It's not yet noon, and it's the busiest time of the day in Shangqiao Town.

From the river beach to the Tao family's mansion, you have to cross a road that is not wide, although it is not a bustling street market, and there are many pedestrians on the road. The vendor with the cart, the lady in the sedan chair, the merchant who carries the burden......

Shen Tong trotted all the way, and when she saw someone coming towards her, she avoided the side to give way, which was very polite.

Several people came to him, running out of breath, and one of them held a gong in his hand and struck the gong as he walked: "Go water, go water!" ”

It's very close to the Qiao River, which is to tell the people around that if you can go to fight the fire, you can take a bucket and go to the river to fetch water.

Shen Tong felt an ominous feeling in her heart, she grabbed one of them and asked, "Uncle, which one is gone?" ”

"Oh, it's Old Master Tao's mansion!"

The Tao family has gone to water?

Shen Tong's heart sank, and he pulled his legs and ran towards the Tao family.

Turned a corner, sure enough, I saw billowing black smoke not far away, although the Tao family is secluded, but there are a few families across the street, if the fire is not put out in time, the surrounding trees are also burning, it is necessary to ripple other homes nearby. This is the town, most of the people living in it are big families, there are a lot of people, hearing the sound of gongs, there are already many people carrying water to the Tao family mansion.

Shen Tong frowned, this morning she saw Guan Mingjue walk into the Qiaohe Inn with Tao Shiyi, and in the past two days, she has secretly entered and exited the Tao family, since the father and son of Tao Sancun and eight guards have died one after another, the Tao family's mansion only has two concierges and an old Jia who drives a car.

Tao Shiyi once thought about calling a few of the Shilipu back, but this matter has not been implemented, and Tao Shiyi has an accident, so the people of Shilipu are still in Shilipu.

The Tao family counts the Tao World Heritage, and now there are only four people, so Shen Tong will not believe that the fire started because the weather was dry, this is someone who set the fire!

It seems that the person who set the fire was in a hurry, either in a hurry to leave Shangqiao Town, or in a hurry to burn down the Tao family and leave nothing.

Thinking of this, Shen Tong quickened his pace, and when he got closer, he saw that the Tao family had become a sea of fire, and the buckets of water poured on it did not weaken at all, and no one rushed in to save people, the fire was too big, even if someone didn't run out, it was a dead end. More and more people came to hear the news, and those who had been fighting the fire stopped and went to cut down the trees on the side of the street to prevent the fire from burning these trees and spreading to other people's homes.

Most people just watched from afar, pointing.

Shen Tong hid in the crowd of onlookers, and through the cracks, she saw Ah Si, and the one who took the lead in cutting down the tree was also Ah Si's people.

The Guan family made a move, they already thought that in the Old Dragon King Temple, Tao Shiyi had already handed over the children of the Shen family, so in order to make a stand to the Yang family, the Guan family simply burned the Tao family to the fire.

Shen Tong slapped himself in the head, stupid.

"Ouch, the Tao family has offended people, have you heard? Ten miles of extravagant staff also had an accident last night. ”

"Zhang Yuanwai of Shilipu? So what's the matter with the Tao family? ”

"Just now the county government came to put out the fire said, Shilipu Zhang Yuanwai is the Tao family's wife's maternal uncle, you say this is not a coincidence, last night Zhang Yuanwai's house came to robbers, not only robbed the gold and silver, but also killed more than 20 people."

"Really, ten miles shop...... It's not too far from our town, where did this robber come from, how can he rob something and kill people. ”

Shen Tong touched his nose, pretended to be a robber to kill people, and killed more than 20 people, which was almost the end of the door.

This style of action is really what the Dead Soldiers Battalion is used to.

Tu Wei, when he handed over Tao Shiyi to the Guan family last night, he sent someone to kill Tao Shiyi's wife and children, and he was beheaded with a thousand faces, living up to his reputation.

Shen Tong returned to the river beach, and Fang Fei saw her coming back empty-handed, and persuaded in a low voice: "Miss, the slave maid will sew you an identical rag doll." ”

Fang Fei didn't know that the Tao family had gone to the water, she just thought that the Tao family refused to return the rag doll to her own lady.

Shen Tong smiled: "It's okay, I'll look for it when it's dark." ”

She estimated that it would be almost dark to burn, and then she would go and rummage through the ruins, in case she could find it.

At night, Shen Tong came to Tao's house again, and this time she went directly to the location of the back wall of Tao's house.

As she estimated, the Tao family was scorched at this time, and under the white moonlight, there were ruins of unburned walls everywhere, and smoke was still rising in some places.

Shen Tong came to the small courtyard where she lived with her memory, it was really rare, the big iron gate was still there.

Shen Tong was bent on her waist and was about to rummage here, when suddenly, she heard a faint cry.

Shen Tong dodged and hid behind the half-cut wall, the cry was getting closer and closer, and in the moonlight, she saw a small figure walking towards this side.

"It's gone, it's gone, it's gone." The man was crying and chattering, Shen Tong couldn't hear the men and women, it should be a child about the same age as himself.

When the person got closer, Shen Tong saw clearly this time, this was a little boy, and he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but he could see that he had already grown half of his head, and there was a small bun on the top of his head.

Men have fifteen bundles of hair, but the teenagers in the school often dress up as scholars when they are teenagers, and there are not a few who comb their hair in a bun.

Shen Tong thought of someone.

Yesterday, she heard Tu Wei mention that Tao Shiyi's eldest son is a reading seed.

And Tao Shiyi's eldest son is at this age.

When Shen Tong talked about the third child bought by the Tao family in front of Tu Wei before, Tao Shiyi didn't say a word, so Shen Tong suspected that the child was here to be a stand-in for Tao Shiyi's son.

Now more than 20 people have died in the Zhang Yuanwai family of Shilipu, and there must be Tao Shiyi's wife and children among them, so the little boy in front of him ......

Shen Tong smiled slightly, she really didn't guess wrong, Tao Shiyi replaced his eldest son with the child dressed as a man, Tu Wei killed the Tao family, but Tao Shiyi's eldest son survived.

I don't know where Tao Shiyi hid his eldest son, and when the child heard that something happened at home, he ran back again.

The child cried and cried and knelt down: "Father, mother, rest in peace, the child will definitely find his brother and raise him." ”

Brother?

Shen Tong's eyes widened, there is a stand-in for his brother who is not dead, so what about his younger brother?

Shen Tong would not believe that the people of the Dead Battalion would make a move, and he would leave a small child.

She tried to come out and ask for clarification, but in the end she didn't move.

The boy kowtowed a few times on the ground and ran away.

Shen Tong looked at his back, thinking that this kid was a clever man, guessing that it might not be safe here, so he left after worshipping.

She searched around for a while, and finally found the rag doll under a few wall tiles.

Half of the ragdoll's body was already charred, and if it hadn't been pressed under the wall tiles, I am afraid that it would have turned to ashes.

Shen Tong was overjoyed, took the rag doll in his arms and left quickly.

After she left, about a cup of tea, two more people, one tall and one short, appeared in the ruins.

"Guan Mingjue is also a ruthless character, not only killed the entire Tao family, but even burned down the house in the town."

"You mean the matter of Ten Mile Shop? In my opinion, it may not be done by the Guan family, the Guan family is not what it used to be, and it can still be done by setting fire, but the Guan family is afraid that they will not have the ability to kill more than 20 people in a row. ”