Zhou Zichen relaxed completely and apologized repeatedly to the firefighters around him: "I'm sorry, everyone, I thought they were upstairs just now and I was scared."
The firefighters expressed their understanding and began to prepare to fight the fire.
Tian Huizhen saw how anxious Zhou Zichen was about to rush into the sea of fire just now. She was also anxious and scared, fearing that Zhou Zichen would really rush in.
But now there is a hint of sweetness in my heart, thinking that Zhou Zichen was so anxious just now, maybe part of it was because of her!
Zhou Zichen walked towards Tian Huizhen and the two of them: "Going to sell vegetables?"
Tian Huizhen nodded: "I sent you a message to eat delicious food tonight, didn't you see it?"
Zhou Zichen was probably still having barbecue with Huo Dalong and the others at that time. He didn't notice the message on his phone. He said with a smile: "Maybe I didn't notice it. Just hope you two are fine."
"Well, what should we do now?" Tian Huizhen pointed to the still burning house with billowing smoke.
"Let's rent or buy another one! We'll see when the time comes."
The two were chatting casually, and a firefighter came over: "Comrade, I'm sorry to excuse you, but you are a tenant on the second floor, right?"
Zhou Zichen nodded: "Yes!"
"Is there no one up there?"
"No more!"
"Do you know the general cause of the fire? For example, you didn't turn off the gas or lights when you went out, or you didn't turn off electrical appliances such as electric irons." When the firefighter asked, he was holding a notebook and recording something.
Zhou Zichen answered one by one. The firefighters over there had connected the water pipes and sprayed water into the house with high-pressure water guns.
As soon as the firefighters finished taking notes, a Volkswagen Passat sped by and stopped on the side of the road. A woman in her forties hurriedly got out of the car and started shouting when she saw everyone.
Zhou Zichen recognized at a glance that the woman was the landlord.
The landlord cried and howled for a while, and then she saw Zhou Zichen. It could be seen from her expression that she was slightly relieved. At least no one was burned to death inside. But the house was burned, and she was not a little angry. She angrily turned towards Zhou Zichen.
Chen came over and said, "Zhou Zichen, what did you do? What happened to this house? You just burned it down?"
"Did I offend you or something? I rented my house so cheaply to you, and now you're burning my house down?"
Zhou Zichen knew that the landlord wanted to kill him and burn the house, so Zhou Zichen would have to pay for it.
If the house was damaged by other reasons, such as circuit damage, etc., it would not have much to do with Zhou Zichen.
Zhou Zichen was also curious about how the fire suddenly broke out, but the burning of the house must have something to do with him. He turned around and said, "I will compensate you for the house. You can rebuild it or ask for money."
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"What are you asking for compensation? You only have a few thousand yuan a month. My house is a bit old, but it's still worth hundreds of thousands!" The middle-aged woman didn't think Zhou Zichen had so much money. Zhou Zichen used to
She knew very well how depressed Chen was.
In fact, this house is very old, probably from the 1980s to 1990s. If it weren't for this land, just the house, no one would want it for 30,000 yuan. If it wasn't dilapidated to a certain extent, it wouldn't be rentable.
go out.
Zhou Zichen saw that the fire officers and soldiers had extinguished the fire, and turned back to the middle-aged woman and said, "I'll give you one hundred thousand."
The middle-aged woman immediately responded: "As you said, there are so many people testifying here. If you don't give it, I will take you to court."
"Go prepare the contract, and I'll give you the money after you sign it!" After Zhou Zichen finished speaking, he said to Tian Huizhen: "You guys wait here, I'll go up and take a look."
Tian Huizhen thought Zhou Zichen was going up to see if there was anything else we could use: "Okay, then be careful."
When Zhou Zichen wanted to go up, the fire officers and soldiers were not allowed. After all, the danger inside had not been completely eliminated. He could only wait for the firefighters above to come down before he could go up.
The firefighters came down quickly: "There was a gas leak. Not only was there an open flame, it ignited the liquefied gas."
As the firefighter spoke, he took out a valve, which was already somewhat deformed. Zhou Zichen could tell at a glance that the valve was fully open through the power of his eyes.
"Officer, can you go up and take a look?" Zhou Zichen asked again.
"Go up! Be careful!" the fire chief said.
Zhou Zichen thanked him again and hurried upstairs.
Now everything upstairs is dark and there are traces of being burned.
Everything in the room was basically burned to the ground.
Zhou Zichen looked carefully and looked at the door several times. The wooden door inside had been almost burned, the iron door was still in good condition, and there was nothing wrong with the lock.
The living room had long since been burned down to nothing but dregs, and nothing could be seen at all.
Wang Zitao's room was almost completely burned, and there was nothing left that could be used anymore.
In Zhou Zichen's room, in the drawer, Zhou Zichen found the two brands, one gold and one silver. He put these two things away and walked towards the room.
There is no problem with the balcony. The glass on the kitchen window has been broken by the high temperature, but this is not important. The problem is that two iron bars on the window are missing, leaving a big gap.
Zhou Zichen looked at it carefully and found that it was so burnt that he could no longer see anything. But when he turned on his powers, he could easily see that the two iron bars were broken. It seemed that the fire was man-made.
Zhou Zichen's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Who hated him so much and wanted to burn him to death?
After thinking about it, Zhou Zichen found that there seemed to be a few people he had offended, such as Zhang Hao, Yang Donglin, etc.
