The dawn is coming.

Liu Yu and Zhu Wen rode to the foot of Mount Hua, only to see fireworks rising in a village, dyeing half of the sky red, and the formation was very large.

Liu Yu tightened the reins of his horse and stopped, "Senior brother, let's go over and have a look, maybe we can save a few people from the fire." ”

"Well, as long as you don't delay too long!" Zhu Wen replied softly, quietly breathing a sigh of relief.

He missed Miss Zhang Hui very much, but when he was about to meet, he was worried in his heart, afraid that he was not worthy of her, and he felt so inferior that he wanted to escape.

Now Liu Yu asked him to put out the fire, which happened to fulfill his thoughts.

The two men rode along the country road into the burning village and came to the door of the burning house.

The house is a single-door house with no contiguous villages, so there is no danger of the fire spreading.

Seeing this, Liu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help but feel strange when he saw a large number of villagers gathered not far from the house, but no one was willing to step forward to put out the fire.

Zhu Wen said with a smile: "Maybe this family is a rich and unkind landlord, so the people in the village hate their family and are happy to watch the fire from the other side." ”

Liu Yu shook his head, "This house looks quite shabby, not like a rich family. ”

He didn't hear anyone in the house crying for help, and thought that there should be no one in the house.

"Senior brother, who do you see those people are?" Zhu Wen didn't answer his words, but pointed towards a path on the waist of Mount Hua.

At this time, the sky was still not bright, and I saw that someone was faintly going up the mountain.

Liu Yu fixed his eyes, "It should be the woodcutter who got up early to chop wood!"

"Probably not, anyway, there is no one here who needs to be saved, let's go up the mountain and take a look!" Zhu Wen suggested, he couldn't help but feel anxious when he saw someone going up the mountain, and he had lost interest in staying here.

"You go first, and I'll come later. Liu Yu said, he was surprised by this inexplicable fire, and wanted to continue to investigate.

Zhu Wen nodded, "The matter here is left to you, don't let the fire spread, the lives of the people are at stake." ”

"Understood. Liu Yu replied softly, his eyes looking into the depths of the flames.

Zhu Wen hurried his horse and galloped towards the path in the middle of the mountainside.

Liu Yu tied his horse to a nearby tree and walked towards the villagers who were watching.

He walked up to the villagers and asked one of the old men, "Dare to ask this old man, why is there a fire in this house, but no one has come forward to save it?"

"Hmph!" the old man snorted coldly, "That's because this family deserves it, and if you knew the reason, you would never have put out this fire, and you wish this fire would soon burn this place down!"

Liu Yu was surprised, "Uncle, where did this come from?"

The old man said angrily: "The owner of this family is named Zhuge Qian, and he brags that he is a descendant of Zhuge Wuhou, but he doesn't look like it at all. For several generations, their family has been fond of alchemy and gunpowder, not to mention the ruin, and there are often fires, burning down their own houses along with the houses of the surrounding villagers. After all these years of lessons, no one in the village dares to build a house next to their house, and everyone hopes that this Zhuge poor will quickly lose his belongings and stop engaging in these terrible things. ”

Liu Yu became interested when he heard this, "This Zhuge family has been studying gunpowder for generations, so there is such a thing?"

As far as he knew, gunpowder was invented by alchemy Taoist priests in the Northern Wei Dynasty hundreds of years ago, and there were very few people who knew this way.

"It's absolutely true, this Zhuge ran away with a fire, and he didn't know where to hide!" the old man pointed to the burning mansion and said indignantly.

Liu Yu learned from the mouth of this old man that the ancestor of this house was named Zhuge Cai, and the family had a lot of money, and he was a well-known local rich gentry. Zhuge Cai didn't know where to get the formula of gunpowder, and since then he has been addicted to it, unable to extricate himself, and bought a lot of precious pills in his life, which caused several fires and lost a lot of money to the villagers.

In the generation of his father's Zhuge Fu, the Zhuge family is still quite wealthy. It's just that Zhuge Fu also adheres to his father's hobby, likes to engage in gunpowder, and plays more fiercely than his Lao Tzu Zhuge Cai, but in a few years, he lost a lot of family property, leaving only dozens of acres of land and two long-term workers, and even his wife was angry with him. Even so, Zhuge Fu is still the same, and he was accidentally killed by an explosion during alchemy a few years ago, leaving only a son named Zhuge Poor.

Although this Zhuge is poor, he is even more stubborn than his old son Zhuge Fu. Even if this person was single, dismissed long-term workers, and sold out the dozens of acres of land left in his family, he refused to give up his ancestors' hobby of gunpowder, so he was called a madman by the villagers.

Liu Yu looked at the burning house, pursed his lips, turned around and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard a voice from behind, "Help!"

The sound came from the fire!

Liu Yu was taken aback, and he didn't have time to think, so he used the cross-current Wuji in the palm of the Stacked Waves God, and flew into the fire, protecting the true qi of the body and forcing away the flames that rushed to the sky. I saw a young man standing alone in the fire. In addition to shouting for help, this teenager has been laughing, which is incredible.

Liu Yu rushed over and grabbed the man's arm, clamped it between the ribs, rushed out of the fire, and put the man on the ground, only to see that the young man was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and his face was full of ecstasy.

The villagers thought that the boy had run away after setting the fire, so they did not put out the fire and gathered outside the house to watch. At this time, seeing that the young man was rescued by Liu Yu, they all surrounded him angrily, spitting and scolding at the young man, among which the old man scolded the most fiercely.

The young man's face was as usual from beginning to end, his face was dry, he looked at everyone with a smile, and kept arching his hands: "I'm sorry, uncles, aunts and aunts!"

Everyone saw that he was a child after all, and his demeanor was so polite, so they couldn't let go of it, and after scolding a few words, they dispersed one after another.

"Thank you for saving me!" The young man looked at Liu Yu, wiped the black ash on his face, and didn't care about the burning mansion behind him, looking very happy, "My name is Zhuge Poor, may I ask what is your name?"

"My name is Liu Yu. Liu Yu was a little strange, "Why is your house burned, but you don't care at all?"

"Because I made a major discovery, my grandfather and father are not as good!" Zhuge said proudly.

"What is the major discovery?" asked Liu Yu deliberately.

"I can't just tell you that I'm just interested in researching this, and I don't want it to fall into the hands of strangers. Zhuge Qian shook his head again and again, and then said, "I am a descendant of Zhuge Wuhou, and no one can fool my eyes." ”

"Yes, I believe. Liu Yu nodded.

It was only in an instant that he suddenly noticed the sharpness in the young man's gaze. Although this Zhuge poor is conceited to the extreme and extremely persistent, he is definitely a first-class smart person. It's just that ordinary villagers in the countryside are short-sighted and difficult to recognize such real talents.

"Since you believe me, you are my confidant in life, you might as well lend me a few taels of silver. Zhuge stretched out his hand to Liu Yu and said with a big grin: "My house has burned down now, and I have no source of livelihood, if there is no one to help me, I am afraid I will not be able to live!"