Chapter 196 Little People
After walking a distance, Zhu Xiaoyu said indignantly: "Wu Jun, why were you so afraid of her just now? She is alone. Even if she has a crossbow, she can't beat so many of us. And we have spears and bows. If it doesn't work, we can shoot her with them. Is it necessary to be so cowardly?"
The leading man, Wu Jun, said: "No matter how powerful spears and bows are, can they be more powerful than this?" He made a pistol gesture.
Zhu Xiaoyu was surprised and asked, "She has a pistol?"
Wu Jun nodded. "I heard it from others. I heard that there is a villa surrounded by an ice wall in this area, and the owner of the villa has real weapons."
"I didn't think about it at first. Then I thought how could this person be so bold? There were so many of us, but she was the only one who dared to challenge us and ask us for compensation."
"If someone dares to do this, he is either a fool or very confident. She is alone, and the only thing that makes her so confident is that she has something in her hand that can easily deal with so many of us. Then I remembered what I heard from others before, that someone in this area has a gun."
Zhu Xiaoyu said, "You only heard about it. How can you be sure that she has a gun? What if she is just a fool who is not afraid of death?"
Wu Jun glared at him and said unhappily, "You call others fools, but I think you are the real fool! Don't you think about it, if she was really a fool, how could she get a rabbit fur coat? How dare she live outside the sewer alone?"
Zhu Xiaoyu curled his lips and snorted indignantly, "I'll report her to the security guard in two days. I wonder if she will still be so arrogant now that she has lost her gun!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Jun kicked him and said, "Report? What can you report? Just because you touch your lips, the security guard will surrender his gun obediently?"
"You still don't believe me when I say you are strong but simple-minded. Don't you think that if you could report it, a lot of people would have done it long ago. How could it be your turn?"
"What did you say when you went to report it? You said you wanted to climb into someone else's yard, but they didn't want you to, so they pointed a gun at you? Before you could even report them, you were arrested and sent to a labor camp, eating jail food!"
Zhu Xiaoyu was still not convinced, but in order to avoid further scolding, he shut his mouth for no apparent reason.
The group continued to catch skuas and steel-toothed rabbits. It was almost nine o'clock in the evening before Zhu Xiaoyu and his team returned to the sewer carrying the prey they had caught today.
When they were about to reach the sewer entrance, Zhu Xiaoyu and his companions saw someone crawling out of the sewer entrance in a panic.
Zhu Xiaoyu murmured, "Isn't the entrance only for entry? How come they crawled out from the entrance? Did we take the wrong path?"
"You're not in the wrong place. There's a red sign next to it. This is the entrance." Wu Jun stared at the entrance to the sewer with a serious expression. Seeing someone running towards this side, he hurriedly stopped the person and asked, "Hey, big brother, is there something wrong with the sewer? Why are you all heading out towards the entrance?"
The man gasped and said, "Yes, there is a madman who set the sewer on fire. The whole place down there is on fire!"
"What!" Zhu Xiaoyu's voice rose eight times. "The sewer is on fire?! What about our supplies? My new rabbit fur blanket isn't even warm enough yet!"
Before he could finish his words, Zhu Xiaoyu hurriedly dived into the sewer.
Wu Jun reacted and immediately hugged him around the waist, "Fuck! Are you crazy? Didn't you hear them say that the whole area down there was on fire? Do you want to die?"
"Let me go! My supplies are still down there! I want to rescue them, let me go!" Zhu Xiaoyu struggled like crazy.
Wu Jun couldn't stand it any longer, so he pushed Zhu Xiaoyu down and punched him twice in the face with his clenched fists. "Calm down! Which is more important, supplies or people!"
After being hit twice, Zhu Xiaoyu gradually calmed down, but he could not suppress the discomfort, anger and helplessness in his heart.
"I know you feel bad, and I feel bad too. But now we have to stay calm. There is fire everywhere down there, and we will be dead if we go in. Wait until the fire is out, and then we'll go down and look for it. Maybe we'll be lucky, and the fire won't burn our side." Wu Jun comforted Zhu Xiaoyu, and also comforted himself.
Zhu Xiaoyu bit his lip, a trace of despair flashed in his eyes. They had spent a lot of effort to save those supplies, and now they were burned down in a fire. How would they live in the future?
He was not the only one shrouded in despair. All the people who crawled out of the sewer entrance collapsed in despair on the snow after escaping.
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On the other side, Xia Xiaoman rearranged the traps in the yard, and then found two wooden boards and climbed to the roof to repair the house.
When the house was almost repaired, suddenly there was a fire in the distance.
In the dark night, the fire was very conspicuous, and Xia Xiaoman couldn't pretend he didn't see it.
The surrounding skuas saw the raging fire and flew over with curiosity. When they were about to get close to the fire, they sensed the dangerous heat wave and flew away in an instant.
Xia Xiaoman took out a telescope and looked at the place where the fire was coming out. It turned out to be a sewer entrance.
Not far from the burning sewer entrance, another sewer entrance was filled with people who had escaped from the sewer.
Some of these people were burned and squatted on the ground, grabbing a handful of snow and throwing it on their wounds. Some people may have gotten out of bed, wearing very little clothes, squatting on the ground, huddled together and shivering. Some people cried bitterly, and it was unclear whether they had family members who did not escape or were crying because the supplies had not been moved out.
After a while, several soldiers in uniform appeared. No one knew what they said. Those who were crying and sitting on the ground in a daze all started to move and threw the snow around them into the sewer.
Xia Xiaoman looked for a while and saw that the burning sewer was some distance away from where Wang Shijin and his family lived, so he put down the telescope, cleaned up the roof and returned to the living room.
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It was eight days later that Xia Xiaoman found out why the sewer caught fire.
It just so happened that on that day, Sun Qing led a team to Fucheng to exchange rabbit skins. Wang Shijin didn't know where he got the news from, but just as Sun Qing arrived at her house, Wang Shijin appeared right after.
Xia Xiaoman saw Wang Shijin outside the wall from the second-floor balcony, and went downstairs and carried the ladder to the side of the wall.
"Don't you have to go to work today? How come you have time to come to my place?"
Wang Shijin smiled and said, "I took a day off with someone else today. Is Sun Qing here with you? I have something to talk to her about."
Xia Xiaoman asked curiously, "What do you want to see her about? Selling sweet potato leaves?"
Wang Shijin sighed, "Do you think I look like someone who can run a small business like this?"
Xia Xiaoman did not answer but asked, "Who was the person who sold me sweet potato leaves at a high price some time ago?"
Wang Shijin: “…”
He was indeed in the wrong in this matter.
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