The fat aunt sat in the middle of the yard at this time, looking at the devastated yard, sorrow came from it, and she kept crying.

She didn't have any injuries on her body, except for her messy hair, fingers and forearms that had been touched by tongues of fire, and a string of blisters had burned.

But the fat aunt didn't care about these and just cried blindly, and she didn't even notice that Song Lingyue and Qi Mo came in.

"Fat aunt, are you okay?" Song Lingyue walked into the fat aunt and gently patted the fat aunt's shoulder.

The fat aunt trembled as if she was frightened, and when she saw that it was Song Lingyue, she cried louder:

"Why is my life so miserable, this house has been burned down!"

"Fat aunt, as long as people are okay." Song Lingyue comforted the fat aunt softly.

The fat aunt glanced at Song Lingyue, stretched out her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, and cried even louder:

"You know what! This is the ancestral house left by the ancestors! How can it be in my hands! You can't destroy it in my hands! ”

The fat aunt burst into tears, beating her chest and feet, and her appearance was crazy.

"Fat aunt, I'll help you go to rest, it's easy to hurt yourself when you're always sad like this." Song Lingyue soothed the fat aunt's emotions and helped the fat aunt to the side to rest.

Qi Mo on the other side was carefully inspecting the fire point, and finally he found that although the three tiled houses were burned down badly, the most serious was the domed warehouse on the right, which was built by Song Lingyue and used high-quality paulownia wood to store medicinal materials.

And judging by the direction of the wind, it should have been the igloo that caught fire first, and finally affected the next few rooms.

At the beginning, I chose paulownia wood, on the one hand, because paulownia wood is cheap, on the other hand, paulownia wood has the characteristics of non-combustible, and paulownia wood is covered with fireproof varnish, and the general small flame will not ignite paulownia so easily.

Although these rooms seem to be seriously burned, they are only not damaged because of the timely firefighting, they are not like warehouses, they have been burned and cannot be seen, and the medicinal materials in them are even burned, and they will turn into fly ashes with a pinch of their hands.

Qi Mo touched the dust in his hand, and just wanted to take out a handkerchief to wipe it, but he smelled an unusual smell.

Hands to the end of the nose, you can faintly smell a smell of oil, very light if you don't smell it carefully, it's really hard to smell, fingers rubbing faintly sticky.

"What did you find?" After appeasing the fat aunt, Song Lingyue saw Qi Mo alone in front of the ashes in the warehouse, patted him on the shoulder and asked.

"You smell." Qi Mo stretched his finger to the end of Song Lingyue's nose, Song Lingyue frowned and sniffed the smoky smell, and didn't feel anything abnormal, "A smell of soot, what's the smell." ”

"It's not soot, there's a grease smell in it, it's very rare." Qi Mo was very sure.

Song Lingyue sniffed carefully and hurriedly: "But it's a little faint oil star smell, I don't know what kind of grease it is, the taste is very light and not easy to find." ”

"It seems that someone deliberately set the fire, otherwise why would it smell of grease." Qi Mo pulled Song Lingyue to approach the fire and pointed to the burned houses around:

"You see, the degree of burndown of the two surrounding tiled houses can obviously be seen to be affected by the fire point here, but the fire point of the warehouse is very even, it seems that someone deliberately poured oil and deliberately wanted to burn down the warehouse, but he was afraid that it would be too obvious to only burn the warehouse, so he let the fire go."

"I thought it was an accident, but now it seems that someone deliberately poured oil on the herb dealer in the warehouse and set it on fire. Fortunately, there were no casualties, otherwise I would not have been able to escape the blame. Song Lingyue was afraid for a while when she thought of it.

Most of the houses in ancient times were made of wood, and it was extremely easy for the wind to blow and burn a string of sparks as soon as they burned.

"It's a pity that these medicinal herbs were burned to ashes before they could be used." Song Lingyue was extremely sorry, and picked up the medicinal materials that had been burned into black charcoal in distress.

"Don't pick it up, hurt your hand carefully." Qi Mo pulled Song Lingyue up, "Now is not the time to be sad about these medicinal materials, the most important thing is to catch this person who set the fire." ”

Song Lingyue was about to ask Qi Mo, but when she had an idea, she saw Zhang Hu break in with a group of officials.

"Miss Song, Master Qi." Zhang Hu arched his hand towards Song Lingyue and Qi Mo, "I heard that Aunt Li came to report that something happened to you here, so I immediately rushed here with my brothers." ”

"Trouble Brother Zhang Hu." Song Lingyue reluctantly smiled at Zhang Hu, pointed to the small courtyard that was burned and said: "This is the place where the fire started, I investigated with Qi Mo before, and found that the warehouse that caught fire seemed to have been doused with grease, which is why it burned so fast, and it also affected several tiled houses next to it." ”

"Grease?" Zhang Hu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly stepped forward to check, and sure enough, he touched something slimy on the burnt medicinal materials, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, and there was indeed a smell of oil stars.

Then let the other catchers quickly clean up the burned waste in the warehouse, and found a large stain on the bluestone slab, which looked like oil when touched.

