After Xiao Chen left with Uncle Zhang, Liu Jinzhong and I found two shovels to dig out the firebreak around the color steel house, and then sat down next to it and waited for the fire to go out, after all, now the whole house is burning, and it is not realistic for the two of us to want to extinguish the fire, as long as we guard here and don't let the fire spread to other places.

Watching the fire engulf the whole house little by little, I couldn't help but wonder, "How did this fire start?" Let's come down from the mountain for ten minutes at most, and it will burn so big in just a while, and the weather will dry up so quickly, right? ”

Liu Jinzhong sighed with a complicated expression when he heard this: "It is estimated that the old man is drinking again." ”

I let out a "chuckle" in my heart, but I didn't dare to show it on my face, and continued to look in the direction of the fire and pretended to be casual and asked, "What does this have to do with drinking?" Even if you pour all the bottles of wine on the ground, you can't light such a big fire, right? ”

Liu Jinzhong said with a wry smile: "You don't know, this old man usually walks around at the foot of the mountain when he is fine, finds some dead trees and dead branches and the like, and cleans up and lets his family come back to use firewood. ”

"I see, no wonder the fire is spreading so fast," I nodded in realization, and then frowned in confusion: "But you still didn't say that it had anything to do with drinking." ”

Liu Jinzhong pointed to the direction of the bedroom in the color steel room: "This old man used to be a drunkard, he made a small stove to warm wine, drank too much and fell asleep on the bed, and a little spark popped out of the stove, so he lit the firewood next to him!" ”

I thought it might be like this, but I couldn't figure out why Liu Jinzhong knew so clearly?

Without waiting for me to ask, Liu Jinzhong explained to himself: "Actually, there was a similar incident before, but I was nearby at the time, and when I saw smoke coming from the window, I hurriedly ran over, and the fire was extinguished before it spread, and since then I have confiscated all the old man's wine, but I didn't expect this old man to secretly hide some inventory!" ”

I was a little embarrassed when I heard this, and I said that I really didn't wronged him by letting Xiao Chen send Uncle Zhang to the hospital, if he hadn't bribed people with wine, he wouldn't have done it like this now!

But I won't tell Liu Jinzhong the truth, he and Uncle Zhang, the old and the young, have lived together in the mountains for so many years, and the relationship is definitely not ordinary.

Afraid that Liu Jinzhong would want to suspect us again, I casually found an excuse to divert the topic, and the two chatted for more than an hour, seeing that the fire in the color steel room was slowly decreasing, Liu Jinzhong found a few buckets and beckoned me to go to the nearby river to fetch water to extinguish the fire.

More than a dozen buckets of water were poured down, and the remaining flames were completely extinguished, and the original color steel house now has only one frame left, and there is a black patch everywhere, and I don't know if Uncle Zhang has any important things left in it, but whether there is or not, there is no now.

After checking again to make sure that there was no possibility of recurrence, Liu Jinzhong and I walked towards his hut on the mountain again, washed our faces and wiped our bodies with a towel dipped in water, Liu Jinzhong brought me his clothes to change into, and after all were cleaned up, the sky began to darken.

I glanced at the time and found that it was already past six o'clock, and there was only more than an hour left before the time I agreed with He Huai, and there was still no trace of Hao Jian and them under the mountain, but they should be almost there after calculating the time. 135 Chinese

In fact, compared to Hao Jian, I am more curious about what form He Huai will take, the whole mountain is surrounded by a fence, and there is only one way to come up, I have looked carefully when I came up before, and I can be sure that no one came up from there before me, and when I chatted with Liu Jinzhong just now, I also inquired on the side, except for me and Xiao Chen, he did not find that there were other people on the mountain.

In other words, He Huai asked me to meet here at eight o'clock, but until now he has not gone up the mountain, and I suddenly have a bad idea - I wonder if Hao Jian will meet He Huai on the road when they come over?

Thinking wildly in my head, Liu Jinzhong boiled some water to make tea for me, I thought that a bunch of people would definitely not be able to hide it from him when they went up the mountain later, rather than letting him find out by himself and suspect me of ulterior motives, it was better to take the initiative to confess to him before the incident happened.

Thinking of this, I casually put the teacup aside, turned to Liu Jinzhong and said solemnly: "Brother Jinzhong, there is something I hesitated for a long time, but I still decided to tell you." ”

Liu Jinzhong didn't know what I was going to do, he looked at me blankly, I pursed my lips and whispered: "Something may happen on the mountain tonight, if you don't want to get involved, it's best to leave right now - rest assured!" I'll explain it to you on the boss's side, and I won't count you as derelict in your duties. ”

Liu Jinzhong hesitated for a moment and asked, "What will happen here?" ”

I have always trusted most of the Liu family, and this matter really can't be hidden, so I roughly told the whole thing the ins and outs, Liu Jinzhong didn't speak for a long time, only lowered his head as if he was thinking about something, and it took more than ten minutes to look up at me: "You mean, there is really something special about this post station on the mountain?" ”

"It should be so," I nodded, "and if I'm not mistaken, this inn may also have something to do with the Immortal Society." ”

Hearing this, Liu Jinzhong suddenly raised his hand and threw the teacup on the ground, and shouted in an emotional low voice: "I knew there must be a problem here!" But I've been looking here for 17 years and I haven't found it! I'm a fucking piece of shit! ”

I was taken aback by his sudden outburst, and reacted and hurriedly grabbed his arm and persuaded, "Don't get excited!" In fact, I can't blame you for this, let alone you, I guess even the boss doesn't know where the weirdness here is, otherwise he would have done it a long time ago with his habits, how could he let you stay here alone for seventeen years? ”

Liu Jinzhong waved his hand, slumped on the chair and sighed: "I understand your kindness, but you don't have to persuade me, the boss is busy with a lot of things every day, and it's not strange that I can't find the abnormality here, but I have been living on this mountain, and I go to the post station more than a dozen times a day, but I still haven't found anything, I have betrayed the boss's trust!" ”

"If you say that, you're wrong, and you're very wrong!" I smiled, paused and continued, "Didn't the boss live here for a while before you?" At that time, he didn't have to take care of everything, didn't he still find anything? ”

Liu Jinzhong seemed to think that what I said made sense, and the guilty expression on his face suddenly faded a little, and I was happy in my heart and wanted to continue to enlighten while the iron was hot, but before the words came to my mouth, there was a sudden sound of car horns under the mountain!

"Someone's coming!" Liu Jinzhong and I glanced at each other, and almost at the same time got up and ran down the mountain!