This time, I stopped paying attention to the surroundings of the house, but just looked up and took a closer look at the charred roof.

The roof is an old-fashioned cross-roofed structure, with dozens of beams scattered and a few columns underneath that support the skeleton of the room.

It can be seen that the beams of this house are made of extremely valuable sea pine wood, so although it was burned by fire, only the surface was charred, and the overall structure did not change.

Looking at it, my eyes focused on the top beam, and my pupils couldn't help but shrink suddenly!

In the middle of the beam, there was a deep mark that looked like it had been carved with a knife.

My eyes wandered, and soon I saw that next to the imprint, I found a second and then a third...... A total of five knife marks!

There is a custom among the people in the north that if someone dies in the family, they will carve a knife on the beam of the house to suppress the evil spirit, and now there are five knife marks on the beam of the house, that is to say, in this house, there were five people who died unexpectedly!

At this time, Bai Ze, Lang Ni and the others also found these knife marks, and a solemn look appeared on their faces.

"Knife scars, it seems that this is a whole family, and it has been exterminated!"

Bai Ze looked at the knife marks on the beam and said in a deep voice.

I nodded, then looked back at the villagers who were gathered around.

"Who knows who owns this house?"

However, in the face of my question, the villagers shook their heads, and no one knew the history of the house.

"Master Cheng, I heard when I was a child, this is the house of Zheng Youcai, the old landlord in our village!"

At this moment, the village chief squeezed out of the crowd and said cautiously.

"Oh? Who is this Zheng Youcai, and what happened to their family, do you know? ”

Hearing that the village chief knew the clue, I hurried over and threw a series of questions at him.

"I don't know much about this, but when I was very young, I heard the old people in the family talk about this Zheng Youcai......

The village chief scratched his head and told us stories he had heard as children.

It turned out that more than 80 years ago, there was an old rich man in Mingjia Village, named Zheng Youcai, who had 100 acres of fertile land and countless cattle and sheep in his family.

Although there is a lot of money, Zheng Youcai's life is very simple, never pay attention to pomp, and he is kind and charitable, and most of the nearby villagers have received his favor, so everyone is also very grateful to him, and is known as the living Bodhisattva of Mingjia Village.

It was a very dynamic time. Chaos was a common occurrence at the time when beggars and homeless people were often left on the streets.

One day, as soon as Zheng Youcai opened the door of the house, he saw a homeless man lying at the door of the house, already fainting from hunger, so he hurriedly helped him into the house.

After the careful care of the Zheng family, the homeless man finally came to his senses, and when he learned that it was Zheng Youcai who saved him, he was moved to tears, and immediately vowed to repay the Zheng family.

After some washing, Zheng Youcai found that the homeless man was actually a young man, smart and clever, so he fell in love, and after hearing that he was still homeless, he kept him as a servant of the Zheng family.

At the beginning, the homeless man was still grateful to Dade in every possible way, and said some well-behaved words Zheng Youcai was happy, but after a long time, he gradually revealed his true form.

It turned out that this homeless man was originally a traitor, and it was because he committed a crime that he disguised himself as a homeless man, evaded arrest by the government, and finally hid in Zheng Youcai's house.

Zheng Youcai saw that he was getting more and more lazy and lazy, and he was dissatisfied, so he reprimanded him from time to time, but thinking that he was homeless, he couldn't bear to drive him away.

But I didn't think that because of his kindness, he brought disaster to his family.

One day, Zheng Youcai came home from running errands outside, but he heard a cry for help from the side room, he rushed over and kicked open the door, but found that the homeless man was pressing his daughter on the bed, wanting to do something wrong!

As soon as Zheng Youcai didn't come out, he immediately beckoned the villagers to come over, tied up the homeless, hung him for a day and a night, and drove him out of Mingjia Village.

Unexpectedly, the homeless man held a grudge because of this, and a few days later, late at night, he quietly sneaked into Zheng's house, and burned all four members of Zheng Youcai's family to death!

"Because the people of the Zheng family have died, and the time is too long, at least seventy or eighty years have passed, and as the old people who know about it gradually wither, the young people in the village have no impression of this matter......"

After the village chief finished speaking, he sighed deeply, and seemed to be extremely sympathetic to what happened to the Zheng family.

It turned out that there had really been a tragedy in this house, no wonder I felt a strong cold air as soon as I entered.

It's just that there are obviously five knife marks on the beams of the house, but according to the village chief, there were only four people in the Zheng family back then, so what happened to this extra knife mark?

Also, so much time has passed, if there are no special means, even if Zheng Youcai's family turns into a ghost, it should have completely dissipated, so how did Xiao Zhou and Xiao Liu die?

After listening to the village chief's story, I had more and more questions in my mind.

I looked up again and looked into the roof, and saw that there was a mezzanine between the carved beams and the roof, and it seemed that my uneasy gaze just now came from this......

"Village Chief, please ask someone to find a ladder to come over!"

Although the village chief didn't know what I was going to do, he didn't dare to ask more, so he hurriedly asked the two young students to go back to the village to get a ladder.

"Xiao Chengzi, have you found anything?"

Ronnie asked, curious.

"If I'm not mistaken, there should be some secret hidden on it that can solve our questions."

I nodded, and pointed to the mezzanine on the beams.

"Brother Cheng, if you want to take the things above, I can help you, why do you need to take the ladder."

Bai Ze glanced at me, thinking that I had done something too much.

"No,"

I said in a deep voice: "Have you ever thought that since the thing is placed in that position, there may be some theory, if you move its position rashly, what if it will cause some unexpected situations?" ”

Bai Ze was slightly stunned, then looked at the surrounding villagers, and seemed to realize that if something really happened, although we had a way to avoid it, we couldn't guarantee that these villagers would be unscathed.

"Okay, it's better for you to think about it carefully, then do as you say."

After a while, a few juniors came in carrying a bamboo ladder, and I asked them to put the ladder in place and climb it.

After climbing onto the beams, I carefully removed the floor slab and finally poked my head into the mezzanine.