Chapter Twenty-Three: Who Sets the Fire
After the fire was extinguished, only a little flame remained in the wooden house, still swaying faintly in the wind, the wind was cold at night, and even the body would freeze after standing for a long time.
Not to mention that Su Xiaojin's body was already soaked at this time in order to escape from the fire, and when the wind blew, it became even colder.
After the Wang family sent Su Xiaoqian back to his house, he turned back and finally persuaded Su Xiaojin to go home with him.
In the second half of the night, the village returned to its previous appearance, and the night was dark, as if it had been splashed with ink, and there was not even a faint starlight.
The villagers also went back to their homes, and for a while, except for the small wooden hut that had been reduced to ruins overnight, the scene in the village was no different from usual.
The Wang family's house is very large, and there are only three people living in the family, her husband and son, so even the Su siblings do not seem crowded to move in.
The only place for the Su sisters and brothers was burned down by a fire, and they must have to stay in Wang's house for a while.
Wang's husband and son are not often by their side, and Su Xiaojin and Su Xiaoqian can move into the house, and the Wang family is also happy.
The Wang family also specially cleaned up two sunny rooms for Su Xiaojin and Su Xiaoqian, Su Xiaoqian was already seriously injured and weak, and now he fell asleep after getting into the bed.
But although the night was very late, Su Xiaojin still tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep, and she thought about it and felt that her house was on fire.
On weekdays, Su Xiaojin is very careful, cooking and decocting medicine or something, and at night he will definitely make sure that there is no fire in the stove before falling asleep.
What's more, how could an ordinary fire be so big and so fierce that it would burn down the wooden house in an instant.
Su Xiaojin always felt that the fire in his cabin tonight was not simple.
The second half of the night was too difficult for Su Xiaojin at this time, Su Xiaojin kept his eyes wide open, thinking about the time that had passed in his heart, waiting for the dawn to break.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck......"
There was a burst of rooster crowing from a farmer's house not far away, and Su Xiaojin, who had been tossing and turning on the bed and had always been unable to sleep, finally caught a glimpse of the whiteness of the sky through the hollow ancient window.
Su Xiaojin, who had been waiting for a long time and was very eager, immediately got up, put on his coat, stood on tiptoe and walked out of the Wang family's house, running all the way to his cabin.
The Wang family's house was adjacent to the wooden house of the Su siblings, so within a few minutes' foot, Su Xiaojin was able to reach the place of the log house.
At night, the darkness is not yet visible, the true face of this wooden house after it was destroyed by the fire, and it is as bright as today, Su Xiaojin saw the miserable wooden house through the morning light.
Su Xiaojin carefully observed and found that the outside of the wooden house was indeed almost burned, but there were still some places in the house where the wood was intact, which also confirmed that Su Xiaojin's judgment last night was not wrong, and the fire really burned in from the outside.
Su Xiaojin hurriedly continued to take a closer look around the wooden house to see if he could find any clues.
Sure enough, as Su Xiaojin thought, Su Xiaojin found some liquid around the wooden house, and it was sticky and had a little spicy wine taste.
Su Xiaojin found that this liquid was not only around the wooden house, but there were also some traces of this liquid when he looked closely.
So Su Xiaojin followed the liquid that was spilled on the ground and had a tendency to spread.
Fortunately, the liquid does not seem to be water, and it has not evaporated on the soil in the village, and it can be seen very clearly through the light of the sun.
Therefore, Su Xiaojin followed the traces and smell of the liquid all the way, and found that the traces of the liquid disappeared completely until the Su Mansion where his uncle's family now lives.
Su Xiaojin looked at the familiar but somewhat unfamiliar house in front of him, and already knew in his heart the initiator of the disaster that caused his family last night.
Subsequently, Su Xiaojin cautiously explored near Su's house and found two discarded wooden barrels in an abandoned field with a strong smell of alcohol.
The taste and characteristics of the residual liquid inside the barrel were obviously exactly the same as the liquid Su Xiaojin found near the burned wooden house.
In the past, even if the Shen family wanted to harm the Su brothers and sisters in a sinister and vicious way, they had never used such vicious methods.
Set fire to the house, if you change the people next to you, I'm afraid you won't believe that this is something that your relatives who are related to you will do?
Su Xiaojin was disheartened by this so-called relative this time, and she brought one of the wooden barrels back to Wang's home.
When Su Xiaojin brought the barrel back, he told the Wang family everything he found under Wang's questioning.
"This must be reported to the official, how can the person who seeks money and kills him get away with it!"
Li Jun, who has always been a medicine boy in the town, heard about it and immediately took a case.
What he did was to save lives and help the wounded, and he was always righteous, and now when he heard that this uncle had murdered his nephew and niece, he was immediately filled with righteous indignation.
The Wang family immediately frowned, knowing that this matter was a big matter, but he was a little worried in his heart, so he opened his mouth and said his thoughts: "This small village has never been under the jurisdiction of the government, I am afraid that even if you go all the way to the government, the government will not care." ”
Wang thought for a while, and then said: "In this way, you can go to the village chief Hu at the head of the village and talk about it." ”
Su Xiaojin knew that Wang's worries were reasonable, and he had to follow Wang's words first.
So Su Xiaojin immediately went to the village chief's house with the evidence to complain about the evil deeds of his uncle Li Kaiyuan's family.
Su Xiaojin followed Wang to the house of the village chief of Nahu to explain the whole thing, and then laid out the series of evidence he searched for to the village chief one by one.
After Su Xiaojin finished telling all this, the village chief looked a little bad at this time, hesitated for a long time, and didn't hold back a word.
It turned out that after Li Kaiyuan occupied the Su family's medicinal herb shop, he took all the rare medicinal materials and income stored in the medicinal herb shop to tie up with these powerful people, so he really colluded with many powerful people with this medicinal herb shop.
This bearded village chief has to count on the protection of those officials in the town on weekdays, how dare he offend?
Therefore, Su Xiaojin's complaint made Village Chief Hu in a dilemma.
At this time, many people in the village who had heard about the Su sisters and brothers came one after another, and watched the excitement at the door of the door of the Hu village chief.
"Village Chief, you have to be the master for us!"
Just when Village Chief Hu was in a dilemma, the Shen family rushed in crying and shouting, and her husband Li Kaiyuan was still behind her.