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Chapter Fourteen: Escape from Yangzhou

The Qian Mansion would never dream of a group of gangsters who would dare to prevent fire from the moon and black, and would never have thought that their home would be targeted by this group of gangsters.

The most difficult thing in the world is that this is being missed by the thief.

Luo Yongsheng stepped on the ladder and climbed into the backyard. There were also servants guarding the night at the back door, but they were all sleeping soundly at this moment, and Luo Yongsheng was very decisive under the knife.

If you do something like murder once, you will not be able to avoid the subsequent succession.

But this time, Luo Yongsheng felt a little guilty and nauseous. When he opened the door, he looked at the scarlet blood in his hands and wanted to vomit.

He had no grudges and grudges with his servants, but he cruelly deprived these two innocent lives.

It was clear that it was right or wrong. Luo Yongsheng knew that he was wrong in doing this, but he was not vague at all when he took the knife.

A kind person cannot become a superior person in this era.

What does it mean to be a superior person? Only those who step on others can be called a superior person, either step on the shoulders or step on the corpse!

It's always a kind of helplessness, it's a hypocritical self-examination.

The back door was opened, and Luo Yongjie and Chengwen and others quietly sneaked into the backyard of Qianfu's house, and then began to carry hay, firewood and other things one after another, piled up along the back wall to several huge warehouses. The warehouse had locks, so Luo Yongsheng couldn't get in, but it must be a place to store valuable things.

"Don't delay, light the fire and leave."

Luo Yongsheng, who was afraid that the night would be long and dreams would be too long, did not dare to waste time, so he called everyone to draw a fire and lit the hay. When the fire broke out, he quickly left.

Before leaving, I naturally did not forget to close the back door again and ignite the remaining hay and firewood to block it.

The wind assisted the fire. When Luo Yongsheng and others walked half a street and looked towards Qian Mansion, the bright fire had already risen, and there were screams and panic in their ears.

Such a big fire was naturally discovered early.

"Touch the alley near the Xicheng Gate and hide it, hurry up."

Luo Yongsheng didn't care about how the Qian family and the yamen were fighting the fire. He only cared about when the wing army at the west city gate moved.

At this time, the Qian family was naturally in a mess. The Qian family was woken up from their sleep. When the fire broke out in the backyard warehouse, they rolled out of the bed. They didn't even care about the newly-sector sixth concubine, and rushed out of the room in a hurry.

Looking at the rising fire in the backyard, I stomped my feet in a hurry, and was about to cry.

"Put the fire quickly, put the fire quickly."

While urging his servants, he called his servants: "Go to Xicheng quickly and ask Ma Yuhou to send someone to help."

The servant didn't say anything, and he was about to run away when he got the order, but was stopped by the butler.

"Master, before you invite Ma Yuhou, you must go to the prefecture to report to the capital inspection. You can only invite Ma Yuhou if you wait for the order to come to the capital inspection."

If the fire is lost, the soldiers cannot mobilize to put out the fire. They must wait for orders before they can rescue them. This absurd thing is that Zhao Daneng issued such an edict.

As a Jiedushi, Zhao Da, who was born in a yellow robe, became an emperor, was afraid that the military officer would subvert his country by subverting his country by such trivial matters.

Not to mention the central imperial guards, even the local wing troops cannot move around easily. Not to mention the crackdown on bandits or public security, even saving people from life-related matters such as water and fire must wait for orders!

This is not just Yangzhou, but even a capital like Bianjing Kaifeng is the case.

"In Beijing, the fire is left behind by the people, and the city must be inspected before the city can be rescued, causing the house to be burned in vain. In the future, if there is any fire left behind, the soldiers who explore the fire will go to the inspection and go to rescue them when painting."

The meaning of this sentence is that when a fire occurs in the capital, people in the capital need to wait for the inspection to arrive at the fire site to confirm, and then order the troops can be transferred to put out the fire and poured water. Such slacking will lead to the neighbour's family being in vain and being burned.

