Li Sisi covered her mouth and nose with her wet sleeves, squinting her eyes as she searched through the thick smoke. The furniture in the wing room had already been burned beyond recognition, and flames shot out from all directions, occasionally hitting the hem of her wet skirt.
"Wen Luoxin! Where are you? Cough cough cough! Wen Luoxin!" she shouted at the top of her voice.
Thick smoke rushed in through her mouth and nostrils, choking her and making her cough repeatedly.
“Cough cough cough!”
Suddenly, there was a slight cracking sound above her head. Li Sisi had an ominous premonition in her heart. She looked up and saw a burning beam falling towards her!
She instinctively rolled to the side, but her left arm was still scratched by the edge of the beam.
A sharp pain came instantly, and blood slowly seeped out through the thin outer robe.
"Second Madam!" Xiaohong's voice came from behind.
Li Sisi had searched the entire house, but didn't see Wen Luoxin, so she felt relieved.
At this time, Xiaohong ran towards her with her face covered in soot, and the corners of her clothes were burned by the flames, but she didn't notice it.
Li Sisi strode over and extinguished the flames on his body. Then she said with difficulty: "We didn't find him."
My throat was burning with pain, but I was truly grateful in my heart, as long as I was still alive.
"Get out first! The house is going to collapse!" Xiaohong said hurriedly, not caring about the difference between status and gender, and pulled Li Sisi out.
As the two rushed out of the door, there was a loud bang behind them, and the entire roof collapsed, sparks flying everywhere.
Seeing the two of them come out safely, Li Nian rushed over and looked at Li Sisi while anxiously saying, "Are you okay?"
"Are you crazy?" His voice trembled, his hands tightly grasping Li Sisi's shoulders, "Do you know how dangerous that was just now?!"
Li Sisi coughed violently and raised her face, which was red from the smoke: "Cough cough in the room! No one is coughing! Wen Luoxin is not here..."
Li Nian was startled and turned to look at Xiao Hei: "Didn't you say you didn't see her come out?"
Xiao Hei's face turned pale: "I swear, I didn't see Miss Wen leave."
Just then, a steady stream of footsteps approached from afar. A team of officers in official uniforms arrived, holding torches. Leading them was a captain with thick eyebrows and large eyes, the sword at his waist gleaming coldly in the heat of the fire.
"What happened? Who set the fire?" the captain asked sternly.
Li Nian took a deep breath, suppressing his turbulent emotions. He stepped forward and bowed slightly, then replied, "Sir, we are the owners of this manor. A fire broke out in one of our courtyards tonight. The exact cause is still unknown."
The captain looked at the brother and sister, his eyes fell on Li Sisi's injured arm: "Is this girl injured?"
"It's okay, just a minor injury." Li Sisi grabbed her right arm with her left hand and couldn't help but gasp.
The wound was burning with pain, and blood soaked through the light blue sleeve of his robe.
Li Nian then realized that Li Sisi's arm was injured and immediately ordered: "Go get a doctor!"
Then he turned to the captain and said, "Sir, someone in my family has been injured. Could we discuss this in detail later?"
The captain nodded and said, "My name is Zhao Yong, responsible for public security in this county. The fire is dangerous, please retreat to a safe place. Come, control the fire and search the scene!"
The officers acted quickly, some assisted the servants in putting out the fire, and some began to survey the fire scene.
Li Nian helped Li Sisi retreat to a pavilion in the distance, and Xiaohong hurriedly took out a clean handkerchief to bandage Li Sisi.
"Niannian, this isn't right." Li Sisi lowered her voice. "Wen Luoxin has been under house arrest for so many days, and the gate is guarded. How could she disappear out of thin air?"
Li Nian frowned: "Unless someone helps her?"
A hint of coldness flashed in Li Nian's eyes. "Perhaps this fire was a ploy to lure the tiger away from the mountain."
Li Sisi was about to ask again when she heard Captain Zhao shout loudly, "We've found something here!"
The brother and sister exchanged a glance, then stood up and looked toward the fire. They saw several officers gathered somewhere in the ruins, with Captain Zhao leaning over something. After a moment, he stood up and walked toward them with a serious expression.
The captain said solemnly, "No body was found at the fire scene, but this was found against the courtyard wall."
He spread out his palm, and in it was a jade pendant, a jade pendant that was supposed to belong to Xiao Yunyu.
Seeing this jade pendant, you can contact the caravans in the north and south.
The captain's sharp gaze darted back and forth between the brother and sister's faces. "Could you please explain why Miss Wen disappeared in the middle of the night? And how is she connected to this fire?"
"Miss Wen is a guest in my house. Please open a case for investigation. As for her identity..." Li Nian hesitated for a moment, thinking of what Li Sisi said about the person in Jiangling City being Xiao Yunchen's man. He must know something about their house arrest of Wen Luoxin.
So he said, "Your Excellency the Prefect should know better than us. It's getting late tonight, please take a rest. My sister and I will go to the government office to pay our respects to the Prefect tomorrow."
Upon hearing this, the captain was stunned for a moment.
It seems that the owner of this manor is quite powerful!
"good."
After the captain responded, he said goodbye to Li Nian and Li Sisi and left.
Li Nian helped Li Sisi walk towards their yard, and left the matters here to Xiaohong and Xiaohei to deal with.
After exchanging the medicine with the system, Li Nian silently helped Li Sisi apply the medicine.
"Everyone saw that you were injured, so you can't directly use the special medicine exchanged by the system, so as not to let others notice the clues." Li Nian explained.
Li Sisi nodded.
Thinking of the jade pendant just now, she asked doubtfully: "Whose jade pendant could it be? Did Wen Luoxin run away on her own and accidentally lose the jade pendant?"
Li Nian was silent for a moment, then confessed, "I recognize that jade pendant."
She gently helped Li Sisi wipe her vagina, and spoke in a soft tone: "I'm telling you the truth, don't get excited."
"Why should I be excited?" Li Sisi frowned in confusion.
Li Nian said, "That jade pendant belongs to Xiao Yunyu."
"What?!" Li Sisi stood up excitedly, causing a pain in the wound on her arm.
"I told you not to get excited. Don't you know that your arm is injured?" Li Nian said with a hint of blame in his tone.
Li Sisi looked at her calm demeanor and couldn't help asking, "No, sister, you're not angry at all? Why don't you write a letter to Xiao Yunyu and ask him what's going on?!"
"Yes, I will ask." Li Nian placed the jade pendant on the table and stared at the crystal clear animal-shaped jade pendant in a trance.
"You said... Xiao Yunyu is far away in the northwest, and Wen Luoxin has always been in the capital. How did the two of them meet? Why would Xiao Yunyu give such an important jade pendant to Wen Luoxin?"
"Or perhaps it wasn't Wen Luoxin who lost it, but the arsonist? But considering the value of this jade pendant, Xiao Yunyu wouldn't easily hand it over to someone else."
Li Nian talked to himself.
Despite all the doubts, she couldn't help but let her imagination run wild.
The heroine died and the world was reset, forcing them to protect the heroine.
With the halo of such a heroine, what is impossible?
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