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At this time, Liang Tongsheng can be said to be homeless, everything in the house was burned clean by the fire, and there was only this rice shop in the county town left, and he and his family could only live in the rice shop at this time. In addition to the two of them, there is also a shopkeeper in charge of the accounts and two young men weighing rice.

The shopkeeper and his buddies are all from the county seat, and they are distant relatives of the Liang family, and they don't live in the store at night. The two guys who weighed rice before took turns to look at the store at night, and since Liang Tongsheng and Jiading came, they didn't need to look at the store at night, and it became the family's business to look at the store.

According to Liang Tongsheng, just a few nights before he reported the crime, one night, Liang Tongsheng heard the family shouting in the front hall of the rice store in the backyard warehouse. Although Liang Tongsheng is not a good thing outside, he is not bad to his family, especially after the fire, there is only this one family left to rely on him.

Liang Tongsheng casually picked up an empty burlap bag for rice next to him, pounced on it and pressed it on the family, and pressed it several times to extinguish the fire. Fortunately, Liang Tongsheng saved in time, and this Ding only burned his hand a little, and it was fine.

But since that day, the family has become in a trance, and his expression is abnormal, and his eyes are as if he has pink eye, red and red, and later, his whole face has become the same as his eyes, red like blood, and his body is hot, like a red-hot iron. When I looked at the doctor, the doctor couldn't see anything wrong and said that it might be a rare "fever".

In ancient times, "fever" generally referred to heat stroke, but in autumn, winter and October, it seems a bit nonsense to say that the family has heat stroke. In our contemporary era, there is another disease, which was also mistakenly called "fever" in the past, that is, AIDS.

The night before Liang Tongsheng came to the county government to report the case, Liang Tongsheng drank a night of flower wine in a green building in the county seat, and when he returned to the rice shop in the morning, a humanoid object curled up on the ground in the front hall of the rice shop, burning the fire into a ball of black charcoal, which looked very terrifying.

Liang Tongsheng took a look at it with courage and found that there was a bronze medal on the body of the charred black object, and the word "Liang Fu" was written on the bronze plate.

The bronze medal is like a status symbol, proving which family it is. In ancient times, the descendants of many large families hung bronze medals, and the bronze medals were engraved with a certain mansion on the front and the name of the next person on the reverse. My great-grandfather's grandfather's family also has a bronze medal, and when the subordinate goes to the shop to buy something for the house, he shows the bronze medal, and the shop owner will give a few thin noodles and give a certain discount. Of course, it depends on how big the face and power of the lord of your mansion is, and it is not just a bronze medal from a certain mansion that can be used.

Straight to the point. After Liang Tongsheng saw the bronze medal and determined that the charred black object was his own family, he was frightened and stumbled to the county office to report the case.

After receiving Liang Tongsheng's report, the county government dispatched a head catcher, several catchers and a pawn to rush to the rice shop as soon as possible.

After an autopsy on the spot, it was found that the fire actually started to burn from Jiading's stomach, because after dissecting Jiading's burnt belly, he found that the fragments in Jiading's stomach had become fly ashes, and he blew lightly, and those ashes could "exhale" out of the charred human skin shell. The strangest thing is that only this Ding in the front hall of the entire rice store was burned to black charcoal, and there was no trace of burning on the counters, chairs, rice noodles for sale, etc. in the front hall. In this way, the whole case seems bizarre and unbelievable.

People who were burned to death by fire, I don't know if you have seen it, to say something disgusting, it is like a roasted sweet potato, the whole person is shriveled and dehydrated, charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It is a bit unlikely to say that the internal organs inside are more seriously burned than the skin of the flesh outside, especially the brain, which is protected by a skull on the outside, even if it is boiled into a piece of "tender tofu" by the fire, it is impossible to burn it into fly ashes.

If you can't explain the real cause of death of the family, it is not easy to start investigating this case, if you want to say that someone burned the family to death, who is so capable of setting people on fire from the stomach?

In the end, the county official almost far-fetched to deal with this case and the previous fire of the Liang family, as if he was fooled, saying that if he found the real arson of the Liang family, he could find out the cause of the family's death.

Half a month later, the time entered the middle and late October. Just when the county government officials were quick to investigate these two cases, they got a reliable news from the county government's "eyeliner", saying that they saw the missing maid in Liang's mansion in a neighboring village.

When the catchers in the county government heard the news, they were immediately shocked and rushed to the village overnight.

Under the guidance of "Eyeliner", the catchers caught the missing maid in the Liang Mansion without much effort. According to "Eyeliner", this maid's name is Xiaoju, and she is seventeen years old.

