After Huo decided to develop this place, some families who signed the contract received compensation in advance and moved out one after another.
Only those who almost disagree with the demolition are still living there.
Yu Ming's car stopped at one of the houses that did not agree to be demolished. That house was particularly dilapidated because it was close to the seaside and the terrain was humid. The walls of the house were mottled with mildew.
After Yu Ming got off the car, he walked towards the house. When he walked inside, it was dark inside.
Yu Ming said to the dark house: "Is there anyone there?"
At first no one answered him, and then an old woman came out with a lit candle in her hand. She was blind, and she kept touching her hand in front of her. After touching for a long time, she asked: " Who are you?"
Yu Ming looked at the old woman in front of him and took a rough look. She should be eighty years old, and her face was covered with weather.
He asked: "I'm looking for your son."
"my son?"
There were really too many people coming to the old woman's house during this time, so the old woman didn't ask for the exact identity of Yu Ming. She just said, "My son is sleeping in the room."
Yu Ming looked toward a room with the faint candlelight in the old man's hand.
He asked: "Did you sleep at the door of the first room?"
"Yes, yes, you go."
After Yu Ming got the old woman's permission, he walked towards the door, and the old woman listened to the sound and continued to fumble around with her hands.
After Yu Ming entered the room, he smelled a strong smell of alcohol. There was a wooden bed in the simple room.
There was a drunken, unshaven man lying on the wooden bed. The man felt someone coming into the room and immediately stood up from the bed in fright. His eyes were fixed on Yu Ming: "Who are you? What are you doing in my house?!"
The man had a skinny face and looked like a gambler, but he could figure out the situation of his family just by looking at him.
Yu Ming has seen many people like this since he was a child. After all, his family comes from the countryside, so he has never seen such people.
Standing in such a simple place wearing clean clothes, Yu Ming felt like he was tainted with the smell of alcohol in this room. He gently kicked away a takeaway box at his feet with his toes.
Then, he answered the man: "Do you want more compensation?"
The man still looked unresponsive. Looking at the strange man standing in front of him, he stuttered and asked: "W-what did you say?"
"I can make you rich overnight and let Huo give you satisfactory compensation."
The drunkard jumped out of bed.
Yu Ming stood there like Satan in the darkness.
The drunkard was defensive at first, then asked tentatively: "Really?"
Yu Ming smiled mysteriously at him: "Of course."
Yu Ming stayed in that room for almost more than an hour. After an hour, after he came out of the room full of alcohol, he met the blind old woman in the room who was lighting a candle.
The old woman asked: "Have you finished talking to my son?"
Yu Ming smiled and said, "Yes."
The old woman was still quite polite. She asked with a hoarse voice and a trembling voice: "Then...are you here to eat?"
At this time, her alcoholic son walked out of the room and stood there sparsely. When he looked at his old mother holding a candle, he rubbed his nose twice and took two sniffs. He said in a tone of voice: "I'm in trouble, what can you do with one eye blind?"
The old woman could only remain silent.
His son added: "Go and do it for me quickly, blind woman."
When the old woman heard her son's words, she didn't dare to invite the guests to dinner, so she hunched over and nodded, holding the candle and walking towards the kitchen again.
Yu Ming's eyes were always on the old woman. After he glanced at the old woman, he then turned his eyes to the old woman's son.
After receiving his gaze, the old woman's son straightened his posture a bit.
After a brief exchange of glances between the two, Yu Ming walked out of the room.
After the drunkard stared at the person and left, he glanced at the kitchen again. He brushed his nose twice with his hand, put his hands in the ragged sleeves, shrugged, and left the room.
On this night, around two o'clock in the morning, an astonishing fire suddenly burst out of the fishing village.
Everyone was still sleeping when they were woken up by a burst of shouting.
The remaining villagers in the fishing village who had not yet moved out rushed out of their houses, looked at the monstrous fire, and rushed over in the next second.
Someone was kneeling outside the burning house, crying and shouting: "Mom! If you don't agree with the demolition, just agree! If you don't want to leave, just don't want to leave! Why did you burn our house?" House, burn yourself to death!"
"Mother! Mother! Come out quickly! Come out quickly!"
All the villagers ran towards Liu Jiugui's house, only to hear an old voice shouting inside.
They looked up and saw the blind old woman burning in flames.
Liu Jiugui saw his mother burning alive and wanted to rush into his home. However, when he rushed to the door, he was pushed back by the fire at the door.
He fell to the ground and cried heartbreakingly.
The villager wanted to rush in to save people, but the fire was too strong, and those who rushed to the door were all forced back by the fire.
After the blind old woman screamed inside for a long time, she was enveloped in a bigger flame, and then there was no sound.
The drunkard lay on the ground, shouting heartbreakingly: "Mother! My mother--"
He wanted to rush into the fire.
But he was held tightly by those village names.
They looked at the people in the house who were swallowed up by the sea of fire, and they were all saying: "I can't go! I can't go! The fire is too big, Old Liu!"
Liu Jiugui lay on the ground crying hoarsely.
The fire burned all night, and only a piece of rubble was left in the dilapidated house.
A group of reporters gathered around the fire-scorched house. The camera focused on an extremely emotional man. He shouted loudly in front of the camera: "Huo! Take your life! You beasts! Force me to death." Ten-year-old mother! You don’t deserve a good death! You forced us to demolish our house and left us with nowhere to go! You forced my old mother to burn down her house! Give my old mother her life back..."
The drunkard collapsed in front of the reporter's camera.
At this time, the fire truck also passed by him, and he looked miserable and screamed after being forced by the capitalists.
Word quickly spread to local television stations.
When Ding Yalan received the news, she was driving to Huo's. She heard the report on her mobile phone and asked loudly: "There's a fire?!"
