Chapter 178: The Fire Begins
Xiao Tao jumped out of the window with a half-wet quilt, and because she was wrapped in a quilt, she didn't fall very painfully. After getting up, I turned my head and found that a large amount of firewood had been placed under the door and window and at the foot of the room, and the firewood was also poured with similar oily combustibles. No one needed to tell her, she couldn't help but scream, this terrible cry instantly sounded in the night sky, attracting the dogs in the village, also followed by the barking one after another, and the quiet village at night instantly became noisy from restlessness to hustle. While screaming, Xiao Tao subconsciously used the quilt on her body to extinguish the flames, but it was useless, the flames were getting stronger and stronger, and she saw that the whole house was on fire.
Suddenly the words of the lady rang in her ears, and she said:
First, someone is going to burn us! Who is it? This little peach has no clue and doesn't know how to guess.
Second, find someone to put out the fire! With such a sharp cry, I believe that the villagers around her will soon be able to hear it and come to help.
Third, save Mei and Pear! That's right, she screamed so sharply, she had already heard the shouts and footsteps of the neighbors around her, why didn't she see Xiaomei and Xiaoli get up?
Don't think about it anymore, anyway, Xiao Tao knows that she can't think of anything, listening to the lady, it must be right! The walls of the main house were full of dry firewood, but the wing room was only lit with fire, and there was no dry firewood, so the fire was relatively weak. She pulled out the wooden board pinned outside the door, rushed into the house, only to feel a greasy fragrance, she turned over and withdrew, opened the door, and then returned to the well and struggled to shake up a bucket of water, and rushed into the house, without saying anything, poured directly on the bed of Xiaomei and Xiaoli.
The two of them were excited by the well water, and they both woke up, and they didn't have time to ask more, they were frightened by the red light outside, and then a smell of burning things came! "Ahem!" Without paying attention for a moment, the choking smoke was inhaled into the wings of the nose, the stinging pain crossed the throat, and the two girls coughed together.
Xiao Tao knew that they must have been frightened now, so she couldn't help but reach out and pull it, and said urgently: "It's on fire!" Hurry up and escape! ”
Xiao Li trembled and pulled the padded jacket on the side, crying: "This, what's going on?" Isn't it the first day of the Lunar New Year? "Da Shunguo actually doesn't have a rule that she won't catch fire on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but everyone is in no mood to correct her.
At this time, there was a sound of knocking on the door outside the courtyard gate, and before the three of them could act, the courtyard door was kicked open, and noisy footsteps rushed in. Xiaomei and Xiaoli didn't care about the water, put on their coats, and jumped out of bed.
Xiaomei rushed out of the burning door, looked around, there were villagers who came to fight the fire spontaneously, she turned around and grabbed Xiao Tao, and hurriedly asked, "Where is the lady?" Where is the lady? He shouted at Xiao Li behind him, "Grab out a quilt, don't freeze the lady on such a cold day!" ”
As more and more villagers rushed in, the wing room and the main room were not connected by a corridor like the one in the city, and the fire that was not big was quickly extinguished, Xiao Li immediately returned to the house, took a blackened quilt, and turned her head to look at Xiao Tao, "Where's the lady?" ”
Xiao Tao looked at the quilt in her hand blankly, and did not take it with her hand, but pointed to the main house that was completely shrouded in the fire, "Lady ......" The tone was confused and uncertain, and her voice was trembling, as if she suddenly remembered something.
"You...... You mean......" Xiaomei and Xiaoli turned their heads and looked at her at the same time, Xiaotao blinked twice, nodded stunned and said, "The lady said let me come out first to find someone to put out the fire, and then save the two of you......"
Xiaomei thought about it, then immediately shook her head, and said with a sinking face: "You mean...... Lady ......"
Xiao Tao touched his forehead with his hand and nodded, "Yes...... It's still ...... "The three of them want to rush to the fire house together, but the main house is different from the side room, because the main house is the main house that burns first, and it was deliberately put on the firewood, and now although the villagers who are fighting the fire have poured a lot of water on it, but the wellhead is limited, and only one bucket of water can be carried at a time, and the wells of the neighbors around are all used, but to no avail.
Someone next to him shouted, "How many girls are confused?" This fire is so big, and it's still rushing in? No matter how expensive this thing is, it is not as expensive as human life......"
The villagers who were fighting the fire around nodded when they heard it: "It's not what's wrong, you can make money and remake this thing if it's gone, and if this life is gone, there's nothing!" ”
Li Zheng also rushed over, "What's going on?" ”
Just asking, Xiao Tao suddenly turned around and snatched the quilt in Xiao Pear's hand, and then grabbed the bucket of the person next to him, poured all the water on it, and then draped a quilt, hugged a quilt, swept the fire room with his fast eyes, gritted his teeth, and rushed directly into the sea of fire!
"Xiao Tao," Xiaomei didn't hold it, she was taken to the ground, she got up, crying and rushing in, "Niangzi ......" was quickly hugged by the birth of the mother next to her, just now I saw a chubby black shadow into the fire house, and now Xiaomei is looking inside to die? "What are you doing? Are you crazy? This fire is hopeless! The house is going to collapse in a while, do you still have to go in and die? ”
"The lady is still ...... Xiao Tao also went in...... "This matter is obviously not something that can be explained in one sentence or two sentences, Xiaomei can't cry, what's going on, it's a good New Year's Day, tomorrow we can happily go back to Anning to accompany the lady to give birth, why did everything change when I opened my eyes?"
