"It's gone! It's gone!"
Pan Duo stood at the door of the second courtyard and looked out, constantly urging the servants and guards who were running around to put out the fire.
The fire was so fierce that it turned half of the sky red in a short time.
Gongs and drums were beating outside, and shouts and curses were heard one after another.
Later, someone reported that the location of the fire was not within the walls of the Princess's Mansion, but came from the street outside the gatehouse.
Pan Duo, who was so excited, felt relieved and sat down on the steps, wiping away the cold sweat that had just been caused by his anxiety.
Pan Duo understood the truth of the situation. Although it seemed that the victims were all neighbors and had nothing to do with the princess's mansion for the time being, he still asked the manager to bring more than a hundred servants to help the neighbors put out the fire.
Xiao Yu was also looking at the soaring fire and was lost in thought.
Qingxue on the side asked in a low voice: "Little prince, what was that sound just now? It seemed like there was an earthquake!"
Xiao Yu shook his head. He looked at the billowing smoke that quickly covered a large area of the sky. He couldn't help but frown, and he was filled with doubts.
Even Qingxue noticed that the two muffled sounds were unusual, so it must be unusual indeed! He still couldn't figure out how the sound and the earthquake were caused.
And the fire happened just after the loud noise. There must be some connection between them. This is something ordinary people can understand.
But how does this mostly happen?
For some reason, Xiao Yu suddenly thought of the big explosion in Wang Gong Factory in the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty.
Although there are different opinions on this in the historical circles, whether it is an earthquake disaster, a meteorite falling, or a UFO attacking the earth, Xiao Yu has always believed that the explosion of the arsenal is the most reliable. After all, the Nitre Camp of the Ming Dynasty was nearby at that time.
So the first thing he thought of was gunpowder.
But this is the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and gunpowder has not yet been invented. Could it be that... due to the shift in history, someone has created such a terrifying object in advance that can change the entire course of mankind?
Xiao Yu didn't dare to think like this, and he didn't want to be the initiator of opening Pandora's box.
I've been standing here guessing, why not just go and take a look.
He looked back at Pan Duo.
Consort Pan was still sitting on the steps as an old god, still shaking his knife fan in his hand, but he kept subconsciously pulling at the crossed collar of his right lapel, as if he was still worried about whether the fire could spread to the eldest princess's mansion. Feel worried.
At this moment, a boy ran in from the door in a panic. He didn't seem to look at the road and bumped into Xiao Yu directly.
Xiao Yu almost sat on the ground, but thanks to Qingxue who had quick eyesight and quick hands, he quickly helped him.
Pan Duo saw this and scolded: "Sangmenxing, what are you doing with your hair! Do you know who you hit?"
Although the panicked boy didn't know Xiao Yu, he hurriedly knelt down on the spot after hearing the Prince Consort's reprimand.
Xiao Yu was not angry. He stood firm. Seeing that the other party was covered in dirt and smell of smoke, he asked:
"Brother, what happened outside?"
The boy was extremely nervous and spoke respectfully but in no coherent manner.
After listening for a long time, Xiao Yu roughly understood the reason for the matter.
The curfew was about to begin, and the donkey belonging to Mr. Zhu who was driving the donkey cart home suddenly got angry and refused to leave.
Seeing the pedestrians on the road going home one after another, old man Zhu gave his donkey a few whips when he was anxious.
Unexpectedly, the donkey became energetic again and refused to walk smoothly. It threw away the old man Zhu and ran wildly while pulling the donkey cart.
Old man Zhu was slapping his thighs and shouting from behind. His old arms and legs just couldn't keep up with his donkey cart.
The donkey cart was old, and the wheels fell off easily. As expected, the donkey didn't run for long when the right wheel seemed to hit something. The axle seemed to be broken. The center of gravity of the cart tilted to the right, and the right wheel flew off.
Everyone who had not returned home on the way wanted to watch the excitement, but unexpectedly there were two strange thunder-like noises coming from under the donkey cart. The donkey and the donkey cart flew into the sky. Strange noises also appeared around them, and some street shop gates also Flying into the sky, the fire suddenly started.
It is estimated that the donkey made a hole in the ground, and that hole happened to be the entrance to the underworld. Yama got angry and burned them with earthly fire.
That seems to be the meaning.
Xiao Yu asked the boy to go down and rest, but the corners of his mouth curled up.
Xiao Yu had to admire the imagination of the ancients, but he still felt that things were not that mysterious or that simple.
There seemed to be nothing wrong with the people coming and going on the street, but the explosion of the donkey cart seemed to have touched some mechanism, and that mechanism required a heavy object to be pressed down to activate, and Old Man Zhu's donkey cart was pulling something, and the weight happened to be The weight of the device that can be detonated.
Generally speaking, the eldest princess’s carriage should be the one that travels most often on this avenue...
And that device looks like... a mine, or mines everywhere.
Such a huge battle, and one person's life is wanted, and it's outside the gate of the eldest princess's mansion...
Xiao Yu seemed to have figured out some of the context.
