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The warrior monk died of his parents since he was a child, and was homeless after being expelled from the school, and lived near the Daxiangguo Temple in Kaifeng Prefecture.

In the same year, that is, in 1882, the eighth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, the month of Renwu, the month of the lunar calendar, is the twelfth month of the lunar calendar. At that time, the weather was much colder than now, counting nine cold days, dripping into ice, and the cold wind blowing on the face was like a knife.

On the ninth day of the lunar month, that is, the first day after Laba, there had just been a snowfall, and the weather was so cold that people could freeze to death.

In the evening, my great-grandmother's second brother, who was on an errand in the county government, came to my great-grandfather and said that he wanted to ask my great-grandfather about something.

Don't look at the fact that they live very close, they are usually busy with each other, and rarely move around each other, but they are quite close when they meet, after all, they are a family, in our words, this is a "real bottom" relative.

When my great-grandfather saw his second brother coming, he didn't say a word, and he didn't ask my great-grandmother's second brother what he was looking for, so he hurriedly took out two jars of good wine, and personally cooked and stir-fried vegetables.

My great-grandmother's second brother didn't want to drink when he saw that, but he couldn't stand my great-grandfather's enthusiasm.

At the door of the kitchen, my great-grandmother's second brother was a little unhappy when he saw my great-grandfather busy inside, and said to my great-grandfather, "Xuanyi, you are also the uncle of Caifu, and if you don't help the family, you can buy a maid to help cook, take care of the housework, look at what you are." ”

My great-grandfather looked back and smiled and said, "No need, there's nothing to do at home, I'll do it." ”

My great-grandmother's second brother said, "You can do it, I can't watch my sister suffer with you, and when I have the chance, I will go to the countryside and buy a cooking mile for you two to come back." ”

In fact, Cai Wenye and my great-grandmother's eldest brother have talked about buying a maid before, but they were all politely rejected by my great-grandfather, and this time I heard my great-grandmother's second brother say this again, my great-grandfather just smiled, didn't speak, and didn't take it seriously.

The two of them were talking, and the two appetizers were scrambled, eggs and leeks, vinegared shredded potatoes, plus a large piece of braised pork sent by others on the day of Laba, sliced into sections, mixed with green onion condiments, and the two of them drank it in the house with a cup of change.

As for my great-grandmother, she hurried to cook dinner at this time. As for my grandfather, he hasn't come back from Caifu yet, he usually doesn't eat at home, he eats in Caifu, and the food in Caifu is of course much better than at home.

After three rounds of drinking, my great-grandmother's second brother asked my great-grandfather, saying that some people are fine, and their clothes will suddenly catch fire, and then their limbs will be hot, their faces will be red, and in the end, the whole body will burn inexplicably, and they can burn themselves to death.

As soon as my great-grandfather called my great-grandmother's second brother and said that he was looking for him, he knew that it must have something to do with ghosts and gods.

At this time, listening to my great-grandmother's second brother ask this, my great-grandfather frowned slightly, he really hadn't heard that the living would catch fire by themselves, and they could burn themselves to death, so he didn't know how to answer, so he asked my great-grandmother's second brother, "What's wrong second brother, did something happen?" ”

My great-grandmother's second brother smacked his teeth twice, drank the wine from the cup, and told my great-grandfather a strange thing.

Just four months ago, in the eighth lunar month, a fire broke out in a small village near the county seat. The family's surname is Liang, and the owner's name is Liang Deren, about forty years old, he is the richest man in that small village, and he has a small rice shop in the county seat, and his family is rich.

Liang Deren has a main room and a side room, and in today's words, this person has two wives at home.

Gong and Liang Deren are the same age, and Yue's is twenty-six years old. Liang Deren also has a pair of children, a son is eighteen years old, a daughter is sixteen years old, in addition to this family of five, there is also a housekeeper, four housekeepers, three maids and an old mother who cooks, a total of 14 people.

The fire broke out very suddenly, after the third watch. As for this family, the reputation in their village is not very good, it belongs to the kind of family that oppresses the neighbors and is not benevolent to the rich, and after the fire, no one in the village helped to put out the fire.

The fire burned from the third watch to dawn, almost burning the house to pieces, eight of the 14 members of the family were burned to death at once, Liang Deren and his wife and the Yue family were all burned to death, the maid burned to death two, and the family also burned three to death.

Eight people died at once, which is a big case in Weishi County, and the officials in the yamen intervened in the investigation and suspected that it was arson.

