Chapter 141 Burning the building (famous scene)
"No, uncle, how did you know that heroine's surname is Lu?"
As soon as these words came out, Zhou Ji hesitated for a while.
Glanced at the curious Geng Huyuan, then looked at Su Tan'er who was about to walk out of the pavilion, hurried to catch up, and said anxiously, "It's not like that, listen to my explanation."
"It's not like that?" Seeing Zhou Ji anxious to explain, Su Tan'er tilted her head and chuckled.
Seeing that Su Tan'er wasn't really angry, Zhou Ji raised his forehead and said, "If I'm right, the chivalrous woman who saved you is Lu Hongti who assassinated Song Xian back then."
"I know."
"You know?" Zhou Ji asked suspiciously, "Did she tell you?"
Su Tan'er shook her head and said with a light smile, "I have been very talented in cutting and dyeing cloth since I was a child. Although I only saw her back flashing by on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, her figure and posture are quite similar to the heroine who saved me." Similar, so I thought of her identity."
Zhou Ji glanced at Su Tan'er in surprise, and explained, "Her name is Lu Hongti, she is a person from the Jianghu and a non-staff member of Prime Minister Qin's secret investigation department... At the beginning, Song Xian killed the good and pretended to be meritorious, and slaughtered all of them in Yanbei. After killing her relatives, this assassination is one to eliminate harm for the country, and the other is to end the family feud."
Zhou Ji told Su Tan'er about Lu Hong's past that he had investigated, and she was weeping and sighing.
...
On the other hand, due to the collapse of the Wu family, it was almost bankrupt.
Nowadays, the Su family in Jiangning cloth shop is the dominant one. Su Zhongkan failed to speculate on New Year's cloth, and Su Tan'er carve up most of the Wu family's property.
Yao Ping is also a mother and a daughter, and she usually steals the limelight in front of the wives of various prefectures.
This day, I set up a poker field again and played mahjong with some of my best friends.
The essence of the ladies' gathering is actually to compare each other.
Yao Ping, who has been showing off for several days, has more and more golden hairpins on her head, and more and more emeralds on her wrists.
Seeing that the three companions didn't take it seriously, Yao Ping saw that the cards were not good, and "accidentally" knocked over a bunch of cards when she was drawing the cards.
"Oh, I'm sorry, you said that my daughter and son-in-law don't know what's going on, and insist on getting me all these things. You see, it's not convenient to even play cards." Yao Ping glanced left and right, pretending to be reserved. , "You said, this daughter is too filial, and it is troublesome."
"Speaking of which, it's been almost a year since your Tan'er got married? Why haven't you seen any movement in your stomach?" Mrs. Wang glanced to the side with a half-smile, then turned to look at Yao Ping.
Mrs. Li said, "Yes, when can I have a grandson?"
Yao Ping rolled her eyes, the golden hairpins on her head were a little smelly, and the nanny behind her made a relief, "Madam, it's fine without grandchildren, and I can play cards for you, too."
Mrs. Wang turned to look at Mrs. Li, and said with disgust, "Oh, that grandson of my family is very clingy, he can't leave people all day, and he's been clamoring for a rattle from me these two days." The expression seemed disgusted, but the eyes He's tone reveals the intention of showing off all the time, "By the way, that... which old brand rattles well. I'll buy one to tease him later, so I won't have to worry about living at home every day."
A rattle is just a rattle, a kid's thing, what's the difference?
Yao Ping rested her chin on the side, curled her lips slightly, the nobile on her head, and the jade on her wrist instantly lost their fragrance.
"Hey, I know, I know, Youjialouji's gadgets are pretty good, our granddaughter loves it."
"Yeah?"
"yes."
"Are there many styles?"
"Many~!"
Three women in one play, seeing the three of them leaving themselves aside and chatting non-stop.
Yao Ping couldn't even find a chance to interject.
Yao Ping, who originally wanted to show off her gold and silver jewelry in front of her sisters, was a little impatient, knocked on the table, and said anxiously, "Oh, don't you want to play cards?"
The three of them looked at each other, with a little smile hidden in their eyes, and echoed, "Fight, fight."
"Hit, come."
Yao Ping also saw that the three of them were actually laughing at her, so she immediately got up and said, "I won't fight!"
...
Feeling being bullied by her sisters, Yao Ping directly cast all her grievances on her own daughter.
All the way back to the mansion angrily, the voice came from the corridor before the person entered the door.
"My good daughter! Can't you make me look good in front of others?"
Su Tan'er held his forehead helplessly and smiled bitterly, "Mother, you wear so many jewelry, can't you be proud in front of others?"
"Still proud! I can barely lift my head! It's heavy!" Yao Ping pulled out a hairpin from her head, slapped it on the table, and said aggrievedly, "What's the use of me wanting these! "
Yao Ping looked at Su Tan'er and said anxiously, "I want to hug my grandson! Grandson!"
"What's the use of you telling me?" Su Tan'er muttered in a low voice, Yao Ping felt aggrieved, why didn't she?
