Chapter 8 What a big fire

There is really no entertainment at night in this era. There should be elegant and erotic activities on the Qinhuai River, but they are not suitable for ordinary people.

After dinner, the family washed their feet and continued chatting under the eaves and in the patio. The whole house felt dark. The oil lamp in the main hall was not very good and could not illuminate the space outside the house. The house was not as bright as the street outside.

Suddenly the sky shone a little, and then there was a rumbling thunder. Zhang Shicai looked up at the sky: It will rain tonight.

Zou said: There is thunder in August, and there are thieves everywhere.It is not good to thunder the heavenly way at this time.

Everyone goes to bed early.Zhang Jiujin stood up.

So the family also stood up and prepared to go back to their rooms to rest.

Zhang Ning and his younger sister's rooms were in the west wing, with two rooms next to each other, so they walked south along the eaves in the dark.

Zhang Ning passed by his door and didn't go in. He first sent his younger sister over, opened the door and lit the fire in his hand and lit the oil lamp, and said: Close the door and go up and go to bed.

Zhang Xiaomei stood at the door and didn't go in: It was so scary that it was still thundering in August, and I didn't dare to go up... Otherwise, I would go to my brother's room to sleep tonight, and you will go out tomorrow.

How can that work?Zhang Ning said seriously, how old are you, fifteen years old!What's the elegance of living in the same room with me in the middle of the night?Go back to your room and say something tomorrow morning.

Zhang Xiaomei glared at him with bright eyes: What kind of lonely man and widow say is so ugly? You are my brother, what's the point?You were unconscious a few days ago, and I stayed in your room for two nights.I won't go back!I insist on going to my brother's side. You are so strange tonight. There must be something hidden from me.

no!

Zhang Ning flatly rejected her, perhaps because her tone was very stiff. Zhang Xiaomei immediately looked at him with a gaze. Her eyes were already lit, and her expression seemed to be like tears were spinning.

She paused and said softly: Why are you so fierce? You will leave tomorrow. I also want to pack your luggage for you, and then go back to your room after you finish it.

At this time, the sky flashed again, and she hurriedly grabbed Zhang Ning's arm: It's so scary!

In the memory in my mind, this girl seemed to be brave. Zhang Ning didn't believe that she was really afraid of such a little lightning.

He lowered his head and thought for a moment, then gently pulled her hand away, pushed her arm into the door, took the door without saying anything, and pretended to be relaxed and said: "My sister is sensible, don't I need to talk anymore, have a good rest."

He turned around and walked back to the door of his room, still lit another one, bolted the door and walked up the stairs.

The layout of private houses in Nanjing is relatively compact because the walls are built high and a wing room is mainly built with wooden boards, so the bedrooms are usually on pavilions.

The stairs seem to be creaking when they step on, but it doesn't matter if you get used to walking, it hasn't collapsed yet.

The floor on the pavilion is made of wooden boards, so people cannot move too much when they move on it.

He went upstairs and put the lamp on the table and sat on the chair in front of the window for a while.

The wind blew outside the window, and the branches swayed, and he smelled the fragrance of osmanthus in the wind.

The fragrance of osmanthus and the sound of deer...

Thinking of fame and fortune, he still regretted Zhang Ning's past, and his knowledge was hard-won.

After a while, it was raining outside, and the temperature seemed to drop a little.

He took off his robe and lay down on the bed.

I couldn't fall asleep at all, and I tossed and turned around and felt that tonight was very long.

It has been a few days since I got home from prison and there is nothing unusual. Is there anything wrong? It doesn’t happen to be tonight, right?

...I knew how many days have passed, and he has been in a daze and never really fell asleep.

Suddenly, the stairs crunched and a strange noise.

Zhang Ning sat up like a conditioned reflex, and the wooden floor followed by a loud noise.

At the same time, the sound on the stairs immediately disappeared and the tranquility returned to the surroundings.

There was a whimpering sound of wind outside and there was darkness around it.

In an instant, Zhang Ning's mind became particularly clear and she was not sleepy at all, and her heart seemed to be in her throat.

He kept it in place for a moment, then he carefully got up without making any noise; the stairs were also quiet, without any sound.

His mind was imagining the situation on the stairs, and perhaps the people below were guessing the situation above, and both sides breathed a sigh of relief.

Although it was midnight and the weather was not good, there was still light on the windows.

Zhang Ning leaned timidly towards the window, gently pushed open a gap, glanced down, and saw nothing.

After silently opening his eyes like this for a while, his eyes had adapted to the faint light around him.

He could even see a stool in front of the window, so he walked slowly over and picked up the stool and walked slowly towards the stairs.

His movements were very slow, very light and very careful, and he almost made no sound.

Standing at the entrance of the stairs, it was still very quiet around.

He did not move and slowly adjusted his breathing. His movements were very light before, but for some reason he felt a sense of suffocation, and he felt like he was out of breath.

After standing motionless for a while, he felt that time had become slower and longer.

