the seventh bride

Chapter 225 The Ancestral Hall Is On Fire
Early in the morning, Nangong Chen heard that Shen Ke had gone abroad.

He didn't expect Shen Ke to escape so quickly, he threw the documents in his hand on the table and gritted his teeth and cursed: "It seems that old Shen Dongyang doesn't plan to resign."

Assistant Lin stared at him and asked cautiously, "Then what should we do next?"

"Let him stay in the company first." He thought for a while and said, "By the way, send someone to keep an eye on Shen Ke's whereabouts."

"Okay, I got it." Assistant Lin suddenly took an envelope from the folder and handed it over: "By the way, Young Master Chen, this is Director Shen's resignation letter entrusted to you today."

Nan Gongchen glanced at the envelope in her hand, then reached out to take it and opened it, and took out a piece of A[-] paper from inside.

The resignation letter was not long, and the lines were full of guilt. Shen Ke even claimed that he would spend the rest of his life working hard to make money and return this huge sum of money to Nangong Group.

Waiting for him to pay back?Not knowing what year and month it was, he sneered and tore the resignation letter in half and threw it into the trash can.

After the office quieted down, Nangong Chen's cell phone rang. He took out his cell phone and glanced at the number on the screen. His originally gloomy face suddenly brightened a lot. He smiled and said, "Did you hear something else? Care about me." coming?"

Bai Muqing didn't deny it, and said, "I heard that Shen Ke embezzled the company's funds?"

"Yes, but people have fled abroad."

"What should I do?"

"What else can I do? My original intention was not to cure him, but to use him to deal with Shen Dongyang." Nan Gongchen shrugged helplessly: "But Shen Dongyang is too willing to let go of his son, so he can't play with him." .”

"It doesn't matter, then wait for the next opportunity, there is always a chance to treat him again."

"Thank you, I feel much better with your care." Nangong Chen said with a smile: "As for that old fox, take your time."

"Be careful in everything." Bai Muqing couldn't help but advise in a daze.

"Mu Qing, you've said this many times."

"To tell you the truth..." Bai Muqing said embarrassedly: "My eyelids have been twitching all the time today, and I always feel that something bad will happen, so..."

"So the first thing you thought about was not whether Qiao Feng would have a problem, but me?" The smile on Nangong Chen's face became brighter.

He knew that Bai Muqing always cared about him the most, not Qiao Ershao!

Before he was satisfied, Bai Muqing said, "Nangong Chen, you really think too much. Qiao Feng told him to go to and from work. He has no enemies and no lovers. He is very safe. But you, the crouching tiger, hidden dragon by your side, turn around." Dangers can happen, so..."

She paused, and then said: "So I hope you can pay attention, especially today."

"Is it today?" Nangong Chen felt her worry, and his tone became more serious: "Okay, I will be very careful."

"Well, so be it."

"Wait." Nangong Chen suddenly stopped her and said, "Your eyelids are twitching, so shouldn't you be more careful?"

"Don't worry, I'm very safe at home." Bai Muqing said 'goodbye' to him and hung up the phone.
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When Nan Gongchen came home, he saw Pu Lianyao crying in front of the old lady, who kept comforting her.

When he walked in, Pu Lianyao turned to him instead, and said with tears in her eyes, "Cousin, I think Shen Ke must have done it unintentionally. I hope you don't blame him and investigate him..."

Nangong Chen glanced at her, and a hint of mockery bloomed on his lips: "I can't pursue him now if I want to, can I?"

"But he's gone, he doesn't want me anymore." Pu Lianyao cried even more sadly.

"Don't worry, he won't want you. Don't you know what kind of person Shen Ke is?" The old lady patted her hand: "You can live here with peace of mind. When grandma finds him, you must Will bring him back."

"Thank you grandma." Pu Lianyao wiped the tears off her face with her hand: "Cousin, please don't hand him over to the police. As long as Shen Ke can come back safely, we will do our best to return the money to the company."

