Chapter 748 (1/2)

Since it's dark investigation, Nalan night won't come aboveboard.

Using the secret channel of the dark night hall, he shortened the originally fastest ten day journey to six days, and had arrived at Lingxi, the main city of Beijun. There were not many people around. Except Yuan Xing and Xu Wei, there were only four soldiers.

It was already dark. Nalan was wearing black clothes and a black cloak, and rode slowly on the horse. But no one could recognize his identity. He wore a thin mask on his face, which covered his firm and handsome appearance and looked ordinary.

At his feet were flat and clean bluestone slabs, and there was no blood at all, which was very different from when he left a few months ago. Returning to Lingxi City, Nalan night looked around at random and felt a little.

This once the capital city of North Vietnam, Mingyang City, has now become the Lingxi city of Western Chu. However, in just a few months, things have changed greatly.

The leveled and open streets lead straight to the front. Even at night, there are rows of shops on both sides, highlighting the prosperity of the day. Some shops carry a lamp in front of them, which penetrates far in the dark, and the cloth cover floats back and forth in the wind, making a loud sound.

The horse's hooves are crisp and slow, walking without a foot. Nalan walks through Lingxi city at night and looks at it at will. Yuan Xing and Xu Wei followed him without speaking. They quietly looked around and were alert to all possible changes.

With a deep pupil, Nalan night stood at the corner of the street and looked at the tall building in the distance ahead - the city master's house.

This time I came to Lingxi in Beijun to find out what was involved between the sheriff Guan Hou and Nangong Waner, the third princess, and what was specifically planned. If it is a small mischief, even if he dies and loses some money, he will not interfere and has no interest in management. But if something serious is involved, he will have to intervene.

There is a kind of ominous premonition. The mountain rain is coming. Nalan night stands in the night and hasn't moved for a long time.

”Lord, do you want to go down and explore the city master's house at night?”

Seeing that he had been standing still, Yuan Xing thought Nalan night was hesitating. At that moment, he asked aloud, ”we're here secretly. The governor will never find anything. Maybe we can find it at night...”

Before he finished speaking, a faint voice came from a distant place. When he listened carefully, someone shouted, ”let's go - let's go - come on!”

For a moment, there was a fire in the dark sky, and it was bright around the seal. Xu Wei blurted out: ”Lord, the fire is so fierce! I'm afraid something's wrong!”

When the corner of his lips was hooked, Nalan night waved his cloak and opened his thin lips: ”go and have a look.”

The horseshoe got it, but in a moment, the party had reached the street where the fire broke out.

Even though there are dozens of feet apart, there are already countless people around. It is obvious that they were awakened at night to put out the fire. The crowd is surrounded by three floors inside and outside. Some want to put out the fire but can't rush in, some cry, some talk, point to the burning house and shock their faces

”Get out of the way, get out of the way, don't block it, put out the fire, what are you doing?”

”My house... My goods... God, who killed thousands of knives set fire...”

”You see, the fire is burning so fast and so fierce. It has burned more than ten rooms at least. Do you smell it? There is a smell of fire oil... Someone must have set fire on purpose!”

”What nonsense? Don't you know how to put out the fire? You're in the way. Don't you see? How dare you pedal me?”

”Ah... God, why did you burn my house! I don't want to live...”

All kinds of messy voices mixed together, and I couldn't hear what was going on. You pushed me and squeezed me in the crowd, the crying of children, the curse of adults... In the chaos, there were even people fishing in troubled waters, taking the opportunity to steal money and shuttling around the crowd, and no one noticed at all.

Looking at the sky burning fire, Nalan night and his party did not approach, but looked at it from a distance. The smell in the air was so special that he would not miss it. The fire in front of him was deliberately caused by someone, but when he first arrived, he didn't know why these people wanted to make a fire.

”My Lord, this is a rich merchant's house. Because of the problems of northern Vietnam and Western Chu some time ago, the whole family didn't know where to escape, and the house has been empty. But recently it seems that...” Xu Wei quickly said what he heard, and whispered, ”why don't you go down and check, just in case...”

”Not for the time being. Just look.” Nalan said faintly at night.

As long as it is not proved that the matter has something to do with the purpose of his trip, he doesn't intend to do much. Whether it's gratitude or hatred, there are too many murders and arsons. He's not surprised. If he has to manage everything, he doesn't have so much time and energy.

Suddenly, a woman passed in front of him, and Nalan night's eyes moved.

This woman... Even emits a faint smell of kerosene. If he didn't have a good sense of smell, I'm afraid he would confuse this special taste with the burning smell in the air.

There was something flashed in his mind. Nalan looked at the woman at night and looked around at the burning buildings. His face was panic. He was almost the same as the ordinary people around him. There was no flaw at all.

But her eyes were not afraid, but had a complicated look.

The woman was naturally long Ning. Looking at the burning fire and the crowd fighting the fire in the street, she was crying, frightened and confused. She felt guilty and could not bear it. If she and her father hadn't set the fire and poured fire oil on purpose, how could it cause such a big panic?

Her eyes turned. Long Ning did this for the first time. Her inner burden and pressure were like a mountain. Even if she had been prepared, she couldn't help lifting her heart when she saw the crying women and children and the innocent people who were burned.