"What?"

Lu Chengting was sorting out the information from the army in his hand, and when he heard the guard's plea, he asked expressionlessly for a while.

"Back to the master, the Chen Ji silk shop on Chengping Street caught fire in the middle of the night, and the shop was burned to the ground." The dark guard bowed his head and replied, regretting it in his heart.

The master came back yesterday and told him to investigate the haunting of the silk shop.

Although he should go down at the time, he felt that it was a trivial matter, and he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it would not be too late to investigate tomorrow, so he turned around and went to work on other things.

Early this morning, he went to Chengping Street, but unexpectedly found that the shop had been burned down in the middle of the night, so he had to come back to plead guilty.

When Lu Chengting heard that the silk shop was burned, he turned his head to look at the secret guard, and asked coldly, "Have you found out the cause of the fire?" ”

Hearing the coldness in his words, the secret guard tightened his heart, "It should be that someone poured fire oil at night, and the perpetrator hasn't had time to investigate." Miss Xiao Er and Lord Minghua just went to the shop. ”

"Find out who did it, and then come back to receive the punishment."

"Yes, master." The dark guard disappeared in a flash, and although he was to be punished this time, he was willing and not the slightest dissatisfied. The master was originally poisoned by the Tangut people, and the imperial doctor concluded that there was only half a year left to live.

Now that Miss Xiao can help her master detoxify, which is equivalent to saving her master's life. With such a great kindness, the master must be concerned about her affairs, but due to his negligence, the shop that Xiao Erniang just bought was burned down.

The secret guard decided to track down the person behind the arson.

Lu Chengting put down the information in his hand and said loudly, "Come on, prepare the horse." ”

……

Xiao Jinyue's feet stepped on the ruins of the silk shop, her eyes swept over the ruins inch by inch, and her nose was filled with the smell of burnt.

Suddenly a breeze blew, in addition to the smell of wood and various cloths burning, Xiao Jinyue also faintly smelled a smell of fire oil.

She stared at it, and walked a few steps in the direction where the smell of fire oil emanated, and found a few pieces of broken white porcelain scattered on the charred stone slabs everywhere.

She picked up a piece casually, put it to her nose and sniffed it, her eyes couldn't help but be cold.

"Who are you, this is not the place for you to stay, get out of here."

Xiao Jinyue turned her head to look over when she heard the sound, and a man was walking towards her quickly with his eyebrows twisted.

From the official uniform on his body and the saber on his waist, it can be judged that the person is the commander of the Xicheng Soldiers and Horses.

Xiao Jinyue stood up and saluted, "I've seen Lord Cao, I'm the owner of this silk shop." ”

Unexpectedly, when Commander Cao heard this, he sneered and said, "Where did this little girl come from to talk nonsense here, you are looking at me, I don't know if the owner of this shop is surnamed Chen?" ”

He is the commander of the Xicheng Soldiers and Horses, patrolling the streets every day, and he doesn't know all the owners of every shop on the street, but he still knows most of them.

How did he not know when the Chen Dongjia became a woman?

"The owner of this shop was originally surnamed Chen, but now this shop belongs to me. Just yesterday, Chen Dongjia sold the shop to me. ”

"Is there a deed?"

"Yes, but the deed is now in the hands of the prince of Nan'an. To be precise, this shop is now jointly owned by me and Lord Minghua. ”

Xiao Jinyue didn't want to go into such detail, but seeing that Commander Cao kept asking, she simply said it all.

Rather than making him suspicious, it is better to be honest and honest, which is just in the right favor for her next words.

"Lord Cao came just in time, I just happened to have something to look for you."

"What?" Commander Cao couldn't help but believe her words when he saw that she looked serious, not like a joke, and believed that no one dared to use the banner of Nan'an Wangfu to pull the tiger's skin.

Xiao Jinyue handed him the broken porcelain piece wrapped in a handkerchief in his hand, "I suspect that the shop was deliberately set on fire, this is evidence." ”

Commander Cao took the porcelain piece and smelled it, and a strong smell of fire oil came straight to his nose.

What else is not understood.

I don't know who this girl provoked, this shop was only bought yesterday, and it was poured oil and set on fire in the middle of the night, which is really unlucky.

"I heard that Lord Cao brought someone to put out the fire last night, I don't know what abnormalities can be found?"

Commander Cao heard that the owner behind this shop was the Nan'an Palace, and his attitude became cautious, and he carefully recalled the situation last night.

It's a pity that he received news last night that he heard that the shop on Chengping Street was on fire, and when he came with someone, there were already many shopkeepers and men from nearby shops helping to put out the fire.

At that time, the scene was chaotic, and he was worried that the fire would spread and affect the shops on the entire street, so he only cared about directing the people to extinguish the fire, and did not notice anything else.

Seeing that Commander Cao couldn't ask anything here, Xiao Jinyue could only continue to look forward, trying to see if there were any other clues.

Walking a short distance, I just turned a broken wall more than one person high, crossed the crack of the broken wall, and unexpectedly saw a man and a woman standing three or four feet away in front of me.

Syllable!

Before she could see clearly, the girl suddenly slapped the man.

Then he whispered at the man, "What did you do? If the things I gave you are messed up, forget it. But look at it, now that the ready-to-wear stores have been burned to the ground, how can you ask me to explain to my family? ”

The man lowered his head and silently scolded and scolded angrily by the girl, and whispered in his mouth that he was not.

The man's voice was too low, Xiao Jinyue didn't hear what he was saying, but she had already recognized the identities of the two people.

Xiao Jinyue was quietly listening to the girl scolding the man, when suddenly there was a noise on the other side.

The girl in the goose yellow dress frowned and looked around, saw that no one noticed, and scolded the man a few more times, then turned around and walked towards the noisy place, and the man followed silently with his head down.

When Xiao Jinyue saw the resentful look in his eyes against that girl flashing, he couldn't help but laugh playfully.

Seeing that everyone was gone, Xiao Jinyue also walked around the broken wall on the other side.

Commander Cao had been following Xiao Jinyue not far away, and he naturally heard the conversation between a man and a woman.

Seeing that Xiao Jinyue didn't show up and go out, he thought about it and followed her.

Xiao Jinyue bypassed a broken wall and saw several people around there.

The shopkeeper of the grocery store next door was angrily pointing to a guy dressed up, "Chen Dongjia, you still comfort this guy to do something." Last night, when I was walking in the water, I heard a movement and rushed over, and I was calling for everyone to help put out the fire.

But instead of helping, these fellows stood by with their hands in their sleeves and gloated, saying that it was just right that the silk shop had been burned, so that the haunting would not affect the business of their shop.

The shopkeeper and his men at their ready-to-wear store all ran out to see the excitement, and who knew that the backyard of their own shop suddenly caught fire.

When they found out and wanted to put out the fire, it was too late, and their shop was burned to the ground.

Now that the shop is gone, the job is lost, and it's too late to regret it.

If you had reached out last night to help put out the fire, or stayed in your own shop and didn't come out, instead of just standing by and gloating, it wouldn't have been the result now. ”

(End of chapter)