Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 112 The Jade Pendant Is Lost
"On fire?" Ye Qiongdan and Ye Qinghan both turned their heads.

Not far away, thick smoke billowed into the sky, and even the white clouds in the sky seemed to be dyed black.

Under the thick smoke, there was half a burning house. Many villagers rushed over to help put out the fire.

Ye Qinghan couldn't care less about cleaning up the baskets containing wild bracken, he said to the old donkey, "Uncle, let's go back and have a look, and come back later to get the baskets, do you think so?"

"It's okay, I'll drive the donkey cart home and let my son deliver the baskets to you later." The old donkey waved his hand at them, "Hurry up and go back, the fire doesn't look too small."

Ye Qinghan nodded, and when paying him the fare, he added a few more copper coins.

The old donkey insisted on not wanting it, and Ye Qiongdan on the side said that he would take these copper coins to buy sugar for his grandson.

When the two returned to the new house, most of the fire had been extinguished.

The villagers who came to help were tired and sweaty, but they still gritted their teeth and persisted. Some villagers fetched water from the well in the yard to put out the fire, and some villagers went to the nearby river to fetch water. The whole yard was damp and smelled of smoke. .

Xue girl was crying while fighting the fire, and when she saw Ye Qiongdan, she cried even harder: "Adan...what to do...the baking room was burned...the dried bracken we baked so hard... ...was mostly burned...the firewood house and two other empty houses were also burned..."

"Is he not injured?" Ye Qiongdan asked with concern.

"No," Snow Girl shook her head, and said with a choked voice, "Recently, my fourth uncle was roasting dried bracken in the baking room alone, and I went to other villages to collect dried bracken with two shop assistants. Wild Bracken, today my fourth uncle went to town with you, and only Brother Qingyu and Ah Hai were left in the house. When they found out that there was a fire, the fire was already huge..."

"Have you and the fourth uncle been to the baking room this morning?" Ye Qiongdan asked quickly, "Could it be that some charcoal fires have not been extinguished?"

Fourth Uncle and Maid Xue shook their heads affirmatively.

"Then someone must have set the fire," Ye Qiongdan frowned, but didn't care to think deeply, "Let's help put out the fire first, and then look for the arsonist later!"

After half a stick of incense, the fire in the house was completely extinguished, and the villagers who came to help were exhausted.

Ye Qiongdan looked at these enthusiastic villagers and said gratefully: "Thank you for your help. Today, everyone is exhausted. After a while, I will go to the village to borrow a few tables and cook some delicious dishes for everyone."

"That's great!" The villagers nodded, and they all found a place to sit down and rest. The men lifted up their clothes and began to wipe their sweat, while the women picked up some broad leaves and fanned themselves.

Seeing this, Xue girl quickly picked all the ripe peaches in the yard, put them by the well and washed them to quench everyone's thirst.

Hai Yatou accompanied Ye Qiongdan to buy vegetables from the villagers who grow a lot of vegetables in the village, while Ye Qinghan took the initiative to borrow tables from several nearby houses.

After a while, five or six Eight Immortals tables were moved to the yard.

After Ye Qiongdan and Hai Yatou bought meat and vegetables and came back, several strong women in the village took the initiative to go to the kitchen to help.

After working for more than half an hour, all kinds of delicious dishes were served on the Eight Immortals' table. Everyone was hungry and tired, and suddenly felt that the food was even more delicious.

"Girl Dan is really ingenious, even Aunt Yu who is often invited to serve the banquet in our village is far inferior to her?"

"I don't think even the cooks of small restaurants in the town can compare to her!"

"So, if you survive a catastrophe, you will have a future blessing. She used to have this ability, but she didn't show it! If someone marries her in the future, she is really blessed! She can read a few words and can talk about business. , the food in the kitchen is still well prepared, doesn't it mean that you can enter the business world, enter the hall, and enter the kitchen?"

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The other people in the room also looked proud when they heard the villagers praise Ye Qiongdan in this way.

After drinking and eating, the villagers left one after another.

After seeing off the last villager, Ye Qiongdan closed the gate: "Except for a few houses that were burned down, there is nothing left in our house, right?"

Everyone shook their heads, only Ye Qingyu seemed hesitant to speak.

Ye Qiongdan took his eyes into his eyes, then took out the money bag around his waist, and said to everyone: "I converted the fields and gold leaves given by the old couple and the big house into cash, and the part of the fourth uncle, I have asked my elder brother to deposit it into his account for him, and the share of me, elder brother, and second brother is placed in the public account of the third room. This is the compensation for Xueyatou and Haiyatou, please take it. "

"Thank you, Sister Adan." Maiden Xue went up to take the bank note and handed it over to Maid Hai to take care of the account.

"If you have nothing to do, let's go to sleep," Ye Qiongdan said wearily, "brother, you can ask people in the village tomorrow, find some craftsmen who built houses, and rebuild these burned houses. "

Ye Qinghan nodded.

"By the way, how much saltpeter has been dug from these public mountains near Shanghe Village?"

"In two or three days, we'll finish digging," Snow Maiden sighed, "I pay them the wages every day, and I have never been in arrears. It's just that you asked me to buy the sawdust, which I originally piled up in the woodshed , already packed half the room densely, and it turned out..."

