Hearing Zhen Yan come up and tell him about such confidential matters, Cao Xiu's heart jumped suddenly: being in Jizhou, he had to learn not to trust anyone around him, even if this person had fought the fire before, he couldn't let Cao Xiu treat him as his own.

Therefore, Cao Xiu's face turned gloomy: "Thank you for the reminder, but at this time, it is better to put out the fire first." ”

Zhen Yan was blocked by Cao Xiu's words, and there was no look of shame on her face. Just looked at Cao Xiu, and couldn't help but feel a little more appreciative.

At this time, the entire granary was completely shrouded in fire dragons, and the smoke and flames were swirling, and from time to time there was a sound of peeling and peeling. A group of villagers and soldiers were desperately beaten in a panic with brooms and wet hemp, and many of them were accidentally licked by the flames and buried in the flames.

Seeing this, Cao Xiu couldn't help but glance around, and suddenly asked, "Why is there no water in the tank?" He pointed in the direction of a row of vats, which he had personally inspected yesterday, and which were filled with water in case of fire.

Zhen Yan was embarrassed at this time, and said: "The weather is hot, and many villagers are strong and rude, so they take water for showering on the spot, so that after pouring a few buckets of water, the water in the tank will run out........."

"Ridiculous!" After hearing this, Cao Xiu couldn't help but stomp his feet and became angry, and said: "If this was in our Cao family, we would have been pulled out and beheaded a long time ago!" ”

However, after this remark, Cao Xiu immediately understood that he had said the wrong thing again: this was the territory of the Zhen family, and it was also the main family of the Cao family's 'begging'.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Zhen Yan's face was very unkind. However, if Cao Xiu observes carefully at this time, he will find that the look on Zhen Yan's face is not annoyed with Cao Xiu's nonsense, but because of Cao Xiu's accusations, he is ashamed and afraid.........

But just when Cao Xiu was about to open his mouth to explain to Zhen Yan, a voice like a warbler crying suddenly came, which made Cao Xiu couldn't help but be attracted.

"Around the granary, there are wells dug, and the general can order the old man of the Zhen family to lead the soldiers to get water. It's time-consuming, but it's not life-threatening........."

After Cao Xiu heard this, he directly patted his head: At this time, he was a little dizzy, and he even forgot about the well in the granary of the Zhen family. I couldn't help but look back, wanting to thank the man for the reminder.

But as soon as he turned around, Cao Xiu's eyes couldn't be taken off. The girl in front of her, about thirteen or fourteen years old, was born with a beautiful face, a green silk face, and baby fat that has not faded over the years, which makes people can't help but look at it twice. A brocade white plain dress outlines her beautiful curves full of girlish and soft willows, and a pair of clear eyes that seem to reflect the stars and moon in the night sky, but there is a calmness and calmness that is very incommensurate with her age.

It is said that a girl of this age does not have much feminine charm. It should be more of a girl's innocence and pretty, which makes people yearn for it. But the girl in front of her is different, at this time, although she has not fully bloomed, but it gives people the feeling that it is like an epiphany in a puddle of night, as if people will see the most beautiful and amazing that blooms once in a thousand years at any time.

Cao Xiu had performed well before, but after this girl appeared, he suddenly revealed the emptiness of a sixteen-year-old boy's heart, and asked with a slight snort: "Who are you?" ”

Before the girl could answer, Zhen Yan preemptively said to the girl, "Little sister, why are you here?" ”

Hearing Zhen Yan's words, Cao Xiu immediately understood the identity of the girl, and couldn't help but speak: "It turns out that you are Zhen Mi, who ranks seventh in Xu Shaoyuedan's evaluation of the group........"

After saying these words, Cao Xiu suddenly had a good impression of Xu Shao in Runan in his heart: Cao Xiu has always scoffed at those rankings, thinking that it was just a move by the Xu family to sell their reputation. Especially after Xu Shao listed Ma Chao as the first young hero of the Han Dynasty, Cao Xiu wanted to find an opportunity to level the Xu family.

