Chapter 75 Intentional or Unintentional
There was a constant noise in her ears, and Xu Shuyao seemed to have returned to the little girl in her dream, being swept away from everything she was familiar with.
She kicked her feet wildly for a while, and suddenly felt her body tighten. The hand that was originally pulling her arm came to her waist.
When she turned around, she was immediately met with Xiao Mo's cold star-like eyes.
"You...you..." She kept saying "you" for a long time without saying anything, but was quickly covered by the other party's hand over her mouth and nose.
"Don't talk!" The man's voice came close to her ear.
The two were so close that they could feel each other's breath, but the situation before them did not allow Xu Shuyao to think too much.
She followed Xiao Mo's gaze and saw several people in craftsman's clothes sneaking out from the left side of the huge mountain of lights.
Looking ahead, there were people scattered around with their heads broken and bleeding. Some were already dead, while some were still struggling. However, the collapsed mountain of glass lamps had connected into a sea of fire, so there was no possibility of survival.
Xiao Mo looked down at her, then glanced at the surroundings, then picked her up and quickly rushed backwards.
After placing her in the empty shop, he said, "Stay here!" and prepared to leave.
However, his clothes were pulled, "Save...Adi."
The girl's eyes were filled with pleading, fragile yet stubborn.
Xiao Mo pulled the sleeve out of her hand and said lightly: "Okay!"
After the other person left, Xu Shuyao looked out through the window lattice cautiously again.
The fire was so big that kerosene was all over the ground, and the place where the two men had just stood was also on fire.
However, because the shop was located on a high ground with several steps leading up to it, the fire could not spread to here for a while.
She was worried about her brother's safety, and at the same time she was afraid that she would not be able to hold on for much longer.
Are you really going to wait here forever?
However, with the arrival of city defense personnel to put out the fire, the fire was gradually brought under control.
While putting out the fire, these people were collecting the bodies that had been burned beyond recognition.
After a while, Xu Shuyao also waited for her two maids to arrive.
Although Qiaowei and Huixiang looked a little disheveled, they were fine except for a few scratches on their hands.
"Where's Shu Heng? Have you seen him?"
Her movements were very loud, and Qiao Wei saw this and quickly comforted her, "Everything is fine, fine, nothing is wrong."
I'm glad you're okay!
After hearing this answer, she felt relieved for a moment and sat down on the few remaining stools in the shop without caring whether they were dirty or not.
Perhaps because of the accident, even Qiao Wei, who usually kept her emotions to herself, sighed. "Master! Thank goodness! Thank goodness you called us back then. How did you know it was unsafe?"
Xu Shuyao thought for a moment and said, "Maybe it's just a feeling!"
Xu Shuyao asked again: "Where are they? Where are they now? Did the prince ask you to come here to find me?"
"Yes. After he found everyone at the Duke's Mansion, he sent the servants to look for the young lady. However... the third and fourth young ladies have already gone back. The prince said he would find a carriage for the young lady later."
Xu Shuyao nodded. It would be nice to be able to go back no matter when.
After the fire, there was a burning smell outside, which came in with the night wind, making people shiver inexplicably.
It was not until late at night, when Xu Shuyao thought that the prince might have forgotten about the matter, that she saw a carriage driving hurriedly over.
Seeing a familiar driver sitting in front, Xu Shuyao got on the car without saying a word.
After entering, she found Xiao Mo was also inside. Seeing her looking over, the man said tiredly: "Come back with me!"
Then he stopped looking at her.
Normally, a single man and a single woman would feel a little uncomfortable riding in a carriage together, especially when there is no one around.
But after experiencing such an incident and seeing the neatly buried corpses on the ground, Xu Shuyao didn't even have the slightest desire to talk.
She leaned against the wall of the car and fell asleep.
Xiao Mo glanced at the cheek and felt a little sleepy for a moment.
When they reached the back door of Duke Cheng's Mansion and the prince left, Qiao Wei came in to call her master, and Xu Shuyao slowly woke up.
“How long have you been back?”
"Not long,"
Then he added, "The prince has left."
Qiao Wei looked at her daughter's face curiously, and seeing that her face was covered with sleep marks, she felt a little amused.
It was a waste of her time worrying that the prince had deliberately left her daughter behind.
But now it seems that is not the case at all.
The prince left as soon as he said he would, and the girl was sleeping soundly inside without caring about her image.
Xu Shuyao said "Oh" and walked out with the help of her maid.
After passing through the second gate, he asked the manager at the door whether his younger brother and everyone in the Xiao Mansion had returned. After receiving the other party's affirmative answer, Xu Shuyao finally felt relieved.
It's late at night and the dew is heavy, so it's not convenient to go to each hospital to ask in person. It's enough to know that everyone is fine.
However, Xiao Mo came back, washed up, changed his clothes and left the house.
The next day, the news of the collapse of the lamp mountain spread like wildfire.
This was originally built by the current emperor at great expense to demonstrate the stability of the government and the harmony of the people, but it collapsed on the night of the Lantern Festival.
Not only did it collapse, but there were also heavy casualties.
The emperor was humiliated, and the officials in charge of supervising the matter faced the risk of being held accountable and dismissed from office at the very least, or even being beheaded or exiled at the worst.
When Xu Shuyao learned that the matter involved the Minister of Works, who was also the father of the eldest prince's wife, even she felt that this was no small matter of dereliction of duty by an official.
The story behind this is most likely related to the struggle for the crown prince and the struggle between the two princes' factions.
The eldest prince was born to the former queen, but there have always been rumors that the current emperor does not like this prince very much, and he himself does not often appear in public.
The former queen is still in the deep palace, but she has been demoted to a deposed queen.
Xu Shuyao thought about the medical records left by her grandfather and the current position of the prince, and began to worry.
Shu Heng got up early in the morning and went to Jiyunzhai. Talking about what happened last night, he sighed, "Sister! Did you see that? It was so tragic! I saw those people who clearly had a chance of survival, but in the blink of an eye, their faces were burned to a blur. My fourth and fifth cousins and I fled to a higher place and watched the situation below, but there was nothing we could do."
"We knew our third cousin wasn't around, and after our fourth cousin reunited with us, you were the only one missing. I was so worried. But our fourth cousin's maid said she saw you, and you ran away even faster than them. That maid was very strong, and she was the one who took our fourth cousin with her."
"I didn't believe it at the time. Later, the prince came and told us that you were safe."
Xu Shuyao watched her brother become a chatterbox, a rare occurrence, and thought of something. "So how did you leave?"
Xu Shuheng: "The scene was in chaos, so the prince asked us to come back first, saying that he would ensure your safe return home later."
So that’s how it is!
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