, it only let out a short scream, and then instantly drowned in the sea of people.
The others gritted their teeth and stabbed down with a spear in their hearts.
Gradually, they no longer needed orders, they only gritted their teeth, and continued to stab downward, aiming at the chests of the people below, fast and ruthless.
Messy things kept flying up from below, and from time to time they smashed on the heads of the nurses. Maybe it's a stone, maybe it's a short stick, maybe it's a tattered pot and pan. The guy was hit in the head, and he was immediately smashed to the point that his head was bleeding. Someone was hit, one was in a trance, fell headlong, and was never seen again.
A spear was snatched away, and then it came from below and stabbed at the servants above. The spears on both sides come and go, screaming and screaming one after another.
Someone is constantly planting the wall, and someone is constantly going up the stairs.
Occasionally, someone climbed the one-foot-high courtyard wall from the outside and jumped into the courtyard. Everyone in the courtyard immediately rushed up, slashed his head and face, beat him so that he could no longer move, and then threw it aside at will, letting it slowly lose his breath.
The courtyard wall of the Qian Mansion is very high, which was deliberately heightened by Master Qian. Unexpectedly, there were still people who could climb up, and it was not one or two, but from time to time someone climbed the wall and jumped into the courtyard. It's just that most of them fell their legs as soon as they landed, causing everyone in the courtyard to rush up and knock them to the ground.
The scene became hot and intense at the first moment.
The heavy gate was tightly held up by dozens of logs, but the crowd outside the door was not discouraged, and kept slamming the door continuously, and cracks could already be seen on the door.
Someone anxiously shouted: "Where's Steward Wang, I'm about to lose my hand, go and ask Steward Wang to dispatch and find a way!"
"Hey, Steward Wang, do you know where Steward Wang is? Who saw Steward Wang?"
For a time, there was chaos outside the courtyard wall, and there was also chaos inside the courtyard wall.
And the handsome steward Wang who commanded the nursing home, but he didn't know when, he had already disappeared silently.
......
The front door was open on the main street, and the outside of the door was chaotic and boiling, and the back door was open in a cold alley, but it still couldn't escape the situation of hitting and smashing the gate, and the noise broke the silence of the alley.
Steward Wang whispered alone, from the front yard to this inner courtyard.
He quietly searched the entire inner courtyard, but he didn't see the figure of Master Qian at all. I only saw Master Qian's many wives and concubines, and shrank in the room in fear, locked the door, and resigned myself to fate.
Steward Wang quietly sneaked towards the treasury, and when he saw the gate of the treasury, it was still locked. Steward Wang was immediately overjoyed. Although I wondered a little in my heart, I was happy, so much care!
Quickly took out a key for the personal collection from the lining of the clothes, and opened the lock with a "click". In a flash, he entered the treasury.
After a while, I saw Steward Wang come out of the door with a happy face, and his waist bag bulged a whole circle, and he didn't know that he thought it was a big fat man with a big belly. Carrying a small burden on his back, although the burden is small, this small burden is not light at a glance.
The people in the courtyard don't arrange to go to the courtyard wall to guard the compound, the courtyard is deserted. Steward Wang walked in the courtyard with his burden on his back with a smile, but he didn't notice that he passed by Master Qian's study just now, and the lock on the door of the study disappeared for some reason.
I went to the inner courtyard and knocked on the door of a room, but I didn't know that it was the door of Master Qian's concubines, the door opened a small crack, and Steward Wang dodged in.
After a while, the door opened again, and I saw that Steward Wang pulled out a woman, and did not go to the front door, nor to the back door, as if the two were smeared with oil under their feet, and quietly slipped towards a remote place in the courtyard.
In the depths of a remote alley, there was a corner, and at the corner there was an old, narrow wooden door that was quietly opened, and Steward Wang poked his head out of the door, and the thief looked out for a while, turned around and beckoned, and pulled out a woman from the door.
The two of them took the package, sneakily stepped on small steps, and walked out quietly and hurriedly.
When I walked to the mouth of the alley, I suddenly braked suddenly, and I saw Steward Wang slowly retreating back.
At this time, Steward Wang was looking ahead with a panicked face and slowly retreated.
Retreating step by step, a few more figures slowly appeared at the mouth of the alley, moving forward step by step, forcing Steward Wang to keep retreating.
I heard Steward Wang ask in a panic, "You, what are you going to do?"
Wang Er Mazi pressed forward step by step, and said with a smile: "Yo, this is not Steward Wang, what's the matter? Where are you going in a hurry?"
At this time, across the wall of the Qianfu courtyard across the street, a huge shout spread far away in the air.
"Smash open the gate, pay for the bloody debt!"
Blood debt and blood payment?
Steward Wang's face suddenly changed greatly.
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At night, Zeng Jiaoxi led the horse and took Miss Qian to the Qian Mansion.
Miss Qian sat high, far away, and by chance she saw a bright light in the direction of Qian's mansion, illuminating half of the night sky. The roof tiles in the surrounding streets are illuminated.
Miss Qian couldn't help but be surprised: "What is that?"
Zeng Jiaoxi took two steps back, bypassed the cover of the corner of the house, and looked over there, and suddenly his expression changed greatly, and he already realized that something was wrong.
Pick up speed and rush over there.
After crossing a few streets and looking at each other from afar, I saw the fire in the direction of Qianfu.
The night breeze fluttered, carrying the scorching waves of fire and the pungent smell of smoke on the face.
Miss Qian's face turned pale: "This ...... What's going on?"
Zeng taught and practiced silently.
With the night breeze comes a myriad of noisy noises.
"It's on fire!"
"Hurry up and put out the fire!"
"Hahahaha, burn, burn, burn!"
"Help!"
Countless chaotic sounds were in symphony, mixed together in the rolling heat, and the chaos was extreme.
Miss Qian followed Zeng Jiaoxi to hide in the dark alley and look out, only to see that the Qian Mansion was indeed on fire. Countless people ran out of the Qian Mansion, some of them were panicked and walked away in panic, some laughed wildly and swaggered out, some laughed and cried, and rushed out as if they were crazy, and some of them looked back at the raging fire and walked out silently.
However, no matter what kind of person comes out of the Qian Mansion, they are all full of money in their arms.
Miss Qian hid in the shadows, watching the fire burn in the Qian Mansion, devouring the houses in the mansion, devouring the entire Qian Mansion, devouring the entire night sky, and devouring everything.
Miss Qian opened her mouth and froze in a daze.
The tears in his eyes never fell, and his pupils were like a dark mirror, quietly reflecting the raging flames, watching the raging flames devour everything about him.
Zeng Jiaoxi turned his head and glanced at the eldest lady.
The darkness of the whole world enveloped her, she was no longer a daughter, and there was no natural light to dispel the darkness around her. She had lost her luster, but she was still delicate and fragile. It is foreseeable how such a delicate will be quickly crushed and annihilated in this heavy darkness.
This fire brought light to the night sky, but it brought her darkness to the extreme.
"Miss. ”
Zeng Jiaoxi called softly.
It was about the last time he called her Miss.
Zeng Jiaoxi thought so in his heart.
"High ...... Gao Gongzi!"
"Huh?" Zeng Jiaoxi raised his head, glanced at Miss Qian, thought he had misheard, and asked, "What?"
"Mr. Gao, it's Mr. Gao!" Miss Qian exclaimed softly, taking a step and running out of the alley.
Zeng Jiaoxi's face was cloudy, he thought about it, sighed, and followed.