Looking at the tears on her face, Nangong Chen was very annoyed, but he still said patiently: "Don't worry, as long as he doesn't commit another crime, I won't hold him accountable."

"Yes, go upstairs to rest, don't cry anymore." The old lady waved at Zhu Zhu who had nothing to do with her: "Zhu Zhu, send Lian Yao back to her room to rest."

"Okay." Zhu Zhu put down the cup, got up and pushed Pu Lianyao back to the house.

"Grandma, it's late, you should go back to the room to rest." Nan Gongchen stepped forward to take the old lady's arm, and helped her walk into the bedroom.

After entering the bedroom, the old lady pushed Nangong Chen's hands down her arms and said, "Don't help me, I'm not that weak."

"Yes, grandma's body is as strong as a cow." Nangong Chen said with a smile.

The old lady sighed sadly, and said: "I really didn't expect to be hit by you. The Shen family doesn't have a good thing, including this Pu Lianyao."

When Nan Gongchen told her that Shen Dongyang was uneasy and kind, she still couldn't believe it, and she didn't expect to act so soon.

"Grandma, Shen Ke was forced by his uncle, I believe he didn't intend to do this."

"But he did it after all." The old man looked up at him: "Then what are you going to do next? Just let him go?"

"My original intention was not to do anything to Shen Ke, but to clear my uncle out of the company, as well as Pu Lianyao."

"What's wrong with Pu Lianyao? I don't think she's been doing anything recently." The old lady asked suspiciously.

Nangong Chen said: "It's because she hasn't moved recently, so I can't deal with her, but after a long time, there will always be troubles, so grandma, you can just pretend that nothing happened and let her continue to live. it's here."

"Well, I see."

"Grandma go to bed early."

"You too." After the old lady finished speaking, she added: "By the way, I always have a bad premonition, as if something is about to happen, please pay attention."

Nangong Chen was slightly surprised, today Bai Muqing also said that her eyelids were twitching, and told him to be careful, now the old lady also told him the same, how reliable is this thing?

He nodded, turned and went back to the house.
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Zhu Zhu sent Pu Lianyao back to the bedroom, and said disdainfully, "Is it really useful for you to plead for Shen Ke with snot and tears? Do you really believe that Nangong will let him go?"

"I don't believe it." Pu Lianyao said nonchalantly: "It's just acting, after all, you have to play a full set."

"Then what are your plans? Continue to live in Nangong's house pretending to be lame?"

"Of course, I still have to wait to see how the Nangong family will perish."

Zhu Zhu sneered in his heart, and thought to himself: I think you are waiting for me to kill Nangong Chen, and then let me kill you, right?

"What's the matter? Why this expression?" Pu Lianyao looked at the sudden shade that fell on her face, and looked at her.

"Nothing." Zhu Zhu shook his head.

Pu Lianyao still stared at her: "I have prepared everything for you, when do you plan to do it?"

Zhu Zhu pretended to think about it, and said, "It looks like the night is dark and windy tonight, and it is very suitable for doing bad things. How about just tonight?"

"Are you sure?" Pu Lianyao's heart skipped a beat.

Seeing Zhu Zhu nodded, Pu Lianyao asked, "Then what are you going to do? What do you want gasoline for?"

Zhu Zhu laughed: "Look at your nervous face, is it possible that you are still worried that I will set fire to the house and burn you by the way?"

"You'd better not have this idea, and you'd better not think that your parents will be safe if I die."

"I know, you still have a helper." Zhu Zhu gritted his teeth: "Don't worry, my parents raised me so much, even if I don't live, I will save their lives."

Pu Lianyao looked at the bitter expression on her face, and finally felt a little relieved: "Okay, then follow the plan you said last time, and I will try my best to help you."

"Thank you, you just wait to become the mistress of the Nangong family." Zhu Zhu smiled ambiguously.
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Tonight's sky is indeed darker than usual, and the wind is stronger than usual.

Zhu Zhu stayed up all night, his heart was beating like a little white rabbit, and the beating was getting worse.

