Lin Mengyi wasn't very popular among the clan. He even quarreled with several families in the clan because of his troublesome wife.
But now that he's dead, regardless of how he was before, he was still a member of the clan.
The clan shared the grief, and no one took pleasure in his misfortune.
In a large family style of huddling together for warmth and survival, the clan members were very close. Someone entered the Lin Family Manor to kill and set fire, how could they tolerate that?
Why didn't they consider that it might have been an accidental fire?
It's simple, houses near the coast were either stone or mud brick, neither of which were materials easy to catch fire.
A hundred years back, there was only one fire during the end of the previous dynasty caused by bandit troubles, never a fire without reason.
