lord and beauty

Time seemed to have stopped, the whole street was quiet for a moment, and then it evaporated instantly like boiling water, and the crowd rushed towards both ends screaming and shoving.

The heat wave came oncoming, and the flames soaring into the sky instantly swallowed several figures. Fortunately, it has been rainy recently, and there is still a lot of rainwater accumulated in the water tanks of people on the side of the road. Soon, someone fetched water to put out the fire.Tan Qiu, Jiang Beimu and others were standing by the roadside, but they were not squeezed by the crowd. At this moment, Shanshan realized that Tan Qiu's face turned pale, and he grabbed Jiang Beimu's arm, "No, Ruan Yuehe My sister was heading in that direction just now!"

Tan's mother was already so frightened that she was dazed, holding the baby in her arms and staring at the direction of the flames with a pale face.

Tan Qiu's heart was in a turmoil, and he wanted to rush towards the fire light without hesitation, but was stopped by Jiang Beimu.

"I'll go and see, you and your aunt Zheng'er stay here."

Jiang Beimu's tone was uncompromising, and he stretched out his hand to pull Tan Qiu back, and pushed him towards Tan's mother. Tan Qiu wanted to say something, but fell silent the moment he caught Jiang Beimu's gaze.

If he went, leaving only Niang and Zheng'er in this busy market, he really couldn't be relieved.

"Trust me." Jiang Beimu gently pressed Tan Qiu's shoulder, then turned around and disappeared into the crowd, and disappeared in an instant. Tan Qiu hung his heart high and stared at the source of the fire without blinking place.

Now that the fire was under control, the crowd gathered in twos and threes, and quickly surrounded the surrounding area.

"What's going on in front? There was such a big movement just now."

"I don't know, I just came here..."

The people around were constantly discussing, and Tan Qiu was even more anxious when he heard it. He wished he could spread his wings and fly past these people, and go to the front to see for himself. There was a rush of footsteps, and soon a group of black-armored warriors with spears pushed aside the crowd and cleared a path. Xiao Ye, wearing a cloak, hurried forward without looking sideways.

Tan Qiu's eyes lit up instantly, ignoring the black-armored warrior who came to stop him, he tried his best to push aside the people in front, waved at Xiao Ye and shouted, "Xiao Ye! Xiao Ye! It's me, Tan Qiu!"

Xiao Ye paused, and after seeing Tan Qiu's appearance, he frowned immediately, and strode forward.

"Why are you alone? Where's Brother Jiang?"

"He went to the front to find my sister and Ruan Yue first. Help me, find someone to help send my mother back to the Jiang Mansion. I will go to the front to find Brother Mu! Please, it's too late, I'll go first!"

Tan Qiu seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and said to Xiao Ye all at once, without waiting for Xiao Ye to answer or not, he slipped into the crowd like a fish in water, taking advantage of the crowd's distracted eyes, towards the crowd. Run to the fire.

"You! Wait!! You come back to me!"

Xiao Ye was furious, but he lost Tan Qiu's trace in an instant. He was angry, but when he saw Tan's mother and baby in a daze in front of him, he sighed and chose two black armored warriors to send him to Jiangxi first. government.

"It's all gone, there's nothing to see, and the rest has nothing to do with you."

Xiao Ye yelled towards the crowd, but the crowd was talking a lot, no one paid any attention to him at all, but because of the black-armored warriors, they only stood on the side of the street, no one thought about going to the fire scene.

Xiao Ye laughed angrily, and secretly scolded this group of people who didn't think it was a big deal, "Whoever doesn't leave, the government will come to clear the street immediately, and all those caught will be thrown into prison!"

Tan Qiu slipped out of the crowd, and before he had gone far, he saw Jiang Beimu's figure.

Jiang Beimu squatted halfway in front of the ruins, with a man and a woman standing beside him. They seemed to be talking. The flames were extinguished, leaving a mess of black ash on the ground. There were people sitting in twos and threes by the side of the street, crying out for pain. Burned by the flowing fire, Tan Qiu took a hasty look and ran towards Jiang Beimu.

"Brother Mu!"

Tan Qiu ran to him, only to find that among the men and women standing beside Jiang Beimu, the woman was Tan Yan, and the man was very faceless, wearing a brocade blue martial robe, with high black hair and plump He is handsome, without a trace of black and ash on his body, and he is so clean that he doesn't look like a person who was affected by the fire.

Jiang Beimu suddenly heard Tan Qiu's voice, and turned his head to look at it instantly, with a sudden anger on his face, "Why are you here?! Didn't you let you stay there?"

Tan Qiu didn't give him a chance to inquire about the crime, so he took a few steps forward and squatted down, "Xiao Ye led the troops here, I asked him to help send the mother and the baby back, and I'll come to see you."