But now that he saw Zhen Mi, Cao Xiu felt that Xu Shao was even more damn - although this woman doesn't seem to have a great advantage at present, it is obvious that when she grows up, how should she fall into the country and the city? On the top of Qunfang's spectrum, she was ranked below Diao Chan, Cai Yan, Jiangdong Erqiao and others, which really made Cao Xiu feel that Xu Shao was blind.

It's just that now is really not the time to think about setting things right for Zhen Mi. Cao Xiu tried to take his eyes off Zhen Mi, looking for Lu Xiang's figure: the soldiers of his Cao family, even if they don't have to give orders, I'm afraid they will automatically take water from the well to put out the fire at this time, and the group of fools under Lu Xiang, Cao Xiu doesn't dare to guarantee it.........

However, as soon as he turned around, Cao Xiu found that Lu Xiang had rushed behind him with two thousand soldiers at some point. It's just that those people were still wearing armor at this time, and there were steel knives hanging from their waists, and they immediately made Cao Xiu angry enough: "General Lu, now that the chaos is settled, you just need to get water to put out the fire, you let the soldiers wear armor, do you think they have too much strength?" ”

Lu Xiang blushed and ordered the soldiers to take off their armor and weapons and throw them on the ground, and for a while the ground "crackled" endlessly.

"Transfer the food first, then put out the fire!" Cao Xiu gave instructions with a calm face: Although it was a bit suspicious to say this, in fact, he knew that he had cummed a lot more tonight. No matter how much you have to make a few inches, it's nothing.

Thanks to Cao Xiu's previous deterrence of Lu Xiang, Lu Xiang was also obedient to Cao Xiu, and Zhen Yan fully cooperated. Thousands of people quickly divided into three teams, with a maximum of one pair, and under the command of Zhen Yan's previous firefighting pioneers, they began to risk their lives to carry grain and grass. One team went to fetch water to support the villagers who were fighting the fire, trying not to let the fire spread to other granary houses, and the last team of a few people, following Cao Xiu to the granary that caught fire first: the fire in the granary had been extinguished, and Cao Xiu wanted to know the cause of the fire........

Running back and forth to investigate, Cao Xiu actually had a rough idea of the cause of the fire: according to the villagers who escaped from the fire, the granary that caught fire first may have been caused by rats that gnawed down the lamp. And because the soldiers of Lu Xiang, who were in charge of guarding the granary tonight, were stationed in the outer camp, they did not stop the fire in time and allowed the fire to burn.

Cao Xiu did not show any doubts about this statement on his face, but he was full of doubts in his heart: if it was a simple accident, then why did Lu Xiang order the soldiers to be stationed in the outer camp today. And the first to discover the fire was Zhen Jiazhuang?

But if someone deliberately set the fire, then why did the tiger and leopard riders, who had not closed their eyes and closely monitored the granary all night, not find the slightest suspicion?

However, just when Cao Xiu couldn't stand the heat wave, he saw a strange corpse: next to a bronze pillar of a lamp that had been burned red, the corpse, with only minor burns, was lying on the ground in a strange posture.

This granary was the first place where the fire started, and the grain and grass had been burned and the bronze pillars of the lamps were burned red........ Such a temperature and time is enough to burn a person's corpse to charred black!

Cao Xiu was not shocked, pretended to be sympathetic to everyone, and asked Zhen Yan, Lu Xiang and others to retreat first on the grounds of smoke. Then, he turned over the corpse and saw what shocked him!

In the bosom of that corpse, there was a letter that had been burned to the point that most of its contents remained: this person used his own body to protect the contents of the letter!

What's more, what's even more bizarre is that Cao Xiu also found that this person was not burned to death when fighting the fire, but was killed by someone with a knife!

Pulling out the letter, Cao Xiu took a cursory look at it, and his face immediately turned pale with fright: At this time, he finally understood why Lu Xiang would station his soldiers outside the city today, and this fire burned so weirdly! .........