[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again":3,"chapter-after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-317":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","After Being Reborn, I became a firefighter again?",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},711965,950,"Chapter 317 - 251: We Must Have a Clear Explanation Today","after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-317",317,"\u003Cp>As the woman was about to take the elevator, she happened upon Hao Chengbin, who was laying out the hose in the stairwell by the safety stairs and yelling out, \"How many more floors?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Chengbin saw the woman running towards the fire room and immediately stopped her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the woman didn’t stop. She ran to the doorway and peered inside while saying, \"Comrade, this is my home, I just want to take a look!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While speaking, she called into the room, \"Hey! Have you found it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I know this is your home! Get out! It’s very dangerous!\" Hao Chengbin said angrily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already been annoyed that Fang Huai was sent into the fire scene to risk searching for money, and seeing this woman acting all sneaky and impatient only irritated him more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Has someone already gone in? I won’t go inside, I’ll just watch from the doorway!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman felt that if the people inside intended to hide the money, they had to pass through this doorway, and she simply refused to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Chengbin cursed her, and she stepped back a little, lingering at the doorway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the firefighters had already gone inside, the money was bound to be rescued, so she had to wait at the door and count the money immediately as it was retrieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, when Fang Huai sprang out from inside, he was holding a rather charred kraft paper package with sparks still on it, and under the kraft paper was a large pile of ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The money inside the kraft paper bag had been burned beyond recognition, with only two relatively intact bundles left, some half-burned pieces, and the charred remnants of banknotes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that the woman was there, Fang Huai carefully placed everything in his hands onto the ground, stacking it into a pile, and shook out his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, without saying a word, he walked straight to the window to open his face shield and breathe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman looked at the pile of charred remains, feeling a profound sense of loss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These days, a hundred thousand or so could buy half an apartment here, and now it was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She reached out to touch the two bundles that were still salvageable, maybe exchangeable at the bank, but when she touched a hot ash, she screamed out loud, \"Ah!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don’t touch... it’s hot!\" Fang Huai took a couple of breaths and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There should be other things in that big box, but the box was fixed to the cabinet, and I couldn’t get it out. But I’ve carried out both the bag and the ash produced by the burning money. It’s good that you stacked them in bundles, the money was thickly stacked, so the bottom part wasn’t burned that much.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, the woman felt something was off, \"Comrade, if it’s all burned, how do you know it was thickly stacked?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai, hearing the suspicion, glared, \"Nonsense! The money is burned to ash, but when I went to rescue it, the ash hadn’t been blown by the wind, it still had a shape!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman became even more suspicious, \"With all that smoke, how could you see clearly inside?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This woman, once her brain got working, she really was like a detective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could I explain this to you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During that moment of hesitation, the woman seemed to think she had caught on to something, fiddled with her mobile phone, and continued to question,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A hundred thousand or so, and this ash is all that’s left from the fire, how could it be so little?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Chengbin, finding this woman to be quite talkative and becoming annoyed again, said, \"Haven’t you ever burned joss paper for your ancestors? Forget about a hundred thousand, even if you burn a whole bag of joss paper, how much ash would remain?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the woman suddenly looked up at Fang Huai with a smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop making trouble, young man. Take out the money. If you can keep twenty thousand this intact, there must be quite a bit left inside, at least another hundred thousand. If you take it out, I won’t say anything to your leaders. Both of you, I’ll give you ten thousand, you can split it between yourselves.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With these words, both Hao and Fang laughed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Real nice, huh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So you mean I should have waited for these twenty thousand to burn completely before getting them for you, that would make sense?\" Fang Huai said with a laugh. After speaking, he clenched his back teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now, when he went inside, in order to rescue the remaining twenty thousand, he had reached into the fire ash with his bare hands, burning his exposed wrists several times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had also stayed inside that high-temperature environment for so long that no matter how deeply he gasped for air, it wouldn’t alleviate the weakness from being dehydrated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If today any ordinary person had gone in there, they wouldn’t last a minute before two people would need to go in to rescue them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman saw Fang Huai’s \"stubborn\" attitude but also noticed the condition inside the room. Realizing that without the firefighters, her home could have been completely ruined, she didn’t make a scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Squad leader, I’m going downstairs to see if there’s anything I can help with. Keep an eye on this pile of ash for me,\" Fang Huai instructed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hao Chengbin nodded, \"Go take a break, don’t worry about anything else.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Fang Huai was about to press the elevator button to go downstairs, the woman quickly picked up the twenty thousand that had cooled on the floor and grabbed a few larger scattered bills, following him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai didn’t stop her and let her follow him downstairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once downstairs, both the man and Cao Yi came up to meet them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How is it?\" both men asked simultaneously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man was more anxious, while Cao Yi was very calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai shook his head and spoke first, \"We saved a little over twenty thousand... Anyway, everything that could be done has been done.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the woman was making eye signals at the man, shaking her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai wanted to go aside with Cao Yi to discuss the situation upstairs, but seeing this, the woman quickly followed, looking at the crowd outside and seeming to draw courage, feeling that even if she caused a commotion, they wouldn’t dare not save the fire at her home, so she said loudly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Comrade, can you take off your jacket, so I can take a look?