Chapter 414 Fire
College student Gao Yue has already had his holiday, and elementary school student Fan Licheng has naturally also had his holiday a long time ago.
However, this year Fan Licheng did not go to Yangcheng to celebrate the New Year with his father.
In order to welcome and take care of Xiao Xuxu, Gao Mingcheng has not planned to travel far since he sold a batch of medicinal materials to Yangcheng in late October.
Fan Licheng knew that Gao Mingcheng would not travel far and would not send him to Yangcheng, so he didn't want to go. In addition, he happened to have a cold at that time and was not feeling well, so he simply told Fan Chengyao that he was not going.
What could Fan Chengyao do? He could only agree.
Then, taking the opportunity of purchasing goods in the store, he bought a lot of New Year's things for Fan Licheng, including clothes, pants, books, a new schoolbag, various food and toys, etc.
Gao Mingcheng learned all this when he talked to Fan Licheng on the phone.
Ever since the clothing store installed a telephone, it has become much more convenient to communicate with people outside.
Fan Licheng's family naturally had a telephone, so the two of them could communicate in real time by calling.
However, the telephone was a landline, and when you called, the person you were looking for might not be near the phone, so pagers began to become active in the market.
In 1983, Shanghai opened the first paging station in China. Since then, pagers have entered the domestic market.
Nowadays, pagers can be used in many places. If you want to find someone, you can send a message to that person's pager in advance. When that person sees it, he can find a public telephone booth to call back.
Most BB machines are one-way and can only receive, so this communication system requires a large number of public telephones as support. Although there are already many BB machines on the market today, the most popular time for BB machines was in the 1990s.
Gao Mingcheng also had a pager, which was given to him by Fan Chengyao when he went to Guangzhou last time. After he brought it back, everyone in his family passed it around to look at it in amazement.
I just stared for a long time, but didn't hear any beeping sound from the pager, which meant that no one was looking for Gao Mingcheng.
This is normal. Gao Mingcheng has not made many friends in his life, so naturally few people would come to see him. And those who come to see him must have a pager.
So after just two days of curiosity, everyone lost interest in the pager.
Gao Mingcheng did not take the pager seriously. Having seen smart phones, he naturally did not take the pager seriously. The technological content was too low.
Unfortunately, he doesn't understand these technologies, otherwise he would have been able to reap the benefits of this era.
Forget it, Gao Mingcheng thought about it for a while, and finally looked down at his son in his arms. He should stay with his family honestly in this life. There is no end to making money, just enough for daily life.
Gao Mingcheng just showed a fatherly smile when he suddenly smelled a foul odor. Oh, the poop scooper is online!
Recently, Gao Mingcheng has been staying at home all day taking care of the baby. Because he is so diligent in holding the baby, Hu Yinchen is a little worried. Is he going to fire her?
However, Hu Yinchen's worries were in vain. When she was hired, it was said that she would be hired for one or two months. But because she is hardworking and has good character, Gao Mingcheng has decided to hire her for a longer period of time, at least for a year. After a year, the child will be much easier to take care of.
That night, Gao Mingcheng had just fallen asleep when he suddenly woke up with a start.
The room was not completely dark because there was a night light in the corner, which made it convenient for Mei to get up in the middle of the night to feed her child.
Except for the faint light from the night light, there was also a flash of fire by the window.
Gao Mingcheng lifted the quilt and quickly put on his clothes.
Since having a child, Xuanyimei has been able to wake up easily. She can wake up immediately when the child cries. Now Gao Mingcheng's movement of getting up also wakes her up.
She was half sleepy and the first thing she did when she woke up was to go to see her child, who was still sleeping soundly.
"What's wrong?" she asked vaguely.
"There might be a fire outside. I'll go take a look." Gao Mingcheng said quickly.
As soon as Gao Mingcheng left, Xuanyuemei lost her sleepiness. She looked out the window and saw a flash of fire rising into the sky in the distance. However, it should be at least a few hundred meters away from here.
It is said that water and fire are merciless, but because of the county's special terrain, there has never been a flood in hundreds of years, but fires have occurred several times.
The most profound impression on Xuanmei was when she heard from her father that the Kuomintang burned down the entire village of Gaojia Village.
Several forest fires broke out later, but fortunately they were all extinguished in time.
Gao Mingcheng quickly went downstairs and went out towards the place where the fire was coming from.
When he went over, he found that the fire was growing bigger and bigger. Some people living nearby had woken up and were rushing to put out the fire, but more people were in a panic and had no idea what to do.
"My daughter Guixiang is still in the room!" Suddenly, a middle-aged man screamed miserably.
He was covered in stains, his face was bruised, and his wrists had marks of being tied, as if he had been beaten. He struggled to go in to find his daughter, but the people around him stopped him.
"Da Jun, how are you going to get in with such a big fire?"