Jiang Beimu wanted to say something more, but Tan Qiu softened his voice pitifully and said, "I came here to see because I was worried about you."

Jiang Beimu was instantly dumb like a firecracker that had entered the water. Rao's belly was full of anger, but at this moment he couldn't express it at all.

"Ruan Yue's leg was injured by a wooden beam, so it's not appropriate to move around now. Since Xiao Ye is here, Fu He will be here soon." Jiang Beimu looked back and said to Tan Qiu.

Ruan Yue sat down on the ground, her face was full of the panic of the rest of her life, her forehead was covered with sweat, her face was pale, she bit her lip tightly, a black mark on her right leg was very eye-catching, the wooden beam had been moved, but There were faint blood stains on the smashed wound, and it seemed that the injury was not serious.

"It's all my fault. If I hadn't come to watch the juggling, Sister Yue wouldn't have been hit by a beam just to save me." Tan Yan said with reddened eyes, sobbing.

"What are you talking about, this is an accident and has nothing to do with you." Ruan Yue endured the pain, forced a smile, and tried to comfort Tan Yan.

Tan Qiu couldn't bear it, and said softly: "You should rest first, it will be fine when Fu He will come soon." After saying that, Tan Qiu got up and looked at Tan Yan again, looked at it carefully before saying in relief: "You Don't blame yourself, the incident happened suddenly, no one can guess it, as long as you are fine."

Tan Yan's tears flowed down, her shoulders twitched, and she sobbed in a low voice. Tan Qiu briefly comforted her, but Tan Yan cried even louder, so she had to shut up, and then she had time to look at it. The man on the side.

Seeing Tan Qiu looking at him, the man cupped his fists first and said, "I'm Xu Cong."

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Tan Qiu."

"Young master." Ruan Yue slowed down her tone and explained: "Thanks to Mr. Xu, sister Yan'er and I were able to escape. Just now, Yan'er and I were watching juggling inside. The moment the fire started, the platform collapsed. If Mr. Xu hadn't acted righteously and brought us out, Yan'er and I would have been buried below."

Tan Qiu looked at Jiang Beimu when he heard the words, and saw that Jiang Beimu's expression remained unchanged, and he nodded slightly. Tan Qiu was relieved, and said to Xu Cong: "Mr. If it is useful to get me Tanqiu, I will do my best."

Xu Cong smiled heartily, and his handsome face was even more refreshing, "No need, it's just a trivial matter. If there is nothing else, I will go ahead and leave."

Jiang Beimu also stood up at this moment, and cupped his fists at Xu Cong, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

Xu Cong smiled, turned and walked towards the street.

Such a major accident happened before the Shangyuan Festival, and the government immediately heard the news, and all the irrelevant people on the street were asked to leave, leaving only the city lord's mansion and the soldiers of the government to guard.

When Fu He came, he gave Ruan Yue a brief treatment. Fortunately, Xu Cong rescued the land in time, and Ruan Yue only suffered some skin trauma. As a guarantee, there won't be too obvious scars, so don't worry too much, but Tan Yan felt so guilty that she took care of Ruan Yue almost undressed, her eyes were red like a rabbit, and she didn't go down for several days.

"That fire was strange." Jiang Beimu put down the paper in his hand, crumpled it up and threw it out of the window, then picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Tan Qiu sat aside and rubbed ink for him. Hearing this, he gave a "hmm" and waited for the next sentence.

"What do you think is the reason that the government found out?"

"I can't guess." Tan Qiuru replied truthfully.

"The water was in the backyard of a liquor store, which happened to be where the juggling troupe was. It was said that a wine jar was cracked, the liquor leaked out, and it was set on fire by accident. With a small amount of gunpowder, it could be lit by such a coincidence, and it exploded all of a sudden."

Jiang Beimu leaned on the chair handle with one hand, tapped his chin with his fingertips, and said thoughtfully, "Do you believe this was an accident?"

"Then do you think this is aimed at us?" Tan Qiu shuddered a little, and unconsciously slowed down the movement of rubbing ink.

"I don't know." Jiang Beimu mused for a long time, "But I don't think this matter is that simple, and it's too crude, more like a temporary idea. Why do wine shops store gunpowder? The government has always strictly controlled gunpowder. In private, if any shops need to use gunpowder, they have to go to the government to register regularly, and they can only get it in a certain amount, so the wine jar is leaking again."

Tan Qiu sighed, "It's good that people are fine."

Jiang Beimu was originally thinking about the gunpowder, but when he heard Tan Qiu's tone, his heart tightened unconsciously, and when he looked at Tan Qiu's ink-grinding expression, he didn't know where his mind had wandered.

"I am dragging you down."

Jiang Beimu let out a long sigh, his face hard to hide his exhaustion.