fire
"Oh my god, what a big fire! Is there anyone in the house?"
"I saw a group of people enter the villa this afternoon, but they all seemed to leave afterwards. There should be no one there."
"If there were people, with such a big fire, what would it have been like?"
“The firefighters are here!”
Rong Yi parked the car on the side of the road in a daze, opened the door, and staggered out of the car.
The intermittent chatter of the crowd reached his ears, and he felt dizzy. He grabbed a passerby and asked quickly, "Is anyone coming out?"
The man was startled by Rong Yi's expression and subconsciously asked, "What, who?"
"There is another person in the villa. Has he come out?!" Rong Yi couldn't control his voice and almost shouted at the top of his lungs.
The captured person also became angry, "No! No one came out after the fire started. If there was anyone inside, they must have been burned to death!"
Rong Yi pushed him away and said, "You're lying!"
He walked towards the fire step by step, each step faster than the last, running on the wind.
"Hey! What are you doing? You can't go in!"
"Stop him!"
"Is this guy crazy?! He wants to die?!"
Rong Yi was getting closer and closer to the fire, the heat hit her face, and the scorching temperature burned her skin painfully.
But compared to the people trapped in the fire, this little pain is nothing.
The flames before him gradually distorted and transformed into a young man with a smile on his face, arms open to him. Rong Yi also opened his arms and rushed forward without hesitation.
However, just when he was about to merge with Manman, someone threw him to the ground from behind. Several well-trained firefighters subdued him and dragged him away from the fire.
Rong Yi struggled like crazy, "He's still waiting for me inside, let me go!"
He looked at the flames in despair, with endless regret burning in his heart.
He shouldn't have let Li Mantao stay alone in the villa, shouldn't have let Li Mantao out of his sight, shouldn't... shouldn't have pestered him so much. If he hadn't joined in, would all this have never happened?
"Sir, calm down! We will do our best to rescue you!"
Rescue? Too late!
Rong Yi broke free from the firefighters, with only the flames in his eyes. However, suddenly, a bucket of water was poured over his head and face, followed by a shout that sounded like an auditory hallucination.
"Rong Yi, wake up, I'm not dead!"
Rong Yi was startled and looked in the direction of the voice.
Li Mantao was carrying a bucket and apologizing to the firefighters: "I'm sorry, this is my friend. I'm sorry to bother you. There's no one in the villa."
The firefighter waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Your friend seems a little upset. Please comfort him first. We will come back later to understand the fire situation."
After the firefighters left, Li Mantao turned around and looked at Rong Yi. Rong Yi was standing alone in the shadows, soaked and in a terrible state. He stood there blankly, his eyes red, staring at him without blinking, as if afraid that he would turn into flames and disappear in the blink of an eye.
Li Mantao sighed, stepped into the shadows, and hugged Rong Yi. "I'm fine, don't be afraid."
Rong Yi was trembling all over, hugging the warm, living body in his arms tightly. He felt Li Mantao, and tears finally flowed from his dry eyes.
"Manman..."
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm here." Li Mantao whispered to comfort him. He stood on tiptoe and rubbed his forehead against Rong Yi's forehead, just like his grandfather comforted him when he was a child.
Rong Yi's breathing was rapid and heavy. Looking at Li Mantao's warm eyes, he suddenly closed his eyes, lowered his head, and pressed his lips heavily on Li Mantao's lips.
Li Mantao was stunned for a moment, and his lips and teeth were invaded and swept violently by the outsider. He subconsciously wanted to struggle, but he tasted the sour taste first. He reacted and realized that it was Rong Yi's tears.
He thought of what he had just seen, Rong Yi rushing towards the fire regardless of everything, and fear spread in his heart.
The struggling hand stopped, Li Mantao lowered his eyes, relaxed the guard between his teeth, placed his hand on Rong Yi's back, and gently stroked it.
Not afraid anymore.
…
Thanks to the firefighters' best efforts, the fire was put out and did not spread.
"I had planned to take a nap in my room, but I couldn't sleep because I slept too much today, so I went out for a walk. When I came back, I found the villa on fire. Fortunately, no one was inside." Li Mantao stood outside the wreckage of the villa and asked the firefighters, "What caused the fire?"
"The preliminary assessment is that the wiring was aging, the socket caught fire, and the curtains were set on fire, and then the fire started," explained the firefighter.
"Taotao, are you okay?!"
Several people ran over quickly. Li Mi nervously grabbed Li Mantao and looked him up and down. After confirming that Li Mantao was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm fine, it's just this house..."
"Don't worry, the responsibility isn't ours. I've already contacted the landlord." Li Mi patted Li Mantao's head comfortingly. "I'm glad he's okay."
Dong Yuan was also shouting nearby, "This landlord is so shameless! He didn't even inspect the property before renting it to us, and now that something's wrong, he's trying to blackmail us."
Li Mantao exclaimed, "Ah!" "No way? You want us to pay you back?"
"Don't be afraid." Rong Yi held Li Mantao's hand tightly and said in a deep voice, "I will get to the bottom of this."
