My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 118
Rao Beiying.

Xia Zhihua sat next to Lu Shiyan and asked in confusion: "Then what happened to General Song? He actually sent us to suppress pirates?"

They are all newly recruited recruits!
They had only practiced for a few days, but they were already eager to send them out to suppress pirates.

I'm afraid that suppressing the pirates is a lie, but letting them die is the real thing.

The day before yesterday, Lu Shiyan was called to speak by General Song. Afterwards, everyone praised him on the grounds that he had served as a general at the border. When he was finally promoted to a commander, he felt that something was wrong.

Today it really came true.

Although the situation was very pessimistic, he didn't panic, "Don't worry, I promised Manager Xia that I will keep you safe. You can rest assured and go to bed quickly to recuperate. Don't delay our departure tomorrow."

This time they were taken to the woods for training!

However, after only a few days of training, Lu Shiyan suddenly received an order to lead troops to suppress pirates.

Xia Zhihua couldn't sleep, but there was nothing he could do if he couldn't sleep.

He was just a new recruit who had just joined the army. There was no way he could do anything. In the end, he could only place his hope on Lu Shiyan.

Not to mention Rao Beiying in advance, Jiang Tangtang and Zhao Jia went back to Zhuangzi that day. They originally planned to stay in Zhuangzi that night, but they remembered that they had something to do, so they hurried back to the county seat to get busy and wait for their return. When we arrived at the shop, it was already dark.

Jiang Tangtang was so tired that he just wanted to go back and wash up and sleep. However, he didn't want to go to the back door of the courtyard. He saw someone secretly pouring something into the wall. When someone came back, the person dropped the things and ran away.

But how could Guo Yu let him run away like that? He immediately rushed over and pushed the person to the ground.

"Who are you? What were you doing just now?" Guo Yu grabbed the person and said in a rough voice.

"I didn't... didn't do anything. Let me go..." the man said, shrinking his neck.

Jiang Tangtang picked up what the man had thrown away and smelled it. A look of violence suddenly appeared in his eyes. He stepped on the man's chest and said, "You poured sesame oil into my house to burn down my house? Do you have a grudge against my family? Or is it someone else?" Who called you here?"

"You actually want to set a fire!" Guo Yu slapped the man's ears a few times and said angrily: "Be honest, or I will send you to the government!"

"It's really none of my business. Someone gave me ten taels of silver and told me to dump the stuff in your yard. I really didn't know he wanted to set fire to it!"

The man wailed: "If you don't believe me, you searched my body. There is no fire on me. How could I set it on fire?"

Guo Yu carefully searched his body and found nothing except ten taels of silver and a few copper coins.

Guo Yu kicked him twice angrily and said unwillingly: "Sister Jiang, what should I do? Are we going to let him go like this? Or I'll beat him to death!"

"My hero, spare my life. I will never dare to do it again. Just spare me! As long as you spare me, my life will be yours from now on. I will do whatever you ask me to do!"

The man knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Jiang Tangtang and Guo Yu.

Jiang Tangtang pursed his lips, glanced around, and said to Guo Yu: "Don't fight yet, bring the person in. I'll ask you carefully. Pay attention. If anyone suspicious comes, arrest him."

"Yes!" Guo Yu tied up the man and threw him into the yard. He climbed up a tree on the side of the road, huddled up, hid in the leafy trees, and carefully observed his surroundings.

With such a loud movement, everyone in the room was awakened and came out of the room to check.

Everyone was shocked when they saw the tied-up man on the ground.They all asked Jiang Tangtang what was going on.

Jiang Tangtang briefly explained what had just happened and then said: "Guo Yu is guarding outside. You should also be alert and don't let anyone burn the house down."

Several servants lowered their heads in shame.

If Jiang Tangtang and the others hadn't come back in the middle of the night and happened to meet him, the house might have been burned down.

Jiang Tangtang ignored the people, lit the candles, and looked at the man carefully.

It was dark outside just now, so I couldn't see the man's face clearly.Only then did I realize that this man was actually pretty good-looking, and he didn't look very young. He seemed to be around 22-[-].

He was born with a good body, but he became a thief!

Jiang Tangtang sighed inwardly and said coldly: "The person who gave you the money is a man or a woman. What does he look like? Will you still recognize him when you see him again?"

"A man!" The man carefully shrank his neck and said after a moment of hesitation: "It was too dark, so I couldn't see clearly. I only heard his voice."

"How did he find you?" Jiang Tangtang stared at his face to determine whether he was lying.

The man couldn't say anything: "I just... I really don't have any money. I wanted to steal... steal something. Then he gave me a jar and said that as long as I pour it in your house, he will give me ten taels of silver."

"Then what if you just accepted the money and didn't do what he said? What else are you hiding from me and not explaining?" Jiang Tangtang suddenly said in a stern voice.

"No……"

"You won't tell me, right? If you don't tell me, I will send you to the government!" Jiang Tangtang said and was about to call someone.

The man was anxious and said hurriedly: "Don't..."

