Chapter 029 Fire
Although the Marquis of Changxing Mansion is a family, its glory is limited to the time when the Marquis Shi is still alive.
Since Shi Chong inherited the knighthood, although the Shi family still seems to be cooking oil, it is still empty in the end, and it has been slowly marginalized by the magnates in the capital.
And how could it be the turn of the Shi family to sell such a good thing that is full of oil and water when he is touched!
Thinking of this, Yu Wenyan's gaze softened a little.
"How do you know?" He looked at Shi Jinxiu with some curiosity.
Shi Jinxiu began to support him: "My lord, I don't want to lie to you, I just want to tell you that the account book you are looking for is probably hidden in the ornament of that red coral." ”
"Don't want to lie to me?" Yu Wenyan half-squinted.
Shi Jinxiu lowered her head a little nervously.
She is not short, but in front of Yu Wenyan, she is only shoulder-length.
Seeing her look down, like a child who had made a mistake, Yu Wenyan couldn't help laughing.
This little girl always seems to be able to get some unexpected information.
Last time, she said that there would be a fire outside the Yongsheng Gate, but she has been sending people to keep an eye on it secretly for five or six days, and she has not seen any suspicious signs.
So this time, what did she say......
It's not that Yu Wenyan doesn't want to believe her, it's just that Zhenfu Si is such a big yamen, and it is impossible to dispatch around just based on a word from the little girl.
Just thinking about this, Yu Wenyan saw a green smoke pill lit up in the sky, which was a signal sent by the secret guard of the Zhenfu Division that there was something urgent to report.
Yu Wenyan immediately popped out a yellow smoke pill in response, and after a while, a dark guard wearing a night suit rode up.
"Report to the Great Commander, there was a sudden fire outside the Yongsheng Gate, and the fire has spread due to the dry weather!" As soon as the visitor jumped off the horse, he half-knelt in front of Yu Wenyan and returned.
It's really on fire?!
Yu Wenyan looked at Shi Jinxiu in disbelief, and actually called this girl right!
"Are there any casualties?" Without waiting for Yu Wenyan to speak, Shi Jinxiu asked.
The people who came didn't know Shi Jinxiu, so it could be seen that she was also wearing the night clothes of the Zhenfu Division, so they regarded her as a person from the Zhenfu Division.
"Because the Great Commander has always sent us to guard there, we issued an early warning at the first moment of the fire! Most of the people who lived there escaped, but because the houses were made of miscellaneous wood and firewood, even if the water dragon team was fighting the fire, the fire still burned quickly! I'm afraid I will have to wait until the fire is extinguished to find out if there are any casualties! ”
When such a thing happened, Yu Wenyan naturally couldn't stay out of it, so he was ready to go to Yongsheng Gate to take a look.
Shi Jinxiu grabbed him: "Can you take me with you?" ”
She wondered if the fire was really burning as in her dreams, and if her new house was safe and sound.
"You?" Yu Wenyan frowned and refused, "What's so nice about the fire field?" I'll send you back first! ”
"Take me there! Maybe I can help identify any suspicious people. Shi Jinxiu looked sincere.
Although he just said that he didn't want to lie to him, but at this time and then, in order to let him take him to Yongsheng Gate, Shi Jinxiu couldn't care so much.
Obviously, the reason given by Shi Jinxiu moved Yu Wenyan, so he pulled her on the horse.
It's another gallop.
Although Shi Jinxiu, who had experience, was not as scared as she was just now, she still grabbed Yu Wenyan's clothes and didn't dare to poke her head out.
After a while, they rushed to the gate of Yongsheng, and the monstrous fire reflected the entire night sky as if it were day.
Even though they were hundreds of feet away, they could still feel the smoke and heat rushing towards them.
Yu Wenyan quietly blocked in front of Shi Jinxiu.
The secret guard who was directing the firefighting saw that he was at the scene in person, so he stepped forward to report the truth: "Today's fire is very strange, it seems that someone is deliberately setting fire. The brothers who were guarding here could not prevent one place and the second, so they could not save them at all, so they had to wake up the people who lived here and let them flee for their lives......"
"So, the other party deliberately set fire to the fire when he knew that there was a secret guard of the Suppression Division?" Yu Wenyan frowned.
After so many years, this is the first time that anyone dares to provoke the Suppression Division in such a way.
"Did you catch any suspicious people?" Yu Wenyan blackened his face.
"No, the fire is so chaotic that everyone is running around in rags, and it's impossible to identify it." The dark guard was a little depressed.
"Got it, go get busy."
Yu Wenyan's expression was even more solemn.
Shi Jinxiu, who was standing behind Yu Wenyan, was shocked.
When she heard that there was a fire outside the Yongsheng Gate, she thought that Yu Wenyan didn't take what she said before to heart, but she didn't think that he not only took this matter to heart, but also quietly laid down a secret guard......
It is precisely because of the existence of these secret guards that although the miscellaneous house outside the Yongsheng Gate was burned, the people who lived here escaped...... This is already a great blessing in misfortune.
Yu Wenyan looked at all this in front of him anxiously.
Who was the arsonist?
The people who live here can be described as destitute, what is the purpose of burning down the house here?
"It's for the land here!" Shi Jinxiu reminded on the side, "If these people are entrenched here, this land will never be able to be converted to other uses, but if all the houses here are burned, these people will have to find another place to live, and this land will be vacated......
In her dreams, that's not exactly what happened!
"Suspicious?" Yu Wenyan also felt that what Shi Jinxiu said made some sense, so he thought about it along this line of thought.
The Dark Guards and Water Dragons of the Pacification Division were still fighting the fire, until it was finally brought under control when it was dark.
Looking at the miscellaneous house in front of him, which had turned into scorched earth, Shi Jinxiu's heart had an indescribable taste.
It seems that not everything can be reversed!
She began to worry about her father's safety.
If she can't overturn the case for her father, will her father be wrongly convicted by the government like the main culprit in the red coral case in her dream, and then be brought to justice on the spot?
The thought of this made her tremble uncontrollably.
At this time, a strong big hand was placed on her shoulder: "Don't worry, I will send someone to verify your father's affairs!" If that red coral is as you said it is true that Chen Ting's secret account is hidden, I can bring your father's case to the Yamen of the Suppression Division. ”
Other than that, he couldn't have made more promises.
But even so, Shi Jinxiu's heart still let go of most of it.
If my father's case could be transferred to the Suppression Division, at least it wouldn't be a mistaken case like the Red Coral case in my dreams, right?
"It's getting late, I'll send you back! If your family wakes up and finds you're not there, they don't know what will happen. After this night's events, Yu Wenyan suddenly realized that the words of unknown origin that Shi Jinxiu's girl said may be true.
This also made him more and more interested in her.