My queen does not compete for favor

Chapter 164

The next day, Wan Qixiao came up together in the morning and wanted to deal with the follow-up matters of yesterday's disaster relief, but was told that the magistrate Ning Shuoyun had gone one step faster, and had arranged the task assignments early on, and the states and counties were pressed one by one. According to the amount and severity of the disaster, materials were allocated for disaster relief.This made Wan Chengxiao nod in satisfaction, it seems that Ning Shuoyun is quite knowledgeable.

So Wan Qixiao obediently followed the officials in charge of entertaining them, and spent a day happily playing with Aunt Yunshang, Celadon and the other lieutenants.Visiting kilns today, eating specialty products tomorrow, there are new tricks almost every day, and the guards and generals are so happy to play.

But after several days in a row, having fun every day, Wan Chengxiao finally felt that something was wrong.

It is understandable for Beijing officials to entertain them, but such unrestrained singing and singing day and night, still in this kind of city after the disaster, how can it be unreasonable?Ning Shuoyun seems to be a good official, why would he do such a thing regardless of the importance?
Furthermore, and the strangest thing, is the problem of manpower.The city where Beijiang Mansion is located has the best terrain, so it suffers the least flooding, but even so, everyone is too busy with disaster relief, not to mention that other counties are flooded in a mess?There can never be too many people!Wan Qixiao caught a glimpse when passing by a boat on a tour. Those victims were sleeping on the roofs and tree branches, and all their travel depended on bath tubs. Again and again, small-scale floods continued... In such a situation, let alone distributing disaster relief supplies, even if the disaster relief is still short of manpower, how come Ning Shuoyun robbed her of her work but didn't use any of her soldiers?The guards from the capital are all well kept in the inn, and they take care of food and shelter every day, and they are raised as uncles, but they have never been allowed to do anything.The local county government guards here are so busy that they don't touch the ground like a whirlwind, running here and there.Such task allocation is really not what a sensible person should do.

After Wan Qixiao returned, he recruited Ning Shuoyun to offer assistance in disaster relief, but Ning Shuoyun politely declined.What Ning Shuoyun said is also reasonable, the local government guards are more familiar with this place, and it is easier to distribute supplies and find people to do things.Wan Qixiao and his party are all strangers, unfamiliar with this place, it is not easy to travel, and it is easy to make a mess instead of getting things done.

Wan Chengxiao hit a soft nail, curled his lips and left without saying anything, but he became more and more suspicious of Ning Shuoyun's behavior in his heart.Ning Shuoyun must be hiding some important secret for isolating the people from Kyoto and the actual disaster situation here!
Wan Chengxiao returned to the guest room assigned to her.

The moment she opened the door, she saw through the window opposite the house a big-headed girl doll desperately waving at her on a big tree higher than the wall on the hillside outside the wall.

Wan Chengxiao stared at her, and the little girl seemed to realize that Wan Chengxiao had seen her, and her thin arms waved harder and harder.

Wan Qixiao tilted his head slightly, pointed to himself, and gestured: Call me?
The female doll was suddenly excited, dancing with both hands, nodding desperately.

Wan Chengxiao adjusted the cloak on her body, smoothed out the long whip on her waist without showing any traces, and closed the door with her backhand, faking the sign that she was locked in the room alone, then she fully opened the window and jumped with a "whoosh" out.

After a few strokes, Wan Qixiao climbed out of the wall and stood under the big tree.

The girl doll also climbed down from the tree, only then did Wan Chengxiao realize that it was actually the daughter of the father who was whipped to death by her a few days ago, and she seemed to be called... Nannan.Nannan climbed down the tree, threw herself to kneel down in front of Wan Chengxiao, and kowtowed with her small body: "My lord, save grandma Nannan, please! Help grandma!"

Wan Chengxiao paused, and looked down at her: "What? The supplies are not enough?"

"No, grandma, she was captured by bad guys! My lord, mother said that you are the biggest official, you have the final say, is it true? You can save grandma, right? Grandma is a good person, grandma Grandma is not sick, grandma is just coughing, she has nothing to eat and is too hungry to walk, she is not sick!" Nannan grabbed the leg of Wan Chengxiao's cloak and hurriedly defended.

"Sick? Was he taken away by bad guys?" Wan Chengxiao's heart trembled, and he had a bad guess.

A few days ago, when she was taken to Baihualou for the first time by the entertaining officials, she didn't see her feet clearly when she entered the door, and kicked over a small aromatherapy dish, and she wondered why the incense here was sour At that time, I asked casually, and the nanny of Baihualou smiled and explained that the scent of powder and cream in places like Baihualou is too strong, which is easy to pungent and chest tight, so she mixed some slightly sour incense to neutralize it.At that time, she was urged to leave by fellow officials, so she didn't take it seriously.Now that I think about it, the so-called incense is just smoked vinegar!
Wan Chengxiao immediately pulled up Nannan: "Where is grandma? Take me to see!"

As soon as Nannan heard that she was saved, she immediately got up, took Wan Chengxiao's hand and ran down the mountain.

Wan Chengxiao was dragged by his little nannie, all the way through the city through the alleys, and ran to a hillside suburban forest in the west of the city.

"Here?" Wan Qixiao was puzzled.

"On the mountain, there are many temples. Everyone catches them when they are sick and worships the Bodhisattva in the temple. If the Bodhisattva blesses them, they will be able to recover from their illness and go down the mountain. If they don't bless them, they will be burned to death." Panting, the girl dragged Wan Qixiao down the path and ran up the mountain. .

"Worshiping a Bodhisattva? Absurd!" Naturally, Wan Qixiao didn't believe in these things.

At this moment, black smoke suddenly rose from the top of the mountain, people screamed continuously, and the mountain wind blowing over brought a strong smell of fire, obviously the top of the mountain was on fire!Wan Chengxiao was startled, immediately picked up his daughter and ran up the mountain.Nannan also smelled the flames, sobbed "Wow", and hugged Wan Chengxiao's neck, begging her to hurry up.

Wan Qixiao ran up the mountain quickly, sweating profusely, but he was a step late after all.When she ran to the top of the mountain, a temple had already turned into a sea of ​​flames, and the raging fire reflected the faces of a row of official servants red.In the sea of ​​flames, the last sound of struggling disappeared, and the pillars of the temple continued to fall, smashing up a piece of firefly, and flying into the sky.

"Grandma!" Tears welled up in Nannan's eyes, she broke away from Wan Chengxiao and jumped to the ground, screaming and pounced towards the flames.

When rushing past the guards on the outside, the guards immediately noticed and held her back, holding her tightly to prevent her from running in.The monstrous fire smudged her little face red, and she was crying so loudly that she cried out at the top of her lungs.The heads protruding from other scattered temples on the side also shrank back, and the sound of sobbing continued to sob and choke from all around.The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, is it the same fate that awaits them?

(End of this chapter)