The fierce fire was like a beast, licking the wooden furniture. As soon as you approached, you could feel a wave of heat. Villagers who had already discovered the fire were fetching water to put it out, but it was useless.

When Li Zheng and his men hurried over, he saw his wife crying and about to rush into the fire. Fortunately, several women stopped him in time.

Li Zheng was startled and quickly pulled his wife over: "What happened? Where's Wan'er?"

At this moment, the girl's miserable cry came from the burning house: "Daddy, mother, save me...ah!"

Li Zheng's eyes were bloodshot, and he was about to rush into the fire, but was immediately held down by the villagers nearby. He shouted: "Let me go! Let me go! Wan'er!"

Zhang Wan is Li Zheng's youngest daughter. Because she is beautiful and smart, she is very much loved by Li Zheng and his wife. She caught a cold a few days ago, so she did not go to the ancestral hall to watch the excitement today, but slept in the house. Li Zheng's wife was originally taking care of their daughter, but Zhang Wan suddenly wanted to eat egg noodles. It happened that there were no eggs at home, so Li Zheng's wife wanted to borrow some. However, most of the people in the village went to the ancestral hall to watch the excitement. She went to several houses before she borrowed some. When she came back, she saw a huge fire at home, and Zhang Wan was still trapped in the house.

"Mother! It hurts! Save me... Wuwuwuwuwu... Save me..." Li

Zheng and his wife tried their best to rush into the fire, but the villagers around them didn't dare to let go. The fire was so big that it was impossible to get close to it. Even if Li Zheng and his wife went in, they would die. Soon

, Zhang Wan's crying in the fire became weaker and weaker, and finally it was barely audible.

The fire burned for a whole night before it was extinguished. Li Zheng's house was almost completely burned down. Li Zheng and his wife looked haggard. They stumbled and pushed away the people who grabbed them and rushed into the ruins.

Zhang Wan in the main house had been burned into a mummy. Her body was curled up tightly, and the expression of fear and pain could still be seen on her charred face. Li Zheng's wife fainted when she saw her daughter's miserable condition. Li Zheng, a tall man, cried like a child while holding his daughter's body.

Lu Zheng stood in the crowd, watching all this with a heavy face.

Tian Youyin wanted to laugh at them for slandering people, but Tian Youjin pulled him and swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. Tian Youjin sighed and said to the Tian family members beside him: "Let's go back first."

The villagers present felt the same pain as Li Zheng, and even many women cried softly. For them, fire is the most terrible demon, and now, it is not God who released this demon, but ordinary people like them, which makes everyone fall into hatred and fear.

Lu Zheng ignored Qingluan's dissuasion, walked into the ruins, and slowly approached Li Zheng.

The originally plump and lovely girl turned into a skinny and scary charred corpse, which was really unbearable to watch. Lu Zheng took a deep breath, stretched out his hand to check the condition of Zhang Wan's body, but was suddenly waved away by Li Zheng.

"It's you!" Li Zheng's eyes were red, and he looked at Lu Zheng with gritted teeth, "You got the wrong murderer! You killed my Wan'er!"

Qingluan had already rushed over with Lu Zheng. Seeing Li Zheng's eyes that wanted to kill someone, he frowned, and the sword in his hand was slightly unsheathed, blocking Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng shook his head at him, walked back to Li Zheng, looked at Zhang Wan's strange posture and said, "She was tied up before she died, which is different from the murderer's method of committing crimes." Zhang

Wan's hands were behind her back, and her feet were tightly together, forming a very strange and awkward posture.

Li Zheng was stunned and couldn't help but let go of Zhang Wan's body.

Lu Zheng squatted down and looked from Zhang Wan's body. The room she was in was the most severely burned one. Almost everything in it was reduced to ashes. However, he still found a piece of cloth that was not completely burned from under Zhang Wan's body. He handed it to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng was stunned and answered stupidly: "This is Wan'er's bed sheet..."

Judging from the situation at the fire scene, Zhang Wan was conscious, so she couldn't have stayed in bed and burned to death without doing anything. It could only be due to her limited mobility, and her strange posture also proved this.

Lu Zheng found another wound on the back of Zhang Wan's head. The wound was not big, not to mention that the skin and flesh of the body were burnt and twisted. If Lu Zheng had not been careful, he would not have found it. Qingluan came over to take a look and said uncertainly, "It looks like she was beaten."

Lu Zheng nodded. The murderer must have sneaked into Li Zheng's house when his wife was away from home, knocked Zhang Wan unconscious with a stick or something, tied her hands and feet, and sprinkled crude oil from the room to the outside, and then set it on fire. This is completely different from the previous arsonist's behavior. This murderer is more vicious, more crazy, and more daring. He seemed to be not afraid of Li Zheng's wife coming home suddenly. Even when the fire started, he must have been hiding in the dark and watching everything coldly.

Lu Zheng frowned. He couldn't be sure whether the murderer was imitating the previous arsonist or whether this was a joint crime. Li

Zheng seemed to suddenly remember something. He put down his daughter's body and ran towards the ancestral hall like crazy.

Lu Zheng was startled and knew what he was going to do. He hurriedly said to Qingluan, "Go and stop him."

