Chapter 5: The Billowing Smoke
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About less than an hour in the evening, Zhang Chen went home, and the old lady stayed in the shed to fall in love with the old man, he didn't have to worry about it, but the tragic scene that was about to happen in his mind repeatedly surfaced in his mind.
If he is not mistaken, it was the fire in Zhang Hailin's house that broke out in Zhang Wan's team tonight, and all the dry firewood in the fields of the countryside in October had already been brought home, or it was piled up against the wall wall to form a stack of firewood, and the autumn wind at night was blowing so hard that a little spark was enough to cause a fire.
Zhang Hailin's house is not far from the entrance of the village, there is no house nearby, just opposite the tuyere, and then the fire burned until the next morning before slowly extinguishing, and there was nothing left of the house, but what made Zhang Chen worried was that he was originally a solid child, and Zhang Hailin's kid was burned alive in the fire and burned to ashes.
In the memory of the previous life, since Hailin was burned to death on this day, Hailin's Laozi, that is, the old man of the Zhang family who came from the same genealogy as his old man, Zhang Wenming and his wife have since lost their souls, and the sturdy man who is more than 180 tall has lost weight into a firewood pole in less than a few months, and Shi Xiuhong, the aunt of the civilized family, has also become crazy, and the half-grown boy is called Hailin.
Although he knew that this fire was rising, no one had figured out how this fire was started until later, and Zhang Chen naturally didn't know.
All he could remember was that at ten o'clock in the evening, the whole brigade was awakened by a commotion, and then he heard earth-shattering cries and crackling of dry wood.
Raising his eyes and glancing at the old pendulum clock hanging on the wall at home, the clock had already pointed to half past nine, and a layer of fine sweat couldn't help but break out on his forehead, Zhang Chen didn't have an opinion on this matter, not to mention him in front of the fire, even an adult.
He can't go to Hailin's house and say that your house will have a fire tonight, if he says this, it will be a curse to ruin people in the countryside, and Hailin will be blamed if he doesn't beat you, not to mention the stone show who has always had the loudest voice in the team and the smallest heart.
Hai Linniang's small heart is famous in the whole brigade, a typical shrew character, she tears her throat and scolds whenever something happens, so the baby in the village calls him Shixiu in private, I don't know if it was her character that caused the fire, anyway, everyone in the village said so later.
But no matter what Zhang Chen is, he has seen the situation of this pair of poor people later, no matter what, he will not allow this to happen in his heart, poor people have their own pitiful things, but not now.
"No matter, let's go check it out first!"
put a zippered coat on his body, he couldn't wear anything in front of the fire, he wore a coat because this thing was really on fire and easy to take off, and he wore a pair of hard rubber shoes with thick soles under his feet, Zhang Chen locked the door and ran towards the entrance of the village with an iron ring.
At this time, pushing the hoop is still an extremely popular competition activity, but it is the first time to push the hoop in the middle of the night, and it is just to hide people's eyes and ears.
Turning around at the entrance of the village, the moon on the fifteenth day of the first month is full, although it is not the fifteenth day of the first month, but the moonlight on the second day of the first month is enough to sprinkle silver light all over the ground.
What made Zhang Chen's heart flutter was that before he turned to the five rooms of Hailin's house, he had already seen from a distance that there was a fire behind Hailin's house, and the fire was rising in the wind, covering the three houses in the blink of an eye, and the place where the fire started was the firewood stack next to the chimney mouth of the stove.
It turned out that the fire was caused by the sparks in the chimney, no wonder Hailin's kid would be burned to death in the fire, it turned out that the first thing to be lit was the room where he slept, Zhang Wenming and his wife lived in the front room, and they rushed out when the fire was burning, and at this time the fire was blown by the wind and had engulfed Hailin's room.
"It's amazing!"
"Uncle Wenming, it's on fire, it's on fire!"
"Bang! Boom! Boom! ”
"Uncle Wenming, it's on fire!"
Zhang Chen threw the iron ring and hook in his hand like crazy and shouted, the voice of the half-grown man Liangtang was not small, and it seemed very great in the quiet and cold moonlight, Zhang Wenming and his wife had not woken up, and the lights had already been pulled up in several rooms in front of the team, and then they heard a few shouts.
"It's a shame, the civilized house is on fire!"
"The fire block has put out the fire!"
"What kind of sin is this, the civilized family is on fire!"
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The countryside is poor, there are only a few families in Zhangwan who have TV to watch in these years, Zhang Wenming and his wife went to bed early after a while, and the people who just fell asleep slept to death, and Zhang Chen woke up after patting the door panel twice, and then heard the shouting "fire" outside.
As soon as the couple opened their eyes and pulled the lamp, they saw smoke rising from the cracks in the door and the cracks in the house, and when they heard the word fire in their ears, they suddenly woke up.
"Mother, this is my house on fire!"
"Hailin, go see Hailin!"
"Bang!"
"Wow--Mom-Dad-Ahem! Cough! ”
Suddenly, it seemed to be the sound of the measurement on the roof and the falling of tiles, and then I heard the crying and coughing of my son Hailin, the smoke was too thick, not to mention Hailin in the back room, even the civilized couple were now choking uncomfortably.
Opened the door of the room and opened the door, and saw Zhang Chen banging on the door outside, and a trace of gratitude suddenly welled up in his heart, if it weren't for the half of Brother Wenlin's family, the whole family would have to be burned to death tonight.
