Chapter 71 Chapter Thirty-Five

The cause of the fire was soon found out. Xiao Mazi lit the pile of dry and dry straw with a match. The straw was the best way to ignite, and it burned like this in less than an hour.Xiao Mazi was dragged by his father to Liu Laoshi and his wife, and in front of Liu Laoshi and his wife, Xiao Mazi was slapped on the ear, "See if you still play with fire." Xiao Mazi, who was beaten, cried "Wow".When his father was about to reach out to hit Xiaomazi, he was stopped by Liu Laoshi, "brother, don't hit it, burn it, it's just a straw, it's not worth a lot of money, it's too cold It’s okay if you share some with me in the daytime, the baby is still young, it’s normal to like to play.”

Seeing that Liu Laoshi and his wife didn't blame Xiao Mazi anymore, Xiao Mazi's father let Xiao Mazi go, and said, "Come back tonight and see how I deal with you." Wang Chunhua also said: "Okay, okay, don't scare the child. It’s ready.” In the evening, Liu Laoshi’s family sat around the dining table to eat, and when they were enjoying their meal, they heard someone knock on the door. Wang Chunhua got up and went to open the door. Outside was Xiao Mazi’s father. They were talking outside the door. Lao Lao asked Wang Chunhua on the table: "My mother, who is here?"

Wang Chunhua outside said, "It's Xiao Mazi's father who came." Liu said honestly, "Tell him to come in and talk." After a while, both Wang Chunhua and Xiao Mazi's father came in.Wang Chunhua said to him: "You can see for yourself, Xiao Mazi is really not in my house." When Liu Laoshi heard what Wang Chunhua said, he quickly asked Xiao Mazi's father, "Brother, is Xiao Mazi gone?" Xiao Mazi's father said with a sad face: "Yeah, I thought he was just angry for a while, who knows that he really didn't come back, it's all my fault for beating him this morning, hey!"

Liu honestly said to him: "He is really not at my house, did he go to Goudan's house?" Xiao Mazi's father said dejectedly: "No, I just came from their house." "Oh, I told you it's fine, it's all right now, I scared the child too much to go home." Liu Laoshi put down the bowl and said. Zhang Enpu said at the side: "What are you still dawdling about here? Hurry up and find the child, don't let anything happen to you." Liu Laoshi immediately stood up and said, "I'll accompany you to find it." Young Master Liu put down the bowl and said, "I want to go too."

Wang Chunhua scolded, "What are you doing out at night?" Xiao Mazi's father said to Wang Chunhua: "Brother and daughter-in-law, let the eldest son go, maybe he will know where Xiao Mazi is hiding." In this way, Zhang Enpu stayed at home alone, Liu Laoshi and his wife, Xiaomazi's parents, and Goudan's father went out to look for Xiaomazi.Everyone shouted Xiao Mazi's name, but no one heard his reply, Xiao Mazi seemed to have disappeared.Xiao Mazi's father was very anxious.His mother even cried aloud. While crying, she scolded Xiao Mazi's father: "If anything happens to the child, I won't live anymore."

When Wang Chunhua saw her, she stepped forward to comfort her: "Sister-in-law, Xiao Mazi will be fine. Maybe he just went somewhere to play and forgot to come back. Think again, did he go to your mother's house?" Now, doesn't he like going to his grandma's house very much?" After thinking for a while, Xiao Mazi's mother shook her head and said, "Impossible. My mother's house is more than ten miles away from here. He can walk such a long way as a child, not to mention that I take him every time." Go, he dares to go alone." Wang Chunhua asked again: "Then think about it again, is there any place we haven't looked for?"

Xiao Mazi's mother said: "There is no place left. I have searched for the firewood house, the pigsty, and even the latrine, but I couldn't find San'er." First Young Master Liu suddenly said, "Did he go to the brick kiln in the back mountain?" His words lit up the eyes of all adults, and they all looked at him. Xiao Mazi's father said: "Impossible, that dilapidated kiln has been abandoned for more than ten years, besides, there are several ancestral graves next to it, how can Xiao Mazi have such courage." Wang Chunhua said: "What's impossible, don't you know if you go and have a look, maybe Xiao Mazi is really there."

