Chapter 8 Either a benefactor or an enemy

On fire?

It wasn't until she saw the billowing smoke rising from the warehouse that she suddenly came back to her senses, and looked at Chen Yang, whose face was blackened and half of his eyebrows were burned: "You...... You're out of the house?"

Chen Yang nodded, stretched out his hand to wipe his face, and wiped himself into a big cat: "Sister, let's go and put out the fire, your pictures and my jar of glass marbles are hidden under the pile of cloth on the first floor!"

As he spoke, he was about to run into the fire.

Chen Song quickly grabbed him: "When have you been thinking about your glass beads! Let me ask you, where is Mom?"

"Mom?" Chen Yang scratched his head, "Mom went with a bucket of water to wash her clothes before, and told me to wait for her to come back at home." ”

As she was talking, Aunt Li from the textile workshop came, and when she saw Chen Yang, she stomped her feet: "Ouch, why are you here? Your mother thought that you went to the scrap room on the first floor to play marbles with someone, so she had to brave the fire to come in to find you, and three or five people didn't stop you!"

Scrap room on the first floor?

Chen Song's heart tightened, and he pulled his legs and ran towards the warehouse.

Aunt Li was so anxious that she clapped her thighs: "Don't go, don't go, the fire is about to burn the beams of the house!"

Chen Song ran very fast, his ears buzzing, and he couldn't tell whether it was the sound of wind and fire or the sound of his heart about to burst out of his throat.

Obviously there shouldn't have been this fire, something must have gone wrong......

Her mind was in a strange mess, and when she came to the front door, she saw that the fire was too fierce to rush in, and quickly went around to the back door.

Thick smoke came to her face, making her eyes glaze.

She took off the padded jacket on her body, smashed the thin ice floating on the surface of the large water tank in the courtyard, threw the padded jacket into it and wet it, covered her head tightly, and plunged into the fire.

It's not that I'm not afraid, but I don't care about being afraid at all.

At this moment, the fear brought by the flames was not the first thing Chen Song had to overcome, but the fear of losing his mother once again was.

She hadn't taken two steps before she heard a familiar cough, and her heart suddenly rejoiced: "Mom, Mom?"

"Baby?" Ding Huifen also quickly heard her daughter's voice, ran over after the sound, and pushed her out vigorously, "Why are you here, get out quickly, get out quickly......

Chen Song took advantage of the situation and grabbed her arm: "Mom, I'm here to find you...... Don't worry, listen to me, Yangyang is outside and hasn't been burned at all. ”

Ding Huifen was stunned when she heard this: "What?"

Chen Song propped up the wet padded jacket high and repeated: "Mom, Yangyang is outside, he's fine." Cover your head quickly, we have to get out of here, or it'll be too late!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden bang behind him, and I don't know what exploded. Debris and sparks flew all over the sky to the unreciprocal bundles of fabric in the corners, and in the blink of an eye they climbed up to the roof along the piles of fabric

On the walls, on the ground, the whole room was on fire, black smoke billowed and the flames were rising to the sky.

"Go this way!" Chen Song picked up Ding Huifen and ran to the place where the smoke was thin.

Ding Huifen was choked and coughed, and grabbed her while coughing: "No, there is the accounting room over there, and the accounting room is the first to catch fire......

Chen Song hurriedly looked around, gritted his heart with his teeth, and kicked open the door of the accounting room that burned a big black hole: "There is fire everywhere, there is nowhere else to go." ”

As it turned out, she was right.

Although the accounting room was the most burned, because it was on the first floor and there were several windows on the side of the courtyard, the fire brigade formed by the workers of the textile factory was pouring water through the windows, and the fire in the house had almost been extinguished.

The ground was wet with water-soaked ashes, and stepping on it was like stepping on ink.

"Come on, Sister Huifen is here!" With Aunt Li's shout, several men rushed up and began to tear down the windows that had already been scattered.

Someone else brought in chainsaws and sawed old iron railings on windows.

Seeing that he could be saved immediately, the stone in Chen Song's heart finally fell halfway to the ground, but when he looked around, he always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't tell what was wrong for a while.

Wait, the accounting office?

She vaguely remembered that the fire in her previous life burned almost the entire warehouse, but fortunately, all the workers in the factory were not in the warehouse at that time, and no one died in the fire.

The most severely damaged were the accounting and accounting offices next to each other, and most of the ledgers were said to have been burned.

How could it be such a coincidence?

Chen Song's heart moved slightly, she was not a person who believed in coincidences.

"Mom, wait for me!" she slammed to her feet and ran toward the finance room across the wall.

The door of the financial room was locked, and smoke poured out of the crack in the door, making Chen Song's eyes ache hot.

Tears poured out involuntarily, and she covered her mouth and nose and kicked the door vigorously, kicking about a dozen times, before the lock finally loosened, and she could only hear a clang, and she didn't know which part fell to the ground.

She rushed in to take a look, picked up some flames and jumped up a half-man's tall ledger and fled for her life.

Ding Huifen was taken aback by her daughter's actions, and quickly picked up the big cotton jacket soaked in water to put out the fire.

The tongue of fire licks - the wet padded jacket emits a strange burnt smell.

"What are you doing here?" Ding Huifen looked at the half-scorched ledgers, full of puzzlement.

"Mom, you'll say in a moment that you snatched all this out of the fire. Chen Song said.

"Me?" Ding Huifen didn't understand, "Even if I robbed it, who do I have to tell you about this?"

"You don't need to take the initiative to speak, someone will definitely ask you when you go out. But you can't put these ledgers directly into their hands, you just say that this thing looks very important, and you have to see the factory director first, so as not to make mistakes. Chen Song continued.

Ding Huifen's willow eyebrows twisted slightly: "Director Yan?"

Chen Song nodded.

Director Yan is Feng Wenwen's grandfather and Chen Shiming's new father-in-law.

Ding Huifen became more and more confused: "What did I see him doing for no reason? Isn't it just a few account books, and he can still treat me as a benefactor for this matter?"

"Who's for sure? It's always right to try. ”

Either a benefactor or an enemy, there will be no other possibility.

Chen Song was almost certain that the fire was deliberately set by someone.

As for the reason for the arson, it is probably related to the finances of the factory, it may be that it wants to destroy the evidence of tax evasion, or it may be that there is a problem with the accounts for fear that someone will check it...... Computers weren't common these days, and the ledgers were almost entirely handwritten, and a single fire was enough to burn everything clean.

But the crux of the matter is, did Feng Wenwen and her grandfather already know the inside story, or was they kept in the dark?

If he is kept in the dark, it is too late to thank him when he sees these account books that have been rescued with great difficulty, and if he knows the inside story, then he is undoubtedly the mastermind behind the scenes, and pinching these account books is tantamount to pinching his vital point.

Chen Song wanted to see if this old man would be grateful, or if he would smile on his face, and his mother would sell criticism in his heart.

If there was no fire in her previous life, there would be no disfigurement and disability of her younger brother, and some things should be clarified earlier, so that there will be revenge and resentment and complaining.

Sparks flew everywhere, and the old-fashioned iron railings on the windows were quickly sawed off by chainsaws, and several pairs of hands came in from outside.

"Come here!" Aunt Li urged loudly.

"Nannan, you go first......" Ding Huifen grabbed Chen Song's arm and stuffed it into the hands of those people.