Chapter 110: Finding the Cause
Nearly 30 acres of crops were looted by the fire, and the owners of these lands could only weep bitterly to relieve the regret in their hearts.
Wu Xiaoyu looked at her mother squatting on the side of the road, crying endlessly, so she had to persuade: "Okay, it's already like this, what's the use of crying?"
Several aunts and aunts of the family also comforted her mother and persuaded her to relax and stop crying.
But at this moment, no amount of persuasion is in vain, and for the peasants, there is no more serious disaster than the failure of the crops.
As far as the eye can see, on top of the large burned wheat fields, only thick ashes are left, and under the blowing of the weak summer wind, they are scattered and flying, like endless sighs.
Some of the villagers around the wheat field are crying, some are regretting, and more are glad that the fire was extinguished, otherwise their own wheat fields would be like this.
Wu Xiaoyu was a little puzzled in his heart, although today's temperature was a little higher, but these wheat fields were never natural, what caused this fire?
The fire truck stopped on the side of the road, several firefighters were packing up their tools, and a man who looked like a captain walked up to the village chief, as if asking something.
Wu Xiaoyu walked over and asked Niu Mansheng, "Village Chief, how did this fire happen?"
Niu Mansheng, as the head of a village, was in a state of depression when the wheat field caught fire during the summer harvest, and he was afraid that he would be criticized by the town.
Now seeing Wu Xiaoyu, such a person came in five or six, talking to himself in a questioning tone, and resentment instantly arose in his heart.
"Lao Tzu is the village chief, do I need to report to you?"
He wanted to say such a sentence, but this Wu Xiaoyu had pressed himself to death recently, and he still had his own handle, so he had to reluctantly replied: "Captain Wu is also about to investigate?"
Captain Wu Wentao of the fire brigade couldn't help but feel a little strange when he saw that the village chief was talking to a junior student so politely, and asked, "Who is this?"
"My name is Wu Xiaoyu, and our family's three acres of wheat field have also burned down, I want to ask how this fire started?" Wu Xiaoyu introduced himself and asked about the cause of the fire.
As soon as Captain Wu was about to speak, he saw a police car drive over, and three policemen got out of the police car, one of whom Wu Xiaoyu knew, and it was Director Liu of the police station he met in the town that time.
Director Liu walked over and said to Wu Wentao of the fire brigade: "Old Wu, the cause of the fire in Wenjiazhuang has been investigated clearly, and it was caused by a cigarette butt thrown in the afterlife!"
Wenjiazhuang is also on fire? No wonder the fire truck can arrive so quickly!
Wu Wentao shook his head and sighed: "Hey! This wheat field is just a little bit, how can anyone still smoke in the field at this time......?
Niu Mansheng heard the two of them say this, and hurriedly asked, "The fire in our village was also caused by smoking, right?"
Wu Wentao glared at him and said, "Probably the same is the case! The specific reason is that Director Liu has to take someone to investigate!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Director Liu with two policemen and went to visit and investigate.
The wheat field was on fire, and the villagers also wanted to know that it was the one who had suffered a thousand knives to do it, so they actively cooperated.
However, when the fire broke out, most of the villagers were eating at home, and when they came to the field, the fire had already become a threat, where could they ask any clues?
A few policemen interrogated around, but found nothing, only to look for clues next to these burning fields.
The so-called Skynet is magnificent but not leaky, and if this fire is caused by man, it will inevitably leave some clues.
Sure enough, Director Liu and the others found a magnifying glass next to a wheat field, how could this thing be thrown on the side of the road? And it's a brand new one!
Director Liu picked up the magnifying glass on the ground, walked up to a few women next to him, and asked, "Which of you has seen this thing? Do you know whose it is?"
The woman who was squatting on the side of the road and crying, as soon as she saw this thing, recognized it, this is not her son, the toy he bought in the town a few days ago? Why is it here?
As a rural woman who didn't graduate from elementary school, she naturally didn't know what convex lenses could ignite, and thought that her son had accidentally lost this toy.
I saw the crying woman, wiped away her tears, snatched the magnifying glass from Director Liu's hand, and said, "This is my son's toy ......."
Without waiting for Director Liu to react, he saw a five or six-year-old child rushing out from behind the woman, snatching the magnifying glass and saying, "This is mine!"
Seeing this, a black-faced man scolded: "What are you robbing? I just bought you something, and I just threw it away! See if I don't beat you......"
Wu Xiaoyu saw that Director Liu was standing in front of his cousin's family, as if he was asking them something, and hurriedly walked over.
When he saw the magnifying glass in Wu Mingming's hand, he was a little frightened, where did this magnifying glass come from......?
Director Liu stopped the black-faced man's reprimand, squatted down, put his hands on Wu Mingming's shoulders, and asked patiently, "Uncle asked you, why did you lose your magnifying glass next to the wheat field?"
Wu Mingming raised his eyes and looked at his father, and said aggrievedly: "I didn't want to lose it, I'm burning ants here!"
The surrounding villagers heard him say such a word 'burn', and they all gathered around, but Wu Xiaoyu couldn't help frowning, sure enough, it was this bastard boy!
Director Liu continued to follow the temptation: "Have you burned ants?"
When the little guy heard this, he was a little disappointed and muttered, "This ant ran so fast that it didn't burn ......."
"However, I put this magnifying glass next to the ant nest, and there are definitely ants that will be burned to death!"
When Director Liu heard this, he already had six or seven points of certainty in his heart, but many villagers were confused, can this magnifying glass burn ants?
"What did you do by putting this magnifying glass next to the ant nest?" Director Liu then asked.
Wu Mingming lowered his head and said, "I saw that those ants ran very fast, and none of them were burned to death, so I went home to eat first." ”
This fire was lit at the time when the villagers were having lunch, and the time was also very consistent, it seems that the cause of the fire was this kid's magnifying glass!
At this moment, another policeman squeezed into the crowd and said, "Director Liu, this fire should have started to burn in the wheat field where the magnifying glass was found!"
When the villagers heard this, they blew up the pot, although they didn't know why the magnifying glass could burn the ants.
But the fire started from Wu Dade's house, and it may be related to their son's burning of ants, no matter how they say they are the culprits.