Lucky husband

Zhou Xiang's back was soaked, and he felt scared for a while. If all these children were still in the room when the fire caught fire, the consequences would be disastrous!

Even though it was said just now that the children were all outside, Zhou Xiang was still worried and wanted to see for himself whether they were all there.

This time they brought back a total of 29 children, and they counted them one by one, and he was relieved when he was sure that there were 29 children.

Only then did Zhou Xiang think of calling the people from the cottage to put out the fire. Looking at the way they put out the fire, Li Mingjin inexplicably felt a little funny. There was no water on the mountain, so they used sand to put out the fire.

In the dream, Li Mingjin did not see the people in the cottage put out the fire, because at the end of the dream he saw the rescued children sitting outside in shock, many of the people in the cottage were injured, but none of them were injured. Just taking care of the wounded, everyone didn't care about managing the fire, and let the fire engulf the straw houses.

In front of him, Zhou Xiang led the people to collect the sand on the ground, and sprinkled it on the roof with wooden basins, wooden buckets and other objects.

A drop in the bucket, the amount of sand and soil is too small compared to the size of the fire, and the effect of extinguishing the fire is minimal. The fire is still how it should be burned, and the arrogance remains the same.

After a while, a group of strong bodyguards were all sitting on the ground exhausted, all of them disgraced, Li Mingjin couldn't help laughing seeing them like this.

He smiled, and some of the children followed suit one after another, and everyone inexplicably discovered that the people who were fierce and vicious before seemed less scary.

The atmosphere eased, and Zhou Xiang gasped for breath, sitting facelessly on the grass far away from the flames, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, no one knew what he was thinking.

Lin Cheng wiped the sweat from his forehead, ran to Zhou Xiang and asked, "Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou, where is Liangtou, why hasn't he come back?"

"He's busy with other things, and he'll be back later." Zhou Xiang made an excuse to fool Lin Cheng.

After speaking, Zhou Xiang raised his head and happened to meet Bai Zhiwen's eyes. He simply asked directly, "Boy, why did you call out all of you kids today?"

When putting out the fire just now, Zhou Xiang made it clear that these children were outside the house at this time, all because of this kid, so Zhou Xiang very much suspected that today's unprovoked fire had something to do with this kid.

Bai Zhiwen was ready a long time ago. He looked at Zhou Xiang without showing any weakness, and said confidently: "Because we plan to negotiate with you, we want to protest to you people. If you ask the magistrate to do something, just go to the magistrate. What are we innocent children getting involved in?"

Li Mingjin echoed: "Well, that's right, adults bully children."

Li Mingjin raised his head, and the brains of the rest of the children also came to their senses one after another.

No matter how they looked at the sudden fire, they felt strange, as if someone had expected a fire, and then shouted them all outside, it seemed man-made.

Therefore, the clever child guessed that the reason why Big Brother Bai called them out of the house in advance was because he wanted to wait for the people who guarded them to not pay attention, and then quietly set the grass house on fire.

They also helped to speak one after another: "Shame, shame!"

The children were chattering, Zhou Xiang pondered for a while, but finally said nothing.

A lot of complete wood was used to build so many houses. Zhou Xiang couldn't wait until the fire was completely extinguished. After he rested, he began to arrange how to deal with the follow-up.

The most important thing is to fetch water and come back. Zhou Xiang asked the people who will be in the village to wait for the fire to burn out and carefully pour water around the perimeter of these houses to prevent the fire from spreading outside and causing a bigger fire. fire.

In fact, from Zhou Xiang and Daliangtou's point of view, this stockade was created temporarily by them to fulfill Master Zhang's order. Now that Master Zhang's order has been completed halfway, let's just burn the stockade, there is no pity.

On the contrary, the women in the cottage looked at the red-burning wood and the objects inside and wiped their tears. The things in this cottage were added little by little after they came here. After living in it for a few months, they already had feelings for this village.

Bai Zhiwen waited for Zhou Xiang to continue talking. He looked at Zhou Xiang from time to time, wanting to test the bottom line of these people's tolerance for them, and see what to say later.

Zhou Xiang saw through Bai Zhiwen's thoughts, he was too lazy to go around with this thoughtful kid: "I was going to send you back today, but it happened that the village was on fire, so let's go now."

After hearing Zhou Xiang's words, Bai Zhiwen asked in surprise, "Are you going to send us back today?"

Zhou Xiang was a little funny looking at the tense look of these children, but he said with a straight face: "Originally, I planned to let you have lunch before sending you away, so as not to rush on hungry. Now that the fire is burning like this, let alone lunch, what? There is no food left, so of course I will send you away quickly."

