Chapter 554: Fire
"Is the police unwilling to handle this matter?" Jiang Yue asked while looking at the male policeman.
Seeing the look, the policeman frowned.
Although young master Rong hadn’t bribed him to handle the matter, the policeman knew the Rong family.
At this time, he volunteered to handle the matter so that the Rong family could owe him a favour.
However, he was unwilling to go too much out of his way.
After all, other than the word of the two culprits, there was no evidence that Rong Huang was involved in the blackmail.
If he could, he naturally wanted the Rong family to owe him a favour but before that, he had to protect himself.
After thinking about it, the policeman looked at his colleague and sighed.
’I am afraid I can’t handle this matter.’ He thought and shook his head in regret.
His partner was called Liu Meilin.
Like her name, Liu Meilin was very beautiful and could make a successful career in the entertainment industry.
However, for some reason, the beautiful woman ran to become a policewoman.
Even more unfortunate, Liu Meilin was honest and had a powerful background.
Although most of their colleagues disliked her righteousness, they could do nothing about her.
At this point, the policeman had a hunch that Liu Meilin would pursue Rong Huang and never stop until the case was solved.
’Forget it.’ The policeman sighed again and turned to look at Jiang Yue.
"Boss Jiang, have you thought about it? Do you really want to make a big deal of this matter?" He asked.
"I am sure." Jiang Yue nodded and held his lover’s hand.
Hearing this, the policeman turned to the two blackmailers.
"We will need you to follow us to the police station to answer some questions." He said and moved to handcuff the man.
Seeing this, the couple panicked and directly avoided the arrest.
"Boss Jiang, we know we are wrong. Please let us go." The man pleaded.
Unfortunately, Jiang Yue was not soft-hearted.
After surviving in the cultivation world for thousands of years, what kind of people hadn’t he met?
Whether on Earth or in the cultivation world, most people were not shy about bullying the weak.
It was only after they hit an iron plate that they suddenly realised they were wrong and begged for forgiveness.
For such people, neither Jiang Yue nor Yu Nianzhen wanted to give any consideration.
"Resisting is a crime. If you continue to resist, we will note this matter amongst your crimes." Liu Meilin warned while walking towards the female blackmailer.
"This matter has nothing to do with me. We were just acting." The female pleaded.
However, Liu Meilin didn’t care about her nonsense.
In less than five minutes, the two policemen arrested the two and walked them out of the snack store.
"Follow us to the station to make a statement." Liu Meilin said while looking at Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen.
"We understand." Jiang Yue nodded.
After that, the two closed their snack shop and followed the group to the police station to make a report.
Five hours later, the two returned but didn’t reopen their snack shop.
Instead, they cleaned up and went to rest.
"What an eventful day." Jiang Yue sighed and flumped on the bed.
"Are you tired?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
"Aren’t you?"
"Mmmh." Yu Nianzhen nodded and also lay on the bed.
"Azhen, what’s on your mind? You have been distracted for a while now."
Hearing the question, Yu Nianzhen didn’t speak right away.
Instead, he fell into deeper thought before finally turning to look at his lover.
"I want to resume sword practice." He said and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but frown.
"Is it okay?" Jiang Yue wondered.
After all, they were experiencing mortal life and could not use their qi, soul power, or body strength.
"I don’t plan to practice any advanced skills."
After thinking about it, Jiang Yue nodded in agreement.
"There are a lot of mortals who practice martial arts and swordsmanship. Practising basic swordsmanship shouldn’t be a problem."
"I think so too." Yu Nianzhen said and frowned before he continued.
"My body is weak and sword practice is a good way to exercise and condition myself."
"In that case, let’s find an opportunity to buy a sword."
Hearing that, Yu Nianzhen shook his head.
"You don’t need a sword?"
"I will carve a wooden sword."
"Okay." Jiang Yue nodded and then turned solemn.
"Azhen, I seem to have realised many things today. I want to meditate for a while."
"I also want to meditate."
After that, the two sat cross-legged on the bed and began to meditate.
When morning came, they went to the market, bought what they needed and then returned home to catch up on some sleep.
Later, they opened the shop and worked as usual.
In this way, three days passed and everything seemed to have returned to normal.
Unfortunately, the normality was only a temporary illusion.
On the night of the fourth day, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen were meditating on their bed.
