vstars Chapter 24 Vitality [4 more]
Chapter 24 Vitality [4 more]
"Very good." Qi Wu smiled, "To be honest, it's much better than I expected."
Qi Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, put the basin on the shelf, and asked Qi Wu: "...you...what are you going to do? Now...can you tell me a little bit?"
Qi Wu tidied up his luggage, opened the closet that he hadn't opened in the past few days, and looked at the sacks inside.
He turned his head and smiled at Qi Jiang: "Go back to your room later, take your important things, bank notes and so on, and then go downstairs to the kitchen. After you go out, I will be in this room Light a fire."
Looking at Qi Jiang's widened eyes, Qi Wu continued: "Try to divert the attention of the people in the kitchen, don't let them discover the fire too early, and don't let them find out the fire too late, lest the fire spread downstairs and you don't have time to run away ... Half a quarter of an hour is enough for this house to burn completely, and part of the second floor is also burned. The first floor has little effect, and at most half a quarter of an hour, people in the front and rear yards should also notice that something is wrong. Don't panic, okay ?"
Qi Jiang was stunned: "You... the accident you mentioned earlier, is... a fire?"
Qi Wu nodded.
The right time, place and people, except that at least part of the post station will be burned down, and Liu Lu, the main person in charge, may be held accountable, no one will be punished for this unexpected fire.
After walking together these days, Qi Wu still knows Liu Lu's character to some extent. A person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside will not let "little people" like maids, servants, cooks, and yamen servants be responsible for such an accident. Letting them take responsibility is even more obvious. It seems that he wants to shirk responsibility, and Liu Lu will not bear it.
Xie Jing Xing said that Liu Lu's biological father was Minister of War and Liu Lu himself was deeply loved by the emperor.Accountability is at most due to the fact that the Qi Clan's promotion is gone this time, the so-called "merit and demerit balance out", but Shang Wenjing will try every means to plan for himself, the beloved general.
However, in the end, Liu Lu was responsible for the aftermath of this incident.
Standing in front of the closet, Qi Wu suddenly turned around and bowed out of the window... I'm sorry, Mr. Liu, anyway, I'm going to run away. If I don't enter the palace, I will serve you wholeheartedly How about the emperor, understanding each other and understanding each other, life is not easy.
Seeing Qi Wu's sudden actions, Qi Jiang was a little puzzled, but he came back to his senses, touched the cloth bag in his sleeve silently, and asked Qi Wu: "But...even if there is a fire, they think you Burned to death... people who were burned to death, there will be bones, they can't find the bones..."
"There will be." Qi Wu looked at Qi Jiang and said.
Qi Jiang was taken aback again.
He suddenly remembered... That night, Qi Wu came home late, that sack... He helped pull the sack up to the second floor, and touched the contents through the sack, and it felt hard... Now that I think about it, ...
Like bones.
human bones...
Qi Wu is cautious in doing things, and he will definitely not use animal bones to make up his number, but human bones... Where did Qi Wu find it?
Biting her lip, Qi Jiang reached out and took out the cloth bag in his sleeve, and put it on the table.
"Okay, just arrange it yourself... Don't worry, I won't reveal my secrets, and I won't make your plan fail... There are 3 taels of silver in this cloth bag, take it. It's just right later There will be a fire in a while, and it's normal for the banknotes in my hand to burn out. They won't suspect that there are fewer banknotes in the dowry. I also kept money for myself..."
The clan prepared 9000 taels of banknotes for each of them, and with these 3 taels, most of the money in Qi Jiang's hands was gone.
"9000 taels is enough for you to do in the palace?" Qi Wu rolled his eyes, "If you insist on giving me money, I have no reason not to accept it. Give me 1 taels, I have more than enough, take the rest and put them away , you can save yourself when you get to the palace."
Hearing this, Qi Jiang blinked his eyes, and then his tone became lighter and weaker: "Is it 9000 taels from you... The patriarch grandpa gave me the whole 4 taels...so I have 1 taels left, which is a lot." gone."