After his words fell, the children behind Bai Zhiwen immediately cheered up. They were all afraid that they would not be able to go home.

"You can go home."

"I miss my mother and grandma."

"Woooo~ I won't run around again when I go back this time."

"My mother's pancakes..."

Bai Zhiwen was also very happy. What he meant was that even if the cottage didn't burn down, the children would be sent back, so their plan to set fire to the cottage was a bit too much.

But he thought about it again, he didn't really set fire to it, so did the burning of the cottage have much to do with him?

Moreover, this cottage is in the deep mountains and old forests, so it doesn't have any serious function at first glance, so it's just right to burn it, so as not to harm others in the future.

Taking the lead in washing his face and hands with the freshly picked water, Zhou Xiang called those who would not stay in the village to deal with the aftermath to follow him and send the group of children to the place he had agreed with Master Zhao, the county magistrate.

On the way, Zhou Xiang had been paying attention to Bai Zhiwen all the time. Seeing the boy's frowning and troubled expression, he walked over to him and asked him, "Boy, what are you still thinking? Burning the cottage is not enough, do you want to burn the mountain again?"

Which Bai Zhiwen shook his head: "I didn't set the cottage on fire today."

"Not who are you?"

This kid still doesn't admit it?He called the other children outside in advance to make preparations. It happened that most of the people who stayed in the village paid attention to him, so he found an opportunity to light the fire.

Bai Zhiwen said seriously: "It's really not me. To be honest, I did have this plan, but before I could do it, the cottage was already on fire."

In fact, Bai Zhiwen couldn't figure it out either. When the fire started, the group of children were all outside, and no one had the chance to run to the other side to light the fire.

Zhou Xiang saw that Bai Zhiwen didn't look like he was lying: "It's really not you?"

"No." Bai Zhiwen didn't make a move, and said it calmly.

If it wasn't these children who started the fire, what happened?

Either their own people in the cottage accidentally ignited it, or it caught fire for no reason. Although there are not many fires for no reason in summer, it is not particularly unusual to hear about it occasionally.

However, Zhou Xiang felt that the probability of the fire being caught for no reason was too small. They had lived here for such a long period of time, and there was never a day when there was a fire.

When they first came down from the mountain village, all the children were very excited, and they were happy to go home soon. However, when they walked in the forest by themselves for an hour, all the soreness appeared on their bodies. , Start shouting tired.

Zhou Xiang saw that the group of children were saying they were tired, so Zhou Xiang waved his hand to signal the escorts to stop and have a rest. He turned around and said to these sad-faced children, "The horse is responsible for transporting water and putting out the fire, but there is no Kungfu is here to pick you up, so you can rest for a while before moving on."

In fact, even if the horses didn't carry water, Zhou Xiang wouldn't let them ride horses again. Some kids who just rode horses yesterday had their legs worn out, so they couldn't bear to ride horses anymore.

After resting for a quarter of an hour, the team continued to set off, and finally left the uneven woods after going left and right, and saw a small road.

It is not appropriate to call it a road, because it is just to trample down the waist-high weeds, cut off some branches of the bushes that are taller than people, and sort out a path that can be passed by people and horses. This small road leads to the official road outside, and the entrance and exit are not easy to be found and relatively hidden.

"Follow this road for another quarter of an hour." Zhou Xiang looked at the road in front of him, thinking that some time ago, in order to investigate the news, they went out this road every morning before dawn until it was dark at night. Just came back, it's finally over.

"I still have to go." The children's physical strength is limited, and several children have already gone so that their faces are a little pale.

Looking at the children who were physically weak, Zhou Xiang signaled to the bodyguards that they could pick them up, lest when they arrived at the location later, the county government and guards thought they were treating these children badly.

This section of the road takes fifteen minutes for adults, but it may take two quarters of an hour for this group of children who are sore and uncomfortable.

At this time, Zhao Chengze was already waiting there with people, besides the guards, he also brought several carriages to lead a group of children into the city, no carriage was too eye-catching.

Zhou Xiang walked out first: "Master Zhao, I have fulfilled our promise, I hope you..."

Zhao Chengze interrupted him with a sullen face: "Liang Qing has already left with my people, please leave Changping County as soon as possible, and don't show up again in the future!"

Zhou Xiang smiled wryly. Their actions really annoyed Mr. Zhao. If possible, their people would try not to come here in the future.

At this time, the children following behind also came out from the alley in a line and stood on the official road.

Seeing that the children were all intact, and the number matched the number of missing children, Zhao Chengze's expression relaxed a little.

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