A fierce glint flashed through the black-clad man’s eyes. In an instant, he took a vicious step forward. The young master frowned, impatience flickering in his gaze. Just as he was about to speak, a loud noise suddenly came from outside the tavern.
The young man lowered his head and shouted, “What is it?”
A black-clad man rushed in from outside, shouting urgently, “The mountain is on fire!”
Everyone in the room was startled and hurried to the door to look. Sure enough, in the pitch-black night, six or seven fires had suddenly appeared on the tea mountain. They had broken out in the same area at the same time and had not yet spread. Each patch was not very large, but the flames burned brightly and fiercely.
With the mountain winds howling upward, it was clear that a wildfire would soon
