"It's the house next door that's on fire. Chen Mo covered her mouth lightly, "Oh my God, is their family all sleeping at such a late hour?"

Yang Fei said: "Call the police." ”

Chen Mo went to the living room to make a call.

The common police telephone numbers in the United States and Canada, fire calls, emergency calls, and police numbers are all 911.

The mouse and the iron bull also heard the sound, and ran to the yard with Yang Fei, looking at the house next door with the raging fire.

"Fly less, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, will it spread to our side? You better hide for a while!" said the mouse worriedly.

Yang Fei said: "The fire alarm will come soon, let's find a way to rescue the people next door first!"

Tie Niu said: "Go in from his backyard and knock on the window to save people." ”

Ning Xin heard this, and said: "This is the United States, and it is illegal to enter other people's homes without authorization." ”

Yang Fei frowned and said, "I can't care about so much, let's save people first!"

"Fei Shao, don't go, I'll just go with Tie Niu. Seeing that Yang Fei was about to act, the mouse hurriedly grabbed his arm.

Yang Fei said: "You guys be careful. ”

Iron Bull and Mouse jump over the wall into the next backyard.

The rat elbowed the pane of the rear window and shouted inside.

After coming to the United States for so long, the mouse has also learned simple English conversations.

Inside, there was a faint scream of a woman in terror, and the cry of a child.

Yang Fei took two quilts, got wet, and threw them over the wall: "Put them on! Be careful!"

The rat and the iron ox each took a deep breath, put on a wet quilt, and entered the house through the window, carefully avoiding the smoke and flames, and dived towards the voice.

In the bedroom on the second floor, a black woman with three small children was trapped by the fire.

The rat rushed in and first declared loudly, "I'm here to save you! I'm the neighbor next door to you!"

The women had seen rats and iron oxen and cried out to them for help.

The mouse looked out the window and said, "There's only one way, jump!"

The woman shook her head in fear, saying that she didn't dare, and pointed to her children, saying what about the children, how dare they jump down when they are so young?

The mouse said: "Believe me, I have a way, you go down first!"

The woman looked downstairs and shrank back in fright, but still didn't dare to jump.

The mouse said: "This is only the second floor, you don't have to be afraid." The first floor is already on fire, the second floor is also on fire, and the smoke is rolling in, and it won't be long before you all have to die. ”

Tie Niu held his mouth and nose, and said angrily: "Made, this woman is not saved, she wants to die, and she didn't pull the child!"

The mouse didn't care much, and said to Tie Niu: "You go down first, pick up people below, I will throw the children down, you have to continue! The children are safe, this mother will naturally dare to jump down." ”

Tie Niu had already wanted to go down, and immediately sighed, climbed on the windowsill, jumped down, took advantage of the situation to cushion the force of the fall, and landed firmly on the ground, he rushed to the top and opened his arms: "Come down!"

The window sill on the second floor is actually not high from the ground, four or five.

The mouse picked up a child and threw it down according to the iron ox.

The Iron Bull moved left and right, catching people with ease.

The rat threw down three children in a row, but they were all caught by the iron bull.

The three children are not very old, the eldest is a little girl, who is about six years old, and the younger is just over two years old.

The fire quickly went up, and smoke billowed from the second floor.

The rat pushed the black woman: "Jump!"

The black woman was obviously terrified, holding her face in her hands and shedding tears, but she did not dare to jump.

The mouse shouted: "Your children are all down there, if you don't jump, they will lose their mother!"

The black woman was stunned, gritted her teeth and nodded.

The mouse asked loudly, "There are only four of you in your house, and there are no others, right?"

The black woman suddenly screamed, pointed to the next door, and said, "I have an older daughter, sleeping over there!"

The mouse said, "Then you jump! I'll save her!"

The black woman closed her eyes and jumped down, she was a little fat, and after landing on the ground, she rolled twice like a ball before stopping, she got up, found that she was not injured, cried with joy, went over and hugged her three children, and looked up at the second floor.

