Courtyard House: Drunk and barging into the Xu family's house, I woke up numb.

"I can't believe it," Bang Geng replied dismissively.

"I wish I could be like my sister."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Qin Huairu and asked.

"Mom, when are you going to divorce Sha Zhu?"

Qin Huairu reassured her, following the words they had agreed upon beforehand.

"Mom has discussed it with your silly uncle. We'll go to the neighborhood committee to get the necessary documents and get the divorce papers done."

"Just stay home and take good care of your sister. Don't think about these things. Mom knows what's going on."

After saying that, Qin Huairu took the money and the meat ticket that Sha Zhu had given her a couple of days ago and went out.

After Qin Huairu left, Banggeng secretly slipped into Shazhu's room. He looked at the unmade bed and snorted coldly.

"Silly Zhu, you still want to lie to me? You still want my mom to sleep with you? You're dreaming!"

"Tonight I'll teach you a lesson, so you won't have a blanket and you'll freeze to death!"

As they spoke, Banggeng pulled the bedding from the bed onto the floor, and also took out an unused bedding from the closet and threw it on the floor as well.

"After he finished, he picked up the kerosene lamp on the table next to him, pulled out the wick, and poured the remaining half bottle of 4.6 kerosene directly onto the quilt."

"He took out a piece of paper he had prepared beforehand, put it inside, struck a match and lit the paper. In no time, the cotton quilt on the ground was ablaze."

"The room gradually began to smell of smoke, along with a hint of kerosene."

In no time, the quilt was burned with several large holes.

The room smelled terrible. Bang Geng looked around to make sure nothing else would burn, then covered his nose and ran out of the room.

After going outside, he stood in the yard and filled a basin with water, thinking that the fire would be almost burned out soon, so he went in and put it out.

But as soon as he finished getting the water, he felt a slight bloating in his abdomen and wanted to go to the toilet.

Last night, his buttocks hurt terribly, so he peed into the urinal, but he managed to hold it in.

Damn it, I can't even poop at the right time. Oh well, I'll go to the toilet first and clean up when I get back.

Banggeng went home to get toilet paper and ran to the outhouse outside the yard, while Shazhu's house was indeed warm and cozy.

Chapter 182 Sha Zhu's family is gone, Bang Geng flees the capital! [Please subscribe]

Ten minutes later, a comfortable-looking man emerged from the toilet, patting his stomach.

As soon as he entered the compound, he saw thick black smoke rising into the sky in the distance.

People in the front yard kept running to the back yard. He looked puzzled. What was going on? It was just burning a quilt, how did it produce so much smoke?

Soon, even the slow-witted Banggeng realized, "Damn it, did we burn Shazhu's house down?"

Thinking of this, Banggeng didn't care about the pain in his buttocks anymore, and he ran towards the Central Court.

When he arrived at the Intermediate People's Court, he was dumbfounded. He saw that the house of Sha Zhu was engulfed in flames, and black smoke was billowing from the windows.

Liu Haizhong stood in the courtyard, directing everyone to fetch water to put out the fire.

"Quick, get some water! Quick, get some water!"

"Be extremely careful. It's okay if the house is gone, but we must make sure nothing happens to us!"

Cao Xu arrived at the Intermediate People's Court and asked Liu Haizhong, who was covered in sweat.

"So, is anyone home?"

Liu Haizhong shook his head.

"Cao Xu, you're here. Don't worry, there's no one inside. How's the backyard?"

Cao Xu looked at the still unextinguished fire and said.

"There's nothing wrong in the backyard yet, but we must be careful about the fire outside."

"A fire must be extinguished as soon as it starts to spread. We must never let the fire outside catch fire, otherwise we will be in big trouble."

I saw people holding basins and queuing at the water pipes.

"You guys, stop queuing up there and hurry up and bring out all the water from the family's water tank. We'll extinguish as much as we can."

Under the command of Cao Xu and Liu Haizhong, everyone in the courtyard contributed their time and effort, demonstrating an unprecedented level of cohesion.

Half an hour later, thanks to everyone's desperate efforts, the fire at He Yuzhu's house was finally extinguished.

Victorious smiles appeared on everyone's smoke-stained faces.

If something else had happened to He Yuzhu's family, they might not have put in such effort, but they couldn't afford to be negligent about the fire.

Even Liu Haizhong, who was seething with hatred, put in a lot of effort, mainly because it was a courtyard house.

The houses in the courtyard are all connected, and He Yuzhu's house is connected to the side rooms on both sides.

The house in the middle of the side room and the main house belonged to Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu, while the houses behind it belonged to Liu Haizhong and Xu Damao.

Right behind He Yuzhu's house were the houses of the deaf old lady and Cao Xu.

If the fire isn't brought under control, it won't be long before it spreads across the entire area.

At that time, not only the He family, but the entire courtyard house could be engulfed in flames.

Thank goodness it was daytime. If it had been nighttime, in the dark, who knows how badly it would have burned, and it might have even resulted in deaths.

Cao Xu and Liu Haizhong covered their noses with handkerchiefs as they entered He Yuzhu's house, where most of the things inside had already been burned.

The room was blackened by smoke and fire, and Liu Haizhong looked at the scene inside the room, which resembled ruins.

"That silly Zhu is so careless! He didn't realize he'd put out the fire at home before leaving, causing this whole mess."

"If I hadn't gone out to use the restroom and seen black smoke billowing out of the house, who knows what might have happened."

After entering the room, Cao Xu carefully observed the scene, noticing the burnt bedding on the floor and the kerosene lamp lying in a corner.

He took off his handkerchief, walked around the room, sniffed it hard, and after observing the other objects around him, his face darkened.

Seeing that Yi Zhonghai's expression was off, Liu Haizhong thought he was frightened and tried to comfort him.

"Cao Xu, don't worry, the fire has been brought down, hasn't it?"

Cao Xu looked at the dilapidated room and said in a deep voice.

"I'm afraid this fire is just the beginning."

Liu Haizhong looked completely bewildered.

"What do you mean?"

Cao Xu looked at the Third Uncle Yan Bugui who walked in from the side.

"Have you sent someone to the police station to report the case?"

Yan Bugui said.

"I sent Jiefang; he should be back soon."

"However, it's no use for them to come now, the fire is already out."

Cao Xu said.

"It's not entirely useless; at least we can find out who set the fire."

Yan Bugui exclaimed in surprise.

"You're saying this fire was set on purpose?"

Cao Xu said.

"Or do you think this was an accident?"

Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui looked at each other, then walked around the room, smelling the lingering kerosene odor in the air.

"Which son of a bitch did this? If I catch him, I'll make sure he goes to jail."

Yan Bugui echoed.

"That's right, there's no need to be polite to people like that."

“This time he only ran into the yard to set it on fire, but next time he might dare to kill someone.”

"If we don't catch this person, we won't be able to sleep peacefully at night."

At this moment, an older woman helped Yi Zhonghai, who was limping, walk over.

"Old Liu, Old Yan, what exactly happened? How did it suddenly catch fire?"

Yan Bugui complained.

"Hey Lao Yi, what have you been doing all morning? If you had been home, you would have discovered the fire much earlier."

"If we hadn't discovered it in time..."

An older woman standing nearby explained.

"Old Yi's leg cramps were severe this morning, so I took him to the hospital for a check-up."