Knowing that she was joking, Pillar laughed, "Don't worry, I've already found a good place, this time, I guarantee that he won't be able to find it." ”

When he had finished speaking, he remembered his main purpose for coming here, and he went on again.

"That's right, I came this time, there is another very important thing, that is, I want to come to thank you personally, after all, you helped me recover the lost silver, otherwise, maybe I can only suffer this dumb loss, and I don't know who stole it."

"Don't be too polite, that's what I'm supposed to do."

For all this, Shen Lian didn't feel that she had done anything particularly great, every time someone thanked her, she would feel a little burdened, after all, she just did what she could, and she didn't feel as if she had done too much good deed.

I knew that she would say this, and the pillar was not surprised, but if she should be thanked, she still had to say it.

"Anyway, you've helped me, and I know that if I give you money, you probably won't take it, so I want to thank you for helping me in another way."

After hearing this, Shen Lian was a little surprised, and looked at him in confusion, "What? ”

"Because I sell steamed buns, I will send a drawer of steamed buns to your house every day in the future, although it is not a lot, but it is my heart, and I hope you don't dislike it."

These words made Shen Lian not hesitate and agreed directly.

After all, it's someone else's heart, and if you refuse again, it may be a little bit too bad to give the other party.

Moreover, after eating this bun for a few days, you can tell him not to send it for the time being, because there is no need to eat buns every day.

"Okay, then let's send it for seven days first, don't send it after seven days, wait for when we want to eat, you can send it again, okay?"

"Okay."

The pillar was a little happy, and she was worried just now, what if she rejected herself again? Now it seems that his worries are purely unnecessary.

Before the pillar was about to leave, Old Man Wang stopped him and said in a serious tone, "If you encounter anything in the future, you can come to me, I will help you as much as possible, you don't need to have any burden, and you can come when you want to come when you have nothing to do, you are welcome here." ”

After hearing this, the pillar was a little moved, and tears rolled in his eyes, but he never let it flow.

After bowing his head slightly, he said thank you and left.

Seeing that the two of them could express their thoughts so frankly, Shen Lian was still very happy for them in his heart.

After all, Wang Yuyan's death has always been a knot in the hearts of the two of them, if they didn't meet this time and make it clear, I'm afraid the two of them would have been haunted by this matter.

Now that I have made it clear, I am all right, and I can understand that the worries I had were actually superfluous worries.

If some of the words had been made clear in the morning, there might not have been anything that happened later, but unfortunately I didn't do it all over again.

After a few days of silence, someone came to report to the official, and it happened that Shen Lian and Yin Chen were guests at the prefect's house, so they received the women who came together.

When she saw Chu Xi, the peasant woman began to cry.

"I don't know who burned the wood fire that my family has saved for several years, wasting our family's efforts in vain!" You know, you need to burn branches and wood for cooking here, especially in winter.

After all, most of the families are poor and can't afford charcoal fires, so they can only use them to keep warm.

Now that the firewood accumulated by the good end has been burned out for no reason, there is naturally no way to accept it, and it is helpless to report to the official.

After listening to the peasant woman's story, Chu Xi asked, "Then has your family offended anyone recently?" ”

"No, absolutely not."

The peasant woman's tone was very affirmative, "Our whole family works hard, and we don't have much money, we all make a living from farming, how can we easily offend people?" Chu Xi couldn't refute these words for a while, because he really couldn't think of anyone else who could do such a thing except for someone with an enemy.

Just as he was thinking about what to say next, Shen Lian, who was standing on the side, stepped forward, looked at the peasant woman and asked, "When did the fire start?" ”

"It was last night, I can't remember the specific time, anyway, it was in the first half of the night, and it was too late for us to notice it, and we couldn't put out the fire at all, so we could only watch the fire burn all the firewood."

I couldn't hear anything just by listening to her, Shen Lian said directly, "You take us over to have a look." ”

"Okay."

The peasant woman agreed without thinking, hoping to find the person who was fighting the fire, otherwise, she would only consider herself unlucky.

So the three of them, along with the two catchers, went to the peasant woman's house, and the pile of firewood she said was right outside her house.

Fortunately, there is a certain distance away, and there are no other houses around, otherwise they will definitely suffer together.

Judging from the scattered branches scattered on the ground around it, it was indeed a lot of accumulation here, but now it was almost burned, and it was all black ash left behind after burning.

A few stood aside and looked at it, Chu Xi was a little embarrassed, he couldn't see anything when he looked at it like this.

If someone really has the heart to do this, it is almost impossible to find someone who comes in the middle of the night and sets a fire, and then runs away, where to find someone? Just when they felt embarrassed, Shen Lian felt that there seemed to be something in the middle of the burning ashes, and walked in directly without looking too much.

The more she walked in, the more certain the suspicion in her heart became, and after knowing that she had seen half of her arm, she knew that her guess was correct, and there was indeed a corpse inside.

She beckoned directly to Chu Xi and them, "Hurry up, there are corpses here." ”

After hearing this, everyone was surprised, and they would never have thought that there were corpses here.

The peasant woman who reported the case was also particularly shocked, and desperately explained, "How can there be a corpse?" This is where my house stacks firewood, and there is no way there can be a corpse. ”

Although she explained it this way, as they got closer, they did see the charred corpse.

At this time, the peasant woman's mouth opened wide in surprise, and she didn't know what to say to justify, so she simply closed her mouth, ready to see what the situation was.

The two catchers quickly cleaned up the ashes around the corpse, and the corpse appeared in everyone's sight.

The corpse was lying on its back, and it was not supposed to have been burned, but after being killed, it was put into the fire, and then the body was burned like this with the help of the fire.

It's just that there is no way to know the specific situation at present, and it can only be clear after the autopsy.

Shen Lian glanced back at Chu Xi, "Tell them to bring the body back, I will conduct an autopsy." ”

Chu Xi was a little embarrassed, "It's burned like this, is there still a way to conduct an autopsy?" ”

"Yes."

After hearing this affirmative answer, Chu Xi didn't say a word, and directly asked the two catchers to carry the body back.

However, when the corpse was lifted, she noticed that the clothes on the back of the corpse were not burned, and they were relatively intact, they should have been pressed by the corpse, and the corpse was not completely burned, so it was left.

With this fabric, it will be much easier to find people.

After going back, Shen Lian began to perform an autopsy on the body without saying a word.

She first looked at the fabric of the clothes on her back, which was a rough one, and it seemed that the deceased should be the kind of person who was relatively poor in the economy.

Judging from the intact skin he still preserved, he should be between thirty and forty years old, and although the man's body was burned by fire, it can still be seen that his head has been hit with a heavy object, and the heavy object has caused his skull to dent, which should be the real cause of death.

It's just that the body was burned by the fire, so there is no way to determine the specific time of death, but it should be no more than three days, and this is the only thing that can be determined at present.