My younger sister insisted on marrying me and made me the Marquis' wife.

Chapter 488: Zhurong Disaster
Qin Yuan didn't understand.

Hongye said: "I have been here for such a long time, but I haven't seen the Marquis, is that right..."

Qin Yuan wanted to tease her, so she said with a smile, "He has already gone out. He is in the front yard."

Hongye couldn't believe it. "How could the Marquis go out without anyone noticing? I have been guarding outside the whole time, but I didn't see him go out."

Qin Yuan smiled and said, "You better not talk about the Marquis behind my back. It's not the first time that you've been caught."

Hongye immediately stopped talking.

Not long after, the little girl outside shouted, "Oh my God, why is it so red over there? Half the sky is bright. What happened? Is there a flood?"

Qin Yuan also came out, leaned against the railing and looked to the north. The red area was the direction of the Hostage Palace.

Lord Gu is really decisive.

In just over half an hour, the Hostage Palace was already engulfed in flames.

Hongye and Cuiming also came over to watch.

Cui Ming said, "I don't know whose house caught fire. It hasn't rained these days and the weather is dry. Be careful with candles."

Hongye also said, "That's right. Such a big fire must have burned down the entire mansion. It would cost a lot of money and effort to rebuild it."

Qin Yuan just smiled.

Cui Ming said, "This place is not too far from here. There are many powerful and wealthy people living in that area, so there must be quite a few of them."

The two of them had not experienced much, so naturally they could not say how much silver they would need, but they guessed that it would not be too little.

Qin Yuan thought for a while and said, "It depends on how we repair it. If we don't have money, we can just paint it and live in it. A few dozen taels of silver will be enough. If we have money, we can rebuild the whole thing. We need to hire good craftsmen to carve beams and paint buildings. Even if the garden is destroyed, we need to rebuild it. It will cost at least a thousand taels of silver, or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

Speaking of this, Qin Yuan's heart moved.

In her previous life, the Crown Princess smeared pepper mud on all the bedroom furniture in the East Palace, symbolizing many children and good pregnancy.

If the price of pepper goes up, it will be a considerable amount of money.

Moreover, the prince's wedding was lavish, and the subsidy from the inner treasury was far from enough. Where did the money come from?

Hongye was shocked when he heard this.

"Oh my god, why do you need so much silver?"

Cui Ming said, "It will take a lot of time and effort to rebuild these things. It will take at least a year or so. The owner of this house will be in great pain. His money will be spent like water."

Qin Yuan also sighed, "I wonder whose family it is?"

Someone who was curious had already gone to the front yard to ask around, and after a long while they came back with a reply: "It was said that the proton mansion was burned down."

"Hahaha, so it's his house."

Hongye laughed.

Gu Baozhu also ran over and said, "Third sister-in-law, do you know that the wild donkeys got their comeuppance? Even their house was burned down. Where is my third brother?"

Qin Yuan got a headache when he saw her. He looked at the sky and asked, "Why are you running here at this hour? I've already changed into my pajamas and prepared to go to bed. I'm afraid your third brother is trying Yelu Xianyong?"

Gu Baozhu stuck out her tongue and said with a smile, "Well, I'll go back first. Third brother will be back anytime, so I won't stay here. Don't be afraid, sister-in-law, it's just a fire, it's far away from us. There are so many people in the mansion, it can't burn us."

Qin Yuan smiled and said, "So you were worried about scaring me. It's okay. We are just watching the fun here. We can't see anything. We just chat for a while and then go to sleep. You should go back and rest too. Don't you have to practice martial arts tomorrow morning?"

Gu Baozhu responded and said, "Then Third Sister-in-law, I'm going back."

"Ah."

Qin Yuan nodded. After Gu Baozhu left, Hong Ye said, "Seventh Miss has become smarter. She came here to get information, but she insisted that she was here to care about our young lady."

Cui Ming patted her and said, "You are so smart."

Hongye also came to his senses and stopped talking.

Qin Yuan pretended not to hear, "Looking at the fire getting bigger and bigger, I think it will be difficult to put out. I'm afraid the people from the Five Cities Military and Police Battalion will be busy all night."

Cui Ming said, "Just ask the neighbor next door tomorrow and you'll know."

"Yes, I will ask Sister Cheng in detail tomorrow. It's too late now. I'm tired after two days. Let's go back and rest. Tomorrow I have to discuss with the housekeepers how to prevent the fire disaster."

Everyone dispersed.

Cui Ming secretly spat at Hong Ye and said, "What nonsense have you been talking about all day long. You're just short of saying that the fire was started by the Marquis."

Hongye quickly fanned herself on the face, feeling very upset.

"I was just talking nonsense."

Cui Ming said, "It's fine today because you are all by yourself. If you do the same thing outside someday and get into trouble, who can save you? I'm afraid you will cause trouble for others."

Hongye begged, "Good sister, please give me more advice in the future. You know me well. Sometimes I don't mean what I say."

Cui Ming said seriously, "Think about it every day before you speak, and see if what you say is important. Or count a few numbers before you speak."

Hongye nodded in agreement.

Qin Yuan was still thinking while lying on the bed. Even Gu Baozhu and the maid beside her guessed so. She hoped that Lord Gu would do things more cleanly.

I woke up the next morning and touched my side.

no one.

The bedding didn't look like it had been used, and it seemed that he hadn't returned home all night.

Qin Yuan sat up and called someone in to serve him.

Mozhu and Cuiming came in. Qin Yuan asked as she washed and changed her clothes, "Where's Hongye?"

Cui Ming said: "Hong Ye went to find Manager Qian, Manager Han and Manager Cao early to discuss how to avoid the fire disaster."

Qin Yuan smiled.

This is to inquire about the news.

During breakfast, Hongye came back and ate with Qin Yuan while saying, "Last night, the Marquis brought the guards in the mansion to help put out the fire. The fire was too severe."

Qin Yuan picked up a small tofu skin and meat bun, slightly opened her red lips, bit half of it, chewed slowly, looked at Hongye, and motioned her to continue speaking.

Seeing Qin Yuan's interest, Hong Ye continued, "I heard from Sixteen that the Hostage House was just a fire accident and the fire would not be so big. Who knows what happened? Someone got kerosene at the back door of the Hostage House."

Qin Yuan swallowed all the buns, drank a mouthful of porridge, and then asked, "Have you found out who poured it?"

"Well, how can we check? The patrol officers said they have been patrolling all night and have not found any suspicious people."

Cui Ming asked, "Won't the people around here come to help? We're not that close to the hostage house."

Hongye said, "People from the surrounding households and the Wucheng Military Department went there. Guess what, the water that was originally stored to prevent Zhu Rong was running low. Everyone brought buckets and other things to help, but they couldn't. The Wucheng Military Department couldn't just watch the fire spread, so they asked the surrounding households to find a way to transport water to the hostage house by car."

This is really cruel.

Qin Yuan asked, "Have the people next door been affected?"