It was late at night and all the people in the Song family home were asleep.
Gu Yi came out of the house fully dressed and leapt up the wall, followed by Xiao Si.
Their courtyard was on the far side, and beyond the wall was the main road.
The two of them jumped down and went straight to the tavern.
Inside the side room, Dr Yao’s eyes did not even open when he heard the commotion, he rolled over and went back to sleep.
The door of the tavern was tightly closed, with a seal on it.
Gu Yi walked over, tore it off, pushed the door in, and went straight to the backyard.
“Young master!”
“Young master!”
……
The fellows were standing in the courtyard.
Gu Yi looked around and nodded his head.
A few of the fellows went to the kitchen, carried out the oil and poured it over the dry firewood leaning against the various walls and in the lobby.
The rest of the fellows dragged out a sack from a side room with bones they had picked up from a mass grave, which they took out and put in the room where they were sleeping.
Gu Yi reached out and Xiao Si put the flint in his hand, which Gu Yi lit and threw on the nearest pile of dry firewood.
The dry firewood burst into flames.
The men went forward and each took one in their hands and lit the rest of the firewood, then quickly retreated through the back door and went to the mansion they had bought for Song San Xiao. Gu Yi and Xiao Si returned to this side of the house.
……
When Duke Qi finished, he looked coldly at the county governor, “Qingping County, have you heard clearly?”
The county eunuch’s brain buzzed, “Listen, listen clearly.”
“Then all go back.”
The magistrate turned around with a shaking body, and just as he stepped out of his cell, he saw the light of the fire rushing into the sky in the distance, his heart gave a jolt and cold sweat came out, “Quickly, sound the gong, tell the people to put out the fire!”
“Great, my lord ……”
The magistrate stood unmoving, with horror in his eyes, “That, that seems to be the direction of the Gu family restaurant. ”
A coldness rushed from the bottom of the county magistrate’s feet straight to his sky, “What are you still standing there for, go put out the fire! Go!”
……
The fire was raging, reflecting half of the county’s sky.
The soldiers on the night patrol saw it and rushed this way, and halfway down the road they saw two men carrying a sack towards the city gates.
“Stop right there! What are you doing?”
The two guards didn’t stop in their tracks, and one of them held a waist tag and held it up to him, “The Third Prince’s guards.”
Hearing that they were the Third Prince’s guards, the soldiers hurriedly added to make way, and the two men carried the sack past them.
The leading soldier turned and was just about to head when a soldier pointed in horror to where the two guards had passed, “Blood!”
The leading soldier jumped in horror and hurriedly looked down, the blood was unusually bright red in the light of the torches.
“What, what should we do?”
There was no need to ask, the sack must have contained people, possibly people who were not yet dead.
The lead soldier gritted his teeth and wiped the blood dry with his foot, “All listen, we didn’t see anything.”
The group of soldiers nodded, they could not afford to mess with the Third Prince, if they meddled, they might even have to get involved.
“Quickly, go and put out the fire!”
The crowd ran towards the tavern, the leading soldier glanced back in the direction of the two guards and withdrew his gaze.
……
The Song family was also awakened, and Song Lin’s first reaction was to carry buckets of water to put out the fire.
“You be careful.”
Xu instructed him.
“I know, the fire is not small, it looks like it won’t be put out for a while, you watch the family, no one is allowed to go out, especially second uncle and elder brother. They can’t carry buckets of water, and they can’t help much over there, so don’t get bumped again.”
“I understand.”
Song Lin ran outside with the bucket of water, and just as he ran out of the courtyard door, he saw Gu Yi and Xiao Si also running out with pale faces.
“What are you two doing out here, go back now!”
“My dear lord ……”
Xiao Si’s teeth chattered, “That, that seems to be the direction of the tavern.”
Song Lin looked over carefully, and it was true, carrying two buckets of water as they flew out the door.
Gu Yi and Xiao Si also ran outside.
Xu Liang came out of the courtyard and was going to find out where the fire was, when he heard Xiao Si’s words he immediately turned back and hesitated for a moment before telling the old man, “It’s the direction of the restaurant.”
The old man immediately got up, “Call the second young master and Yan’er, go and put out the fire!”
Xu Liang turned around and went to shout at the others, the old gentleman went out of the courtyard and saw Doctor Yao stumbling and running outside, he was about to follow him, when Song Wan Yue, who had just come out, saw him and ran up to stop him, “You can’t go, such a big fire, there are bound to be many people going over to put it out, the scene will definitely be chaotic.”
Mr. Xu Er and Xu Yan also came in a hurry, urging him not to go.
“Then I’ll stay at home, you guys go!”
Several people went outside and got into the carriage, not far out, saw Doctor Yao, pulled him up and walked towards the place where the fire was, the more they walked the more they thought it was a tavern, and several people’s hearts sank.
“Hurry up a little!”
Dr. Yao kept urging the coachman.
The street was full of people carrying buckets of water to put out the fire, and the coachman dared not hurry too fast, sweating in his hurry.
When he got closer and saw that it was really a restaurant, Doctor Yao almost fell off the carriage, “There are so many other people inside! Stop the carriage! Stop the carriage!”
The coachman stopped, and Dafu Yao jumped off and drew his legs to run that way.
Song Wangyue jumped down after him and followed him.
Mr. Xu Er and Xu Yan also got off the carriage and ran over.
The fire was so big that it was impossible to get close to it. The people putting out the fire poured buckets of water into it, but the fire only flickered slightly before it burst into flames again.
“Young master ……”
At a glance, Dr. Yao saw Gu Yi standing at the front and pounced over to grab his arm, “Where are the fellows? Where are the fellows, have they run out yet?”
Gu Yi did not answer, tightly pursing his lips as he looked at the fire.
Yao Daifu fell to the ground and looked desperately at the fire, “How could it be on fire? How could it be on fire?”
Boom!
The tavern collapsed and sparks spurted out.
“Stand back, all of you!”
The magistrate yelled, waving his hand.
Gu Yi stood unmoving, the hand at his side clenched into a tight fist.
“Yi’er ……”
Xu Yan pulled him back, “Uncle knows you are sad in your heart, the restaurant is gone, we can rebuild it again.”
Mr. Xu Er and Song Wan Yue, on the other hand, pulled up Dr. Yao and retreated to their side.
“That’s more than ten living lives!”
Doctor Yao cried out in pain.
Gu Yi closed his eyes and spoke, his voice sullen, “They are all alert people, if there was a fire, the first time they would have noticed it, yet none of them ran out, which can only mean that ……”
He couldn’t go on with the latter words.
However, Mr. Xu Er and Xu Yan listened with horror in their hearts, the third prince was so unscrupulous and rash in order to seize the business in Yue’er’s hands!
A carriage stopped, and the Third Prince and the Duke of Qi got down from it, looking at the fire that was raging in the sky.
But the fire was so big that his men took a few steps forward and were forced to retreat.
“Qingping County, where is Qingping County?”
The county magistrate came over with a roll.
“Quickly command the men to put out the fire, we must put it out at all costs!”