In the end, the investigation came and went, and after more than a month of investigation, it was found that half of the people in their village were suspected of arson. Because of what, because the Liang family has offended too many people in the village, Liang Deren's son Liang Tongsheng is very arrogant, relying on the wealth and power of the family, he will beat anyone who is not pleasing to the eye in the village, and often takes a few family members to beat people all over the body. Liang Deren, lustful, seeing whose daughter looks good, let the matchmaker come to the door, in the name of finding a daughter-in-law for his son, tricked other people's yellow flower girls into the house, and after the spoil, accompany others to make some money.

At that time, the gap between the rich and the poor was very large, it can be said that Zhumen wine and meat stink, and the road had frozen bones, and the legal system of those feudal societies was mostly to rectify the poor and protect the rich, and the lives of the poor were like mustard. The daughter was ruined, and she could get some compensation money, and the girl's family also knocked out her teeth and swallowed it in her stomach, although she hated it so much that the roots of her teeth itched, but she didn't dare to squeak on her mouth. Since ancient times, there has been a saying, called, the people do not fight with the officials, the poor do not fight with the rich, and they can't afford to fight.

The fire in Liangfu really relieved those villagers!

The officials in charge of investigating the fire also found that after the fire, in addition to the eight people who burned to death in the Liang Mansion, Liang Deren's son Liang Tongsheng and daughter Liang Xiuxiu, including the housekeeper of the Liang Mansion, the old mother who cooked, and a maid and a housekeeper, actually disappeared en masse, and no one was born or dead. This leads to the whole case becoming confusing.

If there are too many people, the hearts will not be so aligned, and there will always be people who leak out the news because of fear, timidity or other reasons, or even show clues, but the county officials have been checking from house to house in the village for more than a month, and they have not heard any news, let alone any clues.

What does this mean, it shows that these villagers did not do it together, and besides, these honest villagers do not have the courage to kill people and set fires.

If you want to say that you have the guts, that is, those bandits ring horses, but if you want to say that the bandits ring horses set fire, it is not possible, this village is very close to the county seat, those bandits sound horses have not been arrogant enough to commit crimes in the eyes of the county lord, and those bandits sound horses generally only want money, and will not be killed, if they really do this, it will be tantamount to killing chickens and eggs, and they are cutting off their own financial routes.

After the above two aspects are ruled out, only the internal thieves are left to commit the crime, that is to say, the fire was set by the people in the Liang Mansion themselves.

Liang Deren's sons and daughters can basically be excluded, believing that they will not burn their own houses, let alone their parents. The last suspect fell on the missing housekeeper, the old mother, the maid and the housekeeper, the official suspected that these subordinates colluded and colluded, and after setting fire, they kidnapped Liang Deren's children and engaged in a collective escape.

As for the motives for these subordinates to set fire to and kidnap them, the county government did not consider them for the time being, and arrested a few people first, and then interrogated them.

Just when the county government was about to issue a list of wanted people from Liang Mansion, the missing family member of Liang Mansion returned to the village, and after the county government got the news, it sent several people to arrest the family as soon as possible, and escorted him back to the county government for the first trial.

Liang Deren's son Liang Tongsheng did not disappear at all, and before the fire in Liang's house, Liang Tongsheng took this family member to Yuanyang County to buy goods, that is, to buy rice for the rice store. Yuanyang rice, it is said that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was already a special rice for the court, and the quality and taste were not said. When Liang Tongsheng went, it happened to be the season of new rice closing.

Having said that, although this Liang Deren is considered a tyrant in their village, he is not a black-hearted businessman, and the rice and noodles he buys and sells are not only at a fair price, but also of high quality, and are very popular with the people in the county.

Straight to the point. Going to Yuanyang County to buy rice, this is the first time in Liang Tongsheng's life to do serious things, and it is also the first time to take so much money to go out, but before people have reached the Yellow River, they stopped at a place called Yanming Lake on the south bank of the Yellow River, because there is not only a pleasant scenery, but also famous for food and fireworks in the past.

Liang Tongsheng took the money to enter the rice and worked there for more than two months, not only spent all the money, but also owed a lot of debts, and finally was detained there by the old bustard of a green building, and asked the family to go home and get the money to ransom people.

As for the fire in Liang's mansion, this Ding and Liang Tongsheng didn't know about it at all.

At this point, the suspicion of this Ding and Liang Tongsheng was ruled out, and the county government began to chase down the missing housekeeper, the old mother and the maid, and at the same time, they were also intensively looking for the whereabouts of Liang Deren's daughter Liang Xiuxiu.

Another half a month has passed, and at this time it has entered the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the weather has turned cold, and two months have passed since the arson case of Liangfu occurred to this time, but there has been no clue. Because the case was too bizarre and weird, the county magistrate didn't dare to report it in order to keep his top black yarn, and he was about to become a headless unsolved case.

At this time, Liang Deren's son Liang Tongsheng came to the county government in a panic to report the case, saying that his family had been burned to death at night