Chapter 10: The Midnight Fire
As the night deepened, a bright moon gradually poked its head out of the thick clouds, shining a bright light on the earth.
Zhang Guifang made a bowl of noodles and added a few poached eggs, then twisted open Tan Changqiang's door and walked in.
"Did the kid say yes? Willing to go on to college? Tan Changqiang saw Zhang Guifang come in, and said angrily, obviously he was still angry.
Zhang Guifang put the bowl down, sighed and said, "Don't embarrass the child, he is also doing this for our consideration, if Wenlin leaves, our family will be over." ”
"You don't think about yourself, you have to think about Tan Ying, Tan Ying is still young, Wenlin is gone, what should she do?"
When Tan Changqiang heard this, he was silent for a long time, he didn't know that Wen Lin would be helpless without him and the others, but he finally raised his son to adulthood, but in the end, it was empty, which made him unwilling.
"Do you see that after you had a car accident this time, Wenlin is much more sensible and mature, in fact, as long as people work hard, they can't be adults anywhere. And since Wenlin contracted the reed swing to make money, the people in the village looked at us differently, all of them were polite, which was too different from the previous attitude towards us, it was all because of Wenlin! ”
"In the past, I didn't like to visit the door, because I was afraid that others would say how my family was and how much money I made; Now I have the confidence to visit the door, because no one makes more money than our Wenlin. ”
Zhang Guifang touched the tears from the corners of his eyes when he said this, "I said that the child is older, let him pay attention to it himself!" ”
Tan Changqiang was speechless, and was silent for a long time before he let out a long sigh.
At the same time, Tan Wenlin, who was in the reeds, couldn't sleep, tossing and turning for a long time, he simply got up and started to wander around the reeds.
When he walked to the village road on the edge of the reeds, he heard a few dog barks, and when he looked up, he saw that the younger brother whom Li Xiuxiu scolded during the day was walking towards him with his big dog.
The big dog followed Li Xiuxiu's younger brother in the same footsteps, very cute, and when he saw Tan Wenlin coming, he just nodded simply.
"Have you ever had a dog before? This dog seems to listen to you. Tan Wenlin asked with a smile.
"Yes, I used to be a soldier in the military dog class, and when I came back, I had nothing to do, so I raised more than a dozen dogs, and this is one of them." As soon as Li Xiuxiu's younger brother heard Tan Wenlin talk about his big dog, he gushed endlessly.
Through chatting, Tan Wenlin learned that Li Xiuxiu's younger brother was called Li Zhongyuan, and he found that Li Zhongyuan's personality belonged to the kind of tendon, and he could talk endlessly when it came to raising dogs, but he became silent when talking about other things.
The two talked for a while, Tan Wenlin yawned and said, "It's so late, I'm going back to sleep, you can go back too." ”
"It's okay, my sister and my brother-in-law are not at home today, so I'm bored and I'll go out for a walk." Li Zhongyuan obviously wanted to talk to Tan Wenlin about his dog for a while, and no one had talked about his dog since he was discharged from the army.
"Your sister and brother-in-law are not at home." Tan Wenlin suddenly remembered something when he heard this, "Did your sister and your brother-in-law go to the county seat to buy goods today?" ”
"Yes, before they left, they told me to take care of Xiao Ming, Xiao Mei and the grocery store." Xiao Ming and Xiao Mei are Li Xiuxiu's children, both of whom are only seven or eight years old.
"Not good." When Tan Wenlin heard this, his face changed, he was so busy in the past few days that he forgot about this stubble, and he hurriedly said to Li Zhongyuan: "Will your nephew's two children be in danger at home?" Let's take a look. ”
It turned out that more than 20 years ago, when Li Xiuxiu and Hong Erniu went to the county seat to buy goods, a fire broke out in his grocery store, and a pair of children died.
Li Zhongyuan heard it and said: "No, when I came out, I told Xiao Ming and the two to do their homework seriously, how could it be dangerous?" ”
As soon as Li Zhongyuan's words fell, he saw a red light coming out of the grocery store of Li Xiuxiuxiu's house not far away.
