Qin Mingyuan had smoke coming out of his mouth and looked in a miserable state.
He had done a lot of bad things, such as raping young girls, killing people and robbing goods, and robbing businesses...
He had no idea what had angered the gods.
"Dad, I, I don't know!"
"This is a punishment from heaven! The hard work of several generations of the Qin family has been destroyed in your hands, and you still say you don't know?
Misfortune for the family, misfortune for the family! "
Old Master Qin pointed at Qin Mingyuan with trembling hands and slowly fell down.
Qin Mingtao quickly caught him: "Dad! Dad! Brother, look how mad you made Dad!
I advised you to be more restrained before, but you refused to listen. Now you feel better, don’t you? "
Qin Mingyuan opened his mouth to refute, but finally closed it powerlessly.
God has brought down punishment, what else can I say?
Guo family mansion.
The Guo family has been running the candle business for generations, and almost all the people in Gong County use candles made by the Guo family.
In the past year, the government opened a candle workshop for the children. Because the prices were lower than those of the Guo family, it had a certain impact on the Guo family's business.
To this end, the Guo family used some means, and business has only returned to normal in the past month.
Guo Zhigao is busy with business during the day and only returns home in the evening to gather with his family and have dinner together, chatting and laughing.
Mrs. Guo happily served food to her son: "Zhi Gao, you are busy every day, you should eat more."
Guo Zhigao smiled and nodded: "Mom, you should eat more and don't worry.
The family business has been booming recently, with several big deals in succession. I spent all my family savings on buying raw materials.
This time, I should be able to make a lot of money.”
"Really? Great! Then I can rest assured and enjoy my life."
I haven't been able to eat or sleep well these days because of business matters. Hearing what you said, I feel relieved.
Humph, those dirty beggars don’t know their own identities, don’t beg for food properly, and actually want to steal our business.
They should be taught a lesson so that they can no longer do their job."
"Don't worry, mother. We have discussed with the heads of the Qin family in the west of the city, the Wu family in the south of the city, and several other families. We will work together to make sure their workshops can no longer operate.
Magistrate Zhang stood up for those stinky beggars, but no matter how capable he is, he can't defeat the four of us.
Now, they can’t sell any of their products and are about to close down.”
"Haha...you deserve it!" Mrs. Guo laughed heartily.
Guo Zhigao also laughed along with Mrs. Guo.
The whole family, young and old, saw them laughing and laughed along with them.
No matter who looks at it, it is a scene of a loving mother, filial children and a harmonious family.
Sudden.
A man who looked like a family servant came running in and broke the harmony.
"Master, Madam, something bad has happened, something bad has happened!"
Mrs. Guo’s smile froze on her face.
Guo Zhigao glared at the servant. "What's the matter? You have to come here and yell at me right now? Can't you see we're having dinner?"
The servant choked, but still mustered up the courage to say, "Master, something terrible has happened!"
Madam Guo and Guo Zhigao looked at the servants at the same time: "What happened?"
"The warehouse caught fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, even catching fire in the workshop."
"What?"
Mrs. Guo's body shook.
Guo Zhigao rushed out directly.
When we arrived at the scene, we saw that the warehouse and workshop were already a sea of fire. The workers in the workshop were bringing basins of water to pour on the fire.
But candles and raw materials are flammable, just a drop in the bucket. When the water was poured in, it just made a "sizzle" sound and turned into a puff of white mist.
Seeing all his life's work go to waste, Guo Zhigao roared uncontrollably like a madman.
"What's going on? Why is there a fire? Who did it? I'm going to tear him into pieces!"
"It's fire from the sky! Master, it's fire from the sky!" a worker said in horror.
"I came out to relieve myself when there was a muffled thunder and then a ball of fire fell from the sky and headed straight for our warehouse.
With a loud "boom", the warehouse caught fire.
Fortunately, I called the brothers from the workshop out, otherwise, everyone would have been burned to death in there."
"Heavenly fire? It's actually heavenly fire! We're being punished by the heavens! Haha..."
Guo Zhigao was so angry that he lost his mind and rushed towards the fire with his arms waving. Fortunately, the workers held him tightly.
The fire burned until midnight, and not even a drop of candle oil was left except for the mud and stone walls.
Guo Zhigao went crazy, Mrs. Guo fainted, and the Guo family went from having aspirations of making a fortune to having nothing overnight.
Almost at the same time as the Guo family, the Wu family in the south of the city, and the Xiao and Jiang families in the north of the city also encountered accidents...
The way the accident happened is different.
Some were plagued by swarms of snakes, insects, rats and ants, some were robbed by others, some were natural disasters, and some were man-made disasters, but without exception, all of them lost everything.
That night, none of the dozen or so families who had opposed the government workshop were spared.
It was just dawn.
The Qin family was the first to get into trouble.
When Mr. Qin regained consciousness, he took out a paper package wrapped in three layers of oil paper from under a brick in the room.
"Mingyuan, Mingtao, this is 60,000 taels of silver, which is the money I saved for my father and myself to get a coffin.
You should take 20,000 taels first and take the initiative to compensate the 20,000 yuan principal owed to that family today.
Just say it was a natural disaster and we didn't delay delivery on purpose. Please forgive us and let us go.
As for the others, go sell your workshops and all the houses, shops and farms you have, and see if you can raise enough capital.
As for this house, let's keep it until the end. If we really can't keep it, we can sell it."
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