Chapter 3 Returning the Favor
"Zirun, why are you here?" The man who suddenly appeared in front of Xia Shuanghan was her biggest benefactor in life. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Before he died, Xia Shuanghan was seriously injured, unable to move, and was almost humiliated. It was Yoo Zirun, who happened to pass by, who rescued her and helped her fulfill her wish to "die between the graves of her father and brother". A large part of the reason why Xia Shuanghan was able to smile at Jiuquan when she died was because she knew that Liu Zirun would let those who hurt her receive the punishment they deserved. Therefore, Liu Zirun's kindness, Xia Shuanghan is willing to repay it with his life.
"Frost, have you seen Zhu'er?" Between his eyebrows, Liu Zirun, who was anxious, said eagerly: "Zhu'er also came to Dongshi today, have you seen her?" ”
"Sister Zhu'er?" A thunderclap exploded in Xia Shuanghan's brain, and his face was bloodless in an instant. Yes, in Xia Shuanghan's memory, Liu Zirun's sister Liu Mingzhu died in the fire of Dongshi when she was six years old, leaving only an unrecognizable and mutilated corpse. "I know where Sister Zhu'er is, wait for me for a while!"
Even if he still didn't believe that he was reborn after death to the last Lantern Festival before marriage, Xia Shuanghan still decided to repay his kindness at the first time. She grabbed in front of Xia Jingzhi in two steps and said, "Dad, you take care of your younger brother, and your daughter and Zirun will come when they go." Then, Xia Shuanghan didn't wait for his father to answer, so he pulled up Liu Zirun's sleeve and led him down the Huitong Bridge.
"Wet yourself, hurry." Xia Shuanghan ran to the Huitong River and jumped directly into the icy river without hesitation.
The Huitong River was not deep, Xia Shuanghan stood up straight in the river, and the river water was only below her jaw. She took a deep breath in the icy river water, and when she stepped on the stone steps by the river to go ashore after coming out of the water, she said to Liu Zirun, who had not reacted: "How can you go into the fire to save people if you don't get wet?" Hurry up! ”
Hearing this, Liu Zirun jumped into the water without saying a word.
"This uncle, I bought the water scoop and rag." Xia Shuanghan, who had gone ashore, rushed to a noodle stall on the bank of the river, grabbed a short-handled wooden water scoop from the empty stove where the soup pot had been taken away to put out the fire, and then threw a dozen copper plates in his sleeve pocket on the stove, then turned around and grabbed a few white rags in the bamboo basket that had not yet wiped the table, and ran back to the river bank again.
"Here, wet them, put them in a ladle with water." Xia Shuanghan took advantage of Liu Zirun's failure to go ashore and stuffed the rag and water scoop together.
"Come with me when you're ready." Bending down and tearing off a few long strips of cloth from the hem of his skirt, Xia Shuang Han held them in the palm of his hand, and after Liu Zirun came ashore, he spread his steps and led him to run in the direction of the fiercest fire.
"Sister!" Xia Chaoyang, who was standing on the other side of the river, saw Xia Shuanghan who was about to rush into the East Market at a glance, and he shouted in panic: "Sister, sister, where are you going?" Unfortunately, the environment next to the bridge was so noisy that his voice was swallowed up before he could come out.
