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Chapter 232 Fire Night ([-])

Although it is said to go to the city gate to see the situation of the refugees outside the city, in fact, there is no comparison of the past situation, and there is no one who really understands the situation here for a while, and it is impossible for Ning Yi to conclude just because of the number of people Come to a conclusion.The main reason for going out this time is because I have stayed in Taiping Lane for several days, and I plan to come out to see the situation in the city with my own eyes.

As an outsider in a certain sense, the chaotic scenes inside and outside the city at this time, in most cases, Ning Yi can be viewed as a simple disaster movie.In these years, as long as the order of the city still exists, no matter how tired or hard it is, people with a certain family background will not be able to suffer.

But on the other hand, facing the many bleak scenes in the rain, even Ning Yi can't help feeling compassionate, just like the scene when Jiangning closed the city due to floods last year.That time there were mostly famines, but this time the situation was more obvious. People who were injured during the earthquake, people who lost their homes, or beggars and refugees.

Under such circumstances, when injured, a large number of people look down on doctors, let alone medicine.Sheds were set up among the ruins that had not been cleared on both sides of the road, and all the people who lived in them looked bleak, and some of them braved the rain to pick up the ruins of their own homes.People who were seriously injured or lost their hands and feet were homeless, hugging mats and hiding under the low eaves that were about to fall, not knowing whether they were alive or dead.This is already the fifth day after the earthquake, and they might have been able to howl a few days earlier. At this time, most people have been tossed to silence.

There are also children who have lost their parents, or beggars who followed their father or mother, injured or not, some trembling in the rain, some curled up in places where they can shelter from the rain, and some cry , but has been crying dumb.Hungry children secretly go to the ruins. If they can get something to eat, no matter what it is, they will stuff it into their mouths immediately. How much to eat.Most of them are seen and chased out.

Boys and girls look the same under such circumstances, no one is cute, not cute at all, life and reality can't make romantic or sissy jokes here.A child in the rain is just like a wild dog.There are also people from a slightly wealthy family who have dealt with their own situation and can develop some compassion.But with the support of this kind of productivity at the moment, no kindness is enough. The government or the Qian family will also give some porridge and rice to keep some people from dying, but they can't hide a small number of people. Already lost the hopelessness of the future.

After all, it was such a time, just like Hangzhou and Jiangning, if only a few dozen people froze to death outside the city in winter, it would be a truly peaceful and prosperous age.Ning Yi can basically understand, but after all, he still feels a little heavy after seeing these.This is only the situation that can be seen in the streets of the city. Although Su Tan'er, Xiao Chan and others are also sympathetic, they are also commonplace, and their mood is not as literary as Ning Yi.

Opening the car window for a while, seeing Ning Yi's serious expression and low interest, Xiao Chan said softly: "Xiao Chan was also sold because her family was about to starve to death..." She just wanted to comfort her. Ning Yi, there is no self-pity look, Ning Yi smiled, Su Tan'er took her to her side, let her rest her forehead on her shoulder, and then stroked her hair.

The plot outside the city cannot be seen in detail. In fact, the increase in refugees in the past few days has at least surrounded several gates of Hangzhou City.The soldiers of Wude Camp have already secured the city gate.The door is not closed, but it is quite troublesome to get in and out. Ning Yi has the voucher given by the Qian family, but there is no need to go out. As soon as their carriage and dress go out of the city gate, they will probably be surrounded by people .

Ning Yi got out of the car near the city gate, and went there alone to look for a while, and then a vigilant soldier came to ask, Ning Yi took out the name stab of the Qian family, and the soldier walked away.At this time, the environment outside the city gate was harsh and muddy, and some soldiers set up sheds outside the city to maintain order, mainly to keep the main road clear.

The collapsed part of the city wall is not far from here, and a large number of workers are working.At this time, the city was busy saving itself and cleaning up the mess in their families. In fact, there were not many workers that could be hired. More than half of them should be selected from the refugees outside the city. They were all men with some strength and rice. Sending and managing meals, so I seem to be very motivated here.

