For a moment, everyone in Lanfang was in danger, scrambling to be the first to tattoo black flames on their bodies, fearing that they would die at his hands. Since the small wooden sword and the Black Flame logo appeared at the same time, Hong Liang chose to confess to Di Renjie that his brother was Black Flame, and the word "ying" engraved on the wooden sword represented the eldest son Di Ying.
Soon two more dead people appeared on the street. The wounds on their bodies were of different sizes and were not caused by the same weapon. Therefore, it was suspected that the murderer was someone else. Sure enough, Di Renjie identified four men with different identities and professions as suspects. The reason for their murder was that the deceased wanted to leave the city. The announcement had stated that if one person left the city without permission, Black Flame would randomly massacre a family.
Therefore, in order to survive and protect the safety of their families, the four of them took the lead in attacking the deceased. They felt that they were not wrong, and even the people onlookers agreed. Di Renjie felt that it was quite ridiculous. He slapped the crowd angrily and asked the scholar if he had ever thought about it. If Hei Yan publicly announced that he would kill his entire family in order to save the people of the county, would he commit suicide with his whole family? The scholar was stunned for a moment and angrily blamed Di Renjie for not being able to catch Black Flame, putting the people of Lanfang in danger.
Lin Fan officially stayed in the Ming Mansion, while Di Renjie patrolled the streets with Hong Liang and others, and found that the whole street was deserted, the shops were closed, and occasionally pedestrians passed by in a hurry, with black flame flags on both sides for protection. Originally, Hong Liang advocated asking the governor for help and sending troops to suppress it, but seeing the situation now, he finally understood why Di Renjie rejected this proposal. Not to mention the innocent people who were affected, I am afraid that the entire county jail could not accommodate these people.
Because of this, Di Renjie stayed in the morgue to reason about the case, believing that Xiao Chunyu's case was the beginning of this series. If he wanted to seize the opportunity, he must not be led by Black Flame again. Di Renjie asked Mrs. Lang about Xiao Chunyu. Mrs. Lang confessed that she liked Xiao Chunyu very much. She was beautiful and clever. Unfortunately, she no longer smiled after marrying into the Lang family. She never even consummated the marriage with Lang Zi. She always remembered Zeng in her heart. Chu Lei was privately engaged to her for life.
But no matter how angry Mrs. Lang was, she did not choose to break off the engagement. Instead, she cared that the Lang family was a prestigious family in Tongkang Village and could not afford to embarrass this person. What's more, in Mrs. Lang's view, the Lang family had no fault from beginning to end, and it was all because Shopkeeper Xiao had interfered to destroy Xiao Chunyu and Chu Lei. Even if they suffered retribution, it should fall on Shopkeeper Xiao. Never thought that something like this would happen in Tongkang Village. Di Renjie lamented that if Mrs. Lang had married her lover as soon as possible, her son might not have died tragically. Mrs. Lang regretted it after hearing this.
Now, Di Renjie has the answer to the entire case. In order to confirm his judgment, he first went to shopkeeper Xiao to find out. Shopkeeper Xiao admitted that he knew that his daughter and the son of the Lang family were not married. That night, Di Renjie called in Lin Fan, Shopkeeper Xiao and others to help them restore the incident and the truth.
It turned out that Xiao Chunyu was going to go home to pack up Xinruan and run away with Chu Lei on the pretext of visiting relatives, but it happened that Long San saw Chu Lei climbing through the window. In order to protect Xiao Chunyu's reputation, Chu Lei deliberately kidnapped the paper man made by Xiao Chunyu, making people mistakenly think that Xiao Chunyu was being held hostage by Chu Lei. However, Long San had already become greedy and planned to drag Xiao Chunyu back to the shop to occupy, kill and embezzle. He stole all her treasures and reported Chu Lei to the county government, killing three birds with one stone.
However, Long Sanqian had not calculated that he would be retaliated ten years later. Because he was illiterate, he left Xiao Chunyu's fur bag to wrap the meat and wipe the knife, leaving behind clues that confirmed that he was the real murderer. On the other hand, shopkeeper Xiao knew that his daughter was most likely to have eloped, so in order to save his face, he still helped Long San report Chu Lei. Because of his selfish desires, he harmed his daughter, Chu Lei, and Chu Lei. for many years. Shopkeeper Xiao burst into tears after learning the truth. He confessed on the spot and was taken back to the Yamen by Hong Liang and others.
In order to deal with the people's fear of Black Flame, Di Renjie asked the county government to give everyone armbands with the Black Flame pattern on them. Only Di Renjie did not wear them. The purpose was to attract Black Flame to find him. Cao An was in a depressed mood, playing the piano to relieve his worries. When he heard the noise outside the door, he chased after him. When he saw Lin Fan's figure, he immediately stopped Lin Fan and asked him to take him to see Hei Yan. When Di Renjie saw Cao An's message, he immediately went to Lin Fan and followed him to meet Hei Yan alone.