Thinking of this, he finally couldn't help but weaken his legs, and knelt in the water with a bang, but the water had reached his thighs, and under this kneeling, he reached his erection neck. The waves of the water made him unsteady and threw himself into the water. Lu Jinping hurriedly grabbed him and lifted him up, saying, "No need to do this, you go on." ”

"Yes, yes." The rich man agreed with a crying voice, saying that after I found out about this terrible scene, I originally wanted to go forward to put out the fire, but this guy was obviously in the water, and the flame was burning in the water! How could I put it out, so I could only stand there and watch the flames burn the maid little by little, until only one head and one pair of hands remained, and the whole body was charred on the water, and I threw myself on the bed and scooped up the body. As soon as I fished it out, it was broken into several pieces. ”

Lu Jinping frowned and thought carefully. But I can't figure it out, in modern technology, of course, there are things that burn in water, but those are all products made under high technology, and now in ancient times, in the natural environment, can there be things that can be burned in water?

Lu Jinping couldn't figure it out, so he walked to the two corpses, lifted the white cloth covering the corpses, and frowned at a glance, the two corpses were relatively intact, burned to charcoal, and the body was curly, it should have been broken into several pieces and barely spliced together. There is a leg in it, and there is something missing, presumably it sank into the water and was not caught. The whole body was cohew, but fortunately, the coke still had a certain strength, so it barely maintained the shape of the limbs of the corpse itself.

Before this, Lu Jinping had not paid attention to the autopsy, but this time he heard from the rich man Ma that a maid had seen the corpse burning in the water, and his attention was immediately attracted by the remaining remains of the corpse.

Lu Jinping asked the rich man Ma and said, "Before you found the body." Has anyone else come in? Is there anyone else in the yard? ”

The rich man said, "I have asked, but no one has come in before, because this is my bedroom, and no one else can come in without greeting me except my two personal maids." So only the two of them were in the house, and the others were in the yard or in their own rooms. There are people in the yard, how did the murderer sneak in, why did he burn the two maids, I really don't understand. ”

"I'll find out, but I'm going to take some pieces of corpse remains back and examine them, okay?"

"Of course, sir."

Lu Jinping asked the rich man Ma to bring a box, and then took a few pieces of the charred remains of the two corpses and put them in the two boxes at the same time. The remaining residual limb was also extracted and placed in the box so that DNA could be tested if necessary.

Then Lu Jinping asked the rich man to take him to the bedroom where the two bodies were found, and after a preliminary examination, no signs of destruction or struggle were found, and there was no other unusual situation in the house.

So, Lu Jinping took the remains of the golden soil and the two maids and left.

When they reached the front door, they were stopped by the Celestial Lamp Master. The Lamp Burning Heavenly Master smiled and said, "Sir." I have something I want to report to you, I don't know if I can? ”

Lu Jinping frowned and said, "What's the matter?" Go ahead. ”

The Burning Lamp Heavenly Master looked left and right. He smiled and said, "Can you please move to the old man's house and find a quiet place?" This matter is related to the question of whether these cases can be solved. ”

The voice of the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master was lowered, so that only Lu Jinping could hear it, and Lu Jinping couldn't help but be a little curious and glanced at him. He couldn't think of what this so-called celestial master who relied on props to deceive people could help him solve this case, so he nodded. Let the rich man find an empty wing, and close the door when he entered.

Because the entire Tongzhou City is now flooded, in the wing room where the two of them entered, the low soft couch has been flooded. Lu Jinping sat cross-legged at a round table, didn't look at the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master, and said, "What do you say?" ”

The Celestial Master of the Lamp stood respectfully at the round table, standing with his hands down, as if he were waiting for a boy next to Lafayette who was sitting cross-legged on the lotus pond.

The Burning Lamp Heavenly Master said, "That's right, last night, I accidentally saw something, and I believe this matter should be helpful for the lord to solve this case." ”

"Tell me about it."

The Burning Lamp Heavenly Master's expression was even more respectful, he bent his waist, his head was about to touch the water, and he said in a flattering tone as much as possible: "Sir, your Taoism, poor Dao is very admired, Poor Dao has been visiting famous teachers from all over the country, learning the real Taoist skills. However, in the world, there are too few people who are really capable. I have visited many famous mountains and rivers, and I have also seen many so-called Taoist masters, but I have never encountered those who really have Taoism, and most of them are some ghost tricks that deceive the world and steal fame. Of course, from these, I also learned some ghost tricks that are also deceptive, these are all things that cannot be put on the table in front of the lord, and I now know that you have the real Taoism. Therefore, I especially hope to worship you as a teacher, please accept me as an apprentice, I will do my best to honor the master, before and after the saddle, the body is broken, and I will not give up. Ask the lord to take the apprentice. ”

Ignoring the flood below, he knelt in the water with a grunt, and the water spilled to his chest, but he did not hesitate, and his head went into the water to kowtow, and he could hear the thud of his head hitting the underwater ground.

