After the fire broke out, Gonggong Wei rushed to the scene as soon as possible, and he arrived with the Yamen of Tengxian County.

"Why the fire, how the fire! … Why can't it be attacked repeatedly, causing the Holy Son's nephew to suffer! ”

The fire in front of him made Father-in-law Wei extremely angry, and the death of Yanshenggong's nephew Kong Er Gongzi made him even more furious, and he angrily whipped several subordinates present.

When the people of the yamen waited to see them, they were all afraid, and they all knew that the eunuch was short-tempered, and they were finally convinced when they saw it today.

"Father-in-law, there are many people in the mansion, there are quite fierce people in the house, and there are many people from the Confucian family in the mansion at that time, and we didn't know that the second son was killed at that time, and I was afraid that the attack would hurt the innocent, so..."

"Indecisive, indecisive, what's the use of our family raising you!"

"Our family... Our family can't live with the Holy Father! ”

Father-in-law Wei was not annoyed, and raised his hand to give the battalion officer a whip.

The battalion officer was sturdy, and a whip mark immediately oozed from his forehead, but he didn't dare to touch his forehead with his hand.

Gonggong Wei was still angry, and he didn't dare to get close to each other.

The battalion officer's heart is beautiful, according to the reward amount of the father-in-law, one whip is one hundred taels, two whips are two hundred taels, and it would be better if he could have another whip.

Seeing that all his subordinates were gathered here, Gonggong Wei was even more annoyed and scolded: "What are you doing here, don't hurry up and put out the fire!" ”

"Yes, yes, my subordinates will arrange firefighting."

The subordinates did not dare to delay, and shouted one after another to lead people to the fire.

Gonggong Wei was still angry, but he knew that he had done his best, and the matter of Confucius Mansion was irreversible, but now the situation is to quickly extinguish this majestic fire, and the safety of the people of Baoteng County is.

The county is serious and knows that the moment is no longer to save people, but to fight fires, looking at the fire and suffering again and again.

Soon, under the strict order of Gonggong Wei, the hundreds of soldiers of the Banner Army of the rear battalion of the right guard of Wuxiang who were present were all engaged in extinguishing the fire.

With one order after another, more vigilante soldiers scattered everywhere rushed to reinforce.

On the side of the yamen, the king also summoned the nearby lieutenant chiefs and ordered the neighboring people to be moved out of their homes, so that the wind would not be strong and they would fall into the fire.

About 100 officials and archers from the Teng County Yamen helped extinguish the fire in the southeast corner of the Confucian Mansion under the leadership of the warden Song Wendong.

The magistrate is serious, and there is no hope that the second son of Kong is still alive, and no one will be able to survive the sky-high fire in front of him. If you still have thoughts, you hope to quickly extinguish this fire and snatch Kong Yinzhi's body from the fire, otherwise even the corpse will be burned, and he, the county magistrate, will really lose his head.

In the process of extinguishing the fire, Gonggong Wei repeatedly stressed to Cao Wenyao, the commander of the left battalion of the infantry army who commanded the scene on the spot, that no matter how big the fire was, it must be extinguished, and the fire must not be allowed to spread and cause huge losses to the surrounding people.

Moreover, all officials must make military orders, and whoever is in charge of the area cannot control it will be dismissed from office on the spot.

Under the heavy pressure of the layers, the fire in the Confucian Mansion was contained, and it was not worried about spreading to the surrounding areas, but the fire in the mansion was still large.

Accompanying the fire was black smoke that made people look like a black dragon.

"The thieves are all evil, and they sprinkle fire oil all over the house, otherwise, this fire will never be so great." Father-in-law Wei was very sad.

"My father-in-law has done his best, and this matter, alas...", he sighed seriously.

After a while, there was news that there seemed to be a cry for help from a living person in the house, and Grandpa Wei was extremely excited after hearing it, and he was busy and seriously took people to check.