When Lu Zheng ran to the ancestral hall, Li Zheng was subdued on the ground by Qingluan, but he still looked at Tian Wu with a cold expression on his face viciously.

"Asshole! Tell me... who killed my Wan'er!" Li Zheng yelled at Tian Wu, "Speak up! You son of a bitch, I'm going to chop you into pieces and feed you to the dogs! Speak up! Ah——"

Tian Wu sneered. His tongue had not fully recovered yet, and his words were still unclear, but this did not prevent people around him from understanding what he meant. He just looked at Li Zheng and spit out two words: "You deserved it!"

This time, even Qingluan, who had subdued Li Zheng, couldn't help but frown. But he also knew that Li Zheng was now very emotional. Once he let go, he was afraid that he would beat Tian Wu to death in a rage.

Lu Zheng looked at Tian Wu with a sullen face: "You must know the murderer who set the fire last night, who is he?"

Tian Wu's mouth curled slightly, as if he was smiling, but soon he returned to his usual cold expression and said nothing.

Now, even the villagers who were responsible for guarding Tian Wu could not stand it anymore and said to Lu Zheng: "Master Lu, this kid is stubborn, just torture him!"

Lu Zheng shook his head. On the one hand, he was originally opposed to torture, and on the other hand, it was because of Tian Wu's personality. This kind of person has a very rebellious personality, and he was afraid that torture would not be able to pry his mouth open.

Lu Zheng paused, then said to Tian Wu: "Your revenge has been successful. So now you can admit that you were the one who set the fire, right?"

Tian Wu seemed a little surprised, looked up at Lu Zheng, but still said nothing.

Lu Zheng didn't care, but continued: "Those dolls were not carved by you, right? The people on them are all people who have bullied you. Except for Widow Wang and Zhang Wan, who are girls, the other seven dolls are all men, and they are all strong men."

Tian Wu's body moved slightly.

"From the behavior of the Tian brothers, they don't feel sorry for you, and they don't even think you are the murderer. This is a bit strange. When ordinary people encounter such things, as victims, they will be suspicious at the first time, even if the suspect is someone close to them. Besides, only you, the Tian family, know the most about oil, so you have enough criminal ability, don't you?" Lu Zheng said, and then said, "When Of course, the Tian family might think that this was a frame-up by Li Zheng because he wanted to drive them away. Tian Youjin must not have known that Tian Mao was abusing you, so he showed such a surprised expression. Then the question is, compared to Tian Youjin, you should hate Tian Mao more, but why did you set the fire in Tian Youjin's house? "

In fact, after Doctor Wang diagnosed the poison in Tian Wu, Tian Wu's suspicion of setting the fire has been confirmed. However, the fire in Li Zheng's house brought new changes to the case. There is a second criminal in this case.

In Lu Zheng's heart, he is more convinced that the two knew each other from the beginning, and even the families who were set on fire did not have a grudge against Tian Wu, but against each other. Regardless of the reason why Tian Wu set the fire for someone, he must have known this person.

In fact, when Lu Zheng first saw the doll, he still had some doubts about the criminal in this case. Judging from the situation of arson, although the murderer was evil, he actually did not kill anyone. Many times he set fires in places where he had never lived. However, from the carving of the doll and this purposeful way of committing crimes, it is shown that the criminal is vicious and twisted in his heart.

When Lu Zheng was doing the profiling, he had some doubts about this situation, but according to the witnesses, there was indeed only one criminal in this case, which is why Lu Zheng finally locked the suspicion on Tian Wu.

But now thinking about it carefully, there are indeed many things that cannot be explained.

Lu Zheng turned his gaze back to Tian Wu and slowly said, "I guess... the other person is a girl, right?"

Tian Wu's body shook violently, and he looked at Lu Zheng in horror.

His actions were enough to confirm Lu Zheng's guess. Lu Zheng sighed in his heart and said, "Those dolls were carved by her. You set fire to those people's houses to help her avenge, and you even deliberately poisoned yourself to confirm your suspicion, just to protect her, right?"

Tian Wu, who had always maintained an indifferent face, finally couldn't help it. He shouted excitedly, "No... the murderer is me... it's me... only me... don't hurt her..."

Everyone around was stunned, even Li Zheng stopped struggling and stared at Tian Wu blankly.

Tears flowed down Tian Wu's face. He sobbed and begged Lu Zheng: "I did all this. It has nothing to do with her... Please... Please... Don't hurt her..."

The whole ancestral hall was silent, with only Tian Wu's low crying voice echoing.

Lu Zheng closed his eyes, put aside the irrelevant emotions in his heart, and then continued: "That girl, like you, was not accepted by the people in this village. You were in the same boat, so you gradually developed a liking for each other, or you should say that you developed a liking for her unilaterally, and in her heart, you were just a tool to help her revenge!"

"No!" Tian Wu denied excitedly, "No! I did it voluntarily, Shuang'er never regarded me as a tool, I..." He realized that he had accidentally said the other party's name, and immediately sat back in a daze.

Lu Zheng coldly watched the expressions of the people present, and indeed saw the expressions of guilt, contempt and disgust on some people's faces.

Such expressions also verified Lu Zheng's guess. He frowned. Perhaps, these so-called victims were the real murderers of this case, and these bystanders and innocent villagers were the accomplices who pushed the case to the present. This