Volume 1: Xingzhi Chapter 4: Zhu Ba set fire to the firm
The morning glow is all over the sky, and the smoke curls in Lingshan Village.
"Mother, the medicine is boiled, you feed it to Dad, and I'll go around the city again and see if I can think of a way." Putting the boiled medicine on the table, Ying Che walked to his father's bed and tucked the quilt and said.
"Ah Che, if you really can't do it, forget it. Your father's he... That's how it should be..."
In a word, the mother and son in the room fell into a brief silence.
Yes, the poor are poor, and there is indeed only one way to wait for death in the face of illness.
Squeezing out a smile, Ying Che looked at her mother and whispered comfort. "Mother, I believe that Ah Che will definitely get the antidote. Moreover, after his father is well, Ah Che will go to Tanglin to work and make money, which will definitely make you live a good life with your father and sister. ”
As he spoke, he picked up the boiled medicine and handed it to his mother.
"Mother, feed it to Dad while it's hot, I'll go first. ”
wanted to get out of the room, but unexpectedly, he bumped into Lin Qingquan who was rushing in a hurry.
"Brother Qingquan!"
When Lin Qingquan saw Yingche, his eyes widened, and he secretly swallowed his saliva, full of suspicion.
"Xiao Che, you..."
Hurriedly made a silent gesture to Lin Qingquan, signaling him not to talk about yesterday's events, and changed the topic. "Brother Qingquan, you should be looking for me, let's go out and talk. ”
was still immersed in the shock of Ying Che's escape from death, and when he saw Ying Che asking, he hurriedly waved his hand.
"No, no, I'm here to deliver an antidote to Uncle Ying. ”
As he spoke, he took out a folded silk handkerchief from his bosom, and opened it to reveal a pill the size of a soybean.
"The antidote to the broken intestines, feed Uncle Ying first. ”
Yin Shu looked at Lin Qingquan, and then at the antidote in the latter's hand, first she was happy, and then knelt in front of Lin Qingquan with a puff and sobbed in a low voice. "Lin Gongzi's great kindness, our family of four has nothing to repay, and we are willing to give the Lin family a cow and a horse to repay Gongzi's life-saving grace. ”
"Aunt Ying, you are serious, hurry up and feed Uncle Ying. In addition, I have sent someone to inform my father, if my father knows about Uncle Ying, he will definitely rush back as soon as possible. After all, Xiao Che is in my father's heart, but he is even more precious than my own son. ”
A joke dissolved the dull atmosphere of the moment, and everyone had a long-lost smile on their faces.
After taking the antidote, Ying's face immediately improved.
According to Dr. Xu, one antidote can dissolve most of the toxins in his body, and the second antidote can remove toxins from the body. The third antidote is to consolidate the body's functions, in the words of the earth, that is, after taking the third antidote, the body will develop antibodies to the toxin.
What Lin Qingquan brought was not only the antidote, but also the hope of Yingche's family.
"Ah Che, you accompany Lin Gongzi to the village, and I'll cook rice. After speaking, he looked at Lin Qingquan again. "Lin Gongzi, you must finish eating at home before leaving. ”
"Okay!" Lin Qingquan has a hearty personality, and he can't squirm and pinch his attitude. Immediately laughed. "Aunt Ying, don't always be a Lin Gongzi, you are an elder, or just call me Qingquan. ”
"It's... How does this work? ”
"Oh, Aunt Ying, there's nothing inappropriate. You underestimated the weight of Xiao Che in my father's heart, and also underestimated the relationship between our brothers. Moreover, in a few years, when my sister marries into your family, she will be a real relative. ”
"Marry..."
The more Lin Qingquan said, the more outrageous it became, and Ying Che's cheeks were hot.
"Mother, don't listen to Brother Qingquan's nonsense, he's joking. He explained on his lips, but there were ripples in his heart, as if he had been touched on the restless heartstrings.
couldn't help but flash in my mind the gentle and pitiful young figure full of bookish breath.
"Okay, okay, my mother understands. Let's take you Brother Qingquan to play, my mother will cook and call you. As she spoke, Yin Shu had a happy smile on her face and pushed Ying Che and the others out of the room.
Walking outside the courtyard, I saw Zhu Ba's mother Jinhua through the courtyard gate, dragging her fat body, and running towards her house in a hurry.
"Aunt Jinhua, what's wrong?"
I couldn't stop, exhaled heavily, and shouted out of breath.
