Chapter 454 Zero Tolerance

The officer's face changed and he reached out to grab Su Ying, but before his hand touched Su Ying, a sharp hook was stretched out in front of him, only an inch away from his eyes. As long as Su Ying moved her hand forward, the hook would pierce his eyeball.

The officer was so frightened that he froze in his place and dared not move. "Who are you to be so bold as to touch a government official?"

"I'm looking for someone, don't interfere with me."

The officer quickly retreated, his frightened expression immediately turned fierce, "What are you still standing there for? Throw this man out!"

The officers obeyed the order and stepped forward to surround Su Ying.

Su Ying hooked open a beam and saw an old lady lying there twisted with half of her body burned black.

The old lady said that she hoped she could survive and raise her grandson so that she could feel at ease.

She said that she must have done good things in her previous life, which was why she met Su Ying when she was about to die.

But now, she was lying in the dark fire, and could no longer hear her grandson call her Grandma.

Su Ying squatted down and carried the old lady's body out, but the police came forward to arrest her at this time.

The old lady's body was grabbed by the officers and she staggered and fell heavily to the ground. Her almost carbonized legs broke, leaving the whole body incomplete.

Su Ying's eyebrows twitched, and she took a deep breath to suppress the anger in her eyes.

"Get out of here now, do you hear me?" The officer was still shouting and even kicked away the old lady's fallen limbs.

Su Ying put the old lady's body on the ground, stroked her eyelids with her palm and whispered, "Rest in peace. I will let your grandson grow up safely."

The old lady seemed to have heard Su Ying's words, and her eyes, which were still open in death, closed.

Su Ying picked out a charred wooden stick from the ruins and hit the official who was trampling on the old lady's corpse with it!

"It's you who should go!"

The officers rushed forward and surrounded Su Ying. Su Ying didn't want to waste time on them, so she picked them up and threw them out of the ruins. Anyone who dared to come forward was punched and made to doubt his life.

More than a dozen officers were thrown to the ground by Su Ying like rags.

"ah!"

Zhou Qing looked at the officer who was thrown out, picked up the wooden sticks on the ground and knocked out those who were not unconscious.

After all the officials were cleared out, Zhou Qing carried the child to the old lady.

"Grandma, Grandma..." The child cried out as he looked at the old lady lying on the ground, but no matter how much he called, the old lady would not respond to him.

"There is an inn at the end of the street. You can take the child there and stay there first. I will come to find you later."

Zhou Qing looked at Su Ying worriedly, "Young Master, you must be careful."

"kindness."

After Zhou Qing left, Su Ying continued to search in the ruins. After finding all the bodies, she came to the backyard of the inn according to her memory.

Outside in the backyard she found traces of tung oil.

Tung oil was found not only in the backyard, but also in the collapsed woodshed.

Shopkeeper Li said that there was no open flame in the backyard at night and it was impossible to spill tung oil on flammable places for no reason. This was clearly arson!

After confirming her guess, Su Ying took the old lady's body away from the ruins, found a relatively quiet place in the city to bury the body, and then went to the inn where Zhou Qing was staying.

"Old Li has always been a cautious person. How could he let such a big thing happen in the inn? It would be fine if he just paid the money, but now so many people have died in the inn. His whole life is ruined."

"Food is expensive now, water is expensive too, how many customers in the store are willing to pay for a fire? The kettles with warm water are all in the middle of the yard, and even if the stove rolls on the ground, the fire can't be lit. I heard that Lao Li rejected the He family's things yesterday, which made Manager Wang very unhappy. I'm afraid he has asked someone to take revenge..."

Su Ying stood in the lobby of the inn and listened to the conversation between the two people in front of the inn counter. It was not impossible that they were doing this. She looked up and saw Zhou Qing standing in front of the fence waving at her.

Su Ying went upstairs and followed Zhou Qing into the guest room.

As soon as the door was closed, Zhou Qing asked anxiously, "Sir, have you settled my mother?"

Su Ying nodded, "Yes, it was buried in an open space near the outskirts of the city."

"This must have been set by someone. I'm sure there was no open fire in the kitchen last night."

"Someone did set the fire. I found a lot of traces of tung oil on the backyard wall and in the woodshed. If it wasn't arson, the fire wouldn't have spread so quickly in the absence of wind."

Zhou Qing was so angry that he clenched his fists. "The arsonist is really despicable. How many innocent people have been killed!"

"Tomorrow morning, when the city gates open, you will go out of the city and wait. When the queen arrives, you can go out of the city with her."

"Yes, I understand."

After being beaten up by Su Ying, the officials who returned to the government office found that Su Ying was gone when they woke up. They quickly cleaned up Su Ying's body and brought it back to the government office to report to Lord Wei.

"Master Wei, those people are back from their errands."

Lord Wei was holding a piece of raw chicken and teasing a turtle in a jar. Upon hearing this, he threw the raw meat into the jar, and the turtle bit it in one bite.

"Let someone in."

Lord Wei turned around and saw the officer with a swollen face. "What happened to you?"

The officer's face was twisted with pain. "My Lord, someone caused trouble and injured the officers. They also knocked a few of us unconscious..."

Wei Daren frowned, "Where are the people?"

"Run, run..."

Lord Wei laughed angrily, "You dozen officers can't catch one person? You are useless trash! Send someone to look for him. How can we let him ruin the prestige of our government?"

"Yes, yes."

Lord Wei's eyes were dark as he asked, "Is the fire out?"

"Yes, it has been destroyed. This matter has a lot to do with the innkeeper. I have already captured the innkeeper."

Lord Wei nodded in satisfaction, "Well, let them interrogate him strictly and then take him out as an example."

"yes."

"This kind of businessmen who don't care about the people and open the stove in the middle of the night to earn money from the people will lead to greedy businessmen. I will have zero tolerance!"

The officials and the housekeeper both agreed obsequiously, knowing what Lord Wei meant.

"Your Excellency is very insightful. There is no other person in Luocheng who cares about the lives of the people as much as you do."

Lord Wei nodded in agreement, "Go ahead, let the He family get the job done as soon as possible."

"yes."

…

The next morning, just as it was getting light, Zhou Qing rode out of Luo City on horseback and arrived at the location Su Ying mentioned.

There was a pavilion three miles outside the city. There was no one in the pavilion at this time, so Zhou Qing went to wait in the pavilion.

After a while, a team slowly walked towards this side.

Zhou Qing leaned forward a little and could clearly see that the curtains of the carriage were embroidered with phoenixes. She thought that the person sitting in the carriage should be the Queen.

(End of this chapter)