After eating, Lu Sheng led Xiao Nan to the study, "What's going on, tell me about it!"

"Half a month ago, there was a fraud case in Chuzhou, it was Bachelor Zhang's nephew who owed a huge gambling debt, secretly sneaked into Bachelor Zhang's house to reveal the exam questions, and then sold it for 70,000 or 80,000 taels of silver.

This case did not affect much, so it was suppressed by the Taishou Mansion and did not cause any big trouble. But since this incident, Anqing Mansion seems to have gone unlucky, and things have happened one after another.

First, a fire broke out in the detention cell of the Anqing Mansion, killing more than 30 people. Xuantian Mansion has just intervened in the investigation and has not yet found a clue, but Hou Qi, the prefect of Anqing, drowned in the pit today.

In just half a month, I was a little uneasy about the big things, and I always felt as if there was a hand pushing behind these things. ”

"Is there any basis?"

"No!" Xiao Nan said truthfully. Xiao Nan also understands that Xuantian Mansion pays the most attention to evidence in handling cases, and everything depends on evidence and facts.

"Is there any suspicious cause of Lord Hou Qi's death?"

"No, Hou Qi was going to the toilet at the time of the incident, he was most afraid of snakes in his life, but somehow, a blue and white snake didn't know where to come out and crawled onto Hou Qi's instep, Hou Qi was so frightened that he fell down to the sky and plunged directly into the dung pit. By the time the next person arrived, it would be no longer possible.

The blue and white snake has been caught and killed, although Hou Qi likes to shirk the good and wise to protect himself, but he has also done a lot of facts in the years he has been in charge of Anqing Mansion.

For the official to be honest and honest, he is a qualified prefect who works seriously. But I don't want to...... It turned out to be this way of dying. ”

"Then didn't this blue and white snake be artificially released?"

"Probably not!" Xiao Nan thought for a while and said, "In the backyard of the mansion, there is a vegetable patch in front of the latrine, which was planted by Hou Qi's wife. The prefect not only found the blue and white snake in the vegetable garden, but also found the snake cave, which contained more than a dozen small snakes. ”

"It was an accident. ”

"yes, but where are there so many accidents?"

"Well, I'll take a look tomorrow, isn't it that the fire case hasn't been solved yet, I've been idle at home for almost a year, and it's time for the event. ”

"That's a good relationship, Brother Nasheng, I'll go back first. ”

"Good!"

Early the next morning, Lu Sheng and Xiao Nan came to the prefect's yamen, in Chuzhou, Xuan Tianwei, who didn't know Lu Sheng, should not exist. So even if Lu Sheng came in civilian clothes, Xuan Tianwei had no one to stop him.

All the way to the scene of the crime, all Xuan Tianwei knelt down on one knee and saluted.

"Brother Sheng, the source of fire started from this warehouse. The warehouse is full of hay and bedding, and the exact cause of the fire is still under investigation. ”

"There is a ban on open flames in the management of the warehouse, right?"

"Yes, candles and oil lamps are not allowed in the storeroom, and the storeroom must be closed after dark, and the door must be checked before closing. But who would have thought that the warehouse would suddenly burn in the middle of the night.

The storehouse was connected to the cell, and the cell was full of flammable hay that, if a fire started, could spread to the entire cell in an instant. ”

"The layout of this detention cell itself is unreasonable, how did it pass the security review?" Lu Sheng asked back.

"The detention cell has a history of at least 50 years, and how could there be any safety audits and quality audits in the previous construction? It's just that there have been no accidents for so many years, so that the quality supervision department and the yamen have been negligent. ”

"Who's in charge of the storeroom?"

"Old man Xu, I've been doing it for almost forty years. Nothing has been wrong in forty years. Xiao Nan turned around and beckoned to Xuan Tianwei. Soon, a trembling old man was led by Xuan Tianwei.

"Villain...... The villain sees the adult......"

The old man seemed to be sixty or seventy years old, and his legs were floating when he walked. When he stood in Xuan Tianwei, he seemed to want to kneel, but his legs were like an electric engine, so he couldn't move.

"Don't don't, old man, don't kneel, I'm afraid you'll disappear as soon as you kneel. Lu Sheng hurriedly said.

"Thank you...... Mr. Xie......"

"Don't be nervous, although you are responsible for the warehouse, the fire in the warehouse may not be related to you. Tell me first, did you forget to extinguish the open flame when you closed the door?"

"Your Excellency...... Decaying ...... The old man has been in charge of the treasury for forty years...... For forty years, it has never been ...... No open flame was ever brought in, neither candles nor oil lamps. ”

"Has anyone else been to the storeroom?"

"No...... No one had entered the storehouse on the day of the fire, and the storehouse was not allowed to enter without my permission. Even if I receive something, I give it away.

The sudden fire caused such a big consequence...... Decaying ...... The old decay is also terrified, sincerely afraid......"

Lu Sheng looked at the old man's expression, and it didn't seem like he was hiding anything. But there is a saying that people become old and refined, and Lu Sheng can't easily rule out suspicion.

"Has the storeroom been searched?"

