Yiya Mi and the other two rode their horses to the place ahead where thick smoke was billowing. They saw a few scattered herdsmen putting out the fire.
Seeing that the fire was very big, Yiyami took them to join the fire-fighting operation.
"Auntie, what's going on? Why is the fire so big?" After Yiyami and others put out the fire, they asked the herdsman closest to them with dusty faces.
"Oh, you are from other places, right?" The woman then realized that the three people were unfamiliar faces.
"Yes, we are going to visit an old friend, so we passed by here. Auntie, why is there such a big fire here suddenly?" Yiyami asked.
"Oh, it's a sin to be honest..." The woman sighed deeply.
"Let me tell you, there was originally a family living in this tent. That family had a disabled old father, a son, and a daughter-in-law." Seeing that Yiyami and the other two were covered in dust after helping to put out the fire, the woman invited them to her house to sit and wash their faces.
"And then?" Yi Yami asked.
The three of them kept walking and followed the woman to her house. It turned out that she was their next-door neighbor. Although she was a little far away, she was still their closest neighbor.
"The disabled old man is paralyzed, and only his hands can move. The son and daughter-in-law are busy herding cattle and sheep all day long. Sometimes when they are in a good mood, they will give him some food to eat. When they are in a bad mood, they will not give him any food. The hungry old man has no choice but to crawl on the ground and crawl to the kitchen to find food." The woman said as she poured kumis for the three people.
"Eh, that sounds quite pitiful..." Yiyami frowned when he heard that.
"Who says it isn't? This old man often faints from hunger. Then if he crawls to the door, someone will see him and give him something to eat. We are busy and have no time to take care of him, so he just goes hungry one day and full the next." The woman placed the kumis in front of the three people, and they all took a small sip.
"Then how did such a big fire start?" Yiyami asked curiously.
"We don't know either..." The woman shrugged.
"Nagada, three people in that old man's family are dead. The two young ones were drugged and died by the old man. The old man knocked over the oil lamp, which caused the tent to catch fire." A rough-looking man walked in.
"Ah, how do you know?" Nagada stood up when she heard that.
"How should I know? After the fire was out, the other men carried the people out and found that the old man's bones were burnt the blackest, and the other two men were lying on the bed. Tell me, if the old man hadn't set the fire and poisoned them, how could they have caught fire? Those two men deserved it. It was their fault for treating the old man badly. If they had been more filial, they wouldn't have ended up like this." The man took a sip of water and answered her.
"Hey, these are the people who just helped put out the fire. Hello!" the man greeted them.
Yi Yami and others responded with a smile.
"Let me introduce myself to you. My name is Nagada, and this is my husband, Ramcuo." Nagada introduced herself and the man's name.
"Hello, just call me Xiaomi." Yiyami also introduced herself.
"Call me Xiaobei." Gu Beijian raised his glass.
"A-Bian." A-Bian, who was sitting in the corner, spoke.
"Where are you going?" Ramcuo asked Yiyami and the others.
Before Yi Yami and the others could answer, they heard a familiar female voice outside, "What's going on?"
Ramcuo lifted the curtain and walked out, and Yiyami and the other two also walked out.
Murong Jinyi was seen wearing military uniform, riding on a horse and questioning the people below.
"General Murong, this is my neighbor. We guess it was the disabled old man who set the house on fire, which is why it burned like this." Ramcuo explained.
"How can a disabled person set the house on fire?" Murong Jinyi's face was full of disbelief.
Yi Yami glanced at her. After not seeing her for four years, she had matured, and her sense of responsibility and intelligence were even greater than before.
Murong Jinyi dismounted and went forward to examine the bodies of the three men.
The old man's bones were burned black and his posture was very distorted.
"The old man's posture is so twisted that it's obvious that he didn't burn himself voluntarily. If he was the one who set the fire, he should have a sense of relief. Why is he so twisted?" Murong Jinyi asked.
"Look at these two young men again. Although there are signs of poison in their throats, the poison didn't reach their stomachs. In other words, they drank the poison later in life. They died peacefully, not as if they had been persecuted. Instead, there was a sense of relief."
Yi Yami and others looked over and saw that it was indeed as Murong Jinyi said.
"Oh my God, why is this place burned like this? Where is that Wuderer?" A man in gorgeous clothes ran over and was shocked to see the burnt house.
"Who are you?" Murong Jinyi asked.
"I'm Yue Nanli. This Wu Dele owed me a lot of money. I lent him the money, but he said he wanted to use it to treat his father's illness. I felt sorry for him and lent him the money. But I didn't expect to see him in the gambling house. Later I asked him, where is the money? Wasn't it for his father's medical treatment? Why did you show up in the gambling house again?" the man in gorgeous clothes answered.
Murong Jinyi probably understood what was going on and continued to ask, "Then how did he answer?"
"He said that he was just bewildered and came to the gambling house, and said he would go home soon. He didn't know that the owner of the gambling house was my good friend. After I left, my good friend told me that this idiot continued to gamble and gambled away all his money. Later, I got angry and wanted him to return the money to me. Although I am rich, not everyone can spend my money lavishly. Instead of letting him spend it lavishly, I might as well take it back and do something good." Yue Nanli shrugged.
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