"Qiu Ke, go back to the mansion and transfer all the people you can mobilize here!"
Qiu Yuehua ordered the guards to stay by her side all the time.
"Miss……"
"Don't delay, go quickly!" Qiu Yuehua interrupted him and said urgently.
"Yes." The guard nodded in response, and with swift movements, he jumped onto the top of the wall with a tiptoe and flipped back to the Qiu family mansion behind.
It goes without saying that with such skills, the man must have been specially arranged by General Qiu to be by his daughter's side.
In addition to this guard with the best skills, the other few people brought by Qiu Yuehua have now raised their weapons and are heading towards the barbarians in the alley who are affected by the powder and keep scratching them.
"Be careful, don't get contaminated by the powder on their bodies." Wei Yunlan reminded.
The guards of the Qiu Mansion were all veterans who had fought in many battles. They immediately straightened their outer robes and paid attention to the distance between themselves and the barbarians.
The number of people on both sides was almost the same. The barbarians who had escaped from the Liang family mansion were also affected by the powder, and their strength was greatly reduced. The swords in the hands of the Qiu family guards cut their skin, and the powder stained their wounds, making their movements even more difficult, and they were completely at a disadvantage for a while.
The constant wailing sounds in the alley attracted people nearby, and two soldiers in police uniforms ran in from the main road entrance.
They had come here with Wei Yunlan before, so they naturally recognized Wei Yunlan who had been following Gong Xishan and Wei Maolin in the City Affairs Office just now.
"Miss Wei, here..."
"Those guys all ran away from the Liang family compound. Their accents don't sound like people from our Dayong. Miss Qiu led people to subdue them." Wei Yunlan said concisely.
As for the powder that caused those people to itch unbearably, and the gravel and vines scattered on the ground, Wei Yunlan did not explain much. Putting himself in the perspective of the soldiers from the City Affairs Office, he would naturally think that it was also done by the people from the Qiu Mansion.
No one has time to look into these details right now.
The fire in the Liang family's yard burned more and more fiercely, and the billowing smoke made it impossible to open one's eyes.
The soldiers sent by the City Affairs Office were obviously not enough. "We have to trouble the heroes from the Qiu Mansion to help us control these people for the time being."
"No problem." The guards of the Qiu Mansion had already found the hemp ropes and tied up those people.
Qiu Yuehua covered her mouth and nose, frowned and asked, "What happened to the Liang Mansion? Why did it catch fire at this critical moment, and let the barbarians sneak into the mansion?"
The words fell.
Without waiting for Wei Yunlan and the soldiers from the City Affairs Office to answer, Qiu Yuehua's expression changed.
His eyes were filled with disbelief. "The Liang family, the Liang family actually..."
She didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but everyone present understood what she meant.
The Liang family was so bold as to collude with the Northern Barbarians!
Don’t they care about the Empress Dowager behind them at all? Aren’t they afraid that after the matter is exposed, the Empress Dowager will be pointed at by thousands of people in the capital?
"What's the situation inside?" Wei Yunlan asked the two soldiers.
The soldier looked solemn, "There are at least two hundred people hiding in the Liang Mansion. Some of them left before we arrived, and some were blocked in the mansion. We don't have enough people to resist them. Fortunately, there are people from the nearby mansions to support us."
Otherwise, the two teams of soldiers sent by the City Affairs Office would have been wiped out by now.
Beiguan does not allow wealthy families to keep private soldiers, but there is no wealthy family without guards, especially in a place like the border where military power is heavily relied upon. Almost every household in the north city has at least several guards.
There are many families like the Qiu family, which has dozens of guards in their mansion, and this is not the only one.
The fire in Liang Mansion could not be extinguished, and almost half of the city fell into chaos.
This concerns the safety of every household. No one can be immune to it at this time. Every household sends as many people as possible to help put out the fire.
This fire seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit and could not be extinguished no matter how hard we tried.
Wei Yunlan had some guesses in his mind. After hurriedly saying goodbye to Qiu Yuehua, he took Heiyun and walked through the small door in the back alley, sneaking into the Liang Mansion.
This place leads to the garden that Madam Liang had built at a cost of several thousand taels of silver. At this time, the warm hall where people enjoyed flowers in winter had long since collapsed, and the flowers and plants in the garden were all in disarray, burned or destroyed, and it was impossible to see what they had originally looked like.
The fire was so big that the firefighters didn't dare get too close.
Perhaps because there were so many flowers and plants, the garden was the worst burned area in the entire mansion, except for the three-story viewing building.
As soon as Wei Yunlan approached this place, she felt a burning sensation on her skin. There was no one around, so she quickly lowered her body, took out a wet quilt from the space and put it on her body, then took out snow from the space little by little and covered herself with it.
With each step she removed only a tiny amount of snow.
By the time I walked four or five steps, the snow that was originally there had melted away by the heat, leaving no trace.
"Woo." Heiyun barked softly and led Wei Yunlan into the pavilion in the garden.
This pavilion is one of the few buildings in the garden that is still well preserved. Looking closely, Wei Yunlan found several unusual features on the side.
It is the traces left by flaming oil and white rock powder.
The barbarians were well prepared for this fire, and it was these things that kept the fire burning.
The source of the fire was still that building...
It was inconvenient for the firefighters to get close now, which made it easier for Wei Yunlan to take action.
Enduring the burning discomfort, she quickly moved to the back of the building and stopped about ten feet away. This was the farthest distance she could move the things in the space.
Hiding behind a rock that was not burned, Wei Yunlan held his breath and concentrated.
The next moment, an amount of snow almost equivalent to the capacity of a room was moved directly from the space to the center of the three-story building where the fire was burning.
In an instant, a hint of coolness seemed to permeate the scorching air all around.
In the distance, someone seemed to be shouting excitedly, "Is the fire smaller than before?"
"It seems the fever isn't as severe anymore..."
However, just when the crowd fighting the fire was about to breathe a sigh of relief, two loud bangs were heard from the north and south city gates almost at the same time.
"Enemy attack!"
"There are barbarian cavalry outside the city!"
The timing of the attack was clever, as all the people in the north of the city were gathering to put out the fire.
It was getting more chaotic outside.
Inside, Wei Yunlan gritted his teeth, endured the pain between his eyebrows, and moved the snow out of the space twice in succession.
No matter how many measures are taken, it will be useless under the impact of such a large amount of snow.
The fire was gradually brought under control, with only some sporadic flames still flickering. Before the people outside rushed in, Wei Yunlan retreated back to the garden along the original route and vaguely heard people outside shouting.
"The fire has been brought under control. Everyone, go to the city gate to provide support!"
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