Exquisite ingenuity

Chapter 286 Arson
The anger he had accumulated for several days had reached its peak at this moment.

It was because she wanted to save Jiaojiao's face and save the Zhao family's life.

But Zhao Chengjiao has been dead for too long!The kindness that she had helped him back then has also disappeared in the long years!
He was already certain at this time that Zhao Jinyi was just faking his fainting, and it was all a cover that he was shot unconscious that day!Like Zhao Chengjiao, Zhao Jinyi is a cunning little fox!

Chunguang Pavilion naturally found out where Linglong Bookstore was.

Zhao Jinyi's whereabouts were generally found out. Before dark, a clerk at the wonton shop not far from Linglong Bookstore watched a carriage drive into the deep alley with his own eyes.The driver was not Changchun, Zhao Jinyi's servant.

Xu Sui led a group of subordinates into the deep alley without making a sound.

Going forward, there is Linglong Bookstore.

His subordinates were well-trained, and with a wave of his hand, several swiftly climbed up to the top of the wall, climbed over the wall and landed in the courtyard, opened the gate silently, and Xu Sui swaggered in.

The door of the room was wide open and the lights were bright, but it was quiet, as if everyone was buried in writing those angry articles.

Thinking of the tabloid he read today, Xuan Sui became furious.

The subordinates saw his expression, rushed in without waiting for orders, but rushed out again quickly: "Master, there is no one!"

"Search for me!"

The house is not big, and the men searched inside and out several times, but there was no one.

Sui didn't believe in evil, and went in by herself, only to see a mountain of books piled up on the desk inside, but there were no people.

Now when he saw those books, he became very angry, and immediately said: "Set fire to me, burn them all!"

The subordinates hesitated: "Master, this is not good. The government has been very strict recently." In the capital, most of the houses are made of wood, and the houses are continuous. This fire may bring harm to innocent people. .

Xuan then scolded: "Idiots, wouldn't you move those books to the yard and burn them?"

The subordinates groaned, and hurried to move the books.

After only moving a part of the books, Xuan Sui couldn't wait, blew on the fire folder by himself, and threw it directly into the book.

They were all books, and the fire spread quickly, and a raging fire was ignited in an instant.

Seeing the flames soaring into the sky, Xu Sui felt a little more at ease.Suddenly, the sound of gongs and drums was heard outside, and someone shouted: "The water is gone, the water is gone!"

Sui Sui was startled, stood in the yard and looked outside, only to see that not far from here, there was actually a watchtower of the diving team!He cursed secretly in his heart, good Zhao Jinyi!

The subordinate was holding the book, and panicked when he heard the movement: "Master, what should I do?"

At this time, King Yong, who obeyed his advice, was not yet the emperor, and he could not walk sideways in the capital.Xuan then calmed down: "Put out the fire."

The fire was not too big, and it took some effort for the men to extinguish the fire.

Just barely stopped, the door was knocked loudly: "Scuba Fire Team!"

The subordinates went to open the door, and Sui stood in the corridor, and saw the ladder erected outside the wall, and the people from the fire diving team had already climbed onto the wall, staring at him with several pairs of eyes: "Hey, are you alright?!"

Xuan Sui: "...What a treacherous Zhao Jinyi!" Now that he was discovered by the submerged fire team, he could no longer hide, so he had to come out to deal with it.

In the blink of an eye, not only the members of the submerged fire team came, but also Li Zheng, who squinted his eyes and looked at Sui Sui: "The old man looks at you a little strangely, you don't look like someone who lives here. You live here , but you don’t look like a few impoverished scholars who have no power to restrain their chickens. By the way, where are those scholars? But where are they?”

At this time, someone pushed the crowd away in a panic, holding a jug of wine in his hand: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, we were happy today, so we went out for a drink. What happened?"

Lizheng pointed to Sui Sui: "Do you recognize this person?"

