"What does it smell like?"
As soon as Xiao Miaoer's doubts came out, she saw the door leading to the backyard from the inn lobby being pushed open from the outside. Then a big man with a long knife grabbed the gagged Li Dachui and threw it in front of everyone.
The man looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "Mr. Zhou, this beast set fire to the kitchen and livestock shed in the backyard!"
"Arson!" Xiao Miao'er exclaimed.
Shopkeeper Liang looked at Li Dachui who was like a dead dog on the ground with splitting eyes, "Bitch, you beast, you dare to set fire to my inn, you bitch!"
Shopkeeper Liang took the teapot next to him and smashed it into Li Dachui's face with all his strength.
Li Dachui couldn't dodge in time and was hit in the forehead by the teapot, causing blood to flow out.
When Li Dachui was thrown to the ground by the man, one of his arms and one leg had been twisted off. With the blood on his head, he was in a terrible state.
He seemed to be extremely afraid of Shopkeeper Liang, and struggled when he came in, but after seeing Shopkeeper Liang, his plump body immediately balled up.
The man who brought him in said: "To put out the fire, there is not enough water in the well in the backyard."
This sentence was not so much said to Zhou Yunshu as to Shopkeeper Liang.
They were not willing to use the water they had worked so hard to buy to put out other people's fires. Anyway, they could leave at dawn. It didn't matter if they left now, not to mention that Shopkeeper Liang had no shortage of water.
Seeing that the smoke was getting thicker and thicker, Shopkeeper Liang had no choice but to drag his newly detoxified body to Zhou Yunshu, Wei Zhong and others: "I still need to trouble Mr. Zhou and Mr. Wei to borrow water to put out the fire..."
Shopkeeper Liang couldn't stand the smell of cigarette smoke. He leaned against Xiao Miao'er and coughed twice, and said with difficulty: "I, Liang, will pay you back double the amount you used!"
When Du Mazi heard this, his eyes lit up and turned white. He looked excitedly at Zhou Yunshu in front of him, for fear that she would refuse.
"Shopkeeper Liang's words are serious. We will definitely help if this happens." She turned to look at Wei Zhong, "Brother Wei."
Wei Zhong left two men with knives behind, while the rest, including Du Mazi and Xiao Miao'er, went to the backyard to put out the fire.
At this time, the fire in the backyard had burned down the entire kitchen and livestock shed, and there was too much smoke in the inn lobby. Zhou Yunshu and Wei Zhong brought shopkeeper Liang, who was still recovering from the poisoning, to the outside of the inn, and then at his request, they Drag Li Dachui out from the ground.
The fire in the backyard could be vaguely seen outside the inn, but the fire was getting smaller and smaller. It was obvious that the fire had been controlled.
Most of the surrounding businesses have closed, but there are many people living in the shops.
At this moment, they were secretly relieved to see that the fire in the inn was under control. After all, not everyone in Anshan County had abundant water. If it was not a threat to themselves, they did not want to waste their own water to put out other people's fires.
The fire was put out, and Shopkeeper Liang regained some strength.
He found a feather duster from nowhere and hit Li Dachui on the head and face as he lay on the ground.
"I'll beat you to death, you ungrateful beast. I see that you have an old mother and younger brothers and sisters. I gave you a living and this is how you repay me by riding a horse! I raised a dog and it wagged its tail at me. You riding a horse are not only right. I poisoned you and you dared to burn down my inn, you little son of a bitch, you are a heartless and evil man, look at me and I won’t beat you to death today!”
Shopkeeper Liang's unilateral beating of Li Dachui did not attract anyone else to stop him.
Li Dachui was originally shopkeeper Liang's clerk. Although he was not a slave, it was common for the shopkeeper to beat up his clerk. As long as no one was killed, it was no big deal.
Not to mention that according to shopkeeper Liang, Li Dachui started the fire in the inn, so that everyone around looked at Li Dachui and wanted to go up and kick him.
Li Dachui didn't want to fight back at first, but when Shopkeeper Liang scolded him for annihilating his descendants, he finally couldn't help but kick Shopkeeper Liang next to him with his unbroken leg!
"I cut off my descendants? It was you who caused me to cut off my damn descendants!"
Li Dachui looked at shopkeeper Liang with red eyes as if looking at an enemy and shouted: "When my son had a high fever and was unconscious, I borrowed money from you to see the doctor, did you give it to me! Not only did you not give it to me, you also said Let me look at myself in the mirror! If I don’t do it next time, I’ll be fired!”
"My son died of illness just because you didn't lend me money. If the Red Lotus Envoy had come to rescue him a long time ago, I wouldn't have lost my son in middle age! It's all because of you that I have no children or grandchildren! It's because of you! !”
Shopkeeper Liang still looked like he was when he was kicked down by Li Dachui. He looked at Li Dachui, who was crying and glaring at him with hatred on his face, and froze on the spot.
"how come?"
"I thought you made up the excuse just to get money for gambling. You lie all the time. You also lied last time. How come you didn't lie this time?"
Li Dachui cried and threw himself at Shopkeeper Liang, "You said you would forgive me. I told you that I would never lie again. Why didn't you believe me? Why didn't you save my son? I have always treated you as my elder brother. Why did you Do this to me!!"
Shopkeeper Liang also reacted. He slapped Li Dachui on the face, "If you really treat me as a big brother, you will poison me! I don't even know you poisoned me for a month, you ungrateful thing." Son!"
"Bullshit on your mother, I'll give you some drugs!"
Zhou Yunshu took a few steps back under the protection of Wei Zhong, and several people were silent for a moment as they watched the two people grappling together.
Listening to their back-and-forth yelling, it turned out that they had been grudges for a long time.
After the fire behind the inn was extinguished, Xiao Miaoer, who came back, quickly separated Li Dachui and Shopkeeper Liang who were fighting on the ground.
"Stop fighting, stop fighting!"
Xiao Miao'er dragged her shopkeeper back. Li Dachui, who was about to chase him, was held down by Du Mazi.
Du Mazi looked at Shopkeeper Liang, whose anger was fading, and said, "Shopkeeper Liang, we have used eight buckets of water in total, you have to make up for us."
Shopkeeper Liang nodded numbly.
"Don't pick a time, just do it now. There's no curfew anyway."
Shopkeeper Liang raised his eyes and glanced at Du Mazi, patted Xiao Miao'er's arm and asked him to help him up.
He did not immediately respond to Du Mazi's words, but looked at Zhou Yunshu and said, "Mr. Zhou, I have one more thing to trouble you."
At this moment, Shopkeeper Liang calmed down completely.
"You say."
"Mr. Zhou, please have someone tie him up and throw him into the guest room. I'll take someone to carry water."
Of course Zhou Yunshu would not refuse, "Okay."
Shopkeeper Liang watched Li Dachui, who was looking at him with resentment in his eyes, being dragged away. He closed his eyes and let out a deep breath.
"Mr. Zhou, do you mind if our family goes with you?"
Zhou Yunshu blinked as she looked at Shopkeeper Liang who seemed to have made up her mind.
Shopkeeper Liang had a wry smile on his face, "As Li Dachui said just now, he is now a third-level disciple of the Red Lotus Sect, and the Red Lotus Envoy is now a guest of the county. I am just a common man and I cannot afford to offend someone like this. Big shot."
