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Chapter 225 Fire Night (5)

Although I was going to the city gate to see the situation of refugees outside the city, in fact, without the comparison of the past situation, I could not find anyone who really understands the situation here for a while. Ning Yi could not have concluded just by looking at the number of people. This time, I went out because I had been in Taiping Lane for several days, and at this time I planned to come out with my own eyes to see the situation in the city.

As an outsider in a certain sense, Ning Yi can be regarded as a simple disaster film in most cases. In this year, as long as the city order still exists, no matter how tired or hard the city is, it is impossible to suffer people with a certain family background.

But on the other hand, facing many desolate scenes in the rain, even Ning Yi couldn't help feeling compassion, just like the scene when Jiangning was locked down due to floods last year. There were many famines that time, but this time the situation was even more obvious. People who were injured during the earthquake, those who lost their family business, or beggars and refugees.

Under such circumstances, when injured, a large number of people look down on the doctors and even more so ingrained medicinal materials. Sheds were set up among the ruins on both sides of the road. The ones living in them were desolate, and some of them were tragic and devastated to smuggle the ruins of their homes. Those who were seriously injured or had broken hands and feet were homeless, hid under the mat under the tilted eaves without knowing their life and death. This was the fifth day after the earthquake. They might still be howling a few days earlier. At this time, most people were already tossed and lost their voices.

There are also children who have lost their parents, or beggars who have been following their father or mother, who have been injured and not injured, some have trembled in the rain, some have curled up in places where they can shelter from the rain, some have cried, but they are already crying hoarsely. The hungry children secretly snatch the ruins. If they can get some food, they will stuff them into their mouths as soon as possible. However, this was not the era of food abundant in later generations, and no one's home would have much food. More of them were chased and beaten.

Boys and girls are also the same in this situation. No one is cute, nor at all. Life and reality cannot make such romantic or sissy jokes here. Children who are wandering in the rain are just like wild dogs. Some people with slightly wealthy families can develop compassion when dealing with their own situation. But with the support of such productivity at present, no kindness is enough. The government or the wealthy family will also give some porridge to keep some people from dying, but it cannot hide the despair of a small number of people who have lost their future.

After all, it was like Hangzhou and Jiangning. If only dozens of people were frozen to death outside the city in winter, it would be a real peaceful and prosperous era. Ning Yi could basically understand it, but after all, he felt a little heavy in his heart when he saw these. This was just a situation that could be seen in the streets in the city. Although Su Tan'er, Xiaochan and others felt compassionate, they were used to it, and their mood was not as literary as Ning Yi.

After slightly lifting the window and looking at it for a while, seeing that Ning Yi was serious and in a bad mood, Xiaochan said softly: "Xiaochan was also sold when her family was about to starve to death..." She just wanted to comfort Ning Yi, but there was no self-pitying god. Ning Yi smiled, Su Tan'er took her to her side, asked her to put her forehead on her shoulder, and then stroked her hair.

The plot outside the city cannot be carefully seen. In fact, the more refugees in the past few days have surrounded at least several gates in Hangzhou. The soldiers of Wude Camp have already seized the gate. The gate is not closed, but it is quite troublesome to enter and exit. Ning Yi has the certificate given by the Qian family, but there is no need to go out. Their carriages and costumes will probably be surrounded as soon as they leave the city gate.

Ning Yi got off the car near the city gate and went there alone for a while. Then a vigilant soldier came over to ask. Ning Yi stabbed the Qian family's name, and the soldier walked away. At this time, the environment outside the city gate was harsh and muddy. Some soldiers set up sheds outside the city to maintain order, mainly to keep the main road open.

The collapsed part on one side of the city wall is not far from here, and a large number of workers are working. At this time, the city is busy saving themselves and cleaning up the troubles in their own homes. There are actually not many workers who can be hired. More than half of the people should have selected among the refugees outside the city. They are all men with some strength, including rice, grain and rice, and food, so they seem very motivated here.

Just by looking at it this way, Ning Yi understood in his heart.

"Not only Hangzhou, but also Suzhou has been affected. There are too many people suffering from disaster. If you want to take the land route, you may be robbed if you go short. For the time being, you can only stay here and wait for the situation to get better..."

Back on the carriage, Ning Yi sighed and was about to let the carriage go back to Taiping Lane, but he heard the voices outside the city gradually ringing in the rain, and I don’t know what happened. Ning Yi listened for a while, and someone was vaguely shouting: "We want to meet the Lord of the Prefect, we want to meet the Lord of the Prefect..." Perhaps the refugees outside had a mess.

This happened, and the Wude Camp stationed near the city wall was not panicked. Ning Yi poked out the curtain to see, and saw a general climbing the city wall in the rain and mist for a while. At the same time, a team of soldiers went over to look at the construction site of the city wall. A group of people were still stationed at the city gate, and another group of people rushed out to be responsible for comforting or suppressing. Several old people passed by near the city gate, and Ning Yi heard them say, "Oh, it's a mess again."