The frail scholar who smelled of alcohol squinted his eyes and looked at Xuan Sui: "Yes, he is the owner of the famous Chunguang Pavilion, Chu Sui's younger brother. A few days ago, he came to our house and said he wanted to buy it from us. Some books, but the price was too low, we didn't agree... hiccup!"

Although he didn't finish his words, everyone suddenly realized.This is because the business can't be done, so he broke into the door while he was away, and wanted to burn his books!
Not only Zhao Jinyi is treacherous, but even her subordinates exude a cunning temperament inside and out.

A smile appeared on Chu Sui's face: "Everyone misunderstood, I just visited again and wanted to discuss the price with them again. Seeing that there was water here, I rushed in to put out the fire."

The captain of the diving team quickly testified: "When we just came, this door was closed."

Chu Sui calmly said, "That's true. In my desperation, I climbed the wall to get in."

He was well-dressed, with the air of a son of an aristocratic family. After all, he was Taifu Chu's own younger brother, and he was still the owner of Chunguang Pavilion. Li Zheng turned his questioning eyes on the scholar again.

The scholar was dizzy, but his words were not dizzy: "Before we left, this book was well placed in the house. When shopkeeper Chu came, this book ran into the yard."

Chu Sui tried his best to calm himself down: "Brother He Xian, these books caught fire, and I ordered my subordinates to rush in and throw them out. The books in your house are piled up like a mountain. If the fire spreads, it will be terrible. "

Li Zheng obviously wanted to calm things down: "Okay, okay, since there is nothing wrong, let's leave."

After all, he was the son of an official family, and the Submarine Fire Team didn't want to cause too much trouble, so they immediately packed up their belongings and left in a mighty manner.

The crowd dispersed, and as for the three drunken-eyed scholars, they sat cross-legged on the ground with wine jugs in their hands: "Brother Chu, hurry up and count, what books have been burned for us, so that we can settle accounts."

Chu Sui's face was ugly.The accountant just complained to him today, and the book boy gave those beggars fifty pennies out of nowhere.From the opening of Chunguang Pavilion to the present, he has not made a single penny, and fifty crowns is his private house!

Some of the subordinates who had been hidden just now rushed out one after another. Dayou Chu gave an order and rushed forward to tear up several scholars.

The gate of the courtyard is not closed, there are a few good things, looking outside the gate.

Chu Sui was able to bend and stretch, and immediately took out his purse from his sleeve: "Brother He Xian, please make an offer."

The scholar, who was still drunk just now, suddenly had his eyes lit up, walked quickly to the pile of books that had been burned beyond recognition, and casually picked and said, "These books are my treasures that I have been waiting for for many years, but there are many rare copies!"

The other two scholars sang together: "In recent years, many people have paid a very high price to buy them, and we have refused to do so! But I didn't expect them to be buried in the sea of ​​fire today!"

Chu Sui's face twitched.

Outside, the door frame was being pulled at the door, and a few pairs of eyes were watching the situation inside.

Chu Sui couldn't get up or down, choked up uncomfortable: "Brother He Xian just talks about how much money it is."

The drunken scholar choked up: "This book is a rare book from the previous dynasties. It is priceless... This book is a rare book from the previous dynasties. At least it is worth a hundred and eighty pennies..."

Chu Sui winked at his subordinates, who understood, and were about to close the courtyard door, when suddenly the scholar waved: "Feng Butcher, Tofu Zhang, Sugar Man Li, please come in and be a witness for us."

The few people who were still holding on to the door frame came in suddenly, with smiles like chrysanthemums on their faces: "It's easy to talk about."

Chu Sui was not taken advantage of, and immediately said: "Whether it is a rare copy or not, and how much it is worth, Brother He Xian said it can't be counted. Why don't you invite a famous middleman to appraise whether it is, and I will appraise it one or two."

"Okay! He heard that Master Chu's elder brother, Chu Taifu, is the head of the great Confucian scholars in the capital. We don't fear that Chu Taifu will turn to the shopkeeper Chu. How about asking Chu Taifu to appraise it?"

(End of this chapter)