She didn't know what she was doing, but there was nothing else she could do.

There are still 20 days to go until the third anniversary of her marriage with Nangong Chen, that is to say, the date of her death. She can't wait like this any longer, and she can't count on Pu Lianyao to save her.

She glanced at the time on the wall. Three in the morning was the quietest time in the house.

She quietly got up from the bed, went to the door and opened the door. The security guard who was guarding her door was not there, so she walked out.

On the third floor, Xiao Yuan walked lightly to Pu Lianyao's bedroom, came up to Pu Lianyao and said, "Miss Pu, I saw Miss Zhu walking towards the backyard."

Pu Lianyao put down the remote controller in her hand, raised her eyes and looked at her: "What is she doing in the backyard?"

"I think it should be gas oil. She hid the gas oil I brought her in the backyard a few days ago." Xiao Yuan said.

Pu Lianyao got up and went to the corner of the curtain behind the floor-to-ceiling windows to look into the backyard. Because the weather was too dark, she couldn't see clearly.

"What do you think he will do?" Pu Lianyao asked unconsciously.

Xiao Yuan thought for a while, and said: "I think she will hide the gas in the young master's car."

"It's best to be like this." Pu Lianyao was worried, turned her head and told Xiao Yuan, "I'll watch her for me, and if there's anything wrong, call me right away."

She was worried that Zhu Zhu would jump over the wall in a hurry and really burn down the house. She didn't want to die in the hands of such an idiot woman.
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When Nangong Chen was sleeping soundly, he heard a rapid knock on the door, he instinctively turned over from the bed and sat up, and asked the door: "What's the matter?"

"Young master, there is a fire in the ancestral hall." It was a man's voice.

Nangong Chen immediately got off the bed when he heard these words, walked over and opened the door while arranging his pajamas.Standing outside the door was the security guard of the main house. At this time, his face was flustered, and his words were full of anxiety: "Young Master, the ancestral hall caught fire for some reason, it was a big fire..."

"What's going on?" Nangong Chen frowned, and walked downstairs quickly.

The security guard strode out behind him and explained: "I don't know, I suddenly saw smoke rising from the backyard, and then I heard Xiao Chen who was on duty over there running over and shouting that there was a fire.

Nangong Chen frowned again, no wonder he just heard someone shouting fire, thought it was a dream, it turned out it was not a dream but a fact.

When Nan Gongchen rushed downstairs, he just saw the old lady running out of the bedroom anxiously accompanied by Sister He.

"Grandma, why did you run out?" Nan Gongchen stepped forward to hold her body, and at the same time turned to the security guard and said, "Hurry up and arrange for someone to put out the fire."

"Okay." The security guard ran out quickly.

The old lady grabbed Nangong Chen's arm and shook it, she was so anxious that she burst into tears: "What's going on? Why did it catch fire? What should I do? What can I do about it."

"Grandma, don't be in a hurry, I'll go and have a look." After Nangong Chen told Sister He to take care of the old lady, she hurried towards the backyard.

"What should we do? If that woman is burned, the Nangong family will suffer again." She shook her head and lamented, "What a crime."

"Don't worry, old lady, Mrs. Jing will be fine." Sister He comforted her softly.

It's just that no matter how much she comforted her, the old lady was still very anxious.

Nangong Chen rushed to the backyard and found that the ancestral hall was on fire, and the fire had spread throughout the ancestral hall.The security guards and servants were busy using the nearby fire hose to put out the fire, but the fire was too big to be effective at all.

Nangong Chen was about to go forward when a security guard stopped him and said, "Young Master, the fire is too big, please don't go in."

"Pull the water pipe to the back hall, and start putting out the fire from the back hall." Nan Gongchen ordered.

"Young master, the fire started from the back hall."

"What?" Nangong Chen was stunned.

"Eldest young master, you should go back to the main house first, and leave it to us." Someone persuaded.
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Standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, Pu Lianyao looked through the window at the flames rising into the sky in the ancestral hall, and she was so angry that she gritted her teeth.

