Chapter 119: Arson
"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle~"
"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle~"
"The weather is dry, be careful of the candle~"
Every night when the watchman carries the lantern to watch, he has to dutifully shout loudly several times, one is to strengthen himself in the late night activities, and the other is to remind everyone to pay attention to fire prevention. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In late summer and early autumn, the rainy season has passed, and it is a time when the weather is dry and fires are frequent.
Occasionally, it is common for someone to accidentally knock over the oil lamp, or the stove is not completely extinguished, and accidentally catch fire, but it is still rare for this big family to catch fire!
What's more, the fire is still burning so high.
I saw that the Zhou family's mansion was completely engulfed by the raging fire in an instant, and the fire started in a hurry, from the flames to the complete burning, but after a cup of tea, the people inside didn't seem to react, quietly, without a sound.
However, the people around were the first to react, shouting everywhere in a mess.
The husband looked a little dazed, and stayed for a moment before shouting loudly, "It's on fire, it's on fire~", and his voice blended into the noise.
The scene was very strange, until the people from the military patrol shop came here and began to put out the fire in an orderly manner, and there was still no one in the Zhou family's mansion.
The silence was eerie.
The people of the military patrol shop are very experienced in dealing with these things, throwing water bags, manipulating water dragons, rescuing finances, and shouting for help...... The division of labor is clear and very organized.
When the surrounding people saw that the people from the military patrol shop had arrived, they saw that the fire did not spread to their own homes, so they also relaxed a little, and occasionally helped the people of the military patrol shop to carry water, and the family of Yan was full of sympathy for the Zhou family - this fire, with their buttocks, they knew that the Zhou family had suffered a lot of losses.
But as the fire decreased, everyone's hearts hung up, why didn't the people of the Zhou family make a sound?
Could it be......
Just as he was thinking, several corpses that had been burned black were turned out.
There is the soft-hearted one, who has already begun to turn his face away, and he can't bear to look at it anymore.
Old Man Zhou is not bad on weekdays, but his family suddenly encountered this kind of misfortune......
"My lord, this fire is strange!" A young firefighting sergeant clenched his fists and reported forward, but was slapped in the face by an older man, "Is this strange, do you need to say it?" ”
Not to mention that the fire started too quickly, it was a little unusual, that is, not a single living person had been found until now, which is enough to show the strangeness of this matter.
Don't you see that the adults are already touching their beards and bowing their heads there in contemplation?
The young sergeant who was beaten on the head, seeing that his adult had begun to ponder, touched the place where he was beaten, and was a little embarrassed that he was talking more.
The Zhou family has a great cause, and the loss of this fire can no longer be described as heavy, it is simply burned to the ground, and the charred and blackened corpses are brought out inside, all of which have been unrecognizable, and it is completely impossible to recognize who the deceased were before they died.
If someone deliberately set fire, it must be a shocking case!
The head of the military patrol shop sensed that the matter was serious, waved his hand decisively, ordered his sergeants to watch the scene, and sent someone to find Master Yin Gaoyu of Jingzhao Mansion.
Yin Gaoyu of Jingzhao Mansion had just packed up and was about to go out on an errand when he received the report, and his heart sank at the moment.
In any case, the death of so many people, even if it is just an accident, will put an indelible stain on his political achievements, not to mention that someone may have maliciously set fires?
It's good that this case can be solved, but if it can't be solved......
Gao Yu's expression was cold, and without a moment's delay, he took the servants and servants from the county government to the Zhou Mansion.
"Lord Gao, this is the scene, a total of one hundred and thirty-eight corpses have been found, these corpses seem to have been burned to death in their sleep, and there is almost no trace of struggling to survive. In addition, there are obvious traces of fire oil in various parts of the province, and there are a total of 25 places where there is unburned fire oil...... There is no doubt about it......" said the head of the military patrol shop with a glance about his findings.
Gao Yu listened to these clues, his brows were tightly locked, the gangsters who set fire seemed to be too lazy to hide the traces of man-made, such a vicious method, how much hatred this is!
It's just too bold!
This is ignoring the guards of Kyoto!
Such a vicious incident must be strictly investigated, and such a frenzied person must be arrested and brought to justice no matter what.
Gao Yu secretly swore in his heart.
However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is always skinny.
Until he returned to the mansion, Gao Yu didn't come up with any clue.