"Get out of the way, that's my daughter! My daughter!" The middle-aged man named Da Jun was still struggling to get in. Finally, he managed to break through the people who were blocking him and was ready to rush into the house full of flames.
The house was made of wood, so once it caught fire, it burned very quickly. At this moment, the fire was so intense that people standing a few meters away could feel the scorching breath blowing in their faces, as if their skin was about to be burned.
Gao Mingcheng grabbed the middle-aged man in time and said quickly: "There is no one in the room."
He had good eyesight, and although the room was full of fire, he could see that no one was inside.
The house is not big. People standing outside can see what is going on inside through the doors and windows.
However, the houses here were connected to each other and were all in disrepair, so when the fire started, the nearby houses began to burn.
"Have you called the police? When will the firefighters arrive?" Gao Mingcheng asked.
"I've called the police, but they'll have to wait a bit longer before they can come." Someone said.
The soldier grabbed Gao Mingcheng's hand and asked, "Is there really no one in the room? How did you know?"
"I saw it." Gao Mingcheng glanced at the man and said meaningfully, "How did this house catch fire? Think about it yourself!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the man immediately covered his face and burst into tears.
"I am not a human being! I am not a human being!" He cried and slapped himself. Obviously, there must be a story behind the fire in his house.
Gao Mingcheng couldn't predict the future, but he saw some clues from this middle-aged man, so he said this.
Now that we are here, we must help put out the fire. Otherwise, if the fire continues to spread, all the houses nearby will be lost.
"Whose tile house is that? Tear it down quickly!" Gao Mingcheng looked at the direction where the fire was spreading and decided to artificially build a firebreak.
He immediately led people to demolish the tile house.
The owner of the tile house refused to allow it and shouted, "Why are you demolishing my house?"
"If we don't demolish it, the next fire will burn everything down! This tile house is close to the fire source. After you demolish it, your other houses will not catch fire." Gao Mingcheng explained hurriedly. He was very strong, and most of the houses here were in disrepair for a long time. He kicked the wall and it shook a few times.
At this time, others also brought sledgehammers, and with everyone's joint efforts, the wall of the tile house collapsed completely.
After demolishing the tile house, Gao Mingcheng demolished several more houses according to the extent of the fire and set up fire prevention belts in time.
The rest of the people also carried water and poured it on the fire, but the fire was too fierce and could not be put out in a short time.
Fortunately, the fire brigade arrived at this time.
It’s just that the fire departments in the 1980s had simple equipment, and a lot of the equipment was very bulky. But because of the firebreaks, the fire was under control and would not spread any further. It only needed to be extinguished with a large amount of water.
Under the cover of night, flames shot up into the sky, people gathered nearby, and streams of water rushed towards the burning house.
Gao Mingcheng looked at this scene and felt relieved when he saw the fire being put out little by little.
"Ming Cheng? Why are you here?" Suddenly, a person appeared beside him. It was Gao Yue. He obviously noticed the situation here, so he came to check it out.
When Gao Mingcheng saw him, he immediately pointed at the middle-aged man crying in the corner and said, "This should be a case of arson. Go and interrogate him. The fire started from his house. He should know who set the fire."
Gao Yue's eyes lit up when he heard this.
The fire department is mainly responsible for extinguishing fires and does not have the power to enforce the law. Therefore, the cause of the fire and the punishment are the responsibility of the police.
If this was a deliberate arson case, it would be a great achievement if the criminal could be arrested as soon as possible.
So Gao Yue immediately walked towards the middle-aged man.
It’s just that he seemed to have been through a lot, and his emotions were extremely unstable, making it difficult to ask him questions.
"Dad! Dad!" A girl of seven or eight years old suddenly ran over and shouted loudly for her dad.
When the middle-aged man heard this, a hint of joy appeared on his face. He quickly ran over and hugged the girl.
"Guixiang! I'm glad you're okay!"
"Dad, I didn't find you when I woke up, so I went out to look for you," said the little girl.
"Where are you going to find me?"
"To my aunt's house."
After the middle-aged man was sure that the child was fine, he was willing to answer Gao Yue's questions truthfully.
Gao Yue asked the question in the capacity of a police officer, and Gao Mingcheng was naturally listening nearby.
After hearing this, I felt like thunder was rumbling in the sky.
It turned out that this middle-aged man lost his wife two years ago and then got involved with a married woman. He actually knew the woman's husband, Gao Mingcheng, who was a driver in Xiao Jinfeng's transportation company.
Because of the long-distance driving, the driver was often not at home, so the single man and woman got together and often fooled around.
Tonight, the middle-aged man went to the woman's house again while his daughter was asleep, but he was caught by the woman's husband, tied up and beaten.
When he staggered back, he found the house was on fire.
"My house was definitely burned down by Chen Dayan!" the middle-aged man said confidently, hoping that the police could catch Chen Dayan.
However, Gao Yue looked constipated. Help, this case is a bit complicated!
(End of this chapter)
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