The four of them walked towards the gate of the yamen. Shen Wan and Yun Luochuan had been here last time, and the yamen servant standing outside the yamen knew them and greeted them with a smile.
"Mr. Yun, Mrs. Shen."
The Yamen servant bowed his hands to the two of them, wondering why they came to the Yamen together today.
Yun Luochuan returned the gift with his hand, while Shen Wan bowed slightly.
When Village Chief Bai and Bai Dongsheng saw that the people in the yamen were so polite to their boss and Mr. Yun, they were stunned for a moment, and then bowed to the yamen servants.
In their eyes, this yamen servant is an official.
Since ancient times, the people have been afraid of officials, especially the poor farmers. When they see government servants with swords on the street, they always walk around with their heads down.
Now that I see the official's attitude towards his master and Mr. Yun being so respectful, he only feels that his master and Mr. Yun are powerful, and he admires his master even more.
The yamen officer asked the two of them why they were here. When they heard that they wanted to report to the official, they asked about the situation again.
When he heard that someone deliberately set fire to the tea mountain and injured people, the yamen servant first thought of the Ning family, because the Ning family had been in the yamen because of the incident with Shen Wan and her teahouse, and had lost money twice.
There are two reasons for deliberately setting fire to a mountain: jealousy, jealousy, and revenge.
The yamen servant led the four people into the yamen and met with the arrester. After receiving their report, Capt. Liu asked Shen Wan and the others to go home first and wait for news.
He also said that he would first take people to visit the vicinity of Chashan, visit and investigate, and also go to the Ning family to question.
Although they suspected that the person who set people on fire was most likely a member of the Ning family, without evidence, they could not directly go to the Ning family to question someone.
So the four of them left the yamen. Shen Wan asked the carriage to take Village Chief Bai and Bai Dongsheng back, and also told the villagers to rest at ease. Although the tea mountain and workshop were burned down, they could not work, but the wages would still be paid.
Then, Shen Wan and Yun Luochuan took a carriage back home. After arriving home, Yun Luochuan followed Shen Wan directly into Shen's house.
When the servants of Shen House saw Yun Luochuan, they all smiled and saluted, but they were muttering in their hearts that there were bad rumors about Madam and Mr. Yun, shouldn't they avoid suspicion?
Why did Mr. Yun enter the mansion with his wife in broad daylight?
Seeing Yun Shu, the boy An Huan was so happy that he immediately hugged his legs and played with him until lunch time.
Yun Luochuan stayed in Shen's house for lunch. After lunch, Shen Wan felt sleepy and wanted to take a nap before leaving.
In the afternoon, Liu Captou took his four brothers out of the city and went around the Chashan Mountain. He also asked the old farmers who farmed near the Chashan Mountain if they had seen any strangers in the past two days.
This question was still being asked when an old farmer said that the afternoon before yesterday, he saw two strange boys in blue shirts wandering under the tea mountain for a long time. After wandering around, they walked towards the city. .
Liu Captou thought that the two strangers wandering under the tea mountain most likely came to visit in advance.
Just after asking the old farmer, a government official picked up a jar of soybean oil in the forest under the tea mountain. The jar was very new, and it was still clean inside. There was some base oil, and it was obviously thrown away recently.
This soybean oil has a beany smell and is specially used to make lamp oil.
Most people would leave the jar behind after using up the oil, and then take it to the shop to refill it, so it was a little strange that this new jar appeared in the forest.
Liu Captou guessed that the arsonist wanted the fire to spread quickly, so he poured flammable soybean oil on the tea trees.
This oil jar has Shi Ji written on it. There is an oil shop in the city called Shi Ji, and the jar belongs to him.
Liu Captou took the jar and returned to the city. He went to the Historical Records to ask who came to buy oil in the past two days.
Although there are many people who go to Shiji every day to buy oil, there are very few people who do not bring jars and those who buy oil with jars, so the shopkeeper has some impressions.
Among the people mentioned, one was a young man wearing a blue shirt.