Great Lawyer

Chapter 443 What Motivation (Part [-])
"On fire?" Shan Dequan said excitedly.

Du Jiuyan nodded, "Let's go!"

The four of them got up, turned into the yard like swallows, and saw that the fire hadn't lit up in the dressing room, but the smoke had already sprung out.

Immediately the door opened, and Chang Liu came out from inside. He patted the ashes on his body, looked around calmly, and went to his room.

Halfway through, he stopped suddenly, his expression froze.

"Damn it!" Dan Dequan went up with a kick. Chang Liu was very thin, and he kicked him on the stomach. He kicked back a few steps, fell to the ground, and blurted out, clutching his chest: "You guys ...Give me a trick?"

"Who the hell set you up and kill you." He went up and slapped his face.

Du Jiuyan dropped a gong in the first room, and King Gui knocked the gong bang bang bang.

The lame man ran to the well to fetch water, and Du Jiuyan moved the valuables out.

There was a sound of gongs and drums, and everyone got up. When they saw the smoke and water in the first room, they panicked in fright.

"What are you panicking about? Hurry up and find something to draw water to put out the fire." King Gui said.

As soon as the fire started, more than a dozen people continued to pass water, and put out the fire after a while.

The roof was not burned, but the costumes and many outfits in the room were burned, the water flooded the floor, the whole room was in a mess, and many precious things were scrapped.

"How could this be?" Chang Banzhu sat down on the ground with a thud, "How can you get out of the water!"

"I'm sorry Master, I didn't lead the Hang family class well!"

Chang Banzhu broke down and cried, children big and small were crying around him in the yard, all of them were wearing single clothes, some of them were soaked, just squatting in the yard with despair on their faces.

The pillars have just fallen, and now most of the troupe's belongings are gone.

Hangjiaban is really over.

"Don't be afraid." Du Jiuyan patted Paulownia on the shoulder, and said to everyone: "Your outfits, I will pay for you to re-purchase them."

"Buy the best, the most beautiful." Du Jiuyan said: "Whatever you want to buy, what to buy."

The child stopped crying and looked at her.

"Mr. Du," Mr. Chang shook his head, "It costs a lot of money, we can't trouble you."

Du Jiuyan asked, "How much does it cost?"

These are all saved up from generation to generation. Mr. Chang made an estimate, wiped his tears and said: "Two or three thousand taels must be needed!"

"It's okay, I'll give you 3000 taels, and I'll give it to you tomorrow." She said, "Help your class leader up!"

The children surrounded him and helped Mr. Chang up.

"No, no. This is too much money, I can't ask for your money." Chang Ban said: "No one's money is picked from the fruit that grows on the tree. It's not easy for you, Mr. Du, I can't ask for it."

"I'll fix these things. We won't be singing in the capital in the future. It's enough to go to the countryside for a walk."

As he spoke, thinking about the series of blows, his face turned pale and he was about to collapse before he finished speaking.

"My heart." Du Jiuyan said: "When everything is packed, we will sing for us another day!"

Teacher Chang looked at Du Jiuyan.

"Okay, it's settled, you also let the children pack up and go to bed, and get up and do the rest tomorrow morning." Du Jiuyan said.

Teacher Chang looked at Du Jiuyan gratefully, and said to the children, "Kowtow to Mr. Du!"

As soon as he said that, a dozen or twenty children knelt down together.

"Mr. Du, if it weren't for you tonight, the fire would burn continuously. Not to mention these outfits, our lives would be gone." The head teacher Chang said: "You saved our lives, and you still help us like this." We, we have nothing to repay, in the future, as long as you have something to tell Mr. Du, just say it, and everyone in our Hang family class will listen to you."

"You are the reborn parents of the children!" Chang Ban said.

The children also shouted: "Mr. Du, you are our reborn parents!"

In this cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, when the wind blows, it is no different from a knife being cut on the body. Du Jiuyan is also soaked through, but now looking at these children and looking at the class leader Chang, she only feels warm in her heart. Leader Chang helped him up and said, "I'm helping because of you. In front of your kindness, I'm nothing."

"Let's not talk about that. People are the root of everything. As long as people are healthy and we are together, we can overcome any difficulties." Du Jiuyan said.

The head teacher often wiped away his tears.

"What's the matter, brother Liu?" Suddenly, Paulownia saw Chang Liu who was being detained by Dan Dequan.It was dark in the yard, they were cold, flustered and scared, they didn't even notice that Chang Liu was standing by the wall with his hands clasped by Dan Dequan.

At this moment, Paulownia uttered a voice, and everyone looked at Chang Liu.

"Chang Liu?" Chang's class leader was astonished, "My lord, Mr. Du... What, why are you arresting Liu'er?"

King Gui said, "He set the fire on."

"What?" Leader Chang couldn't believe it, "Liu'er set fire, it's impossible...it's impossible to set fire. Liu'er, what are you talking about? Did the masters misunderstand you?"

Chang Liu didn't speak, and in the pitch-black night, his eyes were empty and white, his stubbornness was chilling.