"Not good." Both of them screamed and ran desperately towards the grocery store.
At this time, the whole village was silent, all the villagers slept, and no one noticed that the grocery store was on fire.
At the grocery store near Li Xiuxiu's house, the smoke of the fire has risen into the sky, and there is still the faint cry of children.
Tan Wenlin and Li Zhongyuan didn't say anything, and rushed directly into the house, the house was full of smoke, and they couldn't see the situation inside at all, and they couldn't hear the child's cry at this time, probably choked on the smoke and fainted.
Tan Wenlin and Li Zhongyuan quickly groped in the house.
At this time, the grocery store finally woke up the nearby villagers, and suddenly the sound of people and footsteps was chaotic, and the villagers rushed to put out the fire with buckets or basins.
Because there are no fire brigades in Xinhe Village and Nantou Town, and when the Hongjiang County Fire Brigade comes, the daylilies will be cold, so rural fires are generally self-helping.
Tan Wenlin and Li Zhongyuan groped around in the middle room of the grocery store for a while, but they didn't touch any children, "Zhongyuan, you go to the left room, I'll go to the right." ”
Tan Wenlin is also very familiar with Li Xiuxiu's grocery store, in addition to the main store in the middle, there are two rooms on the left and right, one is Li Xiuxiu's room and the other is the room of two children.
After the two of them went their separate ways, Tan Wenlin rushed into the room on the right, and soon, he found a child and immediately picked it up, and Li Zhongyuan's shout sounded on the left: "Xiao Ming, are you okay?" ”
As soon as Tan Wenlin heard that Li Zhongyuan had also found a child, he didn't wait any longer, and rushed outside with his little sister in his arms, and at this time, Li Zhongyuan also rushed out at the same time with Xiao Ming in his arms.
As soon as the two of them left the grocery store, the main beam of the grocery store was burned off, and the grocery store was destroyed in a sea of fire in an instant.
"It's dangerous." When the villagers saw that the grocery store collapsed at the same time as the two children were rescued, they shouted at the same time.
As soon as Tan Wenlin rescued the little sister, he pinched her, and the little sister was unconscious at this time and must be rescued immediately.
"Wenlin, are they alright?" Zhang Degui, the village party secretary, also hurried over, and when he saw the two children being rescued, he asked.
Because the two children were rescued in time, they didn't inhale much smoke, so they quickly woke up, and everyone was relieved to see it.
"This time it's fortunate that Wenlin is a family, otherwise these two children may not be able to save one of them." The villagers began to talk about it.
Tan Wenlin was about to hand over the little sister who woke up to Li Zhongyuan, but he didn't expect Li Zhongyuan to suddenly kneel down to him, and said repeatedly: "Thank you, thank you......." ”
Li Zhongyuan was originally a Mu Ne person, and he couldn't say anything else except to say thank you. If it weren't for Tan Wenlin this time, his two nephews would be in danger, so how could he have the face to explain to his sister and brother-in-law, as long as he died, he would be at ease.
Tan Wenlin hurriedly pulled him up and said, "Call your sister and brother-in-law quickly, these two children still have to go to the hospital for a check-up, don't leave any diseases behind." ”
Li Zhongyuan nodded again and again, and at this time, a villager drove a tricycle, and Li Zhongyuan went straight to the county hospital with the two children in his arms.
After the grocery store was burned to the ground, the fire gradually went out, and everyone did not leave for a while, but stood there discussing the cause of the fire.
"Everyone is gone, I'll call the county fire brigade and ask them to find out the cause of the fire." Zhang Degui, the branch secretary, said, and smiled at Tan Wenlin: "Wenlin has made a great contribution to saving people this time, I will report to the town tomorrow and strive to reward you." ”
Tan Wenlin's saving the child was just a matter of kindness, and he didn't expect to be rewarded, but after thinking about it, if he got a reward from the government, it would be much easier to talk to the government in the future, so when he heard Zhang Degui say this, he didn't stop him.