As the fire in Bessho gradually extinguished, the pouring rain gradually became smaller, which was simply incredible, as if this rain was specially for the fire in Beshang. Lu Jinji was drenched, and he couldn't hide his excitement in his heart, after all, hundreds of thousands of stones of grain were not burned in the end, and his accumulated wealth was not all destroyed in one fell swoop.

Lu Jinji suddenly looked at the man in black with a little schadenfreude, but was surprised to find that the group had long since disappeared. Seeing that the fire was small, Gu Shishi immediately led people into the village, but saw that the village was in a mess. Although it has been washed by heavy rain, the air inside is still warm, and the smell of burning grain pervades the period, which makes him regret in his heart, although Gu Shishi is from a military household, but the military household has to settle the field without war, so he has been farming and raising grain since he was a child, and his feelings for the land and grain are the same as those of farmers.

Seeing that so much grain was burned in an instant, how could he not make him feel sorry. However, after the initial shock, he soon discovered something suspicious in the other village. There are also the wreckage of the cart that has not been burned in time, and the charred corpses of mules and horses exude the smell of meat, and the scale is not small, if ordinary people think that this may be a convoy that has come to pull food. However, he keenly noticed that there were a lot of broken pottery shards scattered on the cart, and there were also many broken pottery shards of the same texture scattered near the granary.

Judging by the appearance alone, it is clear that these pottery shards were intact clay pots before, but they have all been shattered under the action of the high temperature, and it is impossible to see what they have been filled before. In this regard, Gu Shishi remained silent and asked people to go forward to check the burning of the granary, which made everyone extremely frustrated.

The fire burned the top of most of the granaries from the outside in, and due to the heavy rain pouring down, these granaries that were burned out of the silos have lost their rainproof effect, so these grains that have been ravaged by the fire and have not had time to burn are ruthlessly destroyed by the rain.

Water ingress is definitely not a trivial matter, which means that if the food soaked in water is not disposed of in time, it will be inedible due to mold or germination. If the grain ends up inedible, what difference does it make between burning it and not burning it?

Looking at Lu Jinji, who was still in a daze behind him, Gu Shishi anxiously urged.

"Master Lu didn't hurry up and let people check the loss, drying the grain that had been soaked in water, why was he stunned?"

Lu Jinji nodded hurriedly, where was he stunned, but worried about whether Gu Shishi had found the wreckage of the carriage and the fragments of the clay pot left by the man in black who set fire to the grain. Fortunately, Gu Shishi's face remained as usual after inspecting it, and his heart was faintly stable.

At the same time, the sound of stepping on the ground came from outside the don't pretend, Gu Shishi understood that it was the people of the Three Guards who came, but it was indeed a step too late, and the fire had been extinguished by a pouring rain. It was not the third-step battalion of the old battalion of the Three Guards Army, but a new battalion that was reorganized after the defeat of Taiyuan based on the surrender of the army and the thieves.

The battalion officer who led the team was Yu Hai, who had repeatedly surrendered three times before, and after he surrendered to Li Xin, his life was no longer as nourishing as before, and he spent all day in the barracks outside the city for training, and he once had the idea of becoming a deserter. However, it is not the same to vote for the official army and be the leader under Liu Guoneng, and now he is already the head of the sixth grade by Li Xin, and the difference in identity is far away, if he returns to his hometown, he should be regarded as returning to his hometown in fine clothes, and he is worthy of his ancestors. This kind of fantasy has become the spiritual pillar that he relies on to persevere, and another point is that he found that he has unconsciously adapted to the life and division of the Three Guards.

Of course, when Liu Guoneng was in the army, they had no money, and the only promise they got was that every time they broke a city, they were allowed to rob and sleep openly, everyone who was greedy for money and lustful was like this, and he also slept with a lot of young ladies of big families, and even the wives and concubines of officials' families had a taste, until now every time I recall it, I can't help but indulge in the cruel and gentle township, and I can't extricate myself. And those days of burning, killing and looting, he actually didn't feel happy, but he couldn't sleep after a long time, and he always felt that a terrible ghost came to him every night to collect debts.

On the contrary, after arriving at the Three Guards, there is no longer any need to burn and kill the people to fill the military salary, and then I can no longer sleep with the lady of the rich gentry's family, but I eat and sleep well. From then on, there was no need to worry about the evil spirits collecting debts.

His only knot in his heart was that there were always people who made fun of him for his previous experience of repeatedly surrendering, thinking that such a person with no temperament and no backbone was a shame for the Three Guards, and such cowards and traitors should not be tolerated in the Three Guards, but Li Xin insisted on keeping him, not only staying, but also single-handedly promoting him to be the battalion officer of the first battalion, and promoted him to the general of the six ranks.

