It was said that the old cripple and Huang Renrui discussed how to save Cuihuan, and the old cripple said to Renrui: "You just said that there is an earth-shattering case, which is related to infinite human lives, and there is a bizarre plot, is it true or false?" I'm really not at ease. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info" Ren Rui said: "Don't be busy, don't be busy." I have been discussing for a long time about this hairy girl, and I have been doing serious things, my cigarettes have not been eaten well, let me take two puffs of cigarettes, refresh myself, and tell you. ”

Cuihuan was happy in her heart at the moment, and she didn't know what to do, when she heard that Renrui wanted to eat cigarettes, she quickly took the skewer and burned two bites for Renrui to eat. Ren Rui said: "In the northeast of Qihe County, forty-five miles away from the city, there is a big village and town, called Qidong Town, which is the hometown of the Qidong savages of the Zhou Dynasty. There are three or four thousand houses in this village, and there is a street and a dozen small streets. On the third side street south of the road, there is an old man Jia. The old man was no more than fifty years old and gave birth to two sons and a daughter. When the eldest son was there, he was in his thirties, and at the age of twenty, he married a girl from the Wei family in his village. Wei and Jia's two families relied on Zhuangtian for food, and each family had forty or fifty acres of land. The Wei family has no son, only this daughter, but inherits a distant nephew at home and manages all affairs. It's just that this successor son doesn't learn very well, so Wei Lao'er doesn't like him very much, but he likes this son-in-law like a treasure, who knows that this son-in-law felt angry last July, and in the middle of August, he died with a whimper. After a hundred days, Old Man Wei was afraid that his daughter would be sad, so he often took him home for ten days and a half to relieve his depression.

"What about this Jia family, the second son is twenty-four years old this year and is studying at home. Jia Lao'er has killed his eldest son, and the second son has become a treasure, I'm afraid he will work hard, and the book will not teach him to read. His daughter is nineteen years old this year, she looks like a flower and jade, and she is a capable person, and he is in charge of everything in the family. Therefore, the people of the village gave him a nickname, called 'Jia Tanchun'. The second child is also married to the daughter of a scholar family, with an extremely gentle personality and easy refusal to speak, so people see him more and more as honest and useless, and he is called 'Second Nerd'.

"This Jia Tanchun has grown to be nineteen years old, why doesn't he have a mother-in-law? Just because he is both talented and good-looking, and he is a country village, so how can there be such a handsome man to match him? There is only one prodigal son of Wu Er in the neighboring village, but he is born with a melancholy and handsome appearance, clever speech, rich family roads, and good at riding horses and archery. The same Jia family was originally an old relative, and they have always been close to each other's daughters, only this Wu Er's prodigal son once asked someone to ask for marriage. Jia Lao'er secretly thought, this family thing is still done; It's just that I heard people say that this Wu Er's prodigal son, who has stolen several women in the countryside, is good at gambling, and often runs to the provincial capital to play naughty, and he doesn't come back for a month or two. calculated in his heart, although this family is the richest man in the countryside, he will not be able to keep his furniture for a long time, so there is no promise. In the future, I will have to find someone who is equal to the family, but I can't find it, so I put this family matter aside.

"August 13 of this year is the anniversary of Boss Jia. The family invited the monk to worship for three days of confession, which was the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth days. After confession, Wei Lao'er took the girl home for the holiday. Who would have thought that in the afternoon of the same day, I heard that Jia Laoer's family was killed. This panic is really panicked! When I hurriedly ran to see, I had already arrived. The whole family died, and Jia Tanchun and his aunt came, and they all cried tears. In an instant, the aunt and grandmother of the Wei family, the eldest lady of the Jia family, also arrived; When I entered the door, I heard a cry, and I didn't know what was wrong, so I had to cry.

"At that time, Li Zheng looked at the front and back, counting the gatehouse, and one of the gatekeepers died, and two long-term workers died; hall and hall, fell to the ground and died, a scholar; In the hall, Jia Laoer died on the kang; When the second entered the upper room, two Jia Lao and his wife died, an old mother next to him, and a three-year-old child on the kang; In the kitchen, there is an old mother and a girl; In the wing, there is an old mother; In the wing room of the front hall, there was a man in charge: men and women, a total of thirteen people died. At that time, he reported to the county overnight.