He kowtowed nine times in a row, and then he looked at Lu Jinping pitifully. But he found that Lu Jinping was facing him sideways, and he didn't kowtow to him head-on, so he couldn't help but be even more frightened, crying and mourning, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

Lu Jinping turned his face sideways and looked at him and said, "Are you trying to force me to take you as an apprentice by helping me solve the case?" ”

"The apprentice doesn't dare, the apprentice just hopes that the master will be pitiful and can accept me as an apprentice, and he will never dare to blackmail the master with anything, whether the master agrees or not, I will tell the master about this, I just want to take this matter as a little gift to the master, the little bald donkey is stupid, he didn't make the words clear, so that the master is angry, the little apprentice knows his mistake, and asks the master for forgiveness."

When Lu Jinping heard him say this, his face softened slightly, and he said, "You tell me about that matter first, and I'll talk about the apprenticeship later." ”

"In vain obey."

Lu Jinping waved his hand and said, "Don't call the master an apprentice first, wait until I really accept you as an apprentice, but I'm really not interested now, you tell me what you found first." ”

"Okay."

The Lamp Burning Master wiped a handful of yellow muddy water on his face, and said: "That's right, last night there was a continuous thunder and lightning, I was restless, I got up and walked under the porch, and found that the water had overflowed into the yard, and it was constantly rising, I felt a little anxious, and was about to go back to the room to take a look, and put things high, at this moment, I saw a ghost floating down from the sky. Went out into the courtyard. I thought it strange that I didn't know until the next morning that one of the servants outside the courtyard had been burned to death. And after you came to check before, I didn't find the murderer, so I remembered this incident, I think it could be a ghost fire that burned him to death? ”

Lu Jinping's pupils tightened, looked at him, and asked slowly, "Ghost fire?" What kind of ghost fire? ”

"I don't know, for it's too far away to see, but the ghost fire floated in the sky, and then, suddenly, speeding up, like a falling stone, shot into the courtyard outside. Because I lived alone in a small courtyard, the ghost fire I saw fell outside the courtyard, where the body was later found. That's why I thought of what I found last night, and I wanted to tell the lord that maybe it would help him. ”

Lu Jinping said in a deep voice: "You mean he was burned to death by a ghost fire from the sky?" ”

The Burning Lamp Heavenly Master nodded solemnly, after he found that Lu Jinping was interested in his words, he couldn't help but be very excited, and hurriedly said: "I think it should be a ghost fire, because if it is an open flame, the rain that was so heavy last night will definitely be extinguished." Ghost fires will not be extinguished. ”

Lu Jinping chuckled in his heart, the ghost fire that the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master said appeared in the pouring rain, and the direction happened to be the courtyard where the servant was burned to death. And the personal maid of the rich man of the horse, whom he had just discovered earlier, was also like this, and her whole body was burned in the water by a fluffy green flame. Both types of fire have a common feature that they are not afraid of water and can burn in water, what kind of fire is this? Is it really a ghost fire like what the Lamp Burning Master said? Of course Lu Jinping didn't believe it.

Lu Jinping asked: "Can you describe what the flame you saw looks like?" ”

The Burning Lamp Heavenly Master scratched his head, thought for a long time, and said, "This, I really don't dare to talk nonsense, because the flame is actually not bright, and that fire is grayish-white, or blue, which is not conspicuous in the night sky, especially in the heavy rain, if it weren't for my extreme boredom and looking around, I wouldn't have found it." As for what shape, or what kind of thing? I really didn't dare to talk nonsense, because it affected the lord's case, I can't say it by imagination, I really didn't see it clearly, the rain was too heavy at that time, and I saw it through the rain curtain. ”

Grayish white or a little blue, this is a bit like the pale blue flame that the rich man saw before said that burned his personal maid, is it the same thing?

Lu Jinping asked again: "In addition to this, are there any other discoveries?" ”

"There's nothing else, I think it's really a ghost fire, or else, let's ask a Taoist to do a ritual to collect this ghost, right? I think this Chunhualou is too evil, so many murders have happened in a row, it's really incredible, think about it, in addition to ghosts and foxes, how else can you explain it? Especially last night, I saw with my own eyes that the ghost fire falling from the sky, it was really scary. In the morning, I heard that the ghost fire was where it landed, and it happened that people were burned to charcoal, so it shouldn't be a coincidence, right? It's better to hire someone to do ghost hunting. (To be continued.) )