Early the next morning, Du Chengfeng was awakened by a commotion.
He grabbed Li the carpenter, who was running past the courtyard gate, and only then did Du Chengfeng learn that the Yang Family's Dock Fortress had caught fire in the middle of the night. Apparently, some unfortunate fool had knocked over a lantern. Although there were no casualties, the ancestral shrine had been completely burned down.
"But I remember, wasn't it raining heavily last night?"
Du Chengfeng was quite puzzled. He knew it was pouring outside when he got up in the night.
The shrine managed to catch fire despite the heavy rain—only heaven knows how the Yang family pulled that off.
But it was none of his business. How the Yang family would remedy the situation was their concern. As for today, he was headed to the governor's office in Ji Town for his first day of work.
His task was to polish the entire stockpile of weapons as an outsourced service provider.