bookrebus Chapter 91 This case is arson
Chapter 91 This case is arson
Yang Biao woke up in the middle of the night. Alas, it seemed that he would suffer from insomnia again tonight. After getting dressed, he sat for a while and prepared to light a lamp to read.
At this moment, he suddenly smelled an unpleasant odor and was wondering why there was such a smell in the inn. After thinking about it, he decided to put the silver bill in his pocket first (when going out, money must be kept close to you) and then open the door to check.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw fire outside the room. The temperature in the room rose. At this time, two flaming arrows shot over. Yang Biao instinctively avoided them. The two arrows hit his door and the door caught fire instantly. What else is there to understand? Without thinking too much, he went to the bed, picked up Qin Xiaoran and ran out.
"Ding Yan, Gu Yuan!" Yang Biao kicked open their door, and the two were instantly awakened. Yang Biao asked them to go around the inn and wake up the guests staying there. The fire was getting bigger and bigger, so he wanted to carry Qin Xiaoran to a safe place first, and then come back to put out the fire and save people, so he ran downstairs.
"Oh my! There's a fire." The couple next door who were awakened by Ding Yan's knocking on the door looked at the blazing fire, hurriedly packed up their belongings, and ran downstairs with Yang Biao in their underwear.
"Xiao Ran, wake up!" Yang Biao put her on his lap and patted her face gently, hoping that she would wake up quickly. Ding Yan and Gu Yuan were still knocking on doors and calling for people to come out in the inn. He really didn't want to wake the child up, but he still had to fetch water to help put out the fire, and he was worried about letting her sleep here alone.
"There's a fire, there's a fire!" The waiter at the inn was also woken up and quickly led everyone to the well to fetch water to put out the fire.
"My wife is still in there. She hasn't come out yet." The man who went out to drink and prostitutes at night came back. Seeing the raging fire in the inn, he wanted to rush into the fire to save his wife, but was stopped by his friend, "Brother Zhang Qi, our top priority now is to fetch water and put out the fire." Zhang Qi woke up as if from a dream, and hurried to fetch water with his friends to put out the fire.
However, the fire was burning too fiercely with the help of kerosene, and a few buckets of water did not have much effect. Many people joined the firefighting team, but it was of no avail. The Kunpeng Inn was completely engulfed by the fierce fire bit by bit.
"Alas, all the hard work I've put into running this inn for so many years! It's all gone..." The innkeeper rushed over after hearing the news, and seeing the charred wood and tiles scattered all over the ground, he couldn't help but feel grief-stricken, and he knelt on the ground and cried loudly.
"Master, are you okay?" The hair on Ding Yan's forehead had been burned off by the fire, and Gu Yuan was not much better.
"I'm fine, Xiaoran, put the bucket down." Yang Biao took the bucket from Qin Xiaoran's hand and put it at his feet. The situation was hopeless, and there was no point in watering anymore.
"Someone is setting the fire. Where is the innkeeper? Go find him and ask him to report to the police!" Someone reminded the innkeeper that if he reported the fire to the police and asked the constable to hunt down the arsonist, he could get the compensation and make a comeback.
The waiter helped the shopkeeper who was still kneeling and crying on the ground, "Shopkeeper, we have to report to the police as soon as possible!"
"Yang Biao, you..." As the sky gradually brightened, Qin Xiaoran discovered that there were many blisters on the back of his hands from burns, and his clothes were also torn.
"I'll go to the clinic and get some medicine to apply." Yang Biao saw her eyes full of tears, dripping down, and couldn't help laughing, this silly girl! Touching her head, he comforted her, "It's okay, I don't feel any pain."
"Our bags were all in there, burned." Watching the doctor applying medicine to Yang Biao, Qin Xiaoran then remembered the small items Yang Biao bought for her that were left in the inn. Unfortunately, she didn't bring any of them out.
"It's good that you're fine. Why are you still thinking about those material things?" Yang Biao really didn't understand this kid's train of thought. As long as a person is alive, he has everything.
"Yeah, that's true." Qin Xiaoran looked at Yang Biao. With him by her side, she felt at ease and nodded in agreement with what he said. "Yang Biao, I'm hungry."
"Oh, Ding Yan, go get some cakes from the carriage for Xiaoran." The doctor was still taking Gu Yuan's pulse. Yang Biao felt that he should finish eating the cakes made by Xiao Zhang first, otherwise they would go bad after a long time, and Xiao Zhang's kindness would be wasted.
"Your body is covered with burns. Take some burn ointment and apply it three times a day. You will heal soon," the doctor said after examining Gu Yuan and went to take the pulse of other burn patients.
Yang Biao paid for the medical treatment of several people, got the medicine, and took Xiaoran and the others back to the burned inn to record their statements.
"There are unburned kerosene scattered all over your inn. This case is obviously arson. Has Mr. Yu offended anyone recently?" The detective in charge of the case asked the innkeeper, who was in grief, whether he had any grudges with anyone recently.
On Yang Biao's side, a constable also came to question him, "I came to Jiahe County at noon the day before yesterday, and stayed in Room No. 1 on the third floor of Kunpeng Inn the day before yesterday evening."
"Did you hear any noise before the fire broke out?" the constable asked while taking notes with a pen.
"I was woken up in the middle of the night because I had to pee, and then I found out the inn was on fire, so I went to the next room to call the female guard, who woke up the guests in the inn and asked them to flee." Yang Biao couldn't say that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night and was thinking about his two modern children in the dark. If he told this truthfully, it would be unbelievable.
The constable asked Yang Biao a few more questions, and then saw the chief constable walking towards them, "Chief, these are the confessions of five people." He showed the interrogation record to the chief constable.
"Well, Constable Gui, please organize it as soon as possible. I will send it to Chief Constable Zhang for review later." After reading the confessions of the five people, the chief constable returned the record to Constable Gui.
"Leave your address. When we find the arsonist, we will notify you and ask him to compensate you for your losses." Many guests fled in a hurry in the middle of the night and did not take any money with them. After Gui reported to the head of the police, he returned and handed him the brush. Yang Biao wrote down his address in Guangping Prefecture.
"Boss, we found fifteen bodies, eight women and seven men!" A constable reported the results of the search to the captain.
"Find a stretcher to carry them all away, and ask the coroner to do an autopsy to see how old they are so that the family members can come and claim the bodies." The captain checked the bodies that were carried out and placed on the ground one by one, gave instructions to the people below, and then rode away on horseback.
"Master, it's bad. Fifteen people died in a fire at Kunpeng Inn!" Sun Xuanli had just gotten up in the morning and opened the door when he was blocked by Hu Zi, who was so frightened that his face turned pale.
"Why are you panicking? It's just a few deaths. It's no big deal." Sun Xuanli scolded, not satisfied with his followers' cowardice. It's not like he had never seen his men kill people before. He took out a stack of banknotes from the study drawer and handed it to him, "Go give some money to those who set the fire, and ask them to leave and hide."