Chapter 91 The Village at the Foot of the Mountain is on Fire
"Miss! I'm here to see you!" Yun Li heard Cherry's call at the door, and she stood up and looked out the window. Bai Zhi, Strawberry, and Cherry were all there.
Yun Li was a little surprised. Why are they all here? The imperial physician is still here.
"Miss, I have good news for you. Both imperial doctors are gone! Nanny Gui is gone too! Miss, you can move down now. We can be together again!"
"Miss! Why have you lost so much weight recently... your face has become smaller."
"Miss, have you been sleeping well recently?"
The three people chattered around Yunli. Yunli only heard the main points: the imperial physician had left, and Nanny Gui had disappeared...
He hurriedly asked, "What's going on?"
Bai Zhi said: "We don't know either. The two doctors disappeared early this morning, and all the luggage in the room was packed up. We also found out about Aunt Gui when we were having breakfast. Aunt Gui always made breakfast.
But breakfast was not ready today, so I went to the house to look for her, but she was gone. I searched for her in the village for a while, but she still didn't come back until noon.
He should be going back to the Prime Minister's Mansion!"
Yun Li frowned. How could the two imperial doctors suddenly leave, and Nanny Gui also disappeared... This is a bit strange.
Bai Zhi saw that she was lost in thought and said, "Miss, don't think too much. It's a good thing that Gui Momo left. Never mind her. We'll stay down there for a few more days. If she doesn't come back, you can go back to the manor and live there!"
"I won't move down. It's good to live here. It's very comfortable. After all, the manor belongs to the Wei Mansion. It's not good for us to live there all the time!"
"Then the three of us will move up!"
"But there aren't enough houses here. Wait a few days and have Ye Erzi find someone to build a house next door for you to live in! You can live downstairs for the next few days, and you can move up when the house is built."
"Okay! We'll listen to the young lady!"
Yunli ate the lunch brought by Strawberry, and chatted with a few people while eating. After eating and drinking enough, she felt a little sleepy.
The three of them decided to leave Cherry behind to guard Yunli, while Baizhi took Strawberry down the mountain.
As night fell, a sneaky figure approached the front of the house next to the Wei Mansion's manor.
Bai Zhi looked out the window and saw Gui Momo in the yard, walking in with light footsteps. She felt that he was a little sneaky, so she opened the window and asked, "Gui Momo, where have you been today? Why haven't you been seen all day?"
"Miss San, I went back to the Prime Minister's Mansion today to get some things, and I just came back now."
"Oh? Why didn't you tell me you were going back to the Prime Minister's Mansion? Why did you leave without a word or even a word of farewell?"
"It's my fault. I left in a hurry, afraid of missing the time. I wanted to go and come back quickly, but I didn't expect that the delay would last a whole day."
Bai Zhi knew that since Aunt Gui had left and come back, there must be something fishy going on. The young lady had said that if you discovered something fishy, you must not make it public, or the other party would reveal their true intentions.
So what she had to do was not to alert the enemy and wait and see what happened. No matter what Gui Momo's purpose was, as long as the young lady was safe for the time being, that was all that mattered.
"Well. Then you should go to bed. It's getting late. You've had a hard day on the road."
Bai Zhi closed the window after she finished speaking, and then went to lie on the bed. After thinking about it, she still felt that her premonition was wrong, so she got up again, put on her clothes, went to Yingtao's room next door, woke her up, and told Yingtao that Gui Momo had returned.
Then the two of them went back to sleep in her room.
Gui Momo never thought about how she got back to the Prime Minister's Mansion. Anyway, she woke up in the bed in the room where she lived. Before she could come to her senses, the eldest lady came to her.
She was given a large sum of money and asked to return to Qingya Village. As long as she followed the eldest lady's instructions, she would give her another sum of money after the task was completed.
With these two sums of money, it was enough for her son to marry a wife and buy a house, and there was still some left over! Why wouldn't she do something good like this?
Nanny Gui took out the bottle Yun Wei had given her from the bag she brought back, quietly opened the door, and walked to the room where Yun Li lived. She sprinkled the white powder in the jar around the room.
Then, in front of the back window of the house, he lit a tinder and threw it on the white powder. In an instant, the flames grew bigger and the fire spread along the circle of white powder surrounding the house.
It only took a few minutes for the fire to surround Yunli's house. Seeing this, Gui Momo hurried back to the house, packed up her things and prepared to leave.
The two people were sleeping in a daze on the bed. Bai Zhi, a medical student, was very sensitive to smells. A burst of smoke made her sleep uneasy.
She nudged Cherry beside her and said, "Cherry, do you smell anything? Do you feel like something is burnt?"
Cherry responded confusedly, "...Hmm...Hmm, what smell is there? Why don't I smell it?"
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the windows were illuminated by the flames. Bai Zhi suddenly opened her eyes, turned her head and looked out the window, and found that there was a fire! She sat up hurriedly, put on her clothes, and got out of bed.
"Cherry, wake up! It's on fire!"
"Cherry! It's on fire!"
Cherry was no longer sleepy. Seeing the fire outside the window, her mind suddenly became clear.
The two wrapped themselves in the quilt on the bed, covered their mouths and noses, and prepared to rush out when the opportunity arose.
But the fire outside spread, the fire at the door was the biggest, and it would soon burn to the windowsill.
Baizhi had medical knowledge. She knew that if she didn't find a way out, she and Yingtao would be choked to death by the smoke if not burned to death...
So they had to find a way to rush out no matter what. The two went to the back window to see if they could climb out, and found that the fire at the back window was even bigger!
Then he returned to the door and threw the quilt on the window to put out the flames. The big flames were put out, but the small flames were still strong.
The two men gritted their teeth, climbed over the flaming windowsill, and turned outside. Another circle of fire surrounded the house. The two looked at each other, covered their faces, and rushed out.
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Bamboo House on the Mountain
"Master, it's bad, there's a fire at the foot of the mountain!"
In her dream, Yun Li heard Ye Er shout this and opened her eyes instantly.
"What's going on?"
"Today, I sent the two people guarding the farm down below, Ye Si and Ye Wu, to the capital to look for someone. Unexpectedly, they haven't returned yet. Just now, I was standing halfway up the mountain and using the telescope the young lady gave me, I spotted thick smoke and fire coming out of the Wei Mansion down the mountain!"
Yun Li hurriedly said: "Why don't you go down? What are you still standing here for? Go and see if Yingtao and Baizhi are okay. Go quickly!"
"Yes, Master!"
After Ye Er left, Yun Li lost all sleep and paced around the room anxiously, praying in her heart that nothing would happen to Bai Zhi and Ying Tao, otherwise she would blame herself to death.
Strawberry comforted her, "Miss, it's okay! Cherry from Baizhi Pavilion will definitely be fine! How about I go down and take a look?"
"You don't have to go! It's not safe even in the dark! Nothing will happen if Yoruji goes!"
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