Chapter Twenty-Three: Burn You

Early the next morning, Wang Tao turned around outside the castle, felt that there was wind flowing, the wind law was not very big, according to common sense, if the wind circle appeared will be more than a dozen hours after the wind, if you wait for the wind to blow up may be too late to set fire, set fire in the windy weather, the fire spread too fast, afraid of being affected, so Wang Tao wanted to gamble, when the wind was still small, the fire was lit, so that the fire spread slowly, you can give enough time to retreat.

When Wang Tao returned, he gathered all the big guys and began to discuss the matter.

"There was a moon halo last night, which is a precursor to the wind, and it is also a good time for all of us to set fires, but the weather is unpredictable, I dare not guarantee that there will be a strong wind, and the fire may be lit and burned for half a day and extinguished, and this situation may also happen."

Li Qiang has no objection to Wang Tao's words, Wang Tao will do whatever Li Qiang says, although Li Qiang is honest, but he is not stupid, he knows that the only person who can be trusted here is Wang Tao, this is also the day Du Yu died, Li Qiang and Li Qing They went out to find Du Yu's body, before leaving, Wang Tao looked at Li Qiang with strange eyes, and gave Li Qiang the long knife that he never left, Li Qiang knew that although he didn't understand the inside story, but the things here were by no means simple, and after coming back, Li Qiang also privately looked for Wang Tao and asked why it was strange that day, Wang Tao said that he didn't tell Li Qiang the reason, just said one sentence, don't tell anyone else about this, including Li Xin, and Li Qiang won't ask anymore. Since that day, Li Qiang has been wary of Li Qing and others, Li Qiang is stupid and simple-minded, but it does not mean that Li Qiang is simple to everyone, Li Qiang thinks that Wang Tao will not leave Li Qiang alone when his life is in danger, of course, Li Qiang will also desperately protect Wang Tao. Li Qiang treats Wang Tao with blind trust, and regards Wang Tao as a partner who is closer than his own brother, and never gives up at the moment of life and death. Wang Tao didn't live up to their friendship with a wolf heart, of course, this is a later story. The problem they are facing now is how to put this fire well.

Wang Tao only has one chance, pinning all his hopes on this fire, if it fails, it will seriously hit everyone's hearts, and Li Qing will not give Wang Tao a second chance. Li Qing and they are used to living here, even if they die of old age, they can accept it here, but Wang Tao, Li Xin, Li Qiang, they can't, they must escape here as soon as possible, Wang Tao saw the opportunity and must grasp it.

Wang Tao said to everyone, "According to common sense, there will be a strong wind at noon today, and if you want to light the fire in the morning, it can easily burn until noon. ”

Li Qiang: "I don't have a problem, now I see that the sky is about 7 o'clock, and I will start setting fire in three hours." ”

Li Qing glanced at Li Qiang and said: "We can't light the fire so decisively, if there is no wind at noon, because a wind circle can estimate that there will be a strong wind today, I don't believe this, I ask, wait for the wind to blow before igniting the fire." ”

Wang Tao had already guessed that Li Qing would stop it, and now he had to make everyone clear.

Wang Tao defended: "Brother Li is reasonable, it is of course the best to determine the ignition after the wind, but it is also the most dangerous, I said that it is necessary to ignite the fire in advance for everyone's safety, we all know that the fire spreads very quickly in windy weather, and the wind direction is easy to change, when the time comes, we will run away against the wind, if the risk suddenly becomes a tailwind, it is likely that everyone will be buried in the fire, I think that it is better to fail this arson plan, but also to ensure everyone's absolute safety." When the wind is not too strong, we can light the fire, and we can safely evacuate the danger zone even if the wind is downwind. ”

"I agree with what Wang Tao said." After Wang Tao finished speaking, Xiaoxue interjected a sentence.

When Li Qing and the others heard Xiao Xue speak, they looked at each other with their eyes: "Okay, since Xiao Xue has agreed, we will wait for three hours and set the fire." Li Qing said.

Xiaoxue will never intervene in these topics about them, basically what you say, I am what I am, I don't know how I suddenly have an opinion today, Wang Tao also knew that Li Qing would stop his opinion, and prepared a bunch of words of defense because Xiaoxue's words were all in vain.

Since they all agreed to set the fire in front of the wind, they now planned how to set the fire, and after the assignment, everyone began their own work.

Wang Tao erected the long ladder on the only window that was not sealed, Li Qing sealed the gate with earth inside the castle, and the remaining big men laid a few stones outside the gate to ensure that the beasts would not knock the wooden gate open.

After all this preparation, it is necessary to lay hay, in order to avoid the Du Yu incident, this time everyone is together, of course, the efficiency will be reduced a lot if the manpower is concentrated together, and everyone pushes the wheeled cart made of wood to load it full of hay. Begin to walk like a mountain forest.

The last step is to spread hay on the starting point, and each pile of hay is spread under the pine tree, so as to ensure that the fire is not extinguished as soon as it is lit, and it can also be easily burned with pine oil on the pine tree.

The fire point is the dense mountain forest when Du Yu died, Wang Tao suggested that the hay shop area should be larger, and the mountain forest on the other side of the creek when hunting wild boars should also be covered, there is a lot of hay, I am afraid that you will not use it, I am afraid that you will not use it.

A cart of hay was quickly laid. Of course, this is not enough, and I went back to the castle to load a cart of hay and cover the mountains behind the castle.

Everything was ready, everyone returned to the castle from the ventilation window back to the castle, the castle was pitch black, only the ventilation window refracted a little light in, and everyone was together with this light, waiting for the ignition time to come.

Everyone kept worrying, excited, and uneasy, and if they failed to prepare for such a long time, what a blow it would give everyone.

In a blink of an eye, Wang Tao looked out along the vent, and a staircase was built through the vent, so that you could climb from the stairs to the ventilated window and come back, Wang Tao saw that the time was about the same, and said to the home: "I'll go out and have a look first, and wait for my news,"

By the way, he shouted Xiao Douding, Xiao Douding heard Wang Tao call him, swished out of Xiaoxue's arms, ran to Wang Tao's shoulder, and squeaked, as if to say what do you call me.

Wang Tao picked up Xiaodouding and walked out, from this ladder made of wood down to the castle, to the outside of the castle, put the wooden ladder aside, to prevent someone from coming down from the window, Wang Tao shouted at the ventilation window: "Don't seal the ventilation window first, I will set fire, there are many people but trouble." ”

Li Qiang heard Wang Tao's words and quickly ran to the vent, and saw that the ladder set up there had been supported to the side, and he couldn't reach it at all, and if he wanted to get out, he had to jump out, which was absolutely immortal and crippled, Li Qiang saw that Wang Tao had a person who wanted to set fire to Wang Tao and shouted to Wang Tao: "Taozi, what are you going to do, you want to set fire yourself, you bring the ladder over, I will go with you." ”

Wang Tao was moved when he saw Li Qiang's anxious appearance, and said: "Brother Qiang, it's better for me to be alone, it's easy to set fire, it's easy to run, you wait for me in the castle, you must not open the gate, then everyone is finished." ”

After speaking, without waiting for Li Qiang to reply, he picked up a package that had been placed there a long time ago, which contained flints, torches, and the like, and walked towards the mountain forest where Du Yu died with Xiao Douding in his arms.

Wang Tao himself was not afraid of any beasts in the mountains and forests, so he wanted to ignite the fire as soon as possible, and it didn't take long to arrive at the dense mountain forest, where he saw that the hay was erected under the pine trees, and he muttered to himself:

"Burn you."