"Uncle Wenming, go and save Hailin!"
"Bang!"
There was another explosion, and at this time there was already a sea of fire in the alley, and the people on the team had already rushed over, holding basins and wooden buckets in their hands, and even dung scoops poured water on the fire, but this pouring fire could be extinguished by this little water.
"Xiuhong, what about Civilization and Hailin?"
On the side, Shi Xiu's face was pale and she was already paralyzed and sat on the ground, this woman is usually hateful, but at this time she has no opinion, and the whole person is dragged out by civilization and thrown on the ground as if she has lost her soul, and she rushed to the fire to find her son.
Seeing that the woman was like a puddle of mud, no one took care of her, so they each took something and went out to put out the fire from the well.
At this time, the fire had burned half of the sky, and the entire inner room could no longer be seen clearly, Zhang Wenming was like crazy, standing in front of the alley and rushing in, so anxious that he was running around, and kept calling his son Hailin's name.
The men on the team were also trying to get in, but they retreated in less than a moment after they got in with a waterlogged quilt, and the fire was too big to get in.
In another place, the screams from Hailin's house were almost inaudible, and if he was allowed to burn like this, Hailin would probably be the same as in his previous life.
"Don't stop me, don't stop me, I'm going to save my son, my heart!"
Suddenly, Shi Xiuhong, who was sitting on the ground, rushed into the fire like crazy, and the person next to her grabbed it and dragged it back, and then shouted there, not confused at all, her natural motherhood finally defeated fear at this last moment.
"You go in and die, this is!"
"Xiuhong, the baby can be reborn if it's gone, and if you go in, there will really be no one left!"
"This fire is too big to get in!"
"Civilization, Zhang Wenming, let me tell you, if you can't save my son, I'll die together, woo! O my son! ”
Shi Xiuhong suddenly cried darkly, and the women on the team also forgot her usual little family spirit at this time, pitiful, if Hailin's baby was really burned to death, no one would be happy.
At this time, Zhang Chen bypassed everyone and ran towards the firewood stack on the side of the house, the firewood stack at this time had burned to the ground, the walls of the inner room were burned black, and some places had turned red, but this room was where Hailin lived.
The front room is no longer accessible.
"You can't be in a hurry, you can't be in a hurry, you must be able to get in!!"
kept chattering, and the flames roasted people couldn't open their eyes, but Zhang Chen didn't run away, but pushed to a big wooden barrel on the side of the wall, which was a big bucket for picking dung, half a person high, and it was not a hassle to put a half-sized person in.
After getting into the barrel and handing it over a little, the barrel rolled straight into the alley, and after a while, there was no shadow.
"Chenzi, what are you doing, you baby is dead!"
"Huh? Brother Wenlin's Chenzi has entered! ”
"It's terrible, you guys save people, the Chenzi of the Wenlin family has also entered!"
"This baby is going to die, what if this is burned to death!"
No matter how everyone shouted outside, Zhang Chen suddenly got out of the wooden barrel that had been burned, fortunately the coat was still good, he had already drenched his body before coming in, at this time the room was not dark, the fire was very big, and the light was transparent, but he couldn't see anything, his eyes were full of smoke, tears flowed, and his throat was dry and painful like a fire.
"Hailin, Hailin! Wake up! ”
At a glance, he saw Hailin lying next to the bed, his face was dark, his eyes were closed, and his skin was so dry that he knew at a glance that he had choked on smoke and fainted, and at this time the fire had covered the entire house, and there was a big hole in the roof, except for the land next to the bed, there was fire everywhere.
"Ahem! Cough! ”
"Ahem! Cough! Cough! ”
"It's over, it's over, if you can't save people now, you'll be burned to death, it's really a death!"
Zhang Chen looked at the flames rising around him, covered his nose with his soaked cuffs, and pulled up Hailin with one hand, when suddenly the earthen wall near the stove room suddenly collapsed, hitting a water tank near the wall, splashing a lot of water.
"Heaven will not kill me!"
The fire has actually burned almost everything that can be burned in the stove at this time, the walls are pitch black, the tiles and wood have fallen, and only one water tank is left close to the tuyere, Zhang Chen kicked away the burning cabinet, stretched out his hand to test the water, the water was only a little warm, it turned out that this tank was just on the outside of the stove near the tuyere, away from the firewood stack, the wind blew the flames away, and it did not burn to the cylinder at all.
Dragged Hailin into the water tank with all his might, and then jumped into it himself, the water surface was warm, but the bottom of the water was still a little cold, and the calves that were dried by the fire suddenly became cool, and he covered the mouth of the tank with the big basin on the stove, and propped up Hailin's head to prevent the water from flooding, and Zhang Chen just stood up.
Gradually, the fire in the stove room gradually became smaller, and the inner room next door collapsed and burned to the ground, except for the still smoking earthen walls, and all that remained in the whole stove was a water tank covered by a blackened basin.
Zhang Chen didn't even dare to raise his head, the basin was a little hot, so he had to bury his head in the water, raise his nose and mouth to inhale, and put Hailin in his arms, fortunately, the water was not roasted after all, but it was only slightly hot, otherwise it would really become a boiled frog in warm water.
At this point, there was a mess outside.
Before Hailin, the baby of Wenming and Shixiu, could get it out, the baby of the Wenlin family ran in and died.
For a while, the old and young on the team were panicked, and someone quickly ran to Baihu Bay, which had to be known to Wenlin and his family.