TSBFL Chapter 100.4

TSBFL Chapter 100:

Chapter 100.4: 縱火 

[Set on Fire/ Commit Arson]

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The visitor stood at the threshold wearing a coat, his handsome face appeared a little unreal under the moonlight, and he looked cold and unlike a real person. A few moments later, he turned towards the dark space and said, “What happened?”

 

A black-clothed man came to Gu Lang’s side silently, and reported softly to him, “The Chen Family Restaurant is on fire.”

 

Gu Lang gently narrowed his eyes, in front of him suddenly appeared Chen Xing’s usual busy look in the restaurant, he knew what this small restaurant meant to Chen Xing, this is his hard work in exchange for the blood of the heart, so his tone also coldened for a few points as he faintly said: “Go to investigate, who did it.”

 

“Yes.”

 

After that person left as quietly as he came, Gu Lang stared at the direction of the courtyard door for a while and turned around to go back to his room.

 

After burning the incense, Gu Lang had already changed into black with ‘a hint of red in it’ long gown, with a cloak on his hand, and after closing the door of the room, he walked slowly in the direction Chen Xing and the others had left.

 

When Chen Xing followed Qiu Jiu to his restaurant, the fire was already extinguished.

 

The official in charge of the curfew, this time also found the fire at the right time, they let people come over to help the patrol team leader, look at them hurriedly rushed over, the anxious Chen Xing comforted as he said: “You don’t worry, because the right time, the fire is not too big, coupled with the fact that we have more people, the fire has already been extinguished.”

 

Chen Xing heard his words, his original lifting heart instantly put down, and sincerely said towards him , “Thank you.”

 

Afterwards, out of the corner of Chen Xing’s eyes, he saw the fire not far away. Because he wanted to help them to extinguish the fire, at this time, the officers and soldiers were somehow in an embarrassed state, so as if thinking of something, he hurriedly dug into his sleeves and pulled out a delicate purse. From it, he poured out a tael of silver, handed it to the official and smiled at him: “It’s been a long night, thank you all for your hard work. Please accept this small amount of money, and please this official, to invite the other officials to drink some hot wine.”

 

The captain of the patrol had originally taken care of this small shop because of the orders from above. Now that he saw that the little boss was so knowledgeable, his heart felt a little bit more comfortable.

 

He smiled toward the little boss in front of him and continued: ”Since the little boss is so kind, then I will thank you guys on behalf of the brothers. We don’t have much time to stay as we still have a mission ahead of us, so the little boss will also go and see if there is any loss inside.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

Seeing that the squad leader with his teammates left, Chen Xing only looked at the front of the shop with a little bit of chaos, sighed deeply, followed by a little psychological preparation to go inside.

 

Waiting for Chen Xing to go all around the small restaurant, he raised his last problem, only then he really let it go. Most of the fire is in the back of the kitchen and most of the stuff inside there was unusable so it would need to be replaced tomorrow, but fortunately the important ingredients kept there were in large vats. Therefore, not much was lost.

 

Wait until Chen Xing continued to wander around a few more times, to make sure that when the time comes to replace the kitchen and the small storage room next to the kitchen outside, he no longer needs to get the other things done, then he sat down and took a long breath.

 

“How could this originally just fine place catch fire?” Chen Xing stared at this messy courtyard, some puzzles and asked, “I, obviously every time I leave, I will check the fire here, make sure it was already extinguished before leaving.”

 

Because Chen Xing knew that most of the ancient buildings were built with wood, so he was extra careful in using fire, and he also specially chose some stones to build the kitchen when he was decorating, and even put a lot of water tanks, the purpose is to effectively isolate the fire source or fire starter.

 

Qiu Jiu stood by the side, scratched his own head, and did not know how to answer. In the end, somewhat hesitated as he said, “Little Boss, could it be man-made?”

 

Chen Xing raised his head violently, looked fixedly toward Qiu Jiu, he felt that what Qiu Jiu said seemed to be right, this fire came strangely, after all, he put out the fire every day before leaving, it was impossible to have fire exist in the shop.

 

Moreover, this time, if it is not for the patrol officers and soldiers just passing by, this restaurant must be all burned out. Even if it is man-made, Chen Xing thinks they also have to talk about evidence, only when they get the evidence, they can say this is fact.

 

While Chen Xing frowned and thought about how to find the evidence, From outside the door, came a figure, he looked up, only to see, not knowing when Gu Lang had already come. This time, he was carrying a lantern as he looked at them.

 

At the moment of seeing himself, Chen Xing obviously felt Gu Lang smiled a little, then he only saw Gu Lang slowly walked over, then shook the cloak he was holding in his hand and then draped it over his body.

 

“The night is cold, why don’t you put on more clothes before coming out?”

 

Listening to Gu Lang say that, Chen Xing felt a little bad, after sneezing, looked at the man in front of him, a little confused as he said, “Why are you here?”

 

Gu Lang looked around, looked at the traces of the fire, frowned lightly, looked down on Chen Xing’s confused eyes and slowly replied: “I heard a noise outside, and when I woke up, I couldn’t find you or Qiu Jiu, so I thought for a while, and thought that you should have come here, then I looked for you guys. Fortunately, my guess was right, you guys are really here.”

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