"Girl, although Zizhu has told me about the fire in the palace, she doesn't know much, can the girl tell me in detail, I may be able to help the girl." Kumquat asked.

Before the palace caught fire, because the rumors pointed directly at Zhong Xiaoxin, the next day Haiyan participated in the investigation, and every day the progress of the situation progressed, Haiyan would report to Zhong Xiaoxin, but Zizhu has always only cared about Zhong Xiaoxin's clothes and meals, this kind of detail is not too concerned, only said that there seems to be a figure in the fire, and the others are not known.

Kumquat asked, Zhong Xiaoxin informed her of the detailed situation, the time, place, people, causes, and results, Zhong Xiaoxin said everything he knew, this is not a confidential matter, it just happened in the palace, and the people will not spread it for a while.

After saying that, Kumquat asked in detail about a few more details.

"May I ask the eldest girl, the fires on the first and second day were all inside the Jingxin Palace?

"I didn't see people directly, but there was a figure flashing in the house, but I saw it when it caught fire in the Jingxin Hall for two days in a row, and according to the palace maid who had pushed the door the next day, she had seen the figure reflected in the window in the light of the fire, but there was no one after pushing the door open, and the candle had already burned the paper window at that time. Zhong Xiaoxin said.

"Then the fires that followed were all outside the Jingxin Palace?

"There is no one left, but it is indeed burned when no one is around, it is the place that has been inspected by the previous group, and it has been walked, but it has burned when it turns around, but it has been carefully searched around, and no one has been found. The place of Jingxin Palace, is also a bit biased, if the people from other palaces go, even if they throw down the fire and leave, it is impossible to leave without anyone knowing, not to mention that since the person lights the fire, there must always be torches and candles in his hand to light the fire of things, holding combustibles all the way to Jingxin Hall from elsewhere, but no one sees it, it is also a very thing, because since the next day, Jingxin Hall has increased a lot of manpower in the four places, and even let the other party put the fire for three days. ”

"So ......," said Kumquat, "I know by what means the other man set the fire." ”

"You know?" asked Zhong Xiaoxin, wide-eyed. There are so many disciples of Shenglongguan, and they can't find out the fire and haunting case in the harem, and they can't find out all kinds of scenes, just listen to a few words?

This is simply an ancient version of Miss Jane Marple, is it really good for such a good person to be a maid for her?

"What means did the other party use to set the fire?" Zhong Xiaoxin asked.

Kumquat suddenly fell to his knees. "My life was saved by the girl, and I am also loyal to the girl, please promise not to drive me away before I dare to say. ”

Zhong Xiaoxin almost didn't mention it in one breath.

You don't want to say that you set the fire in the harem, do you?

The fire in the harem, of course, will not be set by kumquats.

Kumquat just did something similar.

After Kumquat switched to Zhong Xiaoxin's side, he has been giving his new master a good impression, of course, he doesn't want to take the initiative to reveal the previous black history. Once Zhong 2 invited Zhong Xiaoxin to go to the temple with her in order to design Zhong Xiaoxin to marry the stupid fat man of the Xiao family, when Zhong Xiaoxin's strength was not strong and refused, Zhong 2 sent Kumquat to Zhong Xiaoxin's courtyard in the middle of the night to haunt it, and later Kumquat Zheng ran into Chi Siye to visit Qiluo Courtyard, so he didn't dare to do anything, and he didn't do anything to hurt Zhong Xiaoxin.

Kumquat felt that no one knew about this matter, and because Xiao Fat's matter had been resolved, even if this chapter had been revealed, but he didn't expect Zhong Xiaoxin to encounter such a thing again today, and he didn't confess to Zhong Xiaoxin earlier, so that Zhong Xiaoxin had no clue about the fire in the harem, and Kumquat was also very guilty.

"Girl, the reason why you can see the figure inside the house from the outside of the house is that someone in the house is using shadow puppets, as long as the fire is printed, although the shadow puppet will not move, but as long as the distance is appropriate, it can be reflected on the window paper, it can look like life-size. Before the second girl told me to pretend to be a ghost to scare you, I just brought candles and shadow puppets, shadow puppets have colors and knots, can be moved, and the sense of reality is very strong. But if the other party acts carefully, the little palace maid is timid, and she is afraid that it is enough to cut out a figure from a piece of paper. Kumquat said.

Looking into the light from the dark, the things you see are particularly conspicuous, but in the same way, because of the large contrast between the two sides, although you can see the things in the light clearly, when the things are backlit, you can't see the details clearly.

As soon as the little palace maid of Jingxin Palace wakes up, she will first notice the outside, because the place where there should be no one is lit up, and then look from the dark courtyard to the room where the lights are lit, if someone places the position between the candle and the shadow puppet and the window at this time, and the paper figure is reflected on the window through the light, of course the person in the dark place will see the figure, even if the figure will not move, under the swaying of the candle fire, it will feel that the figure is moving.

Zhong Xiaoxin "ah", I didn't expect there to be such an operation, speaking of which, she had also seen shadow puppetry in her previous life, and knew that shadow puppetry could achieve changes in the size of distance through the distance between lights, shadows, and screens, and she didn't use a projector less.

"But...... The little palace maid screamed when she saw the figure, and a fire broke out in the house, at least before and after the fire, no one should have entered or exited the house. Zhong Xiaoxin said.

If, according to what Kumquat said, the person who lit the lamp and put the paper was the little palace maid asleep, and she didn't see it, it was normal, but after the little palace maid woke up, she was frightened when she saw the lights and shadows in the house, but the room suddenly burned, and it was certain that no one had entered.

What's more, the little palace maid rushed to the courtyard and shouted for help, and someone from several palaces next to her came to help her put out the fire, during which people in Jingxin Hall kept coming and going, that is, not only did no one enter the house, but no one came out.

Even if the suspect who lit the fire was in the house before, but he knocked down the candle and lit the fire, he couldn't help but run out, right?

The fact that no one enters or leaves an empty house is suddenly lit, shadowed, and on fire is the reason why the haunting is truly accepted.

Zhong Xiaoxin was told by Kumquat that he was a little convinced that the figure was a paper man, but how to explain the fire?

Zhong Xiaoxin looked at Kumquat, who didn't know how to answer, she looked back at Zhong Xiaoxin with a look of "Is my girl an idiot?" but I can't bear to tell her, and then gently pulled a hair from her head.

Kumquat didn't say much, but lightly made a thin strand of hair into a dead button, and then put it on the candlestick in the study.