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When my great-grandmother's second brother heard this, his face became even more ugly, and he asked my great-grandfather, "What should I do then?" ”

My great-grandfather picked up the wine jar and poured another glass for my great-grandmother's second brother, and comforted him and said: "What's the matter, in fact, this thing doesn't need to be afraid of it, it is a kind of resentment turned into a bad thing, whoever has a grudge with it before his death, it will harm whom, as long as we don't provoke it, it will not do anything to us, and when its resentment disappears, it will naturally go away." ”

My great-grandmother's second brother said, "You mean to say that it has a grudge against the Liang Mansion, burns the Liang Mansion's mansion, and then burns all the people in the Liang Mansion, and it will naturally disappear?" ”

My great-grandfather nodded, "That's pretty much what it means." ”

My grandmother's second brother thought about it for a while, and quickly asked again, "Since the housekeeper and family members of the Liang Mansion were burned to death, why didn't Liang Tongsheng, the young master of the Liang Mansion, burn to death?" ”

"This ......" my great-grandmother's second brother asked, and really stopped my great-grandfather.

At this time, my great-grandmother finished dinner, entered the door and said, "Second brother, Xianggong, don't drink, let's eat first." After saying that, he turned around and went outside to the kitchen to serve a bowl to my great-grandfather and her second brother, and served them on the wine table.

At this time, my great-grandmother's second brother looked at my great-grandmother, frowned tightly, and then looked at his bowl of rice on the table and gritted his teeth and said, "Tomorrow I will go to the countryside to buy you a cooking maid and come back, you two don't want it!" ”

Listening to my great-grandmother's second brother say this, my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother looked at each other, but neither of them spoke, and it could be seen that the second brother was really angry. Why is he angry, you don't have to guess to know that he can't tolerate their Cai Mansion's daughter doing this kind of subordinate work of serving tea and pouring water.

After dinner, my great-grandmother's second brother muttered for a while, and finally hesitated to say to my great-grandfather, "Xuanyi, look...... Can you take the time to take a look at the ruins of Liangfu, see what the hell is going on, give me a quasi-letter, if you really want to commit the crime of 'Red Lian Firefly', I will go to the county office to discuss it with the county master, and just close the case, don't check it and get burned. ”

My great-grandfather listened to what my great-grandmother's second brother said, nodded slightly, and felt that my great-grandmother's second brother was right, if it was really the "Red Temper Firefly" who committed the crime, and continued to investigate like this, sooner or later one day it would anger that evil thing, and by then, there might be more deaths.

There is also a possibility, maybe the evil thing has exhausted its grievances and disappeared, and no further investigation can find out any results, so there is no need to put manpower and material resources on this case.

However, these are just speculations, and conclusions can only be drawn after looking at the ruins of the Liang Mansion. In fact, my great-grandfather didn't know the bottom of his heart at this time, and he wasn't sure that he could see something when he got there, but since he had promised my great-grandmother's second brother, he must go to the Liang Mansion to have a look.

Early the next morning, my great-grandfather first went to the shop to take a day off with my great-grandmother's eldest brother, and then went to Caifu to borrow a stupid horse, and rode to the ruins of Liangfu according to the address given by my great-grandmother's second brother.

Stupid horse, is a kind of local horse in Kaifeng in ancient times, not too big, not fast, but the advantage of this kind of horse is that the character is docile, riding very stable.

The mansion of Liangfu, in the southeast corner of their village, is the first in the east of Ziqi, the geographical location is quite good, but there are no neighbors with partitions in front of the house and behind the house, and it seems relatively empty, but this has a benefit, after his house burns down, the neighbors next to him will not suffer.

My great-grandfather stopped at a commanding point on the side of the road and rode his horse to look into the ruins of Liangfu.

The scale of this Liang Mansion cannot be compared with Cai's Mansion, there is only one front yard and one backyard, and the only place similar to Cai's Mansion is that between the front yard and the backyard, there is also a garden, but the scale of this garden cannot be compared with Cai's Mansion.

As I said earlier, there has just been a snowfall, this snow is not small, the feet and necks are deep, and the snow is covered in all directions, but at this time, the thick snow can not cover the tragic situation after the fire in Liangfu. Of course, it's the middle of winter, and even if the garden isn't on fire, there's no greenery.

My great-grandfather turned over and got off his horse, and at a glance found that there were two clear shoe prints on the thick snow at the gate of Liangfu, one in and one out, extending from the gate to the side of the road, mixed with the messy shoe prints on the road.

Judging from the shape and size of the shoe print, it should be a woman's shoe print, and it is a woman's shoe print without a small foot.

At that time, the young ladies of large families were generally bound for their small feet, and if the daughters of poor families were wrapped in small feet, they would not be able to work.