Suddenly, Yu Nianzhen opened his eyes and frowned.
At the same time, Jiang Yue also opened his eyes and turned to look at Yu Nianzhen.
"Azhen..."
"I smell smoke." Yu Nianzhen directly said.
A moment later, the two quickly wore their coats and rushed out of their room.
Soon after, they entered the shop front and thick smoke rushed into their noses.
"Cover your mouth and nose." Yu Nianzhen urgently reminded.
"Mmmm." Jiang Yue nodded and quickly covered himself.
"Let’s get out from the back door and jump over the wall to the next lot." Yu Nianzhen suggested and Jiang Yue immediately agreed.
At a glance, the fire started from the front.
If they wanted to escape from the front of the store, they would surely suffer some burns.
Since there was a better option, the two didn’t plan to make things difficult for themselves.
"Azhen, let’s grab some things." Jiang Yue said and rushed back to their room.
Now that they were poor, each of their belongings was important.
If they could take out a few things, they wouldn’t be desperate if the fire couldn’t be put out before everything went in flames.
With that, the two grabbed some money and a few important things before rushing out from the back door.
Soon after, they climbed over the wall and jumped onto the empty lot beside their store.
A while later, they ran to the front of their store.
"Damned it." Jiang Yue cursed as soon as he saw the orange flames that were greedily devouring their store.
Fortunately, some of their neighbours had already come out of their stores and several were carrying buckets of water.
"Quickly put out the fire. Don’t let it spread to my store." The next-door neighbour shouted.
"Boss, let’s connect a pipe from your place."
"Has anyone seen Boss Jiang and his wife? Are they still inside?"
"I haven’t seen them. Hurry up and put out the fire."
Everything was in chaos and several neighbours were panicking.
After all, no one wanted their store to be implicated in the sudden fire.
"Wait..., what if it’s an electric fire? Can we use water to put it out?"
"What kind of electric fire are you talking about? It’s more likely that boss Jiang and his wife were careless when handling the oil in the store."
"It’s true. The fire doesn’t look like an electric fire."
"Those two are so young. How can they be so careless?" Someone asked, shaking his head in ’sadness’.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen almost vomited blood in anger.
’The matter has not been investigated but they are already blaming us. What a fuss!’ Jiang Yue thought angrily.
However, he and Yu Nianzhen didn’t have time to waste.
Although they were angry at their neighbours, they still rushed to their stores to borrow pipes and water buckets.
Less than half an hour later, the fire was extinguished.
Unfortunately, Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue had lost their investment and most of their worldly possessions.
"It’s going to be troublesome." Yu Nianzhen whispered and looked at the group that was walking towards them.
"Boss Jiang, how did your store catch fire?" Someone asked with a hint of accusation in his voice.
"Did you forget to turn off the stove?" Another asked.
"It’s okay if you want to burn down your store but don’t implicate us." The immediate neighbour spoke angrily.
Hearing this, Jiang Yue was almost angered to death.
He and Yu Nianzhen were not pyromaniacs.
Even if they were, they would burn down other people’s things and not their own things.
At this time, he naturally felt aggrieved but he forcibly suppressed his anger.
"Boss Li, my wife and I were already sleeping when the fire started. Fortunately, we managed to escape with our lives." Jiang Yue said and right hand on his chest.
When he thought about it, he felt a little scared.
Although they had ways to save their lives if they really encountered a fatal disaster, Jiang Yue couldn’t ignore that they were almost burned alive.
Fortunately, he and Yu Nianzhen were meditating instead of sleeping.
If they had really been asleep, they may not have been able to react as fast as they had.
"If you were already asleep, how did the fire start?" Someone asked with a sceptical look in his eyes.
At that, Jiang Yue shrugged and quickly explained.
"After we smelled the smoke, we woke up and came out to investigate. At that time, the fire was only in the front of the store. If I had to guess, the fire started in the front."
"How is that possible?" Someone shook his head and thought Jiang Yue was making excuses.
"If I remember correctly, there was nothing that could start a fire in the front of your Zhenyue snack shop."
"Apart from tables and chairs, there was nothing in the front."
"Boss Jiang, did you leave a candle in the front?"
"Boss Li, there was no power outage today. Why would I light a candle?"
"Who knows..." Someone started, stopped, and then looked at Jiang Yue with a suspicious look in his eyes.