"As soon as the drought cleared the next day in the county, I took my companions to the countryside - to test. There is not a single injured person whose bones are not hard, whose skin is not bruised, and who is neither murderous nor poisoned, and this case is a little difficult to handle. On the one hand, the Jia family handles the coffin, and on the other hand, the county has a string of funeral services. The county was in the process of drafting, and suddenly the Jia family sent a notice, saying that they had found out that they had been murdered. ”

When Fang said this, Cuihuan raised his head and shouted, "Look! Why are the windows so red? In a word, all I could hear was the sound of "it will be peeled off", and the people outside were noisy, shouting loudly: "Fire!" On fire! A few hurriedly ran out of the upper room, only to lift the curtain, only to see that the fire was the back of the old remnant's wing. The old cripple hurriedly took out the key to open the lock on the door, and Huang Renrui shouted loudly: "Two more people, help Master Tie move things!" ”

As soon as the old man opened the iron lock and pushed the door, he saw a large cloud of black smoke in the room, and when he looked out, the tongue of fire was already coming out of the window. The old cripple was rushed by the black smoke, and hurriedly looked back, but tripped over a brick and fell. It just so happened that the people who had come to carry the things were just in the air, so they picked up the old man and carried him to the east.

Looking at the fire at the moment, I was afraid that I would have to go to the upper room, so Huang Renrui's family took everyone into the upper room to grab things. Huang Renrui stood in the center of the courtyard and shouted: "Hurry up and move that tent out first, but the others are still behind!" When he said that, Huang Sheng had already moved the tent box out. Those people with many hands have already moved out Huang Renrui's luggage and put it at the foot of the east wall. The shop had already moved a few long benches and invited them to sit. Ren Rui checked the objects, there were a lot of them, but there was one more, and he hurriedly asked someone to move them to the cabinet room. Judge, guess what's more? It turned out to be Cuihua's luggage. Renrui knew that the county magistrate would come to see the fire, and if he did, he would be a little embarrassed, so he asked someone to move there. And said to Ercui: "You also go to the cabinet room to avoid it, and the county magistrate will come immediately." When Ercui heard this, he walked along the root of the wall and went to the front.

Moreover, when the fire broke out, the neighbors and the river workers all looked for buckets and basins and rushed to put out the fire. Helplessly, both sides of the Yellow River have been frozen solidly, and although there is flowing water in it, people cannot take it. There is a big pit behind the store, but it has already frozen as flat as the ground. There are only two wells outside the city with water in them, and you think, slowly start bucket by bucket, what's the use? These people were in a hurry, so they chiseled open the ice in the pit and threw it into the fire piece by piece. Then the power of this ice is greater than water, and if a piece of ice is thrown down, there will be no fire in a place. There were seven or eight people standing on the ridge of the upper house, and dozens of people carrying ice to the house, and the people on the house then looked at the fire, and half of them threw themselves into the fire, and half fell on the upper house, so the fire could not reach the upper house.

The old man and Huang Renrui were watching people fight the fire on the east wall, only to see a lantern torch outside, the county official had arrived, and led the man to hold the hook and long pole and other pieces to come to the rescue. When he entered the door, he saw that the fire had subsided, and on the one hand, he tore down the house with a hook, and on the other hand, he took the thin ice in the shallow part of the Yellow River and threw it into the fire to suppress the fire, and the fire gradually went out.

When the county magistrate saw Huang Renrui standing under the east wall, he stepped forward, asked for a peace, and said, "Lao Xiantai is frightened! Ren Rui said: "It's not that much, but we make up for the hard burning." Because he said to the county official: "Ziweng, I will introduce you personally." This person's surname is Tie, and his name is disabled, and he has a lot to do with you, and it is easy to rely on him in that case. The county official said, "Whoa! Is Iron Patch here? Come and meet us. Ren Rui immediately beckoned and shouted: "Old cripple, please come here!" ”

The old remnant and Renrui sat on a stool, because they saw the county palace coming, they paced through the crowd, and avoided by watching the fire. When I heard the greeting, I came over, made a bow with the county official, and said some words of admiration to each other. The county magistrate has a mazazi, and the old cripple and Renrui still sit on a bench. It turns out that the surname of this Qihe County is Wang, and his name is Jin, and he is also from Jiangnan, and he is the same township as the old and disabled. Although he was born as a jinshi, he is not confused.

At that moment, Renrui said to the prince: "I think that in the case of Your Excellency Qidong Village, you can only ask Bu Weng to write a letter to the palace guard, and you must send Bai Zishou to Zhaoxue; That desperate thing didn't dare to be too stubborn. My generation is the same official, and it is not good to offend him; Bu Weng is an outsider, and there is no need to be taboo. What do you mean? When Zijin heard this, he was very happy and said, "Jia Wei's family deserves to be a savior!" Yay, great! The old cripple listened to it without a head, and he didn't agree, and he didn't agree, so he had to be vague and promised.

