serious man in the red chamber

Chapter 284 Fire
It was quiet in the study.

On the brick floor in front of the desk was a military map made of silk and brocade. At this time, Jia Hu was lying on it, flipping through the military newspaper, scanning the map, picking up a pen from time to time to write something on the military newspaper. .

After working for a long time, Jia Hu stood up and took a deep breath. He found that the development of the Liaodong War was completely different from what he expected. According to the current situation, the Liaodong Army will soon be able to attack Shengjing. If everything goes well, Shengjing can be captured before the end of March, and the worst case scenario is to besiege Shengjing City.

It took only two months to fight and count, and the Liaodong Army was too fierce!

If things go on like this, Yongweiying won't even be able to drink soup.

Is it possible that I will be reduced to attacking North Korea?

Lin San's voice came from outside the door: "Second Master, Jiao Da is here."

Jia Hu came back to his senses: "Come in." After finishing speaking, he packed up the general newspaper, pen, ink, paper and inkstone, put on his shoes, and bent down to sort out the map.

"Crack!"

Jiao Da came in, saw the situation and hurried up to help organize the map, saying, "Second Lord, the show is about to begin!"

Jia Hu didn't speak, but put the map into the box and locked it.

At this moment, Lin San walked in with a letter, "Second Master, an urgent letter just arrived from the palace." He said and handed over the letter.

Jia Hu took the letter and tore it open to read. He only read a few lines, a light flashed in his eyes, he thought for a while, and then looked down.

After reading the letter, Jia Hu walked back and forth a few steps, then walked to the window, pondered for a while, and then said: "Take care of those people, don't make any moves. There is a new situation in the palace."

Jiao Da was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Yes." He turned and walked out.

"Huozhezi." Jia Hu said suddenly.

Lin San: "Yes." Turning around and walking out, he came in with a fire bag after a while.

Jia Hu took the envelope, blown it, stretched out the letter towards the envelope, a corner of the letter was lit, and then the flames slowly engulfed it, until the flames on the envelope reached his fingers, Jia Hu let go, and the corner was also burnt White ash, falling to the ground.

Only then did Lin San come over and clean up the paper ashes on the ground.

Jia Hu: "Let's go to the study outside." He said and walked out.

After the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all the brothels in the inner city were moved to the Dashilan area outside the Qianmen. There was only the Jiaofang Division run by the government in the inner city, but the Jiaofang Division only received princes and nobles and high-ranking officials.

Ordinary officials and ordinary people can only go outside the front gate. This place is close to the inner city, and it is also the main road from other places to Beijing.

This is also the area under the key management of Bing Ma Si and Shun Tian Mansion, and there are soldiers and guards with swords patrolling all the time.

However, the situation at this time was a bit strange. The Bing Ma Si Ding and the Shuntian Mansion guards who were patrolling the alleys in the past were all squatting outside the Yanzhi Alley, not saying a word.

The Yanzhi Hutong was full of onlookers, and there were cries and shouts from a mansion with two doors open, as well as the faint sounds of fighting and various porcelain and glass shattering and shattering!

The city of Beijing is big, but it seems too small to spread the news, not to mention the lace news that people talk about. Six departments and nine officials, down to teahouses and restaurants, even traffickers and pawns know about it.

Before a stick of incense, the Empress Dowager's younger brother, Yuan Wu Qing Bo led dozens of housekeepers, Ding Haonu, into the Yanzhi Alley with knives, guns and sticks.

At this time, there are seven to eight hundred people watching the excitement in Yanzhi Hutong, many of them are wearing luxurious clothes, they are not ordinary people at first sight, and there are also many wealthy businessmen and wealthy businessmen in rich clothes, more of them are joining in the fun of the people.

"Killed—" suddenly came the old bustard's scream.

"Oh!" The onlookers regained their spirits and kept rushing towards the gate of the courtyard. The housekeepers couldn't stop them at all, and the crowd rushed into the courtyard in an instant.

"Kill all these sluts!" The Queen Mother's younger brother roared again from the second floor.

The crowd gathered in the courtyard were all excited and stretched their necks to look towards the second floor.

"Crack!"

There was a crisp sound of broken windows, before everyone could react, a figure fell from the second floor, and then hit the floor tiles in the courtyard fiercely. squeezed into one piece.

"He's dead!" someone shouted in a low voice.

Everyone stared and took a breath.

I saw a young woman in cool clothes lying on the brick floor, the pool of blood under her body was very glaring, she obviously couldn't survive.

"God!"

The old bustard rushed out from the hall, lying on the ground with his legs limp, and yelled loudly: "We earn hard money by doing business according to our duties, it is your son who insists on being brave, so why should you take your anger out on us! My daughter, I don't live anymore! You kill me!"

"Still yelling? Do you want to fight again?"

Wu Qingbo came out, holding a bloody sword in his hand.

The crowd of spectators became agitated again.

Many people frowned.

Wu Qingbo walked up to the bustard and said calmly, "This one is 3000 taels, and the three upstairs are 2000 taels each."

The old bustard was a little dazed: "You, are you willing to lose money?"

Wu Qingbo: "Don't forget it."

"Yes, why not!"

The old bustard wiped away her tears and snot, and got up: "If you lose, you can pay. I can give you the deeds of prostitution for them, but we will pay the money with one hand and the deed of prostitution with the other."

Wu Qingbo snorted: "I will blame you for being a bitch?!"

The old bustard gritted his teeth, turned his head and left.

With a cold snort, Uncle Wu Qing said, "Don't play tricks, or I will set fire to your lascivious nest." After speaking, he walked in again with his sword in hand.

Suddenly a strong wind blew up in the sky, and the wind blew directly on everyone, everyone closed their eyes, at this moment, the old bustard yelled again: "What are you doing?"

Then came the uproar:

"on fire!"

"Run!"

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A group of people rushed out from the hall, shouting, "Run, it's on fire!"

Looking at the blazing fire on the second floor, the crowd who joined in the fun immediately became agitated and swarmed towards the door. Unfortunately, the alley outside the door was full of people and they couldn't get out at all.

The wooden building is inherently flammable, but there are various decorations hanging on the second floor, all of which are flammable, which accelerated the fire and made it difficult to extinguish the fire.

Wu Qingbo rushed out under the protection of his family Ding Haonu, looked at the crowd blocking the entrance of the courtyard, and then at the burning fire, Wu Qingbo's eyes turned red: "Kill out!" The person in front fell to the ground.

The rest of the servants, Ding Haonu, rushed up with red eyes, slashing and killing them with all their might.

As soon as he reached the door, Wu Qingbo was stunned. At this time, the Yanzhi Hutong was crowded with people, and people from several surrounding courtyards were also squeezing out.

A gust of wind blew in, and the flames intensified. Borrowed by the wind, the flames ignited the nearby houses, and the entire Yanzhi Hutong became a sea of ​​flames.

The sun in the sky suddenly became blood red.
outside study

Jia Hu and Lin Sanzheng sat on both sides of the chessboard.

Looking at Lin San who was scratching his head, Jia Hu smiled happily, finally able to appreciate Lin Daiyu's happy mood when playing chess with him.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open with a snap!
Lin San stood up abruptly.

Jia Hu also raised his head in surprise.

Jiao Da came in sweating profusely: "Something has happened! The whole Yanzhi Hutong is on fire!"

Jia Hu was startled, and asked anxiously, "What's going on?"

Jiao Da: "Bingmasi and Shuntian Mansion are still fighting the fire, so we don't know what's going on. But a lot of corpses have been brought out, and many people were killed from behind!"

Both Jia Hu and Lin San were shocked.

(End of this chapter)