Hearing this, Zhao Rang and Yuan Mingkong stood up and ran outside, wanting to see the situation.
It's a pity that Yuan Mingkong's body has not fully recovered yet. He got up a little violently when he stood up, and he immediately felt dizzy and out of breath.
Before I even crossed the threshold, I felt my heart was about to jump out of my throat. I had to reach out to hold the door frame and gasp for breath.
Seeing this, Zhao Rang quickly asked Ximen Dazhuang to come forward to help him, and asked him to stay in the house and take good care of Yuan Mingkong and Yuan Kexin. He also asked the deputy shopkeeper to go to the next room to call Ye Sanniang.
As soon as she left the house, she saw Ye Sanniang already standing in the courtyard, staring at the rising black smoke, with a slightly worried look on her eyebrows.
When he was in a trance, he didn't notice that Zhao Rang was already standing beside him, but he was startled instead.
Zhao Rang had never seen Ye Sanniang show such a panic, and he knew at that moment that the fire should not be lighted easily.
"What does the boss lady feel?"
Zhao Rang asked.
Ye Sanniang gathered her thoughts and continued to turn her gaze to where the black smoke was rising. After a long time, she shook her head and said:
"Nothing, let's go and take a look!"
Zhao Rang heard that there was something hidden in Ye Sanniang's words, but he couldn't know what Ye Sanniang was hiding by just guessing, so he had to go with her to investigate the situation.
Chen Liushu and his newly married lady were placed under house arrest in the courtyard where Zhao Rang and Xiaolan had a fierce battle. As soon as he and Ye Sanniang walked to the entrance of the courtyard, they saw several men carrying water basins to put out the fire, running from inside. When they came out, everyone looked gray and gray, with only one pair of eyes still showing some color.
"What's going on inside?"
Zhao Rang grabbed one of the guys who was running away with their heads in their hands and asked.
The man was crying because of the smoke rising from the fire. He was suddenly grabbed by Zhao Rang. Before he could see who it was, he immediately cursed at his mother.
Zhao Rang was not angry, and asked again calmly. The waiter heard something was wrong, so he rubbed his eyes. When he saw it was Zhao Rang, he quickly dropped the basin in his hand, bowed and saluted, and replied:
"Mr. Zhao, we were originally ordered to be on duty here, but for some reason, it suddenly caught fire, and..."
Zhao Rang asked:
"And what?"
The guy looked back behind him with some fear, and continued in a trembling voice:
"And there is an evil wind in the yard, which is blowing the fire bigger and bigger! The water brought by the little ones is of no use at all! If the evil wind is not resolved, the yard will be destroyed..."
After Zhao Rang heard what the man said, he did not embarrass him. He patted his shoulder and asked him to go down and rest first, and then prepared to discuss with Ye Sanniang how to deal with it. Turning around, he found that Ye Sanniang had already entered the yard.
What happened in front of him was something that even Zhao Rang didn't expect to be so serious!
Raging flames soared into the sky, enveloping the only three-story building in the courtyard. Moreover, there was an unwarranted wind that was swirling around the small building. Wind assists the power of fire, and fire borrows the power of wind. The two become one and become more intense. Not only did it swallow up the entire small building, it also mercilessly swallowed up all life and hope.
When Zhao Rang was a child, he witnessed a major fire in his city. The fire burns everything it encounters, reducing everything to ruins and ashes. Under the thick smoke, the entire sky became extremely terrifying, like a night scene of wild beasts, shining with an evil light in the abyss.
The people of half the city fled in terror and struggled in the sea of fire. The heart-wrenching cries were mixed with the crackling sounds of the flames, eventually turning into silent death, leaving only chaos and despair.
The Zhao family where Zhao Rang lived was spared because they mobilized all their manpower and dug a ravine one foot deep and two feet wide around the mansion.
The fire burned for three and a half days. After the fire, nothing was left except the charred remains. Countless people's dreams, property and lives were shattered in the exploding fire.
This memory can be called one of the things Zhao Rang least wants to recall. However, the people who survived the fire later experienced the deepest pain and became more united and supported each other out of the darkness, which gave him some hope. comfort.
But the situation in front of him was completely different. At least the fire sealed in Zhao Rang's memory was not blessed by this evil wind. What happened in front of him was beyond Zhao Rang's understanding, and he had no idea how to deal with it.
Zhao Rang suppressed his surprise and was about to say something to Ye Sanniang, but was interrupted by her:
"look!"
The window lattice, door frame, and everything outside the walls of the three-story building have become fire vents, breathing blazing flames.
Following Ye Sanniang's gaze, Zhao Rang saw a vague figure deep in the doorway, slowly moving forward, getting closer and closer.
Such a fire is enough to swallow up all life, how can there be any living people?
Besides, the only people in this small building are Shen Liushu and his young lady who was married back from the brothel.
Zhao Rang and Ye Sanniang both stared at the figure. When they slowly approached, they found that even Lie Huo had made way for it and separated from the middle to both sides. And this figure was wrapped in the same evil wind as outside the small building.