Why is the shrine on fire?Why!
Zhu Zhu Mingming told her that Nangong Chen would be disposed of today, but he didn't expect that after he got back from her, he would burn the ancestral hall instead of attacking Nangong Chen.

Why didn't she expect Zhu Zhu to have such a plan?
Just a moment ago, she knew as well as Xiaoyuan that she would store gas in Nangong Chen's car, so that he could enjoy the tragedy of a car explosion when he was traveling early tomorrow morning.In a blink of an eye, the ancestral hall caught fire!

She turned around and walked back to the bedroom, dragged the wheelchair out of the room, and went downstairs.

When Pu Lianyao came to Zhu Zhu's bedroom, Zhu Zhu had already sneaked back into the room from the backyard. Seeing Pu Lianyao, she said excitedly: "Lianyao, I thought of a good idea on the spur of the moment, as long as I take Mrs. Jing's body Burned to ashes, grandma won't dig out my heart again, right?"

She smiled innocently, but in fact, she never thought of attacking Nangong Chen at all. After all, Nangong Chen is a living person, and killing him is a capital crime.Besides, what Bai Muqing said that day was right, she was the one who deceived Nangong Chen all this time, she was the one who was sorry for Nangongchen, even if Nangongchen took her life, it would not be too much.

And in the bottom of her heart, she still had fantasies about Nangong Chen. She also fantasized that after Mrs. Jing's incident passed, she could still stay at Nangong's house and continue to be Nangong Chen's wife.

So after much deliberation, she finally decided to destroy Mrs. Jing's body.

Pu Lianyao was so angry that she almost couldn't hold back her breath. She stood up from the wheelchair, stepped in front of her and raised her hand, slapped her face angrily and scolded: "Do you really treat the Nangong family as idiots? So easy for you to destroy Mrs. Jing's body with a torch?"

Zhu Zhu was naturally angry when she slapped her, but she still endured the pain and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Ms. Jing's crystal coffin is fire-proof, waterproof and explosion-proof. You set the fire for nothing, idiot!" Pu Lianyao said and wanted to slap her again, and finally put down the raised palm and gritted her teeth: "I don't even like to hit you!" Dirty my hands."

Zhu Zhu looked at her in astonishment, and after a while he said in a trembling voice: "What did you say?"

"I said you were so stupid that you could plunge into the sea of ​​fire and die!" Pu Lianyao threw down this sentence and left her bedroom in a wheelchair.

In the bedroom, Zhu Zhu stepped back and sat down on the sofa.

Mrs. Jing's crystal coffin is fireproof?Is this true..

She mustered up so much courage to light the fire, but Pu Lianyao actually told her that the crystal coffin was fireproof? ——
Pu Lianyao left Zhu Zhu's bedroom, parked the wheelchair on the corridor, closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

Once the fire is over, Nangong Chen will definitely suspect that someone set the fire on purpose, and she and Zhu Zhu will definitely be suspected.Zhu Zhu is now in the period of being grounded. From the perspective of others, she can't set fire even if she wants to, so it is not easy for Nangong Chen to suspect her.

Then the first person Nangong Chen would suspect would be Pu Lianyao after all!
If so, what should she do?
She tightened her hands holding the wheelchair, wishing she could rush back and strangle Zhu Zhu to death and throw her into the flames.

She took a deep breath, adjusted her uneasy mood, and then went to the first floor.

The old lady was circling around in the living room like ants on a hot pot, she asked the guards to check if the fire was under control, and then asked people to help put out the fire.

The expression on Pu Lianyao's face collapsed, and she walked towards her and asked with concern: "Grandma, I heard that the ancestral hall caught fire, what's going on?"

"I also want to know, what's going on here? Why did it catch fire?" The old lady continued to circle around in the living room.

Pu Lianyao continued to comfort her: "Grandma, don't panic, the fire should go out soon."

"That's right, old madam, it's useless to be anxious." Sister He also comforted her.