Yao Ping saw that Su Tan'er didn't talk to her, so she became even more angry, pointing to the bed and said, "You said you two have been married for more than half a year, why are you doing here every night! Just lie there and settle the score..."
Before she finished speaking, she gasped, her eyes widened, and she froze on the spot.
Su Tan'er noticed Yao Ping's suddenly stunned expression, and his heart skipped a beat. His eyes followed Yao Ping's line of sight, and he happened to see the outline of a big hole revealed in the hanging wall covering at the head of the bed.
"What's the matter with this hole?" Yao Ping picked up the corner of her skirt and ran all the way, lifted the wall covering, took a look, and said in shock, "Hey! So you and your son-in-law have been sleeping in separate rooms like this since they got married. Ah! No wonder it's been so long, your stomach hasn't moved at all!"
Yao Ping grabbed Su Tan'er's hand and shook it, "Are you dying of anxiety? When will you be able to hug your grandson? You can't treat your mother like this?"
Cuteness is indeed hereditary.
Su Tan'er looked at her mother's aggrieved expression, pouted herself, and muttered, "It's useless for you to keep talking about me. It's not something I can decide on my own."
Xiao Chan nodded beside her.
As a bystander, she was also about to be terrified to death by this naughty son-in-law.
Obviously they have been married for so long, yet the two of them still act like ignorant men and women who have not yet opened their hearts, young and ambiguous.
"I don't care~ I don't care~~" Yao Ping pulled Su Tan'er's sleeve and tugged lightly from side to side, pouted, "Whether you dismantle the penthouse, smash it, burn it, I will hold my grandson~~"
Zhou Ji didn't know that his mother-in-law was acting cute and coquettish again, and he was at Su Yu's place at this time.
After all, I have been away from home for half a month. No matter what, I will report to my grandfather and father-in-law when I come back.
By the time he returned to the courtyard, it was almost dusk.
Su Tan'er's expression was also a little weird, as if she was unsure about something, as if she was hesitating.
It's been a long time since I had dinner with anyone, a bowl of clear porridge, and a few dishes of side dishes. Although the two of them didn't say anything, a blush appeared on Su Tan'er's face for some reason.
It's just a meal, so why be shy?
Zhou Ji couldn't help being a little surprised.
Zhou Ji originally planned to go to Lu Hongti to solve the hidden danger of Su Tan'er exposing the pistol, but the small courtyard in the west of the city was already empty, and she probably left after her injury improved?
After failing to find it, he returned to the mansion early. As soon as he entered the small courtyard, he found Su Tan'er sitting in the gazebo again, but this time he did not look at the sky in a daze, but faced the wing room where he lived, thinking about something.
Theoretically speaking, the succession of the Patriarch of the Su family at this clan meeting is a certainty. It is not worth her frowning and worrying like this. Zhou Ji looked at it a few times and was a little puzzled, but Su Tan'er seemed to be engrossed in the thought, and the expression on his face changed , did not notice him.
After a while, I saw her pursing her lips, as if she had made a decision, resting her chin with her hands, narrowing her eyes slightly, and showing a small smile.
Calling Xiao Chan to watch out the courtyard gate, Su Tan'er sneaked into the small kitchen next to her.
Knowing that there would be no one there, she still looked around a few times with a guilty conscience.
When she came out, she was bending over and dragging a bundle of straw to the side ear room.
Although Su Tan'er doesn't deliberately put on airs on weekdays, she is still a person who pays more attention to temperament and image.
It’s okay for the cloth shop to help move the silk to make cloth, but it’s basically impossible to do such things as lighting a fire and carrying firewood.
Zhou Ji looked out of the room secretly, and Su Tan'er carefully piled up these straws used to light the fire by the window at the back of the room where he lived. When placing them, he seemed to have weighed them for a while.
Zhou Ji couldn't help being a little dumbfounded. This woman thought for a long time and made a decision. Is she planning to murder her husband? Or is it so cruel to burn to death?
Not long after, he realized that the development of the matter was somewhat different from what he thought...
Su Tan'er carefully looked at the frame of the wing room, and then carefully adjusted the distribution of the straw.
The fire must burn evenly, and the location of the fire must also be carefully considered. It doesn't matter whether it can be accidental or not.
The most important thing is that the side room and the side room are connected together, and the ear room will be burned, but it cannot be burned to her own room.
After the straw was arranged, Su Tan'er suddenly seemed to think of something again, and sneaked into the ear room with her waist bent, not knowing what to do inside.
Outside the door, Zhou Ji posted it suspiciously, and saw that in the room, the woman opened his cabinet, and hurriedly rummaged through some things, identified and sorted them out.
""The Essential Guide for Traveling"? Is this an article written by... Xianggong before?"
"Clothes? This dress doesn't seem to be worn by my husband..."
"These are...rouge gouache? Why does Xianggong still have this kind of thing?"
She dragged the things in Zhou Ji's room to her room along the wall hole at the head of the bed.
