Luo nine needles

Chapter 35

Calling the door at night is always a bad thing.

Whether it is a private house or a city gate.

Xu City is not considered a generous city wall, and the guards who were awakened could clearly see who it was.

Four or five villagers in disheveled clothes were sitting on a donkey cart, holding torches, with black ashes on their faces.

"On fire?" the guard said angrily, "What are you doing when you come into the city on fire? Xinghua Mountain? Isn't that next to Xinghua Lake? Do you still have to come to the city to fetch water?"

If the fire is too big to put out...

"Then why don't you gather the people from the nearby villages and come to the city, and gather the patrols one by one, and the fire will be burnt out at dawn!"

Are these stupid villagers burned out?

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

"Master Bing—" a villager shouted, "He is dead—"

Dead people are unavoidable when they are on fire, and the guards are stern and unmoved.

"It's not a dead person." A villager next to him thought of something to correct him, "It's a murder——"

These words brought the other villagers back to their senses, shouting "Yes, it was a murder—" "We are here to report the crime—" "Master Bing, someone murdered and set fire—"

Murder and arson?When the guard's eyes froze, it was different.

Now the pawn in the government office who is in charge of military affairs and patrolling the city is no longer Zhang Laizi.

Previously, the magistrate ransacked Ning Li's house in a thunderous manner, and many subordinate officials were implicated and suffered bad luck.

Wang Erqing was the lucky one.

The magistrate rectified the administration of officials, cut off some people, and promoted some people.

The condition for promotion is that there is no backer, and no connection with people like Ning Lushi before.

Wang Erqing is one of them, he is not so noble and upright, he does not join forces with Ning Lushi, but he has no qualifications, no money and power, and Ning Lushi doesn't even bother to look at him.

There is no backer in the government office. Originally, I could only be a servant in this life. Unexpectedly, I became a useful person in the eyes of the magistrate overnight. From a servant who could only patrol the streets to do odd jobs, he became a person in charge of the first department. pawn.

Wang Erqing couldn't sleep well these days, fearing that it was just a dream when he woke up.

In order to prevent this from being a dream, Wang Erqing worked hard and lived in the Yamen for a while. When someone came to report that there were murders and arson outside the city, Wang Erqing knew that it was time to show his ability!
"In broad daylight, there are such villains." He shouted, and immediately called the guards to gather.

The officers didn't correct the new officer, it was night at this moment, they listened to the order one after another, and each of them was aggressive, taking advantage of the new magistrate's rectification of official affairs, everyone had a good future.

No subordinate official would want to be as wealthy as Ning Lushi.

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

Ning Lu's fault was that he was too arrogant, stretched his hand too far, and didn't serve the new adult well.

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

The guards raced on, leaving the villagers who reported to the officials far behind. By the time the villagers rushed back with the skinny donkey, the sky had already dawned and the fire was extinguished. What to see together.

"How about it?"

"The murderer wasn't burned to death, right?"

"No, it was dragged out early."

"Hey, what a pity, the house Ah Qi and Xiao Qing just built was burned down."

"Thank God for being okay."

"It's too scary, someone came here to rob."

Looting?Wang Erqing looked at the corpse on the ground and the knife marks on the neck of the corpse.

This is the first time I have seen a scene where the looter and the dead are the same person.

"So, he killed himself?" He raised his head and looked at the victim beside him.

These are two girls, fifteen or sixteen years old, like the surrounding villagers, their clothes are disheveled, their faces and hair are covered with ashes, but just like the surrounding villagers, they are shocked, angry, and afraid... They are not dead Escape was devastated, but his face was paler, and the other one even looked as usual.

The girl with a normal face nodded and said: "We two orphans are very cautious when we live alone. We will close the door when we sleep at night. When this man pried open the door, he was hit by the stick I put at the door, which happened to hit the knife. As a result, the knife bounced back and hacked himself to death.”

Having said that, she glanced at the corpse.

"This is probably a guilty conscience. God has eyes, and evil will be rewarded with evil. It is self-inflicted."

Wang Erqing understood that this girl probably survived the catastrophe, and her anger offset her fear.

And according to what she said, the thief set fire and rushed in to kill people. When she just woke up, she had not had time to face the hatchet and experience life and death before the thief died.

The fear of the aftermath is not as good as the fear of experiencing death.

However, the way this thief died is too absurd, right?
He was hit on the knife with a wooden stick against the door, and it happened to be cut on the neck, and he died.

But otherwise, wouldn't it be the girl who beat her to death with a stick?

Wouldn't that be even more absurd!
Wang Erqing took another look at the girl who was called Ah Qi by the villagers.

This fragile appearance is not as good as a wooden stick.

Wang Erqing withdrew his gaze, looked at the guards around him, and shouted, "Have you found it? Are there any accomplices?"

The guards around shook their heads: "The scene is messy due to fire fighting, and there are no traces."

When Wang Erqing looked at the ground again, he raised his foot and pushed lightly, and the half-prone man lay upright, revealing his burnt face, which was hideous and terrifying, which also made his face unrecognizable.

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

So when I hacked myself to death and fell down, fire oil was sprinkled on my body, and the fire was burning.

The thief should be glad that he fell in the main house. Although the master and the servant were panicked, they rushed to put out the fire and poured water to put it out, otherwise the whole body would be burned.

What kind of thief is this?

Why come to rob orphans?

Is it robbery?
Wang Erqing looked at Ah Qi, although he was still young and dressed plainly, and he described it as a mess at this moment, but he could still tell that he was a beauty.

But Jie Se carried the person away without making a sound, so why bother to set fire and use a knife?

seek money?

Wang Erqing looked around, and found that the wooden shed was burned, and the remaining three houses were also very simple, and the furnishings inside had been checked, and none of them looked like they were all made of wood. The only valuable thing might be the The head is skinny.

What's looting about this?

"There are cows—" the onlookers shouted loudly, sad and angry at the same time, "burn the cows to death."

Cattle?Cows are more valuable than donkeys. Wang Erqing looked at the guards. The donkeys ran out to graze by the lake. Did the cows move slowly?
"Boss." The guard said in a low voice, "I asked, and it was said that it was made of wood, and it seemed to be for the village children to play with."

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

There was no money to plunder, no one to rob, the case was actually simple, Wang Erqing looked at the girl again.

"Miss Qixing." He asked in a deep voice, "Do you have any enemies with others?"

(End of this chapter)