Chapter 812 Strange Fire

Hearing Zhen Yan come up and tell him such secret things, Cao Xiu's heart suddenly jumped: in Jizhou, he had to learn not to believe anyone around him. Even if this man had worked hard to put out the fire before, he could not let Cao Xiu treat him as his own.

Therefore, Cao Xiu returned with a gloomy face: "Thank you for reminding me, but at this time, it's better to put out the fire first."

Zhenyan was blocked back by Cao Xiu's words, and there was no look of shame on his face. Just looking at Cao Xiu, I couldn't help but have a little more approval.

At this time, the whole granary has been completely shrouded in fire dragons, surrounded by fireworks, and makes the sound of peeling from time to time. A group of villagers and soldiers were beaten desperately with brooms and wet hemp in panic. Many of them were accidentally licked to the body by the flames and buried in the sea of fire.

Seeing this, Cao Xiu couldn't help looking around and suddenly asked, "Why is there no water in the tank?" The direction of his fingers is a row of large jars, where he personally inspected yesterday and was full of water for the fire.

Zhen Yan became embarrassed at this time and said, "The weather is hot, and many villagers are strong and rough. They take water on the spot to cool off, so that after pouring a few buckets of water, the water in the tank will run out..."

"Ridiculous!" After hearing this, Cao Xiu couldn't help stamping his feet and was furious and said, "If this had been in our Cao family, he would have been pulled out and beheaded!"

However, after this word, Cao Xiu immediately realized that he had said something wrong: this was originally the territory of the Zhen family, and also the owner of the Cao family's 'begging'. Cao Xiu said in front of the owner of the Zhen family that the Zhen family's village should be beheading. That unintentional words would naturally make Zhen Yan hear it.

Sure enough, Zhen Jian looked very bad after hearing this sentence. However, if Cao Xiu observes carefully at this time, he will find that Zhen Yan's face is not angry with Cao Xiu's nonsense, but ashamed and afraid because of Cao Xiu's accusations...

But just as Cao Xiu was about to explain to Zhen Yan, a voice like a warbler suddenly came, which attracted Cao Xiu.

"There are wells dug around the granary, and the general can order the old man of the Zhen family to lead the soldiers to fetter water. Although it is time-consuming, it can't kill anymore..."

After hearing this, Cao Xiu directly patted his brain: At this time, he was a little dizzy and even forgot about the Zhen family's granary and well. I can't help but look back and want to thank the man for his reminder.

But when he suddenly turned around, Cao Xiu's eyes could no longer move away. The girl in front of her, about 13 or 14 years old, was born with a national fragrance, a beautiful face, and a baby fat that has not faded over the years, which makes people can't help looking at it twice. A beautiful skirt in brocade plain clothes outlines her beautiful curves full of girls' slender and soft willows. In a pair of water eyes that seem to reflect the stars and moon in the night sky, there is a calmness and calmness that is not commensurate with her age.

It is said that girls at this age don't have much female charm. It should be more the purity and beauty of the girl, which makes people yearn for it. But the girl in front of her is different. At this time, although she has not fully bloomed, it gives people the feeling that it is like a budding flower in the night, as if it will let people see the most beautiful and amazing in a thousand years at any time.

Cao Xiu also performed well before, but after the girl appeared, he suddenly revealed the inner emptiness of the 16-year-old boy and asked slightly, "Who are you?"

Before the girl could answer, Zhen Yu said to the girl first, "Little sister, why are you here?"

Listening to Zhen Yan's words, Cao Xiu immediately understood the identity of the girl and couldn't help saying, "It turns out that you are Zhen Mi, who ranked seventh in Xu Shaoyuedan's comments..."

After saying this, Cao Xiu suddenly had a good impression of Xu Shao in Runan: Cao Xiu has always scoffed at the ranking list, thinking that it was just a move to fish for the reputation of the Xu family. Especially after Xu Shao listed Ma Chao as the first young hero of the Han Dynasty, Cao Xiu wanted to find an opportunity to flatten the Xu family.

But now that he sees Zhen Mi, Cao Xiu feels that Xu Shao deserves to die - although this woman does not seem to have a great advantage at present, it is obvious how she will fall in love after she grows up? However, she was ranked under Diao Chan, Cai Yan, Jiang Dong Erqiao and others, which really made Cao Xiu feel that Xu Shao was blind.

However, now is not the time to think about making trouble for Zhen Mi. Cao Xiu tried to take his eyes away from Zhen Mi and looked for Lv Xiang's figure: even if his Cao's soldiers did not need to order, I'm afraid that they would automatically take water from the well to put out the fire at this time, and Cao Xiu did not dare to guarantee the group of fools under Lv Xiang...

However, as soon as he turned around, Cao Xiu found that Lv Xiang had rushed behind him with 2,000 soldiers. However, those people were still wearing armor and with steel knives hanging around their waists at this time. They immediately made Cao Xiu angry enough: "General Lu, now the chaos has been settled. You just need to take water to put out the fire. Do you think they are too strong if you let the soldiers wear armor?"

Lv Xiang blushed and ordered the soldiers to take off their armor and weapons and throw them on the ground. For a moment, the ground was crackling.

"Transfer food first, and then put out the fire!" Cao Xiu gave instructions with a calm face: Although there is some suspicion of seizing, in fact, he knows that he has become much more tonight. If you get a few more points, it's nothing.

Thanks to Cao Xiu's previous deterrence to Lv Xiang, Lv Xiang also obeyed Cao Xiu, and Zhen Yan cooperated fully. Thousands of people quickly divided into three teams, up to one pair. Under the command of Zhen's previous fire-fighting pioneers, they began to risk their lives to carry grain and fodder. A team went to get water to support the villagers who put out the fire and tried their best not to let the fire spread to other granary buildings. The last group of people followed Cao Xiu to go straight to the first granary to catch fire: the fire in the granary has been extinguished, and Cao Xiu wants to know the cause of the fire...

Running back and forth to investigate, Cao Xiu actually knew the cause of the fire: according to those villagers who escaped from the fire, the first granary to catch fire may have been the mouse gnawing down the lamp, causing the fire. And because Lv Xiang's soldiers in charge of the granary were stationed in the outer camp tonight, the fire was not stopped in time and the fire was allowed to burn.

Cao Xiu did not show any doubts about this statement, but there were many doubts in his heart: if it was a simple accident, why would Lv Xiang station soldiers in the outer camp today? And the first person to find the fire was Zhen's hometown Zhuang?

But if someone deliberately set fire to him, why didn't he close his eyes and closely monitor the leopard riding in the granary overnight, and didn't find anything suspicious?

However, just when Cao Xiu couldn't stand the heat, he saw a strange body: next to a copper pillar of a lamp that had been burned red, the body, with only slight burns, lay on the ground in a strange posture.

This granary is the first place to catch fire. The grain and grass have been burned out and the bronze columns of the lamps have been burned red... Such temperature and time are enough to burn human corpses black!

Cao Xiu was not surprised, pretended to be sympathetic to everyone, and let Zhen Yan, Lu Xiang and others retreat first on the grounds of smoke. Then, he turned over the body and saw the incident that shocked him!

In the arms of the body, there is a letter that has been burned to most of it: this person protected the content of the letter with his own body!

Moreover, what's more bizarre is that Cao Xiu also found that this person was not burned to death during the fire fighting, but was killed by a knife!

When he pulled out the letter, Cao Xiu glanced at it and his face turned pale with fear: At this time, he finally understood why Lv Xiang stationed his soldiers outside the city today, and the fire burned so strangely!.........