Half a month later, one day, it was just getting dark.

The workers had finished their day's work, went home, ate and ate, and the workers who had no accommodation outside went to sleep in a centralized accommodation place in the east of the factory.

Here, a man looked around and asked, "Where is this little cub Chen?" ”

"Hell knows!" The worker in the old shop cursed, "This thing is so lazy to do, play tricks, never come back, just die outside." ”

"Leave it in your mouth."

"Leave a fart, I lost the money the day before yesterday, most of it was stolen by the thief, my hard-earned money, I fucking reached out and took it, I want to be caught, if I don't slap him to death, it's a begging!" The man said angrily.

"There's a fire—" shouted a peeing man outside, pulling his pants.

"What?" The people inside ran out one after another, and saw a faint fire on the side of the factory.

"It's in the warehouse!"

"Hurry up and put out the fire!"

Dozens of people rushed out of the house, all shouting, all screaming and rushing over there.

Because he was going to transport the fire to Yang Aomin today, Zhuang Yuncheng stayed in the factory and watched, preparing to wait for it to get darker before starting, when he suddenly heard the noise outside getting louder and louder.

"Brother-" Fluttershy barges in, "there's a fire in the warehouse!" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng was in a trance, stood up suddenly, and when he went out, he saw that thick smoke was rising.

Juan is leading people to fetch water from the kitchen, but the matches are unstoppable, and the warehouse, windows, and holes are full of flames, and Zhuang Yuncheng and Fluttershy feel extremely hot from Xu Yuan, and the smoke makes it difficult for everyone to breathe, making people's eyes sting.

"Ju'an-" Zhuang Yuncheng squinted and shouted, "Don't save it!" ”

"What?" Juan ran over with a disgraced face.

"On a July day, how can you stop the match from burning? Even if the fire is extinguished, the matches will be soaked and useless! Tell everyone to retreat, don't die! ”

Juan looked at the half-moon inventory, they were burning, and he was in a trance.

"Go!" Zhuang Yuncheng said.

"Yes." Juan ran to pull everyone away, and after making sure there was no one in the warehouse, he closed the door and let the matches burn inside.

The match burned so fast that before an hour came, the flame grew smaller.

More than fifty workers looked at the blackened warehouse with a lonely expression, and the matches in it were the work of their efforts for half a month, and they were turned to ashes in one fell swoop.

"Count the number of people, and hopefully there are no casualties." Zhuang Yuncheng stood on the half-light and half-dark dam and said.

The people who stayed here were recorded, and their accommodation fees would be deducted from their salaries, and Jue'an found a book, one by one.

"Wang Mazi."

"Here." Wang Mazi stretched out a hand from the crowd.

Zhuang Yuncheng glanced at it and nodded.

"Cripple Lee."

"It's me." Li lame replied.

"Zhao San'er."

"Yes."

……

"Aged."

No one answered.

"Aged—"

No one answered.

"He disappeared after he got off work, and he definitely didn't burn him, don't worry." A man said angrily.

Zhuang Yuncheng felt uneasy, and when Ju An counted all his names, he found that he was not alone, so he asked Zeng Fu: "Ah Fu, do you know where he went?" ”

"I don't know, we rarely see each other."

"Fluttershy, do you see that?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked again.

Fluttershy shakes her head.

Zhuang Yuncheng pondered for a long time, and was just about to dismiss everyone, but he saw a figure not far away, everyone stared, and when he approached, he found that it was Chen.

"Where have you been?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"It's convenient."

"Fuck off!" One person scolded, "Dead ball liar, he poops every morning, thinking I don't know!" ”

"When do you? Bedbug! Chen Nian glared and scolded.

"Young master, I can't believe him, he disappeared as soon as he got to work, and now he has only come out, and it's been almost two hours, can he for so long?"

"You have to take care of it! Lao Tzu has to tell you everything? Are you the green onion? ”

Zhuang Yuncheng couldn't stand the noisy noise of these people, and his speech was ugly, so he said impatiently: "Stop arguing!" It's all scattered! You stay alone, come with me. ”

Everyone scolded and dispersed, and Chen Nian was so anxious that his face was flushed, but he couldn't see it in this dark night.

Seeing that the warehouse was burned clean, there was only a fine smoke at this time, and Zhuang Yuncheng didn't care, let's deal with it tomorrow.

Several people walked with Zhuang Yuncheng to the office hut, and under the dim dim electric light, a few people could see Chen Nian's panicked expression a little.

"Where have you been?" Zhuang Yuncheng frowned and asked seriously.

Chen Nian stood tremblingly for a long time, slowly opening his mouth, but did not say a word.

"Don't tell me you! If you really say that, well, you can squat for me here for two hours, and I will believe you if I can stand up! ”

"I-"

"Speak quickly!" Fluttershy snapped, "You can't have so many people guarding you?" ”

Chen Nian was afraid that Fluttershy would be even worse than Zhuang Yuncheng, and Nuo Nuo said, "I...... I went outside. ”

"What are you doing outside?"

"Play."

"What are you playing with no money?"