"That's right, let's get to the bottom of this! The tablet I just bought was burned to ashes, wuwuwu." Dong Yuan clenched his fists in pain.
The members suffered varying degrees of property loss, and were filled with indignation. Li Mantao had been feeling weak that afternoon due to a cold, so he didn't take his belongings from Rong Yi's car, and thus avoided any losses.
Their place had burned down, and they couldn't find another suitable rental villa for the time being, so they had to temporarily find a hotel. Li Mi stood in the lobby, arranging rooms for the members. His eyes swept across Rong Yi and Li Mantao, and then moved down uncontrollably, landing on their tightly clasped hands, and then silently moved away.
Li Mantao tried to pull his hand free, but couldn't. He covered his face with a magazine and lay on the sofa, pretending he didn't exist. Rong Yi had just been frightened, and her emotions had calmed down, but she was still clinging to him like a dog-skin plaster, even following him to the bathroom. He was inside the door, Rong Yi outside, and she didn't mind the smell.
Understand, understand. After all, she was doing this out of worry for him. Li Mantao consoled himself mentally, trying his best to ignore the heat that shackled his left hand.
"Let's arrange the rooms like this for now. Everyone can do whatever they want tonight. Those who don't have clothes can go buy some. Those whose IDs were burned can go get new ones. Have a good rest today. We'll play tomorrow." Li Mi clapped his hands, and everyone dispersed to do their business.
She glanced at the two people sitting close together on the sofa, and suddenly felt a sense of emptiness in her heart, as if her well-grown cabbage had been eaten away.
Alas! Alas! Alas!
Li Mi sighed three times, drawing the mockery of her idiotic boyfriend, "Mi Mi, you're born in the Year of the Ox, panting so hard, hahahaha... I was wrong."
Retracting his glare, Li Mi went to check in with a melancholy look on his face.
Everyone he knew had left. Li Mantao took the magazine away from his face and whispered to Rong Yi, "Let go of your hands! They've all seen it. What a shame!"
Rong Yi didn't let go, "They've all left, no one saw it, you can hold it."
Li Mantao gritted his teeth and said, "How am I going to find a girlfriend in the future if you're like this?"
Rong Yi's eyes dimmed slightly, "Manman kissed me, and you still want to find someone else?"
I kissed you?! I kissed you?!
Li Mantao wanted to find a hammer to crack open Rong Yi's head and see what was inside. How could he confuse right and wrong? He was clearly trying to comfort Rong Yi, and he didn't push her away immediately after being forcefully kissed. But coming out of Rong Yi's mouth, it was him who slandered her innocence!
He was so angry that he rolled up the magazine into a tube and slammed Rong Yi's hand, which was holding his. "Let go! Let go! Let go!"
However, Rong Yi was so thick-skinned that even though the back of his hand was beaten red, he still held on tightly and refused to let go.
Passersby heard the noise and looked over.
"The atmosphere is becoming more and more open nowadays. Gays are showing their affection in public."
"Two handsome guys, quite a match."
Li Mantao: “…”
He threw the magazine away, dragged Rong Yi to the front desk, and handed over his ID card. "Hello, two single rooms."
He kicked Rong Yi again and said, "Take out your ID card."
Rong Yi replied calmly, "It was burned."
"Didn't you leave your bag in the car?" Li Mantao looked at him suspiciously. Seeing Rong Yi staring at him silently, he turned around and said to the front desk, "Then let's get a twin room."
After getting the room card, Li Mantao dragged Rong Yi upstairs again, unlocked the door, and pushed Rong Yi to the bathroom door. "Take a shower first."
In order to calm down the crazy Rong Yi, I poured water on him. Although his clothes are half dry now, they must be uncomfortable to wear.
Rong Yi touched Li Mantao's hand reluctantly and walked into the bathroom.
His left hand was finally free. Li Mantao shook it and felt that his left hand was even redder than his right hand.
Too many things happened today. He lay down on the sofa, pressed the knuckles of his index finger against his eyebrows, and after a while, he started doing eye exercises.
With his eyes closed and his vision blocked, Rong Yi's crazy look seemed to reappear in front of him.
If he hadn't had the urge to go out to see the sea in the afternoon and had really been sleeping in the house and was trapped in the fire, what would Rong Yi do?
If he died, what about Rongyi?
Li Mantao remembered what Rong Yi had said to him.
"In this world, I have nothing else to cling to except Manman."
Li Mantao put down his hands and opened his eyes.
He clutched his chest, his heart beating wildly.
"Manman?"
Rong Yi's voice suddenly rang out, and Li Mantao was in a trance for a moment. When the voice rang out again, he realized that it was Rong Yi who was really calling him. He stood up and walked to the bathroom door. "What's wrong?"
"Could you help me get my clothes?"
"oh."
Li Mantao found a change of clothes from Rong Yi's bag and knocked on the bathroom door. The door opened slightly and he handed the clothes in. The person inside didn't take the clothes away for a while, so he shook the clothes and said, "Hurry up and take them."
Just as he was about to curse, a strong hand suddenly grabbed his wrist, and then Li Mantao was pulled into the bathroom.
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