[Red Chamber] Daiyu Reborn

The nunnery is not big, there are only three houses in the front and back. Behind the incense burner is a mottled wooden house. When the firecrackers are fired, there is a shrill sound. , There were even short and urgent screams heard inside the door.Because it was a secret murder, Zhou Cheng rushed into the nunnery with only a dozen of his confidants, but the dozens of soldiers surrounded by them were also stained with some sulfur and phosphorous powder, and they rolled to be beaten one by one, still unable to take care of themselves. , Where is the time to go in and save people?

Seeing this, Lin Rui immediately led people into the nunnery, Lin Jifeng stayed behind, and followed teams of soldiers to carry water and mow grass to block the fire. In spring, the mountains and fields are when everything is fragrant and luxuriant. The flowers and trees around the nunnery There were actually a lot of firecrackers buried in the room, crackling, and many small flames burst out, merging into the fire enough to swallow the small nunnery, causing everyone to panic again.

The fire was horrific, and there was already a sound of ping-pong-pong houses collapsing in the nun's nunnery, but Lin Rui hadn't come out yet, Lin Jifeng was startled, and ignored the soldiers around him, picked up a bucket of water and poured it on his body Guan, and then hurriedly rushed into the fire scene. There was a mist of fire and smoke in front of him. Lin Jifeng covered his mouth, and his eyes almost opened with tears. Only then did he see several figures including Lin Rui clearly... Even squatting on the ground?

After exploring a few steps forward, I discovered that there was a huge pothole in the ground, and a raging flame was burning around the pit—obviously, kerosene was poured on it.

At the bottom of the pit, there are many people who are almost burned all over, enduring the burning pain, holding on to a rope that is about to burn, trying to climb up.

"Jifeng, get out!" Seeing Lin Jifeng chasing him in, Lin Rui held the rope tightly and turned his head to yell angrily.

"Uncle, the house is about to collapse..." Before the words were finished, a beam fell with a "bang", and it fell straight into the pothole with raging flames—Lin Rui and everyone around him suddenly panicked when they saw this. With all his strength, he pulled the person hanging on the rope up, but the rest of the screams were even more intense. In addition to the smell of phosphorous powder and sulfur, there was also a faint smell of burnt barbecue in the room, which was so stench that it made people almost Want to vomit.

"Get out!" The beams of the house have collapsed, and seeing that the entire roof is about to fall down, Lin Rui grabbed the man who was almost burned into a fireball with one hand, and Lin Jifeng with the other hand, and rushed towards the exit, almost at the moment when everyone rushed out, the room The roof collapsed suddenly, and everyone was almost smashed into a pulp, but they had to rush out of the fire circle without taking a breath.

It is obviously impossible to extinguish the fire with water using saltpeter, kerosene, phosphorus powder and sulfur.Although dozens of soldiers kept mowing the grass, the fire spread rapidly. When everyone finally fled to a relatively safe place, Lin Jifeng pressed his hands on his knees, but he didn't dare to take a big breath, because the fire and smoke added to the fire. Running as if fleeing for his life, his throat was already numb with pain, and he couldn't even detect the faint smell of blood at first.

"Jifeng, do you have any medicine?" Lin Rui is doing better, he has gradually calmed down his breathing, even though his head and face are ashes from the smoke, he looks lying in a pool of water, the fire has been extinguished, but it is almost impossible Zhou Cheng in human form—the one they had just pulled out from the fire scene, and now he was paralyzed on the ground, barely able to groan—couldn't help frowning tightly.

Lin Jifeng pressed his voice and looked left and right with difficulty, suddenly his eyes lit up, he took out a dagger from his boots, gritted his teeth, moved to a big tree beside him, scraped off a few pieces of inner bark, and threw it to the Lin Rui squeezed his throat and said with difficulty: "The jujube bark is used to treat burns...the injury is too serious, and I don't know if it will help. Anyway, apply it to his face first..." But it doesn't seem to work after applying it , Zhou Cheng's left eye was stained with kerosene, and it was already useless.

Lin Rui ordered the few people who could still stand to pick up some tree bark for later use, fetched some water to wash the other wounded, and also attached himself to check Zhou Cheng's injuries—the flesh and flesh all over his body were scuffed by the fire, and he fell When I was in the pit, I broke my leg again, and I almost fainted from the pain. I don't know if I can hold on.