Just looking at it for a while, Ning Yi understood in his heart.

"Not only Hangzhou, but Suzhou has also been affected. There are too many people affected. If you want to go by land, you may be robbed not far away. For the time being, you can only stay here and wait for the situation to improve..."

Back on the carriage, Ning Yi sighed, and was about to let the carriage return to Taiping Lane, but he heard the voices of people outside the city gradually in the rain, and he didn't know what happened.Ning Yi listened for a while, and someone was vaguely shouting: "We want to see the magistrate, we want to see the magistrate..." Maybe there was a commotion among the refugees outside.

When this happened, the Wude camp stationed near the city wall was not in a panic. Ning Yi leaned out of the car curtain to see, only to see a general climbed up the city wall in the rain and mist for a while.At the same time, a group of soldiers went to watch the construction site of the city wall, another group was still stationed at the city gate, and another group was driven out to appease or suppress.A few old people passed by near the city gate, and Ning Yi heard them say: "Oh, it's happening again."

"They're not having a good time either..."

It seems that this kind of small commotion is not the first time.After a while, the commotion outside the city stopped, and Ning Yi didn't hear any screams, probably not the bloody suppression of arresting people and killing people.After watching so boringly for a while, Ning Yi waved his hand and ordered to go back.

This afternoon, towards evening, the rain gradually stopped.The haze in the rain gradually faded, the air was fresh, a rainbow appeared in the sky, and the trees planted in Taiping Lane became greener and greener, which seemed to indicate that the disaster had finally had a preliminary respite, and the real aftermath and reconstruction would follow up.

Now that he understands that he has to live here for the time being, Ning Yi has already started planning for his family to live here for more than a month.For example, the gates of the city are closed. During this period of time, the supply of all kinds of vegetables may be cut off, and the cellars of many people may have been collapsed. These things have to be considered.Of course, the Su family only swallowed one-third of the Wu family's property, money and goods. This is the time when they are extremely rich and powerful. If there is a gap with the Lou family, Su Tan'er can directly abandon the business here, no matter how expensive the rice is. Food, they can also afford it, so it's not a big problem.

Originally, the Lou family's hostility was considered one of the bigger problems, but the sudden earthquake should interrupt the other party's attention. After the incident, even if the other party really has any bad thoughts, people like Ning Yi can naturally take shelter For the Qian family, his gunpowder was also one of the preparations made considering the problems of the Lou family.

Although he has experienced many things and has enough emergency turnaround capabilities, Ning Yi is still keen on conspiracy, such as the operation of a large amount of intelligence information, such as higher-level power, just like Yang Weili in "The Legend of the Galaxy Heroes": It's not that there are not enough troops, who likes to use tricks.Here, relying on the little resources under his own hands, he foolishly fights with others. That is a real stunner. If the other party is really unwilling to do something, he is nothing more than giving the Lou family to the Lou family through Lao Qin after going to Beijing. Once it’s done, it’s a flat push between raising your hands, no need to think about it.

So in the afternoon, I arranged household chores together with Su Tan'er, and in the evening, the city of Hangzhou was full of cooking smoke—at this time, most of the wood and firewood branches were wet—falling into the setting sun and rainbow, like a bustling big city tribe.A dog running and barking after a rainbow on the road also looks lively and lively.

"Actually, dogs are colorblind...it can't see rainbows, it just feels..."

In the past few days, the sun appeared for the first time, and the family gathered inside and outside the yard waiting for dinner. Ning Yi, Xiao Chan and others laughed and talked about the dog. Several children also came over and asked various questions curiously.At this time, Su Tan'er was sitting in the ruins next to her without any image, holding her cheeks in her hands and watching this scene with a smile. She looks like a simple girl looking at her beloved husband.

