Fortunately, they didn't fall asleep so quickly after lying down again, as they could smell the thick smoke as soon as it drifted into the dormitory.
Yang Caihong lit all the firewood piled up outside the kitchen, and the kitchen immediately burst into flames.
Then she went to Lu Yuan's house, intending to do the same to them, burning down their house and the two men. Knowing that Lu Yuan's courtyard wall was too high to climb, she even carried a ladder.
Using a ladder, they climbed over the wall, placed the ladder inside the yard, and then went down. After opening the yard gate, they started moving firewood to their room windows, thinking that if they started a fire there, it would be difficult for them to escape.
Lu Yuan actually regretted not killing Yang Caihong directly back then; he had underestimated the extent to which a person could be evil when they turned bad.
He thought he was bad enough at scheming against people, but he never imagined there were people a million times worse than him.
Realizing that this matter was somehow related to him, he spoke up.
He first recounted how Yang Caihong had gone to burn down his house, and then added...
"At the time, I was busy putting out the fire and didn't chase after the person. When I went out to chase after them later, they were nowhere to be seen, but I found a handkerchief bag with some money and notes inside, which should have been dropped by Yang Caihong."
The handkerchief bag did indeed belong to Yang Caihong, but it wasn't found; it was taken from her person.
Inside were 37.63 yuan and several grain coupons.
Lu Yuan had his wife secretly put an extra hundred yuan in it as compensation for what happened.
When everyone saw that there was more than a hundred yuan inside, they were all relieved.
“Then let’s use this money to buy this house and use it as a future settlement for educated youth. Any money left over from buying the house will be given to the educated youth.”
Grandma Sun initially asked for 100 yuan for the house. After spending 100 yuan to buy the house, she still had more than 37 yuan left. Each person could get more than 4 yuan, which was enough to make up for the loss.
“We should also give Comrade Lu Yuan some compensation,” He Shenghua said.
Lu Yuan quickly waved his hand, "I don't need it. The fire was discovered and put out as soon as it was lit. My family suffered no damage."
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