After entering the room, the man rummaged through the table, muttering, "Where's the tinder? I remember putting it here?"
"Stop looking! Zhao Er has some in his room. Go get them from him and hurry up and burn those women to prevent trouble," another man urged.
After the two men left, Wei Jinglan trembled under the bed, clutching a tinderbox. She had naturally heard their conversation. Since the officials had come looking for her, they must have been well-prepared. All she needed to do was find a place to hide and wait for them to attack. However, after hearing what they had just said, she couldn't help but feel uneasy.
Wei Jinglan struggled internally, but in the end, she crawled out from under the bed, first tearing off a piece of her dress and lighting it with a tinderbox.
A few days ago, she bathed in a secret medicinal bath every day, and her body was already covered with that smell. Her clothes had also been soaked in the secret medicinal bath for a long time. However, if the medicinal bath was too far away, it would be difficult to pinpoint its location. It had to be burned to make the smell more intense.
After the cloth burned out, she bent down and followed the sound she had just heard, and sure enough, she saw two people piling up hay around a house.
By this time, shouts could be faintly heard coming from afar, and one of the men trembled, "What should we do? Will the officials really attack us?"
"Didn't the boss just go there? How could it be so fast? Once the fire's over, let's leave quickly." The other man appeared calm, but his tone betrayed a hint of panic.
The man quickly threw the tinder onto the dry grass, and the fire spread rapidly, billowing thick smoke. One of them said, "The fire is already burning, they can't escape now, let's run!"
The other person was still hesitant at first, but the shouts in the distance grew louder and louder, and he was also very scared: "Okay, let's run quickly."
After they left, Wei Jinglan dared to approach the house. At this moment, without her having to ask, she could hear intermittent sobbing coming from inside.
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