"You guys are looking around to see what started the fire in the warehouse." Zhang Hu commanded.

"Yes." Several officials acted separately, and soon a official named Cai Wei found out and shouted:

"Open your head, the little one has a discovery."

Zhang Hu hurriedly took a closer look, Cai Wei pointed to a stall of melted wax oil and showed it to Zhang Hu, "Look at this, it looks like the candle has not been blown out and lit the book next to it." ”

Cai Wei pulled out the book next to him, which had been burned for more than half and only had the word 'thousand' left, "Xu is candle fell down, lit the book, and caused a fire." It just so happened that flammable grease was stored in this warehouse, which is why it burned so big. ”

Song Lingyue walked to the two of them, heard Cai Wei's analysis, and said busily:

"It can be said that the candle fell by accident, but someone deliberately smeared the ground with grease, and it must have been done on purpose."

"Miss Song, can you be sure that there has never been anything like grease in this warehouse?" Cai Wei looked up at Song Lingyue.

"This warehouse is used to hold medicinal materials, and grease and fat things are generally stored in the warehouse on the west side, but the warehouse on the west side is not on fire." Song Lingyue told the truth.

In addition to making plasters, this small workshop on Willow Leaf Street now supplies beauty and skin balms to the 'Le Yan Fang', which contains oil to moisturize the skin.

It's just that Song Lingyue didn't want to confuse things, so the things for 'Le Yan Fang' were all placed in the west, and the people who made the ointment were placed in the east.

Daquan, a worker who was cleaning up the scene, heard Song Lingyue's words and hurriedly interjected:

"A few days ago, the warehouse in the west leaked rain, and the small ones were afraid that the things inside would be wet, so they took the initiative and moved to the east wing."

"When did this happen, and why didn't you tell me?" Song Lingyue frowned and looked at Daquan.

Daquan said innocently: "Just the matter of the past two days, everyone has a lot of work in their hands, and they forgot about it when they were busy. ”

Daquan took one accident at a time, and this was completely to kill all the possibilities of deliberate arson.

"Then why are there candles in this warehouse?" Song Lingyue pointed to the stall of melted wax oil on the ground, "Before you entered the factory to work, I told you that the materials in this warehouse are fixed every morning, and no open flames can be left in the warehouse, have you forgotten?" ”

Daquan honestly showed an innocent look on his face:

"Shopkeeper, the work has been in a hurry lately, everyone has not worked day and night, and the medicinal materials have to be taken in and out of the warehouse, and they can't even take a lamp, right? Xu who forgot to take the lamp back when he took the medicinal herbs at night, which caused the accident. ”

Song Lingyue heard the shirking in Daquan's words, and a layer of anger appeared in her eyebrows, "So this accident in the warehouse is because of me?" ”

"Shopkeeper, how did you say this, this is an accident, no one can blame you." Daquan smiled honestly at Song Lingyue.

"If that's the case, then the fire might just be an accident." Zhang Hu opened his mouth with some uncertainty, touched Song Lingyue's angry eyes and hurriedly retracted it, coughed twice, and said:

"But don't worry, Miss Song, we will definitely investigate this matter carefully, and we will definitely give you an explanation."

The corners of Song Lingyue's lips pursed into a straight line, Daquan overturned all her statements, so that all the possibilities she thought turned into unexpected possibilities, if the mastermind couldn't be caught, then the burning of the warehouse could only be regarded as an accident.

If it is an accident, then there are too many coincidences in this accident.

The warehouse where the oil and spices were stored just now leaked rain, and the oil and spices could only be put in the medicine warehouse.

In the past few days, the workers have been rushing to work collectively, and the lamps have been left behind, which has ignited the grease in the warehouse, causing a fire.

It just so happened that the delivery date was three days later, and all kinds of things were too much of a coincidence.

Song Lingyue never believed that there were such coincidental things in the world, there were too many coincidental things, and it was a kind of deliberateness.

Her fingers tightened suddenly, her nails were almost embedded in her palms, she looked at Daquan's loyal face but hidden treacherous, and she only felt that all of this was inseparable from the Daquan in front of her, otherwise why didn't so many people come to explain it and just come up to him and overturn everything she said.

Qi Mo stepped forward and secretly pinched her arm.

Song Lingyue raised her eyes and glanced at Qi Mo, who shook her head slightly at her, signaling her not to act rashly.

Song Lingyue endured the annoyance in her heart, but her face didn't show it at all, "Then it's troublesome Brother Zhang Hu, I still have something to do at this time, so I'll go first." ”

After speaking, he walked out of the small courtyard with Qi Mo.

"Qi Mo, why don't you let me express my suspicions?" Song Lingyue's footsteps were walking very fast, and the handkerchief in her hand was almost flying out, "There is clearly a problem with that Daquan!" Where in the world can there be so many coincidences, I don't believe it! ”

"I also think it's too much of a coincidence. That's why I want you not to act rashly. Qi Mo comforted Song Lingyue, who was out of calm and a little irritable, "If you want to catch him, it's not impossible." ”

"What's the solution?" Song Lingyue's eyes lit up and she hurriedly asked.