He gritted his teeth and stammered: "I just went to Beijing to catch up with my household registration certificate! I... I also know that stealing is wrong, but I was robbed and paid for. I really have no choice. I don't want to have evil intentions, just Someone caught me. He said that as long as I followed his instructions, he would return the household allowance to me, and then give me another 100 taels of silver so that I could go to Beijing to take the exam." "Where and what time ?" Jiang Tangtang said indifferently.

"It's at the entrance of the alley ahead, at three o'clock in the morning."

When Jiang Tangtang heard this, he was immediately anxious and angry, "Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

There might have been someone hiding at the entrance of the alley just now. With their movements just now, the other party might have been frightened and ran away.

She immediately called someone to check at the entrance of the alley, but naturally found nothing.

"Forget it, come back and have a rest. Send people to the Yamen tomorrow!" Jiang Tangtang called everyone to go back and rest.

But Guo Yu insisted on guarding the tree in case someone set fire to it in the middle of the night.

Jiang Tangtang wanted to be careful and sail the boat for ten thousand years, so he didn't try to persuade her. He just said: "Okay, you have worked hard. I will give you a big red envelope during the Chinese New Year."

"I don't want a big red envelope, I want to eat the delicious food made by Sister Jiang." Guo Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll make you a delicious meal tomorrow as a reward!" Jiang Tangtang said with a smile.

Several other servants also expressed their intention to stay outside like Guo Yu, but Jiang Tangtang said: "You all have work to do tomorrow. Don't even think about being lazy. Go to bed."

Although the shop is decorated, the food that needs to be prepared must be prepared in advance.

For example, winter melon candy, a food with a relatively long production cycle, and pickled salted eggs are also available.

Jiang Tangtang also washed up and went back to his room to rest. He slept until midnight, but suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"It's on fire! Sister Jiang is on fire!"

Jiang Tangtang sat up suddenly, without even putting on his shoes, he raised his legs and ran out, "Quick, quick, put out the fire!"

"Sister Jiang, don't worry, it's not our house that's on fire!" Guo Yu said.

Jiang Tangtang breathed a sigh of relief, "Then where was the fire? Why didn't you tell me clearly?"

"There's a fire over there!" Guo Yu pointed to the billowing smoke in the distance and said, "That location seems to be Jiuxia Silver Tower."

Jiang Tangtang's heart just dropped and he quickly went to pick up the man he caught last night, "Does the fire over there have anything to do with you?"

The man cried, "No! I really don't know. I was tied up by you and didn't move even one night. It really has nothing to do with me."

Jiang Tangtang was too lazy to watch a grown man cry, so he called Li Xiangchen and others over and asked them to look at the shop and the tied up men, and then took Guo Yu to Jiuxia Yinlou with him.

After the two people passed by, they discovered that it was not the Jiuxia Silver Building that caught fire, but the Jingfu Building diagonally opposite the Jiuxia Silver Building that caught fire.

However, although it was not the Jiuxia Silver Building that caught fire, the houses in ancient times were all connected in a row and used a lot of wood to build. If the fire was not put out, not to mention that the Jiuxia Silver Building would not survive the disaster, and the entire street would eventually be reduced to ashes.

Everyone came out with water to put out the fire. Jiang Tangtang and Guo Yu also found buckets and participated in putting out the fire.

It wasn't until the sky turned white that the fire was put out.Not only did Jingfu Tower burn to a great extent, several shops next to Jingfu Tower also suffered heavy losses.

"What's going on in your Jingfulou Building? Why don't you pay attention? Are you trying to kill people all over the street?"

Before the fire was put out, everyone was focused on putting out the fire. Now that the fire was put out, everyone gathered around the owner of Jingfu Tower to hold him accountable.

Yan Yongshou now sat on the ground in disgrace, looking at the burned-out Jingfulou Tower, unable to recover for a long time.

"Dong Yan's family, the fire started in your house and burned my shop like that. Tell me what to do!"

"That's right, my shop was almost burned down, and my mother was almost scared to death. You have to give us an explanation for such a big loss!"

The owner of a nearby shop that had been burned down two years ago surrounded Yan Yongshou and asked for compensation.

Yan Yongshou's eyes were dull, and he was listening to the people's crusade blankly. Suddenly he saw Chu Mingyu in the crowd. As if some switch had been touched, he stood up and rushed towards Chu Mingyu.

"It's you, isn't it you?" His eyes bulged, his cheeks flushed with anger, "It was you who set my shop on fire, wasn't it?"

Chu Mingyu got up to put out the fire in the middle of the night. Even though he was saving his opponent's shop, he was slandered. He suddenly became angry and scolded in a cold voice: "Dong Yan, you are not the one who poured dirty water on me! If you dare to mess with me again, If you throw dirty water, I will go to the Yamen to sue you."

"Who are you?" Yan Yongshou gasped, "You are just jealous of us, so you set fire to my shop!"

Chu Mingyu shouted: "Why am I jealous of you? Is it okay to be jealous that your shop does not have as much business as mine? Or should I remember your villainous face and repay kindness with hatred?"

"You, you, you -" Yan Yongshou was breathing heavily in his chest, pointing at Chu Mingyu with his index finger tremblingly.

At this time, someone came over crying and said, "My boss, Zhou Fu is missing. Could he be buried inside?"

(End of this chapter)