Chapter 7: It really caught fire

"Xu Tian? I don't remember knowing anyone by that name!"

Zhang Zizhen didn't show the anger in his heart on his face. He stared at Xu Tian and said:

"The matter from a year ago is in the past, I won't ask about it. I'll just ask you, what is your intention in saying I won't live past tomorrow morning!"

"I don't know you at all, why would you come to curse me, an old man over seventy?"

Xu Tian said sincerely: "Sorry, Elder Zhang, because time is short, some of my words may have been offensive. I came here this time to ask Elder Zhang to save my wife. As long as Elder Zhang is willing to agree, I will help Elder Zhang resolve a life-threatening danger!"

"Just by relying on you?" Lin Xiao glanced at Xu Tian with disdain.

He didn't know how many powerful and influential people his master had helped treat in the past.

If his master were in any danger, he didn't know how many people would take the initiative to come forward and help! Would it be his turn?

Zhang Zizhen listened to Xu Tian's 'arrogant and conceited' words, and didn't show any emotional fluctuation on his face.

He looked at Xu Tian with completely calm eyes, his tone carrying a trace of displeasure:

"I don't know how you found this place. Since you know me and know about the incident a year ago, you must also understand my personality!"

"There are many people who beg me to treat their illnesses, but I've never met anyone who cursed me to die like you! However, considering that our meeting is fate, I'll give you a chance to explain!"

Clearly!

Zhang Zizhen was already angry!

Xu Tian smiled indifferently, his tone not carrying the slightest hint of a joke:

"Last night, I had a dream that a fire broke out here, so I came here today to remind Elder Zhang..."

Before Xu Tian could finish speaking, Lin Xiao beside him interrupted directly:

"I'm afraid even ghosts wouldn't believe these words of yours, get out!"

Zhang Zizhen looked coldly at Lin Xiao's actions without speaking.

Clearly, he acquiesced to his behavior of kicking Xu Tian out.

Xu Tian wasn't annoyed, knowing that his words lacked credibility!

After all, using a dream as an excuse was indeed not very believable, and since the event hadn't happened, he was afraid no one would believe it.

He walked straight to the counter, picked up the pen, left his phone number, and turned to say to Zhang Zizhen with certainty:

"Tomorrow around 5:15 AM, the pharmacy on the left will catch fire. When you go to put out the fire, remember to check if the liquid in the white bucket is water."

"Elder Zhang, I have said what I needed to say, whether you believe it or not is up to you!"

"This is my phone number, I'll wait for you to come find me."

After saying this.

Xu Tian smiled faintly and turned to leave gracefully.

His confident tone and calm demeanor seemed to affirm one hundred percent that the fire would definitely happen!

And that if he, Zhang Zizhen, didn't have Xu Tian's reminder, he would definitely die in the fire?

Ridiculous!

Watching Zhang Zizhen walk up and pick up the note Xu Tian left, Lin Xiao felt very angry:

"Master, why didn't you stop me just now? I should have torn his mouth apart! It's infuriating! This petty person actually cursed you like that!"

"He really thinks he's some kind of fortune-telling master!"

However—

Zhang Zizhen didn't even glance at the number on the note, and threw it directly into the trash can!

Then, he looked at his irritable apprentice and sighed: "Alright, there's no need to argue with such a person. Just don't let him in again in the future."

Zhang Zizhen shook his head in complete disbelief and walked into the pharmacy with his hands behind his back.

What fire, pure nonsense!

In the early morning, Lin Xiao closed the main gate and returned to the pharmacy to decoct medicine.

Although there were gas tanks in the pharmacy, to ensure the efficacy of the medicine, Baolin Tang had always used coal to decoct medicine.

For some reason, as soon as Lin Xiao walked into the pharmacy, he couldn't help but think of Xu Tian's words.

Although he said he didn't believe it with his mouth during the day, because Xu Tian said it so confidently, he still felt uneasy in his heart.

An hour later, Lin Xiao finally finished decocting the medicine, covered the stove fire, and was about to return to his room to rest.

Xu Tian's words flashed through his mind again.

"I won't sleep tonight, I'll just guard in front of this stove, I don't believe it!"

Lin Xiao gritted his teeth and simply sat in front of the stove, staring at the fire!

During the first half of the night, Lin Xiao was in high spirits, but after 4:00 AM, his eyelids began to fight, and he was extremely sleepy.

Around 5:00 AM, Lin Xiao fell asleep on his knees.

Lin Xiao didn't notice a faint, pungent smell of gas slowly permeating the room, and a gust of gloomy wind from somewhere blew up the sparks in the stove, which landed on the curtains.

Instantly, flames ignited!

The fire burned up all at once, billowing with thick smoke...

In his sleep, Lin Xiao felt a scorching heat and a choking smell of smoke, and he woke up instantly.

When he saw the raging fire in the room, he became completely sober!

"Fire!"

"It caught fire!"

"..."

Lin Xiao was flustered, jumped to the door, and just as he was about to pick up the white bucket at the door, a sentence flashed through his mind:

"Remember to check if the liquid in the white bucket is water."

Lin Xiao took a deep breath, opened the lid, and smelled it—it was gasoline!

Lin Xiao felt a chill run through his hands and feet.

This was the gasoline he had bought just today; he had panicked just now and forgotten about it.

"That person didn't lie to me!"

Lin Xiao was shocked, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

If it weren't for that person's reminder, he would have used this to put out the fire just now!

"Whoosh, whoosh..."

Just then, the fire roared again. Lin Xiao didn't care why Xu Tian knew, he hugged the gasoline bucket out and quickly fetched a bucket of water.

The fire in the room looked big, but in reality, only a few curtains were flammable items, and it wasn't burning as fiercely as it looked; the flames were quickly extinguished.

However, the pharmacy was also burned black and was in a mess.

Zhang Zizhen, who was living next door, was startled awake and hurried over.

Seeing the situation in the pharmacy, his turbid eyes changed color: "How did it catch fire?"

"Just now..."

Lin Xiao told the whole story from beginning to end.

Recounting all this, Lin Xiao himself felt a lingering fear.

He and Zhang Zizhen both lived in Baolin Tang, and their bedrooms were right next to the pharmacy. Once the gasoline was poured and it burned, they wouldn't even have a chance to escape.

Lin Xiao looked at Zhang Zizhen with lingering fear.

"If it weren't for that person yesterday, we would be buried in a sea of fire by now..."

"Master, is there really such a thing as foreknowledge in this world?"

Zhang Zizhen also felt very strange, was silent for a long time, and said slowly: "This should just be a coincidence."

"However, regardless, this can be considered a life-saving grace, we cannot not repay it. You hurry and go find that person's contact information!" ===== CHAPTER 8 =====