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Chapter 143 Blazing Fire (Monthly Ticket Plus Update)

The smog is so thick that it can be seen from several streets away.

"It's flooded, it's flooded! Dongyuan is flooded!"

Crowds of servants carried wooden buckets, and those with wooden basins went to put out the fire, but they only dared to splash it from a distance.

Obviously, it is terribly cold in winter, and the place where the snow falls is still damp.

How could it burn so big.

Inside the Yunjin Courtyard, Mrs. Wei had already fallen asleep when she heard the news.

That's the first reaction.

"Where is the person, has he escaped?"

Although she didn't know where the fire started, she felt excited as if she had received some great news.

If they were all burned to death, wouldn't it be that God has eyes and cleared her obstacles.

If that's the case, she must beg her father and elder brother to completely send the disappeared Duke to hell.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a family reunion?
Unfortunately, the sky did not fulfill her wish.

The girl said tremblingly.

"When the fire started, our people hadn't rushed there yet. By the time we arrived, the people from Dongyuan had all come out. It's just that the young wives were terribly frightened and seemed to be getting sicker."

Mrs. Wei's teeth itch with hatred, why not just burn her to death!
And then, what the girl said made Mrs. Wei even more uncomfortable.

"The general... the general said, said..."

"say what?"

Mrs. Wei gave the visitor a vicious look. Nurse Jiao is still "seriously ill", so naturally she cannot come to serve her.

But these girls usually look pretty good, but when it comes to critical moments, they can't even speak quickly.

After being scolded by Mrs. Wei, the girl stopped stuttering.

"The general said that Dongyuan has turned into a sea of ​​flames, and even if it is cleaned up, it will be uninhabitable, so they don't pick any auspicious or inauspicious days, and immediately moved to the general's mansion."

"what?"

Mrs. Wei's abacus was very loud, but now she didn't get anything.

The fire outside was so intense that even she could smell the scorching fire in Yunjin Courtyard.

Even if the Duke died suddenly at this moment, the body was right in front of his eyes.

They are also must-go situations.

All of a sudden, the blood was almost spurted out before he was angry.

"Shang Ji! Du Jingyi!"

The hatred in the eyes made me want to eat their bones and drink their blood!

Hate it, hate it, but Dongyuan is in the Duke's mansion after all, if the fire is severe, they don't want to live in it.

So he hurriedly ordered to go down and organize all the people in the mansion to go forward to fight the fire.

But the fire was so big that it was delayed all night.

When the sky was a little bright, the fire was finally extinguished.

Mrs. Wei and Shang Shiro looked at the ruins in front of them, and their eyes were filled with anger.

In such a good location, nothing is left after being burned!

Among other things, it would cost several 10 taels of silver to restore it to its original state.

But everyone knows what is going on in the Duke's Mansion.

If there is no money to repair it, the Dongyuan of the Duke's Mansion will continue to rot like this.

There is such a place in a good house, how can other people live in it?
For a time, both mother and son were in trouble.

"I really underestimated this wolf cub raised by the Gu family, to be so cruel!"

"What mother said is that this move is simply to break with our Duke's mansion!"

Mrs. Wei also meant the same thing.

Looking at the ruins on the ground, I couldn't help but feel poisonous.

"Hmph, don't think that if you set fire to Dongyuan, you can go to the general's mansion to live a good life, I want him to pay the price!"

Even if Sanfang can be framed, Dongyuan is not out of the question.

So I thought about arranging some evidence to prove that the fire was set by Dongyuan's own people.

Who knows that she is not ready yet, the Dongyuan people have already reported to the palace.

Mrs. Xing brought a whole house of "sick women and children" into the palace, knelt down in front of Empress Guo, and began to cry.

"I also ask your empress to be gracious and help them. You see, if these one or two go back to the Duke's mansion, I'm afraid there will be no bones left."

Following Mrs. Xing were Du Jingyi, sister-in-law Liu Shi, and eighth sister Xueniang.

They are all "seriously ill" people in the mouth of the common people, so naturally their expressions are not very good.

All of them were sallow and thin, as if they had been abused.

There is still a faint smell of medicine on his body, and he can tell at a glance that it is caused by taking medicine for too long.

Queen Guo looked at them and remembered many things from the past.

Especially the eighth younger sister Xueniang, who looks a lot like the late Mrs. Gu.

Remembering that she had propped herself up into the palace and lay down before she died, she couldn't help but sighed.

However, before Queen Guo could speak, Mrs. Xing added.

"It's easy to talk about other things, but Mrs. Du already has Liu Lang's flesh and blood in her belly, but she doesn't dare to say anything. She can only pretend to be sick and hide. Otherwise, if Mrs. Wei finds out, she doesn't know how to kill her!"

"Pregnant?"

"Yes, my wife is more than two months pregnant."

Empress Guo glanced at Nanny An beside her, and said excitedly.

"Go ask the imperial physician to come over and show Mrs. Du a look."

"Yes."

Taking advantage of the time when Nanny An went to invite the imperial physician, Mrs. Xing cried a lot.

The elder sister-in-law Liu Shi and the eighth younger sister Xueniang were so frightened by this act of pretending to be sick and cheating the queen that they dared not say a word.

But it was this kind of behavior that made Empress Guo mistakenly think that they had suffered too much suppression in the back house.

Otherwise, one is the grandson-in-law of the Duke's Mansion, and the other is the eldest daughter of the Duke's Mansion.

Why are you so cowardly and timid?
For Mrs. Xing's words, she believed more than seven or eight points.

"I heard that Dong Yuan was burned? What's going on?"

Seeing this, Du Jingyi could only sigh, pretending to be embarrassed and said.

"Back to your mother, the houses in Dongyuan haven't been repaired since ten years ago, and there are many places where the paint has fallen off. Half a year ago, the minister's wife told my father-in-law that many fireproof paints in Dongyuan are useless. To repaint."

"But Mrs. Wei has always been in charge of Zhongfu. She said that the mansion is expensive, and now there is no money for Dongyuan to repair the house. But when my father-in-law celebrated his birthday a few days ago, the whole Yunjin Courtyard took on a new look."

"At that time, the fifth uncle and grandfather's family made trouble, and together with the third uncle and grandfather's family, they smashed the Yunjin Courtyard to pieces, and it was repaired in a few days, so... If His Majesty hadn't rewarded the General's Mansion in advance, I am afraid that the people in Dongyuan would have died. I’m going to Beiyuan to live in the courtyard where my fifth uncle’s family used to live.”

After Du Jingyi said these words, he knelt down respectfully.

I didn't say a word more.

Mrs. Xing also knelt down, listening to her carefully.

Seemingly stating one thing calmly, it actually revealed Dongyuan's difficult situation.

It has been in disrepair for a long time, neglected, and bullied by others.

Who can bear it?
(End of this chapter)