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Chapter 68

Everyone turned their attention to Wang Xiaoer.

On the one hand, he was engaged in development here, and only he knew the whole process of what happened; on the other hand, this was really not a good thing, and they didn't want to get involved and cause trouble.

Wang Xiaoer scolded a few bad words in his heart, then walked to Master Meng with a bowed body, and said, "Master Meng, this is probably done by bandits outside the city."

"It's nonsense!" Master Meng obviously didn't believe this statement. The city gate was tightly guarded. If it wasn't for people who had lived in the city for a long time, they couldn't get in at all. How could those bandits come here through the defense line of the city gate? "The city gate is tightly guarded, I'm afraid it's not your nonsense?!"

Master Meng was very angry, waved his hand, and reprimanded Wang Xiaoer.

Wang Xiaoer trembled in fright, and quickly explained: "Master Meng, I swear on my life, it's really a bandit!"

Master Meng still didn't quite believe it.

Wang Xiaoer's eyes were filled with fear of the powerful, and he was very serious, repeating: "I'm not lying, I'm really a bandit."

The housekeeper of the Meng Mansion couldn't bear it, and said to Mr. Meng: "This old slave doesn't look like he's fake. Why don't you give him a chance to listen to him tell the whole story before making a decision?"

The housekeeper has lived in the Meng residence for a long time, and he is an elder. Master Meng had no choice but to respond to his words, and said arrogantly: "Tell me everything you have seen, and if there is even half a lie, you should be arrested immediately." You see the officer!"

Wang Xiaoer was so excited when he got the chance, he cast a grateful look at the housekeeper, and said, "At that time, I happened to be passing here, and suddenly I heard some movement from the yard..."

Wang Xiaoer recounted everything that happened just now in a long-winded manner.

"After they ran away, a fire ignited in the courtyard. The time was so fast that it was too late for people to react..."

After listening to Master Meng, his expression became more serious, frowning as if he had a headache.

After the people around knew what had happened, they also showed expressions of fear.

However, not everyone was frightened. Someone who was a little calmer asked, "Will someone pretend to be a bandit?"

The voice of this sentence was not loud, but no one heard it at all, because at this moment, a member of the Meng family rushed into the yard, sweating profusely and panicked: "It's not good, it's not good! Xiyuan Lanfang is also on fire!"

Lanfang was only two streets away from here, and it was on fire again at this moment. This kind of news really scared the crowd, and the crowd began to riot.

"what happened?!"

"Which household in Lanfang? My sister married there!"

"It must be bandits! Who else has such guts except bandits!"

"too frightening!"

During the turmoil of the crowd, Madam Zhang walked in with the weeping Mrs. Meng, and Master Meng rushed to meet them when he saw them.

"Why did you come out? It's dangerous outside, what should I do if something happens?"

Mrs. Meng leaned vainly in the arms of Master Meng, wiping away the tears that kept flowing with one hand, and handing out a note tremblingly with the other hand: "Master! If it is dangerous, is there any place that is not dangerous?! The thieves put the letter Put it at home!"

Master Meng hurriedly took the note, spread it out to have a look, and there were a few large characters written on it: "Qiongzhou is unkind, and harmed my brother. Tomorrow morning, come here and ask for your life."

Although there were not a few words on this note, the words revealed were extremely scary.

Thinking of Wang Xiaoer's statement just now, Master Meng was terrified, stepped back several steps, and said in horror: "Could it be that bandits are really asking for their lives?!"

Really bandits? !

The butler took the note and looked at it carefully, also looking frightened.

The troublemaker leaned closer to him and took a look. There was still a puncture mark on the note, which was obviously shot by someone with an arrow. The tone of his speech was obviously a bandit!

All of a sudden, the contents of the note spread.

Some people were closer to the burning yard, and for fear of getting involved, they could only look at the Meng family couple with longing eyes.Some people were far away, thinking that the bandits only wanted to seek revenge from these dignitaries, and secretly rejoiced in their hearts.

Before those gloating people could figure it out, another piece of sky above the courtyard wall suddenly flashed bursts of fire again.Immediately afterwards, I heard a hoarse shout from the street over there: "It's flooded! Put out the fire! Put out the fire!"

