I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 37 A Family of Seven

The fire broke out in an old and dilapidated house in the east of the city. Lu Xizhi arrived in a carriage in about 10 minutes. Uncle Chen and the others walked away last night, which was not easy.

When Lu Xizhi got off the carriage, it seemed as if he could feel the raging fire last night. He ran around with the wind like crazy, devouring everything recklessly, and the red flames painted everything black. There was not much left of the fire, and the black residual wood was dumped here and there. The smoke hadn't cleared up yet, and a slight heat wave could still be felt coming a little closer.

Due to the remoteness of the location and the distance between fire prevention wells, apart from the house where the fire originated was completely burned down, the houses of the two families next door were also severely damaged, but there was basically no further damage to the surrounding area. What too much damage is done to the other houses.

However, this morning, when the last group of neighbors were doing the last flame inspection and preparing to leave the scene of the fire, they were horrified to find several corpses lying in the main house and the east wing.It may be that the night was dark and the fire was too fierce, so everyone rushed to put out the fire. Because they didn't hear any calls for help, they mistakenly thought that there was no one inside, so no one noticed that someone fell to the ground.

After the neighbor found the body, he immediately realized that something was wrong, so he notified the Yamen.

Qi Yong, Zhang Dong, Wen Yiming and Wang Yuanzhi arrived first, followed by Yuan Yanxi and his four guards.

This is the second time for Lu Xizhi to observe the fire scene at close range. In her previous life, when she first investigated the case of arson and dismemberment, the peculiar stench of rotten black charcoal lingered in her nose for several days, which is still fresh in her memory.

As soon as she got out of the car, she saw a lot of people outside the house more than ten meters away, but this time there were five or six men in black guarding the scene, which was much better than the last time the garbage pool was in order.

Lu Xizhi saw a red corner and black boots behind the broken tiles at a glance, and vaguely guessed who it was, and then looked in, and saw a person squatting on the ground working carefully, it should be Wang Yuanzhi.

She followed Dong Hai a few steps closer, and smelled a somewhat familiar strange smell, and subconsciously covered her mouth and nose with her hands.

Qi Yong saw the carriage approaching from a distance, and now he also walked to the gate of the house to greet him. At first glance at Lu Xizhi's attire, he was stunned for a moment, and when he saw it clearly, he was relieved, with a slightly solemn expression. Said in a low voice, "Miss Lu is here."

Yuan Yanxi turned around when she heard the sound.

Last time at the yamen, she was wearing a light pink dress, long to the floor, her slender waist bound by a peach-red cloud belt, showing a tight grip; her black hair was combed into a gorgeous bun, and there was a thin butterfly hairpin in her hair, with fluttering wings Glittering; the sun shone on Xinli's cheeks, making her dimples more delicate than flowers, and her round eyes were as bright as snow, quite scorching.

And that day when she was interrogating the murderer, her clothes fluttered in the wind, her voice was like an oriole, her face was indifferent, and she showed intelligence and self-confidence that did not match her age, which made him take a second look.

I saw her again today, she was dressed in a servant's uniform, her creamy skin had no makeup applied on her face, she was still fresh and charming, her eyes were as bright as water, but with a touch of alienation; her ten fingers were covering her nose, showing a faint dislike.

After all, it was a little girl's family, Yuan Yanxi couldn't help wondering, what kind of ability could Lu Xizhi, who can make Wang Yuanzhi, a self-confident and noble person, look up to him.

Just as Lu Xizhi was about to bow his knees to salute, when he lowered his head and saw that he was wearing trousers, he suddenly closed his legs, and bowed instead: "Mr. Yuan."

"Well, Wang Yuzuo is looking for you."

She was shocked at the moment, it turned out that Wang Yuanzhi asked her to come, she thought too much, she quickly thanked, and went to the gray clothes squatting on the ground busy.

It seemed that Wang Yu's basic evidence collection work was almost done, so Lu Xizhi lowered his body and asked him how the situation was.

Wang Yuanzhi seemed to have been squatting for a long time, and when he stood up, he staggered. Lu Xizhi quickly grabbed his arm and almost fell down.

Yuan Yanxi frowned watching this scene.

After Wang Yuanzhi stood up, he took off his gloves and squeezed the space between his brows, feeling very tired.Lu Xizhi could tell that he was in an extremely bad mood, so she kept silent and waited for him to calm down.

"There are only three rooms here, the west side is the kitchen, the main room has three adults dead, and the east side room..." Wang Yuanzhi was suppressing his anger.

Taking a deep breath, he continued, "Four of them died in the east wing, and two of them were children! They looked like children who were only one or two years old!"

He slammed the glove to the ground, walked to an open place, and kicked the rotten pillar corroded by the fire snake.

Lu Xizhi took a deep breath and controlled the same impulse as Wang Yuanzhi.

In the Miemen case, seven people died, including two older children.

Lu Xizhi suppressed the anger and heartache in his heart, walked to Wang Yuanzhi, and comforted him, "Yuanzhi, you also know the golden time to search for evidence in the arson case, otherwise you would not recommend me to Yuan Changgong. We must hurry up to find the murderer, for The dead avenge!"

Correct!
Wang Yuanzhi regained his strength, wiped his face, cleared his throat, and brought Lu Xizhi to the East Wing to start talking.

"This fire can basically be judged as intentional arson. The fire started not at the kitchen or the flammable points of candles, but on the ground around several corpses. There were still a lot of traces of kerosene, animal fat, and Combustible materials such as dead wood and dead grass, and the dry weather caused a huge fire. It can be seen that the murderer is determined to kill everyone alive. Several human bodies were severely burned, and their bodies were charred black, losing their basic external features , except for one of the babies, whose head and neck were not damaged by the fire, and the whole piece of white and tender skin can still be seen."

Following the direction of Wang Yuanzhi's finger, she saw that one of the corpses that seemed to be held in the arms of an adult did have a piece of white skin, which was even more shocking amidst the scorched blackness.

"Is the cause of death the fire?" Lu Xizhi asked.

"Probably not. The two children had obvious stab wounds on their necks. As for the others, although they are not completely sure, there are many suspected traumatic injuries on the body surface. The specific injuries need to be further examined in the yamen."

Since the murderer had already killed the person, why did he set such a big fire to attract the neighbors?
Lu Xizhi thought: It means that there is an important reason for the murderer to destroy the corpse.

Listening to Wang Yuanzhi's introduction, everyone's expressions were very heavy, because the situation in the room was too tragic.

The wing room was completely burned, and only the outlines of some piled wreckage could be vaguely seen. Four corpses lay down in a room less than [-] square meters. The slightly shorter one should be a woman. A baby, the lower body of the child was scorched by an adult, and its head was leaning against the wall, firmly protected by a woman. Apart from the scars and blood on the neck, part of the whole white and fat body could be seen faintly. The small face was stained with a few smears of ashes, as if asleep; the body of another child was curled up in the other corner not far from the two of them, and it was already scorched; the taller one was lying on the door On the side, half of the body is outside the door, and half is inside the room. The fingers of both hands are bent and digging on the ground. They should have been struggling to crawl out when they were alive.

"Let's go to the main house and have a look." Lu Xizhi said lightly with a lump in his throat.

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