Be in low spirits

Chapter 178: Arson Investigation

After changing clothes from Su Yaoer, she found the three guards, gave them some money to buy them a student-style Zhongshan suit, and then set out together to the newspaper office to look for someone.

A group of people went to find Zhong Yulan, saying that they were students of the school and wanted to know more details about the arson case. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper told them that Zhong Yulan was in the hospital, waiting for the wounded to wake up, and they could get more clues. They ran to the hospital again, but there were more than a dozen guards guarding the inpatient department. Not only could they not get in, but Zhong Yulan and her colleagues couldn't get in either.

Gu Jinluo took Yao'er to find Zhong Yulan and introduced himself to her, saying, "Senior sister, we are students of Shuangxi National University. In the future, we hope to become an excellent newspaper worker like you, so we came here because of your reputation."

Zhong Yulan loved these false reputations the most. When she heard that this junior sister came here because of her reputation, she smiled brightly. She quickly pulled her to sit next to her and said, "Junior sister? Who is the teacher who taught you?"

It was fun, but it was also necessary to test. It was the first time for Yaoer to do this, and she was timid and couldn't help but hold her hand tightly.

"We have a small newspaper club in school. Mr. Ding is the instructor of the club. As students, we are also outraged by such a heartless act as burning military rations. So we want to know more information and follow our senior sister to investigate. I wonder what she has found out now?"

"You can see that we can't get into the hospital ward, so we can't find out more." She wanted to go in and see the wounded to see if she could get more valuable clues, but she couldn't get in until the afternoon, and she didn't see the new general. "Why didn't the new general come to visit the wounded? It would be nice if he could take a photo of his face." She waited for a long time and felt a little discouraged.

"Senior Sister, you were the only one who took photos of the fire scene last night. You live nearby, right?" People were not allowed to approach the military warehouse easily, and no one leaked the news. She couldn't rush over to take photos and grab the headlines.

"No, I just met him by chance."

It was obvious that this was a lie. Gu Jinluo looked at the guards standing guard at the inpatient ward in the distance and said, "Senior Sister, you have been waiting here for a long time, right? How about we go buy you some food and drinks?"

She ignored her and Gu Jinluo just thought she agreed and took Yaoer to buy some food and fruits.

Zhong Yulan picked up a steamed bun and started to eat it. She said to the guard at the inpatient department, "I don't know when I can see him again."

"Is it possible that the people inside can't speak? Are they burned? Since you know that someone burned military rations, you should know some inside information, right?" She wanted to get some information about the photos.

"You said this new general is so mysterious, does he know something?" Zhong Yulan also wanted to get something out of this so-called junior sister.

"New general? I only heard that he was from Jinghua and had a prominent family background. Maybe Mr. Ding knows something? Yao'er, let's go ask Mr. Ding." Gu Jinluo pulled Yao'er out of the hospital and pretended to pick out jewelry in the jewelry store opposite the hospital.

"Luoluo, why don't you continue asking?" Yao'er probably guessed that she wanted to ask the reporter about the source of the photo, but how did this come out?

"Zhong Yulan doesn't want to tell us anything, so we can only follow her and see if there are any suspicious people around her." She asked the three guards to stay away from them.

At around 6 pm, Zhong Yulan came out of the hospital, followed by several people.

She first went back to the newspaper office, bought some food on the way back, and went to the cheongsam shop to get something. She handed the things she got from the cheongsam shop to a young man in the police station. The two talked for a long time. The few people did not dare to get too close, and could not hear clearly what they were saying.

Gu Jinluo instructed one guard to follow the young man from the police station, and the remaining two to escort them back to the general's mansion.

It was already past 8 o'clock in the evening when we returned to the General's Mansion. Ye Fan and Yang Lin had not returned yet. It seemed that there was still no clue about the burning of military rations.

After dinner, the two of them hid in the pavilion to drink tea. Yaoer asked the kitchen to prepare two bowls of liver-protecting soup to keep warm.

"Yao'er, you are gentle and beautiful. Apart from his family background, I don't know how Yang Lin is worthy of you." She looked at her watch and saw that the guard had not returned yet.

