Chapter 46: Danger

Rutang woke up from a sweet dream and saw darkness before her eyes.

This darkness was not the kind of darkness at night. It was as if something had covered his eyes. A smell of burning fire came from outside. Rutang looked in the direction of the light outside and became completely awake.

The light outside is fire.

She finally understood why the room was so dark; it was thick smoke!

On Fire!

Rutang quickly got off the kang and woke her mother up.

"Oh my God!" Hao Mei was so scared that she couldn't speak.

The flames rising into the sky outside frightened her.

"Hurry up and cover your mouth and nose with a wet towel!" Rutang got two wet towels as quickly as possible. Fortunately, the room was small and the washbasin was right inside. Covering her mouth and nose with a towel, she helped Hao Mei up and walked out.

One of Hao Mei's legs was already injured, and now she was so frightened that her legs went limp that she couldn't even use crutches. Rutang carried her on his back and ran out with all his might.

The bungalow should be easy to escape from, but the door seemed to be blocked by something from the outside and could not be pushed open. The fire was right under the only window and there was no way to escape.

The smoke became thicker and thicker, and Hao Mei started coughing.

This door is a big iron door, and it would be difficult for Rutang to break it open even if he wanted to.

At the critical moment, there were clanging sounds from outside and the door opened.

Li Hua rushed in holding an axe, with his hair on fire!

Her clothes and hair were all on fire, and she risked her life to rush in and save people!

"Hurry, take your mother out!" Li Hua didn't have time to say anything more. He and Rutang supported Hao Mei, and the three of them ran out.

"Hey, hey, hey, the door is ruined. This is the door we brought back from the factory. You can't buy it anymore!" Zhang Lang's voice came from afar.

Rutang looked over and saw that the greasy old man had probably run away because he was afraid of danger. Rutang stood far away, feeling sorry for the door of his lower room.

"Which is more important, people or doors? Shut up!" Li Hua shouted angrily.

The neighbors around also woke up from their sleep and saw the fire. They all came over with buckets of water to help put out the fire.

Zhang Lang stood farther away than anyone else, as if this was not his home, cherishing his life.

He came over only after the fire was put out by everyone.

Rutang helped put out the fire, her clothes were soaked by water, outlining her perfect curves. Zhang Lang's eyes were glued to Rutang for a long time before he moved his gaze to Li Hua.

"Sister Hua, your hair is burnt - ah, and there are such big blisters on your hands!" Rutang no longer calls her sister-in-law.

Calling her sister-in-law means acknowledging that the greasy guy is his brother. If you don't consider the seniority from the scumbag's perspective, just call Li Hua sister.

In order to save Rutang and her mother, Li Hua got a huge blister on his hand and a piece of his long black braid was also burned. He looked extremely miserable.

When the fire was at its worst, no one dared to step forward to put it out, but Li Hua was desperate and tried her best for Ru Tang's mother, who had no blood relationship with her. This is the kindness of human nature.

"It's okay, as long as you are okay. I don't know what happened, but the wood caught fire." Li Hua felt very strange.

The wood pile has now been burned down.

She had set it up herself and checked it repeatedly when setting it up. There was no problem. How could it catch fire for no reason in the middle of the night?

Zhang Lang reluctantly moved his gaze from Rutang's chest to her face. Thinking that his ugly deeds were seen by this girl, he had no time to appreciate the beauty. He asked Rutang in an angry voice, "How are you going to compensate me for burning my lower room like this?"

"What are you talking about? You started the fire yourself. What does it have to do with Rutang?" As soon as Li Hua finished speaking, Zhang Lang slapped him in the face, causing Li Hua's face to tilt to one side.

"Shut up! It's all because of you who was greedy for petty gains. Your family doesn't need that few dollars, but you insisted on renting the house to these people of unknown origin. Now you've suffered a great loss for your greed for petty gains. It's like a fire is on the way!"

Rutang felt that the fire was very strange. She and her mother went to bed early, and there was no fire source. How could the fire catch fire for no reason?

The gate of Li Hua's yard was locked at night, and the wood was piled in the yard, which was quite far from the wall, so it was impossible for someone to throw cigarette butts from outside the yard.

The fire must have started in the yard.

Rutang was sure that the problem did not lie with her and her mother. They had cooked dinner on the stove, and when they moved it back into the house, the stove had already been extinguished.

Zhang Lang and Li Hua had a quarrel. Zhang Lang insisted that Rutang pay compensation and move out after paying.

Li Hua felt that it was not the other person's fault and that he should not blackmail others for no reason.

The neighbors were all trying to stop the fight, but Rutang didn't join in. She just walked around the fire.

The fire burned all the wood, leaving a large area of ​​the outer wall of the lower house blackened. The wooden window frame was also carbonized, the glass cracked, and the entire window was ruined.

Apart from these, there was no other loss. Li Hua discovered it in time. If it was a little later, Ru Tang and her daughter might have been in danger.

Rutang came to the door and found a broken padlock on the ground.

This discovery made Rutang feel cold all over, and an uncontrollable fear surged in his heart.

She couldn't open the door just now, it turned out that the door was locked!

The fire had already reached the door, and the firelight blocked Li Hua's view so he didn't notice that the door was locked from the outside. He was only focused on breaking it down and saving people.

This was not an accident, it was a premeditated murder!

When Rutang thought of this, her heart began to beat wildly. The yard was noisy, but the world in her eyes seemed silent. She observed everyone carefully, trying to analyze who wanted to kill her.

Could it be Zhang Lang?

Rutang's first suspect was Zhang Lang.

Zhang Lang was fooling around with a woman during the day and was seen by Rutang.

Would he want to silence her because of this?

Rutang couldn't be sure.

"Call the police." Rutang raised his voice and interrupted the argument in front.

Everyone looked over and Rutang pointed at the padlock on the ground.

"This was premeditated. Someone locked the door from the outside."

"Ah?" Li Hua was confused.

Zhang Lang was also confused.

Rutang paid close attention to Zhang Lang's expression. He really seemed to know nothing. If he was pretending, then his acting skills were too good.

The matter was so serious that it was impossible not to call the police. So a group of people called the police. The police arrived soon and found a shoe print on the white wall outside the yard.

The shoe print is a size 42, a man's shoe. I compared it with Zhang Lang's feet and it's not his.

Someone climbed in and set the fire, and the police focused their investigation on revenge.

That night, the social relationships of all the people were checked. Rutang and his daughter had just come from their hometown and didn't know anyone in the city. Chen Fu was still receiving education, so it couldn't be him.

Therefore, the police focused their attention on Zhang Lang and his wife, thinking that it was their enemy who had come to visit.

At this point, Rutang could no longer hide the fact, so he told Zhang Lang that he saw him with a woman during the day. Li Hua was standing nearby, and when he heard this, he got so angry that he wrestled with Zhang Lang.

The police immediately contacted the woman. It turned out that the woman also had a family, but something strange happened.