Chapter 1186 Lanterns (III)

Death, sixty-seven; wounded, four hundred and forty-two.

The Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival in the fourth year of Yongzheng was left to Qingyuan City with endless sorrow and heavy pain.

When the casualties came out, the trembling magistrate of Qingyuan, who was originally trembling, fell to the ground immediately; Zhu Zhilian, as the prefect, turned grayer and straighter, and his eyes were already dead.

At this moment, Tang Zhiyu and other officials in Qingyuan City also arrived one after another, and everyone's faces looked very ugly.

This year, the weather is good and the government orders are passed, and it should be a year of harvest.

If you don’t want to or not, you will be sad.

Everyone looked at the governor Xian Cao Yong on the field in unison.

Cao Yong sighed and said, "The deceased will be given a pension; the injured will be treated with all their might!"

Everyone agreed in unison, and Cao Yong arranged errands for everyone, maintaining public order, comforting the wounded, pensioning the survivors, etc.

After everyone left, Cao Yong turned his head and said to Zhu Zhilian: "It's over now, and it's useless to be anxious. Lord Zhu still needs to take care of himself."

Zhu Zhilian's face was so ugly that it made people feel worried when they saw it.

Zhu Zhilian shook his lips, but before he could speak, tears flowed before he could speak. After a while, he said sadly: "Xiaoguan is ashamed of the people of Qingyuan...Xiaoguan is a sinner in Qingyuan..."

It was okay for others, but Liu Chuan had been with him for many years. He knew his nature and showed a sad look on his face. He looked at Cao Yong with a little more prayer.

Seeing this, Cao Yong said, "Mr. Zhu, what are you doing? Sixty-seven dead souls need to be saved, and more than 400 people are injured and need to be treated. At this time, instead of complaining about yourself, it is better to do your duty as a prefect and restore peace to the people!"

Zhu Zhilian was both heartbroken and blood in his throat rolled.

But he forced himself to grit his teeth and nodded, "What the lord scolds is that as the prefect, the lower officials must be responsible for the people of this residence. Even if they are guilty, they must settle the people first..."

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The Governor's Office, inner house, west cross courtyard, main house.

Xiaolou sat next to the kang table in the west room, absent-mindedly woven the collar. A maid in green clothes stood on the ground. She touched the cold porridge bowl on the table and frowned and looked at the clock.

Seeing the clock pointing at Zichu (eleven o'clock in the evening), the maid turned around and said, "Can't wait any longer, I'll go find the old lady now..."

She was originally served by Li, and after the Changsheng Branch, she was given to Changsheng by Li.

Xiaolou put down the lure in his hand and stood up and said, "Sister Xiu Pai, it's too late. Will the old lady be shocked? Otherwise, I will report to my wife first and ask her to send two people to the academy to pick up Qi Ye."

Xiu Bai thought for a while and said, "It's good that this is the first time Master Qi has come back to play like this, which is really worrying."

The two of them no longer delayed and left two little maids on duty to watch the house and went to the main yard together.

In the middle of the night, the lights in each yard were turned off. The two of them carried lanterns and turned a corner to the entrance of the main yard.

When I went to the room, the lights were on.

The maid and Xiaolou entered the yard, and the little maid who was on duty in the wing room heard the noise.

"Huh? Sister Xiupai, Xiaolou, it's so late, why are you here?" The little maid recognized the two and whispered.

"If you have an urgent matter, please reply to your wife. Please help your sister Guoer." Xiu Yi said softly.

The Embroidered Parrot and the Small Building entered the yard with lanterns. Even if they tiptoed, they could see figures outside the room.

When Lelan picked up the curtain and came out of the upper room, she saw the embroidered parrot and the two of them, but were stunned.

Guo'er hurriedly stepped forward and told the story of the two asking for a meeting.

"Seventh Master..." Lelan glanced at the two of them, muttered and raised her heart: "Mrs. I'm not yet settled, so I'll report back now."

Chu Yu was wearing a middle-dress and was dozing off while sitting by the kang.

Cao Yong sent someone back before, only saying that there was something delayed in the magistrate's office and would come back later, so that Chu Yu would not have to wait.

Chu Yu was worried. If there was a big holiday, if something was not a big deal, the governor would not have to go there to cook in person.

When Chu Yu heard that the maid around Changsheng asked for a meeting, he felt sorry for it and called "Jin".

When he heard that Changsheng went out after dinner and had not returned yet, Chu Yu stood up suddenly: "I'm confused, why didn't you come here to report early? Qi Ye is a sensible person. How could he have returned late?"

Xi Pai said with red eyes: "Seventh Master went to the academy to report to his wife. Before leaving, he told his servants that he would have to come back late and ask him to prepare his midnight snacks to wait. He cooked Qi's favorite kidney bean porridge, which was hot for three times. Qi's master hasn't come back yet, so he really dared not wait any longer."

Needless to say, I didn’t come back at this time, and I was probably going to the lantern festival with my classmates.

Who doesn’t know that the most lively thing in Qingyuan City is the lantern festival on the street.

On the twelve days, Changsheng was tied up and had a hard time having fun. It would be no surprise that he would go again today.

But at the lantern festival, people came and went...

Chu Yu's heart then hangs, and she instructs Le Lan: "Go to the second gate and pass the message to General Manager Wu, ask him to ask a few people to go to the academy to find Qiye, and then a few people to welcome him at the lantern festival."