Looking at the two people next to him, they seemed to be affected by the boy's imagination of gods and demons.
After hearing this, Qingxue's face turned pale and her hands were trembling.
Pan Duo directly put his hands together and muttered something.
There seemed to be another sound coming from outside, and he vaguely heard someone shouting for help.
"You stay here, I'll go take a look!"
"Little prince! Qingxue won't let you go. You said you would protect Qingxue." Qingxue held Xiao Yu's arm tightly.
She had a look of reluctance, and tears flashed in her eyes. She was afraid that the young prince would be captured by the evil ghosts of King Yama.
She had always called herself "slave" in front of Xiao Yu, but today she used her own name.
Xiao Yu's heart was filled with waves, but he was a person with an idea, and he would not change his mind just because of one or two soft words, even from Qingxue.
"I'll be fine. I just want to check at the door. If something seems wrong, you'll know it. No one cares about life more than me."
Qingxue bit her lip and shook her head, tears already welling up in her eyes.
Xiao Yu blinked and gave Qingxue a bright and confident smile. He patted Qingxue's arm and nodded slightly.
Although Qingxue felt reluctant to give up, she still let go of her hand, but she let go very slowly.
"It's okay. It's the same as before. I'll go up the tree and steal plums for you to eat. It's the same as when you were waiting for me under the tree."
He turned around and left. At that moment, he seemed to regard Qingxue as Xueqing again.
The girl stood there numbly, chewing over and over what Xiao Yu had just said.
What did the young prince mean? He treated me so well. Could it be that I had a relationship with him in the previous life, but when we were crossing the Naihe Bridge, he secretly poured out the bowl of Meng Po soup? And he drank it stupidly.
At this moment, Pan Duo's shouting came from behind Qingxue: "Xiao Dalang, you are in my house, how can I explain to Prince Jiangxia about your shortcomings? Get back here!"
But that vigorous figure has disappeared from everyone's sight.
…
The further Xiao Yu walked forward, the more chaotic the scene seemed.
He saw the young men whom he had regarded as his friends before. They looked out at the towering fire as soon as they entered the courtyard.
Many servants guarded the courtyard inside and outside the courtyard walls, always ready to put out the spreading fire.
At this time, the gate of the eldest princess's mansion has been tightly closed. Two tall and strong guards are guarding there like door gods, and no one is allowed to enter or exit.
Xiao Yu explained to the nursing home why he wanted to go out, but was politely rejected by two nursing homes who were loyal to their duties.
If the door is opened and a thief takes advantage of the chaos and breaks into the eldest princess's mansion, they will not have enough heads to lose even if they have 11,000.
Moreover, there is indeed a disturbing commotion outside, and it seems that the sound of metal collision can be vaguely heard. It must be thieves taking advantage of it!
Seeing that there was no way to go here, Xiao Yu was a little frustrated. He looked up at the sky. The deep blue sky had been reddened by the firelight, and the air was filled with the smell of burning.
Then go back! After all, it was safest to stay with Pan Duo.
But somewhere, Xiao Yu seemed to have a strange feeling. It was that inexplicable obsession that made him look outside the courtyard wall.
Xiao Yu subconsciously walked eastward along the base of the wall. He didn't go far before he saw a half-open door, with people walking in and out.
Perhaps because of busyness, no one here paid much attention to Xiao Yu.
After Xiao Yu walked in, he realized that this was a stable, and inside the door, against the wall, was a carriage without a horse.
Xiao Yu walked to the carriage and compared the heights between himself and the carriage. Although the wall of the eldest princess's mansion was high, he would have a chance to climb over the wall as long as he stood on top of the carriage.
Just as he was thinking about it, someone suddenly shouted from behind him: "Who are you? What are you doing in the stable?"
Xiao Yu ignored the man and climbed onto the roof of the van in a few moments. At this time, half of his body was already higher than the courtyard wall.
But at this moment, the noise of the servants in the mansion came from beneath him, and some people threatened to climb up and catch him.
Xiao Yu ignored all this. He looked outside the wall and saw that a large area of the courtyard outside the courtyard had been plunged into a sea of fire.
Just when a coachman who had climbed onto the carriage wanted to reach out to catch him, Xiao Yu jumped up and jumped off the courtyard wall.
The fire was blazing into the sky, and the surroundings were in chaos. Residents were working on their own to save their houses, but the fire was so fierce that all efforts seemed to be in vain at this time.
The Fifth Guards Army and the Tingwei Office also sent a large number of officers and soldiers, but it seemed to be of no avail. New news kept coming that someone in a certain family was burned to death or was overcome by poisonous smoke.
Xiao Yu suddenly saw a man with his face covered in blood staggering towards the princess's mansion. He looked particularly different among the crowd fighting the fire.
When he came to the steps under the gatehouse, his whole body suddenly tilted and he fell on the steps.
An ominous premonition suddenly lingered in Xiao Yu's heart, and he went over to help the man up.
"I'll take you to call the door!" Xiao Yu said.