At this time, my great-grandfather remembered what my great-grandmother's second brother told him that since the fire broke out in Liangfu, it has been rumored that it is haunted here, and no one dares to come here during the day, even the officials in the county government are not willing to stay here longer.

However, the two strings of shoe prints in front of him indicate that someone has entered and exited the ruins of Liangfu, so whose shoe prints will be?

At this time, the two strings of footprints have been frozen, and it has been a long time to think about it, and it was stepped on by people in the second half of the night yesterday at the earliest.

My great-grandfather thought it was strange, and after tying the horse to a tree by the roadside, he followed the shoe prints into the ruins of Liangfu. Then followed the shoe prints through the front yard, then through the garden and the backyard, and followed until the root of the back wall of the backyard of the Liang Mansion.

At the base of the back wall, my great-grandfather saw a place the size of a door panel, which had been swept away with a broom, and the exposed ground showed obvious signs of excavation. Maybe because the weather was too cold, the ground was frozen, but a small hole more than a foot deep was dug out, and it seemed that the excavation process was not smooth.

By this time, my great-grandfather could already conclude that the same person who swept the snow and dug the pit was the same woman, the woman who left the two strings of shoe prints.

As for why the woman came here to dig a hole, whether she wanted to bury something here, or what she buried here, it's hard to say.

My great-grandfather was just an exorcist, not an official who was quick to catch ghosts, he didn't have the kind of mind to solve cases, and he didn't have much curiosity.

After he looked at the small pit, he didn't see anything, and then walked around in the ruins of the Liang Mansion at will, he came here just to see if the cause of the fire in the Liang Mansion was related to ghosts and gods, whether it was related to the "Red Lian Firefly", and he didn't care about anything else.

After taking a turn in the ruins of the Liang Mansion, my great-grandfather didn't notice anything, but just when he walked to the garden without a clue, he stumbled in the snow under his feet and slipped hard.

When he steadied himself and looked behind him, he saw that he was a woody-stemmed eggplant-like plant that had fallen over and been buried by snow, the thickness of a child's arm. Because it was already the depths of winter, the leaves on the plants had already fallen off, but the head was quite large, and a small part of it had already been kicked off by my great-grandfather.

I feel that there are not many woody stem plants planted in the garden, at least not in Caifu. Curious, my great-grandfather picked up the small part he had kicked off from the snow nest, and when he took it in his hand and examined it, his heart jumped.

At this time, my great-grandfather seemed to think of something, twisted it on the plant a few times, and then put his hand to his nose and smelled it, and there was a strange smell on his hand, which was the strange smell from the plant.

"Stinky Trumpet!" My great-grandfather immediately thought of the name of the plant.

This plant is very common in our country, it is considered a nuisance, and the common people treat it as a weed when they see it, and very few people keep it in the garden. Of course, "stinky trumpet flower" is just the local name of our area, its scientific name is "goldenrod", it also has another name called "mandala", in our place, the growth is generally white mandala.

As we all know, mandala is a poisonous plant, and it also has certain medicinal value, especially mandala flowers, which have the effect of sedative anesthesia, which is recorded in many medical books, and it is said that Hua Tuo's "hemp boiling powder" is made of mandala flowers.

The mandala flower I am talking about here should not be confused with the legendary "other side flower" next to the "Nai Ho Bridge", which is also called the mandala flower, but it is not the same species as the mandala flower I am talking about now.

Straight to the point. My great-grandfather looked at the small mandala branch in his hand, was stunned for a while, thought of a possibility, and then stopped checking the cause of the fire in Liangfu, mounted his horse, and quickly returned to the county seat.

After entering the city, I went directly to the county office to find my grandmother's second brother.

The officials in the county government also knew my great-grandfather, and the officials guarding the door told my great-grandfather that my great-grandmother's second brother came to the county government today to report and left soon.

When my great-grandfather heard this, he hurriedly rode back to Caifu. As soon as I entered Cai's mansion, I went directly to the side courtyard to find my grandmother's second brother. As mentioned earlier, there are four courtyards in the entire Cai Mansion, front, back, left and right, and my great-grandmother's second brother lives in the right courtyard, which is also called the right side courtyard.

When I arrived at the side courtyard, the maid in the side courtyard said that the second young master had gone to the countryside. My great-grandfather was stunned when he heard this, and he was immediately a little dumbfounded, could it be that the second brother really went to the countryside to buy cooking maids for the two of them?

My great-grandfather took the mandala branch, left the side courtyard with a heartbeat, and returned home on foot.

At noon, just as my great-grandfather and my great-grandmother were preparing for lunch, there was a knock at the courtyard door.

When I was in Sanwangzhuang, the courtyard door of my great-grandfather's house was open even at night, not here in Weishi County, the more prosperous the place, the more chaotic, if you don't close the gate, someone really dares to come in and steal you, otherwise Caifu won't need so many Ding Nursing Homes