In the middle of the night, Yu Hai always wondered, if he encountered a critical moment again, would he be able to overcome the fear in his heart and persevere to the end? Several times in a row, he had no answer.

But he always sighed when he thought of the impermanence of the world, two years ago he was a fugitive who almost starved to death, a year ago he was already a small leader among the thieves, and now he has become a general of the imperial court, which has never been imagined before.

This Gu Shishi in front of him is one of those who criticize him for being cowardly and lacking integrity. Whenever he was embarrassed with him, he suffered a lot, but later Gu Shishi was transferred out of the infantry camp, and this situation changed greatly.

Of all the battalion officers in the infantry battalion, this man was also the most daring and restless person who liked to break the rules. At first, Yu Hai also tried to argue with him, but later heard that this person had fought against the general Li Xin before joining the Three Guards, and even almost succeeded in this news. Every time I met this person, I retreated and tolerated to the extreme, but I didn't expect the mountain to turn around, and after this person left the infantry camp, he actually met here again.

After Yu Hai saw that it was Gu Fourteen, his heart beat wildly inexplicably. He was still as respectful to Gu Shishi as ever, and he didn't dare to make a mistake.

"Battalion officer Yu Hai, ordered to lead the fourth step battalion to support the firefighting!"

Gu Shishi nodded, and didn't look at him with his eyes.

"You're late, let's get involved in the aftermath!"

With a simple sentence, he no longer had any communication with Yu Hai, Yu Hai secretly scolded a few words, what a cow, what a cow, Lao Tzu will ride to your neck one day sooner or later, see if you dare to do this when the time comes! When he entered the village, he was shocked by the terrible situation in it, the granaries were scorched, and the air was filled with the unknown smell of burning.

The first thing is to confirm that there will be no more open fires, and the next step is to rescue as much of the grain that has not been burned as possible.

But Yu Hai soon found some clues at the scene, just like Gu Shixi, but unlike Gu Shishi, he was used to burning, killing and looting, and he could almost immediately judge that the fire was by no means caused by nature, but caused by man.

Isn't it a sin that anyone would dare to burn so much grain in public? He originally wanted to find Gu Shishi to clarify the matter, but suddenly thought that Lu Jinji was competing with the general recently, and there were murders, strikes, and arsons, and so on, and it was difficult to guarantee that this was not someone in the Three Guards Army venting their anger and revenge. Thinking of this, he glanced at Gu Shishi, who had a solemn face, and couldn't help but shudder.

But what happened next made him a little difficult to understand, or rather confused.

I saw Gu Shishi come to his side in a few steps, and said in a low voice: "I suspect that someone has set fire, the scene must be preserved, let your people block Beizhuang, and drive away all irrelevant people, you start the rescue work of food, and I will let Lu Jinji send his people in the future, after all, the property is his, we don't need to do it all for him." ”

Isn't he the one who set the fire?

Yu Hai subconsciously replied: "You can be 100% sure under the mark, don't install a granary is artificially set on fire!" ”

Gu Shishi raised his eyelids and glanced at him, and said in surprise: "How are you sure?" ”

Yu Hai was a little embarrassed, after all, the matter of burning, killing and looting was disgraceful, and he had to be despised by this person when he said it, but he couldn't help but say it, so he had to be vague.

"In the past in the rebel army, I have seen a lot of murder and arson, and the scene is the same as here!"

Gu Shishi nodded, no longer spoke, and only let Yu Hai guard the other village, and did not allow irrelevant people to enter and exit at will.

"What about Lukingi? Is he an irrelevant person? ”

Gu Shishi glanced at him and asked rhetorically, "What do you say?" ”

On the day of the fire in Lujiabiezhuang, the Taiyuan Prefecture and the Sentencing Department jointly investigated the case and announced that the case was dry and caused spontaneous combustion. After hearing the results of the joint investigation by the government and the department, Lu Jinji was not only not relieved, but also became even more stressed.

Although the government did not investigate the crime of arson this time, since then, he has completely lost his freedom in a sense, and has become a tool and lackey for the huge forces behind the man in black.

In fact, Lu Jinji had vaguely guessed the origin of the man in black in his heart, although he was greedy for money and power, he never thought of being a traitor, and now he was forced to Liangshan in a daze, how could he be willing?

Thinking that he would not have a peaceful sleep in the second half of his life, he was even more worried about the future of the hundreds of people up and down the Lu family.

However, another piece of news soon sent him into complete panic, and he learned an important secret in the eyes of Bezhuang.

"The government has already suspected that it was arson, and the villain heard with his own ears that the generals of the Three Guards were talking about it in private!"

Extremely? Lujinji was dumbfounded! Then he shuddered, and he immediately understood that the government was doing this to stabilize them and then ......