Qi Wu: "..."
Forget it, after all, Qi Jiang is the caring little cotton-padded jacket of the clan, so he gave an extra 1000 taels to make up the whole thing, which is fair enough already.
"How much the patriarch gave you is none of my business. Anyway, I only want your 1 taels. If there is more, I won't do it. If there is less, I won't do it. You take the money and leave immediately, don't waste time." Qi Wu said fiercely of.
Qi Jiang originally wanted to refuse.He usually dare not reject Qi Wu's words, but it has something to do with money, so Qi Jiang still wants to insist on his own ideas.But after hearing Qi Wu's last words, Qi Jiang was afraid that he was really wasting time, after all... what Qi Wu was going to do, if something happened, he would die.
"Okay." Qi Jiang pursed her lips, took out the bank notes from the cloth bag, and handed the remaining 1 taels to Qi Wu.
Qi Wu accepted it and put it in his own bag in front of him.
Qi Jiang breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly packed the money in his hand and put it next to him, and then said to Qi Wu, "You...take care."
Qi Wu nodded: "You too, take care of yourself."
Qi Jiang laughed: "Okay."
"There's nothing important in my room, so I'll just go downstairs. Be careful."
After speaking, Qi Jiang looked at Qi Wu again, then put on his hat and went downstairs.
After Qi Jiang went out, Qi Wu looked at the flickering candle.It’s still bright now, so there’s no need to light candles, but the room is relatively big, with just one window, and there are always corners where the light is not good, so candle holders are placed on the wall, and the candles are always burning during the day. It won't make people feel strange.
Taking a burning candle from the iron frame, Qi Wu took it and put it under the curtain.
The fire was looming, Qi Wu went back to the closet, took out the sack and put it on the bed, then untied the tie and opened it.
In the sack, there was a blackened corpse.
This skeleton belonged to the young man who died of allergies that Lao Jia had mentioned that day.That day, Lao Jia took him to the mass grave, and walked through the back door of the inn very thoughtfully. When he arrived at the mass grave, it was getting late, and there were not many "businessmen" still squatting, so Lao Jia avoided it on purpose.
Although Lao Jia didn't care about other people's attitudes towards his profession, he knew very well that this profession was not a bright one.Qi Wu had a good attitude towards him, he was very sensible in what he said and did, and he came from another place to find his cousin, whose life and death were still unknown, so he looked pitiful, so Lao Jia thought that no one would see Qi Wu walking with him, So as not to cause trouble to Qi Wu.
After seeing the young man's corpse, Qi Wu gave full play to his acting skills and successfully convinced Lao Jia that it was his cousin.Lao Jia asked Qi Wu what to do, Qi Wu said that it was too hot and the road was far away, so he couldn't bring his cousin's body back to his hometown, but he wanted to bury his cousin with a ritual ceremony before his body rotted.
So Lao Jia helped and sent the body of his "cousin" to the nearby Lingzhuang, which was considered as the most benevolent.After Qi Wu paid him 100 taels of silver, he was sad for his cousin and thanked Lao Jia for his help. After sending Lao Jia away, Qi Wu asked the blind old man in Lingzhuang to help him. After a ritual ceremony, the body was cremated, and finally the burnt bones were brought back in a sack.
How do you feel about this process...
Seven points nervous, three points scared, and very creepy.
In his previous life, no matter how lazy Qi Wu was, he never did anything illegal. He went to the mass grave and Lingzhuang that day, performed ceremonies for strangers, and brought a sack of bones back to the inn in the dark... The whole mental journey is definitely more frightening than shooting a horror movie.
Now that he took out this corpse and put it on the bed, Qi Wu even admired his psychological quality.
... Thinking about it this way, Qi Wu suddenly felt that he seemed to have the potential to be a murderer... This potential is a bit scary.
