Chapter 121: The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor
Chapter 121: Who Set the Fire (3)
Everyone was stunned, looking at Mo Dashan with a strange expression. If Mo Dashan had tried to argue, they wouldn't have believed him. But since he had stated his purpose for coming here in the middle of the night, there was no way to doubt him.
Mo Qingze walked over, patting his shoulder with a smile. "I have to thank you for what happened tonight. If it weren't for you discovering the fire and calling for help in time, the consequences could have been unimaginable."
Mo Dashan couldn't explain the feeling in his heart when he ended up getting thanked instead of harming someone. He looked at Mo Qingze, who seemed genuinely grateful, feeling a burning sensation on his face. He pushed the man away and walked off.
Mo Qingze smiled and didn't mind. However, the fact that the arsonist hadn't been found yet made his mood somewhat depressed.
After discussing for a while without reaching any conclusion, and considering how tired they were from getting up in the middle of the night to fight the fire, they decided to discuss the matter again the next day.
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By the time Mo Yan found out that the wood for building the house had been set on fire, it was already the next day.
After learning the details of what happened and receiving assurance from Mo Qingze, she also felt that Mo Dashan couldn't be the arsonist. However, with the recent construction of the house and the purchase of the wasteland, they had indeed attracted jealousy. If someone was jealous enough to start a fire, it wasn't impossible.
With that in mind, there were now many suspects. However, Mo Yan instinctively listed the Old Mo family as the primary suspects. But this was only suspicion; she had no real evidence and wouldn't say anything to anyone.
Due to the burnt wooden beams, rafters, and purlins, it was too late to go back to the mountain to fell trees and dry them for processing. Mo Yan had no choice but to temporarily set aside the matter of the wasteland and inquire about getting enough wood from a lumberyard.
Worried that someone might sabotage things again, in the afternoon, Mo Yan brought Xiao Hua back to the city and tossed it onto the construction site.
The people at the construction site had never seen a snow wolf before. Seeing Xiao Hua sticking close to Mo Yan, rubbing against her legs and wagging its tail, obediently, they thought it was just an unusually large white dog. It didn't cause much of a stir, and many animal lovers even approached to pet it, only to be dodged by the aloof Xiao Hua.
Mo Yan specifically took Xiao Hua to the place where the fire occurred, hoping to see if Xiao Hua could detect anything suspicious. However, after sniffing around for a while, Xiao Hua found nothing.
"It's only been a day, and you can't smell anything suspicious. How did you find me before?"
Disappointed, Mo Yan pinched Xiao Hua's large ears. Xiao Hua seemed to understand her words, sniffing at the palm of her right hand and then looking up at her with bright eyes, as if trying to communicate.
Mo Yan unexpectedly understood. Subconsciously touching her right palm, could it be that because she possessed a space and used the Spirit Spring water, she carried a special scent that ordinary people couldn't detect, but Xiao Hua could distinguish?
After patting Xiao Hua's large wolf head helplessly, she said, "If we can't find anything, then we can't. But you'll have to work harder from now on, staying with my father at the construction site. When the house is built, I'll make sure to leave a room just for you, and I'll cook delicious food for you every day."
Somehow, her words triggered Xiao Hua's sensitive nerves. It couldn't help but let out a "howl," excitedly knocking Mo Yan to the ground and sticking out its warm, wet tongue to give her face a lick.
Fortunately, there was no one around to hear this sound. Mo Yan pushed it away with black lines all over her head, wiping her face with her sleeve, full of disgust.
She always felt that this fool was getting smarter day by day after entering the space every night. At least every time she spoke, this guy seemed to understand and could make corresponding actions to express itself.
At this moment, Xiao Hua squinted its wolf eyes, sticking out its tongue and rubbing against Mo Yan, acting spoiled.
Although this lord was a dignified snow wolf and shouldn't flatter a human, in order to grow in the future, what is flattery? Can it be eaten as spiritual energy?
So, Xiao Hua stayed on the construction site. Although it couldn't enter the space to drink Spirit Spring water, which made it unhappy, it faithfully performed its duties every day, wandering around the construction site without sneaking back.
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