Meng Lao also made a decisive decision: "Everyone, go to support the firefighting!"

The Meng family got the order and rushed out immediately, and everyone reacted, but before they could tell the direction, they saw flames burning in all directions.Some people moved faster, and even found the same note at the gate of the next courtyard, but there was no punctured hole.

For a moment, people were in a state of panic, and it was unknown who roared among them.

"They want to kill the entire Qiongzhou city!"

This time it scared almost everyone even more, everyone panicked and shouted.

"What to do! Help!"

"Qiongzhou City is not safe anymore! Let's run away!"

"Help! I'm leaving the city! I'm leaving the city!"

A somewhat old middle-aged man cried, "God, I worked so hard half my life to build a small courtyard in the city, and I won't leave the city!"

Another person advised him: "What time is it, and you still miss the house? Run for your life!"

"Yes, let's run away!"

"We can all go, what about my 70-year-old mother!"

No one could answer his question, and everyone rushed to the door first.But because the entrance is small, it cannot accommodate so many people going out at the same time.Everyone just pushed and shoved each other, and there were noisy fights because of being scrambled. What's more, a weak person was pushed, and the rest tried to step on him.

Seeing that everyone was like ants on a hot pot, Madam Meng also cried, "Get out of the city! Master, let's get out of the city!"

In the confusion, Mrs. Meng tugged on Mr. Meng's sleeve. Mr. Meng let out a sigh of relief and shouted, "Don't panic! The bandits haven't come in after all. Magistrate Xue must have a solution. Let's go find Magistrate Xue!"

One person retorted: "What's the use of county magistrate Xue!"

Master Meng's rational voice was very indifferent: "He has officers and soldiers on his hands! The officers and soldiers are here to protect the people and drive away bandits."

When he said this, someone remembered it and slapped his head: "Yes, didn't many officers and soldiers come to Qiongzhou a few days ago? Let's go find them!"

The group is already in chaos, and has already lost its personal rationality. When they hear someone propose a feasible method, they automatically choose to obey.So there was no need for Mr. Meng to explain anything, everyone had already agreed to his proposal.

"it is good!"

"Master Meng is right, we listen to Master Meng!"

"Everyone stop arguing! Follow Master Meng!"

"Follow the Meng family, they will take us to find Magistrate Xue!"

In this way, almost the entire neighborhood gathered in an orderly manner under the command of the Meng family and marched towards the county government.

When a group of people came out of the courtyard, the surrounding fire had died down, but everyone didn't pay attention to it. Instead, they were frightened by the notes that could be seen everywhere on the ground.

Master Meng and Mrs. Meng walked in the front of the crowd, looked at each other, and saw firmness in each other's eyes.

The butler followed closely behind, glanced at the people around him secretly, and said, "Master, what if the county magistrate doesn't believe me?"

Before Master Meng could answer, he said, "There are so many of us, how could your lord not believe it?"

"At worst, call everyone you meet on the road. The louder the noise, the better. Let those bandits know that we are prepared, and don't dare to act rashly!"

"Yes! There are still officers and soldiers in our city, scare them to death!"

So everyone's topic changed from escaping to scaring off bandits. Everyone felt that they were about to be the hero who saved Qiongzhou City, and they were very proud.

Among such people, Wang Xiaoer is the worst.He didn't like this job at all, but because of his own existence, he happened to see through the bandits' tricks.If he really saved the entire city, wouldn't everyone regard himself as a hero?

The more Wang Xiaoer thought about it, the more complacent he became. He walked in front, knocked on the clapper in his hand with unprecedented enthusiasm, and shouted loudly: "Please rise up, gentlemen, the bandits are violent. If you hesitate a little, your life will be lost!"

At first, some people were dissatisfied with the noise, and after hearing the reason, they quickly put on their clothes and joined the night marching team.

In Qiongzhou City, a long dragon made of ordinary people's oil lamps is marching towards the county government with great fanfare.

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　　Facts have proved that everyone in the Meng family is a dramatist!
　　


(End of this chapter)