Lelan bent her knees and responded, brought a small lantern and went with her.

Zhang Yi followed Hang Seng to Khalkha, and the current head of the Governor's Office is Wu Mao.

Chu Yu was in the inner house and didn't know what happened in the front yard. However, Wu Mao knew that Cao Yong ordered three hundred governors to mark them out of the house.

The news that the bridge collapsed and trampled to death at the lantern festival had already reached the Governor's Office.

Cao Yong and Jiang Jian were busy counting the number of casualties in the prefect's yamen. Song Hou was old and sent back to the Governor's Office by Cao Yong.

When Lelan went out of the second gate and went to the front yard to look for Wu Mao, Wu Mao was listening to Song Hou talking about the tragic situation in the street market.

When they heard that Changsheng had not come back, Wu Mao and Song Hou both changed their faces.

Wu Mao did not dare to delay for a moment, so he left two people waiting in the doorman, and took a few people to the academy.

Song Hou couldn't sit still. Cao Yong had only this brother, and he was the top lady's heart. If there was a mistake, it wouldn't be a joke.

He wanted to go to the prefect's office to find Cao Yong, but he was afraid of going to the wrong way with Changsheng, so he was shocked, so he took a few people to follow Wu Mao.

After he delayed for a while, Wu Mao had already come out of the academy dormitory.

"The lights are turned off... Master Qi doesn't seem to be here..." Seeing Song Hou, Wu Mao said with a pale face.

Both of them had more solemnity on their faces, so they didn't dare to delay any more. They rode their horses and headed to the prefect's office.

When they saw Changsheng standing opposite Cao Yong, Wu Mao and Song Hou both breathed a sigh of relief.

Cao Yong's face looked ugly, and he felt anger faintly.

Changsheng's forehead was blue and his left cheek was inch long. His clothes were already dirty, and blood stains were sprinkled on the front. I wonder if he was scared, his eyes were a little fluttered, his face was dull, and tears were still there.

Seeing Wu Mao and Song Hou coming together, Cao Yong sighed and said, "Is it that it alarmed the old lady?"

Wu Mao said: "It was Miss Lelan who was beside her wife who came to the front yard to look for her. She only said that the wife ordered her to go to the academy to pick up Qi Ye, but did not mention the old lady."

When Cao Yong heard this, his face calmed down and said to Wu Mao: "Take this bastard back!"

"Yes." Wu Mao bowed and replied.

Changsheng pulled Cao Yong's sleeve and said in a crying voice: "Brother, I won't leave, I want to go and see Zhang Ao and Zheng Zhongping..."

Cao Yong glared at him and said, "You have to startle the old lady to feel at ease, right? Go back with Butler Wu quickly. Tomorrow, I will hide the words tightly in front of the old lady and think of a way to clear the wound on her face. She can't stand the fright."

Changsheng shivered by his stare, put down Cao Yong's sleeves, but still refused to move the place under his feet, and looked pitifully at Jiang Jian beside Cao Yong.

Jiang Jian sighed in his heart and said calmly: "Seventh Master, go back to settle first. Zhang Ao and Zheng Zhongping have no worries about their lives."

Changsheng said "um", wiped his tears, and then lowered his head and left with Wu Mao.

Seeing Cao Yong's face showing fatigue, Song Hou advised: "It's almost the fourth day, so I'll go back to settle the house, and I'll have to work hard tomorrow."

Cao Yong stretched out his hand, rubbed his face, and said, "Sir and Fei Pi will go back first, and I will go and see those two boys."

Song Hou was shocked and frightened all night, and he was really unable to stand it. But he was worried that Cao Yong would go back to the Governor's Office by himself and asked Jiang Jian to accompany Cao Yong.

The two boys Cao Yong mentioned refer to Changsheng’s servant Zhang Ao and Zheng Zhongping.

The former is Zhang Yi's eldest son, and the latter is the second son of Zheng Hu's family.

Zhang Ao is younger than Changsheng, and Zheng Zhongping is older than Changsheng.

When Baoshan Bridge collapsed, the three of them were not on the bridge. After that, panic and crowded, and then the three small groups were surrounded by the bridge.

Zheng Zhong was steady and looked at the bad momentum, so he protected Changsheng and Zhang Ao, and squeezed under the bridge, thus avoiding the largest number of people and escaping the death disaster.

However, in order to protect the immortality, Zheng Zhongping and Zhang Ao were in different situations. They were now sent to the largest clinic in the city, Qingyutang. The head of the family there was Dr. Song, who often went to the Governor's Office for consultation.

After Song Hou left, Cao Yong and Jiang Jian left the prefect's office and went to Qingyutang.

Dr. Song was taking Song's son and nephew to take care of the injuries in the stampede accident.

Seeing that Cao Yong was coming, Doctor Song handed the alcohol cotton in his hand to his nephew.

These alcohols were flowed out of the Governor's Office earlier, but I didn't expect that this time it would be used.

"Mr. Cao..." Doctor Song came up with him, looking reluctant, and said, "There is an old man who has hurt his heart and is unable to turn things around..."

After hearing this, Cao Yong felt that his chest was blocked.

More than 400 injured people were placed in more than a dozen large and small clinics in the city. Such cases would not be the only one here.

The death toll of 67 people will rise.

Cao Yong nodded, first looked at a few seriously injured people, and then went to see Zhang Ao and Zheng Zhongping.
To be continued...