Cai Kuo: "There was a fire at your mother's house last night..."
Qian: "What? Is Dazhi okay?"
"My brother-in-law...was burned to death."
Qian's eyes rolled back and she fainted.
Cai Kuo hurried to support his wife as she slid down, "Madam, Madam, go get the doctor!"
Before the doctor arrived, Qian woke up. Seeing Cai Kuo standing by her bed, she grabbed his hand and said, "My dear husband, I had a nightmare. I dreamed that you told me that Dazhi was burned to death. How could I have such a dream out of the blue? Could it be that...something happened to Dazhi? No, I have to go see him."
Cai Kuo held her back and said, "Madam, you didn't have a nightmare. My brother-in-law was indeed burned to death."
"I don't believe it!" Qian's voice was shrill, and she punched Cai Kuo's chest with her fist. "You bastard! How dare you lie to me about something like this! Just prepare to sleep in the study for three months!"
Cai Kuo was helpless. "I am about to go to Qian's manor to take a look. Madam, please come with me."
"Okay, let's go now."
When we arrived at Qianjiazhuang, the site of the Qian Mansion was now just a pile of smoking ruins. Except for the two stone lions in front of the gate, the rest had been almost burned to ashes.
When Qian saw this scene, her legs went weak immediately and she almost rolled off the cart. Fortunately, Cai Kuo pulled her up in time.
"How could this happen? Why did the fire break out out of nowhere?" Qian couldn't believe it and didn't want to believe it.
However, the facts were right in front of her, and she had no choice but to believe it.
Cai Kuo put his arm around her shoulders and offered her a hollow word of comfort: "Madam, I am deeply saddened."
He didn't feel much about Qian Dazhi's death. What he cared about most now was where his property and account books had gone!
"Where is my brother?!" Qian cried for a long time, and suddenly remembered, why didn't she see her brother's body?
Most of the servants in the Qian Mansion had already fled. The remaining ones had signed death contracts and could not escape even if they wanted to. One of them was chosen as the representative and came over and said, "Madam, we are digging."
The word "dig" was used very cleverly, and Qian felt dizzy again after hearing it.
However, she held on. Seeing that the servant in front of her was fine, with neither limbs missing, she naturally took her anger out on him: "What do you do for a living? You actually let my brother burn to death in the fire! How come it wasn't you who died in the fire! Give me back my brother! Give me back my brother..."
She grabbed the servant's collar and shook him wildly, her face twisted with resentment and filled with deep sadness.
The servants were concerned that she was the county magistrate's wife and did not dare to resist. They could only let her roar at them and vent her anger.
Cai Kuo had already walked to the place where the warehouse used to be. The debris after the fire here were beams, bricks and tiles and the like, but there was no gold or silver objects.
If it had not been moved away in advance, even if it had been burned, there should have been traces left.
In the main house, Guan Yue and several yamen runners carefully moved away the bricks, stones and tiles, revealing a body, no, to be precise, two charred bodies. It was only because the two bodies were connected that they looked like one.
The body at the bottom, clearly several times larger than an average person, was clearly Qian Dazhi, while the one above was a dog. The posture of the man and the dog was indescribable...
After seeing the appearance of the two corpses, everyone present fell into a strange silence.
Even the experienced coroner was suffocated.
Regarding Qian Dazhi, we have only heard that he likes to play with women, but we didn't expect that he actually has such a dark secret that he likes to play with dogs. Could it be that all the previous rumors were smokescreens he deliberately released just to hide his bottom-line hobby?
No, no, no, there are quite a few women who have been ruined by him in the past. It is not a rumor at all.
I can only say that the county magistrate's brother-in-law really knows how to play! He dares to play!
He even killed himself!
Although the result was already obvious, the coroner still took his apprentice to perform a careful autopsy in a serious and pragmatic manner.
The results were not much different from what they expected.
"The deceased's body had extensive burns, but there was no ash or charcoal in her mouth. Her skull had been severely injured, her neck was fractured, and her lower body had lacerations... Analysis suggests the cause of death was intense intercourse with a male dog, resulting in massive blood loss."
Just as the coroner finished speaking, a sharp voice rang out from behind him: "What did you say?!"
The one who spoke was none other than the county magistrate's wife, Qian. She looked at the coroner in disbelief. What did it mean to have intense intercourse with a male dog? Why didn't she understand?
Cai Kuo understood, but he was also very shocked.
I guess few normal people would not be shocked.
The coroner was very embarrassed, but facing the questioning of the county magistrate's wife, he had to bite the bullet and explain to her.
Qian collapsed halfway through hearing this and rushed to the corpse, "Dazhi..."
While crying, he fainted.
Cai Kuo quickly asked the maid to help Qian into the car. He then called the servant who had previously responded to Qian and asked him what had happened last night.
The servant happened to be serving outside the main courtyard last night and knew everything that happened in the house. When the county magistrate asked about it, he quickly told the truth.
Hearing that Qian Dazhi had actually done such a thing as forcing people to take drugs and then letting dogs have sex with them, even someone as unscrupulous as Cai Kuo felt uncomfortable.
The people around him hurriedly lowered their heads, surveyed the area, and acted as if they were working seriously, pretending not to have heard what the servant said. This made Cai Kuo feel a little better.
"...Suddenly a fire broke out in the back, first in the kitchen, then in the storeroom and the accounting office. Everyone rushed to put out the fire, including me, but the fire was too big and there was no way to put it out. By the time we reacted, the master had already..."
The servant's voice lowered.
Cai Kuo snorted coldly, "Putting out a fire? I'm afraid everyone is so busy trying to save their own lives that they can't even take care of your master."
The servant was horrified and knelt down and kowtowed: "My Lord, I have seen clearly. I did not—"
"No? Then how come your master died in the fire, but you and those servants are still alive and well?"
It must be said that Cai Kuo and Qian are indeed worthy of being a couple, as they have the same logic in thinking about problems.
"Come on, drag him and those servants down."
As soon as Cai Kuo gave an order, several yamen runners came over and grabbed the man and dragged him away without saying a word.
A cold look flashed in Guan Yue's eyes as he was inspecting the scene. In the eyes of this county magistrate, those servants were not human beings at all. They deserved to rush to the front when there was danger. Even if they lost their lives, they had to protect their master, otherwise they deserved to die!
If he were to say so, Qian Dazhi's death was a blessing! He deserved it! Heaven finally opened its eyes!
I just don’t know when Cai Kuo will follow in Qian Dazhi’s footsteps!
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