Chapter 125 Ma Family Arson
The bad guy was kicked to the ground by Qianhuan in an instant, and he was holding his chest in pain. Qianhuan thought that it was amazing that such a person with only mediocre kung fu had the nerve to do evil, so she kicked him several more times.
Until the man held his head and begged for mercy: "Master, please spare my life, please spare my life."
Qianhuan looked at him and asked, "Tell me, what hatred do you have with Zuixianju that you came here in the middle of the night to set fire to the building?"
"I have no grudge against Zuixianju. I just felt like starting a fire for fun."
"You're bringing flaming oil with you to play with? Then can I pour a bucket of flaming oil on your front door and then play with it?"
The man continued to argue, "Sir, I really just wanted to set the fire for fun. Please forgive me. I won't dare to do it again."
"Even if you want to find an excuse, you have to find a good one. Even a three-year-old child wouldn't believe such a ridiculous reason. You don't have to tell the truth. Once you're sent to the authorities, they will have plenty of ways to make you talk."
When the man saw that she was going to send him to the police, he was immediately frightened. He cried out, "Sir, please spare my life. I have parents and children to take care of, and I had no choice but to set the fire because of my life. Sir, please don't send me to the police."
Qianhuan said bitterly, "You have elderly parents and young children to take care of, don't others have any too? Do you know how many shops there are in this area and how many people live in them? If you light this fire, not only will this large area of shops be burned down, but the people living in them will also be buried in the sea of fire. I don't know how many lives will be lost."
Qianhuan was wearing a green robe today. She bent down and prepared to tear a piece of cloth from the hem of her robe to tie up the man.
"I know I was wrong, please show mercy and let me go."
Although the villain was still begging for mercy, he actually took advantage of Qianhuan's tearing of her clothes and immediately stood up and attacked her again. Qianhuan had already noticed it, and she quickly shot out an arrow from her sleeve.
She had already smeared aphrodisiac on the sleeve arrow, and the man who was hit by the arrow in the shoulder immediately fell unconscious.
Qianhuan ran over and pulled the sleeve arrow from the villain's shoulder, then wrapped it in a rag and put it in her arms. She thought that this sleeve arrow was bought with real money and could not be wasted. She would go back and wash it and apply some medicine powder so that she could use it next time.
Then, while she tied up the villain with a cloth strip, she muttered to herself: "This sleeve arrow that Brother Yunlong gave me is really useful. Next time, I will not only apply the sleeping pills, but also some poison powder on it."
By the time she had tied the man up tightly, Master Chu's carriage came rushing over from the darkness.
Chu Yichen and Ji Feng jumped off the carriage one after another. Chu Yichen looked at Qianhuan and asked anxiously, "Brother Liang, you are not injured, right? After the person you sent to report the situation to me, I immediately rushed here without stopping."
"Master Chu, I'm fine."
Ji Feng and Yuan Ji then jumped off the carriage. Ji Feng breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that she was fine.
Trotting along behind the carriage were several strong servants holding torches. These people must have been the Chu family's own guards.
"Yuanji, open the door and go to the backyard to see what's going on. With such a big commotion, how come the people on duty and the people in the backyard haven't woken up yet?"
"Yes, Master."
After Yuanji checked the situation from the backyard, he reported to Chu Yichen: "Master, they have all been poisoned by the incense. I'm afraid they won't wake up for a while."
"No wonder no one came out to take a look despite such a big commotion."
Chu Yichen glanced at the villain on the ground and asked Qianhua in confusion, "Brother Liang, why is this villain also unconscious?"
"Master Chu, I also gave him some drugs. Just pour some cold water on him and he will wake up."
Yuanji brought out a basin of cold water from the restaurant's kitchen and poured it all over the person on the ground. Sure enough, the bad guy woke up slowly.
He saw several fierce-looking burly men holding torches surrounding him. He shivered and wailed, "Please spare my life, my friends. I am taking money from people and helping them get rid of disasters."
"Tell me, who asked you to set fire to Zuixianju?" Chu Yichen looked at the villain and asked coldly.
The villain was already frightened by the scene and had no choice but to confess everything.
"It was the owner of the Jixiang Restaurant across the street who asked me to do this. He said that you guys have robbed their restaurant of its business, and their boss Ma wanted to get rid of you as a thorn in his side, so he paid me to set the fire. I am just doing their job, and I have said everything I should say, so please forgive me."
As soon as the informant mentioned this matter, Chu Yichen intuitively felt that this matter might be related to the Ma family. After all, they had been quite active recently. First, they found Liang's younger brother, and then they tried to bribe the chef of Zuixianju and his second brother.
Unexpectedly, when their first plan failed, they came up with another one and were so bold as to ask people to set fire. He said hatefully in his heart: Ma family, I will make sure you pay the price this time.
He turned to Yuanji and ordered, "Yuanji, escort him to the government office and hand him over to the county magistrate for processing."
"Yes, Master."
Several servants escorted the man to the government office, but the villain kept shouting, "No, please, don't send me to the government office..."
Chu Yichen bowed to Qianhuan and thanked her solemnly: "Tonight is really thanks to Brother Liang. If you hadn't subdued the criminals and sent someone to inform us in time, Zuixianju would have become a ruin. The chefs and waiters living in the backyard would probably not escape the bad luck, and the merchants nearby would probably be implicated. Brother Liang, please accept Chu's greetings."
"Master Chu, you don't have to be so polite."
"Brother Liang, calling me Young Master Chu is too formal. If you don't mind, please call me Brother Lin'an from now on. I don't even know your full name."
Lin'an is the courtesy name of Young Master Chu, and usually only people who are very close and familiar with him can call him that. When Qianhuan saw that Chu Yichen asked her to call him by his courtesy name, she knew that Young Master Chu must be trusting her more and more.
She thought of another cooperation she wanted to discuss with him later, and didn't want to miss such a good opportunity to actively build a closer relationship, so she changed her words, "Brother Lin'an, I am Liang Shanbo."
"Brother Shanbo, I will always remember your kindness and gratitude. I don't know what you want, but as long as I can do it, I will do my best to make it happen. Brother Shanbo, just tell me."
"Brother Lin'an, you don't have to be so polite. I just happened to see it when I was passing by, so I helped you. I didn't even think about asking for anything in return."
It was such a coincidence today. The horses were just being fed grass at the carriage shop, so the two of them walked past without alerting the villain.
If it were any other time, when Ji Feng was driving his carriage past, the sound of horse hooves would have alerted the villain before he even reached the gate of Zuixianju, and he would have hidden away in advance, and he would not have been able to discover that he had set the fire.
"How about this, if you don't know what you want right now, just tell me when you remember it. As long as it is within Chu's ability, I will definitely satisfy one of your requests."
Chu Yichen insisted that he didn't like to owe favors to others. This little brother Shanbo had helped Zuixianju many times, so it was only right for him to make this promise.
Qianhuan thought that the Chu family was a wealthy family with great wealth and power, and they also had a relative who was an official in the capital. She never knew if she would really need their help in the future. Since the young master Chu insisted, she should just agree.
"Okay, thank you, Brother Lin'an."