"They are not having a good time..."

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

That afternoon, as it was approaching evening, the rain gradually stopped. The haze in the rain faded, the air was fresh, and rainbows appeared in the sky, and the trees planted in Taiping Lane became greener, which seemed to indicate that the disaster finally had a preliminary breathing, and the next step was the real aftermath and reconstruction.

Since she understood that she had to live here for the time being, Ning Yi had already begun to plan a plan for her family to live here for more than a month. For example, the city gates were closed, and the supply of various vegetables might have been cut off during this period, and many people's cellars might have been shattered, so these things had to be considered. Of course, the Su family had just swallowed up one-third of the Wu family's property money and goods. At this time, it was a time when it was extremely wealthy and had a estrangement from the Lou family, and Su Tan'er could just throw away the business here. No matter how high-priced rice and high-priced vegetables, they could afford it, and the problem was not big.

Originally, the hostility of the Lou family was one of the major 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, Ning Yi and others could naturally hide from the Qian family. His gunpowder was also one of the preparations made to consider the problems of the Lou family.

Although he has experienced many things and has enough emergency turnaround ability, Ning Yi is still passionate about plotting, 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": If it weren't for the insufficient military strength, who would like to use strange strategies? Here, he would foolishly fight with others with this little resource under his command. That would be a real young man. If the other party is really unwilling to do something, he would just do the Lou family through Lao Qin after going to Beijing. He would raise his hands and push the situation evenly, without thinking about it.

So in the afternoon, I arranged the trivial matters at home with Su Tan'er. In the evening, smoke everywhere in the city of Hangzhou - most of the wood and branches were wet - fell in the sunset and rainbow, like a bustling tribe. A dog ran and barked at the rainbow on the road, and also seemed lively and lively.

"Actually, the dog is blind... it can't see the rainbow, it can only feel it..."

In a few days, the sunlight appeared for the first time. The family gathered inside and outside the yard to wait for dinner. Ning Yi and Xiaochan and others smiled and talked about the dog. Several children also leaned over and asked various questions curiously. Su Tan'er sat in the ruins next to her without any image, holding her cheeks and smiling at the scene. At this time, she also put down her tense heartstrings for several days and restrained the breath of a strong woman. She looked like a simple girl looking at her beloved husband.

Then came a peaceful night, which seemed even more peaceful than the first few nights when it rained. The seven guards led by Geng Guardian took turns to guard the night. The city, which had been tired for several days, seemed to have finally gotten a long-lost sleep. The fighting and quarrels that could be felt in the darkness of the city a few days ago were also restrained. However, in the middle of the night, there were thieves in a nearby street, and shouts came vaguely.

The next day, the sun rose high.

Everything was going as usual. During the day when the sun was out, everyone felt energetic when they worked. However, at noon, the hot sun had initially evaporated the water vapor, as if several sections of plum rain had been brought back to midsummer. In the afternoon, a team of soldiers suddenly came to Taiping Lane and saw a team of young generals tied. At this time, Ning Yi happened to chat with Xiaochan on the street outside and looked at the work around him. The young general seemed to ask one or two people at the intersection, and then looked at this side, looking at Ning Yi from afar, with his head raised, holding the hilt of his hand and coming over.

It should have been Lou Shuheng who called him to come and cause trouble... Ning Yi could probably confirm this matter with just a glance. He sighed a little in his heart. In his original expectation, the legal system could no longer take into account the first two days of the earthquake. If it were him, he would simply gather a group of people, cover up his identity and kill dozens of people from his family, making it like robbing things. Even if no one died, he could kill a disabled person. There was no way to investigate it afterwards. But it seemed that the damage to the Lou family was a bit serious, and they could not react for a while. If they were to come again, the entire Taiping Lane had already joined forces for the chaos in the city, so they had to use other methods.

The young general led more than 20 people to come, and there were also several war horses running over the other side of the street, with a total of five knights, who stopped in front of the team. The leader was a deputy general, and the young general had a low position. He quickly saluted. After saying a few words, the young general looked at Ning Yi hatefully and led the team away, and the five knights came here. The leader dismounted and bowed to Ning Yi, but the soldier who fought with Ning Yi a few days ago in Xiaoyingzhou, seemed to be named Yuan Dingqi.

After saying hello a little, the other party was not pretentious and said directly: "The young master of the Lou family has threatened among his friends to trouble Mr. Ning, but Mr. Ning doesn't need to worry about this matter. Mr. Qian's guests will never be troubled in Hangzhou. When General Du heard about today's matter, he asked Yuan to bring this token to Mr. Ning. If another army comes to make things difficult for him in the future, Mr. Ning just takes out the token to show him."

