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There was no reason for the young master to be stubborn. Su Muben took a blanket and put it on someone, but Lin Jian struggled to get dressed, "It's not right to see outsiders soon."

While speaking, he hurriedly pulled his clothes and put them on, Su Mu followed to help, feeling a little annoyed.He was almost messed up by the young master's torment all afternoon.Even the matter of concealing his identity was completely forgotten.

Perhaps because of illness, Lin Jian felt a little weak in limbs when he got out of bed, Su Mu helped him to the outer room and sat by the desk.

Xiangwu bowed and went out. There was only one soldier left, who was the leader of the original team.

"But the cause of the water leakage has been found out?"

Su Mu looked up at him, and Lin Jian looked over eagerly.

"My lord, it has been determined that someone deliberately set the fire."

Xiao Bing was talking and handed over a letter. Su Mu suppressed it for the time being and just waved his hand, "Go on. I remember that there are no windows, and there are brick walls on all sides, and there are fires and stoves inside. In addition, there are some scattered straws, which are also flammable, so how to judge that it is not an accident?"

While Su Mu was speaking, Lin Jian also tried hard to think that he himself had entered the fire room twice, and it was indeed the same as what he just said.

"If there are windows in an ordinary room, then the wind direction is different, and the degree of fire spread is also different. But there are no windows and no restrictions, but the fire is heavier at the door."

"And the key point is that the traces of burning are heavier at the door, next to the stove, and at the innermost corner of the wall, and they are roughly the same. Therefore, it can be judged that there are three places where the fire started, and the rest of the places are covered by mud, so there is no trace of fire. Find out if there are other ignition points."

"This is just a trace left on the scene, so are there other things besides this?" Su Mu interrupted the long speech that was about to come, and the soldier scratched his head, as if he suddenly remembered something.

"It's strange to say that beside one of the corpses, there is actually a large pile of money, roughly one strand."

"The fire started in multiple places, which is in line with other people's guesses about arson, but it was not for money, so it shouldn't be the conflict caused by this."

Su Mu frowned and analyzed, Lin Jian couldn't help but interjected, "Didn't Xiuyuan and the others lose a single baht in their residence? Could it be done by a group of people?"

After Lin Jian finished speaking, seeing Xiao Bing looking at him, he hurriedly laughed dryly, "This is just my random guess. It is impossible for Xiu Yuan and Bo Tong to have anything to do with that man."

There was a momentary silence in the outer room. Lin Jian looked at the two of them, but couldn't help but ask doubts in his heart, "If there are three fire points, can it be proved that someone set the fire?"

Seeing that Su Mu ignored him, the soldier seemed to be thinking about other things, and hurried forward, "That's right, if the fire started by accident, it should be that the fire pile ignited the straw next to it, so there should be only one fire point."

"wrong."

The two were talking, but Su Mu interrupted hastily. Lin Jian was imagining the scene at that time, but saw the little soldier take a step back, seeming to clenched his cuffs a little tighter.

"My lord, what's wrong."

"Although it can be determined from the point of the fire that someone else set the fire, the smoke is so thick that the people inside the house will not be completely unaware. But they did not leave until they died, which means that there is no way to escape. They may have been drugged Calculations may also be other reasons. But it can be roughly judged that the fire is very large and spreads rapidly."

"But that person suddenly got a sum of money. If someone nearby did harm to him, then there's no reason why he didn't take the money before lighting the fire."

"The point is that the origin of the money is weird, but it happened to disappear before it was made clear, and it happened to be the key to the academy case. If those are all coincidences, it would be too far-fetched."

The more Su Mu talked, the more frightened the soldier looked, only staring at his toes.

In the end, Su Mu stared straight at him, "The matter is of great importance. Do you have to bear the consequences of not reporting what you know?"

The soldiers were sent by Dali Temple. Su Mu had many chances to investigate cases, but he was not very familiar with this team.

At the moment when he was speaking aggressively, the little soldier lowered his head first, and then fell to his knees with a "boom".

"It's a matter of great importance, and villains dare not talk nonsense."

"Then there's no need to talk about it. I'll go there again. If you know anything else, you're the only one to ask."

Su Mu didn't seem to be in a hurry this time, but the little soldier took out something from his sleeve and put it on the desk with a mournful face. There were a few small black strips, like burnt wooden strips, and they were nothing special.

"what is this?"

Lin Jian looked at it for a long time but didn't see why.

"Is this the key evidence?"

Su Mu stretched out his hand and flicked it, and when his finger touched it, it was stained black. He always felt that the smell was familiar.

"My lord, this is Songming, which is the wood used by the army when they travel at night."

"Because it may involve the military, so this is the reason for you to conceal it?"

It was originally made of mountain pine split into thin strips. He used to use pine wood incense before, so it was no surprise that he found it familiar.It's just about the military... Su Mu felt his head hurt, and his tone of voice might have been bad.In short, the soldier lowered his head and didn't speak for a while.

During this period, Lin Jian couldn't help coughing, and Su Mu got up to pour water, and the atmosphere became a little more active.

The little soldier's eyes wandered wildly, and when he floated to the desk, he pointed to the envelope as if he had received an amnesty.

"The villain almost forgot, Zuo has already examined the corpse, and the results are all written in the letter."

"cough."

Lin Jian almost choked with water in his mouth.

The soldier went out quickly, and Su Mu went to open the letter.Although Lin Jian was a little scared, she still couldn't help but lean forward.

"People have been burnt like that, is there anything else that can be done there?"

When Zhang Ju, a native of Wu, was the county magistrate of Juzhang, a woman murdered her husband. She didn't want to take responsibility for the crime, so she set fire to try to cover up the evidence.After Zhang Ju found out, the woman still wanted to quibble.In order to ask the woman to confess her crime willingly, he ordered someone to set up two pigs, one alive and the other dead, and roast them on the fire.The mouth of a live pig has ashes, but the mouth of a dead pig is clean.

When Su Mu told the story, Lin Jian was so shocked that she forgot to keep her mouth shut.

"You mean if they were burnt to death while they were alive, they would be forced to breathe by the smoke, so there would be ashes in their mouths. If they were burned after death, there would be no ashes in their mouths, right?"

"Well, that's right." Su Mu answered and picked up the letter. "The answer is in it. Let's make a bet."

"What bet?"

Lin Jian's eyeballs were almost glued to the envelope, and she had already lost interest in gaming.

"If they have ashes in their mouths, I will win. If they have no ashes in their mouths, you will lose. The bet is that you must listen to me while you are at home."

Su Mu pressed the edge of the letter paper calmly.

"Yeah, okay." Lin Jian nodded like a chicken pecking rice, not knowing what kind of big pit he jumped into.