The History of the Empress of the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 97 The Arsonist
The magistrate smiled awkwardly, with beads of sweat dripping from his head, but he apologized and said with a smile: "That's natural, how can the Su family take a workshop seriously, let alone set fire for no reason, just listen to the manager's intentions, Do you know whose family the children burned to death belonged to?"

In fact, Liu Jiangong's mind is not bad, but he is too timid. Because of his timidity, he is always afraid of losing his official position by doing wrong things, so he dare not embezzle the law or offend people who are more powerful than him. Trembling.

Just like now, on the one hand, he was afraid of offending the Su family, and on the other hand, he was afraid that he would ruin his reputation by talking about it as soon as he took office, so he could only apologize while carefully showing that he cared about the people.

In just a moment, Ruojin had a thorough understanding of Liu Jiangong's behavior and speech. Of course, his appearance was very likely to be a disguise.

In any case, this Liu Jiangong is much easier to talk to than the previous Chen Weichang.

Ruojin thought of this, and the corner of the manager's mouth groaned, revealing a trace of contempt.

"Who knows those children? It is said that they are just a few orphans. We spent a few days with the young master of the Xiao family. We didn't let them leave for the sake of the young master. Who would have thought that we would even hook up with them?" This workshop!"

The manager was very smart, and with a few words, he pushed the responsibility for the fire to several children. Anyway, they had already been burned to death, and there was no proof of death.

And in this way, not only will the Su family be pushed clean, it will gain a good reputation for taking in orphans, and it will also sell a favor from the Andinghou Mansion, so even if the young master comes down from the mountain, he will not be able to say that the Su family is not. .

Ruojin squinted her eyes. She knew that although the Su family was domineering, they would never do such a thing. In the eyes of the Su family, a workshop was nothing more than a grain of sand. There is no reason to set fire again.

"The manager is right, it's just a pity for this workshop."

Liu Jiangong smiled apologetically while looking at the workshop that was about to be burned down. The fire was getting smaller and smaller, and now it was safe enough, so he ordered the yamen servants to go forward and fill it with soil.

"It doesn't matter if it's always burning. It's better to extinguish it first."

After Liu Jianwei said this, he saw that the supervisors did not object, so he carefully called everyone to fill in the soil.

The scene suddenly became chaotic, and the surrounding people also rushed to help.

The few in charge naturally dragged their hands like uncles, but they were also choked by the thick smoke, and they were about to leave, but they didn't want to hear a loud shout from over there:
"Catch him! Don't let him get away! He's the arsonist!"

Those who are familiar with this voice heard it as Erhu holding his throat, Ruojin laughed secretly, and led Duhu back out quietly.

As soon as he heard that it was the arsonist, Liu Jiangong naturally sent people to arrest him quickly, and the common people also chased and intercepted him, even the few managers of the Su family stopped.

From their point of view, the children must have caused the fire by accident. A murderer appeared out of nowhere. For fear of harming the Su family, they had better stay and watch.

When the arsonist was thrown ahead, some sharp-eyed people recognized him.

"Isn't this the son of the former prefect's family?"

"Bah, what ex, what son, they are long gone!"

"That's right, this Chen Datong was assigned, why is he still doing evil here?"

"How dare you be so arrogant after all the tigers have fallen into Pingyang! This Chen Datong will never change!"

"Kill him! Kill him!"

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(End of this chapter)