Black Fairy, the master is a female ghost

On the second day, a large number of yamen runners came to a ravine in Yanshui County.

Led by Meng Tianfang, the yamen runners rushed straight towards the family and arrested them.

The initial charge was that he dug a ditch and made a mistake, which led to the murder of his entire family.

The final charge will have to wait until after the trial to see whether it is intentional murder.

The Yanshui County Magistrate followed Lu Xunhuan and said, "My Lord, this is just a minor case. Just give me a word and I'll bring some people to handle it. Why would you bother running around in person?"

Lu Xunhuan said, "As the chief official of Baocheng Prefecture, I have to serve the people. A little hardship is nothing. How did you become the county magistrate? You don't know about such a big thing happening?"

The Yanshui County Magistrate was sweating profusely and bowed repeatedly: "Your humble servant has failed in his duty, your humble servant has failed in his duty..."

Lu Xun Huan patted his shoulder and said, "Since you're serious about implementing my new policy, I'll let it go this time."

The Yanshui County Magistrate nodded and bowed: "Yes, yes, I will follow your instructions..."

Lu Xun Huan added, "However, this happened decades ago, and it really has nothing to do with you."

"Take some of your men back to interrogate the family to see if it was premeditated murder. I will lead everyone here to excavate the remains of the victims. Go ahead."

The Yanshui County Magistrate quickly said, "Your Excellency, please go back and judge the case. I will dig here."

Lu Xun Huan criticized him, "Shanshui County is under your jurisdiction, so the case should naturally be heard by you. Why do you insist on me stepping in to handle it? What's the point of having you as the county magistrate?"

The Yanshui County Magistrate hurriedly nodded and bowed again: "This humble official will return immediately."

After the Yanshui County Magistrate and a few yamen runners left, Lu Xunhuan divided the remaining yamen runners into two groups, one to dig on the left and the other to dig on the right.

He brought Yun Zhongzi and Meng Tianfang into the family's home.

After the three of them entered, Yun Zhongzi stood guard at the door, while Lu Xunhuan and Meng Tianfang went to search each room.

This family has a lot of stuff in their house, and it's very messy.

Lu Xunhuan searched through all the boxes and drawers for a long time, but did not find the so-called dragon bones.

About an hour later, Meng Tianfang came forward to report: "Nothing was found."

Lu Xunhuan asked, "Where's the cellar?"

Meng Tianfang replied: "I've searched the cellar, but there's nothing there."

Lu Xunhuan pondered for a while, picked up a small wooden hammer from the ground, and knocked on the wall every time he took a step.

He knocked repeatedly for the time it took to stick of incense. When he knocked on the wall behind the bed in a bedroom, the wall made a hollow sound.

He put down the gavel, drew his sword from its sheath, and thrust it into the crack between the bricks in the wall.

After he hollowed out the clay around a brick, he pulled the brick out.

Meng Tianfang lowered his head and looked inside: "Mezzanine."

The two men pushed aside a few more bricks and saw a black wooden box in the mezzanine.

Meng Tianfang reached in and took out the wooden box: "It's quite heavy."

Lu Xunhuan said, "High-quality wood is naturally heavy."

He squatted down and looked at the wooden box.

The wooden box was about four feet long and two feet high. It didn't look like an ordinary box, but more like a small coffin.

There were wooden nails nailed on the lid of the wooden box, making the whole box sealed.

He took the sword and cut hard along the bottom of the lid.

Soon, the four wooden nails were cut off and the lid of the box was opened.

There was a pile of bones in the box, the most conspicuous of which was the white human skull.

Lu Xunhuan took a quick look and saw that the room was filled with human bones. There were no other bones within his sight.

He reached out and picked up the skull.

Sure enough, there was a different kind of bone in the skull. It was a piece of broken bone, only about five inches long.

He took the bone in his hand and looked at it over and over again for a while.

Meng Tianfang asked quietly: "Is it that bone?"

Lu Xunhuan nodded: "Very similar, let me try."

He bit his finger and let the blood drip onto the bone.

If that bone was a divine bone, it would enter his body and disappear.

