After a heavy rain, the whole world fell silent.

Peacefully, like a baby lying in its mother's arms, enjoying the softness of the night with its eyes closed.

At night, Di Mansion ushered in an uninvited guest.

Di Zhifu saw Tang Shao, who was dressed in regular clothes, appear at the door of the study, and was obviously stunned.

"Lord Tang, why are you here?" Although the prefect of Di who saw the ceremony looked surprised, it did not prevent him from respectfully leading Tang Shao to the seat.

Tang Shao nodded slightly, but was not humble and polite, and walked straight to the upper seat.

Behind it, a sunken gloomy face was revealed.

"My lord, drink tea." Di Zhifu bent down and served tea with his own hands.

Tang Shao was not polite, he took the teacup with his jaw head and said plainly: "You're polite, Master Di." ”。

Then, drink tea with your head down.

The surroundings seemed to be quiet all of a sudden, except for the sound of gently sipping tea.

Di Zhifu took a breath, and as soon as he raised his gaze, he met Tang Shao's gaze that happened to be chasing after him, and he felt a chill all over his body.

His feelings suddenly became nervous, and he subconsciously lowered his head to drink tea.

The hot tea poured down his throat all the way to his chest, and he reacted, what was he panicking about?

It's just a look.

He quickly calmed down, put down the teacup unhurriedly, and looked at Tang Shao seriously: "What are you doing this time?" ”

"Today, Tang saw a person who called himself Pei Yongnian." Tang Shao was straight to the point and straightforward.

Di Zhifu's heart trembled, but his face did not change at all, and he made an expression of listening carefully.

Tang Shao looked at him.

"Hmm. I don't know what this Pei Yongnian has to do to find an adult? Di Zhifu's tone was tactful.

"Master Di doesn't know?" A rhetorical cross-examination, his expression was as cold as his voice.

Di Zhifu suddenly felt that there was nothing to hide......

"I don't know...... How could the lower officials ...... Know. In tension, he stammered and explained, with a weak heart.

"He came to see the official and said that there was a way to prove whether the gold bars that had been salvaged in the river a few days ago were the silver involved in the deposition of the former commander." Tang Shao's voice was low and his eyes were deep.

Di Zhifu was out of breath all of a sudden.

I felt a pair of invisible hands around my neck.

With a little force, you can hear the sound of bones crushing in your neck.

A chill crept up his spine in an instant.

What the? Could it be that Pei Yongnian really has a way to prove that it is the silver involved in the case?

No way......

If there is no name written on the silver, how can it be proof?

He must be slandering! Those who are frightened will be caught by him.

Tang Shao stared at his uncertain face, and finally looked away faintly.

Di Zhifu stabilized his mind, raised his head and pretended to be confused: "If there is really a way." Then you might as well let this Pei Yongnian try. Maybe you can really recover the stolen money for the imperial court. ”

Tang Shao didn't answer.

But the gaze seems to condense into ice quickly, which is daunting.

There was a moment of uncertainty in the Di Governor's Mansion.

As soon as I thought about it, I was surprised how a veteran of officialdom could be suppressed by a hairy guy in his twenties.

His heart was firm again, and there was no sign on his face.

"That being the case. Then Tang will leave first. Tang Shao retracted his gaze. The low voice just now quickly turned cold.

"Xiaguan sends the adults out." Di Zhifu immediately stretched out his left hand and made a gesture to guide him.

Even the greetings of the guests are exempted.

Tang Shao was noncommittal. As soon as he took two steps, he suddenly stopped thinking of something, and said behind his back: "Thank you for the clothes and food sent by Mrs. Di." Tell Mrs. for trouble, you don't have to send it in the future, Tang Shao has someone to take care of your daily life. ”

seems to be an unrelated sentence, but Di Zhifu understands it.

Mother Fang, who was sent by Mrs. Di, euphemistically conveyed Mrs. Di's desire to send someone who knew the cold and the hot to take care of his daily life, but at this moment, Tang Shao clearly refused.

"Yes, yes, yes! Good, good, good. Di Zhifu smiled brightly, but in his heart he was so angry that he turned the river and the sea.

Phew, the guy who hasn't grown the hair on his mouth has actually taken his kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs.

Do not eat soft and hard, and do not eat oil and salt.

Isn't he just a military attache of the third grade?

No matter how difficult it is to trace the origin of his life experience, as long as he puts a little more effort, he can always find out the old bottom.

When the time comes, figure out what the way is and see how the Hou Ye cleans you up.

Di Zhifu greeted the guests with a smile, and scolded Tang Shao thousands of times in his heart before he felt relieved.

There is no explanation for the excitement of the prefect's yamen, but two days later, a fire burned down the mansion of Lord Cao.

The fire is said to be extremely violent.

In a moment's time, the flames burst into the sky, and the houses were on fire, and the red light instantly illuminated half of the dark night.

Fortunately, there was no wind that night, and the fire did not spread quickly to all sides, and the people connected to Caofu had enough reaction time to extinguish their own fires.

