CH 159

There was a hole in the large door of the city god temple, the wind was blowing in at night, making the people shiver from head to toe because of the freezing temperature.

The little girl, who had a dirty face and messy hair, burped after she was done eating the steamed bun, and seeing that she appeared as if she was choking, Ming Zhu kindly handed her a water kettle.

She held the water kettle and quickly drank a mouthful, “Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.”

The little girl wiped her face and looked at the fire covering half of the sky in the distance, “How come there is a fire over there?”

Chapter 159

(57.2)

Ming Zhu lowered her face and pretended not to hear.

“The whole house is going to burn down, what a pity.”

“It’s unlikely.” Ming Zhu whispered.

The others all seemed to be stunned by the fire over there, they pointed at it and commented on it, “This fire is probably going to kill a few people.”

“Which family’s residence is that? I hope the property left by their ancestors won’t all burn down.”

“You fool, look at the direction, it’s probably the crown prince’s residence.”

They begged for a living, so they knew the capital like the back of their hand.

“Oh, what a sin.”

“Go get your food, don’t worry about things we shouldn’t worry about.”

“I’m just watching the action ! Watching other people’s houses burn down, do I have to tell you how refreshing it is ?”

Anyway, they were originally people who had nothing, if a rich merchant’s house burned down, they would probably be even more happy about it, but unfortunately the residence whose backyard was burning down in a grand fire tonight was the crown prince’s residence.

If a building burned to the ground, it was not a big deal anyway.

Ming Zhu silently listened and looked up at the distant sky, without saying a word, she just hugged her legs tightly, hoping that things would pass quickly, so that she could go to Jiangnan with peace of mind.

The entire crown prince’s residence was already in chaos.

Watching the overturning fire, the intendant’s vision turned black in front of his eyes and his legs went limp, as he asked: “Where is the person? Did the person come out or not ?!”

The little maidservant wiped her tears, her voice couldn’t stop shaking, “This servant also doesn’t know.” Her crying voice became more and more definite, she was shivering as she choked with sobs, saying, “This servant did not see miss Ming Zhu ……”

She had not heard her voice, nor seen the shadow of her figure.

At this hour, Ming Zhu had long since fallen asleep, the person was probably still in the room and hadn’t come out, but it had already burned to this extent…

The intendant gritted his teeth, “Has anyone went inside to see?

“No, when we found out about the fire, the fire was already too big to enter the house.”

The intendant was one of the few people who knew that Ming Zhu was pregnant. He stomped his foot and pointed his shaking finger at someone, “Go to the palace and call the crown prince back.”

If he didn’t come back quickly, it would be too late.

The person was obviously in a grave situation, and it was most likely that she couldn’t be saved.

The intendant didn’t dare to think about how the crown would feel after finding out about this. If today, it was a concubine that died, that would be it. But the weight of miss Ming Zhu in the crown prince’s heart was different, not to mention the fact that now it wasn’t only one life, but two lives lost.

Anyone could see how much the baby in miss Ming Zhu’s belly was important to the crown prince. Back then, he even went so far as to order him secretely to replace the contraceptive soup that miss Ming Zhu was drinking with an ordinary tonic medicine.

The more the intendant was thinking about it, the more afraid he became. His face was covered in sweat because of the heat of the fire, but his back was breaking out in cold sweat.

The little servant under him was also in a difficult position, “But right now the palace gates are closed, it’s impossible to enter, we can only wait for dawn.”

The intendant kicked him, with his voice shivering, he said, “Can’t you think of a way then?!”

“There’s really no way.”

The entrance of the palace gate was strictly limited to certain hours, no one could enter the palace until it was time for the morning court.

The intendant closed his eyes, unable to stand firmly anymore, “First … let’s first save the person.”

When dawn comes, he was afraid the crown prince would only come back in time to collect the corpse.

There wasn’t enough water in the well of the backyard, they could only make a detour and go to the lake in the back garden to scoop up water, but the water was too far to put out the fire, and people were so tired that they started to collapse on the ground one by one, they could only watch that fire, which had happened out of nowhere, burn the building down, until nothing was left of it.

When the day arose, only ruins were left of the room where Ming Zhu slept.

The intendant had stayed up all night, with eyes full of blood streaks, he ordered everyone to stop, and he sighed, “Go to the palace and tell the crown prince.”

It looked like there wasn’t even a body left.

It was all either ashes or charcoal, it was also fate, a few days before, it was raining, but last night, there wasn’t even a drop of rain.

The servant boy hurriedly entered the palace with his identification tag. Zhao Zhi was just getting out of the morning court and was about to go see his mother. That’s when he heard a voice annoucing a report.

There were ashes on the boy’s face that he hadn’t even had the time to wipe. Throwing himself in front of the crown prince, he kneeled with a “bang” on the floor, and buried his head and his voice was shaking with sobs, he wanted to speak but also did not dare to speak: “Your Highness ……”

Zhao Zhi took off his wrist guard and casually put it aside. He frowned and looked down at him, “What is it ?”

“Miss Ming Zhu…miss Ming Zhu’s room was burned by a fire.”