Da Song Private Investigator

Chapter 457 The fire started in the middle of the night.

When they returned to the state office, everyone was very tired, but Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce had already returned.

Everyone sat down in the living room, and when the servants of the state government served tea, Bao Zheng said: "We have investigated those guests, and they all said that it is impossible to poison Su Quan, because Su Quan's wine glass is always Holding it in his hand, every time he added wine, he poured it himself. He seemed very happy that day, so he poured most of the wine for other guests. Besides, everyone was a scholar, so they didn't drink like other tables. The guests walked back and forth like that, and there was no excessive persuasion."

Hwarang and the others also know what happened on the wine table. Who hasn't drunk wine? If you try to persuade people to drink at the wine table, sometimes the level of madness is astonishing. An occasion like Tang Wanli's marriage was too lively, and the drinking order seemed too elegant.

If things are like Bao Zheng's investigation, it would be impossible to secretly change wine glasses on the wine table. If so, who would poison Su Quan, what was the motive, and what did Su Quan know about the murderer? Secret, maybe after finding that secret, we will be able to know who the murderer is.

So Hwarang asked Bao Zheng to send more people to look for shops selling red cloth tomorrow.

So after lunch, everyone went back to rest.

The murderer seemed to be about to come out, but Hwarang didn't understand what the murderer's motive was, so he lay down on the bed and couldn't sleep, and the wind blew again outside the window.

It was cold the next day, and the water froze. If it is as cold as this, I wonder if there will be snow in Duanzhou this year.

Hualang got up to wash up, and then went to the state office, but when he came to the state office, he found that Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce were not in the state office, and neither was Wang Chao Mahan. There was a fire in one place, and they went to check the situation. Because it was a fire, they didn't alarm Hwarang and the others.

Hwarang let out a cry and left the state office. They were going to find a shop that sold Su Quan's red cloth by themselves, but not long after they left the state office, they saw Ma Han rushing over. After Hualang, he quickly said: "Brother Hua, I found it."

Hwarang frowned slightly, and asked, "What did you find, didn't you accompany Mr. Bao to check the scene of the fire?"

Ma Han may have run for too long, so at this moment, there was heat on his head, and he was a little out of breath. He took a few breaths and exhaled, and then he became a little calmer, and said: "It's like this, This morning, someone reported that there was a fire in a street, which seemed to be very serious. Yesterday, the people there fought the fire all night. Bao Zheng hurried there when he saw that it was related to the safety of the people’s property. It was a cloth shop that was burned, and after questioning, I learned that Su Quan bought the red cloth from that shop."

After listening to Ma Han's words, everyone was shocked, and they could vaguely guess what was going on.

Although the winter is dry, the chance of fire is still very small, let alone a place like a cloth store, it is even more impossible to have a fire, but now that a fire has broken out, it means that the murderer may have noticed something, so he wants to destroy it. The clues left by Su Quan, in this way, no matter how clever Hwarang is, it is impossible to find out the secret Su Quan knows.

Before they had time to think and talk, Hualang and Yin Wucuo hurried to the place where the fire was burning. When they went, they could faintly see the thick smoke left by the burning shop. They were holding a wooden basin in their hands, and they were wearing clothes. It may be that when the fire broke out last night, they only cared about putting out the fire, so they forgot to wear thick clothes.

At this time, they looked very tired and disheveled, but they were very lucky, fortunately they discovered the fire in time and extinguished the fire, otherwise the strong wind howled last night, and I don't know how many houses would have been burned down.

The people fighting the fire were somewhat fortunate, but in front of the shop that had been burned to ashes, a middle-aged man in his 40s was lying on the ground crying fiercely, and kept saying that it was all over, all over, looking at the situation , I knew that this man was the owner of this shop, and his crying seemed so feeble at this moment.

Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, and the others were evacuating the crowd. When Bao Zheng saw Hua Lang approaching, he hurried up and said, "I have already asked the owner, and he said that Su Quan did buy red cloth from him."

Hwarang already knew this, and now he wants to know more, so he came to the crying middle-aged man and said, "If you trust us, we will help you find the person who set the fire and make him pay for it." Your loss, but now you have to answer a few questions for us."

When the middle-aged man heard that he could find the person who set the fire, hope suddenly lit up in his heart, and he said, "I will answer, and I will answer everything."

Hwarang nodded slightly, and then asked: "Then after Su Quan bought the red cloth in your shop, did he ever say anything to you?"

The middle-aged man thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "That down-and-out scholar bought cloth worth a few hundred dollars, took it and left. He only asked me the price, and then left after paying. He didn't say anything else. Said."

After listening to the middle-aged man's words, Hwarang's brows suddenly frowned. If Su Quan hadn't told the middle-aged man, then what was he doing with Tang Wanli's special gift? Wasn't it a hint? How could the murderer brave the cold night and risk to come here and set fire to the shop?

Hwarang frowned slightly, he really didn't understand what Su Quan meant, but he felt that his speculation was not wrong, it was impossible for Su Quan not to leave him a later move.

At this time, Hwarang asked again: "Since Su Quan came to you to buy red cloth, why didn't you report it after seeing the notice from the state government?"

The middle-aged man seemed a little nervous, and stammered: "I... I am a businessman, and I think that if no one reports this matter, the state government will definitely increase the reward money, and I am waiting for you to increase the money. "

After hearing this reason, Bao Zheng and Hua Lang were very angry, but seeing that this person's belongings were all burned, they could no longer lose their temper or blame this person, so they had to disperse the crowd. This thing seems to be the only way to let it go.

What can they do? Su Quan didn't give this person any hints.

But just when they were about to leave, things suddenly turned around because a beggar walked towards them.