A small peasant girl

Chapter 494 Accidental Fire
"It's on fire?" The master frowned when he heard this. Why did such a difficult thing happen to add to the chaos at a critical moment? There has been no fire in the town for a long time. "Quick, it's important to save people. Everyone quickly bring the barrels and gather in the north of Zhenbei."

The master wants to catch Mrs. Tang immediately, but the fire is related to the lives of many people. If it is not handled properly, a large area of ​​houses will be burned, and it will be a headache to deal with it.

But Mrs. Tang didn't know that the yamen had suspected her, and she didn't know that she had become the number one criminal in the yamen's eyes, and there was no chance of escaping for a while.

A group of yamen servants, holding buckets in their hands, ran towards the north of the town like the wind, and the master also trotted behind them.

When we arrived at the fire site, all kinds of people came to put out the fire. Some people seemed to rescue the people trapped inside, while ordinary people were worried that the fire would not be controlled and would affect the surrounding houses.

No matter what kind of thoughts they have, their unified approach is to carry buckets, pour water towards the burning room, and run back and forth one after another. Very few people will stand aside and watch the excitement.

"Come on, you all form up and pass the buckets one by one." The master's method is simple and wise. He uses the method of solitaire, asking the servant standing by the well to pass the water to the next servant, and so on. It saves the time of running back and forth in the middle, and the efficiency is much faster than lifting water back and forth alone.

The common people around saw that the master was commanding in an orderly manner, so they gradually formed the whole formation in the way of solitaire. It proved that imitation is the nature of human beings.

Everyone collected firewood and made high flames. With everyone's concerted efforts, the fire was finally extinguished, but the house was burned so badly that it couldn't see its original shape.

"Master, the contents inside have basically been burned, and two charred bodies were found." The government servant who surveyed the scene told the analysis results to the supreme commander present.

"Well, go and find out the owner of this house and the specific situation of the charred corpse." The master felt a little regretful that this kind of thing happened within his jurisdiction, but the accident had already happened, and he could only work hard in his future work. It is better to do the essential work better.

The master followed the yamen servant into the smoking room. The door, windows, tables and chairs had been burned to black charcoal. He carefully looked at the two charred corpses lying on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Master, according to the people around, the people who burned to death in the house should be an old couple. Among them, the dead woman was a well-known midwife in the town. Everyone called her Mrs. Tang. The man was Mrs. Tang's man. It's business, and I live on the income from Mrs. Tang's delivery." The yamen servant told the teacher one by one the news he had found out, and when the county master was not present, the teacher was the biggest official in the yamen.

"What do you say is the name of the dead woman?" The master was looking at the corpses on the ground, but when he heard three sensitive words, he immediately turned his head and stared at the yamen servant and asked, "Quickly, what is the name of one of the dead?"

"If you go back to the master, the midwife will be called Mrs. Tang by the people around." The yamen servant was a little unsteady under the watchful eyes of the master, and wondered in his heart whether this midwife had some kind of invisible relationship with the master.

But the yamen servant thought about it again, the age of the master and Mrs. Tang was not right, but the yamen servant could only keep these words in his heart, otherwise who would have the guts to gossip about the master and Mrs. Tang.

(End of this chapter)