So the emperor ordered Kaifeng Prefecture that if something happened again, he would send someone to report to the capital for inspection and set a clear time to rescue him.

Are you kidding?

Although there is another paragraph later, saying "I have not arrived at the inspection, that is, the inspection of this wing will rescue first", at the end, there is a sentence "The left and right military patrol or local inspectors, the staff and commanders will arrive first, that is, command soldiers, water, pedestrians, etc. to rescue me together with the Lord."

So the core meaning is that without the presence of the officials, the fire cannot be saved by the Xiang army.

Obviously, Ma Yuhou, whom Mr. Qian mentioned, is not a patrol inspector, nor is he a commander, and he does not have the qualifications to mobilize soldiers to participate in the firefighting at will.

The local military power is so deep that it shows how terrible the Zhao Tian family's defense is.

But it is precisely because of this almost violated human nature that Luo Yongsheng has caused great trouble!

He hid in the narrow alley near the West Gate, watching with his own eyes the soldiers guarding the West Gate walk out of the military hall, but just stayed near the West Gate and pointed at the direction of the fire, with no intention of action at all.

And what's so bad, the families in this narrow alley were awakened one after another, and there were signs of going out to check at any time.

If it is discovered at this moment, then it will be completely finished.

Luo Yongsheng can do the killing of the Qian Mansion’s servants, and Luo Yongsheng can’t do the killing of innocent people.

Fortunately, Luo Yongsheng was anxious and asked Luo Yongjie and others to hide farm tools and other items. He also hid the knife himself and stepped out of the alley first. He pretended to be a householder and pointed at the direction of the fire, shouting calls such as "It's gone", as if he was a melon-eating crowd.

More and more people from Xicheng came out to watch, and hundreds of people rushed to the crowd, so naturally they "protected" Luo Yongsheng and others.

With so many people watching the fun together, who can tell which one is a close neighbor and which one is a stranger.

They all think they are watching the fun.

Just at this moment, a soldier ran over quickly, shouting as he ran: "Chuan the inspector order of the capital, Ma Yuhou quickly took people to Qian Mansion to put out the fire, so that he should not leave the time."

Thank God, Ximen's soldiers are finally moving.

With the order from the boss, the team of soldiers watching the fun finally stopped laughing and lined up a loose team. Under the leadership of a man over 30 years old, they didn't even take weapons, and each had a wooden barrel, running towards the Qian Mansion.

When they rushed to the melon-eating team where Luo Yongsheng and others were, they even scolded him.

"What are you looking at? Don't you know the curfew? Go back to my home quickly. If someone sees you and others when he comes back, he will take down his stick."

The people then scattered.

Clustered among the crowd, Luo Yongsheng and others were not so eye-catching. They took the opportunity to go back to the hiding alley and took out the farm tools and weapons they had previously hidden.

Seeing Ma Yuhou and his men disappear completely into the night and sight, Luo Yongsheng clenched the knife and flames leaped in his eyes.

"Snatch the door!"

I just saw it, at this moment, there were only two soldiers left in Ximen!

In this side, there were three beggars who were unwilling to leave at the beginning, including Luo Yongsheng, Luo Yongjie and Chengwen’s five brothers, who were unwilling to leave.

With ten or two, the advantage is in me!

Luo Yongsheng and others were running wildly, naturally attracted the attention of the two gatekeepers. They drank and saw the bright waist knife in Luo Yongsheng's hand and the farm tools in the hands of Luo Yongjie and others.

The two soldiers shouted angrily, turned around suddenly, opened the city gate tacitly, and immediately removed their weapons and threw them far away.

"I'm pleased to send you out of the city, don't kill us."

Looking at the soldier kneeling on the ground trembling, Luo Yongsheng sighed without joy.

"Soldiers are the backbone of the country. It is so cowardly that the Song family is destroyed by the country is not unfair."

After sighing, he led Yongjie and others to run out of the city and escape into the night.
Chapter completed!
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