The shouts came from the backyard. The guests in the inn were awakened and there was an instant uproar, followed by the sound of doors and windows opening and the shouts of people.

Xu Lanyin heard Ding Gu shouting first, and his voice was the loudest. Of course, the thieves had fled in panic.

Xu Lanting was frightened and cried, Xu Lanyin pulled him out and covered his mouth, and ran to the window with Zhangqi. Still not daring to open the window, looking out of the hole.

It was the kitchen and the courtyard next to each other that caught fire, and the smoke was billowing and the roof and thatched roof were on fire, burning more and more in the night wind. It can be burned like this in such a short time, I don't know how much oil Zhao Wu stole from the kitchen.

Horses, mules, cows, and other animals were frightened and neighed incessantly.

There were people in the inn and guests carrying water to fight the fire, and many residents next to the inn also ran out, and some people spontaneously joined the firefighting team.

Soon the officials of the public gate came. As soon as they came, Xu Lanyin and the others were half relieved of their hearts.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, only the doors and windows of the two rooms on the second floor of the entire inn were tightly closed, as if the people inside had not been awakened. However, halfway through, Zhao Wu and Ding Gu had already taken advantage of the chaos to quietly enter Xu Lanyin's house.

Xu Lanyin whispered two words, "Amazing!" ”

Zhangqi said three words, "That's amazing!" ”

Xu Lanting gave two thumbs up, and he was speechless with excitement.

Zhao Wu whispered, "Hiding from those people delayed a little time, otherwise the fire would have started half an hour earlier." He added, "I took out the oil from the kitchen and poured it in the kitchen and outside the shack, and saw our mules lying on the ground and unable to get up, and eighty percent of them were also fed with drugs......

Xu Lanyin asked, "Has the letter gotten out?" ”

Zhao Wudao, "Soon after you left, I let the pockmarks out. If nothing else, as soon as Lord Min receives my letter, he will send someone who raises the punishment and the judge, and Bacheng will also look for the army, and they will hurry overnight, and the city gate will be opened to enter. ”

Xu Lan said out of hatred, "If you want to wipe out those bad guys, I don't know how many people have died in this black shop." She pulled Zhao Wu to the window and said, "Look at that small courtyard, the flowers and plants in it grow very luxuriantly, and eighty percent of them are buried with unusual 'fertilizer'. ”

According to the voice of the vicious shopkeeper, they killed a lot of people. If the body is not transported out, it will be buried on the spot. The place where people are buried, most likely is the small courtyard. One is that most of the rich people are willing to live in a separate courtyard, and the second is that if there is no one living on the second floor in this direction, no one can see what they do in the small courtyard.

Zhao Wu understood the true meaning of "fertilizer", and also figured out some links, and his face became more solemn.

The weather was dry, the wind was strong, and there was a lot of oil, and the courtyard was basically thatched and wood, and it took some time to put out the fire, and the sky was already faintly bright. The people who had gathered outside gradually dispersed, and only a few dukes were looking for the cause of the fire, and the vicious shopkeeper was with them.

He had already discovered that someone had deliberately set the fire, but he did not dare to tell the officials that he had to accompany them. He looked hatefully at the two closed windows, wondering what to do with them when the duke was gone.

At this time, the inn was suddenly surrounded by hundreds of soldiers in military uniform, mixed with more than a dozen hunters. There is also a person wearing an eight-rank civil official uniform and a person wearing civilian clothes, the person wearing the official uniform is Lord Gui, the subordinate inspector of the Minhu, and the person wearing the civilian clothes is the chief of the Minhu.

The shopkeeper wanted to slip away, but he was restrained.

A smile bloomed on Zhao Wu's face. He opened the window and shouted, "Lord Gui, grab the shopkeeper and the people in the inn, don't let them escape." said to Xu Lanyin again, "Sister, plug the door, I'll go down." ”

Xu Lanyin shouted behind Zhao Wu, "Take care of the child who ate steamed buns yesterday." ”

Maybe that child was too young, and his eyes were too bright, and Xu Lanyin felt uncomfortable when he thought about the heavy slaps, and he especially wanted to help him.

"Okay." Zhao Wu didn't look back.

All the people who worked at the inn were arrested. Xu Lanyin was trapped in the room with several other guests, who were witnesses and were not allowed to leave. There were people who came to deliver food, and people came to ask them about the situation after they stayed in the inn.

Xu Lanyin went to Zhao Wuwu and handed over the food left yesterday to the investigators, and did not say that he smelled something wrong with the food, but only said that he saw that this inn was inappropriate and did not dare to eat. And they said that someone came to open their door at night, and it happened that there was a fire, and the thief left.

At noon, the officials of Lord Xiao, Minhu, Qin Che, and the garrison all rushed here. Feng County is under the jurisdiction of Ningzhou Prefecture, so Ningzhou Mansion and Qin Che also want to come. I heard that the prefect's illness has not yet recovered, and Qin Che has been acting as the prefect's errand.

Xu Lanyin also understood why almost all the big cases were busy with Fujian, and his direct Shangfeng Lord Xiao was very old, about sixty years old, and his health was not very good, and he walked with a hunched back. In this era, officials retired at the age of 70, and the life expectancy of the ancients was short, and few people lived to the year of retirement, unless they actively or passively proposed to the office.

arrested all the people in the inn, and demanded tens of thousands of taels of silver in the shopkeeper's house. Then, Zhao Wu and several officials dug up eight remains in the small courtyard, and also found a secret passage leading to the outside of the city......

Seeing this terrible scene, it not only frightened all the guests staying in the hotel and the surrounding neighbors, but also frightened the people of the entire Fengxian county.

Xu Lanyin and others were locked up in the inn for two days and two nights, and from time to time people came to inquire about various situations. Because of the sight of so many remains, the guests staying at the hotel did not dare to sleep at night, so they slept during the day and spoke loudly at night.

On the morning of the third day, Zhao Wucai returned to the inn with a tired face.

He said that the cave led to a beggar's den six miles from the city, where 14 bodies were excavated. After a preliminary trial, this was a shocking case across provinces, including homicide, human trafficking, rape, robbery, mutilation of children, illegal mining of iron mines, and many other crimes.

Those who live in inns will kill and rob people if they are particularly rich, if they are particularly good-looking, they will be stunned and sold to southern brothels, men will be poisoned and dumb to go to mines, adults will die and younger children will be beggars, if children are sensible, they will be poisoned and dumb, and when the children are old and handsome, they will be sold to Chu Pavilion......

More than 40 important criminals in the jurisdiction of Feng County have been escorted to the provincial capital, and the county lieutenant of Feng County is the umbrella of this inn, and they have also been arrested together. The 30-odd or so children who were forced to beggars would seek out their families and, if they could not find them, would be sent to a nursing home in the provincial capital. will also follow the vine to find the person who is sold......

Zhao Wu, as the first person to discover this big case, wants to solve this case together, he will stay in the provincial capital for a period of time, and if necessary, he may go to other places to investigate the case.