The fire did not subside until the sky was slightly bright, and if it had not been for another rain in the early hours of the morning, I am afraid that it would not have subsided.

Great-uncle Ye Renliang looked at the blackened courtyard wall, took a hard puff of dry smoke, and his face was dejected.

Pang Zi shouted Ye Qiong to rest first, but Ye Qiong was unwilling, and he didn't settle down until he really heard the news that the fire was extinguished, but he still didn't move.

Soon after Ye Qiong was rescued, she was told a piece of news by Zhang Jingzhi - the granary of Ye's Grange was also burned.

Zhang Jingzhi said: "Fortunately, I found it early, and only burned some old grain. If it is any later, I am afraid that not only the Ye family's grange, but also the surrounding families will also be affected. ”

Ye Renliang didn't close his eyes all night, his eyes burned red from heartache, he looked at the blackened courtyard wall, and smoked a dry cigarette fiercely without saying a word.

Although the loss of the granary is not large, it is enough for the hearts of the crops who have been farming for many years like him.

Ye Qiong couldn't bear to see Uncle Zeng like this, so she endured the discomfort in her throat and persuaded her in a dumb voice: "Uncle Zeng, food can always be planted again, and the safety of people is the most important thing." ”

Ye Renliang spit out a smoke ring and nodded, but a childish voice behind him shouted loudly: "You are lying, I obviously saw your little servant hanging out in the granary last night, it must have been you who let him set the fire!" ”

Ye Qiong was stunned, the child had already broken free from the adult's hand, pointed at Ye Er and said, "It's you!" I saw you in the granary last night and didn't know what to do, you must have set it on fire! ”

Ye Er's eyes widened, his cheeks were flushed, he opened his mouth, but he didn't argue a word, only said: "Girl, you believe me, I did go to the granary last night, but I didn't set it on fire!" ”

A woman couldn't help muttering: "I said that there will be something good for the Ye family to come here, you see, as soon as she came, there was a fire in the grange, who knows if she set the fire or not......"

The child who was the testimony was grabbed by the wrist and dragged away, and the child began to cry and shouted, "It's you, it's you." Everyone said that you hated the matter of ethnology, so you set it on fire! ”

The clansmen of the Ye family were silent, they stood together silently to form a wall, surrounding Ye Qiong and his party in the center, most of them had disgust and resentment on their faces, obviously believing the child's words.

Ye Qiong's face sank.

Ye Er is Ye Qiong's person, Ye Qiong believes in Ye Er's loyalty, Ye Er said that it was not him who set the fire, and Ye Qiong believed that it was not he who set the fire.

So, what's going on?

Was it a coincidence, or was Ye Er seen wandering around the granary by the arsonist and deliberately framed?

Seeing that this was wrong, although Pang Zi also had some doubts about Ye Qiong in his heart, but thinking back on his interactions with Ye Qiong in the past few days, he still didn't want to believe that the arson had anything to do with Ye Qiong, so he opened his mouth and gave Ye Qiong a step: "Sister Qiong, you also escaped from the fire, and you haven't closed your eyes all night, why don't you go to the rest meeting first?" ”

When Ponzi's words fell, a woman made a fuss: "Don't go!" If she doesn't make this arson clear, she won't leave! ”

The crowd poured over, and when the woman who was pulling the child and wanted to leave saw this, she rolled her eyes and squeezed in, sat in front of Ye Qiong and didn't let her go, crying: "You are not allowed to go, my bean baby has seen that your little girl set the fire, what else do you have to argue!" It's unreasonable, the burned grain is still my family's stored grain, how can you let me survive the winter! ”

With the woman's crying, the child who pointed to it also cried loudly, crying breathlessly, which made people look pitiful.

Ye Qiong wanted to say a few words, but the night's sleeplessness and the burning pain in her chest caused by the smoke she inhaled made her cough as soon as she opened her mouth, and she couldn't stop coughing.

Ye Jin and Zhang Jingzhi's faces changed, they were also fighting the fire with the rest of the Ye family this night, Ye Qiong didn't go to rest since he got out of the fire, they knew about it, but seeing that Ye Qiong's expression was okay, he didn't take it to heart.

Ye Jin secretly blamed herself, knowing that her little sister had smoked thick smoke, and she didn't know if she had been burned by fire, her little sister was a person who could bear to trouble others, why didn't she think of it.

Ye Qiong grabbed Liuying's hand and coughed hard, but the woman who was sitting on the ground pouted: "What cough, I don't know if it's pretending to be ......."