The catchers escorted the maid Xiaoju back to the county government for a first trial, and the maid Xiaoju didn't know anything, saying that the night of the fire in the Liang Mansion, she was sleeping soundly, and suddenly heard someone calling her, and after she promised in her sleep, the man said to her, the house is on fire, run for your life, she opened her eyes in a daze, the fire outside the window was sky-high, it was really on fire, but the fire had not yet burned the house where their maids slept.

As mentioned earlier, the maids in ancient times generally lived in a big house, which was similar to a collective dormitory, and these maids in the Liang Mansion were no exception.

There were two other maids living with Xiao Ju, Xiao Ju was panicking and dressing, and at the same time shouting loudly to the other two maids, but when she put on all the clothes, the two maids didn't wake her up. Xiao Ju hurriedly ran to their bedside, pulled their arms and shouted for a long time, but they still didn't wake up, the two maids seemed to be unconscious at this time, sleeping deeply.

Seeing that the fire was getting closer and closer, and the smoke was going into the room through the cracks in the door and window, Xiao Ju was scared and didn't dare to shout anymore, so she rushed out of the room alone and ran to the gate of Liangfu.

When I ran to the gate, I saw that the gate was open, wide open, and the fire had not yet spread here. Xiao Ju couldn't care so much at this time, and ran out of the gate with a stuffy head.

After coming to the street, she shouted for help, but no villager came out to help, and the people in Liang's house did not move. In the end, Xiao Ju looked at the raging fire in the Liang Mansion and thought, she didn't want to stay here, and ran to her uncle's house in the neighboring village in one breath, and stayed at her uncle's house all night.

Uncle, in some places is also called uncle, that is, the father's uncle. We call my mother's uncle uncle uncle here, and the two are of the same generation, but the name is different.

The next day, Xiaoju's uncle went to the village of Liangfu to inquire, and the villagers said that Liangfu caught fire last night, not only did the house burn down, but also burned eight people, Liang Deren and his two wives were all burned to death.

Xiao Ju's uncle went home and told the maid Xiao Ju, Xiao Ju clapped her hands and applauded, and she was very happy.

Why is Xiaoju so happy? As mentioned earlier, Liang Deren, this old thing, is lustful, not only ruining the yellow flower girls in the village, but even the maids in his house have already harmed him countless times. Especially this little chrysanthemum, she still has a bit of appearance, and in today's words, she is about to become Liang Deren's personal plaything.

The maids in ancient times were like this, if it sounded good, it was a maid, and if it was ugly, it was a venting tool behind the man's back, of course, it wasn't all like this, and those maids in Cai's house were relatively much luckier.

Xiao Ju hated this Liang Deren in her heart, but these maids were all bought by the Liang Mansion with money, and they all had a deed of sale where to hold it, and their bodies were sold to others, no matter what people do, you are legal, and it is useless for you to resist.

The fire in Liang's Mansion burned to the bottom, and Xiao Ju was happy at this time that her deed of sale was also burned in the fire, without the deed of sale, she was a free person, and she got rid of the control of Liang Deren.

After the fire in Liangfu, Xiaoju has been hiding in her uncle's house and did not dare to go out, for fear that the people in Liangfu would find her and arrest her back.

Xiaoju hid for nearly two months, and after that, she felt that there was nothing to do, so she wanted to go out and walk around, help her uncle do some work or something, her uncle had no children and no daughters, and he was an old bachelor, and he made a living by giving people fortune telling.

As a result, it is still the same sentence, I am not afraid of no good things, but I am afraid that there are no good people, Xiaoju went out on the first day, and I gave a glimpse to the "eyeliner" in the yamen.

The role of "eyeliner" is not only contemporary, it has existed since ancient times, as early as the Zhou Dynasty Jiang Ziya's "Taigong Art of War" appeared, Taigong said: "Many words, evil tongue, evil words all day long, endless sleeping, hated by the public, sick by people, this can make the alley, check the traitor and serve the trouble." ”

Covering the alleys, inspecting treachery and serving trouble, it can also be understood as hiding in the shadows, baring teeth and staring, waiting to report others and pull other people's pigtails. This kind of person is generally narrow-minded and dark, easy to be suspicious and jealous, can't see others well, is not a good person, and in the end there is no good end.

Writing this, some people may ask, how can you still understand the art of war as a ghost hunter? Actually, in addition to not understanding that a pound is equal to sixteen taels, in other aspects, I may understand a little more than others, just a little bit, you must not be more serious.

Straight to the point. Above the court, the maid Xiaoju said the above, of course the county master refused to believe it, how could there be such a thing, there was a fire in the house in the middle of the night, and someone specially woke her up to let her escape, who is she, but an insignificant little maid, why only wake her up, this is one of them