In desperation, he could only collect all the clues first, and then investigate the people who had enemies with the Zhou Mansion on weekdays one by one.
Just when Gao Yu was upset about the case, someone suddenly beat the drum and shouted grievances.
And the drummer happened to be related to the arson case in Zhoufu.
The person who played the drum was the only son of Old Man Zhou and his biological mother.
In the court, Zhou Hong snorted and complained to his sister-in-law with tears, "My lord, three years ago, my father sent her eldest sister to leave home temporarily because of various considerations, and said that he would give all the family property to the villain to inherit it after a few years......
Well, Mr. Zhou is such a son, even if he is just a concubine, but it is understandable to say this kind of thing that allows him to inherit the family business, there is nothing wrong with it, although it is a bit too much to sweep his daughter out of the house, but after all, it is a family matter, how does Mr. Zhou treat his children, that is the freedom of the people, and there is no abuse, and it is not the turn of the government to pursue it.
"Yesterday, the eldest sister actually went home, and the whole family was very happy...... Although the eldest sister couldn't see the villain's behavior, she pointed a sword at the villain's neck on the street and injured the villain, but his father took care of Zhou's face and didn't have a seizure on the street, but just let the eldest sister go home with him. Who's expecting, who's expecting ......"
Zhou Hong's aunt also added with tears in her eyes, "The old man thought that the eldest girl had not had an easy time these years, and if she knew that she was wrong, she wouldn't care about what happened three years ago when she came back......"
Speaking of this, Zhou Hong's aunt seemed to have some taboos, and she was a little vague, and continued: "Seeing that the eldest girl had a daughter's house, dressed in nondescript men's clothes, and holding a long sword, she really didn't look like it, so I said a few words to him, who would have expected the eldest girl to do such a heartbreaking thing in a fit of anger...... Burn the entire Zhou family and the entire Zhou family to the ground......"
After speaking, the mother and son hugged their heads and cried, and Qiaolan, the only maid who followed next to them, kept wiping her tears with a handkerchief.
"Silence, silence!" Gao Yu patted Xingmu, secretly calmed down a little because the case had progressed, and when the scene was a little quieter, he began to ask, "You mean that the arson case of the Zhou Mansion was committed by the eldest girl of your Zhou Mansion, and the reason is that she has a grudge against the old man Zhou?" ”
"Yes, sir!" Zhou Hong's mother and son couldn't stop nodding their heads, "Pity me, hundreds of people in Zhou's mansion ...... lives."
After speaking, the two cried again.
"Since Miss Zhou is the culprit of arson, how did she pour fire oil on so many places in Zhou's mansion and light fires in multiple places at the same time? This is not something that a weak woman can do. Gao Yu keenly pointed out the suspicions, "Hundreds of people in the Zhou family died unexpectedly, and they didn't struggle at the slightest time when the fire started, so it can be seen that they were not awake at that time, so how did the two of you escape the catastrophe?" ”
"My lord, this is also the blessing ......of the ancestors," Zhou Hong did not panic, and replied earnestly, "After the villain was injured by the eldest sister yesterday, he was in unbearable pain, so he didn't drink the lotus seed soup sent by the eldest sister, and the aunt was talking to the villain, and she didn't drink it." It wasn't until the fire started that we realized that the people in the house who drank the lotus seed soup given by the eldest sister were all unconscious on the ground, unable to move at all...... And, and this lotus seed soup, the eldest sister almost gave a copy by hand, only, except for her henchmen......"
"If not, if it weren't for my aunt's maid Qiaolan having some martial arts, when she was in a hurry, she would take me and my aunt over the wall to escape from the Zhou Mansion, I'm afraid, I'm afraid ......"
The explanation is perfect, the motives, the process, and the results all make sense, and it makes sense to say that this is the truth.
If, what the mother and son master and servant said is indeed true.
However, the other person they sued, Zhou Yingying, a girl from Zhou, had not yet arrived at the court, and it was not yet known what was going on.
However, even so, with years of experience in solving cases, Gao Yu instinctively felt that the murderer was either the eldest girl of the week, or the three people in front of him.
Everything remains to be clarified.
As soon as the news of the fire in the Zhou family spread, the entire capital was in an uproar.
Old Man Zhou was not spared, which made many people sigh and sigh, as a result, the Zhou family's huge family business was only afraid of failure.
The reputation of the eldest son of the Zhou family is basically well-known.