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Fang Huai and Cao Yi turned around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yi immediately said, \"What are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman glanced at the noisy community residents, then pointed at Fang Huai and said loudly, \"I suspect he has my family’s money on him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yi laughed, then looked toward the man,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I just said something to you, everyone heard it, please take good care of your wife.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man hurriedly ran up, pulled the woman aside, and spoke to her privately for a while. The woman then took out a mobile phone from her pocket and let the man listen for a bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Emboldened, the man came over with the woman’s mobile phone, nearly pressing it against Cao Yi’s ear, and loudly said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Comrade, please have a listen!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yi pushed his hand away and glanced at Fang Huai again, patiently asking, \"Listen to what?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realizing the phone was silent, the man sneered, adjusted it, and soon a woman’s voice could be heard:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tens of thousands of yuan, if it was burnt to ashes, how come there’s only this much left?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t give it to the elders at home...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Stop making trouble, kid. Just take out the money...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you suggesting that it would have been more reasonable for me to watch as the entire two thousand got burnt before I took them out for you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While listening to the recording, Fang Huai thought for a moment, then walked aside and whispered a few words to Meng Qiang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman stared intently at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Cao Yi stood still, listened to it twice, and still didn’t understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you trying to say?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman became instantly self-righteous and began to rant,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He’s asking me what would be reasonable, which proves he did it! He stole my money!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh my...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several people around, swayed by her faulty logic, began to voice their suspicions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone was entirely unaware of the situation upstairs, but felt that the woman’s louder voice and her presenting of \"evidence\" started a flurry of discussion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seizing the opportunity, the woman grew even more assertive, \"I want a body search!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai couldn’t hold back any longer. He stepped forward, tightened his combat uniform, straightened his helmet, and looked directly at the woman with a slightly bowed head. The badge on his helmet was facing her as he said loudly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You have no right to search me! I am standing right here, you search me, try it?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman took a step back, scared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The mood among the surrounding people also began to shift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Young man, just take off your coat and show her! Just let her see, tens of thousands, how could it be hidden?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"They’ve already clarified just now, it was he who asked their firefighters to go for the rescue, why should he be searched? I think this family is quite the joke.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The man immediately came up to her and waved his hand, as if not to bother with Fang Huai, and said, \"We don’t have that power, but the police do, call the police, call the police!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the man called the police, Cao Yi also called the Instructor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As time passed, more and more onlookers gathered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, Fang Huai just stood in an open area, silent, waiting for the police to arrive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman, on the other hand, was stirring up the crowd, talking about how the two firefighters upstairs had bad attitudes, took the money and wouldn’t admit it, asking her how it would be reasonable to take the money, and wrapped themselves up tightly when coming downstairs, afraid of being seen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She constantly tried to create public opinion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was having some effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially among those who had just passed by, stopped to watch the excitement, didn’t understand the details, and were eager to participate in this \"righteous judgment,\" they all started to discuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About 20 minutes later, the police arrived at the scene.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a policeman approached, the man stepped forward and presented his ID card, \"Officer, I am the person who called the police! Today this firefighter came to my house to help me save...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the policeman brushed him aside and walked over to Cao Yi, asking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Instructor Cao, what’s going on?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since they all worked in the same area and often encountered each other on police dispatch, they were familiar faces. Knowing the situation, the policeman didn’t follow procedure and began asking questions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Yi briefly explained the situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The policeman felt that the matter was tricky and after thinking it over, said, \"Why don’t you let one of the brothers from your unit come with us? He did go inside, and he was alone. It will be easier to handle back at the station. Of course, his clothes need to be taken off for inspection, but rest assured, we’ll see that he gets fair treatment.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman, although held back on the side, also vaguely heard the two men’s conversation and immediately became agitated, \"You know each other? No, that won’t do. I demand that your superiors deal with this matter! No, I want it to be done right here, search him on the spot!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A police officer who accompanied him glared, \"Don’t talk nonsense here! He could sue you for that!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sue then! I know plenty of lawyers! Anyway, if you leave here today intending to settle this privately, don’t think I have no clue!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By now, the woman at the side of the crowd, with newfound confidence, finished speaking and took out her mobile phone, seemingly flipping through contacts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crowd around them grew noisy, and everyone began to express their opinions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Fang Huai saw Meng Qiang gesturing that the digital camera was almost out of battery, and finally, he spoke,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Officer! Let’s handle it right here, please.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone turned their heads in unison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fang Huai began to take off his combat uniform jacket and tossed it to the ground, saying, \"Search me right here, no problem! Luckily, our Squadron’s camera has recorded everything. This matter concerns the reputation of our firefighters; we must have a clear explanation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After speaking, he turned to the arrogant woman, then looked at the man and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, I will sue him for publicly insulting my professional reputation and for libeling me as a thief. Do I need to hire a lawyer?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Last month’s 6000 monthly ticket plus Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2165,"2026-06-02T10:16:52.042Z",1,"novelbin.me","d442e426234a7f0f824a55c67a912ffc26ed019fd33ccbb061b502765e76640f","after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-318","after-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-chapter-316",807,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fafter-being-reborn-i-became-a-firefighter-again-cover.jpg"]