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Yipin Medical Concubine Chapter 4

Yipin Medical Concubine Chapter 4

Chapter 4 The Cause of the Fire

On the second day, Shen Qianmo brought Lu Zhu and Madam Xu to the small courtyard that was on fire that day.

Shen Qianmo has lived in this small courtyard for more than ten years. Mrs. Xie died when she was three years old, and she was brought up by Mrs. Cui. Cui Shi originally harbored resentment towards Xie Shi, so naturally it is impossible to like the daughter she left behind. When Mrs. Shen was there, Mrs. Cui still restrained herself a bit, and her appearance was acceptable.

Since Mrs. Shen was disheartened and lived in seclusion in the Buddhist hall, after Mrs. Cui became the head of the Duke’s Mansion, she was directly thrown into the most remote place in the Duke’s Mansion. The deserted small courtyard was left to fend for itself.

After being burned, the small courtyard became more and more dilapidated, with traces of smoke and fire everywhere. Since the small courtyard was originally an unattended place, under Shen Qianmo’s instruction, Madam Xu deliberately kept people from entering or leaving, so the scene was not damaged much.

Before Shen Qianmo entered the burning room, she signaled for Luzhu and Mother Xu to put on their veils as well. Although several days have passed, there will still be some harmful gas and charcoal dust at the scene of the fire. If you don’t wear a veil, the nostrils and mouth will be filled with black smoke in a short time, which will hurt your body if you stay for a long time.

After the three were ready, they entered the room. Shen Qianmo quietly observed the surroundings of the room. To find the cause of the fire, it is necessary to first determine where the fire started, and to be precise, first determine the source of the fire. Shen Qianmo started from the less damaged outer room and inspected it carefully, not letting go of any corner. There is no way, there are no technical tools here, I can only rely on my own eyes.

Luzhu and Xu Nai watched quietly from the side, and suddenly felt that they had never seen such a young lady before, and the calm and wise light emanating from her eyes made her seem unreal. ”

Lv Zhu, you said you slept here that day, didn’t you?” Shen Qianmo asked after examining a small bed in the outer room.

“Yes, Miss.” Luzhu replied: “That day, the servant waited for the lady to lie down, and then slept here. For some reason, she fell asleep as soon as she lay down. When the servant woke up, she found that she was already outside.

At that time, the fire in the room was already very strong, and the servants searched everywhere but couldn’t find you, so they were wondering if the young lady was still in the room, and were about to rush in to look for it, when they saw the young lady come out of the room and collapsed at the door.”

In this way, someone must have tampered with it, otherwise Lu Zhu would have no reason to sleep so dead. Shen Qianmo looked carefully along the window sill, and suddenly found some white powder beside the window sill, which was not very conspicuous because it was mixed in the black smoke. She asked Green Bamboo to wrap the mixed white and black powder with a silk scarf, and then entered the room.

The inside is where Shen Qianmo sleeps. It’s not big, and there’s not much furniture. If you use two words to describe it, it’s “simple”. You can imagine how bleak Shen Qianmo’s life in the Duke’s Mansion was.

The original owner lived here for more than ten years without being loved by his mother or father, and he was able to grow up. I have to say that Madam Xu and Luzhu have contributed a lot. If it weren’t for the meticulous care and protection of the two, the original owner would not have grown up so smoothly. It’s a pity, after all, it was inevitable to be calculated. At the age of 18, she was supposed to marry into Rong Wang’s mansion and become the concubine of the crown prince. Even if she was not loved by the crown prince, at least she had a decent identity and status, so she died in a daze. It was really not ordinary!

Shen Qianmo felt distressed for the original owner’s misery, and she strengthened her belief that she must live a good life instead of the original owner. From now on, she will never be bullied again.

She scans along the wall. The government has declared the fire an accident. In ancient times, houses with wooden structures and candle oil lamps were frequently used, and accidents such as fires were very common. But Shen Qianmo didn’t think so. If the burning is caused by candles, etc., there will be smoldering at first, and then there will be open flames, but judging by the degree of burning here, this is not the case.

She noticed that an ink painting had fallen from the wall behind the dressing cabinet. This painting was painted by Mrs. Xie during his lifetime. It was the original owner’s favorite painting and had been hanging on the wall above.

Shen Qianmo picked up the painting on the ground. Only one corner of the painting was burnt, leaving most of the area unburned and showing no signs of smoke. The wooden frame of the painting is severely carbonized, with clear boundaries between the carbonized and non-carbonized parts, and the inclination is very straight, indicating that when the fire hit the painting, it was an open flame.

It should be that an open flame ignited the painting originally hung on the wall. After the painting was ignited, it was tilted due to force and fell from the wall into the gap between the dressing cabinet and the wall, causing it to go out completely without burning.

So where did this ignited fire come from? The dressing table was near the window, so she checked it, and sure enough, she found that it had been pried. In other words, someone pried open the window that night and threw an already lit open flame into the room, which happened to ignite the painting. After being ignited, the painting fell from the wall and happened to be caught in this gap, resulting in no The combustion is completely extinguished.

Unexpectedly, the painting left by Xie during his lifetime became the key to finding the truth about the fire. Shen Qianmo could only understand that it was Xie who had a spirit in heaven. It’s just that I understand these principles, but the people in the Duke’s Mansion don’t. How can I find out the arsonist?

She frowned slightly, the person who could set fire to the Duke’s mansion late at night must be someone from the mansion. With a change of mind, she came outside the window. Outside the window is a piece of mud, and the original owner planted some flowers and plants in his spare time. Looking at it this way, Shen Qianmo really found a pair of footprints, but they couldn’t be easily found because they were covered by the crabapple trees next to them.

Who is Shen Qianmo? She has been engaged in forensic forensic work for many years. She can tell at a glance that the pair of footprints are one deep and one shallow. It is obvious that the owner of this pair of footprints is a cripple. She asked Luzhu and Xumao: “Among the family servants in the mansion, is there anyone with a disabled leg?”

Luzhu and Xumao looked at each other for a while, and they thought of a person by coincidence, Zhao Sanhuai.

Zhao Sanhuai is the help cook in the mansion, and he only came to the Duke’s mansion for a few months, because he is usually polite to Lu Zhu and Madam Xu, unlike some servants who show embarrassment to them because of Shen Qianmo’s lack of power, so The two had a good impression of him. The two really didn’t expect that Zhao Sanhuai would be the one who set the fire.

“It’s true that you know people and faces but don’t know your heart.” Mother Xu sighed. Lvzhu was so angry that her teeth itch, but she usually called Zhao Sanhuai one by one when she saw Zhao Sanhuai, it was really disgusting.

It’s just that Zhao Sanhuai has no grievances with the girls, so why did he set fire to them? Lu Zhu had doubts in his heart.

Shen Qianmo and Nanny Xu looked at each other, thinking that the girl Lu Zhu is really naive. If it wasn’t for the master envoy behind him, Zhao Sanhuai, a servant who just came to the Duke’s mansion not long ago, set fire to the small courtyard where Shen Qianmo lived alone for no reason, what good would it be?

But who is this master messenger? Is it the Cui family or Shen Qianxue, or are the two conspiring together, or is it someone else? These Shen Qianmo can’t be verified for the time being, and now they can only start with this Zhao Sanhuai.

But even though Zhao Sanhuai is a subordinate, she is not her subordinate after all, and with Shen Qianmo’s strength in the mansion, there is no way to touch him, she needs someone to support her. At this time, she thought of Mrs. Shen.