The others were better, and after sighing and sighing, they didn't have too much thought, the in-laws of the Zhou family and the people in the clan got the news, but they all changed their minds.
As soon as the mourning hall of Old Man Zhou was set up, many people dressed in white clothes and carrying the funeral ceremony came to mourn Old Man Zhou.
Those old clansmen even more grandly wanted to take over the funeral of Old Man Zhou, running before and after to help with the dots, and probing the tone of Zhou Hong's mother and son outside the words, just waiting for the matter to settle down, and then peeled the skin and bones of the huge family property occupied by the orphan and widow and swallowed it alive.
Zhou Hong was stunned at this time, looking like everyone was saying what was what, and the elders were in charge.
And his aunt only knows how to wipe her tears, and she looks like a woman who doesn't understand anything.
This made those who had a mind very satisfied, and began to think about the specific distribution plan......
Tsk, people's hearts, it's really unpredictable.
Who knew that the clansmen who talked and laughed with him before his death would be like this after his death?
I don't know if Old Man Zhou will be so angry that he will crawl out of the coffin board if he knows this!
However, at present, Old Man Zhou's coffin board is quite firm, and there is no sign of it popping off.
As a suspect in arson, Miss Zhou was naturally wanted.
When Yu Wenlan and Zhao Chen heard the news, they looked at each other, although the girl looked like she had a strong temperament, she definitely didn't look like such a vicious person!
What's more, just because that girl is completely fancy and embroidered with fists and legs, she can tremble and hurt people with a sword, how did she do such a difficult thing as arson?
You must know that arson is not difficult, but even with such a fire, it is difficult for no one to escape, and it is up to the sky.
Here, but Kyoto!
Even if there is a bold child, no one will do this, right?
It's stupid!
This is an act of provoking the entire beam!
"Girl, girl, there was a fire in the capital yesterday, burning more than 100 people, it's really scary!" Xiao Man patted his chest and ran to Yan Shuxue, and said with palpitations, "I heard that the daughter who was kicked out of the house came back, and she held a grudge against what happened before, so she burned more than 100 people in the house, including my own father......"
When Lu Zhi heard this kind of thing again, he was a little weak to hold his forehead, and wanted to blame Xiaoman for being reckless, but this was ordered by Yan Shuxue, if there was anything new, tell her in time.
This kind of fire case, burning more than 100 people, is it a big deal?
Seeing that Yan Shuxue didn't have a scared look on his face, Lu Zhi didn't say anything more.
In any case, my own girl knows that paying attention to things outside is always something that should be encouraged.
Although this is a matter of concern, meat and vegetarian are not taboo, and it is not at all like ordinary ladies, who only pay attention to new clothes, new jewelry, and new banquets......
Yan Shuxue heard this, although she didn't have a scared look, but the shock was beyond words.
Such a vicious incident happened in Kyoto!
In my previous life, I had never heard of it at all.
Don't think about it, this thing definitely didn't happen in the previous life.
Because, if this kind of thing really happens, Yu Wenlan will definitely tell her.
Yu Wenlan has always been enthusiastic about this kind of thing, and is willing to show his compassion.
Such an unfortunate thing, if it happened in her previous life, Yu Wenlan had to sigh and sigh to her, sigh at the impermanence of life, and then come to a few sweet words, such as "Sister Shuxue, I must have practiced great blessings in my previous life, so that I can be safe and ...... with you in this life" and so on.
Before Yan Shuxue could finish thinking about it, Yu Wenlan's figure outside floated in.
The maids around Yan Shuxue, from the green branches and green grass to Xiaoman Lixia, were already surprised by Yu Wenlan's arrival.
Although it is a little unruly, the prince of King Jing is married to his own girl, come and take a look!
I didn't do anything too out of the ordinary.
The future uncle likes his own girl and cares about his own girl, which is a good thing......
Therefore, they mostly turn a blind eye.
is like green branches and green grass, and he knows that King Jing's son often brings news of his wife, and he is even more tolerant of him.
"Sister Shuxue, have you heard? Kyoto caught fire last night, killing more than 100 people...... "As soon as Yuwen Lan opened his mouth, it was about the fire last night.
Yan Shuxue was a little weak, sitting there with her chin in her hands, feeling a little bored.
The expected reaction is always boring, can't Yu Wenlan have something new?
looks like a compassionate hypocrisy, how can people look at it and be unhappy......
(To be continued.) )