Yuan Dingqi said, handing over a token with the word "Du" to Ning Yi. This is naturally not a token for the official mobilization of the army, but only a proof of the si people who are now commanders of the Wude Army. The commander's name is Du Hong, whose courtesy name is Ruofei. It is said that Du Tong Zheng understands some poetry and prose, and is a famous scholar general, and has a master and apprenticeship with Qian Xiwen. Even this word was given by Qian Xiwen. At this time, the military general was not valued, and it was not easy for the general to reach the title of a literati. He was quite proud of being a disciple of the Qian family. Although he did not know Ning Yi this time, he immediately sent someone to help.

Yuan Dingqi fought with Ning Yi on Xiaoyingzhou last time, and was also a little curious about the fact that the scholar was a martial artist. His boss was a martial artist who studied literature, which was called art. Many people did it, but there were not many similar things here. Naturally, he asked a few more questions, and then smiled and said that he would like to ask for advice in the future. Then he took the people away, but he didn't drag it on.

With this token, the military system may not be able to cause trouble for itself without saying anything.

This day, this small episode happened. Time gradually passed, night fell, and gradually became deeper. At about the early morning, some things happened unexpectedly.

When the sāo sounded, Ning Yi also woke up from the chuáng. Tan'er gently hugged him and refused to let go. He separated his wife's hand and walked out for a while. The city to the north was already burning red, looking like the fire in the city that night the earthquake. The smoke covered the night sky.

Geng Huyuan and others also looked in the yard at this time. Ning Yi looked over and looked at it a few times: "What's wrong?"

"I don't know why it started to burn..."

"The sound of putting out the fire is so chaotic..."

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

"Hope just a fire..."

Ning Yi frowned and said.

But that's not just a fire.

When it was almost dawn, the chaotic sound became louder and louder, and then suddenly someone heard the news: "It started fighting, it started fighting. The people in the north of the city fought with the people from Wude Camp. I heard that people were dead..."

One day yesterday, Ning Yi did not hear too much news in the city. After all, the heavy rain had just stopped, and everyone felt like they were in trouble. However, it was also yesterday that the army began to collect corpses again and had to deal with them. After all, the weather was too hot, and then there was some minor friction with the people who had already had a mourning hall in the north of the city.

Then at night, the fire broke out. Several large and small mourning halls in several streets caught fire at the same time. Dozens of corpses that had been placed in the coffin were burned. The fire spread and could no longer be stopped for a moment. Dozens of people were burned to death. The uncontrollable fire made everyone confused. Then, when someone came out and saw the soldiers from Wude Camp setting fires, people from several streets instantly had a conflict with the soldiers coming.

The people here don't know the situation there yet, but it sounds like the situation has become increasingly intense with dawn. Then, but when the gongs and trumpets began to ring urgently, and chaos began to occur in the city to the west. When Ning Yi and others set up a simple defense intersection at the entrance of Taiping Lane, Vice Fangzheng hurried back, panting, and then saw more than a dozen sword-holding people rushed from the intersection on one side, as if they wanted to break into Taiping Lane.

This incident happened suddenly, and it seemed that some people who originally wanted to use muddy water to find another opportunity. The forces organized in Taiping Lane were mainly Liu's martial arts hall, but they did not fight against the more than ten people. Ning Yi and others could not tell more about it at this time, but they just grabbed the stone and smashed it back. The two of them were beaten to the point of bleeding, and they ran away in a noisy way.

"What the hell is wrong?"

Ning Yi turned around and asked, the deputy fang was shocked and hunfu Ding: "What happened? Something happened. The fight started in the north of the city, and someone died..."

"I've known that people were dead for a long time, how could this happen?"

"The big man died, the situation cannot be dealt with. There is a... a deputy general went to comfort him and was accidentally killed. The deputy general seemed to be named Yuan, Yuan Dingqi. He accidentally got in the crowd. He heard that his head was cut by someone... He was red-eyed, and now it was going to be messed up... Let's guard the intersection quickly and don't let people come in..."

"A knife...slashed?"

Ning Yi was stunned for a while, and recalled Yuan Dingqi. Although his martial arts skills were not judged, the other party should be better than him. It is said that he is also very powerful. Such a person will be chopped off in the head because of some civilians in chaos?

Ning Yi felt a bad feeling in his heart, and he couldn't help but smile. Such a person... made his neck feel a little cold.

Then, in the chaos, the feeling began to turn into reality. The news of refugees taking the opportunity to cause trouble came. It was a real rebellion, but it was unsuccessful. In the morning, they were blocked outside the city gate by the prepared Wude Camp. But a message had been clearly transmitted.

On the seventh day after the earthquake, Fang La's manpower had already completed the initial gathering and was bravely killed!

I always think that long live the three parties. It’s almost the same as having a fixed 3,000 words every day. This is quite long-lasting, but I always accidentally coded it to 5,000. When I saw it, it was two o’clock in the morning. What I originally wanted to say tomorrow’s birthday has become today’s birthday...

Well, today’s birthday, it’s really a complicated feeling. To put it in the old saying, I didn’t do anything bad, and suddenly I was one year older...

So, for the sake of your birthday, please give me some ^_^
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