"Stop guessing! It's Old Zheng!" Gu Ye said.
"Old Zheng?" Jiang Yue's eyes widened in shock. "So that's the landlord?"
"It's him!"
Jiang Yue and Gu Ye looked at each other. Last week, Yang Cuiling said that someone set fire outside a clothing store in the middle of the night. She had guessed whether it was an acquaintance who committed the crime. She never thought that it would be the black-hearted landlord who maliciously raised their rent.
Lian Rongrong didn't know the situation clearly yet. She only heard about arson and Old Zheng. She was so anxious that she asked Jiang Yue, "What's going on? Why did Old Zheng set the fire?"
Jiang Yue simply explained the matter, and Lian Rongrong immediately became angry and started to curse, "The old man is really a piece of shit!"
"Tuan Gu, is there any loss in the store?" Wang Weixu asked.
"No, Old Zheng just stuffed the newspaper cotton wool on fire through the crack in the door when Hu Zi discovered it, and the aunt and the others got up to put out the fire." Gu Ye replied.
"What about Old Zheng?" Jiang Yue asked.
"He was bitten by Hu Zi and sent to the hospital. He should be back soon!" Just as Gu Ye finished speaking, several people came in from outside the door. They were the police who came in, escorting a dejected, pale, and terrified old man.
Lian Rongrong pointed at Old Zheng and started to curse, "Well, Old Zheng, you raised our rent from six yuan a month to forty yuan a month! Didn't you say that there were many people lining up to rent your shop? We did it for your own good. We didn't want you to miss out on the forty yuan a month in rent, so we quickly moved to another place. How dare you, old man, set fire to our shop?"
"Why, the 40 yuan rent a month is not enough for your food, and you still want to go to jail and eat a bowl of food?"
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