"Ah Che! Hachi, he took it, he took the tung oil at home, tung oil... Town. I left before dawn and haven't come back yet. Ah Che, you have a lot of ideas, you analyze and analyze the eldest mother, will something happen to my little eight. ”
"Tung oil!"
"Tung oil?"
Lin Qingquan was stunned for a while, turned around and whispered in Ying Che's ear.
"When I came, I saw a fire rising to the sky in the southern city. Because I was in a hurry to send the antidote to your father, I didn't take it seriously. If that little eight had gone with tung oil, would he have avenged your father? You know, the Shen Mansion is in Nancheng, and Nancheng is almost the property of the Shen family. ”
Hearing this, a strong sense of crisis rushed straight to his head, regardless of the golden flower lady on the side, and ran towards the hillside. Although the hillside is not high, you can see the outline of Tanglin County from the top of it.
Lin Qingquan followed behind, arrived at the hillside, and looked at the thick smoke of Tanglin that rushed to the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and sighed in his heart.
"It's over! Hachi-chan is done!"
In an instant, Ying Che's whole person seemed to have been drained of his soul, and he walked towards the village in despair.
"Hachi, Hachi, why are you so stupid. Having said that in the long run, you... No, I'll have to go into the city to find him, maybe things aren't that bad. ”
"Brother Qingquan, little eight..."Ying Che's face was gloomy, and his heart was full of pain.
"Don't worry, he didn't have to set the fire. Or rather, your friend named Hachi, maybe it's okay. Don't worry yet, I'll accompany you back to the city to find out the news first, and move according to the situation. ”
At the entrance of the village, Aunt Jinhua is waiting anxiously.
Ying Che ran to Aunt Jinhua and said softly. "Aunt Jinhua, you go to the monkey's house to find the monkey, and let him take Ergou and his group to the city to find Xiaoba. Tell the monkey that he should mainly go to the south city to look for him, and if he finds it, bring him back. I'll go to the city first to see if there's any news of Hachi. ”
The monkey and Ergou and others in Ying Che's mouth are his and Xiaoba's playmates from childhood to adulthood.
"Okay, okay, Ah Che, you must bring my little eight back. Aunt Jinhua said eagerly.
"Don't worry. Golden Flower Lady"
......
Thick smoke covering the sky and the sun filled the sky over the town of Tanglin. The smoke and dust scattered in the air kept falling, like black snowflakes falling from the sky, making the already smoke-filled Tanglin covered with a thick layer of black dust.
"Little slave, I beg you, for the sake of being born with me, can you help me?"
Walking on the road with Lin Qingquan, looking around left and right from time to time to look for Xiaoba's figure, Yingche did not forget to communicate with the Tongsheng Yubi called Xiaonu in his heart.
"This palace has already said that your current task is to cultivate. Moreover, unless something happens to you, this palace will not make a move. The voice was ethereal, sometimes far and sometimes near, and Ying Che frowned again and again when he listened.
"Do you believe it or not, I'll throw you into the stinking ditch? I'll tell you, I'm Yingche is a good talker, and if I throw you into the stinking ditch, I'll throw you into the stinking ditch. ”
"You... Well, he wasn't burned to death, that's all I can tell you. ”
"So, this fire was put by Hachi?" he was eager to know the answer, and hurriedly asked.
"No comment!"
Approaching the southern city, countless soldiers who had lost their armor hurried to the fire point with their containers to put out the fire, and there were many people around who were watching the excitement, surrounding hundreds of meters away from the Shen family's business, pointing and expressing their opinions.
"I said, 'How did this fire start?' ”
A person watching the excitement asked a question, which immediately attracted many "insiders" to gush endlessly and express their own remarks.
"This is the heavenly fire, it is the monstrous fire that God is punishing the Shen family and deliberately descending. I see, the Shen family has done evil to the end. The women on the side lit a raging fire of gossip and gushed endlessly.
"I think so, why doesn't this fire burn others? This whole street is burning, and it's all the Shen family's shops, you don't think it's strange. Another said.
"Hey, you know what. The youngest son of my eldest cousin's third aunt's family worked as a partner in the Shen family's business, but I heard him say with my own ears that the fire started from the Shen family's business, and it was the Shen family who came out of the inner ghost, and his own people set fire to their own people. Another insider said.
"Really?"
A group of people immediately gathered around and asked.
"Of course, I heard it with my own ears. ”
Where did Ying Che have the heart to listen to these people's gossip, his mind was all on finding the fat man Zhu Ba.