Liu Xiangmei was the first to discover that the bookstore was on fire.

At that time, she and her classmates had already delivered the large order of more than 50 cups. Unexpectedly, after the coffee and milk tea were delivered to the library, many classmates who came later could not help but smell the fragrance of the milk tea and stopped her and asked if she could help them deliver it again.

Liu Xiangmei looked at the time and asked again, and found that there were more than a dozen people who wanted to buy milk tea on her behalf.

Thinking that she could make a few more dollars from this order, Liu Xiangmei happily rode her bicycle to the milk tea shop again.

As I was leaning against the door waiting for milk tea, I heard a shrill scream coming from the bookstore diagonally opposite.

Then, three moving balls of fire were seen rushing out of the bookstore.

The employees in the milk tea shop were all terrified.

"What are you standing there for? Go save them!"

Liu Xiangmei dropped the takeaway box and rushed over.

Half an hour later, the fire on the four people was put out, and they lay side by side on the ground, dying, waiting for the ambulance to take them away.

Looking at Tong Xiaoyan who had been burned beyond recognition, Liu Xiangmei called Jiang Tian's home with trembling hands.

Tong Xiaoyan had been severely burned and could not even speak. Liu Xiangmei did not know Boss Tong's home phone number. She only knew that Jiang Tian had told her to call her immediately if she found anything wrong with the bookstore.

After receiving a call from Liu Xiangmei, Jiang Tian heard her say that Tong Xiaoyan was splashed with gasoline in the bookstore and suffered severe burns. Her head buzzed and she hung up the phone and ran out.

After running a few steps, she remembered that the phone was faster than her, so she turned back, picked up the phone, and called Tong Zhiyuan.

The person who answered the phone was not Tong Zhiyuan, but an employee at the gas station.

"Boss Tong? He went to the bookstore on Xinjie to pick up Xiaoyan. I don't know what happened tonight. It's almost nine o'clock and Xiaoyan hasn't come back yet..."

When Jiang Tian rushed to Xinjie Bookstore on her bicycle, the ambulance had already arrived and was carrying people into the car.

The place was filled with the smell of burning flesh.

Tong Zhiyuan looked at Tong Xiaoyan, whose skin and flesh were burned, with tears in his eyes. He didn't dare to touch her with his hands. He just kept calling his daughter's name.

However, Tong Xiaoyan, who usually had a sweet and clear voice, could no longer respond to her father's call.

A few hours later, bad news came from the hospital: Tong Xiaoyan died due to severe injuries and failed rescue efforts.

In the evening of the next day, Xu Hongli and Wang Yaohua, who also suffered severe burns, also died.

Shi Suyun was rescued, but 80% of her body was burned and the pain was worse than death.

What's funny is that Shi Suyun suffered such a serious injury for the Wang family's wealth and glory. When the time came and she needed money to save her life, no one from the Wang family came to the hospital to see her.

Tong Zhiyuan lost his beloved daughter and vowed to find out the truth.

He simply didn't believe that Tong Xiaoyan, who had always been weak and timid, would do something like pouring gasoline on herself and setting herself on fire.

And that barrel of gasoline was not taken by Tong Xiaoyan. One time, when he went to the store to pick up his daughter, his motorcycle suddenly ran out of gas, so he called the store to ask them to send it. He filled up half of it and left the rest in the store, thinking of getting it next time. Unexpectedly, just this half barrel of gasoline cost Tong Xiaoyan's life!

At this time, the police who came to the bookstore to investigate found evidence of Wang Yaohua's abuse of Tong Xiaoyan in a small room in the backyard...

Tong Zhiyuan went crazy at that time.

Unfortunately, the culprits Xu Hongli and Wang Yaohua were already dead, leaving only Shi Suyun lying in the hospital, waiting for the Wang family to give money to save her life.

Of course Tong Zhiyuan couldn't just rush to the hospital and kill Shi Suyun.

But if you really want to kill someone, there are many ways...

He simply asked someone to find the Wang family and tell them what Shi Suyun had done, and the Wang family was so scared that they dared not show up again.

Shi Suyun thought that as long as she let her son sleep with Tong Xiaoyan and had something on the girl, she could marry Boss Tong's daughter and let Tong Xiaoyan bring a large dowry to the Wang family.

But now, Tong Xiaoyan is dead.

If they go to the hospital now to get money to save people, wouldn't that be telling Tong Zhiyuan that they are also accomplices?

What's more, the Wang family doesn't have much money.

I heard that Shi Suyun had been burned beyond recognition. Even if she was rescued, she would be a cripple for the rest of her life. If she was taken home, not only would the whole family have to take care of her, but they would also have to endure Tong Zhiyuan's crazy revenge...

Thinking of this, Shi Suyun's husband packed his luggage overnight and went to work in another place.