At that time, the fire had been completely extinguished, and the county magistrate wanted to drag the two to live in the yamen. Ren Rui said: "The upper room is not burning, I can still move in, but Tie Gong is inevitably homeless." The old remnant said: "Okay, okay!" It was late at night, and it was dawn soon. After dawn, I go out on the street to buy my luggage, and I don't get in the way. The county magistrate tried hard to persuade the old and disabled to go to the yamen. The old cripple said: "It's okay for me to disturb Brother Huang, please rest assured." The magistrate asked diligently, "What do you burn?" It's a big deal. However, what we have purchased and managed in the county has been a little thin. The old man smiled and said: "One side of the cloth, one bamboo tube, two cloth shirts and trousers, several broken books, and one iron string bell, that's all." The county magistrate smiled: "Not sure." And he smiled.

Just as he was about to say goodbye, he saw that the earth security was accompanied by a messenger, an iron rope, locked a person, knelt on the ground, like a chicken signing rice, kowtowed again and again, and only shouted: "Lord God's grace!" God's grace! The earthman knelt on one leg and shouted, "The fire started in this old man's house." Please ask the eldest master: Do you still bring it back to the yamen for trial, or do you want to try it here? The magistrate asked, "What's your last name?" What's it called? Where are the people? How did the fire start? I saw that the people on the ground kowtowed again and again, and said, "The little one's surname is Zhang, his name is Zhang Er, he is from the city, and he works as a long-term worker in the shop next door." Because I got up yesterday at dawn and was busy until more than two days in the evening, I was a little free and went back to the house to sleep. Who knew that the shirt and pants were soaked with sweat, and as soon as I fell asleep, it was strangely cold, and the colder it was, the more I squatted, and I couldn't sleep. The little one saw that there were some millet straws in this house, so he smoked a few and burned them to bake them. Then he remembered that there was leftover wine from the guests on the windowsill, and he took it to the fire and simmered it, and drank a few minutes. Who knows that a man who is tired all day will get some heating, and two glasses of wine will be in his stomach, and he will sit there and fall asleep. As soon as I fell asleep, I felt uncomfortable with smoke in my nose, and I hurriedly opened my eyes, and a large piece of the cotton jacket on my body was already burning, and the wall of the straw was already open. Hurriedly came out to find water to splash, the fire had already come out of the roof, and there was no way for the small ones. The trick is real, ask for the grace of the lord! The county magistrate scolded the "bastard" and said, "Take it to the yamen!" After that, he stood up and made a statement to Huang and Tie Er: He repeatedly told Ren Rui to try to find a way to complete the case, and then hurriedly went.

At that time, the fire was extinguished, and only white gas was rising. Ren Rui watched Huang Sheng lead everyone, and moved the objects in, still on display. Ren Rui said: "The smoke in the house is too heavy, burn a box of longevity incense to smoke." "Ren Rui smiled at the old man; Tie Gong, I see that you are still busy going back to the house, will you go back? The old remnant said: "It's all left by you again and again." If I had been in the house, I wouldn't have been burned so clean by him. Ren Rui said, "Huh! Shameless! If I let you go back, I'm afraid that even you will be burned to death inside! You don't thank me well, but you come to blame me, you really don't know what to do. The old man said, "Am I a dead man?" If you don't compensate me, see if I have a break with you! ”

As he spoke, he saw the curtain of the door lifted, and Huang Sheng led a man wearing a big hat in, and hit the old man with a thousand words, saying, "I said to ask for peace to Master Tie." I sent a pair of covers, which I used for myself, pickled a little, please don't dislike it, tomorrow I will ask the tailor to hurry up and make a new one and send it over, and I will be a little bit tonight. and a set of fox fur robes and horse coats, please use them as you like. The old man stood up and said, "I'm tired of you, it's expensive." I'll leave my luggage here for the time being, borrow it for a day or two, and return it when I buy it myself. I have already put on my clothes, and they have not been burned, so I don't bother with expensive labor. Thank you when you go back. "The family still won't bring their clothes. It was still Huang Renrui who said: "The clothes, the iron master will never accept them." Just say what I said, and take it back. "The family went again.

