gentry

Chapter 53
The big clock in Wang's study was ticking.Wang Jifu sat dumbfounded in the study, stroking the handles of the drawers back and forth with his fingers, and staring at the calendar on the wall.The pages of the calendar are now turning to Sunday, June [-]th.

Outside the palace, several police detectives in disguise were walking back and forth.

At the same time, the plainclothes police detectives from Jiang Cheng's and Du Jinbao's houses were still guarding, but they didn't find any suspicious signs.

In the laboratory of Zhentong University, Chen Shunchang looked up at the clock on the wall from time to time.I saw him put down the experimental equipment, open the door of the laboratory, and looked at the corridor for a long time.Then he hurriedly trotted all the way out of the teaching building, hurriedly hailed a rickshaw and left.At this time, the two plainclothes police detectives at the school gate immediately followed quietly by bicycle.Chen Shunchang's rickshaw made many twists and turns, and finally turned into a remote alley.Afterwards, Chen Shunchang got out of the car and walked into an abandoned empty house.The following police detectives followed closely, but saw a flash of fire in the empty house.

The two looked at each other, kicked open the door and rushed in.

"Police room! No one inside is allowed to move!"

But before the two could continue talking, the scene in the room made both of them stunned.In the room besides Chen Shunchang, there was also a female student with half of her clothes off. The flickering fire turned out to be a candle.

Chen Shunchang squatted on the ground with his head in his arms, and kept begging for mercy: "Don't catch me! Don't catch me! I know teachers and students shouldn't, but she did it voluntarily, we are free love!"

The female student screamed and rushed out of the room holding her clothes.

At the same time, the painter Jiang Cheng drove to a house, and furtively took out a match. As soon as he lit it, Xiao Man immediately jumped out from the side and knocked him down.

"What are you doing?!" Jiang Cheng struggled.

"Detective in the patrol room! Now I suspect you of arson!" Xiao Man shouted.

"I didn't set the fire, I just lit a cigarette!" Jiang Cheng lowered his head helplessly.

Xiaoman frowned: "What kind of cigarettes are you lighting in front of other people's houses?"

Before Jiang Cheng could reply, a woman's voice came from inside the door.

"Who is outside?" As soon as the door opened, a fat woman with hair full of jewels and emerald clothes came out.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"I'm from the patrol room. This man is an arsonist. He sneakily tried to set fire to your door just now." Xiaoman explained.

The woman was terrified just after hearing this, but she lowered her head to look at Jiang Cheng's face carefully, and then said in amazement, "Isn't this Xiao Jiang?!"

Xiaoman was startled: "You know each other?"

The woman nodded again and again: "Of course we know each other. We will wait for him if we are short of one."

"Miss Detective, I really didn't come to set fires, I just came to play mahjong." Jiang Cheng said with difficulty as he stuck his head on the ground.

Xiaoman slowly let go of Jiangcheng, still puzzled: "Why are you sneaking around playing mahjong?"

Unexpectedly, the woman burst into a smile: "Detectives, you don't know, we are a great painter, and he only relies on his modern style to sell his paintings at a good price. If people find out, he is a layman who likes to play a few laps." , then his worth will plummet."

Jiang Cheng also smiled: "I have a little hobby, please keep it secret for me."

Jiang Cheng took out a small wad of money from his pocket and gave it to Xiao Man: "Thank you, thank you..."

Xiaoman pushed the money away with a look of embarrassment.

Time passed by every minute and every second.

At this moment, Ye Changqing, who was squatting at Du Jinbao's house, was sitting in the car, dozing off on the steering wheel.

"Boss! I bought supper."

Ye Changqing was startled at first, then rolled down the window and saw that it was his assistant Xiao Wang.

Ye Changqing immediately opened the car door, let his assistant in, and the two of them ate supper together.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Wang asked vaguely after taking a big mouthful of wonton noodles.

"No, our Mr. Firefighter fell asleep a long time ago. I'm afraid he has dreamed of the country of Java now. We are still guarding below like idiots. It's all that Luo Fei, so I can't rest on Sunday night."

Ye Changqing still wanted to complain a few words, but suddenly there was a bang from the upstairs opposite.

"What's the sound?" Xiao Wang asked alertly.

"Maybe it's a wild cat? Go down and have a look." Ye Changqing said lazily.

Xiao Wang immediately got out of the car, walked over to check, and saw that the window on the second floor of the house was open, and immediately gestured to Ye Changqing: "Boss, the window on the second floor is open."

"It's so hot, it's normal to open the windows." Ye Changqing continued to eat supper.

"The window was closed just now, so he won't sleepwalk and climb out of the window, right?"

Ye Changqing couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this.

Afterwards, the two rushed downstairs to Du's house, called open the door of the landlord on the first floor, and rushed up to the second floor together.

When the two reached the second floor, they knocked on the door a few times, but no one answered.

The two looked at each other, Xiao Wang immediately kicked open the door, and Ye Changqing drew his gun and rushed in.

After the two entered the house, they found that the window was open and the house was empty.

"Oops, he ran away, what should we do now?" Xiao Wang looked at Ye Changqing.

Ye Changqing waved his hand: "Don't panic, even if he is sleepwalking, he is not necessarily an arsonist. Turn on the light."

Xiao Wang immediately turned on the light, and Ye Changqing began to check the situation in the house.

"Look, kerosene, and cotton yarn, these are kindling materials."

Only then did Ye Changqing realize the seriousness of the problem, and he looked a little panicked: "Look quickly, is his firefighting suit here?"

Xiao Wang opened the closet, searched, and shook his head at Ye Changqing: "Not here."

Ye Changqing turned around and saw a map of the public concession hanging on the wall, stepped forward to take a closer look, and saw several circles drawn on the map, marked with numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively.

Xiao Wang also came up to him at this time: "Isn't this the location of the first three fires? The fourth location is Wang Jifu's house, and there is a fifth location. What is this place?"

The two looked at each other.Ye Changqing's face changed suddenly: "Oh no, something big is going to happen!"

At this moment, Du Jinbao, who was walking on the dark street, had a dull expression and empty eyes, like a walking dead.

(End of this chapter)