Many thoughts flashed through his mind, such as shouting for people, but he quickly gave up his plan: the house is in the alley, and the wind is blowing outside, and it is time for people around him to fall asleep in the middle of the night. It is difficult for anyone to come over in time, and instead expose himself; and the first person to be alarmed must be the people of the Zhang family. If they are not sure about the other party’s condition and number of people, attracting their family will not only be of no help but also affect the innocent...

Especially Zhang Xiaomei.

A sound rang out on the stairs again!Zhang Ning obviously felt his heartbeat suddenly accelerate.This time the crunch sounds smaller and the pace is slower.

He gently lifted the stool he was holding with both hands, and carefully took one step forward and stood firm.

After a while, a dark shadow slowly appeared at the entrance of the stairs...

Zhang Ning suddenly swept the stool over, with a bang, a man screamed dullly, and then a dongdongdongdong rolling sound.

Zhang Ning widened his eyes and took a long breath.

The stairs were quiet for a moment, and then they heard the sound of blowing air, and then the light came down. The light was originally very faint, but it was very bright in this quiet night.

Cruff, Cruff, Cruff, the broken stairs were shaking again, slow but rhythmic.In the slight fire, a person's shadow was pulled and printed long on the old wall.Zhang Ning looked at the shadow on the wall and seemed to see a god of death holding a long sickle.

Of course, Zhang Ning didn’t know much martial arts, and even had very little practice in fighting. He just beat someone downstairs, but he only had an unexpected advantage.

Now that the opponent is ready, ignition lighting is a manifestation of confidence, while Zhang Ning loses the confidence in the second round.

At this moment, the light became a little brighter again.

He quickly turned his head and looked outside the window. It suddenly became brighter, as if a fire was ignited somewhere, and then he heard the noise of people. The dead night seemed to have recovered in an instant.

call!

A ball of things flashed through the stairs. Zhang Ning couldn't think too much, so he waved the stool and smashed it over again. He hit the object accurately, but felt soft and had no focus. His heart suddenly jumped and he was secretly yelling.

It was too late to say that it was too late, and a black shadow flashed up, and then the wind roared and greeted Zhang Ning.

Zhang Ning didn't know the fighting skills at first. At this time, he just swung the stool and used up his strength and was the most difficult to retract, and his body was even more difficult to dodge. He could only turn his head and there was a muffled bang in an instant, and his arm was so painful that his whole arm was almost numb. The lower plate was unstable and his body staggered.

The person who came was a masked man in black, but fortunately this guy didn’t hold a knife!

Moreover, when he hit the person, Zhang Ning felt that there was a cloth wrapped around the blunt weapon. Obviously, it was difficult for the customer to do things this time. Not only did he want to kill Zhang Ning, he could not have obvious evidence of murder.

The stairs creaked again, and it seemed that someone was going to come up.

The masked man who showed up failed to hit Zhang Ning in the head with one blow, and he was about to pounce on him without any pause. Although Zhang Ning didn't know how to do it, he didn't react slowly. With this young body, he moved quite sensitively.

Seeing this, he threw the stool in his hand over without thinking. He turned around and ran away without caring about whether it hit it or not.

At this time, he couldn't calm down and think, and the time was short, and most of the reactions he made were only based on his survival instinct.

The fire outside the window was bright, and the light seemed to be very tempting to him. At this moment, he seemed to be the light he saw before his death last time, and his body couldn't help but run towards the light.

He ran to the window and reacted, suddenly opened the window and flipped out.

A whistle came from behind, and Zhang Ning thought quickly: Maybe there are their accomplices below.

It was at least more than meter from the window to the ground. Zhang Ning made a judgment at a critical moment and avoided falling and hurting his leg as much as possible, otherwise it would be better to wait for death.

As his body fell, his hands clasped on the windowsill to cushion the speed of his fall.

With a sound of his feet, his feet fell to the ground, and the soles of his feet were painful and numb. Almost at the same time, he found a figure rushing towards this side from the patio.

Zhang Ning didn't care about the severe pain in his palms and feet, and ran away with no chance.

He can guarantee that his current explosive power and speed will never be able to show his performance even if he is allowed to participate in the Olympics.

The door in the main hall is bolted. Now the pause of opening the bolt and opening the door will definitely catch up with the people behind you. Once you are entangled, you will definitely not be able to get out.

So Zhang Ning didn't run towards the door and rushed to the wall.

With the help of his running speed, he took a big step and rushed up the wall, stretched out his hand and pressed the wall hard, and took advantage of the momentum to lift his legs up.

When his palm touched the real object, he felt like a handful of salt was suddenly sprinkled with a handful of salt in the wound. He might have suffered a skin trauma when he jumped out of the window, so he didn't even feel it bleeding.

The luck came and couldn't stop it. The wall was quite high. He actually succeeded in one go, and his body turned over like a horizontal bar. After turning, he found that the person catching up with the wall wanted to jump up and catch his foot, but unfortunately he was a little late.

After climbing out the wall, Zhang Ning continued to run. Only then did he notice that the fire I saw before was burning at the neighbor Aunt Li's house. A fire broke out. Aunt Li's family had already run out, and people from the opposite door of their house also ran into the alley.

The people from Zhang Ning's family should have been shocked, but he had no chance to manage his family. At the same time, he felt that the guests who came tonight would not touch others to make things worse.

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