"I didn't play anything, just walked around."

"You're hopeless." Zhuang Yuncheng said a word, didn't bother to pay attention to him, and left by himself.

Ju An and Zeng Fu glanced at him and left separately, a sly look flashed in Chen Nian's eyes, and then went to sleep.

"What to do with him?" Fluttershy asks.

"Inform Chen Qi'er tomorrow and see what she says, anyway, I'm not going to keep him, it's too dead to change." Zhuang Yuncheng sighed and said, "This half a month is in vain, why did you say it caught fire for no reason?" ”

"It's fine during the day, but it's getting cooler at night, and it's absolutely impossible to ignite it on its own, I'm afraid someone accidentally lit it," Fluttershy pondered for a moment, shocked, and doubted, "Maybe someone set it on purpose, brother, don't be careless, I don't think it's that simple." ”

"I'm thinking about it too...... It's just that now everyone is scattered, and it's getting late, so I'll wait for tomorrow to take a closer look. Zhuang Yuncheng was irritated and went all the way back with Fluttershy, not saying a few words on the way.

Early the next morning, the old age was gone.

Unbeknownst to Zhuang Yuncheng, he tells Yunyun and Fluttershy to go to Beiyan's house, and invite her to come to the factory if Chen Qi'er is free.

Yun Yun was very happy, thinking that she hadn't played with her for almost a month, so she went happily. Recently, the spring exam has ended a few days ago, Yun Yun is waiting for the results, and she is a little nervous, and she doesn't want to live up to everyone's expectations.

Zhuang Yuncheng went to the factory alone, when everyone had not started work, they were all talking in front of the warehouse that was burned to only a gray and black frame, Zhuang Yuncheng also went over, looking at the remaining warehouse, it was even more desolate under the light of the morning sun.

Ju An and Zeng Fu walked to Zhuang Yuncheng, who looked anxious, and Ju An whispered, "The old man is gone." ”

Zhuang Yuncheng frowned and asked, "When did you disappear?" ”

"I don't know, I found him missing when I got up."

"Have you looked for it?"

"I've looked for it, but there is no one in the factory."

"The factory gate is closed, how did he get out?"

"Maybe it's over the wall, we found a bare grass and wall at the back door, it seems that he did a lot of this kind of climbing over the wall."

"Do you know what?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked Zeng Fu.

"I don't know, it's been nearly a month since he came back this time, and he has never talked to me."

Zhuang Yuncheng frowned and pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Regardless of him, check the people first, and call everyone to gather at the dam in front." ”

Ten minutes later, everyone gathered at the dam, Zhuang Yuncheng and Juan stood on a high place, Juan was named one by one, two or three minutes later, the number of people was counted, except for Chen, everyone arrived.

"At six o'clock last night, who guarded the warehouse?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"Me." A worker squeezed out of the crowd and came to the front.

"And me." The other also stepped forward.

"Just the two of you?"

"Yes."

"Who went in yesterday?"

"Except for the people in our factory who are carrying goods in, there is no one else."

"Which of you shipped the goods?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

At this time, everyone looked at each other and hesitated for a long time, and the three of them came out resignedly.

"Just the three of you?"

"Four, and aged."

"He's him again?" Zhuang Yuncheng then asked, "Was he there the last time I went in?" ”

"Yes," Wang Mazi said, "the last shipment I shipped with him." ”

"Then no one went in, so we closed the warehouse." The two warehouse guards said.

Zhuang Yuncheng didn't think that it would be the people in his factory who deliberately set the fire, but an idea flashed through his mind, so he asked: "Wang Mazi, the last time Chen Nian entered the warehouse, was there anything abnormal." ”

Wang Mazi frowned deeply, thought hard, and said for a long time: "He...... There is nothing out of the ordinary, we go in and out together. ”

"Oh, I remember," said the warehouseman, "that after the last shipment was finished, he said he was going to come in and count how many boxes there were. ”

"Whatever he does, it's not his responsibility to count the numbers." Juan said.

"We didn't think much of it, so we let him in."

"Young Master," Ju An approached Zhuang Yuncheng's side and whispered, "Chen Nian is very suspicious. ”

Zhuang Yuncheng already recognized this in his heart, but Chen Nian ran away, Beiping City is so big, how difficult it is to find someone.

"What can it be, since he ran away, let him fend for himself, if he really did it, I'm afraid he will run to the edge of the sky." Zhuang Yuncheng said calmly, "Arrange for a dozen or so people to clean up the warehouse, and the rest of the people will start work." ”

Ju'an ordered to go down, and the crowd dispersed, and then the two sisters came with Chen Qi'er.

"Brother," Yun Yun shouted with a smile, and halfway through, she saw the black ruins and ruins, and said in surprise: "This ...... What's wrong? ”

"It's burning."

Yun Yun didn't have time to react, and Chen Qi'er arrived and was also surprised.

"Qi'er, your brother has come to Beiping, do you know?" Zhuang Yuncheng asked.

"I don't know, the young master saw him?"

"It's been almost a month, and I'm missing this morning."

