Father, I really don’t want to be the emperor

"Take me to the fire scene immediately."

Ning Fan made a prompt decision.

When others thought it was just a small fire, Ning Fan had already smelled something different.

Just like the recent serial murders, some people do not want the imperial examination in Kyoto to be held smoothly and are making some small moves secretly.

If the target was a woman before, it was still to hide it, but now it has been revealed, and the target is finally targeted at students from other places who come to Beijing to take exams.

Unfortunately, no one present except Ning Fan thought these cases had political significance. Everyone thought they were just ordinary murders.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Guards have stepped up their investigation of these cases. As the Emperor, why do you need to do such small things yourself?"

Lei Zhen, who was standing aside, saw Ning Fan's anxious look, and immediately became confused. After all, as the emperor, Ning Fan had seen thousands of troops, and only a few people died. How could it cause Ning Fan to be so upset? What about the reaction?

Ning Fan took a deep look at Lei Zhen and did not explain much. Sometimes people need understanding. If he is forced to teach him, it is likely that this person will take a detour.

Just one look from Ning Fan made Lei Zhen feel overwhelmed, and he finally realized that something was not normal.

"Your Majesty, these are the clothes of the Jinyiwei. Please put them on."

Before leaving, Lei Zhen brought a set of clothes from Jinyiwei Baihu, embroidered spring knife and flying fish clothes. The brand new clothes fit perfectly.

Ning Fan didn't refuse, returned to the back room and put on the clothes again. Ning Fan, who had put on Xiuchundao and Feiyu uniform, looked heroic and heroic. Even the tall Lei Zhen and Ning Fan, standing together, were suppressed by Ning Fan's momentum.

Seeing Ning Fan coming out of your room, everyone in the room was shocked. Ning Fan's aura of being a noble person cannot be imitated by others. Everyone thought to themselves, this is indeed his destiny. Son of Heaven, mortals can’t even compare.

“Don’t go to too many people.”

Ning Fan just said something, then mounted his horse and hurried to Pinglin Inn.

The fire scene at the scene has not completely cleared the inn that has been burned to ruins, and has even spread to the shops on the street. The shops on both sides are still fighting the fire, and the scene is full of chaos.

Nearly seventy corpses were lined up in a row, covered with white cloth, and placed on the street. The smell of death made people look strong.

The shopkeeper's family was crying over there, but these out-of-town students had no one to look after them. After all, they had no relatives in the local area. They only had some classmates and friends standing in the distance and crying silently.

When everyone saw the Jin Yiwei coming, they all moved out of the way, while Ning Fan hid beside Lei Zhen in order to conceal his identity.

Ning Fan looked at the dozens of corpses lined up there, and his face was extremely solemn. He walked around the fire scene, judging the people around him with a vigilant eye.

Normally, the murderer would be hidden among the onlookers. Unfortunately, there were too many people around, and Ning Fan's brain was not a supercomputer, so he naturally could not accurately determine who the suspect was.

"No one ran out when the fire broke out. The fire was so fierce."

While crying, an aunt said that she had nothing to do with the deceased, but purely out of compassion and compassion.

The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. Ning Fan was filled with disbelief after hearing what Auntie said, because no matter how ferocious the fire was, it was impossible for it to spread all in an instant and trap everyone alive in the inn. Burn to death.

People are alive, but fire is dead. Even if the fire spreads quickly, a large number of people will run out of the fire scene. However, the fire at the Civilian Inn was very strange. No one ran out of the fire scene.

Ning Fan and Lei Zhen looked at each other and noticed something was wrong. As a Jin Yiwei, he had never been involved in such lawsuits for a long time, so he was naturally extremely vigilant. Ning Fan, on the other hand, judged purely from a modern person's perspective and felt that This is unlikely.

The most important thing when surveying a fire scene is to find the origin of the fire. However, the entire fire scene has been burned so much that it is beyond recognition. It is impossible to determine where the fire started.

However, Ning Fan searched back and forth in the charred ruins, and cooperated with the people around him to constantly clean up debris, and finally Ning Fan discovered two suspicious objects.

It was also a mysterious iron plate with a pattern of an animal head printed on it. This iron plate was shown to Lei Zhen, but Lei Zhen said he didn't recognize it or the origin of such a thing.

It looks like a token and a hand card. Ordinary people would not carry this kind of thing casually. Because there is a shortage of handicrafts in this era, it is difficult for ordinary people to own such well-made things.

In addition, traces of kerosene were found at the fire scene. Although the kerosene was burned out, the smell of kerosene spread in the fire scene could hardly escape people's noses.

"Someone should have set the fire on fire. That's why no one escaped. This is a bit unbelievable."

Lei Zhen whispered to Ning Fan.

Ning Fan looked indifferent. He first ordered Lei Zhen to seal off the kitchen of the inn, which was not completely burned down.

Then he asked the proprietress to start identifying the burnt corpses, mainly to identify whether the waiters and bosses in the inn were in the correct numbers and whether there were any escapees.

The proprietress does not usually live in this inn, but in another house on the back street. This inn is one of the boss's three properties. The boss's business is quite big, and he has opened two Inn, and also opened a cloth shop.

On weekdays, the landlady is mainly responsible for the business of the cloth shop, while the boss of the other inn runs both sides.

The corpse was burnt so badly that the surface of the corpse was completely charred. The landlady was a woman in her forties, and she still looked charming. She covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and tears fell heavily from her eyes. .

However, when the officer next to him lifted up the white cloth and saw the human tissue that had been burned into black charcoal, the landlady rolled her eyes in fear and fainted.

The people around him were talking a lot, and Ning Fan suddenly felt a lot of pressure, because he could hear some panic in the tone of the people around him.

"Send Jin Yiwei to lurk in major inns in the capital to secretly protect the students entering the capital. The food the students eat every day must be carefully inspected and must not be careless."

Before leaving, Ning Fan quietly gave Lei Zhen a few instructions.

In fact, Ning Fan already had a guess in his mind about the students who were burned to death. The reason why none of these people ran away was because they should have been dead or unconscious before the fire broke out.

As expected, Ning Fan's speculation was the same as Zuo's verification. Only the mouths and noses of these people were filled with black smoke, but no traces of fire smoke were found in the trachea.