delicious little cook

Chapter 596 Where did the suspect go?

"Yes, yes, we are very careful about fire prevention when we run a restaurant. We won't leave candles in the restaurant after closing, so outsiders must have touched it and set the fire. Our night watchman was injured trying to put out the fire." Wang Jiang Lou's buddy echoed.

"Where is the fire?"

"I don't know, I was sent by my boss to report to the mansion without even seeing the scene clearly."

"Where does the gatekeeper rest at night? How do you lock the gate?"

"The gate is locked from the inside, then go out through the back door and leave through the small door in the backyard."

The guy led everyone back to the gate. The door was made of old wood, which was deformed under the high temperature but not broken.

"Where is the caretaker's cottage?"

"The gatekeeper's hut is actually a small room behind the counter, where the shopkeeper rests during the day and the gatekeeper rests at night."

"Shared? Where do you put the ledger and money?" Bai Kou raised her eyebrows.

"The shopkeeper brings it with him every day, instead of putting it in the restaurant, because he is afraid that if one day the water leaks and affects the account books and money, then our Wangjiang Tower will really collapse."

Everyone looked at the original position of the counter. There were only a few burnt wooden boards left in a mess, and the wall of the hut was also charred black. Bai Kou went over to take a look, and the room was not affected too much, and it was obviously not the place where the fire started.

"Where is the back door? Show me the back."

"This way please, just bypass this screen."

The stairs on the first floor of Wangjiang Building are in the middle of the hall, and they are built like a bridge on the left and right corridors of the second floor. The screen placed just can block the sight of the guests who enter the door, so that they will not see the backyard directly at a glance. By the way, it can also block the draft, and also play a decorative role, killing three birds with one stone.

The screen is also solid, inlaid with porcelain plate paintings, and the wood is also high-quality hardwood, which is blackened and cracked after being burned, but it still stands firmly.

But when everyone walked around the screen and stood in front of the back door, they found that the door panels here were all burnt out, and the threshold under their feet was turned into a long strip of charcoal. Severely burned scenes, all let out a long moan clearly.

"Oh, this is where the fire started."

"So this is an outsider who entered the backyard and lit the fire at the back door?"

"Who is responsible for locking the backyard door? Lock the inside or the outside? How did the arsonist get in? Over the wall?" Huang Bin ran out of the door curiously, looked around the yard, and then ran back to answer the question he had raised. "The fence is very high. To turn it over, you have to build a ladder, or at least two people build a human ladder."

"The doors are all bolted from the inside. After closing, everyone locks the front door first, and goes home from the backyard door. The gatekeeper bolts the courtyard door from the inside. When he comes back here, he bolts the back door again, and then he goes to the hut to rest."

"That is to say, with this arrangement, if someone really came in through the wall in the backyard in the middle of the night, he would actually not be able to hear it at all?"

There was an embarrassed expression on the guy's face, "Well, yes, but we don't have anything valuable in our backyard or kitchen."

"Not necessarily, Wangjianglou has good food and wine, but no valuables? Where is the wine cellar?"

The guy was startled, and hurried out, "In the courtyard!"

Everyone followed and saw that there was a huge rain shed in the courtyard. A shallow countertop was built under the shed, half of which was used for stacking firewood, and the other half was a cellar door. With a natural waterproof platform, the sewage and rainwater in the yard will not wet the firewood or flow into the cellar to spoil the fine wine.

The man rushed to the cellar to have a look, and he slapped his legs anxiously, "Oh, the lock was picked! Could it be that he really came to steal the wine?"

"Go down and have a look, don't worry about us."

Bai Kou quickly suggested, watching thoughtfully as the man went to the kitchen to light a lantern, then came back to open the cellar door, walked down the steps carefully, and went down to count the wine jars.

The boys looked around curiously, at this time Gu Yun finished talking with his boss, and the old and the young came in side by side to look for them.

"As expected, you are here, have you seen enough? Don't interfere with the boss's work, he still has to take stock of the losses." Gu Yun was speaking to his brothers, and he looked at Bai Kou, so he knew that she was the most curious.

"It's the first time I saw the scene of the fire, so I have to watch it for a while." Bai Kou turned around and left, not listening to Gu Yun at all.

"Hey?!" Gu Yun grabbed Bai Kou's wrist without thinking, "Don't be naughty."

Bai Kou was staggered by Gu Yun, just as he stood firm, his gaze happened to be on the outer wall of the restaurant's back door.

"Huh? Wall!"

"Did you find any suspicious points?" Everyone immediately looked at the wall in unison.

Bai Kou looked back at the cellar where the wine was kept, threw off Gu Yun's hand suddenly, ran into the restaurant, looked back and forth at the back door, and ran out quickly to his old club.

"Where is the janitor now?"

"He should be in the hospital, he's burned."

"Are your hands hurt the most?"

"That's right, because he put out the fire."

"Wrong! He set the fire! The fire started on the inside of the door. Your doors are all bolted from the inside. Outsiders can only start the fire from outside the door. But look at the outer wall, there is no fire at all." It is burning badly inside! Even if he is not an arsonist, he must be involved, go and arrest him!"

"My God!"

The old boss swayed, his face turned pale, Gu Yun hurriedly supported him, while Huang Bin had already run outside.

"I'm going to call someone!"

Like a nimble little monkey, Huang Bin rushed outside, calling the staff of Wangjianglou who were squatting in the corner to enjoy the shade and didn't know what to do in the future, and told them to go to the medical center to find their gatekeeper. It was him. set fire.

All the fellows were stunned, some rushed to the medical hall, some called for Marquis Wu and the Yamen servants, they stayed nearby, and the shopkeeper talked with them, discussing what to do next. According to the latest information, immediately send someone to seal the four doors to prevent the gatekeeper from escaping.

And the guy who was counting the wine jars in the cellar hurried back to the ground and told the owner that there were a few jars of wine missing. After rushing back, seeing his boss's scary appearance, he hurried to the kitchen to get a stool and put it in the shade for him to sit on.

"By the way, where's your empty wine jar?" Gu Yun suddenly thought of something and asked the guy.

"It's all piled up under the wall."

"Do you remember how many jars of wine you drank yesterday? Hurry up and count the empty jars. If there are too many jars, the arsonist must have poured wine to ignite the fire, and that's why they broke into the cellar."

"Oh oh oh!"

The buddy hurriedly went to count the empty wine jars, and ran back after a while, his eyes were red, and he was already burning with anger.

(End of this chapter)