"Little one, don't move, go to sleep."
Chen Dazhi was very sleepy, and Sun Xiaoxiao tossed and turned in bed, making him very uncomfortable.
"Dazhi, I feel uneasy, like something big is about to happen."
Chen Dazhi hugged Sun Xiaoxiao tightly, and said in a daze.
"Pregnant women are all like this."
"Maybe."
Sun Xiaoxiao covered herself with the blanket. "You should go to bed early. Staying up late is bad for the fetus."
In the middle of the night, Luo Mei locked the door from the outside, holding the paint she had stolen from the soy sauce factory in her hand.
This paint was leftover from when Su Luo was building the house. She gave ten percent of it to the wooden doors and other wooden parts for the soy sauce.
Luo Mei discovered several days ago that the soy sauce factory had not yet started making soy sauce, and there was no one to guard it during the Chinese New Year.
Pour the paint through the crack in the door, then go to the kitchen to find a tinderbox.
There was still some cooking oil left in the kitchen, so I simply poured it out and cooked it all together.
The kitchen was lit, and Luo Mei emerged from the fire, laughing maniacally.
Outside Chen Dazhi's door, a tinderbox was thrown onto the paint, and the fire started along with the paint.
The room was suddenly brightly lit, with flames shooting into the sky.
Outside the door came Rome's maniacal laughter.
"Hahaha... Chen Dazhi, I'll kill you, hahaha..."
"Die! You two adulterers, go to the King of Hell and become lovers, hahaha..."
The fire quickly spread to the bedside, and Sun Xiaoxiao was so frightened that her voice became hoarse.
The room was filled with flames. Coming to his senses, he patted Chen Dazhi's shoulder hard.
"What are you doing? Can't a person get any sleep?"
If Sun Xiaoxiao can't sleep all night, she shouldn't bother herself.
It's already cold sleeping in winter, and he had just warmed up for a little while when Sun Xiaoxiao woke him up again. This was going to kill him.
"Big ambition, let's go... let's go..."
Chen Dazhi opened his eyes and sat up abruptly.
The fire is getting bigger and bigger; it's going to kill people.
"What are you still sitting there for? Run!"
The two choked on the smoke and ran to the door, but they couldn't open it no matter how hard they tried.
The bed where the two of them were lying was also burned.
"Dazhi, what should we do..."
Chen Dazhi kicked the door several times, but it still wouldn't open.
"You ask me? Who should I ask?"
Outside the door, Luo Mei's maniacal laughter continued.
"You're all going to die... burn you all, hahahaha..."
People are selfish when faced with death.
Upon hearing Luo Mei's voice, Chen Dazhi immediately shouted.
"Luo Mei, please save me! Open the door quickly..."
Luo Mei laughed loudly, "Save you? Save you to kill me?"
"Die, all of you, die..."
Seeing Luo Mei's expression, Chen Dazhi knew that he had gone too far.
This drove Romeo mad, and now she must want to take me down with her.
The more he tried to shout for help, the more smoke filled his mouth and nose, and he could hardly breathe.
Looking at Sun Xiaoxiao beside me, she was lying unconscious in the fire.
Seeing that it was better to rely on oneself than to look to others, and since the door was almost completely burned down anyway, Chen Dazhi kept kicking at the wooden door in front of him.
The door also showed signs of loosening.
But Chen Dazhi's heart is now filled with nothing but revenge against Luo Mei, except for the desire to escape. Once he gets out, he will definitely kill Luo Mei.
"Damn it..."
They kicked and cursed, and the door was burned down by the fire.
He had originally kicked her outside.
He had barely taken a breath of fresh air when the door, before it even collapsed, came crashing down on him again.
How could Luo Mei let Chen Dazhi escape? Before the door even fell down, she pushed it back up. Chen Dazhi was slow to react and was crushed under the door.
With Luo Mei weighing over 200 pounds on top, Chen Dazhi couldn't push the door panel at all. In the end, it's unclear whether he was burned to death or crushed to death.
The fire engulfed the entire courtyard in an instant.
It was the middle of the night again when the neighbors heard the sound of adobe bricks exploding. When they came out to check, they found that it had been accidentally set on fire.
"Oh no, there's a fire! Everyone come out and put out the fire... there's a fire..."
The neighbor tapped on a bamboo tube, and instantly the lights came on in every household in Changping Village.
The reason why Chen Dazhi's family was not well-liked in the village was because the whole village mobilized to fight the fire.
That was because they were afraid the fire at his house would spread to the soy sauce factory, which belonged to the entire village, and they couldn't let Chen Dazhi's fire destroy it.
"The water's out...the water's out..."
The word spread throughout the village, from one family to another.
"Quickly, everyone who has water at home, bring it over from home."
Su Luo was also awakened by the commotion in the village. She put on her clothes, and Zhao Ruyun was already at the gate.
"Grandma, whose house is on fire?"
"Looking in that direction, it seems to be Chen Dazhi's house."
Upon hearing that it was Chen Dazhi's house, Su Luo's heart skipped a beat, and she rushed out.
"Oh no, Grandma, you stay home. If Yanchuan and Yihuan wake up, don't let them go out. I'm going to check on the soy sauce factory."
"Luo Luo, slow down, don't go near the fire..."
"I understand, Mother-in-law..."
Not daring to linger, Su Luo ran and spoke to Zhao Ruyun behind her.
When we arrived at the newly built soy sauce factory, the exterior walls near Chen Dazhi's house were blackened by smoke.
There are more than a dozen people here, putting out the fire while keeping watch to prevent it from spreading to the soy sauce factory.
"Yan Chuan's mother, don't come here, it's dangerous here."
Chen Dazhi's house was beyond saving; all everyone could do was prevent the fire from spreading to the other neighbors' houses.
Fortunately, they weren't well-liked, so no one wanted to build their houses near them.
The worries I had back then indirectly saved the lives of several families.
The village chief also rushed over and was relieved to see that the soy sauce factory was alright.
“Village chief, I’ll keep watch here. If there’s no water, you can send someone to fetch some from the fishpond in my yard.”
Compared to running to the river to fetch water, it's closer to Su Luo's house. They even dug a well in their yard, which makes getting water much easier.
"Okay...we'll talk about it after the fire is out."
Everyone was at home during the Spring Festival. The whole village worked together to put out the fire. By dawn, Chen Dazhi's house had been burned down, and the fire was finally extinguished.
The entire village surrounded the house, which had become ruins; some parts had collapsed, and even after being doused with water, white smoke was still rising from it.
As long as the smoke continues, people dare not leave.
Chen Ping'an spent the whole night fighting the fire, and his face and clothes were completely blackened.
Only the eyes reveal that they are black and white.
Chen Dazhi was his older brother. Even though the villagers didn't like him as their older brother, he still didn't want Chen Dazhi to die.
He ran into the fire several times to look for someone, shouting until his throat was hoarse, but there was no response.
"Chen Laosan, you've done your best. Once the fire is out, we'll go with you to search the area; perhaps we can find Chen Dazhi's body."
The villagers comforted Chen Ping'an.
However, the most discussed topic was how the fire started. Could it have been accidentally started during ancestral worship during the Lunar New Year?
Some people speculated that the two women in the house got into a fight and burned the house down. In any case, they haven't seen Chen Dazhi or the two women yet.
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