Chapter 88
Boss Niu didn't notice Chen He's expression change. A sigh crossed his face. He raised his hand and pointed to the back of the workshop: "Qiu Song lived in the room at the back at that time."
"Can I go over and take a look?" Chen He asked.
"Look around. The guy we hired now has taken a two-week leave for something, so there's no one in the room."
Boss Niu stood up and led the way, passing through a pile of tires and several large barrels.
There is a small door on the back wall of the workshop. Inside is a small room with a bed, table and chairs.
Boss Niu pointed and said, "Look, he sleeps on this little bed."
Chen He saw a bathroom in the corner: "Is there another bathroom?"
"Of course you have to have one," said Boss Niu. "Car repair is such a dirty job. You have to shower every day."
Chen He's gaze shifted to the table, where some beverage bottles and instant noodle buckets were piled.
Boss Niu also saw it and said: "Oh, what a mess, they don't know how to clean it up."
She frowned in disdain, "This guy we hired now spends his free time either eating, drinking, or playing games. Unlike Qiu Song, who always keeps the place clean and likes to read books on weekdays."
Chen He asked with interest, "What kind of books does he read?"
"He doesn't have money to buy books, so he reads whatever he can find. He likes to read anything with words on it. He even borrows my son's textbooks."
Chen He felt sad when he heard this.
Boss Niu also sighed: "I can see that he wants to go to school. If nothing happened, maybe one day he would have saved enough money and returned to school."
As he spoke, his eyes became red and he wiped his face, "Oh, no more, no more, it's a human life..."
I picked up a trash can and put the things on the table into it.
There is another door at the other end of the room.
Chen He went over and pushed it open to take a look. There was a yard at the back, piled with miscellaneous items such as tires and old car parts.
She walked into the yard and looked carefully.
At the end of the yard, that is, the northernmost end, there is a simple hut with pots and pans piled at the door. It looks like a kitchen.
There was an iron gate in the middle of the east-facing wall, with a U-shaped lock hanging on it. A closer look revealed that the U-shaped lock, while buckled, wasn't actually attached to the railing; it was just hanging there pretending to be locked.
Chen He went over and took it off.
If someone reaches in from outside the iron bars, they can also easily remove it.
She raised her voice and asked, "Boss Niu, you don't lock the door, aren't you afraid that someone will steal things from the yard?"
Boss Niu replied in a muffled voice from inside the small room: "What are you afraid of? They're just some scrap metal."
Chen He stepped back, and the two of them walked through the small door back to the workshop. Chen He stopped in front of the small door and looked at the whole workshop.
Boss Niu had walked back to the small table and sat down to peel an orange and eat it.
Boss Niu's voice was loud, resonating in the empty workshop. "It happened on the night of May Day. The shop was closed, around 8pm. I remember it clearly. My son was taking the college entrance exam in a month. It was a disaster."
Chen He also walked back through the gap between the tire and the barrel.
Boss Niu suddenly pointed at her and said, "Hey, that's where you're standing. After the accident, the fire department and the police station came to investigate and said that's where the fire started."
Boss Niu slapped his thigh in grief and said, "I warned you over and over again, there's gasoline over there, and you must not let it get exposed to open flames, absolutely not open flames.
"In the first two months, he did a good job and was very careful, so I felt relieved.
"Who would have thought that he might have become lazy after working for so long that he actually smoked in the workshop. At that time, those barrels..."
Boss Niu pointed to a few metal barrels to Chen He's right. "When we repair cars, we remove the fuel tanks and extract the gasoline and diesel, which are collected in those barrels. After using them for a long time, some of them are bound to spill inside and out."
"Qiu Song must have smoked while mixing the oil, which caused the explosion. There was so much gasoline, and then there was a serious explosion, and half the roof collapsed.
He pointed upwards: "A steel beam from the roof fell down and crushed his legs. He died in the fire... Alas..."
Boss Niu shook his head and sighed, unable to continue.
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