Qingzhi was stunned and said, "What? Your entire house burned down? ”

The only thing she could think of at this moment was if her father was not there at the time?

Although my father doesn't live in his house permanently, what if he happens to be there today?

"Who could have set the fire? Can anyone visit your house today? No matter how eager she was, she had to hide her emotions and say in a normal tone as much as possible.

"There are indeed people visiting today." He replied.

"Who?"

Her heart rose to her throat.

"A former subordinate of my mother." He said, and then said as if remembering something: "Could it be that she set the fire?" ”

"Are there any other outsiders in your house?"

"I didn't when I came." He replied.

Seeing that her father should not be there, she relieved herself, turned around and picked up the detoxification potion from the table, and began to wash his arm.

I heard him mutter, "How could that subordinate of my mother suddenly appear?" What enmity does she have against my family? Burn my house like that! ”

Qingzhi didn't answer, but said, "It doesn't have to be that she burned it, maybe it was someone else?" ”

"Someone else? Everyone else is my family and subordinates, how is it possible? ”

Qingzhi helped him wash his arm and began to apply the medicine.

I heard him muttering to himself: "Hey, I don't know if my parents and brothers have escaped, and where have they gone......"

"And what are you going to do?" She glanced at him.

"I'll go back and wait by the house when you've put my medicine on it, and if they're all right and come out before the fire burns, they'll come back to me......"

"It's too late today, you can sleep with me first, share a room with Qian Liu, and make a bunk."

If he had been like his brother, she would not have dared to keep him. Seeing him look so pitiful, a trace of sympathy rose in her heart.

"No, I can't sleep well here. I'd rather sleep there. ”

Qingzhi no longer persuaded.

After applying the medicine to him, he immediately left without stopping.

At this time, the moon had sunk in the west, and she didn't feel a little uncomfortable when she saw his weak figure not entering the night.

Qian Liu asked behind him, "Who is he?" ”

"A poor man." Qingzhi Road.

"There are a lot of poor people in this world...... Qian Liu sighed, before he started medicine, he saw very few poor people. After practicing medicine, he found that the world was full of poor people.

Those who are riddled with diseases, those who have no money for treatment, those who are in pain because of the death of their loved ones, and those who are lonely and have no choice but to die in the future before they can be cured......

"Yes, the world is full of poor people...... Qingzhi replied unconsciously.

"We can't sympathize with so many people, let's go to sleep......" Qian Liu said and closed the door.

Qingzhi said: "Well, let's go." ”

The two of them went back to their respective rooms......

.

When the sky was just dawning, the Lu Mansion was silent.

Fallen leaves fall from the branches, falling on the pond in the courtyard, the bluestone ground, and the rockery, so that the whole house has a trace of autumn gloomy.

There was a knock at the courtyard door, one after another.

Soon Jiao San, who was guarding the door, went to open the door and saw Fu Zhou standing at the door.

"Where have you been these days?" Jiao San asked.

"These days, the third prince has asked me to run errands outside." Fu Zhou said and walked into the courtyard.

When I came to the courtyard of the third son, I stepped on the fallen leaves and walked to the door of his room, and when I saw that the room was closed, I thought that I was still asleep.

He reached out and knocked on the door.

Soon, Lu Shikang opened the door, saw that it was Fu Zhou, and asked, "Why did you come back alone?" What about Hu San and Hu Si? ”

"They're waiting there."

Lu Shikang said: "You came back alone, what is the situation?" ”

He asked him and Hu Sanhu Si and the three to pretend to be farmers to inspect the situation near Zheng's house, and now he is alone, and he must have found something to come.

Fu Zhou said: "Yes, Zheng's house is burned!" ”

"What?" Lu Shikang looked at Fu Zhou in shock, "Burned?" ”

"yes, it's all burned."

"So, what about the people inside?"

"The people inside, as far as I can see, Zheng Jin and his wife and most of the family members are definitely dead, and his two sons are alive."

Lu Shikang frowned and said, "You tell me what you saw yesterday." ”

Fu Zhou had a clue and said: "Yesterday morning, I saw a few people in strong suits bring a woman into the house, the woman looks to be about thirty years old, wearing coarse cloth clothes, and those people in strong clothes are walking with her. ”

Speaking of this, he coughed, "Later, when the sun rose to a pole high, Zheng Jin's second son came out, these days I don't know why he often comes out, as soon as he comes out, it is an hour, but he generally does not go far away, just walk on the edge of his house, yesterday he rode out of the house, and after walking around for an hour nearby, he suddenly threw off the people who followed him, and rode to other places, looking at the direction of the west......"

He identified the weak son as Zheng Jin's second son, and he recognized it from his clothes and age.

"Go on." Lu Shikang said.

"Later, I saw Zheng Jin's eldest son bring out a few people and carry out a long thing about the size of a coffin. It was covered with a cloth. I discussed with Hu Sanhu Si and asked them to continue to guard by Zheng's house, and I followed Zheng Jin's eldest son to see where he ordered someone to take this thing to go. ”

He coughed again, a little tired from having slept all night before.

And then he said: "They took this thing to an open and uninhabited place, and they dug a pit there, and dug a big pit there. Then, Zheng Jin's eldest son tore off the cloth on the thing, and I saw that it was a crystal coffin, and a woman was lying in it......"

When Fu Zhou said this, Lu Shikang remembered what Qingzhi said about being taken to the basement by Zheng Jin's eldest son in Zheng Mansion.

The woman in the crystal coffin must be his mother.

Fu Zhou took a breath and continued: "I saw what he said to the crystal coffin, it was too far away to hear clearly, anyway, I saw that he looked very sad." Then he ordered the crystal coffin to be smashed, and then the woman was lifted out of it and buried in the earth. ”

Seeing that the third prince didn't say a word, he continued: "Later, they went back to Zheng's house. After going back, nothing happened, and no one came out inside, until the evening, when Hu Sanhu and I were just about to go back to sleep, we suddenly saw some fire coming out of Zheng's house. Then the fire burned more and more, and before the whole house caught fire, many people still came out inside, including Zheng Jin's eldest son, and some people in black clothes, who carried the two corpses out and put them in the sedan chair. ”

Speaking of this, he didn't know if the third prince was listening, and said: "The third son? ”

"Go on." Lu Shikang replied briefly.

Zheng Jin's eldest son sat in another sedan chair and took the group of people away, and the sedan chair where the corpse was put was also taken away by them. Later, I saw Zheng Jin's second son come back and wanted to rush into the fire, but he quickly retreated. Then he rode away again, again in the direction of the west, and I thought he would not come when he was gone, but who thought that he would go back after two hours, and slept all night on the edge of his house. ”

Speaking of this, he coughed again, "Then, I will let Hu San and Hu Si continue to look at the Zheng Mansion, and I will go back to the Lu Mansion to report to you myself." ”