Chapter 275

Wang ziqiao and others are naturally unwilling to lose a thousand gold to Li forgetful worry in vain.

Originally, I thought that the gambling agreement made with Li forgetful worry was completely out of Li forgetful worry's mind and wanted to send money to several of them.

Especially a few days ago, in Sun Ji's bookstore, the romance of the Three Kingdoms did not sell well. The daily Bookstore sold less than ten copies of the Three Kingdoms, which made Wang ziqiao laugh and ridicule Li Lianyou for being kicked in the head by a donkey.

But now Li forgot to worry about making such a move, which surprised the four dandies and made them look a little flustered.

"What do you say? I asked the servant to inquire about it. The broken book sold thousands of copies today." Cui Daogu asked.

Cui Hong stubbed his neck: "what can you do? Can you force others not to buy books in the bookstore? If I say, if you lose, you will lose. Can he come to us to charge? I won't give it to him!"

Lu Siyang said, "fart! This is a gambling agreement. Can you deny it? If he really takes the gambling agreement to the house, what will you do?"

"If he dares to come to the door, I'll let the episode beat him out!"

"Then he went to Taiji palace to find the sage?"

"This..."

If you really lose the bet, you don't have to consider default. This bet falls on paper, which is different from the previous verbal agreement between the two sides.

It was written in black and white. The two sides signed a bet. They had to rely on it. Li forgetful really dared to go to the Tai Chi palace and ask Li Er to collect his debts for him.

Li Qieyou is now granted the title of Kaiguo County male. In terms of status, he is the same as these dandy elders.

How can their legitimate sons, who rely on family forces, rely on gambling debts?

"Neither left nor right. What do you say to do? Are you really waiting to lose the bet and offer your golden hands?" Cui Hong was also angry.

His words made Wang ziqiao and his three people speechless for a moment, and they didn't know what to do.

Wang ziqiao suddenly drove out all the prostitutes and singers beside him, lowered his voice and said to the three: "I have an idea, but I don't know if you dare to do it?"

"What idea? Tell me."

"Come on, the law doesn't spread to six ears!"

Cui Daogu hurried over. After hearing Prince Joe's words, they were dumbfounded.

"Brother ziqiao, it's very risky to do this. What if..." Cui Daogu hesitated. In fact, there's not much gold for more than 200 Liang. It doesn't seem worth taking a risk for this gold.

Lu Siyang also shook his head: "yes, it's not worth losing more than 200 liang of gold at most?"

Cui Hong supported Wang ziqiao's idea: "I think it's OK. If we lose, it's not just a thousand liang of gold, but the face of our family!"

His remark made Cui Daogu and Lu Siyang hesitate again.

As Cui Hong said, losing some gold is nothing, but losing the face of the aristocratic family is not good.

Wang ziqiao advised, "we'll send a competent composer to do this. After that, we'll give them a sum of money and send them back to Taiyuan, Boling and other places. How much trouble can we cause?"

As for this, Cui Daogu and Lu Siyang looked at each other silently, nodded and agreed.

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It was night, in the east of Chang'an City, a sharp and harsh copper whistle suddenly sounded.

There was a raging fire in the square market!

The intensity of the fire brightened the dark night sky of Chang'an City, and the flame soared several feet high, with an appalling momentum.

Qin Xuan, the brigade commander of Wuhou shop in Dongshi, led his Wuhou to squeeze the water bag desperately to extinguish the fire.

However, the fire has not been put out, but has a growing trend.

"Lvshuai, someone must have set fire and used fire oil to ignite the fire, otherwise it would not be impossible to put out the fire with a water bag!" the Marquis who fought hard to put out the fire shouted to Qin Xuan.

In fact, Qin Xuan had already seen this.

The fire came so suddenly and could not be extinguished by water. There was no other explanation except that someone set fire maliciously.

His face was already covered with black soot. After being soaked with sweat, his face was covered with black marks.

However, Qin Xuan can't take these into account now. He can only continue to urge his subordinates Wuhou to put out the fire. At the same time, he asked the Wuhou to push down the shops on both sides of the fire and create an isolation belt to avoid the spread of the fire.

"Damn it, what an evil door! Which shop is on fire? What kind of business do you do?"

"Huilvshuai, this is Jiashu workshop, Sunji bookstore."

Qin Xuan didn't care much when he heard that it was a bookstore, but today he also knew that many scholars came to the bookstore to buy books in Dongshi.

It seems that they all bought a vernacular novel written by Huxian man. I don't know if the bookstore was set on fire tonight. Is it related to this matter?

However, after all, Qin Xuan was only the brigade commander of Wuhou shop, and he was not responsible for the arrest case. Therefore, this idea only changed in his mind, so he didn't go further, but focused on directing Wuhou to put out the fire.

As the most important square city within the jurisdiction of Wannian County, the news of the fire in Dongshi naturally immediately informed Lu Dejing, the magistrate of Wannian county.

Lu Dejing, who was woken up, was frightened into a cold sweat. He hurried out of the pink arm of Ji Qie on the bed, put on his clothes, and led a group of County Yamen to Dongshi.

By the time he got to the east city, the sudden fire was almost put out.

Sun Ji's bookstore and several shops next door were burned into a white ground. The embers were not extinguished, and dark red sparks appeared from time to time in the dark night.

"Qin lvshuai, why did you suddenly get wet?" Lu Dejing wiped the sweat on his forehead, found Qin xuanxun and asked.

All dynasties in China, including the Tang Dynasty, attached great importance to fire fighting.

Although officials will not be punished for fire in Datang, it will have a great impact. Therefore, Lu Dejing can't sleep well when he hears the fire alarm.

"Lu Mingfu, according to the speculation of the lower official, it should be arson. Specifically, we have to wait until the fire is completely extinguished before entering the fire site for inspection."

Hearing that someone might have set fire, Lu Dejing couldn't help taking a breath again.

Arson is a felony. It is stipulated in the sparse discussion of the law of the Tang Dynasty that arson is to be hanged. If the fire hurts people's lives, it is "based on the theory of killing and wounding".

And arson belongs to ten evils, which is a great crime that will not be forgiven in case of amnesty!

If it was really an arson case, some of his ten thousand year county magistrate had a headache. He had to urge his Yamen to solve the case. It was troublesome to think about it.

If we can't solve it, we have to report the case to the Ministry of justice and Dali temple, which is even more troublesome.

Lu Dejing sighed and could only pray secretly. Qin Xuan's judgment was wrong.

But after the fire was completely extinguished, Wuhou of Wuhou shop and the Yamen of the county government entered the fire scene to check, a bad news came.

It is not only certain that it was arson, but also a charred human body was found in the fire