"Mr. Du," Chang Banzhu saw that Chang Liu was silent, and looked at Du Jiuyan helplessly, "Is there some misunderstanding? Why did Liu Er set fire?"

"He, he has no reason."

Du Jiuyan said: "Things may be worse than you think. If you can't explain a few sentences, you will know when the trial starts."

"Also, is he in his teens this year?" Du Jiuyan asked.

Teacher Chang replied: "He was ten months old when he came to me, and now he is 16 years old."

"Fourteen!" Chang Liu spoke, her voice cool and authentic: "I won't be 15 years old until March next year."

Du Jiuyan looked at Chang Liu and suddenly smiled, "Have you counted the time?"

Chang Liu didn't speak again.

"What's wrong?" Mr. Chang asked, "What does age have to do with what he does?"

Du Jiuyan said: "It matters, whether he is sentenced to death or hanged!"

"What?" Chang's class leader was too shocked to speak, and the children behind him also showed shock, Ling Rong asked: "Did Chang Liu set the fire?"

Du Jiuyan nodded, "He set the fire, we saw it with our own eyes."

"You bastard!" Paulownia pointed at Chang Liu and scolded, "Why did you set fire to your own house? What should we do if you burn everything down? What to eat and drink? You want to piss off the class leader and kill all the younger brothers. Are you starving?"

Chang Liu glanced at Paulownia coolly, then lowered her eyes again.

"Don't be angry, accusations are meaningless to him!" Du Jiuyan said to everyone: "Go and rest if you say anything during the day."

She paused as she spoke, and said to Shan Dequan: "Catch the head alone, first take him back to the Yamen and close it."

"If you hit where you can't kill, don't kill people, you won't know when the time comes." Du Jiuyan said.

Dan Dequan kicked Chang Liu's leg, and said, "This bastard, I wish I could finish him off with one blow."

"Go!" He said, grabbing Chang Liu's collar and dragging him out of the yard.

Du Jiuyan asked everyone to go back to sleep, she lit the lamp and re-entered the dressing room.

"It just pulled the costumes to ignite the fire." The cripple pointed to the place where dozens of beautiful costumes were hung in a row, but now all of them have been turned into plaster. "Fortunately, there is no tung oil, otherwise the fire will be difficult to save."

Du Jiuyan stood in the ashes, frowned and said: "Tell me, why did he do this?"

"Dark people don't need a grandiose reason for doing things." King Gui said.

Yes, dark people may do crazy things just because of a trivial matter that ordinary people don't care about.

"Mr. Du," Mr. Chang put on a padded jacket, stood at the door with his hands folded in a daze, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Did Liuer really set the fire?"

Du Jiuyan nodded.

"But...but he has always been very good. He is very good to his brothers and us."

"I really can't think of any reason for him to set the fire." Chang Chang recalled Chang Liu's days here, he was always smiling, he practiced very hard, and he was diligent in doing things. Everyone liked him.

He never thought that Chang Liu would do such a thing.

"Ask him while you're waiting for the trial." Du Jiuyan said.

Mr. Chang's kung fu at this moment seems to be decades old, he nodded while supporting the door frame, and said, "I, I also want to ask him."

He really wanted to know what he did wrong to raise this child in a wrong way.

At dawn the next day, Du Jiuyan called Qian Daoan and Zhou Xiao and took out 3000 taels, "...you send this money to the Hangjiaban, and then ask someone to repair that house."

"Pack up and make a receipt. Estimate whether 3000 taels is enough. If not, I will pay."

Qian Daoan took the money, nodded and said: "You don't need to take the rest of the money, we just pay it. Chang Banzhu is a good person, we should help."

"Father," Xiao Luobo took out all the money in his purse, this was his last money, the rest was rewarded by the queen mother and could not be sold, and the gold that Qiu Zhang gave him hadn't been exchanged for money yet. "Can I go too, I have 320 taels here, can I give them all?"

Du Jiuyan patted his head, and said with a smile: "Okay. I also promised that you would invite those brothers to dinner."

"Okay." Little Luobo said, "Then I can buy them noodles and rice, right? A meal in a restaurant costs a lot of money, so it's better to buy rice."

Qian Daoan picked him up, laughed, and said, "Little Carrot will settle the score, this calculation is very clear."

"I'll go too," Cai Zhuoru said, "It's just a theater troupe, and I can't find anyone to sing, but it's okay to pay them to live for three to five years."

Du Jiuyan cupped his hands and said, "Ah Ru, you are so bold!"

Cai Zhuoru laughed.

"Brother Nine," Nao'er ran out of the room pulling Huazi, both of them clutching money bags, "We want to go too."

Du Jiuyan looked at Nao'er, "Okay, find something to do. But don't you like theater troupes? If you feel uncomfortable after going there, you can stay at home."

"It's not the same," Nao'er blushed, shook his head and said, "The Hang family class is different from the Lu family class!"

Lu's troupe was the theatrical troupe they used to stay in. For him, everything and memories there were nightmares that he didn't want to touch in his life.

"Then go." Du Jiuyan said.

Everyone took the money and went straight to Hangjiaban.

King Gui, Du Jiuyan and the lame man went to the government office.

(End of this chapter)