Just as Zhou Zichen was thinking, his cell phone rang.
I took out my cell phone and took a look at it. It was an unfamiliar phone number. I hesitated for a moment and finally answered the call.
"Hello...who is this?"
A low and cold voice came from the other end of the phone: "Zhou Zichen, you are lucky this time, no one was burned to death, please ask a god to come back and burn some incense, and pray that you will have such good luck next time."
"Who are you?"
"Beep beep..." A series of busy tones came.
Zhou Zichen looked at his phone and made sure that no one he knew had a voice like this, but he could not rule out that someone had used a voice changer or deliberately lowered his voice.
However, there is still no way to determine all this.
I walked around the room again, but still didn't find anything.
When Zhou Zichen went downstairs again, the landlord was already waiting downstairs with the contract, and was standing beside Tian Huizhen and Wang Xiaotao. Judging from her posture, she would not let Tian Huizhen and Wang Xiaotao go if Zhou Zichen didn't give her money.
"Zhou Zichen, the contract is ready, pay me!" the landlord said, taking out two contracts and handing over a pen.
Zhou Zichen took the contract and looked it over briefly, signed it directly, and fingerprinted both copies.
Seeing that Zhou Zichen was happy and his face was not so ugly, the landlord also signed and pressed his fingerprints: "Give me the money!"
"Give me your account number!" Zhou Zichen took out his mobile phone.
The landlord took out a card, Zhou Zichen transferred one hundred thousand, and then transferred another one hundred thousand to her: "I gave you a total of two hundred thousand."
The landlord quickly received the two amounts of money on her mobile phone. She looked at Zhou Zichen in surprise. She didn't expect that Zhou Zichen really took out 100,000 yuan casually and gave herself an extra 100,000 yuan. She suddenly seemed to be a different person.
Like a human: "Xiao Zhou, it's true that I didn't speak well just now. Don't mind it. I feel heartbroken when I see this house burning down."
Zhou Zichen nodded: "Although the house is a bit old, you have been renting it to me all these years. I still remember you. I will leave first."
After Zhou Zichen finished speaking, he held Tian Huizhen with one hand and Wang Zitao with the other and walked towards the car.
When Tian Huizhen saw that Zhou Zichen had not received the contract, she quickly said: "Contract, you haven't received the contract yet."
Zhou Zichen actually didn't care that much about the contract. The landlord was very sensible and hurriedly handed over a contract: "Sorry, I forgot about it just now."
The three of them got in the car. The landlord looked at the BMW 740 driven by Zhou Zichen and his eyes nearly popped out.
She knew very well what Zhou Zichen's situation was like in the past. Although she had never owed rent, her life was very tight, and she only had a second-hand motorcycle.
"I don't know when this kid got rich and actually drove such a good car!" The landlord murmured with envy and jealousy as he watched the BMW 740 drive away.
Zhou Zichen first drove Wang Zitao to the orphanage. Wang Zitao still had a bed in the orphanage. There was no other place to stay these days, so he had to stay here first.
There is another important reason. Orphanages are run by the government. Most people will not touch orphanages easily. Otherwise, the government will definitely investigate and it will be of no benefit to anyone.
The main target of going to the other party is yourself, not the other people around you. The people around you are just their targets. As long as Wang Zitao doesn't follow you, you will be safe.
Zhou Zichen then took Tian Huizhen back to school. When he arrived at school, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening, and it was already dark at this time in autumn.
When the BMW 740 parked at the door of the female dormitory, it immediately attracted the attention of many people.
Tian Huizhen didn't dare to talk to Zhou Zichen along the way, because Zhou Zichen's face was not very good-looking. When he got out of the car, he felt like he had to say something, so he waved his hand and said: "Drive carefully, take care of yourself, bye."
Zhou Zichen also waved his hand: "Bye."
When Zhou Zichen's car left, people around him started talking about it.
"Is that female classmate being kept by someone?"
"I think it looks like, look at how she looked when she got out of the car."
Tian Huizhen actually also knew that Zhou Zichen would send her back whenever she had time. When she was riding a motorcycle in the past, others just said that she had found a poor loser as her boyfriend.
Later, Zhou Zichen changed cars and everything she said changed, saying that she worked as a mistress for Zhou Zichen, was being kept by Zhou Zichen, etc.
In Tian Huizhen's heart, she would rather sit on the back of a motorcycle and listen to others talking about her relationship with Zhou Zichen, even though in the eyes of others, Zhou Zichen is just a loser.
But now, although she doesn't mind because she has a clear conscience, she doesn't like being told like this because she has a soft temper.
"Huizhen, your boyfriend has sent you home again? When are you going to invite us to dinner?" The roommate who had just returned from outside happened to see Tian Huizhen coming back and immediately rushed up to joke.
"That's right, your boyfriend is so rich and drives cars costing tens of millions, yet you still don't treat us to dinner." Someone started to cheer.
Zhou Zichen has given Tian Huizhen a lot of money these days, including food shopping, tuition fees, etc., which is about 10,000 yuan a month. Every time Tian Huizhen asks to give it back to Zhou Zichen, Zhou Zichen doesn't want it, saying it is for Tian Huizhen.
The "labor subsidy" allowed Tian Huizhen, who was frugal and frugal, to save a lot of money: "Then go now!"