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Chapter 378 Who Set the Fire
The dark blue night sky in the distance, like the bottom of an iron pot resting on a fire, turned red with an unstoppable momentum.

A corner of the leeward morning market.Before dawn, the surroundings were very quiet, and there was no cold wind whistling.

The four people who escaped in a hurry were all tired, except for Jian Huaqiang, who was struggling with energy, and lay loosely on the ground.

Lin Mi bent one arm to make a pillow, and fell asleep drowsily.When she turned over, she suddenly tilted her head forward, and Jianhua, who was sitting across from her, quickly supported her so that she didn't hit the cold and hard ground.

She worked hard to overcome the drowsiness, opened her eyes, and sat up in a daze.

The brother wearing glasses patiently picked off the dead leaves and grass on her clothes, and took off his small satchel and handed it to her:
"Little bee, you can use this bag as a pillow when you want to sleep, so as not to fall to the ground and get hurt."

She smiled at him gratefully, patted the small satchel, and placed it under her father's head, and she lost sleepiness instead.Lin Mi glanced back at the sky inadvertently, and caught a glimpse of a dizzyingly bright red light.

"Brother Jianhua, look!" She pointed to the sky, her tone full of panic.

With lingering fear, Jianhua took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "Yes, the place where we used to live caught fire. It has been burning for a long time."

"My cousin, Li Yan, and the others should be on their way back? We couldn't find us, and we saw the yard was on fire. Are you worried?"

Tears flickered in the girl's eyes.Her heart twitched, and she looked eagerly at the place where the fire started.

"Tangtang has been in the army for more than three years. Brother Li has fought with the army since he was a child. They have never seen any dangerous scenes. A fire is nothing."

Don't look at Jianhua trying his best to downplay the incident in front of the little girl. He has already prayed hundreds of times for the two brothers whose fate is unknown.

He also hated himself for not being agile enough and lacking skills.If you can move faster while carrying Uncle Lin on your back, draw a mark on the door panel of the small broken courtyard, and they will be able to avoid danger as soon as they come back when they see it
Jianhua was restless all night, suffering extremely.But the identity of the elder brother determines that he must be as steady as Mount Tai, and stay here unwaveringly.

With the passage of time, he who was already devastated had another worry: not only to reduce Lin Mi's worries, but also to take into account his sister's feelings.

As soon as Lin Yitang's name was mentioned, Caiwei who was lying next to him sat up abruptly.It looked like the girl had woken up for a while, but was just too tired to move.

The wind blew her bangs that fell to her forehead, and her eyes were full of tears that were too late to wipe away.

Lin Mi took out the handkerchief in his pocket and gave it to her, and asked with concern: "Sister Caiwei, why are you crying?"

She lowered her head and wiped her eyes, sobbing softly:

"I was so tired that my bones fell apart after escaping at night, and there was a fire in the middle of the night, and my cousin and brother Li were separated from us again."

Jianhua couldn't help interrupting her crying: "I said sister, don't be so pessimistic. Be optimistic!"

In order not to let this sentimental young lady continue to be sad, Lin Mi decided to change the topic to distract her.

Looking at the red light gradually flattening in the distance, she had a new idea, picked up a small piece of charcoal at her feet, drew on the ground and asked:
"You say, who burned the yard? I guess it's this guy."

Caiwei came over to take a look at her scribbled drawing, it turned out to be a triangular cat head, she couldn't help frowning:
"That strange cat sent a ring, and set the house on fire by the way?"

Jianhua smiled helplessly:
"Little bee, don't be so naive. Even if the landlady's black cat is humane, there is no need to burn down their rented house for no reason—after all, it is not the tenants who suffer the most."

The roosters in the nearby houses crowed one after another, which was very lively.The sky was not as dark as before, with a few rays of light faintly showing through.More and more people and ox carts and horse carts came out from the side of the road.

Caiwei saw it in her eyes, and was anxious in her heart, and quickly hugged the package wrapped in the bed sheet tightly:
"There are so many people going to the morning market, let's go to another place to avoid it!"

Jianhua squatted down, carefully helped Mr. Lin who was sleeping, and said to her, "Little bee, help me!"

Lin Mi nodded, supported his father's shoulders, and waited for Jianhua to carry the medicine on his back steadily, before he struggled to pick up the medicine box from the ground.

In the noisy morning market, the light is very dim, and everything is blurred as if separated by a thick layer of haze.The vegetable sellers in the village who went to the market and those who got up early to shop at the vegetable stalls did not notice their hurried departure.

More than 20 miles away, the small dilapidated courtyard turned into a piece of scorched earth and rubble.Last night's fire started suddenly, and the fire took advantage of the wind to blow up, and soon swept the entire yard.

The fire spread to the houses on all sides, and the people fighting the fire came and went in black, splashing water with wooden buckets and basins.Countless footprints were left on the muddy road, mixed with the yelling and scolding of adults and the crying of children.

Lin Yitang and Li Yan ran through the entire night market without hesitation. Their footsteps became tired and heavy, and they prepared for the worst to return empty-handed.

It wasn't until Li Yan lowered his face and asked as he walked, and got a kind-hearted caller who passed by to give advice, that they finally bought a medicine jar made of loess from a small medicine shop that was open at night.

The two young men took turns holding the loess pot in their hands like a treasure, walking back happily, but they were stunned at the same time not far from home: the yard was burned? !
The medicine jar slipped from Yitang's hand, hit the ground heavily, and shattered into many pieces.

At this time, the fire had just subsided after many times of fighting.The air was filled with the choking smell of smoke and the characteristic stench of burnt debris.

He has always been very sensitive to the air. He would cough for a long time when he smelled coal smoke near the train station, let alone standing close to the scene of the fire.

Then, there was a violent coughing sound, Li Yan quickly kicked the shattered jar aside, and helped his companion, who was flushed from coughing, to walk in a direction where the air was slightly better.

The medicine jar that I finally obtained fell, and it was not as important as whether the people in the yard were dead or alive.

"Master, stand still, I'll go inside and search carefully!"

Li Yan rolled up his sleeves, stepped on the burnt wooden boards, and desperately turned the corners that seemed to be where people might be buried.

Fortunately, the places that could be moved were checked repeatedly, and no charred humanoid objects were found, they were just daily necessities.

Holding up his ten broken fingers, he breathed a sigh of relief and walked back quickly.

Seeing Tang was still holding his chest and coughing, he couldn't wait to know the answer:

"Master, did you not turn off the oil lamp in the room when we came out?"

Lin Yitang struggled to stop his cough, feeling aggrieved and guilty:

"I used too much wick"

"I didn't expect it to catch fire."

(End of this chapter)