Chapter 432 Arson
Yu Hui and the others got off work at five o'clock as usual, and at eight o'clock in the evening Shang Mingyuan came to work with his keys.
At this time, there was almost no one on the street, but the street lights were still on.
As he was using the key to open the door, a beam of water and electricity light shone on his face.
"Who are you? What are you doing?" Wu Yang shouted loudly.
Shang Mingyuan raised his hand to block the light and waved his keys with his other hand. "I'm the night security guard hired by the clothing store."
Upon hearing this, Wu Yang moved the flashlight downwards, and Shang Mingyuan could see clearly that the other person was a police officer.
He saluted subconsciously.
"You were a soldier, right? What's your name?" Wu Yang got off the bicycle and returned a military salute.
"My name is Shang Mingyuan, and I've been discharged from the army for almost two years."
"I'm Wu Yang, the police officer in this area." Wu Yang shook hands with Shang Mingyuan.
"Hello."
"Hello, it would be great if Comrade Yu Hui could hire a night security guard. Their clothing store is doing good business, so it's easy to attract jealous people. No one would dare to attack them in broad daylight, but it's hard to say at night."
Normally when he is on night shift, he will intensify patrols in this area. When he is not on night shift, he will ask his colleagues to pay more attention.
"Yes, my sister-in-law thought so too, so she invited me."
"Okay, you go ahead and do your thing. I'll continue my patrol." After saying that, Wu Yang got on his bicycle, raised his chin towards Shang Mingyuan, and left.
Shang Mingyuan watched the bicycle go away before opening the shop door and walking in.
He turned on the lights and inspected the store front and back. Finding nothing unusual, he turned off the lights and sat in the shop.
When the clock hand on the wall pointed to twelve o'clock, Shang Mingyuan stood up and walked around the shop for a while.
As he was walking, he suddenly heard some movement near the back door because of his keen ears.
He walked lightly to the patio in the backyard and suddenly saw a burning torch thrown over the wall.
Shang Mingyuan frowned, jumped up and caught the torch. Just as he was about to open the back door to catch someone, another torch was thrown in.
Shang Mingyuan didn't catch it, and the torch hit the window of the small house and landed on the windowsill.
The windows and windowsills were made of wood and easily caught fire. Shang Mingyuan quickly picked up the torch and extinguished it on the ground.
Holding a torch in his hand, he opened the back door and walked out.
Qi Weiguo, with his face covered, threw two torches and was about to leave, but suddenly heard the sound of a door opening, and he ran away.
"Stop." Shang Mingyuan took the torch in his hand and threw it at his feet.
"Ouch!" Qi Weiguo screamed and fell flat on his face.
The torch soaked in kerosene instantly set his pants on fire.
"Ah! Ah!" The burning pain made him roll on the ground in fear, and he patted the fire on his trouser legs with his hands.
Shang Mingyuan rushed forward in two or three steps, twisted Qi Weiguo's hands behind his back, and stomped on the fire on his legs with three or four kicks to put out the fire.
Qi Weiguo struggled to run, but Shang Mingyuan grabbed his hair and pinned him to the ground.
"I got to work on this shift pretty promptly. On my first day, I caught an arsonist."
"I didn't, stop slandering me, I was just passing by." Qi Weiguo quickly denied.
He was so angry that his clothing store, which was so profitable, was closed down. He thought about it for several days but still couldn't get over it.
Today, he waited until midnight and threw two torches into the backyard of Zhixia Clothing Store, intending to burn the store down.
I lost so much money, and I can't let those women in Zhixia Clothing Store have an easy time.
I didn't expect that there were people working in this clothing store even in the middle of the night, and he was caught.
Shang Mingyuan: "Whether it was just a passing incident or arson, we'll know for sure once we get to the police station."
Shang Mingyuan used his and Qi Weiguo's belts to tie up the man, closed the backyard door, and sent him directly to the police station.
Wu Yang and an old policeman were on duty at the Public Security Bureau. When they saw Shang Mingyuan catch an arsonist, they saw that it was the male owner of the spring and summer clothing store that had been sealed off, so they beat him up and locked him up.
Although intentional arson did not cause a major disaster or substantial damage, it is still a crime endangering public safety and the circumstances are quite serious, with a minimum sentence of three years.
The next morning, when the three sisters Bai Chunhua arrived at the store, they saw Shang Mingyuan still there and asked, "Didn't you agree to leave work at six o'clock? Why haven't you gone home yet?"
Shang Mingyuan: "Something happened in the store last night. I'll wait for you and sister-in-law to come and talk to you before leaving."
"What happened in the store?" When they heard that something happened in the store last night, Bai Chunhua and her two sisters became nervous.
Shang Mingyuan: "Someone threw a torch into the backyard, trying to set it on fire. I caught them and sent them to the police station, but they didn't cause any damage."
Upon hearing this, Bai Chunhua covered her chest with her hands and felt a surge of fear. Fortunately, there was someone on duty in the store last night. If not, the whole place would have been burned down inside and out.
"Who wants to harm us?" Bai Chunling asked.
Shang Mingyuan glanced at the sealed clothing store across the street and said, "Public Security Wu said it was the male owner of the clothing store across the street."
Bai Chunmei couldn't help but curse, "This damn thing! They were clearly the ones selling inferior goods as good ones, deceiving consumers, and were shut down by the Industry and Commerce Bureau. Yet they set fire to us in retaliation. They are simply inhuman."
Bai Chunhua looked at Shang Mingyuan and said, "Comrade Shang, we're lucky to have you, otherwise we would have lost this store."
Shang Mingyuan touched his neck a little embarrassedly and said, "This is all my duty."
After Yu Hui and her group arrived at the store, they heard that Qi Guowei had set fire in the middle of the night, and they were also frightened.
Zheng Rong and Gu Qiuyu even cursed Qi Guowei's ancestors for eight generations.
Yu Hui praised Shang Mingyuan a few words and let him go home and rest early.
Lin family
Lin Siyu’s confinement period was almost over, and she finally had a nice bath and a haircut.
During the confinement period, she still had some bleeding from time to time. Her mother not only did not allow her to take a bath, she even did not allow her to wash her hair.
The weather was getting hotter and she felt like she was about to stink.
After taking a shower, Lin Siyu was drying her hair in front of the mirror. Seeing her pale and thin face in the mirror, she couldn't help but move closer.
She then realized that she had suddenly aged a lot, with bags under her eyes, dark circles, and fine lines at the corners of her eyes.
The nasolabial folds on the cheeks and corners of the mouth are particularly deep, and the corners of the mouth are bulging, as if there are two small balls hanging.
She has lost a lot of weight, and even her breasts have shrunk and drooped.
"They say that postpartum confinement is bad for your health, and it's absolutely true. With this kind of face, how can I get Gu Huai to reconcile with me?"
Lin Siyu became anxious and looked at herself in the mirror for a long time. Finally, she was called out by Lin Yong who was in a hurry to go to the bathroom.
"Mom, do you think I've aged a lot?" Lin Siyu asked, holding her mother's hand.
Qin Shulan's eyes were a little presbyopic and she couldn't see people clearly. She squinted for a long time before saying, "No, you're just a little thinner than before. Look at the life you led with Lu Tianyou. When you were with Gu Huai, you were pampered like a peach, round and plump, so juicy that you could squeeze out the juice. Now look at you..."
"Okay, Mom, stop talking. What's the point of talking about this all the time?" Lin Siyu didn't want to hear her say this and interrupted her impatiently.
"Give me some money tomorrow so I can go to the store and buy some facial oil and a new dress." Her old clothes were too loose to wear anymore, and she hadn't used facial oil in a long time.
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