Chapter 20: The house is on fire
At night, Zhu Hongyu's house turned off the lights.
Zhu Hongyu was lying on the bed tossing and turning, and suddenly lost sleep.
Just because the longan that Runye opened for her was eaten, she was very angry about it.
got out of bed, poured a cup of cold white and swallowed it.
Forget it, let's go to Runye tomorrow and ask for a little.
As soon as Zhu Hongyu wanted to sleep, she saw the sky outside flushing for a while.
It's strange, what astronomical anomalies are there on the fifth day of the fifth month of May?
Following the light, Zhu Hongyu walked out, and as soon as she walked out of the door, she smelled the smell of smoke coming from the direction of the kitchen, and it was over!
Vermilion threw herself back into the room as if she had gone mad, waking Amber up.
"It's on fire, get up!"
Amber was awake in an instant, but in the middle of nowhere, the fire had spread from the kitchen to their inner room.
The flames enveloped the window paper, and the entire wooden structure of the house was instantly on fire.
The fire has reached the point where there is no way to control it, this home, it's over!
said that it was too late, so Zhu Hongyu quickly pulled a mosquito net and sprinkled it with water, covered Amber's mouth and nose, pushed her out of the door, and quickly escaped.
Amber bent over and ran out of the door, and Vermilion knew that Amber was safe.
After Amber went out, the fire instantly spread to the rooftop. She wanted to bring a lot of things, but her life mattered!
Zhu Hongyu poured water from the clay pot under the bed, and grabbed a coat and quickly fled.
At the moment when she went out, the beam behind her collapsed.
In just a second, she would be crushed to death in this thatched hut.
When she came out, her younger brother was dragged up, and Zhu Zhanao's house was the farthest from the kitchen, so when Amber entered the house and asked Zhanao to get up, Zhanao didn't even smell the smoke.
Frightened, Zhu Hongyu walked towards her younger brothers and sisters, and the three of them hugged and cried.
They saw that the old house they had lived in for more than ten years collapsed in the fire and then burned to ashes, and the sleeping villagers hurried to see Zhu Hongyu's house on fire.
However, the fire spread too much, and several villagers wanted to fetch water to extinguish it, which was already a drop in the bucket.
The tongue of fire grew smaller and smaller after a frenzied licking for a while.
Zhu Hongyu cried for a while, and then quickly wiped away her tears.
Such a big fire started so quickly and spread so quickly, it must have been more fires.
This is not an accident, but man-made.
Zhu Hongyu glanced at the crowd, only to see Liu quickly leave the scene with the fat Zhu Baoer.
Their backs soon disappeared into the night.
Liu's and Ma's have always been not a big deal to see the excitement, and when this kind of thing happened to their family, Liu's first reaction must be cynicism. And today, her reaction was a little too strange.
"Let's go!"
Zhu Hongyu took the hands of her younger brothers and sisters and walked in front of the villagers.
"Folks, this is not a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, it was done by my grandmother Liu! Who wants to go to the face-to-face with me! ”
Such a big thing happened in the village, and most of the villagers came with the mentality of watching the excitement.
Hearing Zhu Hongyu say so indignantly, several men with five big and three thick stood up.
"Niko! Let's go to Liu's house with you and ask! ”
Several women immediately talked about it, as if they really saw Liu's appearance when he set the fire.
The nosy villagers followed Zhu Hongyu to the door of Liu's house.
The door of Liu's house was closed, which was not Liu's style.
met so many people, if it really had nothing to do with her, it was too late for her to watch the excitement, and she couldn't wait to move a pony out to watch the play.
"Liu, Ma come out!"
"Liu, Ma come out!"
Zhu Hongyu shouted, and the villagers also echoed, and Zhu Jincian saw that there was a big trouble outside, so he hurried out.
Just now he sent Ma home, Liu and Zhu Baoer came back late, and they took the flint and went out again, and Zhu Jinchan felt that something was wrong.
Before a cup of tea, he saw a fire in Zhu Hongyu's house and was about to go to put out the fire, when he saw Liu coming back with Zhu Bao'er.
Even a fool knows that this matter has something to do with the Liu family.
Subsequently, Liu's door was locked tightly, and Zhu Jinchan wanted to ask about it, but was quickly blocked back by Liu.
At this moment, Zhu Hongyu brought someone to find him, and Liu suddenly panicked.
At that time, when she was doing this, she was dressed seamlessly, she looked left and right and saw that there was no one, why did Zhu Hongyu come to the door so quickly?
Liu still wanted to hide, but Zhu Jinchan couldn't help it, opened the door, and was the first to walk out.
"Nizi, is there a fire in the house?"
Zhu Hongyu pointed at Zhu Jincicada's nose, and he was out of breath.
"Tell Liu to come out for me! and Zhu Baoer, a little cub. ”
"Niko! This is ...... our family."
Just when Zhu Jincian wanted to admit his mistake, Liu rushed out.
"Yo, why are you here?"
"Set fire to my house, you are really pus in your belly button, and you are so bad."
Liu panicked, she was sure that Zhu Hongyu's tone was very firm, and her heart became weak.
But she is an old bone after all, and her psychological quality is very good.
"You are talking nonsense, do you have any evidence?"
"Evidence? I have a lot of evidence, and now some villagers have gone to invite Zhao Lizheng. Tell me, what's going on? ”
Liu's eyes rolled "drippingly", and he immediately changed his rhetoric.
"Since you have evidence, then you show it to me, otherwise I will accuse you of false accusations!"