"What? Yukimi in the house? She's still in the house? When she was just putting out the fire, she clearly saw a few girls standing at the door, the beams in the main house were collapsing but there was no sound, and the villagers who fought the fire thought that there was no one inside. Never thought that Yukimi ...... Yukimi is still in the house! If she was really in the house, and there was not the slightest movement at this time, could it be ......
"Mother, why are you still standing here stupidly? What about my sister? Take a few sisters to our house to warm up the ......" The blackened son was busy fetching water, and rushed over to say a few words again, and then ran away again.
The mother of the child relieved herself, let go of Xiaomei, but she rushed towards the sea of fire, but was pulled back by the fire wave and the neighbors, and she let out a terrible cry: "Yukimi! Yukimi! ”
Xiaoli took Xiaomei's hand and cried, "How is this good!" How good is that! ”
Xiaomei also sat on the ground and said blankly: "If the lady has something, let's go with the lady!" ”
My sister came late, and the buttons of the padded jacket were not buttoned properly, and when she came in, she saw that the courtyard was in a mess, and when she found Xiaomei and Xiaoli, she also cried: "It is said that someone's house is on fire, why are you it?" ”
Xiaomei hurriedly covered her mouth and burst into tears again, "You kid is usually clever, why are you saying some stupid things now, whose house is on fire, it's also a big deal!" ”
Sister Mo looked left and right, and shook Xiaomei's arm and said, "The ground is cold, Sister Xiaomei go to our house to warm up!" Xue saw that the lady and the little peach sister, I went and asked them to go to my house together. ”
One sentence made Xiaomei and Xiaoli cry, and Xiaoli choked up and said, "Lady...... Wife...... Little Peach ...... It's all ...... ...... in the house"
Mo Mei was stunned, then her eyes widened and said, "No! They didn't ...... Didn't they come out? ”
When Xiaomei heard this, she remembered what Xiao Tao had just said, it was the lady who asked Xiao Tao to come out first to save her and Xiao Li, and when she thought about it, her heart was like a knife, "Xiao Li and I also woke up later, but somehow, we slept so deeply that we didn't even know that the house was on fire......"
The three of them stood up with each other, looking at the main house together and weeping, "I don't know why, Xiao Tao came out, but the lady didn't come out?" ”
They didn't know that someone had set fire maliciously, and they didn't know that they had been blown incense before, but now they also found a lot of suspicions, why were they in the same room, Xiao Tao came out, but the lady didn't come out? Xiaomei is a meticulous person, the more I think about it, the more strange I feel, if it is a fire in the kitchen, it should be a big fire in the wing room, why does it seem that the main house is burning so badly?
Thinking like this, Xiaomei got up and looked around the main house, it had snowed during the day, and there should still be some snow on the roof, why did it burn so easily? is also on fire, why is the fire so weak in the wings? "Sister Xiaomei, you say, you say, did you say that Xiao Tao would rescue the lady?" Xiao Li followed silently behind her and asked coldly.
"Yes! Absolutely! Xiaomei nodded vigorously and said loudly to Xiaoli and Sister Mo behind her: "I will definitely be able to, don't worry!" ”
The three of them, snuggled together in front of the house where the fire was getting smaller, looked in, the fire was saved, the house was finished, and as the fire continued to fall, people were frightened.
Xiaomei's heart is getting colder and colder, could it be that someone wants to harm us people? So......
It was past midnight, the weather was extremely cold, the snowflakes that had stopped before dinner were now falling again, and the fire was basically extinguished under the active fighting of the villagers, but this house was also terrible.
With sharp eyes, Mo Mei pointed to the black and scorched house and said, "Look! It's out! ”
Xiaomei and the others hurriedly stepped forward and supported the visitor, "Brother Shengzi, thank you, thank you for rescuing the lady!" ”
Shengzi didn't speak, but carefully handed the unconscious Xuejian into Shengzi's arms, turned around and rushed back, and Mo Mei shouted from behind: "Brother, brother, are you crazy?" ”
The mother of the child hugged Xue Jian, and hurriedly walked to her house, saying as she walked, "When did this kid go in?" Didn't I see it? ”
Xiaomei left Xiaoli and Mo Mei to wait for the birth of a son and a little peach, she was also full of questions, but she knew that no one could answer after asking, and saw the expression of the mother who was actually not at ease, so she hurried two steps and whispered: "Aunt He, the fire is basically under control, Brother Shengzi and Xiao Tao, it will be fine, don't worry!" ”
Back to his own home, with the help of Xiaomei, the mother of the child carefully put Xue Jian on the fire kang, and there are no people in this village who understand pharmacology, but, looking at Xue Jian's appearance, the two guessed that they should have been choked, and sure enough, after this toss, Xue Jian woke up and turned around, and when she saw the two of them, she couldn't help but be stunned: "What, Aunt He, are you dead too?" ”