Dahua has been thinking about something recently.
Dalazi recovered from his injury and returned to work, still in the same shift as Dahua.
Dahua went to work in the morning, washed the rice, and put the lunch box in the canteen. Da Lazi came up behind him and threw down the lunch box, rolling his eyes at him.
When they were working, they were laying bricks together. Whenever Dahua passed a brick to him, Dalazi would never take it and would just roll his eyes.
After work in the evening, Dahua and Zhao Xiaojuan went to pick up their bicycles, but found that the tires were flat.
Dahua could tolerate the first two, but he couldn't tolerate the third one. He didn't go to argue with anyone, but just kept apologizing to Zhao Xiaojuan, and by the way, pushed himself to the brink of collapse.
Fortunately, Zhao Xiaojuan is understanding and never gets upset with Dahua over such trivial matters.
So, Dahai thought he could no longer work in the brick factory.
But what to do?
Dahai thought about it for several nights in a row, and still couldn't sleep today.
After tossing and turning several times, he lost all sleepiness. He smacked his lips and felt they were a little dry, so he got up and drank some water.
The moon is full today, and the room looks like it is covered with a layer of bright gauze. Although it is not as bright as when the lights are on, you can still see clearly even in the dim light.
Dahua opened the water tank and bent down to scoop water from the ladle. He tried once but couldn't scoop any water, so he bent down a little more and tried again, but still couldn't scoop any water.
"Oh, there's no water."
He carried a wooden bucket to the well to fetch water, but heard hurried footsteps outside.
Dahua muttered to himself: It’s already so late, who is walking in such a hurry outside?
As I was thinking about this, my feet unconsciously walked out. When I opened the door, I ran into Xu Guoqing who was not far away and was holding a bucket and preparing to go to the back of the village.
"Xu Guoqing, what's going on? Where are you going?"
Dahua called out to him, but Xu Guoqing only glanced back and continued walking towards the back of the village, shouting as he went, "Dahua, grab the bucket and follow me! Dalazi's house is on fire!"
Upon hearing this, Dahua felt like he was struck by lightning, but he recovered in a moment and rushed out with the bucket.
Before reaching Dalazi's house, he could already see the fire. Dahua felt a tightness in his heart: It's bad!
Only when they got to the door did they realize how fierce the fire was. There were already more than ten people at the door. Fortunately, there was a well in front of Dalazi's house. Everyone was holding a bucket and rushing to the well to fetch water.
Dahua grabbed Xu Guoqing and asked, "Where are the people inside? Have they come out?"
"No, none of the three people came out!"
Dahua was shocked and lifted the bucket above his head and flipped it over, soaking his whole body with cold water. He threw the bucket and was about to rush in, but Xu Guoqing grabbed him with a look of horror.
"Liang Dahua! What are you doing!"
"I'm going to save people!"
"Who are you trying to save? You're going to die. Look at this fire!"
Even as he was speaking, the flames shot up again as if gaining momentum.
There was a "clang" sound of heavy objects falling from inside, and soon a fire man rushed out from inside. Everyone hurried to draw water and pour it on the man.
The man took the fire off his body and found that what was burning was a thick quilt. The man was Dalazi!
"Big Lazi, where are your father and sister?"
Someone asked, and Da Lazi collapsed on the ground and cried, "Sister, my sister is still in there!"
At this moment, everyone was either surrounding her and asking questions, or pouring water to put out the fire, and no one noticed Dahua rushing in.
"Where's Dahua?"
Xu Guoqing shouted, "Liang Dahua! Where are you? Oh no! It's bad, he must have gone in!"
When Da Lazi heard Xu Guoqing's shout, he was completely terrified and asked tremblingly, "Dah Hua went in? He went in?"
"Hurry! Put out the fire! Please put out the fire! Sister! Dahua!"
No one else dared to speak and just focused on putting out the fire. Xu Guoqing watched Dalazi from the side, afraid that she would rush in as well.
"Look! It's coming out! It's coming out!"
Someone shouted, and sure enough, a man with a charred body jumped out from the door, carrying someone on his back.
"Dahua! Dahua!" Xu Guoqing went forward and looked closely at the man dressed in black. "Good fellow! Dahua, you're really something! Good, good, good, what a man!"
Dahua put the person down from his back and collapsed to the ground. Xiao Lazi was awake at this moment, staring blankly ahead with his eyes, in a daze.
"Dahua, how dare you!"
Xu Guoqing slapped him hard, and Dahua fell to the ground with his arms spread out.
"Are you okay?"
He shook his hands and grinned, saying, "It's okay, nothing happened, haha!"
"Why are you laughing? Are you crazy?"
Xu Guoqing touched his forehead and found it was a little hot, almost the same as his own!
"Haha, I'm not stupid. I'm just happy. I finally paid it back! I finally paid it back!"
After the fire was put out, the sisters Dahua and Lazi were sent to the hospital. All three of them suffered burns to varying degrees. Lazi's father had been drinking with someone that day and got drunk at someone's house, so he escaped the disaster.
Zhao Xiaojuan saw Dahua, who was wrapped in white stripes, and immediately turned away. He looked at her slightly trembling shoulders, feeling distressed, and said in a relaxed tone:
"I'm fine, don't you think I'm fine?"
"How can you be fine? How can you be fine?" she questioned, choking at one point.
"It's really okay. Look at my face, it's not hurt at all."
Zhao Xiaojuan turned around, her face covered with tears and she didn't even bother to wipe them away. She had come in a hurry, and her usually meticulous hair was now disheveled.
"You! You fool!" She rushed to Dahua and raised her hands to hit him, but there was no good meat to hit.
Dahua grinned to please her and make her laugh. The funnier his expression was, the harder Zhao Xiaojuan cried.
"Don't you want to die? What about me? Don't you consider me anymore?"
Zhao Xiaojuan fell on the hospital bed and cried. Dahua raised his white-striped hand and stroked her head.
"If you die, I'll go find someone to go on a blind date with tomorrow. I'll be able to forget you completely."
"That won't do!" Upon hearing this, Dahua struggled to get up, completely ignoring the injuries all over his body.
"Don't move!" Zhao Xiaojuan hurriedly stopped him.
"Don't cry." Dahua begged, "I didn't feel any pain at first, but when you started crying, I felt so much pain everywhere."
Zhao Xiaojuan wiped away her tears with a wry smile, and finally gave Dahua a fierce look before she gave up.
"Xiaojuan, although I'm in pain physically, I feel good in my heart, you know?
The fact that Da Lazi saved me always weighs on my mind. Sometimes I think about it in the middle of the night and can’t sleep well.
This time I saved her sister, a life for a life, and I feel so happy now!"
"Silly, you are so stupid!"
The tears that had just been wiped away came up again. Zhao Xiaojuan let them flow, and the pressure that had been hidden in her heart for a long time seemed to flow away with them.
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