Marry a Duke

Chapter 220 Not That Prosperous

After an hour's sleep, I felt much more energetic. The ingredients for tomorrow had already been prepared, and I could even take a rest in the afternoon.

Fu Ran stayed at home with Wuyou.

When Wuyou saw her, he would smile brightly and reach out to her.

He rushed over and screamed.

Sometimes I can't understand what she says.

However, occasionally one can hear something that sounds like "mother".

Her heart was warmed by her daughter's smile.

When you put her on the bed, she will take some effort to turn over, then kick her short legs and try to crawl forward.

Fu Ran was waiting on the other side for her to crawl into his arms.

Kiss her little face again.

"Wuyou baby is so great." She never hesitates to praise her daughter, and never hides her love for her daughter.

Unlike this era, many people's love is still very implicit.

Even parents' love for their children is not so obvious.

"Wuyou is really smart. She seems to understand everything we say." Dong Niang also found it amazing.

Such a young child has very lively eyes.

She has seen many children of this age, including her own two daughters, who also had dull eyes at such a young age.

Looks well-behaved, but not smart.

Miss Wuyou is different, her eyes seem to be able to speak.

Perhaps it was because the lady always loved to talk to her. Whenever Wuyou was free and awake, the lady loved to talk to Wuyou a lot.

Dong Niang didn't understand at first.

Children of this age cannot understand, cannot comprehend, and will not respond.

Why waste time talking to them?

Now, she seemed to understand a little.

No matter how young a child is, she is conscious. She doesn't know anything, so she learns from adults.

If adults talk to her more often, she will naturally learn it.

The lady asked her to communicate more with Wuyou at home, tease her, talk to her, tell her stories, and even hum little songs.

Dong Niang also did everything according to the lady's instructions.

"Yes, our little Wuyou has been so smart since she was young." Fu Ran kissed his daughter's pink little face.

If she were the biggest victim in that incident.

At least, her daughter was the only benefit she had.

Because of the arrival of her daughter, she no longer resents the suffering she had endured before.

Let the past be bygones.

The future is what matters most.

At night, Fu Ran, Dong Niang and Wu You slept in the same room.

It was the largest room in the house. Originally there was only one bed, but later Fu Ran moved one from another room.

Dong Niang understood that she had to go to the shop early in the morning to work, so at night Dong Niang and Wuyou slept in one bed, while Fu Ran slept alone.

Before going to bed, Fu Ran would sleep with Wuyou, and only after Wuyou fell asleep would he carry Wuyou to Dong Niang's bed.

That night——

In the middle of the night, Nan Xiang's night was suddenly no longer quiet.

The shouts awakened the sleeping people.

Cheng Jiang woke up first, and he went to the next room to look for Alin.

"You stay at home, I'll go take a look."

Although Alin looked sleepy, his eyes were clear.

"Okay, go ahead and be safe."

Cheng Jiang nodded, and instead of going through the main door, he jumped over the wall and left.

Scar Qiang and his group of six waited until late at night and came to burn down Fu Ran's shop.

This breakfast shop doesn’t even have a proper sign.

The sign is hung up.

There were only three big words written on it: "Selling breakfast".

There is nothing else.

They got some oil, poured it on the door and lit it on fire.

Six people carried three buckets of water, waited until the door was burned, and then burned the fire inside to put it out.

Tomorrow morning, when they come and see what's happening, they will know that they can't mess with Scar Qiang.

But they miscalculated.

It's windy tonight.

When the fire just started, they were happy to see it, but when it got bigger, they could no longer control it. Scar Qiang wanted to put out the fire, but three buckets of water were not enough to put it out.

In a moment, the fire spread.

The breakfast shop that Fu Ran rented was burned to ashes, including all the tools and ingredients inside.

The two houses next door were burned down, and the shop selling wreaths behind was also half burned down.

If the people nearby had not woken up and worked together to put out the fire, I'm afraid the entire street would have been burned down.

Scar Qiang and his group of six were tied up by Cheng Jiang.

"Setting fire to a house is a serious crime in Dayue."

"It wasn't us who released him. It wasn't us--." Scar Qiang's younger brothers cried out for injustice one by one.

But the people affected are still angry.

They were almost burned to death, how could they remain calm?

One by one, they came forward and punched and kicked Scar Qiang and the other six.

Cheng Jiang didn't stop him.

However, the detectives who arrived later stopped them.

"If you continue to hit someone, someone will be killed." The constable stopped him.

"They deserve to die. They dared to kill people and set fire to a street. They are so bold. Officers, such people should be beaten to death with clubs."

One person spoke, and everyone agreed.

"Yes, yes, if they didn't put it there, why would they come here?"

"That's right. He must have destroyed the tables and chairs in A Ling's shop during the day and asked him to pay some money. He held a grudge and came to take revenge at night. But if you want to take revenge, you have to aim carefully. You almost burned down the whole street."

The constable finished the job.

There is also a special fire brigade in the town, but it is not very large.

Fortunately, it was discovered early and no one died.

Only Mrs. Zhang from the wreath shop at the back was choked by the smoke and has now been sent to the clinic.

The constable took Scar Qiang and others back to the government office.

We will settle the matter of compensation tomorrow.

It was not until Fu Ran woke up in the morning that he realized the noise outside was caused by someone setting fire to the house.

It was her shop that was burned.

She got up early in the morning and prepared to go to the shop with Alin, but Alin told her that it was not necessary to go so early.

She asked again and again before Alin stammered and said it out.

"What? There's still this matter. Why didn't you call me last night?" Fu Ran asked loudly.

"It's not that I didn't mean to not call you." A Lin shrank back. It was Cheng Jiang who didn't allow him to call him.

When Cheng Jiang arrived, the shop had already caught fire and the people next door had been awakened and started to put out the fire. He helped to put out the fire and tied up Scar Qiang and several others to prevent them from escaping.

"That's the shop where we just started making money, that idiot." Fu Ran was about to go crazy.

It was her first time to open a shop and her business was booming.

She wants to make money, a lot of money, and her shop must become more and more prosperous.

It doesn't have to be this prosperous.

"Where are those people? Where are they? I won't let them go." Fu Ran's eyes turned red. The shop was the result of her hard work.

"Cheng Jiang went to the government office and is now in the house. The arsonist has been arrested. Don't worry, the government office will cooperate with compensation." A Lin persuaded softly.

Fu Ran didn't really trust the government.

"Even if the government intervenes, what can Scar Qiang and his men do? They can't even pay fifty taels of silver, so what else can they pay? They can just pay a few taels of silver and the rest will be borne by ourselves."

"No, I want to go see what the shop has become."