Liuying was a violent temper, and immediately jumped up, crying angrily while pointing at the woman and scolding: "My girl has been trapped in the fire for so long, and she has been concerned about the fire and has not rested when she has left the fire, and I don't know if she is injured. I've never seen a person like you! ”

The woman's face was flushed with scolding, and the child who pointed out that his mother was at a loss, and his blood was up, so he raised his fist and rushed towards Ye Qiong and Liuying: "I let you bully my mother!" ”

Liuying was startled, afraid that the child would hurt Ye Qiong, so she unconsciously stretched out her hand to block it.

Who knew that this light block happened to hit the child's shoulder, but inadvertently pushed the child, the child stumbled, tripped with his left foot, and fell backwards.

With a "bang", the back of the child's head hit the ground.

The incident happened suddenly, and no one had time to react, the first to react was the woman, who rushed over and hugged the child and cried: "Dou Wazi, how are you!" ”

Ye Qiong was also very surprised, but the pain in her throat and chest made her unable to speak a complete sentence, she could only gesture to Ye Jin and Zhang Jingzhi, Ye Jin was still confused, Zhang Jingzhi had already understood, grabbed the woman's wrist, and said, "Don't shake, the child who hit the head can't shake, he can only lie down." ”

Zhang Jingzhi's strength was so great that the woman only felt that her wrists were like being shackled, and she could only let go.

Zhang Jingzhi personally flattened the unconscious child, and said to Pang Zi, who was still stunned: "Go and ask for a doctor, this child, and my senior sister need to be treated." ”

Pang Zi hurriedly said "hey" and said, "The doctor arrived last night, do you want to look here or find a quiet place?" ”

Zhang Jingzhi frowned, looked back at Ye Qiong and made another gesture to him, then personally picked up the child carefully and said, "Go and tidy up a clean yard." ”

Pang Zi hurriedly responded and personally walked in front to lead the way.

Ye Qiong also took a step forward, but was stopped by the woman, who said, "You are not allowed to go!" Your little servant was seen setting fire, and your maid pushed my son again, you must give an explanation! ”

Ye Qiong frowned tightly, Ye Jin was so angry that he almost wanted to scold, and said, "You ...... splash"

Ye Qiong coughed violently when Ye Jin was about to scold the word "shrew", interrupting Ye Jin's blurted out.

Ye Renliang's gaze swept over the surrounding circle of Ye family members with resentment on their faces, and he only felt ridiculous and pathetic.

It is no wonder that the Ye family's branch can produce a big official, but the Ye family's side branch has not produced a promising descendant for several generations. Ye Qiong can make the prince of Korea willingly call her a senior sister, but the people of the Ye family don't even understand the situation!

What arsonist would almost burn himself in the fire?

Ye Renliang finally couldn't help but speak: "You let me go, let Sister Qiong'er go to the doctor to rest first." Don't forget, if Sister Qiong and her junior brother hadn't taken the opportunity to split the door with an axe last night, Sister Qiong would have died in the fire! ”

The woman shuddered, and reluctantly stood up and gave way to her seat.

Ye Qiong saluted Ye Renliang before being helped to retreat.

Ye Mei and Ye Qin withdrew as early as when Zhang Jingzhi took the child away.

Ye Renliang stood in place, took another puff of dry tobacco, and scolded "Evil".

……………………

Asking the doctor to take medicine was another toss, and when Ye Qiong could really sit down and rest, even she felt a splitting headache, but she still wrote a note and handed it to Ye Jin to ask him to call Ye Er to come over and ask.

Ye Jin felt sorry for her little sister, but she didn't dare to persuade her, so she gritted her teeth and could only call Ye Er over.

Because it is in the countryside and Ye Jin is by his side, there is no need to be too taboo about men and women, Ye Qiong wrote while asking Ye Jin to hand it over, and the first note read: I believe you, do you have something unspeakable?

When Ye Er saw the words "I believe in you", he kowtowed three times with tears in his eyes and said, "The little one was indeed in the granary last night." But I didn't set the fire, I don't know how it started, I went to see someone last night......"

Ye Jin asked for Ye Qiong, "Who are you going to see?" ”

Ye Er saw that he couldn't hide it, so he said, "Yes, it's the cousin of the Ye family, Mrs. Pang's niece Pang Yujiao." When I wasn't reused by the girl before, I lived next door to the Pang family, and she was a childhood sweetheart. I came here to find out that she was also a guest at Yejia Grange, and I went to see her last night......"

When Ye Er said this, he hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, girl, we have always kept etiquette, I originally thought that I would ask to marry her when I became a big treasurer in the future and saved enough money, I didn't plan to hide it from the girl!" I don't say it, I'm afraid of tarnishing Yujiao's reputation, and I'm even more afraid of hurting the girl's reputation! ”

As he spoke, Ye Er kowtowed two more times.