The man shook his head. His face was covered with bloodstains and his lips were chapped. When he got closer, he discovered that there were many burns all over his body. The red-hot armor scales merged with the flesh and blood, which gave off a burnt smell from his body. the taste of.
"I'm going to die." The man's voice was as dry and hoarse as a string, "Go and save the eldest princess..."
"Where is the eldest princess?"
The dying man opened his eyes and looked at Xiao Yu's face carefully. After a moment, he raised one of his arms and pointed at the street opposite the Princess's Mansion.
"Save the eldest princess...save the eldest princess..."
The light in the man's eyes gradually disappeared, the expression on his face became fixed, his arms drooped feebly, and he was dead.
Xiao Yu took a deep breath, looked up and looked around. He couldn't tell who was the nearby resident and which was the servant of the eldest princess's mansion.
He put down the man's body and rushed to the gatehouse.
"Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!"
"Open the door quickly! Call the Prince Consort! Something happened to the eldest princess!"
"Bang bang bang!"
"Open the door quickly!"
There was no response from behind the thick red door, as if no one was there at all.
Xiao Yu was anxious and anxious. He left the gatehouse and looked around among the people coming and going to put out the fire.
At this time, a man who looked like an officer of the Fifth Guards Army passed Xiao Yu and was grabbed by Xiao Yu.
"What are you going to do?" The other party looked at Xiao Yu impatiently.
"The eldest princess is in trouble, find a few people with me to rescue the eldest princess!" Xiao Yu pleaded.
"Eldest Princess?" The officer glanced at the closed door of the Eldest Princess's mansion. He pushed Xiao Yu away, "I have official duties and I don't have time to listen to your crazy talk. Get out of here!"
Xiao Yu looked sad: "I am the prince of Jiangxia, the young prince of Daqi! You tell me to get out?"
"Are you crazy?" The officer said this and disappeared into the chaotic crowd.
No one can count on...
Xiao Yu set his heart and ran towards the long street with seas of fire on both sides.
…
The terrified screams of the maids could be heard.
Channels of cold light flashed through, and streams of blood splashed into the sky, splashing onto her face, neck, and the black dress embroidered with birds.
She has no fear in the face of life and death.
She is the most respected eldest princess in the Da Qi Empire, and she must display the majesty of the royal family at all times.
Even if she dies, she will die noble and fearless.
She sat in the van as usual, looking coldly at the cold-blooded killers who were walking towards her.
"Who are you?"
Xiao Yuwan glanced disdainfully at the man in black walking at the front, her face remained expressionless.
"Come to see the eldest princess off to the bliss of the West."
"Bliss? It seems that you are a devout believer in Buddhism. Tell me who sent you here."
"No comment."
By the light of the sky-high fire, Xiao Yuwan caught a glimpse of the tattoo pattern on the other party's wrist exposed outside the cuffs.
"Are you from Xianbei?"
The other party didn't answer, which was regarded as acquiescence.
"The two countries are not at war yet, but they sent assassins to assassinate me. It is really the most ridiculous thing in the world. I think only you in the Northern Dynasty can do it. You don't respect rituals and music, you eat raw hair and drink blood, you are uncivilized savages."
The other party snorted coldly and raised the murderous sword high, emitting a strange cold light in the firelight.
Xiao Yuwan sat upright, looking straight ahead, ignoring the cruel killers.
Just when the murderous sword was about to fall, a few "swish, swish, swish" sounds were heard, and several killers jumped back a few steps.
Several feather arrows were seen passing through the flames and hitting the place where the killers had previously landed.
"Princess!"
A rough voice came from behind the flames, followed by the sound of wood being broken.
I saw a general in golden armor and about twenty guards rushing out of the flames and appearing in front of the broken carriage.
Xiao Yuwan's face was as dark as water. She was still sitting on the futon in the van without saying a word.
The golden-armored general did not care to apologize to the eldest princess, and had already waved his sword and led his men to fight for their lives against the men in black.
Xiao Yuwan took a deep breath, a wisp of sweat slid down her temples, and her fingers trembled slightly.
Facing death, she originally thought she would be fearless, but at the moment of life and death, she was actually afraid. After all, there were people and things in this world that she couldn't let go of.
Just as she was thinking of this, a strong gust of wind suddenly blew past her. Her eyes widened and she saw a dagger flying towards her heart.
She subconsciously wanted to dodge, but in the flight path of the dagger, there was a guard jumping up for her, willing to use his body to block this deadly hidden weapon for her.
The guard was still a step too late when he took off, and watched helplessly as the dagger flew past his eyes.
The dagger continued to fly towards Xiao Yuwan along its trajectory.
In this flash of lightning, Xiao Yuwan felt her body being pulled hard, and she lay softly in the arms of a man.
She heard the man's accelerated heartbeat and looked up in confusion.
It was a handsome young face. Although he was not as handsome as the Prince Consort, his starry eyes were enough to make many women fall in love with him.
"Who are you……"
"Sister Yuwan, I'm here to take you home!"
