Chapter 626: Where is the suspect?
"Yes, yes, we are very careful about fire prevention, and we will not close and leave candles in the restaurant, so it must be an outsider who came in and set the fire, and our janitor who kept vigil was injured in order to put out the fire. γLatest Chapter Readingγ"The guys from Wangjianglou echoed in unison.
"Where is the fire?"
"I don't know, I didn't even see the scene clearly before I was sent to the house to report the letter."
"Where do the janitors rest at night? How do you lock this gate? β
"The gate is locked from the inside, then you go out through the back door and exit through the small door in the backyard."
The man led the group back to the gate, which was an old wood, deformed but not broken in the heat, and was attached to the door shaft, and the man pointed to the latch and keyhole behind the door to show them.
"Where's the janitor's hut?"
"The janitor's hut is actually a small room behind the counter, where the shopkeeper rests during the day and the janitor rests at night."
"Shared? Where do you put the ledger and the money? Bai Ko raised his eyebrows.
"The shopkeeper brings it to himself every day, and he doesn't put it in the restaurant, but also because he is afraid that if he goes out of the water one day and affects the account books and money, then our Wangjiang Building will really collapse."
Everyone looked at the original location of the counter, where only a few burnt wooden planks remained, and the walls of the hut were also charred black.
"Where's the back door? Take me to the back. β
"Here, please, bypass this screen."
The stairs on the first floor of Wangjiang Building are in the middle of the hall, like a bridge on the left and right corridors of the second floor, and the screen placed on the screen can just block the sight of the guests entering the door, and will not directly see the backyard at a glance.
The screen was also sturdy, inlaid with porcelain panel paintings, and the wood was also a fine hardwood, blackened and cracked, but it still stood steadily.
However, when everyone unanimously stood in front of the back door around the screen, they found that the door panels here were burned out, the threshold under their feet had become a long piece of charcoal, and the back door was wide and unobstructed.
"Oh, here's where the fire started."
"So this is a fire that outsiders touched into the backyard and lit at this back door?"
"Who locks the backyard door? Inside the lock or outside the lock? How did the arsonist get in? Over the wall? Huang Bin curiously ran out of the door and looked around the courtyard for a while, and then ran back to answer the question he asked to everyone, "The wall is very high, you have to build a ladder to turn over, or at least two people to build a ladder." β
"The doors are bolted from the inside, and when they close, they lock the gate first, and go home through the backyard door, and the janitor bolts the courtyard door from the inside, and when he comes back to the inside, he latches the back door again, and then he goes to the hut to rest."
"In other words, with this kind of arrangement, if someone really comes in the backyard in the middle of the night, he actually can't hear it at all?"
The guy had an embarrassed look on his face, "Well, yes, but we don't have anything of value in our backyard or kitchen." β
"Not necessarily, Wangjianglou has good wine and good food, and there is nothing valuable? Where is the wine cellar? β
The guy was shocked and hurriedly walked out, "In the courtyard!" β
Everyone followed and saw a huge canopy in the courtyard, under which a shallow countertop was built, half of which was used for stacking firewood, and the other half was a cellar door, and this slight gap above the ground became a natural waterproofing platform, and the sewage and rainwater in the courtyard would not wet the firewood or flow into the cellar to stain the wine.
The guy ran to the cellar and took a look, and was so anxious that he slapped his legs, "Oops, the lock has been picked!" Is it really here to steal wine? β
"Go down and have a look, leave us alone."
Bai Qiao hurriedly said, and watched thoughtfully as the man went to the kitchen to light a lantern first, and then came back to open the cellar door, and cautiously walked down the steps to count the wine jars.
The boys looked around curiously, and at this time, after Gu Yun finished talking to the owner, an old man and a young man came in side by side to look for them.
"You're really here, have you seen enough? Don't hinder the owner from doing things, people still have to take stock of the losses. Gu Yun said to the brothers, her eyes were looking at Bai Ko, and she knew that she was the most curious.
"The first time I saw the scene of the fire, I had to watch it for a while." Bai Ko turned his head and left, not listening to Gu Yun at all.
"Huh?!" Gu Yun grabbed Bai Ko's wrist without thinking about it, "Don't be naughty." β
Bai Ko was pulled by Gu Yun, and just stood firm, his eyes happened to be on the outer wall of the back door of the restaurant.
"Huh? Wall! β
"What's suspicious?" Everyone's eyes immediately looked at the wall in unison.
Bai Qiao glanced back at the cellar where the wine was placed again, shook off Gu Yun's hand suddenly, ran into the restaurant, looked back and forth at the back door, and hurriedly ran out and ran to the old club.
"Where is that janitor now?"
"He's supposed to be in the infirmary, he's burned."
"Did you hurt your hands the most?"
"yes, because he put out fires."
"Wrong! He set the fire! The fire started on the inside of the door, and several of your doors were bolted from the inside, and outsiders could only burn from the outside of the door when they came in and set fires, but you can see that the outer wall is not burning badly from the inside at all! Even if he is not an arsonist, he must be involved, go and arrest him! β
"Oh my God!"
The old club's body shook, his face suddenly lost blood, Gu Yun hurriedly supported him, and Huang Bin had already run out.
"I'm going to call someone!"
Huang Bin ran outside like a nimble little monkey, and called the guys in Wangjianglou who were squatting in the corner of the wall to enjoy the shade and didn't know what to do in the future, and asked them to hurry up to the hospital to find their janitor, who set the fire.
All the guys were stunned, some hurriedly ran to the medical hall, and some went to call Wuhou and the officials, they had not left nearby, the shopkeeper talked with them, discussing what to do next, and when they heard the latest information, they immediately sent someone to block the four gates to prevent the gatekeeper from escaping.
The man who counted the wine jars in the cellar hurried back to the ground, and told the owner that there were a few jars of wine, and the old owner's panting became heavier, and everyone hurriedly pinched the other man to make him sober up, and the shopkeeper also rushed back at this time, and when he saw the host's scary appearance, he hurriedly went to the kitchen and got a stool and put it in the cool place for him to sit on.
"By the way, what about your empty jars?" Gu Yun suddenly thought of something and asked the guy.
"It's all piled up under the wall."
"Remember how many jars of wine you drank yesterday? Hurry up and count the empty jars, if there are many, it must be the arsonist who poured wine on the fire, so he pried the cellar. β
"Oh oh oh!"
The man hurriedly went to count the empty wine jars, and after a while, he ran back, his eyes were red, and he was already angry.