After the system ran, I took off with my family

"The officers and soldiers are here!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, breaking the stalemate between the two sides.

Everyone turned around to look at the shore, and saw the prefect's second son Tang Yunci and He Tongpan, who was dressed in a vermilion official uniform, leading a team of officers and soldiers hurriedly coming to the shore. After requisitioning several boats, they slowly approached the center of the river.

"Greetings, Lord Tongpan!" People on the pleasure boat and the flower boat shouted in unison.

He Tongpan, who jumped onto the pleasure boat with Tang Yunci, stopped and signaled everyone to stand up. Then he looked at the two pleasure boats that had been burned beyond recognition and was frightened for a moment.

Just as he was about to ask, the leading servant of the Jiang family quickly walked up to He Tongpan, bowed and saluted, and said urgently: "Master Tongpan, please save my young master!"

He Tongpan squinted his eyes and looked at the servant in front of him. He felt that he looked familiar, so he asked curiously, "Which mansion are you from? Who is your eldest master?"

The servant straightened his back upon hearing this and replied in a clear voice, "Your Excellency, I am Jiang Shun, a servant of the Tongzhifu. I am the eldest son of the Tongzhifu and the eldest grandson of the Imperial Tutor Jiang in the capital. I am the personal servant of the eldest young master of the Jiang family."

"What? Your young master is Young Master Jiang? Was he also on the burning pleasure boat?" When Pan He heard that the son of the Tongzhi was missing, he was so shocked that his voice rose.

Jiang Shun wiped his eyes with his sleeve, his voice choked.

"Yes, but when the pleasure boat caught fire just now, I saw the young master fall into the water in the chaos, so please send someone to search the river as soon as possible. It has been so long, I am afraid that my young master..."

"This...this..." Judge He Tong began to sweat on his forehead. He turned to his subordinates behind him and said urgently, "Wang Santong, take some people who are good at swimming to search carefully in the water. Zhang Quan, take people to search carefully along the river bank! Quick!"

"Yes!"

Soon, the soldiers began to search carefully in the water and along the river bank.

Tang Yunci looked at the people on the boat, then stood next to Lin Shuyan unintentionally, looking at the river and whispered, "Ah Yan, don't make any noise later. This matter involves the Jiang family, so I'm afraid there will be some trouble."

Lin Shuyan shook his head helplessly and lowered his voice and said, "We have already had a dispute with the servants of the Jiang family. We can't avoid it. Yun Ci, stay away from us, so as not to implicate you."

Although Uncle Tang's official rank is higher than Jiang Yi's father, the power of the Jiang family in the capital cannot be underestimated. The local government and the power of the capital are simply like an egg against a rock, so he cannot drag the Tang family into the water.

After hearing his words, Tang Yunci did not say anything else, but just clenched his hands behind his back, then stepped in front of Lin Shuyan, blocking him and Lin Shuyue behind him.

Seeing this, Lin Shuyan didn't try to persuade them anymore. Since that was the case, they could face it together.

On the water surface, soldiers would occasionally stick their heads out to breathe, but as time went by, the soldiers still found nothing.

He Tongpan looked at the water with a bitter expression and sighed in his heart. If something really happened to Young Master Jiang, how would he explain to Jiang Tongzhi?

Also, will the Jiang family in Beijing vent their anger on him? Is there any hope for him to be transferred back to Beijing after his term expires next year?

He looked around and saw many wet and frightened people on the terraces of other pleasure boats. He guessed that they must be the people who had just escaped from the two burning pleasure boats.

After calming himself down, he asked with a serious face, "Except for Young Master Jiang, what are the casualties of other personnel? Also, how could such a big fire start out of nowhere?"

A young man dressed as a scholar stepped forward and replied, "Your Excellency, except for Young Master Jiang who is missing, all the others who fell into the water have been rescued. As for whether there are other casualties, we don't know yet.

You have to ask the people who escaped from the two pleasure boats about the cause of the fire. We don’t know.”

Hearing this, Judge He stroked his short beard and looked at Jiang Shun. "Jiang Shun, you were also on that pleasure boat at the time. Do you know what happened?"

Jiang Shun thought for a moment, shook his head, and whispered: "My Lord, I was serving my young master on the terrace when I heard someone shouting that there was a fire.

Then we saw flames coming out of the cabin and thick smoke pouring out of the cabin door. There was a panic on the terrace, and in the panic, I and my young master fell into the water together. "

"So the fire started in the cabin?"

He Tongpan frowned and thought for a moment, then ordered the remaining soldiers: "Go and count the casualties, and ask those who were rescued if they know the cause of the fire."

"Yes!"

After receiving the order, the remaining soldiers dispersed and began to interrogate the rescued princes or servants.

Thinking of something, Judge He narrowed his eyes and looked at the three flower boats. He glanced at the pale-faced flower fairies and asked sternly, "Is the owner of the flower boat here?"

After a while, Yu Niang walked out of the middle flower boat, stood on the terrace and bowed tremblingly to He Tongpan.

"Mrs. Yu greets the judge!"

"Yu Niang?" He Tongpan looked up and down at the still charming Yu Niang and continued to ask, "Are you in charge of the Baihua Cruise this year? Where is your boss?"

Yu Niang felt relieved when she heard his tone become kinder, and said in a tender voice, "Your Excellency, this year's Hundred Flowers Cruise is jointly organized by Yulüfang and Qingyinfang.

Yu Niang was fortunate to be valued by the two masters, and was entrusted with the management of this year's Baihua Cruise, but she never expected such a thing to happen. "

"However, the owner of our Yulüfang is not in the city. He went to Jinzhou. As for the owner of Qingyinfang, I still don't know where he is."

Judge He frowned and was about to continue questioning when suddenly there was a noise on the surface of the water. Then a soldier emerged from underwater and exclaimed, "There's a body here!"

"What? Pick it up quickly!"

"Young Master!"

He Tongpan and Jiang Shun exclaimed, and quickly asked the other soldiers to help salvage the bodies. The others also looked at the water with nervous expressions.

A quarter of an hour later, with the concerted efforts of three soldiers, they finally pulled the body out from the bottom of the water and placed it on the terrace.

Jiang Shun staggered towards the corpse, but before he got close, he could tell something was wrong.

"No, this is not my young master. My young master is wearing a Yunyuebai robe today, but this corpse is wearing a white robe."

Upon hearing this, Judge He hurriedly walked to the corpse and ordered people to turn it over. After taking a look, he breathed a sigh of relief. This person was indeed not Young Master Jiang. Fortunately!

Out of concern for the others on the pleasure boat, he quickly restrained his expression, ordered the soldiers to continue searching, and then asked loudly: "Does anyone recognize this person?"

After some identification, a young man with pale lips replied, "Sir, I know him. He is Zhang Cheng, the only son of Manager Zhang of Yunhui Tower. He was on Young Master Jiang's pleasure boat at the time."