"It's my blessing that Ji Huai likes me." Yao'er teased the cat and began to feel inferior.

"If he didn't have that kind of family background, he might not have been able to reach this position. It's not certain whether you think highly of him or not." She took out the comic book she hadn't finished reading.

"Luoluo, is there really a Mr. Ding you mentioned?"

"Of course, Mr. Ding is the president of Sungai National University and has some connections with my family. Oh, speaking of this, I should ask my brother to send the roster information of the police station here! Look at my brain, wait a minute, I'll make a phone call."

Thinking of this, she immediately took action. Gu Lang received her call, saying that she wanted to find someone from the police station, and he couldn't help but worry.

"Is there any danger? If it really doesn't work, I'll send a car to pick you up?"

"No, I just ran into a thief while I was shopping, and someone from the police station helped me. I wanted to find that person to thank him."

"You are a member of the Gu family. Doesn't Ye Fan know how to assign you a few guards? How can he let you go out alone?"

"Brother! I'm not a child. What's the point of going shopping with so many people? Besides, I wasn't frightened. If you can't get it, just say you can't get it. Why are you talking so much?"

"How can I not be worried when you're looking for someone from the police station so late at night? It's hard enough to accompany the army, and now you get a phone call saying you want to find ..."

"If you can find it, then look for it. If you can't find it, I'll find it myself!" She hung up the phone angrily.

The phone call made her very angry. The guards who followed her also returned to the general's mansion and reported to her that the person they were following was indeed suspicious. He was the cousin of the concubine of Yi Datan, the deputy general of the Shuangxi garrison.

After hearing this, Yaoer felt very happy that after tracking for so long, she finally found a useful clue.

Yang Lin saw her from a distance and thought she had seen something new, so he ran over to ask, "What are you so happy about?"

Ye Fan also looked at Gu Jinluo who was sitting there. Yao'er rubbed Yang Lin's arm back and forth with her hands, jumping up and down and saying, "We found it, we found it."

"Have you eaten? Yao'er asked someone to warm up the soup, and asked Butler Hou to find someone to bring it to you?" Gu Jinluo didn't know how to tell him before getting the roster.

"Bring it up." He grabbed the hand of the person in front of him and sat down, with some fatigue in his eyes. He wanted to hug her, but was worried about Yang Lin and Su Yaoer.

Seeing his intention, Gu Jinluo sat on his lap and said, "Are you tired? Do you have any idea?"

Yang Lin and Yao'er couldn't stay here any longer, so they had to move to another place.

"We counted the remaining food today and found that a lot of it was burned. I don't know how to make up for this shortfall."

"Today I heard on the street that Commander Pei is very popular among the people. Suddenly something like this happened. Is it someone in the army who is deliberately taking revenge on you?"

Butler Hou brought him soup, but he was in no mood to drink it. Gu Jinluo pried his hands apart, picked up the soup and fed him, saying, "On the day when the military rations were burned, a reporter took photos of the incident. Yaoer and I disguised ourselves as schoolgirls and followed her for a day. We found that she was very familiar with the people in the police station."

"How do you know what that reporter knows?" He took the bowl of soup and drank it himself, without even thinking of starting with a reporter.

"Not everyone can get close to the military depot. By the time you put out the fire, reporters may not be able to arrive. She must have received the news in advance to be able to take pictures."

The guard at the door got the list and passed it to Butler Hou, who took it to the pavilion and said, "Miss, the deputy inspector from the police station came with the list and said he wanted to see you."

Ye Fan thought he was going to see him, and frowned as he looked at the list and said, "Patrol Office? What do you want to see me for? Did you find out who set the fire?"

"Uh, young master, the inspector said he wants to see the young lady." Butler Hou handed the list to Gu Jinluo.

"It's too late today. Go tell him that I'll come to the police station to thank him another day." She took the list and looked through it. It was Li Jiaji, only 24 years old.

"Police station? Are you in danger today?" Ye Fan became nervous. The last assassination attempt was still fresh in his mind. Nothing could happen again this time.

"No, didn't they say that the female reporter was familiar with the people in the police station? So they asked my brother... no, my cousin, they asked my cousin to find someone to send the police station's list to us."

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