Flames also erupted from the windows on the second floor.

Some of the structures began to loosen and fall down.

Iron Bull escorted the black mother and son to the fence.

Yang Fei answered here and picked up the children.

"Where's the mouse?" Yang Fei asked in a deep voice.

Tie Niu turned his head and pointed upstairs: "There is a girl upstairs, and Brother Mouse is still saving people on it." ”

Yang Fei's heart sank: "Tell him to come down, it's too dangerous!"

Iron Bull returned to the window and looked up, only to see the body of a mouse appear in the window.

The mouse hugged a girl of seven or eight and shouted down: "Tie Niu, catch it!"

Tie Niu shouted: "Brother Mouse, you come down quickly!"

The rat threw the girl down.

This girl is taller and heavier, and her falling force is very strong.

Rao is iron bull is as strong as a cow, but he was also crushed back by the impact, and sat down on the ground.

Fortunately, the girl was unharmed.

The rat was as light as a swallow, jumped down, the clothes behind him were on fire, he made a few rolls on the ground, extinguished the fire, and together with the iron bull, escorted the girl over the fence.

At this moment, the 911 fire alarm sounded.

The black woman was holding her eldest daughter, and when she saw that she was unconscious, she immediately cried profusely.

Yang Fei pinched the female baby's acupoint and used force.

The girl woke up with a wow.

The black women kept bowing to Yang Fei and the others to express their gratitude.

The fire was extinguished by the fire department, and it was already past eight o'clock in the morning.

The fire department inspected the cause of the fire and preliminarily concluded that it was a fire caused by the aging of the dryer circuit.

The black woman was so tired last night that she washed her clothes and put them in the dryer and went to bed, not unplugging them, which caused the electric fire.

In the United States, because of the dryer caused by fires, there are quite a few of them every year.

Yang Fei temporarily accommodated a black neighbor to borrow at home.

It was after ten o'clock in the morning that the black husband hurried back.

His name is Martin, he is a congressman who has just returned from Washington.

In the United States, not all members of Congress are rich, some are middle-class and even poor.

At the end of the 18th century, when the United States established a representative state, Congress, as the legislative body, only met for a few months a year, and the members did not have salaries, and only six dollars a year for food and beverages, equivalent to less than $200 today.

By 1815, after wars, turmoil, uprisings, and other major events, the Congress needed to meet for a long time, and some poor people appeared among the members.

If wages are not paid again, it is tantamount to giving the wealthy class a monopoly on Congress.

As a result, lawmakers began receiving a salary of $1,500 a year, equivalent to about $20,000 today.

Today, the annual salary of a Senate and House member is $174,000, which is only an upper-middle income in the Washington metropolitan area. In a metropolis like New York, it's just enough to rent a small apartment in the luxury area of Manhattan.

Councillors spend more than the average person.

The most important of these is the need to maintain housing in the constituency and then in Washington.

Unless the congressman happens to represent a constituency near Washington and can commute.

Lawmakers meet at least four days a week, so lawmakers must stay at least three nights in Washington.

When Vice President Joe Biden was a senator, he took a train from Delaware for more than an hour to work in the capital. Over time, I got acquainted with the railway employees.

Those who travel far away will not have this blessing. For example, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi flies back to San Francisco several times a month, which is relatively close to Seattle.

Martin, a 38-year-old black congressman who has four children, is unable to afford another property in Washington.

Today, his only home has been burned down!

Martin carried his briefcase, like a sculpture, and stared at his home, which had been mercilessly burned to black charcoals by the fire, and could no longer accommodate him and his family.

He wore a crisp suit and tie, and if it weren't for the pain, helplessness and distortion of his expression, he looked like a successful man.

Yang Fei looked at his side face, very much like Denzel Washington.

Martin loosened his tie and said to himself, "This house can still live if it is repaired." ”

At that moment, there was a "boom!" sound, and the house collapsed.

The black, smelly dust pounced on Martin's face.