Fires are the most feared in autumn and winter, especially since the fire in Jinyutang has only been a month or two, and now the residents feel scared when they see the light of the fire.
More and more people came to put out the fire, and the nearest patrol guards also arrived. At the same time, many officers and soldiers ran in the opposite direction towards the crowd.
"stop!!"
"Don't run!"
"Evil boy!"
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Xia Zhaoyi ran wildly on the roof, and at the same time he set up his crossbow. He drew the bow while running, and a crossbow arrow flew away, hitting a patrol guard on the way, also in the left shoulder blade.
The crossbow was not as big as that held by an adult, but it was not small for the girl's body. However, she had no effort at all to pull it, and the power of the crossbow arrows was also very strong.
The person behind him did not stop and bumped into him. The person behind him stopped in time and went to help his companion. At this time, another crossbow arrow shot with a "whoosh" sound, piercing his cloth armor, and his left shoulder blade was taken away.
Going back, I felt a sharp pain.
"Archers!" Someone turned around and shouted, "Go call the archers!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a crossbow arrow passed through the neck of the soldier in front of him and hit his left shoulder blade. The force of inertia caused him to stumble forward and collided with the soldier behind him.
The patrol guards hid on the eaves below. Some of them no longer dared to chase, so they forced themselves to follow.
Although the eaves can hide people, when they reach the intersection, they have to show their faces.
Once he was exposed, a crossbow arrow was fired from the front and hit his left shoulder.
One, two, three...
After shooting twelve shots, Xia Zhaoyi threw the crossbow away and turned to the other side of the eaves.
"Go after it!" someone shouted after seeing something thrown from the air. "She's out of arrows!"
When I chased after him, I realized that there was a girl there!
The soldiers were panting, looking angrily at the cornices in front of them under the moonlight, and cursed loudly.
The fire was not very big, and it took more than an hour to put it out completely. The entire miscellaneous room was burned to the ground, and most of a servant's residence nearby was also burned.
Jiang howled the whole night, and the arrows of the crossbows were pulled out and cut into her flesh.
She was not allowed to be pulled out, but had to be pulled out intermittently. She was sweating profusely in pain, and her cries echoed through the long street in the night.
At dawn, the crossbow arrow was finally pulled out. In order to check whether there were any barbs left inside, the doctor used a boning knife to heat the fire and dig open her skin and flesh to check.
After living for most of her life, apart from crying to the point of fainting after giving birth and her husband being beheaded, Jiang had not been so heartbroken for a long time.
"That little bitch who is a straight bitch!!!" Ms. Jiang cried and cursed, "If you want to kill her, you have to beat her to death and kill her!"
She shouted to her two sons who were separated by a screen outside.
Tao Ding and Tao Mao, who had been tired all night, were sitting there, one was about to fall asleep, and the other was listening with a numb look on his face.
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"boom."
The woman put her chopsticks down gently.
The man on the side did not continue to speak and looked at her quietly.
"Continue." The woman said calmly.
The man nodded and said: "The girl didn't bring many crossbow arrows. After she fired them, she disappeared. The crossbow arrows on the injured officers and soldiers did not have barbs like the old lady. They were easier to take out, but the old lady felt a pain.
Night."
The woman looked at the drawer of steamed dumplings on the table with no emotion or anger in her eyes.
After a while of silence, the woman said, "Ah Li, her name is this, right?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"She has become quite famous recently. Find out all the things she has done and tell me one by one before noon."
"Yes." The man nodded.
The woman paused, raised her head and said, "What happened to our brothers who were taken away?"
"If nothing else happens, they should all have died last night," the man replied with an expressionless face and lowered his eyes, "If not, our people will go and see them off tonight."
The woman didn't say anything. After a long time, she picked up the chopsticks again, picked up a small steamed bun and put it in her mouth.
She had a big mouthful of xiaolongbao. She usually chewed it slowly and swallowed it in a big gulp. Before she could swallow it completely, she stuffed two more into it.
Her mouth was bulging as she chewed heavily, her eyes red.
The man stood for a while and then said: "Madam, if you really can't bear it, why not go and see Mrs. Jiang?"
The woman who rarely got angry had swallowed everything, and suddenly raised her eyes and stared at him, her eyes bloodshot, and her eyes were so angry that she wanted to tear him apart: "Do you want to talk more?"
The man lowered his head: "I don't dare, madam."
"Shut up!" the woman shouted in a low voice.
"yes."
The woman continued to lift her chopsticks and stuffed buns into her mouth, one, two, three...
She chewed heavily, tears welling up in her eyes, but she didn't allow them to flow down and always held them back.
Fortunately, when she finally finished eating these buns, she really did it.
Only cowards cry.
The woman put down her chopsticks and said coldly: "Take it away."
"yes."
The sun gradually grew brighter, and many people gathered around Tao's house. Many pointed at the fallen low wall.
Tao Ding and Tao Mao, with a few servants, were laying bricks and repairing the wall in front of those eyes.
There were all kinds of voices, the most common ones were scoldings, and some people made mocking noises.
Suddenly someone in the crowd threw a stone and it landed on Tao Mao.
Tao Mao raised his head and saw a fat boy pointing at him: "My father said that there was a shameless bad woman in your family. She betrayed the country for glory and killed many generals!"
When a child saw him coming out, he also ran out and shouted: "Yes! Your father was beheaded. Your father's head should be put in a cage and thrown to feed the pigs!"
"You should die too!" a little girl shouted.
"You don't deserve to live!" An old man also stood up.
All kinds of curses were shot at them like sharp arrows, trying to shoot them full of holes.
Tao Ding had a cold face and speeded up building the wall.
Tao Mao's hands were trembling. He looked at Tao Ding with a pale face and said in a trembling voice: "Brother..."
"Work quickly, and you can leave as soon as you're done. This wall can block their mouths and stop what they say." Tao Ding said.
Tao Mao nodded and took another brick.
But there was a sudden nausea in his stomach, and he couldn't hold it back. He ran to the side and vomited it out.
He was paralyzed on the ground, his eyes were straight, he felt dizzy, and he was breathing hard.
Tao Ding looked at him, frowned, and continued to build the wall without helping him.
"You and your family are all beasts! You are causing harm to the country and the people. Go to hell!"
"Why are you still letting them live? They should all be beheaded!"
"Bah, just let them live. Look at them, they are worse than dogs now!"
"It's cheaper for your father to behead him! He should be cut into pieces with a thousand knives, piece by piece!"
"And that bitch of yours! She must die a good death!"
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Tao Ding closed his eyes, took a deep breath, opened them again, and went to get the bricks again.
Tao Mao over there held his face in his hands and cried bitterly, suppressing his voice and crying very low.
