Healing Hotel

When the weather turns cold, guests seldom go out.

Only Wangquan was bustling.It is true that the constant hot springs are warm in winter and cool in summer. Even in winter, the water temperature remains at around 22°C.The mist on the water is like a fairyland, attracting many tourists to take photos and small videos.

Yu Qing visits occasionally and picks up guests by the way.

Today's guest is Guan Han, a young man about his age.The hair is slightly long, and the broken hair covers the ears and neck, and the bangs almost cover the eyes.

Guan Han didn't seem to talk much, he was quiet, but after getting into the car, he couldn't help asking: "Is it really cold in your place?"

"You don't need to warm up?"

"Ground heating? No? Can the room be warm..."

It seems that he is more afraid of the cold and is particularly concerned about heating.

Yu Qing just said: "You will know when you arrive."

It’s sunny today, but the yard and the outside don’t look much different. You can only find it when you go in. It’s a completely different world.

Guan Han walked around the old house, and although he couldn't find any heating facilities, he was very satisfied.

"I went south all the way, and I just encountered cold air. The air conditioner in the hotel was not turned on, and the room was colder than outside." He sighed while registering.

"The weather here is like this. It's hot and cold here. It just got warmer these days." Yu Qing said, "But don't worry, I have a smart thermostat here."

Guan Han didn't take it to heart, as long as the hotel didn't advertise falsely, it would be fine.In such a remote place, it is still an old house with ancient architectural style, how can it be so intelligent?Probably there are heating pipes...

He nodded and quickly entered the house.

After a while, he came down again to confirm: "You don't warm up at night, right?"

Yu Qing nodded.

He still reassures: "Be sure to pay attention, and remind other guests, this is a wooden house, and it is very dangerous to warm up."

The old house said happily: "This guest is very polite. In fact, our tree house is not afraid of fire."

Hu Er curled his lips and said, "You are not even afraid of fire, but you are still afraid of caterpillars!"

Lao Zhai hurriedly declared: "I'm not afraid now, I just hate it! I hate it but I'm not afraid."

Yu Qing said: "Although I'm not afraid, it's better to be careful."

The second aunt knew that he burned firewood for cooking, and reminded him to keep the firewood well separated when using the stove, so as not to catch fire.If you go far away, you must water it to make sure it is completely extinguished.This area of ​​people is connected to the back mountain. Although the mountains in the south are evergreen, there are a lot of dry firewood and dead leaves under the forest. If a house catches fire, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Yu’s stove is built of cement, which is quite high, and the ashes on the lower floor are often cleaned up, and Zhang Shu takes them to spread the vegetable field.But Yu Qing was still very careful, and specially made a closed small iron door, which was closed when not in use.

It's just that the new guest Guan Han couldn't help being vigilant when he saw him holding firewood. "What are you burning?"

When Yu Qing talked about cooking, he said, "Don't you have an induction cooker? You also have a rice cooker. Can you still burn firewood in the countryside?"

Yu Qing nodded and said: "Our ancestors here all burn firewood."

Although electrical appliances have been popularized in small mountain villages, almost every household still retains the habit of burning firewood, especially when cooking, because the fire is better controlled, and the stove ash has other uses.There are many trees in the village, and the back mountain is a treasure trove. There is an inexhaustible supply of fallen leaves and dry firewood, not to mention the stalks of various crops every year.For farmers, this is a natural thing.

Guan Han's complexion was a little bad, and he muttered that it was smoky, it was easy to pollute the air and the house, and there was a fire.

Yu Qing smiled and said, "Do you think the air here is not good?"

Guan Han was speechless.He really couldn't deny the air quality here.Not to mention the courtyard, even the village can feel different from the city.Green mountains and green waters, surrounded by green trees, like a natural oxygen bar.but……

He didn't know what to say, so he could only say, "Be careful with fire."

Yu Qing said: "Of course."

Guan Han went out by himself.

Hu Er looked at his back and said, "This man is weird."

There was chicken stewed in Yu Qing's pot, and he needed to wash something else, so he asked him to watch over the fire.

Hu Er was not happy. "No! I don't like being near fire. What if I burn my tail."

Yu Qing said: "You are not a fox now."

Hu Er rolled his eyes: "Then...what if I accidentally ate the chicken."

Yu Qing was convinced.As long as a fox doesn't want to work, he always has an excuse.But there is no way, who told this to be his family's fox, who told him to still want to rua his big tail.

"Then go to the small bamboo forest and get some fallen leaves," he said.

Although the bamboo is still green in this season, more leaves have fallen than in summer, with a thick layer, just like covering a quilt.Most of the villagers have no shortage of materials to start the fire, and sometimes they have to sweep them up and pile them up to burn them.

Hu Er did not refuse the errand, picked up the sack, took out the coin purse and went out humming a ditty.Yu Qing reckoned that he must have dropped by the canteen to buy snacks again.

It wasn't long before Hu Er ran back.

"Xiaoguan got into an argument with someone," he said.

Yu Qing was a little curious.

Guan Han seems to have a good temper, why would he quarrel with others?

When he got there, he found Guan Han in the small bamboo forest, arguing loudly with two middle-aged men.

"The cigarette butt you threw was not stamped out. There are so many trees here. Are you responsible for the fire?"

"You can control it? Is this your house? I can't do it if I like to throw it away. I throw it like I do in the city." The middle-aged man said disdainfully.

"Let me just ask you are you responsible?!"

"You are sick..." The middle-aged man became fierce, but he was pulled back by his companions, and the passing villagers gave him a few words of persuasion, then gave him a vicious look, and left.

