Otoharu

Chapter 559
Outside the bamboo forest, more than a dozen monks from Tantuo Temple and seven or eight guards brought by the Xie family had already gathered.

The monks were all carrying buckets in their hands, and were pouring water into the bamboo forest one bucket after another.

Xie's, Jiang's Zhou Hanju and others stood aside, watching them put out the fire anxiously.

Worried about her daughter, Jiang pulled the head monk and asked, "Master, how long will it take for this fire to go out?"

The monk in his forties was covered with sweat at this time, he clasped his hands together, and hurriedly replied to Mrs. Jiang: "This benefactor, the poor monk and the younger brothers have tried their best to put out the fire, but there are only two wells in the temple. One is in the courtyard behind the main hall in front, and the other is in the back mountain Buddhist temple. Now we can only get water from the well behind the main hall, which is naturally not efficient, and just now there is news from the mountain that the reason for going up the mountain was destroyed by mud and rocks. It was blocked, and the temple sent another group of monks to clear the mountain road. At the moment, the temple is short of manpower, and it may take a while to put out the fire. Please forgive me."

Hearing what he said, Jiang's tears were about to come out, Zhou Hanyu stood aside and quickly comforted her, "Sister, don't worry, let's get all the servants at home to help put out the fire, and we should be able to get in soon. "

After hearing Zhou Hanju's words, Mrs. Jiang seemed to think of something immediately, and said to the maidservants who followed her, "Quick, you also go to fetch water with the masters."

After speaking, he ran forward a few steps, and said while running, "Forget it, I'll go by myself. One more person can also put out the fire faster."

Zhou Hanyu didn't expect that Mrs. Jiang would go to battle herself, and wanted to call her to stop, but Mrs. Jiang was worried about her daughter, so she ran so fast that she disappeared in an instant.

Zhou Hanyu sighed helplessly, thinking that he would go to help and forget it, but there was still a maid standing beside him, not moving.She frowned slightly, looked at the servant girl and asked, "Why are you still here in a daze, did you go fetching water without seeing your master?"

The maid who stayed there was Li Meier's maidservant Li Meier from the Xu family. She didn't defend herself, but said concisely: "Uncle and Madam, I know how to fight. You are fast, you should be able to go in and save the girl."

It was only then that Zhou Hanju remembered that this maid was given to Mei Meier by her husband-in-law. It was said that it was worth 50 taels of silver. I didn't expect this maid to know martial arts, so it was strange that it cost 50 taels.

Zhou Hanyu had some hope in his heart, but he still held a somewhat skeptical attitude, looked her up and down, and asked, "You can really do it? Don't be brave, don't let yourself get caught in the end without being rescued. "

"Uncle and Madam, don't worry, slaves won't make fun of their own lives." Hemerocallis said with a smile, showing a confident calmness on her body.

Only then did Zhou Hanyu believe her, and asked the monks in the temple to find a quilt according to her request.Hemerocallis soaked both sides of the cotton cloth, and put on the cotton cloth without hesitation, entered the bamboo forest.

On the other side, Mrs. Xie looked surprised when she saw the behavior of the maidservants of the Li family. She never expected that the servants of the Li family would have such courage to break into the fire by themselves.After all, the guards of the Earl's Palace she brought didn't dare to do such a risky thing.

In fact, it was also because Xie's own daughter was fine. If Sun Xiaowu was still in the monastery at this moment, she would definitely force the guards to venture into the fire to save her daughter. But now Li Meier and Lu Zhiwei are inside, so she is not in such an urgent mood. .

And there are still some small thoughts in her heart, if something really happened to Lu Zhiwei, wouldn't her marriage with Sun Zhongyuan be over.

Like her own daughter, Mrs. Xie instinctively doesn't like Miss Sun from this aunt's family. Even though she saved her daughter, she should be grateful, but she just can't like it no matter what.

No matter what Mrs. Xie thought in her heart, day lily had already rushed into the fire wearing a quilt.She quickly walked through a road that already existed in the middle of the bamboo forest, not paying any attention to the raging flames, and ran out of the burning bamboo forest without stopping.

When she got out of the bamboo forest, she immediately threw away the quilt that was about to be burned, took out the clean water that she had left on her body early in the morning, and washed her mouth and nose, only then did she get rid of the coughing feeling of smoke and dust.

Hemerocallis only rested for a moment, and immediately looked around, and soon, she found relatively fresh blood in a clearing not far from the bamboo forest.

Hemerocallis's heart was beating violently, she didn't know who left the blood, she just hoped it wasn't her young lady.

After stabilizing her mind, she followed the bloodstains and slowly continued to investigate forward.

She was very careful and tried not to make too much noise. She was afraid of alarming the group of thieves that Ms. Sun was talking about. It is very likely that this group of people has not left yet. It is impossible for her to beat all the thieves by herself. So only break through one by one.

But Hemerocallis searched cautiously for a while, but did not find any trace of a thief, and the footprints on the ground became more and more chaotic, which proved that a group of people should be moving quickly in one direction.

Did they run away?Hemerocallis guessed in her heart, following the footprints and bloodstains, she soon came to the area of ​​the hut.

Soon, she heard slight movements from the meditation room opposite the hut.

Hemerocallis trembled, and cautiously approached the meditation room. She hid by the door, and then cautiously looked inside through the crack of the door.I saw a few women lying in disorder inside.

Hemerocallis quickly recognized that those were the maidservants beside Sun Xiaowu and Lu Zhiwei, and Lu Zhiwei himself was lying motionless on the couch in the meditation room at this moment.

Hemerocallis didn't find Li Meier and Baozi among these people, she was a little disappointed, she turned around and decided to leave.

Maybe because he didn't see the thief, he felt a little relaxed. When he left, he accidentally kicked a stone by the door, and the stone hit the wooden door, making a slight knocking sound.

"Who? Who's outside? Help! Come and save me!" The people in the meditation room obviously heard the movement, and their voices were weak.

Hemerocallis paused, but did not stop, she could not waste any time now, since the young lady is not here, she must have been taken away by thieves.

Lu Zhiwei in the room yelled for a while, but she didn't see anyone coming in, so she couldn't help frowning, she ran out of the room immediately, looked outside the door, but only saw a light blue figure disappearing quickly.

There are people!It wasn't that she was hallucinating, but why did that person run away? Although it was just a glimpse, but judging by his attire, he should be a servant girl. Whose servant girl is it?

(End of this chapter)