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Chapter 182 Lard supports combustion
  The dried reed tidbits are not large, and they are not even noticeable when held between the fingers.
  If after September, you can see this thing everywhere by the pond, but it is definitely not normal for this thing to appear in money bags this season.
  Dengzhan became panicked at that moment, hesitating and saying: "Even the villain doesn't know..."
  "Don't know?" The butler was furious and said, "I found it in your wallet, and you said you didn't know? And there are these footprints, how do you explain it?!"
  The head of the lamp almost drooped into the body, and the sweat on the forehead fell one drop after another, and soon the hair on the temples was wet with sweat.
  He didn't dare to speak and stared at the footprints on the ground.
  Shen Zhuoxi was not in a hurry, walked around the lamp and said, "Do you know the consequences of setting fire to the ancestral hall?"
  Dengzhan shivered but still said nothing.
  The housekeeper stamped his feet anxiously: "The physical evidence is here, identify it quickly. If you don't keep it all, I can spare you some time. If you have to carry it to death, you will have to send it to the official for disposal. By then your whole family will not be able to hold their heads high!"
  Deng Zhan's left foot unconsciously ground on the ground, his body shaking more and more violently, and the flesh on his face trembled slightly with his movements.
  Shen Zhuoxi sneered and said: "You are carrying two of them, do you really think I can't deal with you? Zhuye, go report to the governor, I want to see if he can bear the consequences on his own!"
  The lamp shook even more violently. When he looked up, his face was covered with tears: "Miss, did the villain say that you will let him go?"
  "Telling the truth is not a bargaining chip for you to negotiate terms." Shen Zhuoxi narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at him: "It is a prerequisite for you to save your life."
  Dengzhan swallowed his saliva and said with a cry: "The villain is only responsible for bringing the dried reed flowers into the ancestral hall. The rest of the villains are not involved, so they don't know anything!"
  "Do you think I will believe this?" Shen Zhuoxi looked at the lamp with disdain and said, "Dried reed flowers are flammable and can also support combustion, but it is impossible for the ancestral hall to catch fire if it catches fire for no reason."
  "It wasn't until someone set it on fire that we got the current result!"
  "Really, the villain dare not lie." Dengzhan cried even more, squeezing out a few tears and said: "The villain received twenty taels of silver, and he was really only responsible for bringing the reed flowers in."
  "If it were to set the temple on fire, it would definitely not be worth twenty taels of silver."
  Dengzhan said this, took out a small piece of silver from his bun, and said, "Look, the silver is hidden here. Life and death are at stake. How dare you lie and fool me."
  "Just a bag of reed flowers?" Shen Zhuoxi glanced at the money and asked, "Impossible!"
  Dengzhan hurriedly said: "It is true that there is not only one money bag, but also a whole big bag, which was brought in mixed with the villain's clothes. The villain is already fat, and no one will suspect it if the clothes are bulging."
  "The villain followed the instructions and threw the dried reed flowers under the table where Princess Xiaoqing's row was placed. Worried about being caught by someone and unable to explain clearly, he climbed out of the window and left."
  Deng Zhan said every word seriously, eager to clarify, and it didn't look like he was pretending.
  Shen Zhuoxi said suspiciously: "So, there is someone else who lit the reed flowers?"
  Dengzhan nodded affirmatively and said: "It's not the villain, it's definitely someone else who did it, but the villain doesn't know who it is. The villain took the money and was only responsible for drying the reed flowers. He doesn't know the rest."
  "Second Miss, I've said what the villain has said. Please don't report to the official. This villain with twenty taels of silver can withdraw..."
  Before he finished speaking, the housekeeper said angrily: "What can you do with twenty taels of silver? The subsequent repairs of this ancestral hall alone will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Why did you go there so early?"
  "The villain doesn't know!" A big man in Dengzhan said with tears in his eyes: "Butler, the villain really doesn't know!"
  Shen Zhuoxi ignored Deng Zhan's cry and turned to look at the other boys.
  The expressions are different, some are scared, some are watching the show, some are looking around, and some are curious.
  Shen Zhuoxi glanced over and asked, "Who is responsible for guarding the ancestral hall?"
  A young boy standing at the front timidly took a step forward and said, "It's a villain..."
  "Tell me again, how did you discover the fire?" Shen Zhuoxi's eyes were like a torch, staring at him for an instant.
  The boy didn't dare to raise his head and said in a low voice: "Everyone in the ancestral hall has gone to eat. I was so hungry that I thought nothing would go wrong after a while, so I went."
  "When I came back from eating in a hurry, I found smoke billowing from the ancestral hall. I knew something was wrong and went to call someone immediately."
  "Are you staying on duty?" Shen Zhuoxi asked suspiciously.
  The boy nodded and said: "The little man is responsible for changing the shift. The people in front have all gone to the canteen, leaving the little man on duty. Originally, he had to wait for other people to come before he could eat."
  "It was just a bit of luck. I didn't expect such a big thing to happen. The villain deserves to die!"
  "How many years have you been doing this?" Shen Zhuoxi's eyes were as sharp as an eagle: "Do you know the rules of the house?"
  The young man met her gaze, trembled, quickly looked away, and said: "I have been working in the house for eight years, so I know the rules."
  "When you set the fire, did you think about the consequences?" Shen Zhuoxi sneered, "Who gave you the courage in eight years?"
  The boy knelt down in panic and said, "The villain didn't set the fire, he just didn't guard it well. Please tell me, Miss!"
  "Not you?" Shen Zhuoxi smiled: "Did you change your clothes after setting the fire?"
  The housekeeper asked in surprise: "How did the young lady know that he had changed his clothes?"
  "Look." Shen Zhuoxi pointed at the other boys and said, "Because they put out fires and moved things, these people all have traces of smoke and fire on their bodies."
  "He is the only one who is clean and tidy. There is not even a small stain on his clothes. Don't you think it's strange?"
  The housekeeper thought for a moment and said, "It's true."
  "Especially because he was on fire because he neglected his duties. In this case, he has not been dealt with. He should help as much as possible to offset his sins." Shen Zhuoxi nodded at the boy.
  "The person who should be the dirtiest has no stains on his body, so there is only one possibility. There should be some traces on his original clothes. He had a guilty conscience and was worried about being discovered, so he changed his clothes."
  "It hasn't been long since the fire broke out. He went to change his clothes, and he would definitely not have time to clean up. As long as you find his clothes, you can know what he wants to hide."
  The housekeeper suddenly realized it and immediately sent people to search for the boy's residence.
  After a while, someone came back with a set of clothes.
  The housekeeper took it, handed it to Shen Zhuoxi, and said, "Second Miss, take a look."
  Shen Zhuoxi pulled the branch and smiled: "I see, steward, what are the servants eating today?"
  "Every festival, we have to add food, lard and cabbage for lunch." The butler replied.
  "That's right." Shen Zhuoxi pointed at the stains on his clothes with a branch: "He didn't want people to know that his clothes were stained with lard, so I just said that the reed flowers couldn't burn so fast."
  "It turns out that someone used lard to fuel the fire, but I was careless. After the lard burned, the smell of the various oils in the mixed offerings was indeed indistinguishable."
  "Do you want me to say anything next?"
  (End of this chapter)