"Are you eighteen years old?"
said the old man at the commissary, whose eyes were half-closed, opened slightly, and said in a sullen voice.
Zhu Yan hesitated for a second, and simply lied: "I'll help my dad buy it." ” The old man glanced at him again, and without any further questioning, he asked, "Which one do you want?"
"That's it," Zhu Yan casually pointed to a box of cigarettes that didn't cost much and said.
"Ten bucks."
"Another lighter."
"Then add five cents, a total of ten dollars and five."
"Give."
After taking the cigarette and lighter handed by the old man, Zhu Yan put it directly into his pocket, turned around and left.
When he was already far away from the commissary, Zhu Yan slowly took out the box of cigarettes with red shells and a plastic lighter with five cents from his pocket.
This was the first time he tried to smoke, and he was inevitably a little nervous, so he looked around and found that there were no pedestrians, so he quickly tore off the red shell with "smoking is harmful to health", smoked a cigarette, first leaned to his nose and sniffed, and then prepared to light it.
I just didn't expect that a little boy suddenly appeared at the front end of the intersection at the corner where he was standing, and the little boy ran very fast and happened to hit him.
"Hiss" Although Zhu Yan was not knocked down, the pain was not light, but the little boy sat on the ground because of the reaction force, and immediately stood up neatly, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
"Little brat, be careful when walking" Zhu Yan rubbed his stomach and shouted.
"Slightly" The little boy rubbed his buttocks, snorted lightly, stuck out his tongue at Zhu Yan and grimaced, turned around and ran directly to a building next to him, and disappeared.
"Now the bear child" Zhu Yan saw that the little boy disappeared in a blink of an eye, and couldn't help but curse secretly, took out the cigarette again, put it in his mouth, and learned the way the adults lit cigarettes on TV, protected the lighter with his hand, and lit the tobacco at the front with a "snap".
But as soon as he took a sharp breath, his face turned red, as if he had swallowed something indescribable, and then coughed up a wisp of smoke.
"Ahem, cough, cough" "What the hell" Zhu Yan originally just wanted to experience the feeling of enjoying the group of thugs when they smoked, but he didn't expect that he was almost choked to death by this cigarette.
"Damn, everything is not going well" was first extorted a sum of money, and then went home and was counted down by his mother because of his bad grades, came out to buy a box of cigarettes and almost choked to death, Zhu Yan felt that he was simply targeted by the whole world, so angry that he directly threw the cigarette butt he had just smoked into an ancestral hall building on the side.
Perhaps still angry, he threw the plastic lighter in his hand over, and then walked forward with the mineral water in his hand that had not been drunk.
Perhaps because he felt that the sky had begun to darken, Zhu Yan had no intention of continuing to wander around, and was ready to go home the same way.
But before he could turn around, he heard a slight muffled sound, and before he could wonder what the sound was, a smell of burnt wood spread "This is" Zhu Yan sniffed vigorously with his nose to confirm that this was indeed a burnt smell.
At first, Zhu Yan thought it was the smell of burning cooking from a nearby restaurant, but soon the smell of burning became stronger and stronger, and Zhu Yan even saw black smoke starting to rise from the ancestral hall building next to him Zhu Yan looked at the black smoke that burst up, his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly ran to the door of the ancestral hall, the door of this two-story ancestral hall was hidden and not closed, Zhu Yan directly crossed the threshold and ran in, and everything that greeted his eyes made him directly dumbfounded The small door of the inner hall of the ancestral hall had been engulfed in flames, and the plaques on the beams of the ancestral hall began to burn, and the fire spread rapidly, threatening to cover the entire building "Why did it suddenly catch fire" Zhu Yan's mind turned sharply, and he soon thought of the half of the cigarette butt and plastic lighter he had just thrown away "No, no."
He was really startled by this thought, and took a few steps back in succession, and there was already a slight sweat on his head.
If this is really self-inflicted Thinking of this, Zhu Yan's face turned pale, almost all of the ancient buildings left over from the last century are nearby, and most of the building materials used are wooden, which is already very dry these days, if the fire is allowed to spread, I am afraid that it will eventually evolve into a large fire At this moment, Zhu Yan finally realized how big the basket he had poked, shook his head that was slightly swollen due to nervousness, and thought that he still had a bottle of mineral water in his hand that he had not finished Looking at the building where the fire was getting bigger and bigger, Zhu Yan didn't have time to think about anything else, there was not a single pedestrian around, and he was the only one who could stop the fire He hurriedly took off his red sweatshirt, poured all the remaining half of the bottle of mineral water in his hand on the sweatshirt, let the sweatshirt be moist as a whole, and then grabbed the dry side tightly and shook it at the raging fire in front of him "Poof" "Poof" It's just that the method he originally wanted to extinguish the fire did not work, and this level of fire extinguishing measures was not enough to extinguish the fire that had already become a fire without any signs of weakening, but because of the wind pressure just now, it had a tendency to intensify "It's over" Zhu Yan threw the red sweatshirt on the ground, looking at the fire in front of him that was about to spread to the second floor of the ancestral hall, and became at a loss.
After all, he is only a minor in the first year of high school, and in the face of such an unexpected situation, after the methods he can think of cannot work, it is inevitable that he will start to have no master.
But Zhu Yan quickly thought of one thing, if the fire continued to spread, causing huge property damage, and regardless of legal responsibility, wouldn't his family have to lose money and lose their property Thinking of this, he quickly stood up, wrapped up the red sweatshirt that was still wet on the ground, and turned around to flee the scene.
If I get caught, I'm afraid the rest of my life will be over With such a mentality, while the fire had not spread to the gate of the courtyard, Zhu Yan ran away "Ahh It's just that Zhu Yan hasn't crossed the threshold of the main courtyard gate before he stops because of a young child's voice.
Wait just now, cry for help There are people in the ancestral hall Zhu Yan tried his best to control his heart that was stirring at the moment, and forcibly broke back the two legs that had been trembling all along.
It was the little boy who had just bumped into him, and he was on the second floor of the ancestral hall building No matter what the reason for this little boy to enter this ancestral hall building, did he actually want to kill a child?
"It's over, it's over, I'm going to become a murderer."
Zhu Yan's lips turned white, and he almost cried.
He hesitated for a second, the fire spread faster than he imagined, just now it only burned an inner hall door, at this time the little boy called for help, it must have burned to the second floor, if he didn't run again, he would definitely not be able to escape After thinking about it, I covered my face with a red sweatshirt and wanted to flee from here.
But the voice of the little boy crying for help has always lingered in his ears, if he just walks away even if he really escapes this responsibility, then "Help" The little boy's cry for help sounded again, and finally, Zhu Yan still stopped fleeing outside, looked ruthless, protected his upper body with a red sweatshirt, turned his head and stepped forward, and rushed towards the inner door of the ancestral hall that was in flames in one go: