At lunchtime, the Li clan chief, clan relatives and a cadre of elders, together with the town's mayor and steward, came to the hall to comfort the family of the deceased, Li Yihang cheered up, asked about the fire, an elder said: "The fire broke out the night before, and the fire was found to be very fierce when the fire started, and your family was asleep, and no one could escape. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Yihang asked again: "What is the cause of the fire?" The elder said: "I don't know yet, the fire is so fierce, it doesn't look like an accidental fire, but it seems that someone deliberately set it on fire." Li Yihang's heart jumped suddenly, and he asked, "Someone set the fire?" Another villager said: "We just guess that the fire is burning so violently, there is only one possibility: someone deliberately set the fire." Otherwise, it can't be explained, as for who set the fire, then you have to wait for the county master to verify. ”

Li Yihang asked again: "My neighbors are also so tired that they burned down the house, but there are casualties?" Old man Li said: "No, they are not injured, the fire in your house was first discovered by Li Fangneng's family, and they all escaped." One said: "Why didn't anyone escape when your house caught fire? This is very strange, some people guess that before the fire, your father and mother ...... Just ......" one person said: "Don't guess, there will be an autopsy in the county in the afternoon, won't it be clear then?"

The old man Li Zhanpeng, the patriarch of the Li clan in this town, took Li Yihang's hand and said: "Alas, your father has always been loyal and honest in business, and he is kind and charitable, and he has heard of his good reputation in the township and outside the township. ”

Li Yihang shed tears again and cried: "Old man, thank you so much for reining in my father's and mother's remains, I, I don't understand anything, my father's mother, and Uncle De's funeral, it's all up to you to help me!" The elders and relatives on the side all said: "Of course, you can rest assured, you will definitely hold your parents' funeral beautifully, so you don't have to worry about it." Li Yihang thanked everyone again.

In the afternoon, a puppet came to open the coffin for an autopsy. Li Yihang wanted to see his parents, but all the villagers said: "Don't go to see it, it's so badly burned, you can't stand it even more if you go to see it." Under the persuasion of everyone, Li Yihang finally endured.

More than an hour later, after the autopsy, news came out: the six deceased had no scars on the surface, no soot in the mouth, nose and throat, but there were blood stains, and the internal organs in the chest cavity were broken. When everyone heard this, they were all in an uproar, and they all discussed, and one of them said: "Sure enough, I guessed well, just say, no matter how big the fire is, sleep more deeply, and the body is on fire, and always have to wake up, how can one or two people escape, it turns out that they have died before the burning, no wonder, no wonder!" Another person said: "Yin Gong has no reason, the Kaishang family is all kind and kind, never grudges with others, and he doesn't even listen to him quarrel with others, and he is careful to do good words, who is so hateful and hateful to kill people, and the whole door is destroyed!?"

Another humanitarian: "It is absolutely impossible to seek revenge and kill people, most of them are murdered for money, and thieves will kill them when they fail." Everyone said that this was reasonable, and some were humane: "The corpse has no external injuries, and the internal organs are broken, who did it? Who is so capable, could it be that the murderer uses a big hammer to commit murder?"

Li Yihang and the families of the deceased all cried again, knelt on the ground, and asked the county officials to solve the case as soon as possible to comfort the souls of the deceased in heaven. The county magistrate is a fat man in his forties, although he is dressed in royal clothes, but his face is gloomy, and it is a great responsibility for such a huge murder to occur in the place under his jurisdiction, and he is in the suburbs of the provincial capital, if he can't solve the case, his career will be affected.

He said to everyone: "Fellow Zhang villagers, such a murder case in this town is really not trivial, this official has sent a fast horse to the Nanchang Prefecture Mansion to report, the prefect will soon send capable people to assist in the investigation and cracking of the case, the feelings of your family members, villagers and neighbors, I Zhu Yi feel the same way, and my heart is also dripping blood, here, I swear to all my fathers and fellow villagers: During my term of office Zhu Yi, I will do my best to solve this case and bring the murderer to justice! Everyone must believe in the court and believe in this official! Everyone, please don't grieve excessively, take care of your health, and keep an eye out for the evil people being beheaded! "The neighbors have helped the family members.

Li Yihang was groggy for several days, this day was the first seven nights, the souls of the six dead would return tonight, Li Yihang participated in it and made a meal, one in the ancestral hall, one in the door of the house that had been burned, and then had to be avoided. He had nowhere to go, so he went to Old Man Li's house to sleep, lying on the bed tossing and turning, never sleeping, thinking: "It is said that my father's soul will go home tonight for the last meal, but my home is gone, and my father and mother will be even more sad when they see it, so I have to persuade them." ”

In the middle of the night, he quietly got out of bed and went out, walked a few steps to the door of his house, tonight the stars and moon were dark, the moon and the stars were hiding behind the clouds, the night wind blew, and a few candles lit in front of the door were lit and the flames were about to burn out, so he lit a new plug, sat aside, and stared blankly at the flames swaying, and tears welled up in his eyes. Xin said: "My father and mother have accumulated countless virtues in her life, but she suffered this catastrophe, it is really blind to God, what kind of good and evil retribution, it is all nonsense!"

After a while, a gust of wind blew, the branches and leaves on the trees rustled, the candle flame flickered, as if someone was coming, Li Yihang stood up and called softly: "Daddy, Mom, are you back, can you see the child?" After a while, he said: "Daddy, Mom, I'm fine, you don't have to worry about the child, don't worry, I will definitely avenge you, please bless the child in the spirit of heaven to find the enemy, and break it into pieces!" After speaking, he knelt on the ground, kowtowed to the cigarette candle, and finally lay on the ground for a long time.

I don't know how long later, a leaf floated down and fell on his face, waking him up from his slumber, looking up, seeing that the fireworks were all extinguished, and there were fewer rice dishes in the bowl, Li Yihang thought to himself, it must have been my parents who came to eat back, and they woke me up with a leaf and said goodbye to me!

On a good day, the six coffins were buried on Daliang Mountain in the south of the town, facing north. The funeral lasted for a whole day, and the day had set after the busy day, and the villagers called Li Yihang to go back to the town together, Li Yihang said: "Uncle Uncle, aunt and aunt, you go back first, I will stay here with my parents for a while, and I will return later." The crowd comforted him a few words, and they went down the mountain one after another.

There is a huge Daliang Mountain, and at this moment there is only one lonely self left, and seeing the twilight deepening, I can't help but feel desolate. He lay on the grave where his parents were buried together, knowing that from now on, he would never see them again, and the pictures of his family's affection in the past came to his heart again, and his father's scolding and his mother's complaints, how much he wanted to hear them again at this moment! The voices and smiles of his parents still lingered in his heart, so clear, so real! He lay on the grave, sobbed in pain, and before he knew it, he fell asleep again.

A breeze blew, and Li Yihang woke up and felt a little chill. Sitting on the ground, holding his knees with his hands, looking up at the sky, only to see the starry sky, a big full moon hanging in the deep blue night sky, suddenly realized, this is the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, today should be the ninth day of August, no wonder the moon is so round and so bright.

Looking at it, suddenly a flash of lightning flashed in my heart, and I checked that my father and mother were all damaged internal stolen goods, and did not say that the ribs were broken, if the hard object hit the chest, the heart and lungs were damaged, and the ribs in the chest must be broken.

Suddenly, a thought popped up in my heart: "Those three people who kicked out of the hall are very likely to be murderers! They went out of the city from the west gate, isn't the direction just right? After the three appeared, my father and mother were killed, there must be a connection between them, and they also have the ability to shatter people's hearts without leaving a trace, and the surnamed Zhang Hanzi is afraid that it will not work, but the triangular eyes and the puppet man have higher martial arts, and they can definitely do it!" Thinking of this, he jumped up and shouted: "I have found the murderer, I have found the murderer!" The voice spread far away, and after a while, only echoes were heard: "Murderer, murderer!"

Before the excitement passed, I felt another punch in my heart: "Those three people's martial arts are so strong, even if I find them, how can I fight them? Thinking of this, he sat down again and again.

Then he thought again: "Martial arts are practiced, those three people are not born to be so powerful, I am still young, as long as I practice diligently, I will surpass them one day, I just hope that they are still alive in the world at that time." Then he thought: "Relying on the government to help me catch the murderer is a very unreliable thing, and I have to redouble my efforts." ”

After making up his mind, he was in a relaxed mood, and when he returned to the town, he didn't bother Old Man Li, and went to sleep in the ancestral hall in the west of the town.

Early the next morning, he found the patriarch and the mayor of the town, and said that he would ask them to help take care of his family's fields and properties, and that the year's crop harvest and the rent of the field store should be used as the cost of this funeral. Both of them reassured him that they would definitely handle the matter properly and that they didn't have to worry about it. The patriarch also took out a bag of goods and gave it to him, and said, "These are all found in the ruins of your house, and everyone remembers that your family has always been generous and anxious for people's difficulties, and no one has taken it privately, and they have all been handed over to me, so you can count them." Li Yihang opened it and saw that it was all gold, silver, jewelry, and the like.

The mayor said, "What should you do with the food items in your warehouse on West Street?" Li Yihang said: "Divide them all among everyone." The mayor said: "Divide them all, I am afraid that they will waste and not cherish it, or we will take care of it, if anyone can't open the pot, we will take a part of it out to fund it." Li Yihang praised again and again. He took some out of the bag of gold and silver, and gave the rest to the two men, and asked them to build a simple house on the site of his house, and to add furniture, and to deduct from the rent for the following year, which they said was sufficient.

Li Yihang finally knelt down and kowtowed to the two elders, thanking them for their help. The two hurriedly helped him up, sighed again, and asked him what his plans were, Li Yihang said: "The little nephew plans to go out to travel and study, and take the opportunity to find out the enemy's information and traces. Oh, yes, my nephew's house is not in a hurry, I will compensate the neighbor's loss first, and then consider how much I have. ”

After living for a few days, bidding farewell to the villagers, Li Yihang slowly traveled eastward, and came to Nanchang City in a day, only to see the shops on the street, the streets and alleys, everywhere are full of lights, people come and go in the city, the traffic is busy, every household is celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is full of joy. Li Yihang paced on the street, thinking: "In the past, when I was at home for the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother had already set up a big incense table at home, putting moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits, and watermelons had to be cut into lotus shapes, while I and a group of friends were planting Mid-Autumn Festival, lighting tower lanterns, and putting sky lanterns. ”