A few neighbors couldn't help but rejoice that their family had only burned down a stable or destroyed some of the walls connected to Cao's mansion, and the damage was not heavy.

When it was dawn, I saw that the black door frame was once the vermilion gate of Cao's mansion, and there were twenty or thirty people gathered under the vermilion gate, all of them in tattered clothes, with black faces, dull expressions, and they looked like they were burned stupidly.

One of them, a man of about twenty-five years old, fell to the ground and cried loudly.

"My poor daddy......"

"Dad, why didn't you escape......"

"What should I do?"

The movements are exaggerated and the voice is high-pitched.

As soon as tears fell from the blackened face, there were two white ditches from the eye sockets, more unsightly than the people who crawled out of the beggars' pile.

In this way, there was a sound of weeping behind him, and the servants and dependents who had escaped death were all in pain.

The neighbors who heard the news just stood far away, not daring to step forward.

Today's Cao Mansion. With such wonderful rumors, who dares to provoke a commotion?

But now that Cao Fu has suffered such a catastrophe, tears still appear in the corners of everyone's eyes.

In the midst of the sighs, some people found that there was no figure of Lord Cao and his wife among the people who escaped death.

The man who started to cry was the heir of Lord Cao, and in his weeping and weeping, he vaguely announced a message to the world.

Master Cao didn't seem to be able to escape.

Didn't ...... Escape?

That is, he still stayed in Cao Mansion.

Everyone subconsciously looked at the black and swarthy ruins, and suddenly wept in the wind one by one.

Lord Cao is already with the fire, right?

The fire was so big that everything was reduced to rubble.

Isn't there a trace of Lord Cao everywhere in the ashes?

All of them were chilled by their own thoughts, and one by one they wrapped their robes tightly. I have long been in the mood to stay and watch the show. Within a moment, they all fled in the wilderness, leaving not even a shadow.

And the heir of Lord Cao, who was crying vigorously, secretly looked at the situation around him. found that in the blink of an eye, the spiking gaze that was still pointing in the distance disappeared collectively. The speed of this disappearance made him think that the crowd just now was an illusion. I didn't forget the crying and funeral performance of being a filial son, and looked at the one in front of me in amazement.

Could it be that he was dazzled?

What about people?

The heir looked around again, except for the occasional trembling crow in the distance. Where is there any trace of living creatures?

In his field of vision, a large number of ruined broken walls and crooked stone pillars instantly stimulated his senses.

The Cao family's family business! It was ashes now.

So what will he do in the future?

What to eat? What to drink?

His mind went blank, and it took a long time to recover his normal thoughts, and then the heart-rending cry of the heir came from above the Cao Mansion.

In the darkness of the sky, there is a hidden dust.

Sensing the movement, the heir rubbed his eyes vigorously, trying to discern the contours in the smoke.

Looks like a big dog!

The alarm bell sounded in the heir's head, and he nervously hugged his wife behind him, trembling.

In the blink of an eye, a big snow-white dog appeared in front of them with its head held high, flashing its paws proudly, looking at the man and woman paralyzed on the ground with great satisfaction, and shouting in fear "Grandpa Dog...... spare his life"

Grandpa Dog?

That's fresh enough!

Like, like!

Snow Shadow scratched her hair with her paws excitedly, laughing with her mouth water.

Excited, he opened his eyes wide and let go of his posture, and ran quickly through the huge ruins, and finally, he searched for the smell.

Leaning over and baring his sharp teeth, a scorched trunk shaped like an arm was dragged out.

With more force, a whole humanoid torso was revealed in the rubble and ashes, black and scorched, and miserable.

Snow Shadow excitedly barked twice at the tall black shadow in the shadows, and saw four men in black descending from the sky.

The man who hit the head gave Snow Shadow a burst of chestnuts a little roughly, and with a wave of his big hand, the three positions behind him surrounded the torso, shook out a huge black cloth, and wrapped the torso on the ground neatly, and then the three of them quickly walked to the heir with the black cloth bag at the signal of the head man.

When the black cloth bag landed in front of the heir and the others in an extremely smooth arc, everyone had not yet reacted, and only thought that it had collapsed again because it had been burned by the fire.

Everyone's first reaction was to run around with their heads in their hands.

When they finally realized that it wasn't something that had collapsed, but just a black cloth bag, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Curiously, the heir got up and approached the strangely wrapped black cloth bag, with complicated dreams in his heart.

Could it be that the old man's private collection of antiques was too well hidden on weekdays, so he could survive the fire?

Most likely, otherwise the fire would not have burned out.

Gold? Jewelry?

The heir couldn't wait to uncover the black strip of cloth, and—

"Ah......h

What did he see?

Is it a charred corpse?

"This is a corpse, it should be your Lord Cao's ......" A ghostly voice came from a distance, burrowing into everyone's eardrums.

But where is there anyone in the distance?

There were not even flies in the air under the black pressure.

Who is that speaking?

Could it be a ghost?

"Ghost, ......" The heir, who couldn't bear it anymore, rolled his eyes and fainted directly.

The others were already so frightened that they shrank into a ball, and they didn't dare to come out. (To be continued......)

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