The old cripple said: "I burned it back, it's always you who are blind, and you burned a roll of Cuihuan's luggage in it, do you say you are wronged?" Huang Renrui said: "Then it doesn't matter!" I said that his bunk was worth less than ten taels of silver, and that he would be rewarded with fifteen taels of silver tomorrow, and that he couldn't stand it if he liked it. Cuihuan said: "No, it's probably me, an unlucky person, a roll of bedding has ruined many good things for Tie Ye." The old remnant said: "The objects are worthless, but it's a pity that my two Song Banshu have nowhere to buy them, so it's a pity." However, it is also a day, just listen to him. Ren Rui said: "It's not unusual for me to read Song Banshu, but it's a pity that your skewered bells are also destroyed, isn't it lost your clothes and jobs?" The old man said: "It's not." You should have paid for this, what else to say? Ren Rui said: "Let's go, let's go, let's go!" Burn his bed, burn your string bells. Good luck, congratulations, congratulations! He shook Cuihuan, and then made a gesture to the old man, and said: "From now on, he doesn't have to be a bitch who sells skins, and you don't have to be a talker!" ”

The old cripple shouted: "Good, good, scolding is so bitter!" Cuihuan, you don't want to screw his mouth yet! Cuihuan said: "Amitabha! It's always the mercy of two! Cuihua nodded and said: "Huanmei is good from this, and Tie Lao is an official from this, this fire is really a good fire, and I have to say goodbye for the two." The old cripple said: "According to you, he is good, but I am cheap?" Huang Renrui said: "Don't talk about it, let me ask you: is it talking or sleeping?" If you sleep, pack your luggage; If you speak, I will tell you again about that strange case. Then he shouted, "Come on!" ”

The old man said: "You say, I am willing to listen." Ren Rui said: "Didn't you just say that the Jia family sent Ding to sue and said that they had found out that they had been murdered?" It turned out that there were crippled half moon cakes on Jia Lao'er's table, and there were traces of eating moon cakes in most of the people's rooms. This moon cake was delivered by the Wei family two days ago. Therefore, the new son of the Jia family is named Jia Gan, and he told Jia Tanchun that his sister-in-law Jia Wei had committed adultery with someone and murdered a family of thirteen with poison.

The prince of Qihe County sent this Jia Gan and asked him who the adulterer was, but he couldn't point it out. The remnants of the moon cake, only half of which have been broken, but there is a little arsenic in the filling. The prince sent this Jia Wei clan and asked about the situation. Jia Wei said: 'The moon cakes were delivered on the 12th. I was still in Jia's house, and someone ate it at that time, but he never died. Then I passed that Wei Lao'er. Wei Lao'er confessed: 'The moon cakes are made by Simeizhai on the street, which is toxic and non-toxic, and can be cross-examined. When Simeizhai was passed on, the moon cakes were made by his family, but the filling was sent by the Wei family. It was this section, but the Wei family's father and daughter had to be temporarily taken into custody. Although he was taken into custody, he did not put on the torture equipment, but he was just an empty room in the prison, and he left it to his own arrangement. Zijin felt in his heart that it was not poisoning; I personally examined it, and there was no poisoning. Even if moon cakes are poisonous, not everyone may eat them at the same time, and there is no difference between light poison and heavy poison?

"The bitter master's family urged the news to be severe, so he went to Futai in detail and asked someone to interrogate. A few days ago, Qi Qiao sent Gangsheng Mulai. This person's surname is Gang, his name is Bi, he is a protégé of Lu Jitang, he specializes in his teacher, and he is honest and honest. As soon as he could run, he put that Wei Lao'er on a clamp stick, and Jia Wei's on a hammer. Both fainted, but there was no confession. The road to the family is narrow: Wei Lao'er's family is a foolish and honest man, and when he saw the lord eating this unjust lawsuit, he raised some money for him, went to the city to do something, and voted for a squire's family. ”

Speaking of this, I saw Huang Sheng open the curtain and walk in, and said, "The master is called." Ren Rui said: "Clean up the bed." Huang Sheng said: "How to put the cover?" Ren Rui thought for a while and said, "It's cold outside, let's sleep inside." He said to the old remnant: "The kang in the room is very big, I will sleep with you, and ask the two sisters and sons to open the bed and roll up to sleep, okay?" The old man said: "Very good, very good." It's just that you're alone. Ren Rui said: "Guarding the two, what are you still living alone?" The old remnant said: "It doesn't matter if you live alone or not, hurry up and say, how about throwing yourself into this Huju family?" "Know what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. (To be continued.) )