At the end, he didn’t forget to drag Zhou Ji’s sword case out from the hidden compartment under the bed.
If it wasn't for the blessing of the ninety-nine-nine-nine-nine yang-returning internal force in her body, her previous small body would definitely not be able to drag the metal sword box weighing dozens of kilograms.
After a while, Su Tan'er coughed, and came over with a lit firewood branch in both hands. The firewood branch was big enough, so it probably wasn't dried out, and it was hollow, with a flame burning at one end and a small hole in the other end. It was smoking, Su Tan'er probably thought it could be used as a torch and took it casually. At this time, he was so smoky that he squinted his eyes and waved his hands, feeling quite uncomfortable.
Zhou Ji finally saw the other party's intentions, couldn't help but lightly smiled, sighed softly and shook his head.
After dealing with all this, Su Tan'er threw the water ladle and wooden basin in the yard far away, and read with the probe stick: "Come on, come on, the water is gone, the water is gone! Come on, come on..."
Hearing that voice, he was quite calm.
Xiaochan, who heard the wind outside, immediately called his servants to put out the fire.
A few people nearby who heard the news first ran in through the courtyard door. There was thick smoke billowing in the small courtyard, but there was not much fire to see.
Su Tan'er frowned, kicked a water ladle by his feet into the grass, and said in a deep voice: "It's flooded, hurry up and find a way to put out the fire!"
"Yes, bucket, water tank... Where is the water tank, Second Miss..."
"Come on, it's water!"
The situation was a bit chaotic for a while, but Su Tan'er, who was about to take over the palm seal, was a person who did great things, and said calmly, "Wait, wait, there is no water in the kitchen... You guys, call someone first, and hurry up to get it Move the things out of the room, don't get burned! Hurry up."
While talking, a few more people ran over.
Under her command, the fire became more and more prosperous.
It was not until the ear room was almost burned out that the fire was put out.
At this time, Zhou Ji's figure had also appeared by the courtyard gate. Su Tan'er couldn't pay attention to Xianggong's expression at this time, but her face blushed suddenly, she stared blankly for a while, then looked at Geng Huyuan who rushed over, "Geng Huyuan also go to help!"
Turning back to look at the smoking building, the originally flat hillside finally saw some ups and downs, and my heart was beating non-stop.
Zhou Ji walked closer and seemed to be able to hear Su Tan'er's heartbeat directly.
On the other side, Yao Ping also noticed the movement here, and rushed over in a hurry.
By the time she arrived, the fire had been completely extinguished. Seeing the ruins of the anteroom, she quietly gave her daughter a thumbs up.
"No one was hurt, right?"
Yao Ping asked with concern, confirmed that no one was injured, nodded slightly, and said in relief, "Money, it's all outside the body, it doesn't matter. Go down and rest."
Turning around to look at Zhou Ji, his eager eyes made his heart a little hairy, and Su Tan'er next to him didn't say a word the whole time, which made him a little embarrassed to say: "The weather is hot..."
"Yes." Yao Ping blinked, her shining eyes full of anticipation.
Zhou Ji twitched his mouth and said awkwardly, "The sky is dry and the things are dry..."
"Hey." Yao Ping nodded, still staring at Zhou Ji intently, expecting him to continue talking.
Zhou Ji was amused in his heart, couldn't help teasing her, and continued, "It's possible to go through the water."
"Yes." Seeing that Zhou Ji was too late to get to the point, Yao Ping also had a anxious expression.
"Aren't you scared?" Zhou Ji continued to change the subject.
"Oh, I was really shocked." Yao Ping just said casually, but she didn't expect her daughter to burn the ear room directly without leaving any room.
But that’s okay, you can still clean up after smashing, but it’s hard to clean up if it’s set on fire.
Yao Ping glanced at the shy Su Tan'er, stroked her chest, and said hesitantly, "But, what I'm more worried about is, sir, your ear chamber is burned, where do you sleep at night?"
"You said they were really careless, but fortunately they are all right, the most important thing is that the ear chamber fever is gone, what should my uncle do tonight?"
Xiao Chan's internal injuries from being suffocated by this episode of "I Really Want to Die You" came out, and she interjected, "Ma'am, isn't this lady's room empty?"
"Hey, yes." Yao Ping clapped her hands together with surprise on her face, "What do you think I'm thinking?"
"Grandpa tonight...or else..."
Being forced to such a degree, Zhou Ji also wanted to laugh a little. He glanced at Su Tan'er who was silent, and said, "Otherwise..."
Da Congming felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird, so he interrupted Zhou Ji directly, and interjected, "Why don't you let my uncle sleep in my room?"
"Shut up" x3
Yao Ping, Su Tan'er, Zhou Ji turned their heads and glared at Geng Nursing Yuan at the same time, Geng Nursing Yuan shrank his neck a little aggrieved.
(Aunt Liu is so cute, she has a small expression, a small temper, a small surprise, a small surprise, like a little girl, but she doesn't give people an artificial feeling.)
(end of this chapter)