Lu Jinping saw that there was indeed nothing to cover the rain, so after Yunzi put the robe on his body, the two of them went down the stairs into the city in the rain.

Tongzhou City has been a mess under the flood, they can see some debris floating in the stagnant water from time to time along the way, Lu Jinping found a hat, although it is a little broken, but basically can still keep out the rain, so he took it to Yunzi and put it on his head. In this way, as long as you don't get directly wet by the rain, your clothes won't stick to you, and you can cover your shame.

With the hat and Lu Jinping's wide robe on his body, he didn't have to worry about his body going out, so Yunzi breathed a sigh of relief and followed Lu Jinping to continue walking towards the city.

Passing by a city gate hole, Lu Jinping found that there were a hill of sandbags piled up at the city gate hole, blocking the entire city gate, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, it seemed that his reminder had worked, Feng Tingshi still adopted it, and prepared a large number of sandbags in advance, otherwise, it would not be possible to raise so many sandbags for a while.

Lu Jinping is now looking very embarrassed, his hair is scattered, and he is wearing a pair of pants on his bare body, no one will recognize him as the lord of the same state if he looks at him carefully.

The two walked forward for a while and arrived at a street in Liuxiang, Tongzhou Flower Street, and the tallest building on this street was Chunhualou.

The terrain was relatively low-lying, and the water in the street had reached their thighs, and they waded through the water.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at Chunhua Building, Lu Jinping suddenly stood up, a little puzzled, because he found that there were a few catchers at the door of Chunhua Building who were sitting on the threshold of the high steps, looking at the people coming and going with dull eyes.

Lu Jinping thought to himself, didn't he already order the withdrawal of the capture of Kuai and Minzhuang? Why did so many catchers come here, could it be that these catchers were hired by the rich man to help him guard his property, so that the chaotic people would not take advantage of the chaos to rob him? But it doesn't look like it.

So Lu Jinping waded through the water and recognized at a glance that it was indeed their yamen's catch. He asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

The two catchers saw a young man talking to them shirtless, looking very handsome, and they had a good impression, but even the handsome guy couldn't joke with the Yamen's catcher, so they were furious. was about to get angry, and suddenly felt that the person in front of him seemed to be a little familiar, so he quickly wiped the rain on his face, and took a closer look, it turned out to be the judicial lord Lu of the Yamen, the two catchers were startled, and quickly jumped up and ran down the steps, stepped into the water, nodded to Lu Jinping and said, "Sir." You, where have you been? Feng Tingshi and Xiong Zhutou are all looking for you to find crazy, I heard that you went out of the city, and thought that you were ...... by the flood, hehehe, by the way, sir, Chunhualou has another life. We followed the bear catcher to solve the case. ”

Lu Jinping was taken aback: "Another murder case? What's going on? ”

"Three women were burned alive, and one of them was burned. It's ......, it's ......"

Lu Jinping heard this. Seeing this quick catcher, it was obvious that this woman might have something to do with herself, so she asked urgently: "Who is it?" Say it. ”

"It's the girl who explored the flower Yufeng when I first chose the Oiran."

Lu Jinping's heart sank, and the woman who was angry and wrote well in calligraphy appeared in front of her, how could she have been killed, and hurriedly said: "When did it happen?" What's going on? ”

"When it's almost dawn. The people from Chunhualou ran to the yamen to report that someone had died, and at that time we were busy blocking the city gate with sandbags to stop the water, and the flood drowned many people, and there were dead people everywhere, and the corpses floated in the water. Who cares about so many people dying? How can I have time to cook this? So I just told them to go back and protect the scene, don't let anyone move, and come to investigate when they are done here, but after a while, they came to say that they found another corpse, which was charred. Feng Tingshi still didn't have time to pay attention. Unexpectedly, not long after, they ran again to say that another body had been found. And this time, it was found that it was the girl you liked, Yufeng, who was burned to death. ”

"Feng Tingshi, let Xiong Zhutou take us over to check the situation. And Feng Tingshi has been directing the use of sandbags to block the city gate hole, and at the same time inspect the city wall, in case the city wall collapses and floods rush in, which will be in vain. Feng Tingshi also said that it was fortunate that the lord reminded him to prepare a lot of sandbags in advance, which saved the lives of the people in the city. After learning that you were out of the city, I was very anxious, worried that something would happen to you, but fortunately, thanks to the auspicious nature, won't you come back? Xiong Zhutou asked us to stay outside to prevent people from going in to interfere with the investigation, and they tossed inside for a long time, but they probably didn't have a clue. Sir, why don't you go back and rest first? ”

Lu Jinping said: "Since there is a life case, I have no shirk responsibility, what else can I rest!" ”

After that, Lu Jinping hurriedly walked inside, Yunzi also hurriedly followed, the two catchers thought that Yunzi was a lively idler, and was about to stop it, but a person with sharp eyes recognized that this person was wearing the clothes that Lord Lu often wore, and he looked very familiar, and then looked carefully, but it was the female envoy of Tubo who had been following Lu Jinping, and quickly retreated to the side and let her follow in.

