sbdcsierra Chapter 264: Lost
Chapter 264: Lost
Yu Jiuer woke up suddenly in the middle of the night!
The nose was irritated by a burst of pungent smoke, and then, flames appeared in front of my eyes.
Yu Jiuer's heart sank: Oh no! Someone set the fire!
"Help! There's a fire!" She shouted anxiously and ran to open the door, but found that it had been locked from the outside; she pushed the window and found that it was also nailed shut.
Yu Jiuer felt a surge of panic in her heart.
Jun Mo was a man and could not stay overnight at Lishan Academy, so he returned home to accompany his son after dark.
This is bad!
The Lishan Academy will have its ribbon-cutting ceremony tomorrow. If someone dies in this fire, can her Lishan Academy still be open? Can she maintain the image she has established for the people of Yinshan?
Yu Jiuer grabbed a chair and smashed it against the closed door, shouting, "Help! There's a fire!"
"Cough, cough, cough!" The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the thick smoke choked her so much that she had to put down her chair, turn around and rush to the washbasin, wet a towel and cover her mouth and nose.
At the critical moment, a shadow broke through the roof tiles.
Yu Jiuer was instantly carried away from the fire by the shadow.
While circling in the air, she saw that other buildings in the Lishan Academy were also on fire, and the Yulin Army on the mountain was rushing towards them like lightning.
After landing, Yu Jiuer hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and save the lady!"
The fire in the houses of the female teachers was the biggest.
It seems that the arsonist wanted to burn her along with the other eight female gentlemen!
The fire was so big that even though the Yulin Army arrived in time and poured basin after basin of water into the fire, they still couldn't control the fire.
There were screams and banging on the door coming from the female students' dormitory. Their doors were locked and no one could escape.
More than a dozen Yulin soldiers risked their lives to fly into the house from the roof and rushed into the fire to rescue people.
After Yun Mei Niang was rescued, she coughed and shouted, "Quick, quick, save Yu Tao, she's still in there, and she's badly injured!"
The Yulin soldiers were desperately carrying water to put out the fire, and Yu Jiuer was so anxious that she wanted to run into the fire.
"You can't go, I'll go!" Shadow stretched out his hand to stop her, snatched the bucket of water from the soldier next to him and poured it on himself, then flew into the fire like a flash of lightning.
But he had been in there for a long time and had not come out yet. Yu Jiuer was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
She also grabbed the bucket and poured water over herself.
But before she entered the fire, a thin figure beside her, wrapped in a wet quilt, ran in before her, saying only one sentence: "Master, I will go in for you!"
Before Yu Jiuer could shout out, she saw Shadow holding Yu Tao, rolling out together like a fireball.
Xiangyue promptly covered them with the wet quilt on her body and finally put out the flames on their bodies.
Shadow gritted his teeth, picked up Yutao and flew out.
Yu Jiuer just breathed a sigh of relief, but when she looked up, she saw the burning beam above Xiangyue's head suddenly fall down.
Without thinking, she pounced on him with lightning speed.
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Yu Jiuer woke up again and found herself still in the academy. It was still dark and everything was quiet outside. It seemed that the fire had been under control!
Jun Mo was staring at her anxiously: "Jiu'er, you finally woke up!"
"How are they?" Yu Jiuer found her throat was hoarse and there was a burning pain in her neck.
She subconsciously reached out to touch it, but was stopped by Jun Mo: "Don't touch the wound!"
Yu Jiuer endured the pain and said, "I remember the red-hot beams falling down. It was so dangerous! Is everyone okay?"
Jun Mo brought her a glass of water with a stern face and put it to her lips: "You knew it was dangerous but still rushed forward? No one else's life is more important than yours, do you know that? Why are you so willful?"
Yu Jiuer pouted and said, "I didn't have time to think so much at that time!"
At this time, the voice of her personal maid, Luxiu, came from the door: "Xiangyue, why are you still kneeling here?"
"Xiangyue? Are you okay?" Yu Jiuer shouted from inside the house, grimacing in pain from the wound.
Xiang Yue's crying voice came from the door: "I am fine! Master, it's all my fault. I was the one who rushed into the fire without knowing my own limitations and caused trouble for you!"
Yu Jiuer shouted, "Don't blame yourself. If it weren't for your wet quilt, Yu Tao and Shadow would have been killed in the fire. You did a great job!"
She stretched her aching neck and spoke with some difficulty.
Jun Mo became impatient and shouted directly outside: "Why don't you retreat quickly? You are disturbing the master's rest! I will chop you off!"
Luxiu said to Xiangyue, "Go down quickly and let the doctor bandage your hand! You moved the red beam off the queen's body with your bare hands, your palm must be seriously injured!"
"Yes!"
