Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat
Chapter 532 - 532 527 On the Run

Chapter 532: Chapter 527: On the Run Chapter 532: Chapter 527: On the Run Seeing the police coming to arrest someone, everyone in the workshop who hadn’t gone out to eat crowded over to watch the excitement.

When they saw that the deputy director Zhu was the one who set the fire, and then listened to his conversation with Jiang Yan, a few hot-blooded young people couldn’t help but curse–

“Fuck! Can you believe he’s still a deputy director? A double-crosser!”

“Exactly, doesn’t he even look at whose money he takes home every month?”

“Luckily, old Yu returned to the storeroom ahead of time, otherwise, if all that stock really burned up, would we even get paid next month?”

“What a piece of shit…”

A group of people cursed and swore, which when heard by the deputy director Zhu, made him both angry and furious.

At this moment, Manager Zhao jogged over, and seeing the person standing between the two police officers, he realized that the rumors he had just heard were true.

It was really this bastard who started the fire!

Deputy Director Zhu also came from the old electronics factory, but he wasn’t like Manager Zhao, who was among the first group to come over during Feixue’s early days. He moved when he saw the old factory gradually declining and the profits getting worse. Moreover, all the important positions had been taken by Zhuang Shengkai’s people, leaving him with no hope for promotion. Only then did he seek out Manager Zhao and resigned to come over here.

“You, Zhu…”

“Manager Zhao,” Jiang Yan turned around and interrupted him, “don’t interfere with the police, they still have to interrogate and go after Zhuang Shengkai.”

After the police took Deputy Director Zhu away, Manager Zhao turned to Jiang Yan with a face full of shame, “President Jiang, this is all my fault, this scum was brought in by me.”

Jiang Yan smiled and didn’t blame Manager Zhao. After all, it’s hard to judge a book by its cover. Even someone recruited from the talent market couldn’t be completely guaranteed to be trouble-free.

“It’s okay, don’t think too much, this has nothing to do with you.”

“But President Jiang, do you think it was solely Zhuang Shengkai’s doing? Is there a possibility that President Zhuang… also participated?”

Jiang Yan shook his head, “I don’t know, but He Gong said that President Zhuang is hospitalized with a cerebral infarction, and he was still a bit confused when he visited. He couldn’t even recognize He Gong. Under these circumstances, it’s unlikely he could plan such a meaningless retaliation.”

Manager Zhao thought it over and agreed. President Zhuang might have been befuddled into handing over the factory to his stepson Zhuang Shengkai due to pillow talk, but he probably wouldn’t take part in illegal activities such as beating people and setting fires.

Of course, that was just a probability. Who could be sure?

After all the perpetrators were taken away by the police, the factory quickly resumed normal operations, and the workers who had been locked out after going out for lunch gradually returned to the factory.

In the afternoon, the factory continued its production in an orderly fashion.

Jiang Yan, Jing Junyang, and Liu Wenhui, the three parties involved, followed the police to the station, and not long after, news arrived — Zhuang Shengkai had disappeared!

His mother had vanished as well.

It was clear that this mother and son had fled.

Not only that, but the police moved quickly; they discovered that the properties owned by President Zhuang had mostly been disposed of.

Five residential units in the city and three storefronts had all been sold, the factory was sublet with a ten-year lease. Even the villa they were currently living in had a contract signed and the transfer completed a week prior…

The real estate agent was very capable, handling all the property transfers with just a marriage certificate, President Zhuang’s ID, and the presence of President Zhuang’s current wife herself.

At this moment, lying in the hospital bed, President Zhuang still had no idea that when he would be discharged, he wouldn’t have a place to call home.

Upon hearing this, He Gong remained silent for a while before shaking his head and sighing, saying nothing.

….

That evening, when Jiang Yan returned home with his arm swollen, he gave Mu Jiawen and the others quite a scare.

He honestly didn’t think much of it. It did hurt when he first got hit, but it had gotten a lot better over the afternoon. Now, it was just the sight of his swollen arm that was alarming, but it actually didn’t hurt anymore.

But Mu Jiawen still dragged him to her elder brother’s place to have him take a look.

After looking it over, Yu Feng teased, “You arrived just in time. Any later and I guess there might not have been any marks left to see.”

Mu Jiawen looked at him dissatisfied.

Yu Feng: …

“Alright, alright, it’s serious, very serious. You need to apply medicine and get wrapped up, okay now?”

Yi Hailan glared at him with dissatisfaction from the side, “Look at your attitude. Jiang Yan’s arm is swollen like this, the least you could do is feel it carefully before drawing any conclusions. Who makes judgments just by glancing?”

“Exactly,” Mu Jiawen huffed coldly on the side, “Quack doctor!”

Yu Feng burst out laughing, “Xiaosi, you’re calling your brother a quack doctor for the sake of this guy?”

Mu Jiawen rolled her eyes at him.

Yi Hailan, already smiling, got up to go to the kitchen to fetch an ice pack for cold compresses. The troops often trained, and injuries like these were common, so even if Yu Feng wasn’t around, she handled it with ease.

During the cold compress, Yi Hailan looked at Jiang Yan, hesitating to speak.

“What’s the matter, sister-in-law?”

Jiang Yan turned his head towards her and smiled, “If you have something to say, just say it. We’re not strangers.”

Only Mu Chenyan originally knew about their marriage registration, but since they had to start addressing each other differently after the registration, Jiang Yan had begun calling her ‘mom.’ Given these circumstances, they had to tell the Yu Family brothers as well.

So when Jiang Yan said they were not strangers, they really were family.

“Okay, then I’ll speak frankly. Jiang Yan, does your factory still need security guards?”

How Jiang Yan’s arm got injured was already explained by Xiaosi, and one of the aspects that she was concerned about was the security guards colluding with outsiders to betray the factory.

The people they had hired were not up to the job.

Mu Jiawen at first thought her sister-in-law mentioned it because she saw Jiang Yan get injured and wanted to give him some fighting tips. She had heard from her elder brother that despite her sister-in-law’s thin arms and legs, and not looking strong, she was skilled in Sanda and grappling.

At the boxing gym owned by their eldest brother, none of the coaches were her match.

Of course, her elder brother was no match for her either.

However, speaking of the eldest brother’s gym, she heard that the shooting instructors that joined were introduced by her sister-in-law. So now asking Jiang Yan if he needed security guards…

“Sister-in-law, are you thinking of introducing veterans to work at the factory?”

Jiang Yan also realized what she meant and perked up, “Sister-in-law, do you have someone in mind?”

Hiring veterans as security guards for a factory was honestly an underuse of their talents, but if they were willing, he wasn’t opposed to raising their wages and benefits.

The incident at the factory that day proved their current security was indeed inadequate. Leaving aside Li Youcai, who was bribed for ten thousand yuan, aside from Captain Song, the others lacked professional quality, alertness, or other necessary skills.

“I do have some, but… when they were discharged, they suffered some physical disabilities. I don’t know if you can accept that.”

To say there were no healthy veterans who demobilized without injury would be incorrect, but those individuals generally had no difficulty finding employment and could settle down back home on their own.

But it was different for those who were discharged due to injuries. Even though the government provided demobilization payments, they were too young to live on that money alone for the rest of their lives, right?

Yet finding a job wasn’t that easy; they were often treated ‘differently’ by others to some extent.

The five soldiers who had served under Yi Hailan were like that. It had been nearly a year since their discharge, and they were still at home, unemployed.