"Daddy, sister, where is she going? It's not safe to catch fire over there, won't something happen to her going there? Xia Chaoyang, who was in tears, looked up helplessly at his father and choked up, "What is my sister going to do?" ”
"I guess I'm going to find your sister Zhu'er." Xia Jingzhi, who was full of solemnity, watched Liu Zirun follow his daughter away, and affirmed: "Besides your sister Zhu'er, what else can make your brother Zirun so anxious?" Hey, I just hope they don't have an accident. ”
"Frost, you tell me where Zhu'er is, I'll just go find her myself." Liu Zirun, who had a water scoop in his arm, followed Xia Shuanghan in the direction of the fierce fire, and while he struggled to dodge the crowd around him, he shouted: "It's not safe to go any further, I can't let you take risks." ”
"Don't be verbose." Xia Shuanghan folded the water-soaked rag into a square and fastened it to her mouth and nose with strips of cloth torn from the skirt, and replied, "How can I let you save Sister Zhu'er alone!" If you have three long and two short, what will you do with your father? They are the only son, you. ”
"But Mr. is only your daughter!" Liu Zirun, who didn't want to drag others down, was still arguing: "What's more, Zhu'er still has a wet nurse and a girl by her side, maybe they have escaped with her, if so, there is really no need for the two of us to find her at the same time!" ”
"I said I was going to go, just shut up and follow me." Xia Shuanghan, who stopped his steps, turned around and snatched the water scoop from Liu Zirun's arm, then took out a rag and stuffed it with the skirt cloth strip in his hand, pointed to his face and said: "See, like me, tie a strip of cloth on the bridge of your nose and a strip on your chin, and fix the wet rag on your mouth and nose, so as to prevent inhaling smoke and dust." Once you're in the fire, remember to bend down as close to the ground as possible, and don't stand if you can squat, understand? ”
"And this," Xia Shuanghan said, pointing to the water scoop and the rest of the rag, adding, "These are all for Zhu'er." In order to prevent her hair from being caught on fire and burning her face or being hit on the head by a falling object, you will put a water scoop on her head as soon as you see her, you know? ”
"Understood." Liu Zirun, who was shocked by Xia Shuanghan's powerful aura, quickly fixed the wet rag with his hands and feet, obediently took back the water scoop, and ran behind Xia Shuanghan again.
"It's finally not cold." Running through the burning buildings, Xia Shuanghan muttered quietly, but the memories of her previous life began to emerge in her mind: Liu Mingzhu went out in the company of the nurse and the girl, but when she was tired of shopping, waiting for the nurse on the second floor of a teahouse to go downstairs to buy her cloud cakes, the teahouse caught fire. The nurse who went to buy the cloud cake was stoned to death on the spot by the signboard that fell from the upper floor, and the only girl and the others in the teahouse only cared about running for their lives, and no one thought of taking Liu Mingzhu with them. In the end, the six-year-old girl was burned alive in the teahouse.
"Here it is, second floor." Stopping outside the teahouse where Liu Mingzhu died, Xia Shuanghan looked up at the door of the teahouse that was almost engulfed in flames, took a deep breath and took the lead in rushing in.
"Frost Cold-" Before Liu Zirun, who rushed into the door after him, could say a complete sentence, he was bent over by a hand stretched out by Xia Shuanghan. "I told you, bend over!"
Liu Zirun stopped talking, and bent over with Xia Shuanghan, squinting his eyes that were irritated by the smoke and the heat, looking for the stairs leading to the second floor.
Liu Zirun, who found the stairs first, rushed upstairs in three steps and two steps, and soon found Liu Mingzhu who fainted on the ground. Of course, this is not because Liu Zirun's eyesight is good, but because Liu Mingzhu fell near the staircase. Obviously, Liu Mingzhu bravely tried to escape by relying on her own strength, but unfortunately did not succeed.
"Great, and gas." Liu Zirun, who had probed his sister's snort, according to what Xia Shuanghan said, put a water scoop on his sister's head and covered his mouth and nose with a wet rag, but unfortunately, when he picked up his sister and was about to go downstairs, the fragile wooden floor slab cracked due to the heat and flames. One of Liu Zirun's legs was directly stuck in the knee-deep hole in the floor slab. "Take the beads and go!" Faced with Xia Shuang Han who ran upstairs, Liu Zirun, who was forced to kneel on one knee to support him, chose to give his sister the opportunity to escape for the first time.
"Wait for me, I'll definitely be back!" Xia Shuanghan took Liu Mingzhu's soft little body with both hands, glanced at the floor slab that was stuck in Liu Zirun's left leg, and instructed: "Bend down as much as possible, understand?" After saying this, Xia Shuang ran downstairs without looking back, thinking as she ran: It is impossible to pull out the leg by relying on Zirun alone. The quickest thing to do is to find something hard to make the hole a little bigger, so that he can break free from there.