A peaceful night followed, even more peaceful than the first few nights when it rained.At home, the seven nurses led by Geng Nursing Institute took turns to watch the night. The city, which had been tired for several days, seemed to have finally found a long-lost sleep. Originally, the fighting and noise between the cities in the past few days could be felt no matter whether it was day or night. They also restrained themselves, but in the middle of the night, there was a scene of thieves in a nearby street, and there were faint shouts.

The next day, the sun rose high.

Everything is going on as usual, and during the day when the sun is out, everyone seems to be working vigorously, but at noon, the hot sun begins to evaporate the water vapor, as if pulling a few knots back from the rainy season midsummer.In the afternoon, suddenly a group of sergeants came towards Taiping Lane, and they saw a team led by a young general from a distance. At this time, Ning Yi happened to be chatting with Xiao Chan on the street outside, and by the way, he looked at the work around him. The young general It seems to have asked one or two people at the street, and then looked over here, looking at Ning Yi from a distance, raised his head, and held the handle of the knife to come over.

It should be that Lou Shuheng called here to make trouble... Just a glance, Ning Yi can probably confirm this.He sighed a little in his heart. In his original prediction, in the first two days of the earthquake, the legal system could no longer be taken into account. If it was him, he would simply gather a group of people, cover up their identities and come directly to kill dozens of people from his family. One pass, making it look like a robbery, even if it doesn't kill a person, it can be crippled, and there is no way to investigate afterwards.But it seems that the damage to Lou's family is a bit serious, and they couldn't react for a while. When this time comes again, the people of Taiping Lane have temporarily united for the chaos in the city, so they have to use other methods.

The young general led more than [-] people and was about to come over. On the other side of the street, there were also several horses galloping. There were five knights in total. , quickly saluted, the two sides said a few words, the young general glanced at Ning Yi bitterly, led the team away, and the five knights came here.The leading deputy general got off his horse and bowed to Ning Yi, but it was the soldier who fought with Ning Yi in Xiaoyingzhou a few days ago, who seemed to be called Yuan Dingqi.

After a little greeting, the other party was not pretentious, and said directly: "The young master of the Lou family has already threatened to trouble Mr. Ning among his friends, but you don't need to worry about this matter. Mr. Qian's guests will never be made things difficult in Hangzhou. As soon as Commander Du heard about today's incident, he asked Yuan to bring this token to Mr. Ning. If someone from the army came to make things difficult in the future, Mr. Ning just took out the token and showed it to others. "

As Yuan Dingqi said, he handed over a token engraved with the word "Du" to Ning Yi.Naturally, this is not a token to officially mobilize the army, but a private certificate exclusive to the current commander of the Wude Army.The commander's name was Du Hong, and his style name was Ruofei. It was said that Commander Du knew some poetry, was a famous Confucian general, and had the status of a teacher and student with Qian Xiwen, and even this character was given by Qian Xiwen.At this time, military generals were not taken seriously, and it was not easy for generals to gain the status of a literati. He was quite proud of being a student of Qian's family. Although he didn't know Ning Yi this time, he immediately sent someone to help.

Yuan Dingqi fought with Ning Yi on Xiaoyingzhou last time, and he was also a little curious about the fact that this scholar knows martial arts.His boss is a martial artist studying literature, which is called arty, and many people do it. Here, literati practice martial arts, and there are not many similar things.Naturally, he asked a few more questions verbally, and then smiled and said that he would like to ask for some advice when he had the opportunity in the future, and then took the person away without being too muddy.

With this token, the possibility of the military system wanting to cause trouble for itself is not high.

On this day, this small episode happened. Time gradually passed, night fell, and gradually deepened. It was probably in the early morning, and some things happened unexpectedly.

When the commotion rang out, Ning Yi also woke up from the bed. Tan'er hugged him gently and refused to let him go. He separated his wife's hand, and after a while, he put on his clothes and went out. The city in the north was already ablaze. Red, it looks like the big fire in the city on the night of the earthquake.Smoke obscured the night sky.

Geng Nuyuan and others also watched in the yard at this time, and Ning Yi went to look at it a few times: "What's wrong?"

"I don't know why it caught fire..."

