After rebirth, my wife just wants to be a widow

The smoke was so thick that people could hardly open their eyes. From time to time, people around them would beat their chests and stamp their feet, sit on the ground and let out bursts of wailing.

Lu Yan kicked open a window, and the flames suddenly shot up as if they had eyes.

Shen Ruoyan wanted to look up, but Lu Yan tightened his arms, clasped one hand firmly behind her head, and pressed her back into his arms.

"Don't look up, be careful." Lu Yan reminded.

After the fire subsided a little, Lu Yan put the person down.

He took off his coat and covered Shen Ruoyan's body with the clothes. He didn't stop until the girl was completely covered and he made sure that not a single hair of hers was exposed.

Shen Ruoyan raised her head, with countless words in her heart that she wanted to say to Lu Yan. It happened that Lu Yan also lowered his eyes to look at her. In the thick smoke, Shen Ruoyan couldn't see Lu Yan's expression clearly. She could only see that the boy's eyes were deep and showed no emotion.

Just when Shen Ruoyan was about to speak, Lu Yan suddenly pushed her back to his chest, and the sound of his strong heartbeat seemed to speak out all the words that had not yet been spoken.

After a while, Lu Yan hugged him again.

The young man whistled into the night sky, only to hear a few "whoosh" and "whoosh" sounds, just like the sound of arrows piercing the air just now. Several arrows shot out and sank firmly into the outer wall of the attic.

"Don't be afraid, I'll carry you down." Lu Yan stepped on the window lattice and lowered his head to explain to Shen Ruoyan.

It turned out that he wanted to use those arrows as a foothold and step on the arrow bodies.

Although there was one more person, Shen Ruoyan was very confident in Lu Yan's Qinggong. She nodded, put her hands around his neck, and said softly: "I'm not afraid."

But just when Lu Yan was about to jump out of the window, an arrow suddenly shot out from a hidden corner. Fortunately, Lu Yan reacted immediately, dodged and rolled into the house with Shen Ruoyan in his arms, barely avoiding the hidden arrow. .

Unexpectedly, there was an ambush outside. It seemed that the imperial concubine had spent a lot of money this time.

Due to the delay of this moment, the flames instantly swallowed up the arrows inserted in the outer wall, and Lu Yan's plan could not be implemented.

The two had no choice but to take them back to the top floor.

It was more ventilated here and the air was not so choking. After finding a place with less smoke, Lu Yan put Shen Ruoyan down and said, "You stay here, I'll go down and see if there are any other exits."

After explaining, Lu Yan turned around and planned to leave.

"Wait a moment!"

Watching his leaving figure, Shen Ruoyan couldn't help but think of the turmoil last time, and panic surged in her heart, fearing that after Lu Yan left this time, he would be just like last time and could not be found no matter how hard he looked.

The girl took off the wet cloth covering her face, separated half of it, and tied it carefully on Lu Yan's face.

Shen Ruoyan forced herself to smile and said to Lu Yan, "I'm waiting for you here, you must come back!"

Lu Yan raised his hand, touched her head, and assured: "Don't worry, I won't leave you alone."

Watching his figure disappear behind the thick smoke, Shen Ruoyan squatted in the corner and covered her mouth and nose with a wet towel.

But despite this, there was still thick smoke floating around, and people escaped from downstairs from time to time. Everyone had a disgraced look on their face, and they kept moaning in their mouths, as if they were in a hell on earth.

Seeing that the smoke around her was getting thicker and thicker, Shen Ruoyan planned to change places, but after walking a few steps while bending her waist, she suddenly stepped on something soft under her feet.

Shen Ruoyan's heart sank, thinking that she had stepped on someone's body, and she was so frightened that she immediately retracted her steps.

Unexpectedly, the person suddenly moved. Shen Ruoyan bravely squatted down and took a closer look, only to find that it was the woman named Xueying squatting on the ground holding her head.

"Miss Xueying?" Shen Ruoyan reached out and shook her shoulders.

When she heard someone calling her name, Xueying raised her head and saw clearly that it was the dancer accompanying the young pavilion master. She threw herself into Shen Ruoyan's arms and said with a tearful voice, "I'm so scared!"

It turns out that Xueying is most afraid of fire. When everyone fled downstairs just now, her legs were too weak to walk.The governor who had held her in his arms and couldn't kiss her enough saw the fire, and immediately focused on running for his own life, and had long since disappeared.

Xueying squatted here alone, trying to escape but couldn't move her legs.

I thought I had only one way to die, but I didn't expect to meet Shen Ruoyan. He immediately regarded her as his life-saving straw, hugging Shen Ruoyan's body tightly and refusing to let go.

Sensing her fear, Shen Ruoyan gently patted her trembling back and comforted her: "Okay, it's not safe here, come with me."

As she spoke, Shen Ruoyan used all her strength to pull Xueying up from the ground. The two women supported each other and walked to the wind. After breathing in the fresh air, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Xueying hugged her knees and squatted next to Shen Ruoyan, looking ahead blankly.

Neither of them spoke, but from time to time they could hear the crackling sound of the fire greedily devouring the wood, and a suffocating sense of depression filled the air.

Shen Ruoyan swallowed and wanted to find something to talk about. At this moment, Xueying spoke first: "My mother died in a fire."

No wonder she is so afraid of fire.

Shen Ruoyan reached out and put her arm around her shoulders, hoping to give Xueying some comfort.

Xueying leaned her head on Shen Ruoyan's shoulder and continued: "Not long after my mother died, my father married my stepmother, and then gave birth to younger brothers and sisters. I thought I had a family again, but since then, that family has It just isn’t my home anymore.

My stepmother has never abused me. She is busy taking care of her younger siblings every day and rarely talks to me.In order to support us, my father would leave early and come home late every day, and he didn't care about me at all.We are like strangers living under the same roof.

When I was 15 years old, I fell in love with a scholar.When my father found out about this, he beat me severely and said that the scholar was not a good person at first glance. I didn't believe it, so I eloped with the scholar in a fit of anger.

As the old saying goes, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer the consequences.

At first, the man took me to travel around the mountains and rivers, and we lived a magical life. However, not long after, all the money we had was used up.

At that time, I was still thinking about where I could find some work, and even open a shop with him. As long as I worked hard, my life would definitely get better and better. But he changed hands and sold me to a brothel. Isn’t it ridiculous? ? "

Recalling the past, Xueying still couldn't help but shed a tear for her troubled first half of life.

She also wanted to live a good life, but why did she end up like this?