Shi Suyun's parents-in-law also went on an excuse to visit relatives far away, and no one knew where they went.

A few days later, Shi Suyun, who was lying on the hospital bed, developed a post-operative infection because no one was taking care of her at home. She died painfully on the bed in a dark night.

Tong Zhiyuan was devastated. After dealing with his daughter's funeral, he lay in bed sick for several days.

Hu Qiongfang couldn't bear to see him looking half dead, and when she saw Tong Xiaojun coming to the fast food restaurant alone to buy lunch boxes, she rushed to the gas station with two lunch boxes and started scolding him.

"You regret it now? What did you do before?"

"You ruined your daughter, and now you want to ruin your son too?"

"Tong Zhiyuan, Xiaoyan is gone, go check on your son!"

"Xiaojun just came to my store alone to buy food. I saw that the soles of his rubber shoes were cracked, the scarf around his neck was pilling and unthreaded, and the sleeves of his sweater were a lot shorter!"

"Yes, Xiaoyan is gone, you are sad, we are all sad, but does that mean we are all dead? Xiaojun already has no mother, do you want him to lose his father too?"

"Get up and eat! After dinner, take Xiaojun to my second sister-in-law's shop to buy two new sets of clothes, and then go get your hair cut and your beards shaved!"

Seeing that Tong Zhiyuan still looked half dead, Hu Qiongfang sneered, "If you continue to lie here, I, as an outsider, can't do anything about it."

"But, Tong Zhiyuan, you have to think it through. If you don't care about your own son, there will be many people out there who will want to make connections for you."

"Xiaoyan has been killed by someone. If you want Xiaojun to be killed as well, just keep lying here."

Tong Zhiyuan took a deep breath and slowly climbed up from the recliner.

Hu Qiongfang put the lunch box in front of him with a "duang" sound and said, "Eat!"

Tong Zhiyuan hadn't eaten properly for several days, and Hu Qiongfang didn't dare to bring him any greasy food, so she only brought some rice, a portion of sweet and sour pork tenderloin, two pieces of steamed salted duck, and a few spoonfuls of cabbage stewed with lard.

Plus a serving of pork ribs and kelp soup.

This kelp soup is not the free bone soup that the store usually gives away. Instead, it is stewed in a large pot and then served in small customized soup cups one by one and kept warm in a steamer. If customers want to eat it, they have to order a separate portion.

Now that the weather is cold, customers who come to fast food restaurants to eat prefer to order a bowl of hot soup, a serving of rice, and a plate of free pickles, and eat them while they are hot, which is more comfortable than a boxed lunch.

The reason why Jiang Tian dares to make various kinds of pork rib soup, mutton soup and beef soup in her own fast food restaurant is mainly because her boyfriend does this. Every autumn and winter, the people under Han Jisong would purchase a lot of local beef and mutton from the northwest and Inner Mongolia.

The beef and mutton there are better than their local ones, especially the stewed soup, which is simply amazing!

Therefore, although the prices are not cheap, the various beef, mutton and pork rib soups in the fast food restaurant sell very well every day, and sometimes they are not enough to sell.

Tong Zhiyuan drank the whole bowl of pork rib soup and even ate the ribs clean.

After having a full stomach and standing up, he was the upright Boss Tong again.

Tong Xiaojun is an honest child. Such a big thing happened in his family. His mother and sister are both gone, and his father is also in a daze. The boy was panic-stricken for a while and decisively asked for leave from his class teacher.

Not daring to disturb his father, Tong Xiaojun followed his father's example and went to a few gas stations every day to check on the business, ask the store managers how the business was yesterday, take out the account book to check the safety issues of the gas stations.

After finishing my work, I have to buy food for my father, and then come back to do the laundry and clean the house.

He thought that if his father really couldn't stand up, he would be the pillar of the family in the future.

From childhood to adulthood, it was his father who supported the family and earned money for him and his sister. From now on, he must work hard to learn to support the family and earn money to support his father...

Hu Qiongfang said that he was wearing tattered clothes when he went out, but in fact Tong Xiaojun deliberately changed into old clothes.

After all, there was oil stains everywhere in the gas station, and it was difficult to wash new clothes if they got dirty, so he learned from his father and usually wore old clothes when he worked in the store, and only changed into new clothes to show off when he went out.

Unexpectedly, when he just came back from inspecting the store today, he saw his father had already gotten up and was sitting at the table, looking through the account book he had sorted out.

"Dad! Are you up?" Tong Xiaojun ran over excitedly.

The shoe sole with glue coming off opened and closed like a happy little crocodile.

Tong Zhiyuan looked at his son's tattered and dirty clothes, his eyes turned red, but he couldn't help but smile.

"Well, I got up after sleeping enough."

It's time for him to get up.