"After a search, even the ashes have been cleared, and indeed no clues have been found. Moreover, it was late at night when the incident happened, and there was no one in the storehouse except for the jailer on duty. ”

"That's weird...... There's nothing wrong with being a jailer?"

"They all testify to each other, and there is no motive to set fires. ”

Lu Sheng walked in the blackened warehouse suspiciously, "It's impossible to catch fire for no reason, now in April, the air is still damp, and it definitely won't be a static fire." ”

Suddenly, Lu Sheng felt a little diaphragm under his feet, and Lu Sheng lowered his head and moved away.

A black stone-like thing appeared at Lu Sheng's feet.

"What is this?" Lu Sheng picked up the things and started them heavily.

"It's like a smoking pot?"

A smoke pot is a pot in front of a pipe that burns tobacco, which is generally only the size of a fingernail and is mostly made of copper.

Because it has been burned black, and the ground is also burned black, if Lu Sheng didn't happen to step on it, he might not have been able to find it.

"Is anyone smoking in the warehouse?" Lu Sheng's eyes instantly froze, and the eyes that looked at the old man were not so polite.

"I didn't ...... Didn't you?"

"Don't you smoke?"

"Don't smoke, never smoke......"

Lu Sheng stepped out to the old man's side and sniffed at his collar, "Although you have taken a bath and changed into brand new clothes, there is still a faint smell of smoke on your body." Especially in your hair, the smell of smoke is the strongest.

You are a smoker, this smoke pot is yours, and the cause of the fire is caused by your smoking in the storeroom. ”

"Plop-" The old man was so frightened by Lu Sheng's words that he fell to his knees.

"My lord's life...... My lord, I don't smoke in the storeroom, who smokes in the middle of the night...... When the fire started, I had already gone home and slept. ”

"You did not smoke in the storeroom, but your pouch remained in the storeroom, and the fire in your pipe was not extinguished. Or it rolls off the table, or for some other reason, the cigarette pouch touches the hay and causes trouble.

Do you still have to quibble?"

"I ...... I ......" The old man's face suddenly showed despair, and he cried out.

"Forty years...... I have worked hard for 40 years and have never dared to take it lightly...... After 40 years of prevention, who would have thought that such a big thing would happen......

I can't stand it, even if I can't afford to pay for my old life...... More than 30 lives, more than 30 ah......"

Listening to the old man's desperate cry, Lu Sheng also felt that he was a little pitiful. But if you have pity on him, who will have pity on the more than thirty people who were burned to death?

Although they were put in a detention cell for making mistakes, they were certainly small mistakes. One negligence, one accident, caused more than 30 people to die in the flames.

This lesson is too heavy.

Lu Sheng turned his head to Xiao Nan and nodded, "It should be like this." ”

"Also an accident?"

"It should be. ”

"Hahaha...... Dog officer, hahaha...... Happy, happy—"

On the other side, Wu Yingqiu laughed wildly in the room.

He wrote down Hou Qi's death, and it really came true. In Wu Yingqiu's opinion, such indiscriminate and confused officials should be drowned in the pit. If you don't die like this, how can you make him comfortable.

Now that I'm comfortable, I'm just thoughtful and fluttering. Especially this feeling of controlling the fate of others, life and death, is so comfortable. Wu Yingqiu seems to be a god, secretly controlling everyone's fate.

Hahaha......

But......

Not enough!

After Wu Yingqiu laughed wildly, his eyes instantly became gloomy. Because tonight is the day when Lian'er marries that Li Gongzi.

Less than ten days after Wu Yingqiu was deprived of his fame, Zeng Youwei arranged a new family affair for Zeng Bilian. And Zeng Bilian, whose heart was already dead, did not object.

And it just so happens that the fifth day of the fifth month of May is the auspicious day of the zodiac, and today is the day when Wu Yingqiu's beloved woman gets married, but the groom official is not Wu Yingqiu.

"How can I let you marry someone else, how can I allow you to marry someone else...... You're mine...... You're mine!"

lost Zeng Bilian, he slowly remembered Zeng Bilian's goodness, and the ordinary words in life were all a wife's dedication to her husband.

A long time ago, Zeng Bilian treated him the same way she did her husband, thinking about Wu Yingqiu in everything and caring about everything about him. But what about himself? I was a bastard during that time.

The Book of Heaven cannot change people's will, cannot change established facts, nor can it create things that do not exist, it can only create events and control fate.

"Fate?

So, tonight, before you worship in the church, Li Fengyu accidentally ingested poison and died......

Xiaolian, don't worry, I'm no longer the original Wu Yingqiu. I will be good to you wholeheartedly, and I will take good care of you. I will make my wish come true in the future, and I will be the person that everyone looks up to and cannot climb...... Quack quack ......"

"My lord, the Taishou Mansion has come to send someone to accept the case of Hou Dawen, but these are still evidence, do you want to give them to them?" a Xuan Tianwei came to Lu Sheng and asked.

"Give it to them, although Lord Hou Qi's death is regrettable, it is indeed an accident. The case can be closed. ”

"Yes!"

"By the way, what's going on in this case? Why is it that one of the five fraudsters is suspected of fraud, and all six of them are dismissed from their reputations and cannot be hired?

And one has been released, and five are still in prison awaiting sentencing?