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The weather was really bad that day. Dark clouds covered the whole sky, and lightning was wrapped in a sound of thunder, which made people panic for noexplicably.

At a moment, Chen Dali finished splitting wood, and stood in the backyard watching the maids put away the clothes on the hanger. Then he looked up at the sky and rubbed his sore wrists. He half narrowed his eyes.

"I'm afraid this rain is not small."

After saying that, the sky darkened in an instant, and then a golden snake-like lightning suddenly penetrated the clouds. Only a loud sound of a knife and an axe was heard. The lightning hit the cypress tree in front of the Huafeng Hall, and the fire ignited more than ten feet high.

"It's water... It's water..." Suddenly, Chen's house was full of noisy voices and panicked footsteps.

Chen Dali was the closest to the well, grabbed a bucket and ran to Huafeng Hall in panic. Unfortunately, the fire was too big. In less than a moment of incense, I only heard a click, and the pine and cypress trees in front of Huafeng Hall slowly slanted to one side.

Chen Dali retreated all the way to Zhaobi with the family who put out the fire. It was a pity that this pine and cypress tree was planted by his father when he heard that it was his grandfather's grandfather. It has been more than a hundred years. Unexpectedly, a fire today destroyed this century-old tree. Of course, if my wife knew about this, it would be even more amazing, and I don't know how my wife would punish her at that time. Thinking of his wife's usual means, Chen Dali was a little entangled.

As the wind rose, he faintly heard the noise from the east courtyard, and then he heard a scream.

"It's not good, it's not good, come on, madam... something's wrong!"

He was shocked. At this time, a shocking thunder exploded in the sky, as if the sky had suddenly fallen and the whole earth was shaking.

The big raindrops hit the earth.

When Chen Dali took Dr. Wu to the East Courtyard, the yard was full of people inside and outside. No one spoke, and everyone's faces looked solemn. As soon as Chen Dali looked up, he saw the housekeeper standing under the eaves. He quickly bowed and led Dr. Wu forward.

"How's it going, madam?" Dr. Wu asked, a little cautious.

The housekeeper didn't say anything with a calm face, but set the curtain for Dr. Wu. From beginning to end, the housekeeper did not look at Chen Dali. Watching Dr. Wu and the housekeeper enter the inner room together, Chen Dali looked down at the medicine box in his arms and followed closely.

Chen Dali stood next to the door with a careful look on his face. She secretly glanced at the side, and a maid in a mountain-blue water skirt knelt on the ground with red and swollen eyes. Next to her were fragments of white porcelain, some of which were still stained with blood.

Then, he heard Dr. Wu's trembling and sad voice from the three-fold screen of the blue bird peony in front of him: "The fragments stuck in the back of the lady's head are too deep, madam... gone."

Chen Dali couldn't help loosening his hands, and the medicine box made of pear wood hit his feet heavily.

Chen Suyue... died.