With gloomy eyes, Guan Han picked up the cigarette butts on the ground, went to the river to get wet, and stuffed them into a plastic bag.

It's rare for Yu Qing to meet such an environmentally friendly client.

Guan Han doesn't smoke, and is very sensitive to cigarette butts. Whenever he sees someone smoking and throws away a cigarette butt, he must go up and stomp on it a few times to make sure it's gone.When the villagers saw him, they said he was a weirdo.

It was only later that Yu Qing realized that his problem had nothing to do with smoking.

He is afraid of fire.

During the barbecue at night, Guan Han was terrified and refused to come down. The next day, he made sure that Yu Qing had cleaned up the charcoal before he dared to come out.

Hu Er deliberately asked: "Is the barbecue I sent over last night delicious?"

Guan Han nodded subconsciously: "It's delicious."

Hu Er: "Then let's continue to barbecue tonight!"

Guan Han: "..."

He looked like he wanted to go upstairs to retreat.

Yu Qing said: "He's teasing you."

Guan Han didn't leave, and sat in the yard basking in the sun.

Yu Qing sat over and asked, "Have you ever experienced a fire?"

Guan Han nodded and murmured, "But I've been afraid since I was a child."

He has been afraid of firecrackers since he was a child.Others are afraid of noise, but he is afraid of artillery fire.

Later, he was afraid to use a lighter because he was terrified when the flames sprang up.

He doesn't smoke because the lit cigarette butts make him feel uncomfortable.

In the same way, he never dared to use a gas stove.

"It's ridiculous, no one will believe me when I say it." He laughed at himself.He never told anyone, because he was afraid that others would say that he was timid.

But being so careful, he was still affected when the neighbor's house caught fire.He didn't have a serious burn, just a few bruises on his arms and legs.But the shadow in my heart is heavier.

Yu Qing thought for a while and said, "I was also afraid of gas stoves when I was young. Because I didn't know how to use them at that time, I thought it was very dangerous."

Guan Han shook his head. "It's normal for you. Everyone knows how to avoid danger, but as long as you learn to use it and know how to avoid it, you won't be afraid. I can't even watch it. There is always an obsessive-compulsive disorder that I want to get rid of."

Hu Er immediately raised his hand and said, "I'm also afraid of fire! I can't strike a match! I don't like warming myself! I don't like using fire..."

Guan Han looked at him in surprise.

Hu Er continued to say sadly: "My beautiful Mao Mao was burned once, it's so ugly."

But when he thought of the delicious barbecue, he snorted and said, "I'll take a look now, I don't like it."

Guan Han probably found someone with a common language, and then he often stayed with Hu Er.

Yu Qing felt that this was probably not a bad thing, so he ignored it.After all, electrical appliances are popular now, and fire is rarely seen in life.Even if there is, fear of fire will keep him away from danger.

But Guan Han still worried and said: "Electrical appliances are also dangerous. If there is a problem, it is impossible to prevent fire."

He began to stare at the various sockets and electrical appliances in the old house.

Fortunately, he didn't find anything unusual in the small pool.When the angry little fish is calm, there is no flame.Otherwise this guy will check out immediately, right?Yu Qing thought to herself, gradually getting used to his strange behavior.

In contrast, he found it even more strange that Guan Han's fear of fire has never healed.

Until that day when he went to cook, for some reason, the stove couldn’t light the fire, and the fire started with bamboo leaves was quickly extinguished.

It was useless for Zhang Shu to order something, and it was useless for the second aunt to come.

He put the firewood in the sun for a day, and it was still the same.

Just when Yu Qing was about to give up using firewood, 586 came back.

"Can't light it?" The hell system has never believed in evil, pondering, "Why don't we use some hellfire? It's better than ghost fire, and it should be able to light it."

Yu Qing really had no choice but to let him try.

586 threw a handful of hellfire into it.

It can burn the soul forever, but the hellfire, which is so painful that it is too painful to live, calmly wraps the firewood, penetrates into all the gaps, and then...

gone!

586 was shocked and said: "Host! There are thieves here!"

Yu Qing: "??"

586 complained: "Your villain stole my hellfire!"

Yu Qing: "Little man?!"

He squatted in front of the stove, pulled out all the firewood, and finally saw a little red light in the dark hearth.

It was a fiery red villain the size of a finger.It hid in the corner and poked its head out, with a light blue flame on its body, looking very calm.When someone discovered it, its flame trembled, as if it was about to go out, and it tried to shrink, as if trying to reduce its own sense of existence, and finally turned into a spark.

Yu Qing: "..."

The old house was called by him.

"Hey, this is Huoshi villain!" Lao Zhai said happily, and suddenly let out a strange raving voice.

The sparks in the stove gradually grew stronger and returned to their original size, watching the two people outside vigilantly.

"It feeds on fire, so it's not scary at all." The villain stretched out a branch to draw it out when the old man looked at the fire kindly.

"Look, its flame is not hot at all." Lao Zhai put it in Yu Qing's hands.

Yu Qing couldn't describe the feeling, it was as soft as catching the wind.The villain quickly jumped away.

"But if it gets angry, it will become very hot." Lao Zhai reminded. "But don't worry, it cherishes its flame very much, and will not be willing to use fire to burn other things. In our world, it was because of a fire that destroyed the forest on which the little people lived, so they were born. When there is fire, the villain will be attracted by the fire and devour all the fire in sight."

No wonder he couldn't light any firewood, and all his emotions were swallowed up by the villain at the time of the fire... Yu Qing thought dumbfoundedly.