At that moment, a woman's voice came from inside the house.
"Hey Lao Guo, what are you busy with! Let them burn outside, what are you afraid of!" Just as he finished speaking, a woman wearing almost transparent clothes came out. When she saw the group of young men outside the door, she immediately ran back inside.
"Why didn't you tell us you had guests over!"
A hint of embarrassment appeared on Lao Guo's face, and he shouted inside, "Why are you wearing see-through clothes at home! Really!"
"Get to work, get to work!"
A few young men chuckled and said, "Hey, Mr. Guo, you're still got it! You've found such a young girl, can your body handle it?"
Old Guo felt a little embarrassed, so he immediately waved and went to get busy.
Following the crowd, most of the items were moved to the street. The woman who had been there earlier changed into normal clothes and sat sullenly at the door, fanning herself with a small fan while looking at the things.
To relieve the pressure of work, some people started gossiping about Lao Guo.
Guo, whose real name is Guo Daming, is a famous calligrapher in Qingshui City. In recent years, due to the boom in the calligraphy and painting world, his value has soared. Guo, who is over fifty years old, has suddenly escaped poverty and become a local celebrity. He is rich, famous and powerful. It is said that he is also the vice president of the Qingshui City Calligraphy and Painting Association.
It is said that once people have money, they want to say goodbye to everything in the past. Lao Guo was no exception. He found a girlfriend who was about thirty years younger than him behind his wife's back. Later, the affair was exposed. Someone informed on him, and Lao Guo's reputation plummeted. His wife was unwilling to bear the infamy with him and divorced him in a fit of anger.
Later, to get rid of the busybodies, Lao Guo simply spent money to buy a piece of land in the new urban area and build a house. Then he made his mistress his legal wife, and the old man and the young woman lived a shameless life. However, because Lao Guo was a very low-key person and did not often interact with the people around him, when the people in the neighborhood asked him what he did, he would say that he was a calligraphy teacher. Over time, the people in the neighborhood started to call him Teacher Guo.
Lu Yuan wiped the sweat from his brow and looked at the raging fire not far away. The fire was still raging and, aided by the wind, was constantly consuming the nearby houses.
After counting the water at Lao Guo's house, everyone rushed back to the fire site to work. The ground was already scorching hot, and Lu Yuan could feel the high temperature through his shoes.
Seeing that the fire could not be extinguished in time, the firefighters immediately made a decision to cut off the source of the fire!
There are only a few ways to extinguish a fire. The first is to extinguish it directly with water. The second is to create a firebreak and wait for the fire to burn everything inside. The third is to isolate the oxygen source from the fire.
However, it seems that only the second method is feasible at present. The firefighters have already tried the first method, but it is completely ineffective and only wastes water. As for the last method, isolating the oxygen source from the fire, no one can do that.
The fire brigade captain pointed to a house that was about to catch fire in the distance and shouted, "Whose house is that?"
After calling out several times, a woman with a dark complexion finally came out of the house carrying a bunch of bottled water.
"It's my house! Boss! Quick, put out the fire! The fire is about to reach my house!"
With a look of determination and apology on his face, the captain said, "I'm sorry, we need your cooperation!"
The woman was stunned for a moment, not understanding what the captain meant, and immediately asked, "Sir, just tell me! As long as you can save my family, I'll cooperate!"
"Oh! I'm sorry, is there anything else in your house that you need to take out?"
"Hmm? I don't need to bring anything, just some water, I'm worried..."
The woman was about to say something when the team leader turned around and yelled at his teammates, "That's enough! There's nothing she's taking out of her house. Go in and check again to see if anyone's there! If no one's there, just push it over!"
Several team members saluted and rushed into the woman's house.
The woman still didn't understand at this point, but when she saw a truck approaching from a distance and reversing towards her house, she suddenly realized what was happening.
"Sir! No! Don't destroy my house!" The woman tried to rush over to stop the truck, but the fire chief pulled her back firmly.
"Sorry, we had no choice!" The captain handed the woman to his team member and then waved at the truck.
"No! No! My child and my husband are still working outside! If you demolish my house, what will happen to my child when they come back! You can't demolish it!" The woman cried and desperately tried to stop them, but the team members wouldn't let go.
With a loud crash, the truck bed smashed straight into one of the walls of the house.
Then the car drove forward, and the house collapsed instantly, filling the scene with smoke and dust.
The house collapsed, preventing the fire from spreading. The woman's house successfully stopped the fire from spreading and saved more than a hundred families, but her own home was gone.
The fire slowly subsided, leaving behind a scene of scorched earth. Everyone's face was blackened by soot, and no one could smile.
The woman sat on the ground, pounding her chest and stamping her feet in anguish; her voice pierced through the thick smoke and reached everyone's ears.
As people were talking, Lu Yuan learned that the woman's name was Huang Huahua, and that she was from the mountains. She had moved here a few years ago, and that the house had used up all of her family's savings and left them with a mountain of debt.
After years of paying off her debts, she was finally able to live a good life, but then this fire suddenly struck. The fire destroyed not only her house, but also her hopes for the future.
Lu Yuan felt a pang of sadness watching this, and turned around to pat the few young men beside him.
"Go get some water!"
Several young men followed Lu Yuan to Guo Daming's house. After seeing that the fire had been extinguished, Guo Daming left and began to move his collection of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and wood carvings into his house.
Upon seeing Lu Yuan and the others, he was taken aback for a moment and immediately said, "Since the fire hasn't reached you, you don't need to give me so much water. You can take this tank of water with you!"
After saying that, he was about to walk into the house when Lu Yuan grabbed him and said, "Teacher Guo, a person cannot break their word. If it weren't for us, and the fire really came, you wouldn't have been able to keep any of your belongings!"
The other party was about to argue when they saw several young men nearby starting to choose which tank was bigger and which was smaller.
In the end, Guo Daming gave in, watching with tears in his eyes as the men moved the vat to...
After carrying the water to the roadside, Lu Yuan said to the young men, "Go and ask the villagers if they need to buy water again. I'll sell this portion!"
The group of people were stunned.
"Brother, you don't want water? Water's more important than money these days! Don't do anything rash!"
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