Chapter 2517: Burned Just Like That?

Chapter 2517: Chapter 2517: Burned Just Like That?

"Yo, isn’t that Scholar An’s house? It’s on fire!"

"It really is. Hurry and put out the fire, or it’ll spread to my place."

Even though the houses weren’t connected, they all had thatched roofs, so a little spark could set them ablaze. Of course, everyone was worried.

So, everyone didn’t bother with eating and grabbed their buckets, rushing to the gate of An Que’s house.

But when they got there, everyone was stunned. It wasn’t a house fire. Something unknown was burning in An’s courtyard, shining as bright as day.

"What’s going on here?"

"What are they burning, such a large pile?"

The people were clueless, standing outside the courtyard, staring at the fire heap inside An Que’s yard.

"Look, doesn’t that look like books? Why do I think they look so much like books? Squarish shapes." A middle-aged man voiced his suspicion.

Seeing it wasn’t a house on fire, they didn’t rush to douse it with water, standing outside An Que’s house, gossiping while watching the blaze.

"It does look like it."

Another person nodded.

Could it be anything other than books? Has Scholar An Que gone mad? Burning such precious books like that?

"Does Scholar An think these books are too old? Burning them all! Those are books we couldn’t afford after working a whole year, and he’s just burning them like that?"

"How much money does Scholar An Que have in his house to do something like this?"

Everyone shook their heads, thinking An Que was being too arrogant. Even if those books were old, they were still books. Selling them in town could fetch quite a bit of money.

"A scholar, a scholar, treating sage books like they’re nothing?"

They were all shocked. Hadn’t An Que gone mad recently? Just this morning, he’d returned the lands registered under his name to everyone.

And come evening, he decided to burn books in his own courtyard?

Was he planning to give up on pursuing officialdom?

"Fire, the house is on fire! Why are you all just standing there? Put out the fire!" Old Lady An came running from afar, shouting as she ran.

She’d heard someone say her house was on fire and thought one of her daughters-in-law hadn’t put out the fire after cooking, setting the house ablaze.

So, she ran back wailing, a big old lady, tripping twice along the way, never crying out in pain, just running straight back.

"Put out the fire, my house! Why aren’t you putting out the fire? You heartless people, what will happen to my house?"

Seeing everyone just standing at her gate, not moving, she became furious and cursed the people standing at her courtyard gate.

What’s wrong with these people? Shouldn’t they hurry and put out the fire at her house? If her house burned down, she’d curse them to death and make them rebuild it!

"Auntie, your house isn’t on fire. Your grandson is burning books." A woman with a bucket said curtly to Old Lady An.

Helping put out the fire was out of kindness, not helping was within their rights. How could not helping be so unacceptable?

How could it be that her house catching fire was their fault?

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