Chapter 43: The Great Fire of Zhang Bashan
Dark clouds cover the moon, tonight, especially dark. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info two sleepless people tonight, quietly leaning against the window, looking at the flag standing quietly outside the window, slowly waiting for the strong northwest wind to wake up the fire of salvation. It was the fourth watch again, and the northwest wind came as promised.
"Sure enough, it's a dark moon and a high wind, is it a murderous night?" Shaoyuan looked downstairs through the window
"This wind is very cold, have you noticed, there don't seem to be many people patrolling the sentry tonight" Mi Bang pointed downstairs, "It seems that this cold wind is also coming in time"
Shao Yuan was silent, just raised the window, stood outside, and watched the entire village with murderous eyes as he did two days ago, and after a while, "Action!"
The cold wind blew the whole house of the stockade, making a sighing sound, drowning out the footsteps of the two. Near the kitchen, only the guard dozed off in a corner near the kitchen, and even snored loudly, which sounded familiar.
But when the two approached, Mi Bang squinted his eyes and made a motion to wipe his neck at Shaoyuan. Shao Yuan was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise, "Third son, why, why is the person who keeps vigil tonight the third son?" Shao Yuan immediately recalled that at noon, Brother Chuan said that he wanted them to wear more clothes, it turned out that it was because it was their turn to keep vigil tonight.
"Brother Mi, why don't we act tonight?" Shao Yuan, who had no reason, suddenly said such a sentence to Mi Bang
Mi Bang's face was full of black lines, and he said with a helpless look: "Brother Lu, if we delay for a day, the villagers will be in danger for a day, do you know? Tonight's patrol is so simple, it is the best time, if we miss tonight, when will we act again? Do you still be a bandit for the rest of your life? What's more, you are not related to this person, so why should you hesitate so much?"
Shaoyuan understood his gaffe, but he was unwilling to kill the third son, after these two days of getting along, the third son is actually not bad, although Shaoyuan and him are not related, but there is no injustice or hatred. If you kill people outside the fortress, it is due to survival, if you don't kill people, it doesn't mean that others won't kill you, horse thieves and foreigners are heinous villains in Shaoyuan's understanding from childhood to adulthood, and they should be killed. But the man in front of him ,......。
Looking at Shao Yuan's hesitant expression, Mi Bang knew that Shao Yuan's killing intent was shaken, but now he definitely couldn't waste any time, every second counted, so he gritted his teeth. Quietly came to the third son, took the step in his left hand, and drew a small dagger from the side of the boot with his right hand. Covering Miko's mouth, and then Miko's chest thrust hard.
The pain of piercing the heart pulled Sanzi back from his sleep, Sanzi woke up subconsciously, and then his hands and feet began to dance wildly, and he really hit Mi Bang so directly, Mi Bang didn't have the strength to suppress Sanzi, and he was immediately repulsed. The third son covered his chest, looked at the person in front of him with wide eyes, and was about to shout loudly, but before he could speak, a big hand covered his mouth. With a frightened look, the third son looked up, it was Shao Yuan, who he had regarded as a little brother in the past few days, only to see Shao Yuan's eyes were fierce, his left hand was covering his mouth, but his right hand was holding the dagger inserted in his chest with one hand, maybe ordinary people would continue to poke the dagger in. But Shaoyuan didn't, Shaoyuan took advantage of the situation and pulled out the dagger.
Without the dagger pressing, the blood in his chest gushed out, splashing Shaoyuan's whole body with the blood of the third son. The huge pain made the third son unconscious, but he shed so much blood, I was afraid that the third son would not survive Shaoyuan touched Mi Bang's dagger with his own clothes and helped Mi Bang up. Mi Bang asked a little frightened, "Lu Shaoxia?"
Shao Yuan didn't speak, just shook his head coldly, "I'm regretting, I knew I should have done it myself" Shao Yuan looked at the body of the third son, "Maybe I did it myself, the third son might have walked a little more peacefully, instead of being so unbearable." With that, he picked up the body of his third son and walked to the kitchen. "Brother Mi, come on, we're in a hurry" "Oh oh"
Shao Yuan put the three sons on the same table where they usually eat. Then he turned around and went to fetch oil, and then said coldly, "Brother Mi, these are oil, let's take a few buckets, put them outside, and prepare to use them to light other houses, the hay is just outside the door, it is an excellent thing to ignite" Mi Bang listened to Shao Yuan's words, so he started to fetch oil, but Shao Yuan did not take oil with him, but took other oil and watered the kitchen.
After a while, Mi Bang had already taken four small kegs of oil outside the door, and Shao Yuan picked up a few rags and flints and handed them to Mi Bang. "Brother Mi, stay outside the door for a while, I'll order this kitchen at the moment"
Mi Bang nodded, "Then I'll go and arrange the surroundings first, Brother Lu, you should hurry up."