"The sound of firefighting is really confusing..."

All kinds of noisy sounds faintly spread from the night sky, and after a while, Su Tan'er, who had put on clothes, also came out, and Chan'er rubbed her eyes and came out from the next room: "It's only raining, why is it so hot?" ah?"

"Hope it's just a fire..."

Ning Yi frowned and said something.

But it wasn't just a fire.

When it was almost dawn, the chaotic voices became louder and louder, and then someone suddenly sent a message: "There is a fight, there is a fight, those people in the north of the city are fighting with the people from the Wude Camp, I heard that the dead It's..."

One day yesterday, Ning Yi didn't hear too much news from the city. After all, the heavy rain had just stopped, and everyone felt like everything was waiting to be done.However, it was also yesterday that the army started to collect the corpses for disposal again. After all, the weather was too hot, and thereafter there were some small frictions with the people who had been tied up in the mourning hall in the north of the city.

Then at night, a fire broke out. Several large and small mourning halls in several streets caught fire at the same time. Dozens of corpses that had been put in coffins were burned, and the fire spread, and it could not be stopped in a moment. People were burned to death just like that.The uncontrollable fire made everyone stunned. Later, when someone came out and said they saw the soldiers from Wude Camp setting fire, the people in several streets immediately clashed with the soldiers who came over.

The people here don't know the situation over there for the time being, but it sounds like the situation has intensified with the dawn.Then Danting gongs and trumpets began to sound urgently, and riots began to appear in the cities to the west.When Ning Yi and others set up a simple defense to block the intersection at the entrance of Taiping Lane, Fufang was rushing back, panting, and then saw more than a dozen Jianghu people with swords rushing from the intersection on one side, as if He directly wanted to enter Taiping Lane.

This incident happened suddenly. It seems that some people who originally wanted to fish in troubled waters found an opportunity. The force organized here in Taiping Lane was mainly the Liu's Martial Arts Hall, but they did not fight hand-to-hand with the dozen or so people. Yi and the others couldn't make any further distinctions at this time, they just grabbed the stone and smashed it back.The two of them were smashed to the ground, and ran away noisily from each other.

"What's the matter?"

Ning Yi turned his head and asked, the deputy Fangzheng was shocked: "Something happened, something happened, there was a fight in the north of the city, and people died..."

"I already knew about the dead, how could this happen?"

"The important person is dead, and the situation can't be dealt with. There is one... a lieutenant general went to appease him, but he was accidentally killed. The lieutenant general, who seemed to be called Yuan and Yuan Dingqi, was accidentally in the crowd and heard that his head was killed. The person chopped it off with a knife... I'm so red-eyed, it's going to be a mess... Let's guard the intersection quickly and don't let anyone come in..."

"One knife... chopped?"

Ning Yi was stunned for a while, recalling Yuan Dingqi, although his martial arts cannot be judged, but the other party's skill should be higher than his own, and it is said that he is also very powerful. Such a person will be killed by someone in chaos because of some civilians making trouble. Cut off the head?
There was a bad feeling in Ning Yi's heart, and he couldn't help but smile. Such a person... made his neck feel slightly cool.

Then, in the chaos, that feeling began to turn into reality. The news came that the refugees at the west gate of the city took the opportunity to rebel. It was a real rebellion, but it failed. In the morning, they were blocked by the prepared Wude camp Outside the city gate.But a message has come through clearly.

On the seventh day after the earthquake, Fang La's manpower had already been preliminarily assembled, and they were brutally killed!

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I've always thought that long live the Ku Klux Klan, a fixed 3 words per day is about the same, and it lasts longer, but I always accidentally write [-] words, and it looks like it's two o'clock in the morning.What I originally wanted to say about my birthday tomorrow turned into today's birthday...

Well, it's my birthday today, and it's really a complicated feeling. To use that old-fashioned saying, I didn't do anything bad, and suddenly I'm one year older...

So, everyone, for the sake of birthday, how about giving some monthly tickets^_^
PS: The text is full of [-] words.

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