Wang Chunhua's proposal was supported by other people, and everyone said to go to the brick kiln to have a look.So a group of people walked towards the brick kiln.The brick kiln is on the hillside of the back mountain. According to Liu's honesty, it was built by several families of his ancestors more than ten years ago. It was used for burning bricks and tiles. After the houses of several families were built, That brick kiln was abandoned, and few people went there in normal times, except for a few children, and the children in the village liked to hide and seek there.Of course, they only went there in broad daylight, and it was a bit dark inside from the kiln entrance.The kiln is well built and solid. Although it has been more than ten years, it is still very good. There is no sign of collapse, and it will not leak.Even water from outside cannot flow into the kiln.The kiln is spacious and can accommodate dozens of people.There are several tombs not far from the kiln. Children are very taboo about the tombs, so every time they go there to play, they go together. Usually, they dare not go there alone.Young Master Liu didn't know why he thought of it all of a sudden.

After a while, a group of people arrived in front of the abandoned kiln. Xiao Mazi's mother rushed to the kiln entrance, took a flashlight to shine inside, and shouted: "My child!" Then she sat down. on the ground.The people walking behind didn't know what happened, they only heard Xiao Mazi's mother's screams, and they all hurried there. When he arrived at the entrance of the kiln, Liu Laoshi held up the flashlight and took a look inside. Young Master Liu saw that under the halo of the flashlight, Xiao Mazi was lying motionless on the straw on the ground. Xiao Mazi's father rushed in and picked up Xiao Mazi: "My son! Wake up quickly! Don't scare daddy! Ah!" Everyone entered the kiln one after another. I shouted Xiao Mazi's name word by word.But Xiao Mazi didn't respond, nor did he open his eyes to look at everyone.

Xiaomazi's mother climbed into the kiln and pushed Xiaomazi, but Xiaomazi still didn't respond. Xiaomazi's mother cried, "My dear boy! My child! Open your eyes and take a look at your mother." Then Just passed out. Wang Chunhua walked over to support Xiao Mazi's mother, and Xiao Mazi's mother who woke up took Xiao Mazi from his father's arms to her own, and shook Xiao Mazi's body vigorously, Xiao Mazi still did not open her eyes to see everyone glance. Xiao Mazi's father panicked, so he asked me Liu Laoshi: "Brother, what should we do now?"

Liu Laoshi didn't know what to do, so he said to him: "Brother, I think it's better to take the child to my house and show it to Zhang Tianshi. Maybe he has a way." so.So Xiao Mazi's mother, supported by Wang Chunhua, and Xiao Mazi's father walked towards Liu Laoshi's house with the unconscious Xiao Mazi on his back. It's almost midnight.Liu Laoshi knocked on the door, and Zhang Enpu asked as soon as he opened the door: "Have you found the child?" Liu Laoshi said: "Master Zhang, take a look, what's wrong with the child?" After speaking, Liu Laoshi let Xiao Mazi's father who was still outside the door come in. Zhang Enpu saw Xiao Mazi on his father's back and asked, "What happened?" Xiao Mazi's father said to Zhang Enpu: "Zhang Tianshi, I beg you, please take a look, Xiao Mazi can't wake up." Zhang Enpu asked Xiaomazi's father to put Xiaomazi down, and after Xiaomazi was put down, Zhang Enpu shouted to Xiaomazi: "Son, wake up, and take a look at Uncle." But Xiao Mazi has not yet woken up. Zhang Enpu looked at Xiao Mazi, and asked solemnly, "Where did you find him?" Xiao Mazi's father told Zhang Enpu what happened without tears, while Xiao Mazi's mother blamed him tearfully behind him.Zhang Enpu frowned and said, "What a disaster!" Then he stretched out his hand to touch Xiaomazi's forehead. Suddenly, Zhang Enpu yelled badly: "This child was scared out of his soul by a ghost!" "Ah?" Everyone in the room stared at Zhang Enpu: "Really?" Zhang Enpu nodded, and after a while Zhang Enpu said with a relaxed expression: "Fortunately, he is still breathing. Brother Liu, hurry up and catch that roasted rooster (a rooster that has not been castrated) in the house." Xiao Mazi's father helped Liu Laoshi go to the chicken coop at home to catch roast chickens, and everyone else in the room sat around the table and looked at the unconscious Xiao Mazi.After a while, there was a rooster crowing from the direction of the chicken coop, and then Xiao Mazi's father's dog also barked. After a while, Liu Laoshi and Xiao Mazi's father came into the house with a rooster in their hands each. Xiao Mazi's father's face was scratched by the rooster and there was a bloody mouth, which was bleeding outwards. I can't take care of so much anymore, saving my son is the most important thing, so when I entered the house, I said to Zhang Enpu: "Master Zhang, what should we do now?" Zhang Enpu said to Wang Chunhua, "Get a pair of scissors quickly." Then he said to Young Master Liu, "Young Master, quickly put the child on the table and lie down."