LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 35 It’s really on fire
Zhao Laoer came out of the shed and looked around.
Quietly.
There was only a faint moonlight, and after getting used to it for a while, I could barely see the surrounding environment clearly.
"S-it's so cold at night."
Zhao Laoer's clothes were thin, and the night breeze blew by, making him tremble with cold.
Zhao Laoer gathered his clothes, crossed his arms and shook them.
"It's so cold. Let's go back and find some clothes."
As soon as Zhao Laoer turned around, two dogs barked in front of him. He followed the sound and saw that it was too dark to see clearly.
The dogs in the village were woken up, and the dog from the Niu family next door ran out. When he saw a figure approaching, he smelled a familiar scent. He wagged his tail at Zhao Laoer and ran towards the place where the dog barked before. .
This is weird, what was the dog barking just now?
The dogs in the village don't bark at night. Lihua Village is so big, and every one of the dozens of households is familiar with it.
Even if I pass by someone else's house at night, I will only bark twice at first and then quiet down when I smell the familiar smell.
Is there someone running around outside?
Mr. Zhao gave the task and asked Mr. Zhao to pay attention to the surrounding situation.
Can't let go of the slightest thing that's wrong
Zhao Laoer also looked for the sound and walked to the central area. He saw three figures in the Zhou family shed.
It was so blurry that I couldn't tell who it was.
Only the outlines could be seen, three adult men, two tall and one short.
Three figures gathered around and muttered something.
Zhao Laoer's intuition was wrong. There were not three men of such stature in the Zhou family.
Staying up late at night and running outside other people's homes is bound to be bad.
Could it be stealing?
Zhao Laoer guessed while slowly approaching.
The Zhou family's big yellow dog stood not far away and stared at them warily.
The three people murmured for a while and spread out a little.
One of them took out a huozhezi, lit the thing in his hand, and threw it into the shed next to where the Zhou family slept.
Three balls of sparks illuminated the surrounding area very brightly, and Zhao Laosan could clearly see the appearance of the nearest person.
Sun Ergou?
The Zhou family's big yellow dog rushed towards the three of them instantly and bit Sun Ergou on the leg.
Sun Ergou screamed, threw the big yellow dog away with all his strength, and ran away.
The other two ran faster and disappeared in an instant.
It happened in an instant, and before Zhao Laoer had time to react, the fire had already started.
The ignited wooden pillars burned more and more fiercely, and they were about to burn to the roof of the shed.
"It's on fire!!"
"Fire! Fire!"
Zhao Laoer shouted at the top of his voice and ran towards the burning shed.
"Fire! Fire!"
Zhao Laoer's voice was very loud, and soon there were sounds from other sheds.
There must have been a fire, because several men came out wearing underwear.
"on fire?"
"Where? Where?"
The fire had ignited the entire log and spread like the roof of the shed, and the chickens and ducks inside were squawking and scurrying.
Zhao Laoer looked around and found no tools to put out the fire.
Zhou Fusheng ran out and saw a fire in the shed next door, and screamed in fright.
"Fire out!"
"Get up! Get up! It's on fire!"
Someone was already carrying a bucket of water and threw it on the burning shed. The fire was already very strong and the entire shed was burned. The bucket of water had no effect at all.
"What are you doing standing still! Get water from a bucket to put out the fire!"
Zhao Laoer ran back home to get the bucket. He passed by Zhou Fusheng who was stunned and grabbed him.
Zhou Fusheng only reacted to Zhao Laoer's reminder, returned to the shed, picked up the bucket, and ran after him.
The Zhao family is very close to the well.
When I went home to get the bucket, I told the people in the shed to check the situation and be ready to evacuate at any time.
The wind blew tonight and the fire burned quickly. If it burned to my home, there was still room to run.
As soon as I picked up the bucket and went out, I met Mr. Zhao and the village chief running over in a hurry.
After bumping into Mr. Zhao, Mr. Zhao quickly asked.
"Second brother, which house should be burned?"
Zhao Laoer replied while running, "Next door to the Zhou family!"
When a fire breaks out, no one can stand by and watch. The sheds are so close to each other. To put out the fire is to save yourself!
More and more people are running towards the bucket, especially those around the fire site.
Everyone in the family, old and young, took a container that could hold water and rushed to the well to fetch water.
The well is slow to draw water, but fortunately it is big enough. There is a small pond next to it that stores water for washing clothes. It can produce three or four buckets of water at a time.
Bucket after bucket of water was poured on the fire.
The fire burned so fast that even if it was discovered in time, it would have burned the surrounding sheds in a short time.
"My shed!"
"Hurry up! Water! Water!"
"It's going to burn me!"
The sheds of three families have caught fire, and the spread is so terrifying that no one dares to bet on whether their own homes will be burned.
More and more people are participating, and those who are strong are carrying water one trip at a time, while women and children who are weak are filling buckets of water at the well.
The face of the person illuminated by the fire turned red, and the cold night suddenly became hot.
Thick smoke billowed from the sky, and the choking smoke filled the air.
It was too slow to just use water, and some people used shovels to directly mix the soil on the ground to put out the fire despite the high temperature and thick smoke.
With the efforts of the whole village, the fire was finally extinguished when it completely engulfed three surrounding sheds.
extinguish.
The burning flame disappeared, and the dark charcoal on the ground was still emitting sparks.
The choking smoke has subsided a bit, and there is some stench in the air.
The center of the fire, where it started, looked the most tragic.
It was originally the place where the Zhou family kept chickens and ducks, but the chickens and ducks that had not escaped were burnt alive into black charcoal.
The remains of chickens and ducks were everywhere.
The templates and grains were burned to ashes, and flew around in the wind, falling lightly on the clean land that had not been burned.
Zhou Fusheng collapsed and squatted on the ground, burying his head in his lap, crying and pulling his hair.
His two sons supported the limp grandmother and looked silently at the mess on the ground.
Silently crying, everyone silently looked at the black ashes covered by the fire.
"My things! I'm not alive anymore——"
Until Mrs. Ding, whose shed was burned down, broke the silence with a loud cry.
"Oh my God! My life is so miserable!"
“I can’t live any longer!”
Mrs. Ding sat on the ground, crying and patting the ground.
It immediately became noisy.
"How will you spend your days in the future?"
"It's really sad."
"God bless me, my house wasn't burned."
"Hey, their family has nothing now."
We had just experienced a flash flood, and only a few families who had believed that the flash flood was coming and moved their belongings quickly had basically moved their belongings out.
The rest is a matter of moving in a hurry.
It was even a bit slow, only building a shed and moving a few things, and even the stored food was not moved out.
What is left barely survives without despair.
Life goes on.
Besides, there are always people worse off than myself. Look at the Ma family, what?
Nothing was left, and a child was lost.
Things are gone, at least everyone in the family is fine.
This time it was different. The few things that were there were all lost in a fire.
And only three families suffered.
The more I think about it, the more I collapse, and the more I look at it, the more desperate I become.
The three families stood in front of the ruins of their respective sheds, looking dull, and some were crying uncontrollably.
A fire destroyed everything.
There is no hope for the days to come.