Chen Qi'er was at a loss, she felt that the atmosphere was not right, and when she heard her brother, she always felt unsteady in her heart.

"That'...... Does the young master know where he went? ”

"I don't know," Zhuang Yuncheng said, leading a few people to the open dam, and said: "At that time, he came, begging me to take him in, I thought he was your brother, I agreed, but he was very restless in the factory, I don't know what he did last night, and he disappeared early this morning, I originally wanted you to come and end this matter, and now he is gone." ”

"When did you leave?" Fluttershy asks.

"I don't know," Zhuang Yuncheng asked Chen Qi'er again, "Has he ever come to look for you?" ”

"No, I told him last time I came, telling him not to come, at that time Mr. Beiyan and they were very unhappy, Sister Beiyan saw that he was my brother, so she interceded for me, Mr. Beiyan gave a lot of money to my brother, and my brother promised not to come to me again." Chen Qi'er was worried, frowned and said, "He came again this time, I'm afraid the money was spent, he really ...... So much money, he ...... so fast And it annoyed the young master. ”

Zeng Fu was angry when he listened, and said angrily: "This is nothing, I'm afraid that the warehouse is still burned by him!" ”

"What?" Chen Qi'er was stunned and stared at Zeng Fu in a daze.

"Ah Fu!" Zhuang Yuncheng reprimanded, "Don't make a conclusion! ”

"Young master, I know him best, what to do." Zeng Fu said angrily.

Chen Qi'er was dizzy, of course she knew that her brother was contaminated with hooligan habits, but not to the point of setting fire.

Yun Yun saw that Chen Qi'er's face turned pale with fright, held her hand, and defended: "Ah Fu, don't talk nonsense if you don't have evidence, such a big thing can't be blamed on people at will." ”

"I-" Zeng Fu was speechless.

"Okay, you settle your account, what's the mix?" Zhuang Yuncheng glanced at him.

"The accounts are settled, young master." Zeng Fu muttered.

"You-" Zhuang Yuncheng said speechlessly, "Fluttershy, watch him count again!" ”

Zeng Fu said with an innocent face: "Young master, I-"

"Go, go, go." Fluttershy laughed, "I don't have to push you, don't bother me, go yourself." ”

Zeng Fu left stupidly, and really recalculated the accounts of the past half month.

Chen Qi'er frowned and asked, "What Ah Fu said is true?" ”

"It's not, it's just an inference."

"I won't infer it to him at will, it must be a little shadow, besides, I know my brother, he ......" Chen Qi'er's heart was blocked by a stone, she was in a trance, and tears flashed in her eyes: "Young master, I don't know what to do, if he really did such a thing, how should I compensate him......"

"He's a man, he does things by himself, you don't need to care, you are a sister, there is no reason to repay him." Zhuang Yuncheng said to Yun Yun, "You guys go home and play." ”

"Okay." Yun Yun pulled Chen Qi'er away.

"Young master, if he comes back again, tell me to ask him face to face." Chen Qi'er suddenly turned around and said softly, her eyes still red.

Zhuang Yuncheng nodded.

Fluttershy asks quietly, "Is it really old and burning down the warehouse?" ”

"Six or seven percent sure."

"This bastard, really—"

"Why are you scolding people?"

"Shouldn't this kind of person be scolded?"

Zhuang Yuncheng smiled and said, "Yes, scold." ”

Fluttershy remembered something and said, "I've already called someone to inform Yang Omin that nothing has passed in the past half month." ”

"Well, I have been working for half a month, and I don't know how much money I have lost, and I still owe Yang Aomin a favor, hehe, half a month, where to find him a wife?"

"I'm concerned about this, and I already have a candidate." Fluttershy smiles.

"Who?"

"Sister Ying."

Zhuang Yuncheng suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"What are you laughing at?"

Zhuang Yuncheng laughed breathlessly, and stammered: "I, I just think that the two of them are not fellow travelers at all, it is difficult to imagine what they look like together, one is gentle and dignified, silent and virtuous, and the other is very grinning and open-mouthed, this is simply one in the sky and one in the ground." ”

"What's wrong with this, it just complements each other."

"No, Sister Ying will scold me, I don't agree anyway, if you insist, go tell Sister Ying yourself." Zhuang Yuncheng said with a smile.

"Cut, do you know people so well that you know that she won't like people like Yang Aomin?" Fluttershy asks dismissively.

"I don't know very much, but I know a lot, Sister Ying won't like people like him."

"And what kind of person does she like?" Fluttershy smirked, "Do you like people like you?" ”

Zhuang Yuncheng's heart chuckled, and he seemed to be smiling: "I didn't say it, don't talk nonsense." ”

"Look at how nervous you look!" Fluttershy says, "I only think of Sister Ying, and if you don't agree, I won't force it, so you can figure it out yourself." ”

"It's a real problem." Zhuang Yuncheng gritted his teeth and said cautiously: "This matter is not in a hurry, take your time, go, and go to see how Zeng Fu's accounts are counting, I want to know how much I lost this time." ”

"No less." Fluttershy shakes her head in regret.