The old lady turned her head and looked at Pu Lianzhu next to her. Pu Lianyao's heart trembled, thinking that even the old lady suspected her immediately.

She took a deep breath, and said to the old lady: "Grandma, could it be that someone set the fire on purpose, and it was obviously aimed at Mrs. Jing."

The old lady was taken aback for a moment, stared at her for a while, and then gritted her teeth and said: "If this is the case, I will definitely cut off both hands of the person who set the fire!"

Zhu Zhu, who had just adjusted his mood and came down the stairs, was immediately panicked when he heard the old lady's words, and he also shrank back.

After finally calming down, she began to panic again. In order not to let the old lady see her guilty conscience, she hid on the second floor and stood for a while before walking down again.

She didn't dare to meet Pu Lianyao's sword-like gaze, but walked up to the old lady and pretended to be innocent, and said, "No one should set fire to it in the middle of the night, right? Besides, there are security guards on duty in the ancestral hall, who can set it on fire?"

The old lady was so anxious that she didn't have the heart to listen to the two of them analyze the case here, and asked the servant to see how the fire was burning.

The fire burned for an hour before it was completely brought under control. Nangong Chen also came back from the backyard. As soon as he entered the house, the old lady greeted him and asked, "Chen, how is the situation?"

The old lady was so anxious that tears came down. She looked at Nangong Chen, and saw that his original light-colored pajamas had been stained black by smoke and dust, and the corners of his clothes were even burned, so she asked again: "Are you okay?" Right? Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine. The fire in the ancestral hall has been extinguished. Don't worry, grandma." He glanced at Zhu Zhu and Pu Lianyao indifferently, and then said, "Everyone is cleaning up the scene. We'll know what happened after dawn." .”

"We still have to wait for dawn?" the old lady asked urgently.

"Grandma, it will be dawn soon." Pu Lianyao said.

Nangong Chen raised his hand and patted the old lady's shoulder: "Grandma, go back to the room and rest, I'll go up and change clothes."

After he finished speaking, he said to Pu Lianyao and Zhu Zhu: "You two also go back to your room to rest."

Pu Lianyao and Zhu Zhu looked at each other, and after answering, they went upstairs together.

Zhu Zhu sent Pu Lianyao to the third floor, and Pu Lianyao immediately stared at her and asked coldly, "You don't mean to blame me for setting the fire?"

"I don't." Zhu Zhu was in a hurry, and grabbed her wrist: "Lianyao, you are a good person, do your best and help me escape this catastrophe, okay? Please."

Pu Lianyao glanced down at the palm she was holding tightly, and said expressionlessly: "I've already given you some advice, but if you insist on forcing yourself to death, you may even implicate me. At this point , how do you ask me to help you? Do you really think I am omnipotent?"

"Sorry, I."

"Let go!" Pu Lianyao's voice became cold, she threw off her palm and went into the room without looking back.
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Nangong Chen went back to his room and changed into a lighter set of clothes, then went back to the ancestral hall to continue dealing with matters.

Although the old lady returned to the bedroom, she couldn't sleep at all, so she asked Zhu Zhu to accompany her to the backyard at dawn.

The original majestic ancestral hall had been burnt to a wasteland. Looking at all this, the old lady was so angry that she almost lost her breath.

Sister He hurriedly supported her, and said with concern: "Madam, why don't we go back."

The old lady took a deep breath, and said to Nangong Chen who was walking towards her, "Take me to see her..."

Nangong Chen nodded, and after dismissing those who were cleaning up the scene, he walked to the back hall with the old lady on his arm.

Zhu Zhu had never seen the legendary woman in the crystal coffin, and at this moment she was both afraid and looking forward to it. She naturally expected that woman to be burned to ashes.The more she walked forward, the more frightened she became, she unconsciously held the old lady's arm tightly.

Nangong Chen had already cleaned up the back hall before, he pressed the ground control switch, and the entrance to the basement slowly opened.

The old lady was about to go down, but Zhu Zhu didn't dare to take half a step in, but froze in place.

(End of this chapter)