Chapter 1163: Fire Starts, Wind and Clouds Change

The weather is dry and hot!

In the middle of the night, a fire started in the south of the city, the fire was fierce, connecting into a piece.

Major offices sent people one after another, heading to the south of the city to put out the fire and save people!

"The sky is dry and the things are dry, it's unavoidable!"

"It hasn't rained for a long time."

"Heard that many refugees gathered outside the city! The imperial court doesn't care."

Jailers climbed the arrow tower one after another, looking south, discussing.

The fire was very big, so big that half the sky was reflected red. With such a big fire, don't know how many people will die.

"Drought everywhere this year! Could this be an ominous sign."

"Don't scare yourself."

"Water has increased in price. A bucket of water, one more penny. If this continues, water will still increase in price."

Not everyone lives in a place with a water well.

Not every water well can hit sweet well water.

The capital has always had a tradition of buying and selling water. Small households in the capital mostly buy water to satisfy the family's eating, drinking, and defecating.

The Chen clan, relying on the Hou Fu, the territory occupied, is a good location in the capital with wind and water. There is a water well, and the well water is sweet. Chen Guanlou has never had the experience of buying water to drink, naturally not knowing about the price increase of water.

Heavenly Prison side, he doesn't need to worry about drinking water. Nearby are offices, needless to say, it must be a good place in the capital. Hit it, and you can hit a well.

Recently because of the drought, the well water level has dropped, he knows this. But it's far from the point of lacking water. The major lakes and major rivers in the capital are not dry.

Estimated mainly because of the lack of irrigation water, causing the failure of agricultural products. As for places outside the capital, don't know.

"With such a big fire, didn't anyone discover it at the beginning?"

"How can the fire spread to this extent. What are the soldiers and horses division and the capital magistrate eating."

Looking at the fire in the distance, there was still no sign of being extinguished, the sky was burned red, everyone was worried. Worried that the fire would get out of control and burn to their own houses.

Chen Guanlou is not worried that the fire will burn to his own house, he is very suspicious, how did this fire start.

Because the sky is dry and things are dry, the major offices knock on gongs and drums every day to promote fire prevention knowledge, every street has prepared fire prevention equipment, prepared big water vats. The night watchmen are also told to pay special attention to the fire at night.

It can be said that the capital has done fire prevention in every aspect, leaving no dead ends. The office is definitely responsible.

Just this, it can still burn, burning through half the sky. Could it be that the night watchmen all slept to death, the office people all slept to death, the neighbors of the street where the fire started all slept to death? Those big water vats didn't come in handy?

The jailers looked south, looked and looked, from the third watch to the east spitting white, looked until the sun jumped out from the east, the fire was finally extinguished.

The sky burned all night, after the sun came out, it was blue and blue, blue to the heart.

Looking at the sky, no one dared to believe that the sky was burned through last night.

Many people in the capital, couldn't care about going to work, went to the fire scene one after another.

People died!

Many people died.

Rows of corpses were piled up on the side of the street.

Timid people cried loudly in fear.

Bold people, hands itchy ran to lift the straw mat, wow a scream. Immediately after, they were beaten with three sticks by the yamen runner.

Hot weather, although it was early morning, the yamen runners who were busy all night were full of anger. Their faces were pulled like coffin boards. Someone wanted to get close, to inquire about some inside news, and was scolded back as soon as they opened their mouths.

If it were in the past, it would never be like this.

Major office officials came to the scene one after another, all with solemn expressions.

Soldiers and horses division, capital magistrate, Embroidered Uniform Guard, Censorate, Ministry of Justice... and the local county magistrate who was a foil, sooner or later would have their black gauze hats removed.

The agents of the Brocade Uniform Guard, the agents of the Six Sects, and the agents of the Grand Court of Revision were all busy investigating the scene. The coroners were busy examining the corpses.

The Censorate also had ruthless people, good at criminal names, regardless of their own identity and safety, deep into the scene to investigate the truth.

"So many people died, what to do?"

"Only report the situation to the palace truthfully."

"This this this..."

"The palace already knows about this, people came from the palace early in the morning to ask about the situation. The Embroidered Uniform Guard also appeared at the scene, you all should understand, don't think about pushing it off, what it is, it is. Honestly, maybe you can save your life. Play clever, be careful of losing your head."

"How did this fire start, it's not clear yet. Asked a few parties involved, all said they didn't see the fire."

"Without accidents, it must be man-made. It must be someone deliberately setting fire."

"Stop talking nonsense. Before the investigation has results, don't easily draw conclusions. What His Majesty wants is a definite result, not random guessing."

"The Political Affairs Hall sent people to ask about the situation, everyone, who will deal with it?"

"Not good, not good, the capital camp mobilized by His Majesty. If this matter is not handled as soon as possible, I'm afraid there will be unbearable consequences."

"What's going on, why would His Majesty mobilize the capital camp? Absurd! It's just a fire, why to this extent!"

Officials discussed one after another, guessed one after another, but had no answers.

Politically sensitive people have realized that this is no longer a simple fire. This accident has risen to the officialdom, risen to the imperial court, risen to the imperial palace... even involving the Pingjiang Marquis far in the Northwest, who couldn't escape being implicated.

Everyone was worried, and for a time, they had no intention of dealing with the fire.

However, the cause of the matter is the fire, and if they want to solve their own crisis, they can only start from the fire.

Chen Guanlou looked at the scene, he is not a professional, can't see the doorway. The scene situation is very tragic, impacting people's vision and emotions. After watching for half an hour, he hurried away.

Originally thought this matter had nothing to do with him.

Didn't expect that after a day, Sun Daojing actually secretly sent someone to invite him, asking him to go to the painting boat to drink after work.

The first time to eat Old Sun's flower wine, really rare.

Must go!

After work, changed into a decent dress, arrived on time.

Sun Daojing was very stingy, wrapped an inconspicuous painting boat, even the serving servants were old.

"Old Sun, why bother? Want to find a place to talk, there are plenty in the capital. Why do you have to wrong yourself, drinking in this small broken boat. At least you are one of the six ministry heavenly officials, how to this extent."

Chen Guanlou started to tease as soon as he entered the boat cabin.

Compared with the painting boat he usually consumes, it is at least three or five grades worse. This broken boat is more in line with the temperament of a down-and-out scholar, not in line with his nouveau riche temperament.

Sun Daojing couldn't be bothered to refute him, reached out to greet, let him sit down and drink.

"Old Sun, you have something to worry about!"

"My worries, you know clearly, why ask knowingly."

"I don't know." Chen Guanlou drank wine, denying it. He is not the roundworm in the other party's stomach, clear a fart! ===== CHAPTER 1164 =====