Ye Jin couldn't help but scold Ye Er: "You guys shouldn't be cautious!" ”

Ye Qiong's expression soothed a little, what Ye Er said should be true. If she remembers correctly, in her previous life, Ye Er married this Pang Yujiao, and Ye Qiong also gave a gift when Ye Er got married.

Ye Qiong didn't pay attention to it at that time, it turned out that Pang Yujiao still had such a kinship with herself.

Ye Qiong wrote another note, which read: Have you ever been seen?

Ye Er's face was even more ashamed, and he said, "When we met in the Grange in the past few days, we have always felt as if someone was staring. Last night, we even spotted the figure of the voyeur, and the little one let Yujiao run away first. Yujiao was very cautious, and she wore a bib when she met me, and that person should not know that it was Yujiao who met me. ”

Ye Qiong's expression was determined.

Pang Yujiao is the cousin of the Ye family, and although Ye Er has been released, she is still nominally a slave of the Ye family. The two met in private, and if they were discovered, they would give someone a handle, and the person who set the fire would definitely make a fuss about this.

Since this matter has not been poked out, the person who set the fire should have only seen Ye Er often hanging out near the granary, but he didn't know that Ye Er went to have a private meeting with Pang Yujiao.

Ye Qiong picked up the pen and wrote a third note, Zhang Jingzhi lifted the curtain and walked in, followed by Ye Da, who Ye Qiong sent to the granary to investigate.

Seeing that Ye Qiong still couldn't speak, Zhang Jingzhi twisted his eyebrows slightly, and said, "I went to the granary with your little servant to take a look, and found fire oil and flint in a corner, which should have been left by the arsonist." We also found that the fire started not outside the granary, but inside the granary. ”

Ye Qiong suddenly grasped the contradiction, wrote a note and asked: Did someone open the door and enter?

Zhang Jingzhi bowed his head and said: "It's not strange that you say that the door of the granary is so easy to open, but the door in your courtyard is tightly locked, how is the door of the Ye Family Grange managed?" ”

Ye Da added in a timely manner: "Girl, I and the prince followed this clue to investigate, and found out that these mothers-in-law who were in charge of the portal were all invited to drink last night, and the one who set up the wine bureau was your second uncle's good daughter Ye Qin's personal maid Xuan'er." However, Xuan'er is your name, those mothers-in-law know it, and they don't break it for the sake of drinking, they just care about getting drunk, and they don't even know that the key has been stolen. ”

Ye Qiong took a sip of tea and felt that her throat was better, so she asked in a low voice, "How do you ask?" ”

Ye Da's face became strange, Zhang Jingzhi chuckled, with cruelty in his laughter, he said, "You still don't want to know." ”

Ye Qiong closed her mouth, and said after a while: "Xuan'er has been with Ye Qin last night, and now that Aunt Cousin is in charge of the inner house like an iron bucket, she shouldn't have time to put the key to the granary back, now go and catch her, and you can get the stolen goods." ”

Zhang Jingzhi laughed: "It seems that my senior sister and I want to go together." When Ye Da and I were investigating the granary, we found that there was a maid who was very suspicious and sneaky, and took the person down directly, and also found the key to the granary in her cuffs. ”

Ye Qiong was silent, not surprised by such a result.

From the moment she was trapped in the fire, Ye Qiong guessed that this matter was the handiwork of Ye Mei and Ye Qin.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl should have done such a thing for the first time, hiding her head but revealing her tail.

If you want to do things more carefully, you should first match the key you got with a few more copies, find a time to put the replica in Ye Qiong's yard, and don't lock the door, just let Ye Qiong run out intact, so as to make his arson statement more credible.

Outside the door, Pang Zi knocked on the door, Ye Qiong shouted "Come in", Pang Zi stepped into the room, with guilt on his face, and said, "Yujiao told me those things......

"There is no need to mention this matter, it is not good for my aunt and her." Ye Qiong stopped Pang Zi's words.

Pang Zi bowed his head, and his heart was even more grateful, and said, "I'm here to deliver the word." The prince has already handed over the key to Xuan'er and the granary to your great-uncle, and now the lord of the second room of the Yanzhi branch is also here, and the clan elders ask Sister Qiong'er to come over to meet. ”

Ye Qiong rubbed her aching temples, although her body was tired, her heart was excited.

The stolen goods were obtained, and Zhang Jingzhi testified, the second uncle couldn't shirk the blame, and he must gnaw a piece of meat from him!