Watching Mi Bang leave, Shao Yuan picked up the flint that he usually cooks and fires, lit a fire at a pile of dry firewood, and whispered, "Third brother, do you know, in fact, I grew up in the north, so I know a lot of northern songs, I usually don't eat rice, they are all pasta steamed buns, so, in fact, I'm not used to eating rice, so don't keep saying that I'm a rice bucket, and also, the steamed buns you gave us on the first night were really, really delicious and sweet." As he spoke, Shaoyuan smiled, tears flowing from the corners of his eyes. , rubbing, the flint caught fire, and ignited the dry wood in front of him. Shaoyuan lifted one in the middle of the term and walked to the edge of the cabinet where the food was placed, "Third brother, you like to eat meat the most, and you like to eat fat, this is what you told me, we in the north, we are actually very good at barbecue, I am leaving now, before leaving, I will make you a barbecue." That's enough to eat," he said, and lit the oil poured into the kitchen, and the fire burned along the oil, and the table and the stove were all on fire.
Shaoyuan retreated to the door step by step, knelt down on one knee in front of the platform of the third son, "No matter what purpose I, Lu Shaoyuan, joined here, but in the past two days, I am grateful for your care"
"Wow, smss" The fire burned the wood of the wooden kitchen with a crisp cracking sound, and Shaoyuan walked out of the kitchen with a cold face. The northwest wind outside the window still blows the flags and hunts.
Mi Bang approached Shaoyuan, "Brother Lu, these two houses have been watered, you can do it"
Shaoyuan nodded, "Let's light the fire, take advantage of the strong wind now"
The two of them lit a fire in different houses one after another, and in late autumn and early winter, the air dried and the matter was dry, and the fire was very easy to ignite. In a few moments, the entire kitchen was covered by a raging fire, and the surrounding houses began to burn all over the walls. At this time, the raging fire finally attracted the attention of the patrol post.
The patrolmen began to shout "get up, get up, put out the fire" from house to house
The lights of the houses came on, and many people came out to put out the fires before they had time to put on their clothes.
Shao Yuan and Mi Bang hid in the darkness and walked towards the house where the fire had not yet spread.
"Sure enough, the building is empty" Standing in the brightly lit but empty house, Shao Yuan and Mi Bang said at the same time, "Even the flint is free, because they directly lit the lamp for us"
Shao Yuan and Mi Bang picked up the candlestick and threw it on top of the sheets, and the fire lit their quilts, one and two, and burned them one after another. "Open the window, it burns faster", Shaoyuan walked to the place that had not yet been affected by the fire, opened the window in turn, and the cold west wind invaded through the doors and windows, cheering on the fire.
The two of them ordered everyone to go to the empty house. Then he quietly crouched behind a small dirt slope and watched the whole village burn.
"Hey, hey, don't go, you have to put out the fire ahead"
"What are you going to, we're burning over there, too"
"Ah, I'm burning over there, too"
"Me too"
"It's over, it's over, the whole stockade is going to burn down"
The wind rode the fire, the more it burned, the more the village was limited, many people just wanted to save their houses, and as soon as the people dispersed, the kitchen that was originally thought to be controlled was burning more and more in the wind, and it spread again.
Brother Chuan, the patrol captain who was commanding the firefighting, couldn't help shouting, "You guys, come here first, don't go back, put out the fire first, what about people, by the way, did anyone see Sanzi, Sanzi? Sanzi, where are you?"
At this time, the person on the side suddenly said, "Brother Chuan, Brother Sanzi is patrolling near the kitchen tonight."
"What, do you say it again?" Brother Chuan grabbed the man, "You mean the third son may be inside?"
"Yes, yes," the man said timidly
"Third son" Brother Chuan let go of the person, looked at the kitchen that had been burned into a sea of fire, knelt down weakly, covered his face and cried bitterly, "Third son, third son, it's Brother Chuan who is sorry for you, it's Brother Chuan who is sorry for you, no, no, I'm going to pull you out" said that Brother Chuan wanted to run in with an arrow step, but was hugged by the people around him, "Brother Chuan can't help it, it's already a sea of fire inside"
"Let go of me, let go of me" Brother Chuan said angrily
"Xiaochuan, what are you crazy about, calm down" A majestic voice came from behind, and everyone turned around, but it was the master of Jiang Zhai and the steward.
"Owner of the village, I think this fire is extremely unusual, I'm afraid someone set it on fire," Guan Ye said
"That's true, this fire, but only the first two rows were burned, I'm afraid it was intentional," the owner of the village said in a deep voice
"Xiao Chuan, where are your two new boys now?" Guan Ye asked suddenly
"They, they haven't seen each other, are they?" Guan Ye, do you guess they did it?" Brother Chuan asked
"Eight or nine are not far from ten, yesterday I found traces of someone entering my study, I'm afraid I can see our secret," Guan Ye said slowly
Hearing this, the face of the owner of the village couldn't help but change. Brother Chuan immediately decided, "Qiangzi took a few brothers, went to find Mi Heng and Mi Bang, and if he disobeyed the order, he would be killed on the spot."
Hadron "obeys"
Guan Ye also arched his hand and said, "The owner of the village, please also go back to the room to sit in the town, if you take advantage of the fact that we are so busy, we are sneaked into the dungeon and let them out, I am afraid the consequences will be unimaginable."
The owner of the village nodded, "Xiaochuan, do your best to put out the fire, and then investigate the causes of the fire one by one"
"Yes," Brother Chuan arched his hand, "I will never let go of the person who killed my brother"
At this time, Shaoyuan and Mi Bang were quietly approaching Dongzhaimen, preparing their last plan