It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 133

Zhou Li was half asleep when he was woken up by the sound of banging on the door. He asked irritably, "Who is it?"

Chunying put down her hand that was about to knock on the door: "Chunying and Jiangyan."

"Girls, what's your urgent request?" Zhou Li asked solemnly as he put on his coat. There were differences between men and women, and unless it was an emergency, two young women wouldn't run into the front yard in the middle of the night and knock on the door of a grown man.

"It's not a girl looking for you." Zhou Li stopped opening the door when he heard this.

Chunying, not noticing Zhou Li's hesitation outside the house, continued, "The fire in the city has been burning for an hour, and it's not getting any smaller. I don't know if there's a fire or something else going on."

"What!" Zhou Li quickly opened the door, walked quickly to the open space, and looked towards the sky on the east side.

He had a relatively easy life at the farm, and because of this, he had lost a lot of vigilance, so he didn't notice the abnormality immediately. If it was just a fire, it would be fine, but if it was something else, it would be troublesome.

"I'm going to the city to investigate." Zhou Li took out his knife from the house and warned the two people waiting outside: "You...you just keep an eye on the surroundings. Don't go out until I come back."

Jiang Yan asked: "When will you be back at the latest?"

Some people gather information and come back to report at a certain time so that people can have a general idea of ​​the situation; some people gather information and won't come back until they have dug out all the details.

Jiang Yan was not familiar with Zhou Li and was not sure about his working style, but waiting without a deadline would make everyone's actions somewhat passive.

"Noon..." Zhou Li wanted to say that he must come back before noon. If he didn't come back, it meant that the situation was urgent and the people in the village had to take precautions.

But he had only uttered two words when Jiang Yan forcibly interrupted him, "Stop, no more words. I understand. You should leave as soon as possible."

Zhou Li was a little confused, but time was really tight, so he didn't say anything more. He led the mule out of the stable and left in a hurry.

The sound of the door opening and closing and the mule running woke up the doorman, and one after another other maids were awakened by the conversation between the doorman and Jiang Yan... Before long, Fu Girl was the only one still sleeping in the entire manor.

Everyone was scattered around the house in groups of three or two, climbing up the courtyard wall to observe the movements outside, and looking to the east from time to time. The bright red color in that direction began to dim, but thick smoke still covered the sky.

Gao Ni supported Sun Yun, who had come with her out of worry to keep watch, and whispered to him, "It'll be alright. Our village is quite far from here."

More than an hour before sunrise, the nearby farms should have also discovered the abnormality in the direction of the city. The originally pitch-black vision of Jiang Yan was now filled with a faint light.

Soon, someone holding a torch arrived and knocked on the door: "Is the master here? I have something to ask."

At Jiang Yan's glance, the doorman nervously replied, "It's still early. If you have anything to say, please come back later."

The person outside the door was not so easily persuaded to retreat. Instead, he continued, "Brother, you should know that something happened in the capital city after seeing the sky. My master is worried that it will implicate everyone, so he wants to ask the surrounding neighbors to go and investigate together."

The doorman looked at Jiang Yan eagerly, wondering how to answer.

The owner of this manor is Miss Fu, who is also the niece of the governor of Heding Prefecture. The owners of the surrounding villas and farms must have found out everything in the past few months.

Although he came here under the pretext of inviting neighbors to investigate together, he probably wanted to find out whether there was any inside information from Miss Fu.

But they were destined to be disappointed. Jiang Yan thought of Fu Nulang, who was still soundly asleep and completely oblivious to the changes in the outside world, and asked the concierge to refuse again, citing the unsafe conditions of traveling at night and his trust in the governor and the governor-general.