If the bone was just an ordinary dragon bone, there would be no reaction.

After the blood dripped, he waited for a while, but there was no movement.

He handed the dragon bone to Meng Tianfang in great disappointment, and whispered, "It's just an ordinary dragon bone."

Meng Tianfang was also very disappointed after hearing this and asked, "What should we do now?"

Lu Xun Huan stood up and said, "That family thought that by combining the dragon bones with the bones of their ancestors, they would be able to rise to prominence. To cover up the news, they even murdered their neighbors. We won't wrongly accuse the good people, but we won't let the bad people go either."

He said to Meng Tianfang, "You stay here and direct everyone to dig up the remains of the victims. I will go back to the county government office and make that family confess their crime and accept punishment."

Half an hour later, he returned to the county government office.

At this time, the county magistrate was interrogating the family.

Lu Xunhuan walked in and asked, "What's the matter? Do you plead guilty?"

The county magistrate stood up hastily. "Sir, they insist the landslide was caused by mistake. It was an unintentional mistake."

Lu Xunhuan said to Yun Zhongzi, "Put the things in front of them."

Yun Zhongzi placed the four-foot-long box containing the bones of this family's ancestors in front of the family.

The head of the family, an old man of nearly seventy years old, turned pale when he saw the box, and beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks.

Lu Xun Huan said to the head of the family, "A divine dragon was unfortunately killed, and its body shattered into countless pieces, falling to the human world. One piece happened to fall where your families live, so you must have snatched it up."

"So, you secretly dug out your ancestors' bones and wanted to put them together with the dragon bones."

"But how can we hide this from our neighbors?"

"If you confess the truth, you will be the only one sentenced to death. If you don't confess, your entire family will be conspirators and will be put to death."

He shouted to the guards outside the gate, "Tell the executioner to get ready."

The head of the family collapsed to the ground: "It's all my fault, my fault alone. It has nothing to do with anyone else, and it has nothing to do with the children."

Lu Xunhuan shouted, “Speak.”

The owner of the house said, "One day forty years ago, a ball of fire suddenly flew from the sky. With a loud bang, it crashed into our fields. It startled several of our families, and we all ran over to check it out."

"A big hole was smashed in the ground. The common people dug up the soil and picked out a piece of bone."

"I didn't understand what the bone was at the time, but one of my neighbors said it was a dragon bone..."

"So, everyone started arguing, and every family wanted it."

"I'll just leave it here first, and we'll discuss who owns it later."

"Later, in order to keep the dragon bones for themselves, the common people dug out the rock wall behind several families under the pretext of digging a ditch."

"During that period, there were a lot of heavy rains. One night, during the rain, the rock wall behind us collapsed and buried everyone. Only behind our house there happened to be a huge rock connecting the mountains, so it didn't collapse."

Lu Xun Huan asked, "You know your family won't fall apart no matter what, right?"

The man replied, "Yes, I once participated in the county's water conservancy project and have some knowledge of it."

He struggled to stand up, kowtowed, and said, "I am the only one who knows about this matter. I planned everything. My family all thought that we took the dragon bones and were spared because of our ancestors' blessings."

Lu Xunhuan nodded: "Alright, I understand."

He said to the Yanshui County Magistrate, "According to the laws of Baocheng Prefecture, those who intentionally kill others are subject to death and must pay a certain amount of compensation to the victim's family. However, those three families have been wiped out, so..."

"The verdict is as follows: First, the ringleader shall be executed immediately."

"Secondly, confiscate the real estate and all property of the leader's family to purchase coffins and build cemeteries for the victims. The leader's family will be expelled from Baocheng Prefecture and will never be allowed to return."

After hearing this, the county magistrate immediately ordered: "Come, take the murderer out and execute him immediately."

Several yamen runners came forward and dragged the owner away.

The head of the family cried with tears streaming down his face, "Ancestor, why don't you show up, dragon bones..."

Lu Xun Huan shook his head. "The idea that burying dragon bones with the bones of ancestors can make one the king of the world is pure nonsense."

"Come here, escort them out of Baocheng."