After Lu Jinping came in with Yunzi, there were also a few catchers in the hall, and after seeing them, they hurriedly came up to give a salute and took Lu Jinping and the two to the scene of the crime.

The scene of the crime is divided into two places: the front yard and the back yard. They came to a wing room in the front yard, and it happened that Xiong Zhutou was also here, talking to the rich man and Niu ** at the door.

The catcher who came with Lu Jinping shouted excitedly: "Xiong Zhutou, Lord Lu is back, he is back safely!" ”

Xiong Zhutou couldn't help but be ecstatic when he heard this, and when he turned his head suddenly, he saw Lu Jinping shirtless, with his hair scattered and his body in disarray, and he couldn't recognize it for a while. Yunzi, who followed up, had already taken off the hat on her head and blocked it on her chest, but she was still worried that her wet clothes would expose her body, so she only showed a pretty face. Xiong Zhutou recognized her immediately, it was Yunzi, the female envoy of Tubo who had been following Lu Jinping, the one in front should be Lu Jinping, so he hurriedly took two steps forward to take a look, isn't it? It is indeed Lu Jinping, there is no doubt.

Xiong Zhutou hurriedly bowed his hand: "Sir, you are here, we are all worried about death, Feng Tingshi originally wanted to send someone out to find you, but last night's rain was really terrifying, in a blink of an eye, the flood overflowed the embankment, until it reached the city wall, and the rain upstream was even greater, like a scoop, so the flood here caused us to soar." ”

Lu Jinping waved his hand and said, "Don't talk about this first, let's talk about the case first, what's going on?" ”

Xiong Zhutou hurriedly nodded in agreement, and said to the rich man of the horse: "You came to report to the lord, how did you find out that they were dead?" ”

The rich man said to Lu Jinping with a sad face: "Last night's thunderstorm frightened us, and there were several places in the city that were hit by lightning, but the rain was too big, and as soon as it burned, it was doused by the rain, but some people were also struck by lightning and killed." Then the flood came to the city......"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Xiong Zhutou hurriedly interrupted him, "The water in the city basically didn't pour in from the outside, because Feng Tingshi took the advice of the lord and prepared a lot of sandbags to pile up on the edge of the city in advance, and blocked the city gate with sandbags after the heavy rainstorm, so the flood basically didn't enter the city." The water in the city is caused by the accumulation of water from the rainstorm, and it cannot be discharged, so naturally there is water everywhere, not from outside. If you want to say that, then all the credit of Lord Lu and Feng Tingshi will be lost by you. ”

When the rich man heard this, he was very frightened, and hurriedly accused him again and again: "I said something wrong, please forgive me." Because we didn't know, we thought it was the water outside the city that was flooded, so we were all frightened, and we were busy moving things to high places, and we were in a mess, each taking care of each other, and no one could take care of anyone, and we were busy for most of the night, until it was almost dawn, everyone found that the water did not continue to rise, and did not drown people, so everyone was relieved. And after this calming down, someone found that there was a charred thing floating in the water, and when they scooped it up, they found that it was the charred bones of a person, the whole of which had been charred, but it was basically intact, and it was so frightened that it screamed. ”

"I hurried over to take a look, and the upper body of the corpse I found was scorched, and the thighs were basically intact, and he still had some tattoos on his legs. It was a manservant in our front yard who was doing chores. I don't know how he was burned like this. I quickly asked someone to report to the official. The people who went came back and said that Feng Tingshi said that he was not available, and let us protect the scene first, so I asked people to scoop up the body, put it on a high place, and cover it with a white cloth. After a while, someone screamed that someone had been burned to death, and we hurried over to a girl in the building, saying that there was a body in her house. We went in to look, and sure enough, there was a corpse floating on the water in the house, burned to the point that only one head was relatively intact, and the body was all charred. Only a small half of the head was burned, but the appearance was barely recognizable, it was the girl's maid ring. ”

We asked what was going on, and the girl said that after the city gate was blocked, the water in the city could not come in, so she was relieved, and after tossing all night, everyone felt tired and sleepy, and saw that it was safe, so they went back to their rooms to rest. After she lay down on the bed, the maid wanted to go to the thatched house, she said that she didn't need to go, the thatched house was washed away by the water, and the dung pit was dirty, don't want to go in, just untie the toilet in the back room, so the maid followed up in the dressing room and closed the door. The girl waited for a long time and didn't see it, a little strange, did she fall asleep inside? So he pushed the door and went in, and found the corpse inside, charred and black, and he screamed in fright. ”

Lu Jinping asked, "How did Yufeng die?" Where did you die? ”

When the rich man Ma heard Lu Jinping's words, he was very worried, and said with a bitter face: "I'm sorry for the lord, I didn't take good care of her, I didn't expect someone to attack her......"

"Okay, she's not me, what's to be sorry for. What's going on, you say? (To be continued.) )