It's not a good thing to call the door at night.

Whether it is a private house or a city gate.

Xu Cheng is not a thick city wall, and the guards who are awakened can see who it is.

Four or five disheveled villagers, sitting on a donkey cart, holding torches, and their faces were still black and gray.

"On fire?" The guards were angry and said, "What are you doing in the city on fire?" Xinghua Mountain? Isn't that next to Xinghua Lake? Do you still have to run to the city to fetch water? ”

If the fire is too big to extinguish......

"Then you might as well gather the people in the nearby villages, come to the city, and assemble the patrol again and again, the sky is bright, and the fire is burned out!"

Are these stupid villagers burned and confused?

After the gatekeeper scolded, the villagers finally had a chance to speak.

"Soldier—" shouted one of the villagers, "it's a dead man—"

Dead people, when they catch fire, it is inevitable, and the guards are calm and unmoved.

"Not dead people." A villager next to him thought of something to correct, "It's murder—"

These words made the other villagers also come back to their senses, and they shouted one after another, "Yes, it's murder-" "We're here to report the crime-" "Soldier, someone killed someone and set fire-"

Murder and arson? The guard's eyes froze, then this is different.

Now the warden in charge of military affairs and patrolling the city is no longer Zhang Lezi.

Previously, the prefect raided the house of Ning officials by ruthless means, and many officials were implicated and unlucky, but things in the world depend on each other, some people are unlucky, and some people are lucky.

Wang Erqing is the lucky one.

The prefect rectified the rule of officials, cut down some people, and promoted some people.

And the condition for promotion is that there is no backer, and there is no connection with the previous Ning Lushi.

Wang Erqing is one of them, he is not too upright, he is not in the same stream as Ning Lushi, but he has no qualifications, no money and no power, and Ning Lushi is too lazy to look at him.

There was no backer in the government, so he could only be an errand officer in this life, but he didn't expect to become a usable person in the eyes of the prefect overnight, from an errand who could only patrol the streets to do chores, to a warden in charge of a department.

Wang Erqing can't sleep well these days, lest waking up is just a dream.

In order to avoid this from being a dream, Wang Erqing worked diligently, and lived in the yamen during this period of time, when he heard that people came to report that there were murders and arsons outside the city, Wang Erqing knew that the time had come for him to show his ability!

"In broad daylight, there are such bad people." He shouted, and immediately beckoned the patrol riders to assemble.

The errands did not correct this new messenger at this moment It is night, they have listened to the order, and one by one they are also violent, taking advantage of the new prefect's rectification of the officials, everyone has a good future.

There is no official who doesn't want to be as wealthy as Ning Lushi.

Of course, no official thought that he would end up like Ning Lushi.

Ning Lushi was too big for himself, and his hand was too long, so he didn't serve this new adult well.

They won't, they will take it as a warning and be a servant who can make a fortune and keep his wealth.

By the time the villagers were urging the thin donkeys to run back, the light had already dawned, the fire had been extinguished, and the villagers stopped outside, while the officers gathered around to see what was going on.

"How?"

"The murderer wasn't burned, was he?"

"No, it was dragged out early."

"Hey, it's a pity, the house that Ah Qi and Xiaoqing just built burned down."

"Thank God it's okay."

"It's terrible that someone came here to loot."

Looting? Wang Erqing's eyes examined the corpse on the ground, as well as the knife marks on the corpse's neck.

It was the first time I had seen the scene where the looter and the dead were the same person.

"So, he killed himself himself?" He looked up at the victim on the side.

These are two girls, fifteen or sixteen years old, just like the villagers around them, their clothes are disheveled, their faces and hair are covered with ashes, but they are just like the villagers around them, shocked, angry, and afraid....... they did not escape from death and lost their souls, but their faces were pale, and the other even looked as usual.

The girl with the same face nodded and said, "We two orphan girls live alone very cautiously, and when we sleep at night, we will put the door on the top, and when this person pried open the door, he was hit by the stick I put at the door, and it hit the knife, and the knife bounced back and hacked himself to death." ”

At this point, she glanced at the corpse.

"This is probably a thief with a weak heart, God has eyes, evil has evil retribution, and it is self-inflicted and cannot live."

Wang Erqing understood that this girl was probably the rest of her life, and her anger offset her fear.

And according to what she said, this thief rushed in to kill people after setting fire, and she just woke up before she had time to face the firewood knife and experience life and death, and the thief died.

The fear of hindsight is not as good as the fear of truly experiencing death.

However, the thief's death is too ridiculous, right?

He was struck on a knife with a stick against the door, and slashed right in the neck, and died.

But otherwise, it wouldn't have been this girl who was beaten to death with a stick, right?

Wouldn't that be even more ridiculous!

Wang Erqing looked at the girl who was called Ah Qi by the villagers again.

This weak and windy appearance is not as good as a wooden stick.

Wang Erqing retracted his gaze, looked at the servants around him, and shouted, "Did you find it?" Are there any fellow parties? ”

The officers around shook their heads: "There are no traces at the scene because of the chaos of firefighting." ”

When Wang Erqing looked at the ground again, he raised his foot and gently pushed, and the man who was half-lying on his stomach lay upright, revealing his burned face, hideous and terrifying, which also made his face unrecognizable.

This Ah Qi said that the man rushed into the room while setting a fire to prevent them from escaping when they woke up.

Therefore, when he hacked himself to death and fell, he sprinkled fire oil under him, and the fire burned.

The thief should be glad that he fell in the main house, and although the master and servant were panicked, they were also eager to put out the fire and pour water on it, otherwise the whole person would be burned down.

What kind of thief is this?

Why did you come to rob orphan girls?

Is it a robbery?

Wang Erqing looked at Ah Qi, although he was still young and dressed plainly, he was embarrassed at this time, but he could still see that he was a beauty.

But the robbery directly carried the person away, quietly, why bother setting fire and using a knife?

Money?

Wang Erqing looked around, what was burned was a wooden shed, and the remaining three rooms were also very simple, and the furnishings in them had also been seen, none of them looked like a thing, they were all made of wood, and the only value might be the thin donkey.

What's plundering about this?

"And the cows—" cried the onlookers, sad and angry, "and burned the cattle to death." ”

Cattle? The cow is worth more than the donkey, Wang Erqing looked at the errand officer, the donkey ran out to graze by the lake, the cow was slow and didn't run out?

"Boss." The officer whispered, "I asked, and I said that it was a wooden ornament, which seemed to be for the village children to play with." ”

Wang Erqing glared at the village boys over there, and signaled the servants to stop it, don't let irrelevant people make trouble.

There is no wealth to rob, and there is no robbery, this case is actually simple, Wang Erqing looked at this girl again.

"Miss Seven Stars." He asked in a deep voice, "Do you have a feud with anyone?" ”