"Go to the water, go to the water," until the watchman shouted in panic, waking up the crowd on Locust Street, who opened the door and saw that Yu Hutchison's warehouse was burning, and the fire was trying to climb to the roof and spread in all directions. The fire took advantage of the wind, and the fire soon took over the roof, and the light of the fire made everyone's faces tremble.

Yu Hutchison's second shopkeeper was on duty tonight, and when he opened the window on the second floor, he saw that the fire had already reached the roof and was engulfing the warehouse, and he was stunned. Suddenly, he turned his head and yelled at the guy behind him, "Fire out!" Fight the fire, put out the fire", and rushed downstairs like crazy.

The fire ignited the noise in the west of the city, all kinds of shouts and cries of "go to the water, catch fire, fight the fire,", accompanied by the "thunderclap, bang" sound of the fire burning, the pop of the water and fire colliding, the sound of people's footsteps, the sound of scrambling, all kinds of sounds mixed together, the fire swept along the wind, along both sides of the locust tree street, all the noisy sounds were distorted in the fire, people's sense of terror, the sense of tension was infinitely magnified, the red light ignited in the night was like the call of death, looking down from the sky at this time the west of the city was like hell on earth.

The whole Jingning City woke up from his sleep, Du Si was also woken up by this disturbing sound, he got up, walked out of the door, only to see that the sky in the west had been dyed red, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, turned back to the house, put on his clothes and walked out, the fourth aunt stopped him in a daze, "Fourth, where are you going?" ”。

"The west of the city is on fire, burning half of the sky, I have to go and see."

The fourth aunt was excited, "Then you be careful, don't rush to the fire." ”

Du Sigang walked out of the door, and turned back to the house to the fourth aunt, "Keep an eye on the children, don't let them go out." ”

After saying that, he left, carried a bucket in his hand, and ran all the way to the west.

At this time, Yu Hutchison has been burned to the ground, the fire ignited the next pear flower street, Zouma Street, all the items have become the nourishment of the fire, people can only watch the locust tree street in the fire into piles of ruins, even the thousand-year-old locust tree did not escape the erosion of the fire.

The fire brigade in Jingning Prefecture and the merchants in the west of the city could only demolish some of their houses to stop the spread of the fire. The three arsonists, they didn't expect it, they just wanted to burn down the warehouse, why did they burn half of the West City.

In a courtyard a little far from the west of the city, the three people looked at the burned sky in the west in a daze, and the thin man said, "Big brother, we have made a big deal about this." ”

"Go, you must leave quickly, wait for the city gate to open, and leave the city immediately, it doesn't mean that the old man is dead, let's never go back to Jingning."

"Isn't there another two thousand taels of silver confiscated? Big brother, don't we want the silver for nothing? The thin man asked

"Hmph...... Such a big event, if you have a life to take it, you don't have a life to spend it, and your life is more expensive than money, so we won't be able to run away sooner or later. He turned to a man and said, "Third child, pack up your things, go from the east of the city, and go out of the city in the crowd."

"Okay, I'll go."

After tossing and turning in the middle of the night, the firefighting team finally limited the fire to a few areas, did not burn the entire Xicheng, the sky was already slightly white, and the fire slowly extinguished after melting away the things that could be burned in a few blocks, and only some sporadic fires still remained. Some people began to rummage through the fire to find the remnants of the fire, and Du Siyu kept rummaging through the ruins of Hutchison, and the cries of intermittent search for relatives came to his ears. "Huang San, Li Fu, Huang San ......, Li Fu ......", Du Si opened his throat and shouted, "Second shopkeeper, second shopkeeper, see Huang San, Li Fu?" ”

"It's been messy for most of the night, and I can't tell who is who, so I quickly flipped over, didn't I run out?" Second, the shopkeeper said

Old Man Yu stood outside the ruins, his cane was pestle, the long beard on his jaw floated in the wind, he looked at the somewhat chaotic fire, the cry in his ears, and his face was expressionless. No one around dared to speak, He shopkeeper wanted to speak several times, all swallowed the words back, He shopkeeper was burned to the street, was photographed open the door and hurried, as soon as he arrived at the scene to look at Yu Heji who was burned to the ground, he immediately turned his back and went away, the guy pinched for a while before waking up, and after waking up, he muttered back and forth "It's over, it's all over", and I don't know if he said that Yu Heji is finished, or his shopkeeper career is over.

"Huang San, ......", Du Si's heart-rending cry came from the ruins, "You died for me, died for me." Du Si knelt on the ruins, holding a charred humanoid skeleton, his eyebrows and beard weeping.

"Shen Ting" Old Man Yu opened his mouth and called someone.

"Master", the man named Shen Ting came out and saluted the old man

"Let's count the losses of each household."

"Yes", Shen Ting listened, and went to gather the businessmen affected by the fire.

"Xiang Wu...... Go and ask the yamen if there is a clue? ”

"Yes, uncle", a middle-aged man took the order and left.

Old Man Yu turned around and glared at Shopkeeper He, and said sharply, "He Fengkui, take Du Si and come to the house to see me." After saying that, he left the fire with people.

"Yes, it's the owner," the shopkeeper replied cautiously behind his back, sweat pouring down his forehead.

Located in the south of the city, Yu Mansion is the largest private residence in Jingning City. The gate, made of fine copper, requires two strong men to push, has five steps under the door, and is flanked by two mighty stone lions. Shopkeeper He and Du Si came to the door of the house, their calves and stomachs were a little spinning, and they grabbed Du Si's shoulders and said, "Fourth, I'm afraid I'm going to plant my brother this time, you have to help my brother say good things."

Du Si smiled bitterly and said, "The shopkeeper, I am all guilty, where can I speak." The two were relatively silent, and when they came to the side door next to the house, they were greeted by the family members who were waiting here.

Entering the house, the corridor is tortuous, there are rockeries and ravines, the house has built an artificial lake, there is a water pavilion on the lake, showing the wealth of the master, the family welcomes the two to the main hall, Yu Zhenyue is done in the center of the main hall, on both sides sit the Yu family and other industry shopkeepers, such as Wang Fuqing who manages the rice shop, Liu Qi who manages the silk village, and Yu Xiangzhong, the head of the village who manages the tea mountain. When the two entered the main hall, they saw that everyone frowned, the atmosphere was solemn, and they didn't dare to speak, only stood respectfully aside, and only the sound of Zhenyue turning the iron walnut with one hand remained in the living room.

After waiting for a cup of tea, Yu Xiangwu led the two torture chambers to the main hall, "Uncle, I invited the head of the torture arrest, Xing Zhutou found something at the scene, please let him talk about it." ”

Yu Zhenyue waved his hand and said, "Torture head, please sit, please speak."

"In front of the master, there is no small place to sit, I still said to stand and speak", and then said, "I found something at the scene, which may be the key to this case, I want to ask Master Yu to take a look, Xiao Yi, bring things in." ”

Outside the door, there was a fat young catcher who quickly took in a few somewhat charred things and put them on the ground, and all the eyes of the main hall were focused on these scorched black things, and then listened to the torture arrester and said, "Everyone, please see, this is an iron bucket for fire oil, foreign things, this is a cigarette box used to hold drugs by the upper and lower ninth streams of the rivers and lakes, although it has been burned to the point that it is not visible, but it can't escape my sharp eyes, this thing only needs a little bit to turn over a big man, and it is a hundred times stronger than the sweat medicine used by the heroes of Liangshan in the Water Margin." ”