There was a fire in the suburbs of Beijing, and the guards patrolling the city rushed over with a large water tanker and water bags at the first time. They saw Lin Houye, who was in charge of the guards of the capital, accompanied by a group of inner guards, burnt to disgrace, but before they recovered from the shock, After reacting, I saw that the wounded everywhere were wearing the official uniform of the capital commander!

So, lying on the ground, the one with the most serious injuries is the deputy commander of the capital, the elder brother of the imperial concubine Zhou, Master Zhou Cheng?God, let a lightning strike them to death!

It's a pity that the sky is clear tonight, and there is no spring thunder to excuse the city patrol. Several doctors who accompanied him hurriedly carried Zhou Cheng onto a stretcher.

Lin Jifeng, who was leading someone to scrape the bark, swayed to one direction in a trance, but suddenly focused—then, he ran out almost like a rabbit, and went straight to the pedestrian pavilion where they were squatting and waiting for the rabbit just now. Looking at the mottled low-quality wood, Lin Jifeng stroked it inch by inch as if identifying good medicinal materials, but the touch of his fingertips stained with plaster was still very sensitive, and an unusual bump still caught his attention. Lin Jifeng quickly wiped the dusty wooden pillar with his sleeve, and he saw rows of tiny characters that were almost eroded by the wind and rain. They were names, which recorded the names of the kind-hearted people who built the pavilion and the preachers. Name.

Sure enough, there were three small words in it. Lin Jifeng felt his heart tremble, and his hand almost subconsciously moved—when the dagger came out, he gouged out the piece of sawdust with "Qin Keqing" printed on it, and held it tightly. In the hand, the palm of the hand hurts.

"What's wrong?" Lin Rui's voice came from behind.

Lin Jifeng slowly lowered his hands, and his eyes were silently lowered. After a long time, he took a deep breath, turned around slowly, and smiled wryly at Lin Rui: "Uncle, what does the court lady Suxin do?"

A trace of imperceptible worry flashed across Lin Rui's eyes: "The emperor has found out that Suxin's family has been fireworks craftsmen for generations-I was careless. I didn't expect that she would choose to burn everything together."

Lin Jifeng's wry smile became stronger, his whole body stuck to the wooden pavilion, and he seemed a little tired: "Uncle, do you think so too?"

Lin Rui's brows were tightly wrinkled again, but Lin Jifeng suddenly let out a long sigh, put his hand on Lin Rui's shoulder, and showed an indescribably awkward smile: "Uncle, tonight, just pretend I'm not here... Please , I will not go into the palace with you to deal with the emperor."

After finishing speaking, Lin Jifeng turned around and left, seeing his stumbling back, Lin Rui couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

It was almost midnight when we returned to the city, and the city was pitch black, only a louder sound, accompanied by the post-mortem Zhuge Liang-like mechanical sound of "dry sky and dry things, be careful of fire candles", echoed lonely in the silent city.

Taking advantage of the officials patrolling the city not paying attention, Lin Jifeng rode away on a horse and ran back to the city overnight relying on Lin Rui's token. Regardless of the soot all over his body, he gritted his teeth and rushed to the Qin family drugstore.

Sure enough, the Qin family drugstore was still burning with candles, quietly curling up and down.

Lin Jifeng threw down the reins with one hand, jumped off the horse and pounded on the door. In the quiet night, the sound of "dong dong dong dong" was like a drum beating, which was extremely frightening.

The sleepy steward was woken up, rubbed his eyes and opened the door resentfully, was instantly frightened awake, almost trembling: "Mr. Lin, why are you here at this hour, what's wrong with you?" In the middle of the night Appeared at someone's door like Hanako, if you don't look carefully, you may think it's Yasha!

"Where's your lady?" Lin Jifeng just asked casually, because he had already rushed into the backyard like a gust of wind while the steward was in a daze, and Qin Mao, who was guarding the door, almost subconsciously pulled out a knife—but suddenly, inside the house A faint voice came out: "Let him in."

"Miss, it's too late now." Qin Mao frowned, as if he didn't agree.

