Within a few days, a group of Beiyang soldiers marched towards the match factory in a hurry, ordered to stop production, and dismissed all workers.

Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy are not in the factory, and when they return in the evening, they see Beiyang soldiers guarding the factory gate.

"Something's wrong." Fluttershy blurts out.

"Let's go!"

When the two came to the door, the two soldiers staggered over, looked at them for a while, and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng glanced at him, knowing that he was not the leader, so he went straight inside.

"Huh, ......" The two soldiers held out their spears to stop them, and said arrogantly: "You are not allowed to enter." ”

"Get out of the way!" Fluttershy unleashes her spear.

"Hey—what do you want to do? Break in? The men raised their guns and pointed them at them.

"I-"

"Bear with me." Zhuang Yuncheng stopped Fluttershy and asked the soldiers, "This is my factory, why are you not allowed to enter?" ”

"Your factory?" The soldier looked at them, gave Fluttershy a second look, and sneered, "You can't enter your factory." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng still pulled Fluttershy and asked calmly, "What do you mean?" ”

"I don't know what it means, anyway, you can't get in today, come back tomorrow."

Fluttershy glances inside, but she can't hear or see anyone, and the smoke clears, thinking it's stopped, "What about the workers inside?" Fluttershy asks.

"Let's go, let's go, you guys should also go, hurry up!"

Zhuang Yuncheng glared at him, walked to the side with Fluttershy and said, "I can't get in, Jue An and Zeng Fu must be looking for us everywhere, let's go home first, find them and ask about the situation." ”

"That's the only way." Fluttershy stared at the group of Beiyang scum ruffians and said hatefully, "The government's army is not easy to clean up, otherwise they would have broken their legs with the same kind of crossing." ”

"Hey, this kind of person is everywhere now, and they are all powerful lackeys, just bark as dogs, let's go back." Zhuang Yuncheng comforted.

"Well, let's go back."

At home, Ju An and Zeng Fu and some homeless workers are waiting.

"Young Master!" Juan shouted.

When Zhuang Yuncheng saw them, he hurriedly ran over and asked, "What's going on?" ”

"I don't know, but this afternoon, a team of soldiers suddenly came, blocked the front and back doors of the factory, stopped us production, and dismissed all the workers, so that we don't have to go."

"Didn't you say why?" Fluttershy asks.

"No, he looked for the young master, but the young master was not there at that time, so he left, ordered a few people to guard the factory, and dispersed all of us."

"Do you know who it is?"

"They are all Beiyang soldiers in uniform, and we have never been in contact with them, and we don't know any of them."

"What can I do?" Zhuang Yuncheng pondered for a moment and muttered, "I have to wait until tomorrow to ask clearly." ”

Everyone was silent for a long time, and Ju An knew what the two workers were thinking, so he asked cautiously: "Young master, I have been working for more than ten days this month, and they don't know if they can still come, they all want to ......."

Zhuang Yuncheng glanced at them, feeling that they were a little ungrateful, but after thinking about it, he also quite understood, "Fluttershy, go get the money." He said.

Fluttershy then goes upstairs to get the money.

"Ah Fu, settle as many accounts as you should, and remember everyone's name."

"Yes."

After settling the account, everyone who should have gone left, leaving only Juan and Zeng Fu.

Zhuang Yuncheng was a little angry, and asked coldly, "What about the two of you?" ”

"Young master, we dare not forget, we will go home first tonight, and tomorrow we will go to the factory with the young master to see what the situation is."

Zhuang Yuncheng was silent, and Fluttershy thought they were okay, so she said with relief, "Okay, but now you can go back first." ”

Ju An and Zeng Fu left together, Aunt Qin and Lotus were clubbing, not knowing what was going on.

Fluttershy gestures to them, and Aunt Qin goes about cooking, followed by Lotus.

Zhuang Yuncheng put his hands on the table, and he stared at the table in a daze.

"Thirsty, Fluttershy, give me a glass of water." Zhuang Yuncheng moved his lips.

Fluttershy pours him a glass of cold water, which he gulps and slams on the table.

"Still drinking?"

"No, pour yourself a glass, I'll pour it for you."

Fluttershy smiles, "Okay." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng also smiled, sat down on the chair suddenly, frowned and asked, "Who is making trouble in this sudden situation?" ”

"I didn't offend the people in the Beiyang government, who knows." Fluttershy sits down next to him with a glass of water and takes a sip.

"Hey, you know what?" Zhuang Yuncheng turned to look at her and said sadly: "Actually, what makes me most uncomfortable is not that the factory is closed, but that the workers I am fortunate to protect don't give me a long face. This time, as soon as something happened, I came to ask for wages, heh, I didn't slow down. ”

"Sometimes, doing good deeds comes at a great cost."

