Something happened. This is not going to be bloody.

Chapter 284: Unfilial Son - A Fire

When Zhou Leng’s fans on the short video platform reached 20,000, the New Year was approaching.

After a busy year, migrant workers began to return to the village one after another. They were wearing new clothes and new hats, looking bright and beautiful.

Tian Junfu was an exception. He was still wearing old clothes as if he had no income for a year.

Tian Junfu is a hard-working man. He spends most of his time doing manual labor on construction sites. In winter, when the construction sites are closed, he goes to wholesale vegetable and fruit stores to move goods. He rents a cheap house in an urban village in the city for 300 yuan a month.

Many times, due to the influence of their loved ones, children try hard to change themselves in order not to become like their parents, and try to use their own reason to resist the control of genes.

Tian Junfu is such a person. Since he was a child, he has seen many things going on between his father and the women in the village, and he has also seen Li Ping working hard, so he wants to be a good husband and a good father, and his way is very simple, which is to make money to support his family.

Zhou Leng has always been a hard-working person, so she took care of all the housework during the New Year. Her mother-in-law helped take care of the children, and her husband had a rare few days off to enjoy his leisure time at home.

Starting from the second day of the Chinese New Year, each family will visit relatives with gifts.

Shi Min's mother's family has two brothers living in the neighboring village. It is not easy to comment on other people's families, but when the old couple of the Shi family were alive, the two sisters-in-law always compared each other's filial piety to the elderly. After the old couple passed away one after another, the two brothers and sisters almost lost contact. Under such circumstances, Shi Min naturally stopped hanging out with them.

Li Ping's parents' family is in the same village, but most of them are younger generations. It's okay to say hello when they meet on weekdays, but they won't visit them specially during the Chinese New Year.

In this way, the Tian family lived a peaceful life.

A yangko dance team came to the village, wearing brightly colored clothes and standing on stilts. They played music and danced from house to house. One family gave ten yuan, another gave twenty, just to make it lively and auspicious.

Tian Dayong put on a hat, mask and gloves and met his classmates. They followed the yangko dance team and visited every household.

Zhou Leng was at home researching how to make good-looking and delicious pastries. After all, she now updates a short video almost every two days.

Everything is orderly and lively.

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The most attractive thing about celebrating the New Year in the countryside is that people can set off fireworks and firecrackers at will.

After watching the yangko dance, Tian Dayong returned to his yard to play. Originally, he could only set off firecrackers, sliding firecrackers and popping fireworks, but he was a man with no sense of propriety, so he went to the lower room of his house, found the big fireworks and brought them to the yard.

Sometimes karma cannot be explained.

This was not the first time that Tian Dayong had set off fireworks, but this time, the fireworks suddenly fell over, and the fireworks were sprayed directly towards the east room.

In the east room were Tian Junfu lying down watching TV and Li Ping holding Tian Xiaohua.

bang bang.

Glass shattered and flames appeared.

The three people in the room were startled and Tian Xiaohua burst into tears instantly.

Li Ping protected her granddaughter in her arms.

Tian Junfu was also confused. He shouted loudly: "Mom, go to the corner of the kang, quickly."

Li Ping carried her granddaughter to a corner farther away from the wall, and Tian Junfu quickly moved over to block the two of them.

Tian Dayong was so scared that he stood in the yard and cried. Ever since he was born, he always felt depressed and would only feel comfortable when he beat his elders and brought harm to his family members.

At this moment, Tian Dayong saw the glass of his house shattered, watched his relatives being blown up in the house, and watched the flames slowly rise to the sky. He actually felt a strange sense of satisfaction in his heart. All the grievances and resentment in his heart seemed to dissipate with this fire.

Clang.

Tian Dayong fell to the ground.

Zhou Leng was cooking in the kitchen when the sound of the explosion swept through her eardrums. She watched as the house suddenly became filled with smoke. She picked up a rolling pin and smashed the window on the back wall with two strokes. She jumped out and quickly turned to the front yard.

What came into view was the "big colorful cardboard box" that was still emitting beautiful fireworks and Tian Dayong lying unconscious on the ground.

Zhou Leng quickly ran over to straighten the big firework, took off her cotton jacket and threw it on Tian Dayong, then turned to look at the east room which had been completely destroyed. She was glad that she was in the kitchen, otherwise she would have been blown away as well.

Colorful fireworks bloomed in the sky in the yard.

Zhou Leng quickly went into the west room and found the quilt. She held her breath and went to the kitchen with the quilt in her arms, turned on the tap, and stuffed the quilt into the large water tank. After it was completely soaked, the quilt weighing dozens of pounds became the best fire-fighting weapon when unfolded.

In the east room where flames were blazing, Tian Junfu protected Li Ping and Tian Xiaohua in a corner, and the clothes on his back had been burned to his skin.

Seeing that there was no movement outside, Tian Junfu gritted his teeth and asked, "Mom, are you okay? Is the child okay?"

Tian Xiaohua's crying was deafening.

Li Ping panted and said, "Xiaohua is fine, I'm taking care of her. My legs seem to be burned too. How are you?"

Before she finished speaking, Zhou Leng rushed into the east room, which was already on fire, wrapped in a quilt. The three people were still in their positions. She put out the fire at the door and shouted, "Carry the child out, quickly, or he will be suffocated to death if he doesn't burn to death."

Tian Junfu endured the severe pain while holding the child. They did not even bother to put on shoes and walked barefoot on the ground.

Zhou Leng threw the wet quilt on the ground and let them step out.

After no one was in the east room, Zhou Leng covered the burning wooden cabinet with a quilt, then went into the kitchen and took a basin of water to put out the fire.

Tian Junfu and the other two hid in the west room, checking the children and themselves.

Tian Junfu's back and neck were covered with dot-shaped burns, and the holes in his sweater were connected to his flesh and blood.

Li Ping also suffered burns on her calves and feet.

Zhou Leng put out the fire quickly because she was so strong that no one else could keep pumping water all the time.

Zhou Leng took the scissors and went to Tian Junfu, avoiding the wound and removing all the clothes, then rinsed the wound with water and wrapped it with a clean sheet. She quickly checked Li Ping's calf and brought two basins of cold water for Li Ping to apply ice towels to her calf.

After a simple treatment, Zhou Leng went to the backyard to find the village doctor. His family had a car, so he could take Tian Junfu to the hospital.

Fortunately, no money was lost, and Zhou Leng and Tian Junfu went directly to the city hospital with all the cash and cards.

The only people at home were Tian Xiaohua, who was crying out of fear, Li Ping, who had been applying cold water to her legs, and Tian Dayong, who had finally woken up after lying on the ground for a long time.

Fortunately, Tian Junfu's burns were on his back, but unfortunately, the burns required a long period of rest, and the house also needed to be repaired.

Rural families can least afford to get sick, and staying in the hospital means a lot of money is wasted.

Zhou Leng and Tian Junfu stayed in the hospital for ten days. Tian Junfu watched the money being spent like water. He lay in bed anxiously and said he would not stay in the hospital any longer and insisted on going home to recuperate.