Ma Shaolong nodded towards Su Han, and Su Han also nodded.
Three grown men got into the car, and the cars followed each other closely.
***
On Li Jingming's side, when his car drove towards the first point, it was going very fast.
His whole body was numb, and all he knew was that his hand holding the steering wheel was like holding a life-saving straw.
He tried his best to calm down, but he found that the further he went, the more uneasy he became.
The heavy snow was still falling, and Li Jingming did not find any suspicious vehicles as he continued driving.
His driving skills are good and his driving speed is very fast.
It took a big truck a day's journey, and he arrived in four hours.
When he got out of the car, he saw that all the combustible items on the two cars in front of him were reduced to ashes. Li Jingming felt that his head was heavy and his scalp was numb.
He squatted in the snow and reached out to grab a handful of ashes.
This was all his hard work, and these two trucks of goods were completely buried here.
The screws in the ashes were still warm. Li Jingming let go of his hand, and when the wind blew by, the ashes dispersed.
"Brother Li, I'm sorry, it's all my fault.
I was careless."
In just one morning, Zhao Ergou looked several years older. Apart from a sad look on his face, there was also self-blame and apology in his eyebrows.
"Brother Li, Ergou cannot be blamed for this. I am also responsible for this. I will make it clear to my father and bear half of the loss of the furniture given to our Xu family."
Xu Chengye stood behind Li Jingming, feeling uncomfortable when he saw Li Jingming saying nothing.
A strong wind blew by, and the ashes on the car danced with the wind. Li Jingming closed his eyes in despair.
He knew in his heart that no one of the two people behind him was to blame.
Li Jingming didn't say anything. He turned around and looked at the two people in front of him who were also feeling uncomfortable.
"This is not your fault. It has already happened. There is no use in blaming yourself."
How could Li Jingming not understand that something happened without even leaving Yang County's territory, and asking Xu Chengye to pay compensation, wasn't it a joke?
Besides, why should people compensate you? What reasons should they use to compensate you?
Improper supervision?
Li Jingming smiled bitterly and raised his hand to pat Zhao Ergou's shrugged shoulder.
"But Brother Li, it's me..."
I am responsible for seeing to the delivery of this batch of goods.
Before Zhao Ergou finished speaking, Li Jingming raised his hand to stop him, signaling him to stop talking.
"Did anyone inside leave first?"
Li Jingming glanced at the door of the house. A door of the house seemed to have been deliberately damaged. It was broken into two pieces and lay in the snow. The cold wind was pouring into the house wantonly.
Everyone in the room looked at Li Jingming cautiously.
In such a cold weather, everyone just wanted to make a few small bucks to celebrate the New Year, so they braved the danger of freezing weather and poor roads to go out. At this moment, they didn't want to be implicated in this tragic emergency.
"No, Brother Li, Xu Chengye and I have been guarding the yard."
Zhao Ergou's voice was a little hoarse. When he spoke, he seemed to be unable to find his own voice.
Xu Chengye nodded affirmatively.
Li Jingming glanced at the people in the room lightly, lifted up his heavy legs and walked towards the house.
The powerful and gloomy figure scared a group of people in the room and took two steps back.
Li Jingming put his hand into his trouser pocket. The group of people made up the scenes in the movie in their minds, and took two steps back in fear. When they saw Li Jingming taking out a cigarette in his hand, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Brothers, I'm really sorry for delaying your journey, but you have also seen that I am here. I have to wait for the police to come and deal with it."
As Li Jingming spoke, he politely handed out cigarettes to everyone. After passing out a pack of cigarettes, Li Jingming crumpled the cigarette case in his hand into a ball and threw it into the trash can in the corner.
A middle-aged man with a fat head, big ears, and a round waist looked at the people around him and said: "Brother, we are all here to drive sports cars. Seeing your goods turned into a pile of ashes makes us feel sad, but
Can you please stop embarrassing us, we really didn’t see anything.”
Li Jingming twitched the corner of his mouth: "Brother, I don't mean to embarrass you, but before the police came, you were all suspected, so I'm really sorry. You can't leave until the police come."
As soon as the man finished speaking, the people behind him began to commotion.
Passerby A: "Yes, we didn't do anything. We were just like your people. We slept until dawn last night."
Passerby B: "It was really fucking crazy last night. Normally I have to get up in the middle of the night for the next best thing. I felt sleepy and went to the room last night and slept until dawn."
After Passerby B finished speaking, Li Jingming sighed softly.
The people in the huge room began to talk in low voices.
Passerby A: "Brother, it's useless for you to stop us. We didn't see anything. Even when the police came, we couldn't say anything."
A man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks in the crowd echoed: "That's right, that's right. Your goods were burned so vigorously last night. It's lucky that our goods weren't burned. If our goods were burned, you'd still have to compensate us."
, if you trap us like this now, who will pay for our losses?"
Li Jingming frowned, and Xu Chengye's eyes flashed with anger. How could this stupid grandson know that the fire was so strong last night?
Xu Chengye thought of this and walked towards the man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks with a cold face. The man looked at Xu Chengye walking towards him with a puzzled expression.
The more Xu Chengye walked in, the temperature in the air dropped by two points.
The man's gloves were in his sleeves, and he shrank back uncontrollably. Xu Chengye grabbed the man's collar and gritted his teeth.
"Tell me, how did you know the fire was so strong last night?
Did you see something?"
The man was frightened by Xu Chengye's appearance. He said with a sad look on his face: "Brother, please don't do anything. We have something to talk about. Please don't do anything."
When the two trucks of your goods arrived yesterday, we knew they were good wood just by looking at the quality of the wood.
With two large carts of cargo, the wood is still dry. How big of a fire it would be to burn them all in one night. You don’t need to think about it to know how strong the fire is.”
After the man explained, the group of people they were with stopped working on the spot when they saw their companions being threatened. They blocked Xu Chengye in the middle and their voices became louder.
Seeing this scene, Xu Chengye snorted coldly and pushed the man with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks out.
The man staggered back a few steps before barely regaining his footing.
"What are you doing?
You want to cause trouble, right?"
This group of people thought that Xu Chengye did it on purpose. They had been left here all morning. The goods could not be delivered on time, so they could only worry here.
At this moment, the owner of the two trucks came. Seeing that he was easier to talk to than these two people, the group lost their patience and wanted to make a fuss and ask Li Jingming to let them go.