Inside the house, Yu Jiuer complained to Jun Mo: "Look at you! Xiang Yue is so brave, can't you be a little nicer?"
"This king only cares about you!"
"By the way, you haven't told me how everyone is doing? Is the beam hitting my neck serious?"
Jun Mo said with a dark face: "Half of my hair is burned, and my shoulders and neck are all red, swollen and blistered. Do you think it's serious?"
"What about the others? When I fainted, the female teachers should have been rescued, right? Are they all okay? What about the students?"
Jun Mo was silent for a while. Yu Jiuer looked at his expression and asked in a trembling voice, "Did anyone die?"
"Well," Jun Mo sighed, "Fortunately, the Yulin Army arrived in time and the casualties were not heavy. One of the female teachers inhaled a lot of smoke and could not be saved! A female student also died!
There are many injured! I have called the imperial physician and a dozen doctors, don't worry!"
Yu Jiuer struggled to get up: "I want to go see them!"
"Don't move! You are seriously injured, you need to lie down and rest! They all have someone to take care of them, so they don't need you!" Jun Mo gently pushed Yu Jiuer back to the bed, took the medicine that Lu Xiu brought in, "Take the medicine first!"
After taking the medicine, Yu Jiuer felt sleepy and could no longer muster any energy.
When I woke up again, it was already noon the next day.
"Where is the prince?" Yu Jiuer asked Luxiu who was standing beside the bed.
Lu Xiu poured a glass of water for Yu Jiuer and replied, "Your Highness just heard from the guards that the emperor was furious about the fire at Lishan Academy last night during the court session this morning. Your Highness must have gone to see the emperor!"
"I hope the emperor will not close the Mount Li Academy!" Yu Jiuer had just finished muttering when she heard a quarrel coming from outside the door.
"I just won't go back! I finally have something I like to do. If you try to stop me again, I will never go back and make room for you to marry a new bride!"
It was Yun Meiniang's voice.
Then, the voice of the Minister of War was heard: "You are no longer interfering in a personal matter, but a struggle for power. If you are not careful, you will lose your life. Don't act recklessly!"
"If we don't agree, leave!"
Not long after, there was a knock on Yu Jiuer's door, and Lu Xiu went to open it.
Except for Yutao, who was seriously injured, and the daughter of Mr. Liu from the Guanglu Temple who unfortunately passed away, the other six female teachers all came.
Yu Jiuer said to Yun Mei Niang: "Mei Niang, your husband is the new Minister of War and one of the most trusted ministers around the emperor. It is indeed inappropriate for you to join us. You should go back first!"
"What are you talking about? I would rather get a divorce than give up Mount Li Academy! I still want to take the imperial examination and become a person that everyone pays attention to like you. Mount Li Academy is the cradle of my dream, and I will not give up!" Yun Meiniang's eyes were firm.
Xie Shier also said: "My father came last night, and I will never give up!"
The others also nodded.
Yu Jiuer turned to the other one and advised: "Shu Ling, you are already engaged, you can't be willful, be careful that your husband's family doesn't want you!"
Shu Ling said, "You forgot that when you put up the petition, you wrote: Heaven is vigorous, women should strive for self-improvement. Earth is low, women should be virtuous and bear all things; Don't say women are not heroes, the dragon springs are chirping on the wall every night... Those poems, every word, shook my soul. I would rather stay single for life than give up the career I love!"
"Yes! Don't try to persuade us. We don't want to be restricted to the backyard!" The other two ladies were also very firm in their attitudes.
Yu Jiuer's eyes burned as she looked at this rare partner and asked, "Are you really unwilling to give up opening the Lishan Academy? Even if you might die following me, will you still go ahead without hesitation?"
“We won’t give up!”
Just as everyone was making solemn vows, Jun Mo's voice came: "You are so determined, but you don't know that the emperor has issued an order to suspend the opening of Lishan Academy at the morning court today. I just went to the palace to ask my father for help, but it was no use!"
"what?"
Everyone's ambitions were shattered in an instant by this sentence.
Yu Jiuer's eyes turned red with anxiety: "We are clearly framed, and the matter has not yet been investigated. Why doesn't the emperor even give us a chance to defend ourselves?"
"That's right! Why is the emperor so arbitrary?"
"That depends on what the elders in your family said in the court today." Jun Mo's face was not looking good. "They strongly opposed it and whipped me. What's the point of you insisting on your own way?"
"What should I do?" Yun Meiniang cried anxiously.
Everyone looked anxious.
Yu Jiuer said to everyone with a determined look: "Do you dare to follow me to the Golden Palace? Let's fight with the scholars together to fight for our cause?"
"what?"
Everyone opened their mouths in shock. As women, they had never thought in their lives that one day they would be able to set foot in the sacred yet unattainable Golden Palace?