"It's okay, the sawdust is easy to buy, but the carpenter's house near here has been bought by you, we must go to other villages to buy wood chips," Ye Qiongdan smiled and encouraged everyone, "It's okay, as long as the person is fine, everything can be done again !"

Several people nodded.

"Second brother, Ah Hai, did you hear any movement before the fire started? After you found out that the fire started, did you chase it out to see?" Ye Qiongdan asked again carefully.

Ye Qingyu shook his head: "The incident happened suddenly, Hai girl and I were worried that all the dried bracken that you worked so hard to bake would be burned, so we didn't bother to catch up outside to see it. However, before the incident, we did not listen to it. to movement."

"The arsonist is so cautious, it seems that they have planned it for a long time," Ye Qiongdan frowned, "You guys go to bed first, my brother and I will go to a few nearby houses to see if they have a fire before our house caught fire. I saw some suspicious people near our house."

"Go early and come back early." Ye Qingyu instructed with concern.

Ye Qiongdan nodded, and walked out with Ye Qinghan.

The two went to more than a dozen nearby families to ask questions. Everyone cooperated with Ye Qiongdan and recalled it seriously. However, they did not give Ye Qiongdan any useful clues.

Ye Qiongdan sighed in frustration, and walked back with a heavy heart.

I don't know what the arsonist set fire to this time.
Figure money?Nothing was lost at home, but the expression on the second brother's face looked a bit strange. Could it be that the second brother lost something that can't be explained to outsiders?
Or, plan your life?

Could it be Ye Jigang again!
Ye Qiongdan frowned, does Ye Jigang have such courage?
She had just hurt Da Fang's vitality with her front foot, and he was going to kill them with her back foot?
But this is unreasonable, Ye Jigang wanted to take them all together before, it doesn't make sense that he just wanted to burn Ye Qingyu and Haiyatou to death this time.

Ye Qiongdan was puzzled, worried that the arsonist would have another trick, and returned home full of worries.

After returning home, Ye Qiongdan told everyone all the useless news he had found out, and everyone was a little disappointed.

Before they went back to the room to rest, Ye Qingyu stared at Ye Qiongdan, and then knocked on the table twice.

Ye Qiongdan nodded.

After returning to the house, everyone who was tired all day soon fell asleep.

Ye Qiongdan sat cross-legged on the bed and waited until the second watch with her clothes on, then knocked on the door of Ye Qingyu's room.

In Ye Qingyu's room, a bean-like lamp lit up, illuminating the room slightly.

After Ye Qiongdan entered, he closed the door carefully, and asked in a low voice, "Second brother, did you lose something today?"

Ye Qingyu nodded, and handed her the pillow with a serious face.

Ye Qiongdan took the pillow, opened the pillow case, and then pulled out the cotton wool from the pillow, and spread it on the bed carefully. Gradually, her expression became serious: "Brother lost your jade pendant?"

Ye Qingyu nodded.

"Are you sure you lost it this afternoon?" she asked uneasily.

"I'm sure," Ye Qingyu said solemnly, "When Hai girl said that there was a fire outside, the second brother touched the pillow. At that time, the jade pendant was still in the pillow."

"So, today's arson is likely to lead the tiger away from the mountain?" Ye Qiongdan held up the oil lamp on the side and walked around the house, "Second brother, was the house messy after you came back? Is there any trace of being searched?"

After recalling it carefully, Ye Qingyu shook his head: "No."

"What about the other rooms? Are there any traces of searching?"

"nor."

"That means the arsonist came here for the jade pendant in the first place. He knew that you had a jade pendant and hid it in your pillow, and he also knew exactly which room you lived in." Ye Qiongdan put the oil lamp back where it was, "You Have you ever mentioned the jade pendant to others before?"

Ye Qingyu thought about it carefully for a while before firmly answering: "No."

Ye Qiongdan pursed her lips and lowered her head.

A group of brocade guards came from Qinghe County, and she was worried. At this juncture, the dragon pattern jade pendant that could prove the identity of the eldest brother was lost again, which made her even more worried.

If the dragon pattern jade pendant fell into the hands of Jin Yiwei, then they would soon find out about the elder brother, and the identity of the elder brother would be revealed.

"Adan, Adan?" Ye Qingyu called her twice.

Ye Qiongdan came back to his senses and shook his head: "It's okay, second brother, go to bed early, I'll go to the pawn shop in the town tomorrow and ask, maybe the other party is just trying to make money?"

"Okay," Ye Qingyu nodded, and said gently, "Don't worry too much, go to bed early."

"Ah."

Ye Qiongdan went out, looked at the moonlight outside the window, and let out a long sigh.

Early the next morning, the sun rose.

A layer of faint light penetrated the bamboo curtain, reflecting the mottled peach tree branches and leaves, and fell on Ye Qiongdan's desk.

She stood in front of the desk, cut out a small piece of paper with a paper knife, and drew the dragon pattern jade pendant according to the appearance in her memory. After finishing the painting, she just dried the ink when she heard a sound coming from the yard. There was the sound of splashing water.

Ye Qiongdan put the drawing into his sleeve, turned around and opened the door, and walked to the girl Xue in the yard: "Can't sleep?"

"Worried and frightened all night," Xue girl stuck out her tongue, "After all, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days."

"Do you suspect that Ye Jigang set the fire?"

(End of this chapter)