Zhu Hongyu smiled helplessly, and he pulled Zhanao's sleeve.
Zhan Ao's head was bright, and he immediately thought of a set of explanations.
"I slept late today, and when I went out to the toilet after blowing out the light at night, I clearly saw that it was you, the evil woman, and Zhu Bao'er who were setting fire! Later, as soon as you saw the villagers coming, they left! ”
Liu was anxious all of a sudden, she was sure that Zhu Hongyu's house set fire when the lights were out, but she really didn't care where Zhu Zhanao was when she lit the fire.
"You're looking at the wrong person, how could it be me!"
Zhu Hongyu knew that the Liu family was the lord who refused to admit it, and when she looked down and saw Zhu Bao'er hiding behind Zhu Jincicada, she was trembling.
She took two steps forward and took Zhu Baoer out at once, which scared Zhu Baoer into crying at once.
"Say! Did you do it! ”
"Sister, I was wrong, sister, I don't dare anymore!"
Liu hurriedly rushed forward and snatched Zhu Bao'er over.
"Bao'er, what nonsense are you talking about, why did you start talking nonsense when she scared you twice."
"I, I...... I didn't do it! Zhu Bao'er changed her words immediately.
The villagers are more or less aware of this matter, although Zhu Jinchan is the most stupid, but his brain is very clear.
"This is our Zhu family's business, what does it have to do with you people?"
Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Liu began to blame the villagers who came to see the excitement.
"Oh, Zhu Liu, what kind of black heart did you have when you set fire to your granddaughter?"
"Yes, you old pious woman, you usually pretend to be a person, I didn't expect it to be so bad."
Liu is not easy to bully, and spit directly at the feet of the gossiping Song family.
"You're not a good thing either, don't bury me here!"
"What are you arguing about here in the middle of the night?"
Everyone turned around, and it turned out that Zhao Lizheng was coming, and Zhu Hongyu was half relieved.
Zhao Lizheng put on a posture of being a peacemaker and walked in front of the villagers.
The generations of squires of the Zhao family, especially the school founded by their family, are very popular with the people.
"I saw someone's house on fire, I see the place is Sister Zhu's house, right?"
"Yes, it's our house, and it's arson."
Zhao Lizheng stroked his beard and glanced at Liu.
"Liu, tell me what's going on?"
Liu immediately pretended to cry and said, "Lizheng, our family has never done anything to be sorry for their family!" This little came over today with a large group of villagers and said I set it on fire. Heaven and earth conscience, I didn't go out today. ”
Zhu Hongyu frowned, and he glanced at Zhu Jincicada.
"Uncle, you are the only man in our Zhu family, you can say something fair."
As soon as Zhu Jinchan wanted to say something, he was blocked by Ma's cough.
Zhu Zhanao's brain was fast, he cried when he saw Liu crying, and hugged Zhao Lizheng's leg at once.
"Zhao Lizheng, I saw Liu set fire with his grandson tonight!"
"You nonsense, we didn't go out today! Bao'er, right? ”
Liu hurriedly pulled Zhu Bao'er's clothes, and Bao'er could only follow Liu's words.
"I didn't go out today, absolutely not!"
Zhao Lizheng was in trouble for a while, and the villagers were even more unconvinced when they saw Zhu Hongyu defeated.
"Your Zhu Bao'er has just admitted to setting fire!"
"That's it, people are watching!" The villagers, with a word from you, almost drowned this Liu with saliva.
However, Liu and Zhu Baoer unified their confessions, and although Zhao Lizheng was partial to Zhu Hongyu, he had no real evidence.
"Is it a ghost who came to the emergency room tonight?"
At this moment, a majestic voice came from behind the crowd.
Zhu Hongyu's eyes lit up, and it turned out to be a moist night.
He was wearing a thin white linen robe, which set off his unparalleled temperament. The green silk is not curled, like an ink waterfall on the back, and a few naughty strands of hair are flying in the wind.
Before he came, he was sleeping. Awakened by the light of the fire. I heard that there was an accident at Zhu Hongyu's house, so I came in the middle of the night.
"Dao Chief."
Zhao Li was giving Runye a trick, and the people in the village also respected Runye very much, and they stopped talking.
He looked Liu up and down, and then at Zhu Hongyu, a helpless look at all beings.
He is like a person in a cold painting, neither sad, nor happy, nor angry.
"It's a coincidence tonight, four patients came in the night. The eldest lady of the Zhu family dislocated, and the little son of the Zhu family had a nosebleed. The four members of the Zhu family gathered together, how can they say that they didn't go out? ”
Runye said, and walked to Ma's side.
"The bones that were just received didn't grow well, but they fell off when you pulled them."
Ma Shi was so frightened that he was covered in cold sweat, and hurriedly proved his innocence: "Today we are going to the emergency department, and I will come back with my grandson." Mother-in-law and Bao'er followed, and I didn't know anything about the rest! ”
"That's right." Runye took out a purse from his clothes and showed it to Zhao Lizheng.
"What is this?"
Runye looked at the four of them and snorted coldly.
"Donor Liu, forget your purse in the pharmacy. The poor Dao saw that this was a woman's belongings, and it was not appropriate to put them in the temple. So he chased it out and returned it. As a result, as soon as he went out, he saw Liu leading the child to set fire to Miss Zhu's house. ”
Liu Shi was scared into a cold sweat, but she clearly confirmed that there was no one around! Why did this Taoist priest also see her setting fire?
"It can't be, you're lying!"