Zhuang Yuncheng was dull for a while, and began to worry about some things, he lowered his head and asked, "What is my original intention?" I seem to have forgotten. ”

"You don't, we don't, we have been walking on this road, you almost forgot, we can only say that we have turned the original intention into a belief, it has long been deeply rooted in our bones, it is no longer an impulsive idea, but a common direction of efforts." Fluttershy said, "I remember our original intention, which was to do what we could, to do something worthy of ourselves and the people around us, to fight the Japanese, to fight the British, not only to avoid the factory workers becoming their money-making machines, but also to protect our conscience as Chinese - Chinese should not bully Chinese, let alone help foreigners bully Chinese." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng seemed to have opened his mind, a ray of light burst out of his eyes, pursed his lips and smiled, and said seriously: "Your consciousness is higher than mine." ”

"Ears and eyes, big brother teaches well."

"Hey—I'm relieved, and thank you again."

"No thanks, come, drink water." Fluttershy hands him water.

"Don't drink it, you talk so much, you drink it." Zhuang Yuncheng pushes the glass to her lips, and Fluttershy gulps half of it.

The next day, Juan and Zeng Fu went to the factory first, and Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy also hurriedly had breakfast and left.

At this time, there were only two Beiyang soldiers guarding the door, and it seemed that they were guarding in shifts all night.

Seeing Zhuang Yuncheng and them coming, Ju An and Zeng Fu greeted them and said, "Young Master, they still won't let them in." ”

"Inch by inch." Zhuang Yuncheng led the way to the gate.

"Stop!" The Beiyang soldier shouted.

"I have to go in."

"Go again, I'll shoot!" The Beiyang soldiers raised their guns in a trembling manner.

Fluttershy walks, grabs the gun with one hand, twists the other, snatches the spear from their hand, throws it on the ground, kicks them two or three, puts the two soldiers to the ground, and scolds, "The dog fights the human power, the gun can't be held steadily, and he can't hold it, so he is still a soldier." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a leader on the side of the road behind him came with a team of Beiyang soldiers, and saw the two gatekeepers lying on the ground, and came over together to surround Zhuang Yuncheng and the other four.

Juan and Zeng Fu trembled with fear.

"You're the owner?" A man with a square silhouette and a mustache walked out of the team and asked.

"Yes." Zhuang Yuncheng stared at his arrogant eyes.

The soldier leader looked at the two soldiers who had risen from the ground with a disgraced face, and scolded: "Shame! ”

Zhuang Yuncheng glanced at the two people coldly, and asked the soldier leader: "Sir, what do you mean?" ”

"Your factory, it's blocked, and production needs to be stopped in the future." The soldier leader said arrogantly.

"Why?"

"Because the matches you produced were not up to standard, many consignees lost a lot of money, and they reported you."

"Heh-" Zhuang Yuncheng sneered, "My factory has been in operation for ten months, and it has been fine." ”

"But now there's something," said the soldier with a twisted smile, "and we will inspect your goods." ”

Before Zhuang Yuncheng agreed, he took someone to the factory and left, Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy were so angry that they followed up, and then turned around and instructed: "By the way, Ju'an, you all go, it's none of your business, you can't start working, and Zeng Fu, settle all the workers' wages." ”

"Yes." Zeng Fu and Juan agreed and left.

Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy followed the group to the warehouse, and the door of the warehouse was open, "Check!" As soon as the leader of the soldiers shouted, more than a dozen Beiyang soldiers swarmed forward.

"Don't go in." The soldier leader stopped the two men at the door of the warehouse.

"Brother, I have a bad premonition." Fluttershy whispers.

"It's inevitable, wait and see what good they can do."

At this time, the Beiyang soldiers successively moved out all the matches that had been packed, and there were more than a dozen boxes.

"Open!"

The Beiyang soldiers used their guns to pry open the sealed box and open the match box, Zhuang Yuncheng looked over, the color of these matches looked very dark, and the soldier leader picked up a few at random, and deliberately scratched here, but they couldn't burn.

"Hmph, wet, check all the boxes!"

The Beiyang soldiers pried open all the boxes, and the soldier leader walked around, wrinkling his brows and saying: "Wet, all wet, your warehouse is too wet, the matches are all wet, and they can't be lit, of course the consignee will report you!" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng stared at him and sneered, turned to Fluttershy, and said, "Let's go." ”

The soldier leader also sneered, let the boxes of matches be exposed, withdrew from the factory with the soldiers, and closed the door.

"They already did something with the match last night, and they only came to inspect it today," Fluttershy said, "and it's just a warning." ”

"It must be so, it is estimated that the British are in a hurry to lose popularity and collude with the Beiyang forces, which is a disadvantage." Zhuang Yuncheng smiled helplessly, he knew what the result of his actions would be, but when this result came unexpectedly, he felt deeply helpless, and suddenly said: "I was worried all night, and I got up early this morning, so sleepy, go home and sleep." ”

"Sleep?" Fluttershy looks at him in surprise.

"Well, sleep, my mind is a mess and I can't think of anything."

"Okay, get some sleep." Fluttershy looks at Zhuang Yuncheng closely—his eyes darken, and he sighs, "Get some sleep." ”

When he got home, Zhuang Yuncheng didn't think about anything, in fact, because he didn't have the strength to think, as if all his thoughts were empty and he was powerless, he suddenly fell asleep on the bed, and didn't wake up until noon when Fluttershy called him up to eat.