"Just now, there was a cry for help from behind the courtyard wall, but now I don't hear it." A team leader at the scene said that he had led people to smash open the courtyard wall, but the fire inside was very big and the smoke was also big, so it was really not clear where the people asking for help were.

"Help!"

Father-in-law Wei suddenly shouted, "Bring a quilt to our house!" ”

Left and right, I don't know what it means.

Gonggong Wei was furious and ordered to go quickly.

Soon, a quilt was found, and Father-in-law Wei hurriedly took it and put it on his head, and asked him to take it again.

One bed, then another, and soon four quilts covered him in the angry voice of Grandpa Wei.

"Splash water, splash water!"

The firelight of Father-in-law Wei's face was flushed, but his old man was not afraid, and he only wanted to go in and save people.

Seeing this, the left and right were all taken aback and stepped forward to dissuade them.

The magistrate was also shocked by Father-in-law Wei's heroic act of saving people, but the fire in front of him really couldn't be dangerous.

The crowd tried hard to dissuade them.

Father-in-law Wei reprimanded: "If the people who ask for help here are your brothers and nephews, will you still stand by and watch!" ”

When everyone heard this, they were all ashamed.

Before they could dissuade him any more, Gonggong Wei had already rushed into the courtyard wall with a wet quilt.

"Grandpa Wei, it's dangerous, you can't!" Yan Zhixian exclaimed in surprise.

"Father-in-law, come back quickly!"

The left and right hurriedly roared, but Father-in-law Wei turned a deaf ear and devoted himself to saving people, and did not turn around at all.

The figure is clearly reflected in front of everyone's eyes, and it is really unhesitating and moving forward bravely.

In the blink of an eye, Gonggong Wei arrived in front of the burning courtyard, he seemed to be lagging one step, and at this step, suddenly there was a "bang", and a piece of burning wood smashed down.

landed a few feet in front of Gonggong Wei impartially.

When everyone saw this, they exclaimed again and again.

Gonggong Wei was also stunned, and scolded in his heart: Xiao Tian, you bastard, didn't you say that you would fall in front of our family, why did you fall now, do you really want to smash our family to death... Our family is really dead, looking for you to play with seppuku in the middle of the night!

"Father-in-law!"

Just when everyone's shocked breathing stopped, Xiao Tian, the heroic savior, led a few guards to rush forward, one hugged, one pulled, one dragged, and everyone worked together, regardless of Gonggong Wei's angry reprimand and struggle, and carried him out of the courtyard.

"Let go of me, let go of me! … It's important to save people, it's important to save people! ”

When Gonggong Wei broke free from the shackles of his subordinates and wanted to save people again, the fire in front of him had completely engulfed the courtyard.

There was no sound except the crackling of burning wooden furniture.

"Alas!"

Father-in-law Wei was like a soul, depressed and unable to sit on the ground, and hated to smash his fist on the ground.

The fire engulfed everything, and his old man's young face was full of pain and unwillingness.

Suddenly, he stood up again, and then rushed to the outside of a courtyard wall that had not yet caught fire, and ordered him to go up to the eaves to observe the fire.

The magistrate of the county and the officials of Teng County witnessed the father-in-law of Wei on the eaves, galloping from time to time, running to this place from time to time, and with the sound of the tiles falling one after another, it was the young and upright proud figure of the father-in-law of Wei.

Later, "Tengxian County Chronicles" recorded the scene at that time: Wei, the internal supervisor, bravely put out the fire, put on his boots on the wall and house, and walked on the ground. Ming decisive courage, close to the people, not afraid of life and death, can be called a virtuous temple.

Gonggong Wei described himself in his vernacular note to the emperor - "Emperor, at that time, the slave and maid saw that the fire was too big, and in a hurry, how could he think about the safety of the slave and maid, and only thought that he could not let this fire burn again, burning the people..."

Along with this vernacular song, what was rushed into Beijing was a portrait of Gonggong Wei when he was fighting fires.

It is said that this painting was specially painted by a scholar in Teng County who felt the image of Wei Gonggong saving people.

In fact, this painting was painted by Grandpa Wei himself.