Unconsciously, there was a firelight behind him, illuminating the place transparently.

After seeing what was coming out of the well, the husband turned pale with fright and sat down on the ground.

I want to run away, but my legs can't move because of weakness; I wanted to call for help, but it seemed like something was choking my throat, and I couldn't make a sound.

He could only watch as the stinking hair crawled slowly over like eyes, and then rushed towards him.

When the husband was wrapped in a ball of thick hair all over his body, he vaguely saw through the last trace of the hand and stretched out.

Before his consciousness completely dissipated, there was only one thought left in his mind: Alas, life has finally started on me, a little person, and I shouldn't have been nosy if I knew this, and now I'm going to die!

……

Shu Ce is old after all.

The slightest disturbance will wake you up, so I like to wear wooden earplugs when I sleep.

But it was too noisy outside today, so he turned over and picked up the dragon head golden scepter next to him and walked out in a robe.

Seeing a group of unfamiliar faces in the mansion, a trace of majesty flashed between Shu Ce's eyebrows, and then he said in a majestic voice, "What are you doing, why are you making a lot of noise in the middle of the night?" ”

"Old Hou Ye, the Hou Mansion is on fire, let's help put out the fire!" The lady passing by hurriedly replied.

"Nonsense, where did the fire come from?"

“……”

The eldest lady just raised her hand and was about to point, but found that the raging flames disappeared in the blink of an eye.

On the other hand, the house that they had just doused with water showed no signs of being burned except for a large number of water stains.

One by one, the firefighters stopped, as if they had thought of something, and when they looked at each other, they saw fear in each other's eyes.

"It turned out that the husband was talking nonsense, and we all believed it." The eldest lady put down the barrel first, and then said some words of apology, and then dispersed directly.

Shu Wan also hurried over after being woken up.

She glanced around the mess and asked, "Grandpa, what's going on?" Why do I think I heard someone shouting out to get rid of the water? ”

"It's just a rabble making trouble."

"Troublemaker?" Shu Wan frowned, "It's better for you to let the second uncle and the third uncle move over earlier, most of the palace guards are still in Yucheng and haven't come over, I'm worried that the security of the imperial city is not good." ”

Hearing this, Shu Ce bowed slightly.

For some reason, he always felt that something was not right.

After a moment of silence, he spoke, "Linglong, you ask the housekeeper to call a few people to get up and clean up all these water traces in case it freezes tomorrow morning." ”

"The slave understands." Linglong stuck out her tongue at her own young lady.

Shu Wan smiled and lifted the lantern, "Grandpa, granddaughter will send you back to rest first." ”

The grandfather and grandson walked slowly on the wet gravel road.

When passing by the well in the main courtyard, Shu Ce suddenly paused, and his knife-like gaze swept straight to the right, "Why does it smell of blood?" ”

Hearing this, Shu Wan hurriedly shone the lantern there.

Sure enough, she saw a large blackened blood stain on the grass, and there seemed to be traces of something being dragged, so she covered her mouth in time to prevent herself from exclaiming.

Shu Ce narrowed his eyes, thinking of the so-called fire fighting, his face became more and more strange.

He grabbed the hand of the dragon's head golden scepter and continued to exert force, looked at it for a long time before retracting his gaze, and only said in a deep voice, "Tomorrow morning, let someone bring the man who is on the watch tonight, and Ben Hou will interrogate him." ”