"It's nothing, it's been a long night, since I can't sleep, it's good to have someone to talk with." The voice was very soft, pleasant to hear, as faint as a fragrance.

Lin Jifeng frowned, pushed open the door with one hand, and barged in unceremoniously.

The room was lit with lavender soothing incense, and Qin Keqing was sitting alone by the window, her makeup was light and her body was plain, her jade cheek was resting on one hand, her eyes were like sinking water without ripples, gentle but without brilliance.

Lin Jifeng breathed calmly, walked over slowly, and quietly placed the sawdust that had been clutched in the palm of her hand on the small table in front of her.

There are still spots of bright red blood on the sawdust, mottled and gorgeous.

When Qin Keqing saw the name on the sawdust, her eyes froze for a moment, and she suddenly smiled softly, still so harmless and touching: "I forgot that there are still many people with love and intention in this world, who are obviously just passing by for a while. They will keep it firmly in their hearts.”

Hearing such an ironic statement, Lin Jifeng could only find it unbelievable: "You really did it?"

Qin Keqing looked at him, still gentle and charming, and asked each word clearly: "What did I do?"

"Those who make firecrackers can indeed get a lot of saltpeter, phosphorus powder and sulfur, but burning an entire temple, isn't that too exaggerated?" Lin Jifeng's eyes sharpened, "I would like to know what strange things are popular in the capital recently. The disease caused the sulfur and white phosphorus in the Qin family drugstore to be consumed so quickly?"

Qin Keqing lowered her eyebrows and said nothing, the hundred secrets will eventually be lost, the sulfur and white phosphorus is a flaw, and it can't be turned around for a while.Just because the incident happened suddenly, and there was only one chance, and it was fleeting, so she had to take a risky gamble.

Seeing her like this, Lin Jifeng sighed and sat opposite her, taking out his handkerchief and wiping his face. Now he is almost like a gray-faced cat—he really did a crime. Unbearable gesture.

"In order to prevent fires, the government has set a limit on the amount of sulfur and white phosphorus in each pharmacy, but in fact, for research and dispensing, and to deal with emergencies, each store will hide some in private." Lin Jifeng sighed while wiping his hands , "You just have to settle the bill, and you can charge things from me. Anyway, many shops now have our two brands."

"You...?" Qin Keqing finally showed a strange look, "Aren't you afraid of being implicated?"

"It's okay, my shop and my uncle have always been clearly distinguished; besides, this time, Zhou Cheng was rescued by risking his life." The implication is that as long as Lin Rui is not involved, Lin Jifeng is completely Don't be afraid of being implicated.

"How is Zhou Cheng?" At the mention of this name, a look of anger suddenly crossed Qin Keqing's face.

"If it's burned like that, it's better to be alive than to be dead." Lin Jifeng said angrily, "I checked, and he was the military officer who escorted the prince to Yunnan back then, and he was the one who stole the 'students' who exposed the prince's rebellion. After leaving the capital, it was delivered to the old emperor, right?"

"The Zhou family is not a famous family, and Zhou Cheng was just a small guard at that time. He was favored by my father and was promoted to the commander of the guards step by step. Then, he was sent to Yunnan with my father." Qin Keqing recalled in a very light tone, "Later , he "choosing wood with a good bird" exposed my father's treason and won the great importance of the Supreme Emperor. In the harem, Zhou Chongyuan was immediately promoted to Zhou Zhaorong. The imperial concubine is even more honorable than the empress dowager."

"I know this. King Su was only reused after that. Although it was insidious enough, the Zhou family did make a good move." Lin Jifeng suddenly changed the subject and stared at Qin Keqing closely, "Even if it was him, he wouldn't Worth getting your hands dirty."

"This time I was really impulsive. I didn't intend to kill him, but Su Xin handed this opportunity to me, so I decided to do it." Qin Keqing showed a very candid expression, as if quite emotional, "Su Xin But she is a woman who is more ruthless than me. She knows that her life is in danger. She chooses not to flee, but to use her own way to kill those who use power to kill her. Those high-ranking officials and nobles, don't underestimate the people around you. Once the eagle dog drives them to a dead end, if they bite back, they can kill half their lives."