After setting the position of the bones, half of the curtain has been burned, and it is still burning upwards.Qi Wu picked up the candle on the ground and threw it on the quilt.
The bed was lit with fire, and everything was ready.
Qi Wu also threw the hemp rope on the bed, watched it burn, then turned and walked out the door.
There was no one outside the house, and the people downstairs were either in the kitchen or guarding the courtyard gate. Compared with going down with hemp rope, Qi Wu could be more careful and go downstairs this time.
He used hemp rope, but this time no one will help him take the rope back to the room on the second floor. If a piece of the rope burns off and falls to the ground outside, Qi Wu doesn't want to give such a big doubt.Opening the door carefully, Qi Wu went downstairs lightly, and successfully arrived at the pigeon cage. He carefully squatted behind the pigeon cage.Looking down upstairs earlier, he discovered that this place is well sheltered.
Especially after the fire broke out, to put out the fire and save people, the water was drawn from the well or tank on the other side. No one would have the leisure to pay attention to this corner where pigeons are kept.
This inn occupies a large area and is remote. Right now, there are few people in the inn and they all perform their own duties. A fire in broad daylight is not so eye-catching... This is what Qi Wu can come up with. The best time, place and people are in harmony.
If there is an accident, he will be fine.
The worst thing is that the fake death turns into a real death, which is better than entering the palace without dying or living.
Qi Wu didn't know the time, so he could only look at the second floor, the flames were getting bigger and bigger, and the wooden windows of his room were also covered with flames.When his legs were numb from squatting, he suddenly heard the terrified voice of the cook: "Fire... it's on fire! It's on fire! Mr. Qi Wu is still upstairs! Get water! Water!"
Then there was the cry of the servant girl, and then Qi Jiang's voice: "Qi Wu! Qi Wu! Quick, go and call the yamen servants at the front and rear doors to help fetch water! Hurry up!"
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the inn was extremely panicked. After a while, Qi Wu heard Qi Jiang's deliberately amplified voice: "It's great, everyone is here, go get water soon...what to do, the fire is burning What do you do when you get on the handrail of the stairs, Qi Wu! Qi Wu!"
Qi Jiang panicked like that, Qi Wu, who was squatting behind the pigeon coop, smiled, then stood up and walked towards the nearest backyard gate.Going around a wall, you can see the courtyard gate.
There are no special two gates, no one is guarding them at the moment, and the gates are even open.Normally, the yamen guards would stand on one side with the door open, but now one of the yamen guards went to the National Temple, and the other hurried to the front when they heard the fire, and there was no time to close the door on purpose.
Qi Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
If the door is closed, it is impossible for Qi Wu to stay and find a way to close the door from the inside after he goes out, so he can only bet that the yamen servant didn't find anything wrong afterward, or he did not dare to tell if he found it.
Walking out from the back door smoothly, Qi Wu took his burden and left the station very smoothly, and gradually walked to the crowded main road.The surrounding is getting more and more lively, but the sense of unreality in my heart is gradually rising.
In this way, escaped.
Qi Wu bent his lips.
The Qi people's hats were left in the fire station. The hats he bought when he came out were inconvenient for him to move, so he lost them on the way back.Now he was not wearing a valance, and his smiling face was more noticeable.
It didn't take long, however, for anyone to pay attention to him.
The news came because the Royal Inn was on fire.Many helpful people ran over to help, and some innocent people ran over to watch.However, it is said that there is no one in the station, so it should not have much impact.
Qi Wu followed the flow and looked towards the direction of the post station. In fact, they couldn't see the fire at the post station at all, so after seeing it, Qi Wu naturally looked away.After finding a stall selling veiled hats, Qi Wu randomly picked one and put it on, then went to the Xiangying Inn where he had checked in earlier, and returned to his room on the third floor.
Before that, he booked a room for a whole month, ensuring that he would have a place to live directly when he came out.
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