After leaving the Listening Hall Gathering, he took out the scroll that had been sealed away earlier and finally opened it to read.
"Even this costs three hundred taels?" Lu Xingshi was still deeply dissatisfied.
The contents were exceedingly limited. They did not even know who had set the fire or how many people were involved, only roughly when it started burning and when the fire was extinguished.
Next came the narrowed range of suspects. This part was acceptable; from certain traces, they had found the direction in which the suspect had departed.
And then there was nothing else.
Yes, that was all. It did not clearly spell out who had done it, who the mastermind behind the scenes was, what the crime process looked like, and so on. It did not even label the motive for them. If it had truly been that clear, it would not have been priced at three hundred taels.
This was naturally because the Listening Wind Pavilion branch had only gone to investigate after learning that Langya Pavilion had caught fire. They could only uncover a few scattered clues; it was not as if they had witnessed the entire process firsthand. Being able to find these clues already spoke to the professionalism of Listening Wind Pavilion's people.
"Not bad at all. At least there are still some traces," Murong Xuan said.
The investigation and questioning of the suspects had actually been done well. They could confirm that outsiders had committed the deed, with relevant traces to prove it.
The suspects had most likely headed north, though where exactly was unclear. By the time Listening Wind Hall found this lead, three days had already passed. The people were long gone, and they had no way to investigate further, so that was where it ended.
"Northward.