353: Don’t sleep anymore, get up and put out the fire!
Yu Jiahui first went to the outside of the northernmost factory building and took a look around, then looked inside through the glass window.
It was pitch black inside, with no open flame.
I looked at each place again.
I checked the blacksmith's furnace specifically and found no open flame.
Yu Jiahui felt relieved.
Perhaps, because of his arrival and the previous rectification, the fire hazard has been eliminated.
So Yu Jiahui held on to a glimmer of hope, thinking that the fire might not happen.
He relaxed his guard a little, went back to his room, drank a bowl of water, rested for a while, and then went out for a walk.
This time, we will start from the northernmost factory.
Everything couldn't be more normal.
Yu Jiahui's heart slowly settled down and he thought that he could go back and have a rest.
However, when I returned to the middle of the yard, I suddenly smelled the smell of fireworks.
Alarm bells suddenly rang in my head.
Yu Jiahui immediately looked around, looking for the source of the fire.
Suddenly, I saw a white eye appear on the roof of the room where the old blacksmith lived under the starlight.
Oh shit!
It turned out to be this birdman!
Yu Jiahui always thought that the fire started from inside the factory, but it turned out that the fire started in the old blacksmith's house!
He suddenly remembered that the old blacksmith usually liked to smoke dry tobacco, and the old man had a bad habit of putting the old pipe in his hand anywhere without caring whether the tobacco leaves in the pipe were extinguished or not.
The old blacksmith's usual bib had dozens of holes in it from the sparks from his pipe.
Also, there seemed to be several jars of low-quality, high-proof liquor hidden in the old blacksmith's house.
If sparks from the pipe happened to fly out and cause a small flame, and the flame then happened to spread to the white wine, the fire would quickly spread and burn other things, such as straw mats, bed boards, clothes and quilts, and everything that can be burned would be burned.
By the time others discovered the fire, it was already too late. Furthermore, if the things in the yard weren't neatly tidied up, the houses would be connected, and if one fire started here, the entire repair shop would catch fire as well. That's why the fire in the original book was so serious.
Yu Jiahui didn't have time to think about it and immediately ran towards the old blacksmith's room.
Kicked the door open.
A fierce heat wave surged out from inside, choking Yu Jiahui to tears. He turned around and shouted to the workers on duty in the factory:
"There's a fire, come and put it out, come and put it out!!!"
After saying that, he rushed into the room.
In addition to the pungent smell of fireworks, there was also a faint smell of alcohol in the room.
The fire started near the wooden bed where the old blacksmith slept.
In the light of the fire, I could vaguely see the old blacksmith lying on the bed with one arm hanging down from the bottom, unconscious.
"Damn it! Drinking fake alcohol can kill people. I told you not to drink it, and now you've finally gotten into trouble!"
Yu Jiahui watched as the fire reached the bed. He watched the flickering orange flames, and a sense of fear welled up in his heart.
He knew he shouldn't take the risk; he had promised his daughter.
But seeing that people were about to be burned to death, Yu Jiahui still rushed in without hesitation:
"Damn it, I'm going to kill you, just wait till I settle the score with you!!"
Cursing, he stepped across the flames and came to the bed.
The flames on the ground burned Yu Jiahui's calf, causing a burning pain in his leg.
He ignored the pain, grabbed the old blacksmith's belt, carried the man on his shoulders, and rushed out of the room.
Just seconds after he left, the entire wooden bed caught fire. Soon, the bed legs were burned off and the wooden bed collapsed.
The thick newspapers covering the wall also caught fire.
The wooden box beside the bed, the clothes piled on the wooden box, a few torn sacks with grain in them, the hemp ropes in the corner, a few wooden objects, everything that could be burned was burned.
The fire quickly spread to the roof.
The beams and fences of the house quickly caught fire, and the entire room was engulfed in flames.
The fire spread like a highly contagious virus, passing through the fences and beams and then to the next room.
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Yu Jiahui rushed out of the house carrying the unconscious old blacksmith. He threw him to the ground and without a second thought, he slapped his burning trouser legs with his hands, shouting at the top of his voice:
"Hurry up and put out the fire! Don't even bother sleeping anymore! Come put out the fire!"
Finally, the factory door opened, and two workers on duty, wearing only their underpants, rushed out and asked dazedly:
"What's going on?"
Yu Jiahui sat on the ground, patting the flames on his trouser legs while cursing:
"Are you fucking blind? You didn't see the huge fire! Hurry up and find someone to put out the fire!"
The two young workers had already seen thick smoke billowing out of the repair shop's warehouse, but it was like a dream, they were stunned, with fear in their eyes.
Yu Jiahui slapped out the fire on his trouser legs. His trousers had already been burned into shorts. He didn't bother to curse anymore. He got up and ran towards his room, shouting at the two people as he ran:
"There's water in the blacksmith's furnace. Hurry up and put out the fire!"
The two young workers finally came to their senses and ran towards the blacksmith shop.
There, Yu Jiahui had already filled two large vats with water in advance, and the buckets were also prepared and placed next to them.
The two men picked up the bucket and put it into the tub, then ran to the burning room with the water.
After Yu Jiahui rushed into his room, he took out a broken iron basin and started banging it with a wooden hammer:
"There's a fire, come and put it out—there's a fire, come and put it out—"
“Dangdangdang——”
"Don't sleep, get up and put out the fire!!"
In the dark night, the sound of the wooden hammer hitting the iron basin was very harsh, and Yu Jiahui's voice was surprisingly loud, which soon woke up the farmers and workers who lived near the repair factory.
The first people to hear the shouts were the workers in the repair shop, who jumped up.
I rushed out of the dormitory and vaguely saw a cloud of green smoke floating over the repair shop. I knew there was a fire here, so I quickly shouted into the dormitory:
"Don't sleep, there's a fire, get up and put it out!"
Everyone on the kang was awakened, and they all jumped up and asked:
"Where's the fire?"
"It looks like a repair shop!"
"Grass!"
Everyone in the room got up and jumped off the kang. Without even having time to put on clothes, they rushed out of the dormitory shirtless and ran to the repair shop.
When they arrived at the repair factory, two of the four warehouses in the row where the old blacksmith lived had already burned down.
White smoke also began to come out of the other two rooms.
Someone suddenly thought of something and shouted:
"It's over. The tractor tires the farm just distributed are still in the warehouse. They need to be replaced for the autumn harvest. They're all in here. What should I do if they burn out?"
"Quick, go save the tire!"
"Come on, everyone, come and save the tire!"
Suddenly, a group of people ran towards the warehouse that was on fire.
Yu Jiahui was running out with a water pump weighing dozens of kilograms, intending to pump water from the well to put out the fire. He heard the noise from this side and saw a group of male educated youth running into the fire without thinking. He immediately put down the water pump, ran to the blacksmith's furnace, picked up the hammer he usually used for forging iron, and rushed over to curse:
"You guys are all so damn desperate. You want your mother to cry on your grave, right?"
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