After completely walking out of the small building, Zhao Rang saw clearly that the fallen figure was no one else, but the young lady from the brothel whom Chen Liushu had just married!
It's just that the face is still the same, but the temperament around him has completely changed. It's like he's a completely different person!
At this moment, she was standing in front, wearing a red dress, suppressing the firelight behind her. The red dress is flowing and swaying, and the whole person is as noble as a lotus! Her long red and black hair fell down to her waist, and her slightly raised eyebrows revealed a look of perseverance. Those eyes were clear and bright, but bottomless, as if they held endless stories and secrets.
She seemed to know that Zhao Rang was staring at her, so she deliberately took a few steps forward, each step feeling like stepping on flower petals. She held a long sword in her left hand, and her slender fingertips lightly slid over it, like a swimming dragon, like a giant in surprise, with ease and swiftness.
This inadvertent movement perfectly combines power and grace, as if it can shock the world! It becomes a scorching color, like the brightest star in the sky, shining so hard that it cannot be seen. No matter who sees it, they will never forget it!
After staring for too long, Zhao Rang became a little distracted. It wasn't until his eyes suddenly darkened that he realized that the three-story building that was still burning just now had completely extinguished the fire. There was a thick smell of burning in the air, and there was a constant... A crackling sound.
However, the sense of oppression coming from this woman made Zhao Rang panic inexplicably.
A gust of wind blew behind me.
Not the evil wind that enveloped the small building before, but the real summer evening breeze.
The evening breeze blew over Zhao Rang's back, bringing a chill!
It turned out that Zhao Rang had a thick layer of cold sweat on his back at some point. When the wind blew him, he couldn't help but shudder. He was so excited that he immediately stabbed his chest.
Seeing this, the woman slowly raised the corners of her mouth and also raised the long sword in her hand.
Zhao Rang saw a few crystal blood beads hanging on the long sword in her hand. The woman held the long sword in front of her and shook it left and right. The blood beads also rolled around on the sword, and then she He actually stuck out his tongue, licked it lightly, and ate it all in his mouth!
"you……"
Zhao Rang opened his mouth and only uttered one word, which was stuck in his throat. He coughed violently, but he could hardly hold the knife in his hand.
"You want to ask, who am I?"
The woman's red lips parted slightly, and her voice was extremely charming, as if it was poured directly into Zhao Rang's mind from the Heavenly Spirit Cap, rather than being heard through his ears!
"I am Chen Liushu's little wife! Haha!"
The woman asked and answered herself, but her tone was obviously mocking, mocking Zhao Rang's ignorance and insignificance.
Zhao Rang once thought that he had seen enough of the world, and felt that all the noise and excitement were just a drop in the ocean. But now when he was facing the woman in red, he suddenly felt that she could be a drop in the ocean!
"By the way, shouldn't you ask Shen Liushu?"
The woman asked, seemingly confused.
Her tone returned to calm.
Jingping said without any emotion, just like a dead person!
Although the dead can never speak, if they could, that would be it.
Zhao Rang pursed his lips and did not ask about Shen Liushu. Because his fate is obvious, and the blood beads on the sword of the woman in red can already explain everything.
After a moment of silence, the woman in red saw that Zhao Rang neither spoke nor drew a sword, her eyes moved slightly, a moment of disappointment flashed, and then she said:
"Okay, since you don't ask, it means you don't care. That's it for now, I have other things to be busy with!"
As soon as the last word was spoken, the woman in red's long skirt moved without any wind, as if it was about to rise in the wind.
"Now give me the account book that Yun Lifei held last, and then I will allow you to choose a comfortable way to die."
Zhao Rang's eyes gradually became sharp. He thought that since the woman in red wanted something from him, she must have just threatened him with harsh words and would not seriously attack him. As for raising his hand to extinguish the fire in a three-story building, Zhao Rang also felt that there must be some ingenuity involved. He didn't know, so it didn't count.
But he suddenly remembered that Yuan Mingkong told him earlier that he had heard Shen Liushu talking to a woman in the coffin. Could it be that what Yuan Mingkong heard was the so-called little lady in front of Chen Liushu? If it was her, what does this woman have to do with the few irrelevant words Yuan Mingkong recorded on the coffin lid?
"Oh, forget it, you are too lazy."
The woman in red sighed and said, interrupting Zhao Rang's meditation.
"I'd better go get it myself!"
After the woman finished speaking, she hung the sword on her waist and prepared to set off.
"Destroyed God's Religion!"
Zhao Rang said something out of nowhere.
After hearing this, the woman in red suddenly froze, her ice-like face suddenly twisted, and asked breathtakingly:
"Where did you know that?"
She didn't know that Zhao Rang just connected the first two words of the words Yuan Mingkong wrote on the coffin lid and said them out. But seeing the reaction of the woman in red, Zhao Rang knew that his blind cat had encountered a dead mouse, and he guessed it correctly by accident!
