Seeing that the fire in the painting boat was getting bigger and bigger, the ships that were either docked or moving nearby avoided one after another.

Occasionally, a few shipwrights came to help, but it was only a drop in the bucket.

Although the boat is full of water, but after the ship is on fire, the flame is above, the water source is below, it is not easy to extinguish the fire with water, but it makes the people on the boat have to jump into the water to escape for their lives.

He Yanxiu twisted his eyebrows and instructed Shi Ding and the others, "Go and help!"

"Yes." Shi Ding hurriedly took a few guards and jumped up the painting boat.

Throw all the burning tables and chairs on the boat into the river so that the fire does not spread, and if the bucket does not catch water in time, tear off the layers of curtains hanging on the boat and throw them into the river, and then scoop them up and throw them into the area where the fire is large.

The splash of water can extinguish some small fires, and the wet curtain thrown on the fire can have the effect of cooling and extinguishing the fire.

Shi Ding and the others were nimble, and the surrounding cargo ships or passenger ships were successively splashed with water on the painting boat, and the fire was quickly controlled.

The fire had not been completely extinguished, and there were many people on the painting boat at this time, and those young sons and brothers were all frightened, their legs and feet were weak, and they subconsciously leaned on the railing to slow down.

Although the fire has been extinguished, the railing has been burned black and cracked due to the invasion of the fire.

Immediately after, the sound of "poof" sounded several times in succession.

"Someone has fallen overboard!"

Someone exclaimed.

"Save ...... Help......"

The three people who fell into the water obviously didn't know how to water, and desperately slapped the water for help, trying to be able to float on the surface of the water and hold on for a while.

Seeing this, some boatmen hurriedly jumped in, but the place where the three of them fell into the water was a little far away, and it would take time to swim over.

Seeing that the three of them were next to his ship, He Yanxiu hurriedly took off his coat and handed it to Su Yujin, and beckoned Xing'an and the two guards, "Save people!"

He Yanxiu jumped into the water first, and Xing'an and the others hurriedly followed, swimming quickly to the person who fell into the water to save people.

The first thing to save is the one who obviously seems to have no movement, and the whole person is already floating on the water.

He Yanxiu was very water-oriented, so he rushed to the man's side first, and hurriedly lifted his head up.

But as soon as he touched the adult, He Yanxiu sensed that something was wrong.

He smelled a heavy smell of blood, and the man was no longer breathing or heartbeat.

He Yanxiu vigorously fished the person up, and found that there was a wound on his chest, which was gurgling and bleeding, and the river water was bright red.

Based on the surrounding firelight and the moonlight at this time, it can be seen that the wound of this person is very flat, as if it was wounded by a sharp blade.

That means that this person was not an accident caused by something when he fell into the water, but someone deliberately committed the murder.

He Yanxiu twisted his eyebrows and went to see the other two people who fell into the water.

Those two people had been rescued by Xing'an and others at this time, and they were grabbing the rope thrown from the painting boat and slowly climbing up, and those who were still on the painting boat were helping with all hands and feet.

When they rescued all the people who had fallen into the water to the boat, the fire on the boat had been completely extinguished, and the boatman was slowly approaching the shore with the oars sliding.

Seeing that the painting boat burned beyond recognition, even after landing on the shore and passing underneath, those people still had palpitations, and kept patting their chests and shivering, "Today's events are really scary."

"yes, I'm afraid I don't want to take any more boats in the past few years, let alone near the water and the fire." It was one of the people who had fallen into the water, soaking wet at this time, wrapped in a blanket, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

"It's a blessing for you and me to be able to pick up a life, and we need to thank those who have helped us." Another man in the water, wrapped in a cloak, still chattering with his teeth.

"Exactly."

Everyone echoed and thanked those who had helped to put out the fire and save people.

Everyone was a rich man, and he was not stingy at this time, but only ordered his subordinates to take silver as a reward.

"Ladies and gentlemen." After looking around, a round-faced young man in Tsing Yi bowed his hand to those people and asked anxiously, "My son-in-law got on the boat with you, why don't you see him?"

When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, and they were also surprised.

"Really, why is Brother Mingjun missing?"

"Didn't he fall into the water with you and not be rescued?"

"I just saw someone go to the rescue, but when Brother Mingjun came ashore, he left......

"The little one listened to the movement and looked for it, but he didn't see my son-in-law, and the little one also asked other people present, and they all said that they had never seen my son-in-law." The little girl was suddenly anxious, "Then where is my son-in-law?"

Jiahe County Lin County Ling led the yacha over, "Come and see if this is your son-in-law."

The little servant hurriedly followed, and when he saw that the yacha asked him to identify a corpse lying on the ground, he was stunned at first, and when he saw that the corpse was not someone else, it was his son-in-law Chai Mingjun, he howled.

"Childe, don't scare the little one, Childe, what are you? It's so good, how did it become like this......

The little girl's crying was terrible, which made those who had been with him before.

"It's really impermanent."

"It's really embarrassing that they were drinking and chanting poetry together, and now they are suffering from this disaster."

"When Brother Ming Jun got on the boat, he said that he would rather go with this surging river, away from the hustle and bustle of the world, think about it first, it's quite unlucky."

"The fire is strange tonight, you are even more strange when you fall into the water, and it is even more strange that Brother Mingjun was drowned, isn't it that the water is not very clean?"

There are water ghosts asking for their lives or something.

Everyone's faces changed suddenly, and they became more and more afraid.

"This Chai Mingjun was not drowned, but assassinated." Lin Xian ordered, "The person who rescued him ashore said that when he swam to Chai Mingjun, he was already out of breath."

"According to the statement that you were all still drinking and chanting poetry on the boat at that time, he was still alive a moment before he fell into the water, and he was assassinated a moment later, and this officer asked the people on the nearby boat at that time, saying that except for someone who went to rescue Chai Mingjun after falling into the water, he did not see anyone else suspicious, so it can be seen that the murderer is still among those of you who have been close to him at this time."

"Since Chai Mingjun was assassinated, the murderer needs to have a murder weapon to commit the murder, you hand over all the things on your body, and then the yacha will search and check them one by one!"

Chai Mingjun was assassinated and died?

Everyone was shocked, and there was a lot of discussion and sighing, in order to clear up the suspicion, at this time, they also took out all the things they were carrying one by one for Yacha and Lin Xianling and others to see.

Shi Ding quietly returned to He Yanxiu's side.