The passers-by who were questioned were a little impatient at first, but after seeing the uniform of the Demon Suppression Division that Qin Shaoyou was wearing and the several muscular men standing behind him, his attitude immediately became much more enthusiastic.
"Sir, you don't know this person? His name is Shen Bin, and he lives next to the Yatan Hall in the west of the city. The previous fire in the Yatan Hall spread to many surrounding houses, and his house was also destroyed by the fire. My wife and children were all burned to death in the fire..."
"Then why is he okay?"
When Zhu Xiucai heard this, he couldn't help but interjected and asked.
This passerby knew Shen Bin’s situation in quite detail, and immediately spoke:
"It seems that Shen Bin was lucky. On the day of the fire, he happened to be painting murals at the Hong Family Ancestral Hall in the east of the city and escaped disaster.
When he came back the next day and saw the bodies of his wife and children, he was heartbroken.
According to people who saw him at the time, he not only cried and fainted several times on the spot, but also cried and vomited blood.
Seeing how pitiful he was, the neighbors helped him raise some money to bury his wife and children. They also helped him build a shack to stay temporarily among the ruins of the burned-out house.
In the past few days, Shen Bin had to pay homage to his wife and children every day, but because the fire in Yatan Hall had not yet been fully investigated, no one on that street was allowed to leave the city. He could only hold up the portraits of his wife and children. Worship from afar at the city gate.
I heard that he would cry and faint every time he paid homage. "
Monk Ma recited the Buddha's name and lamented: "This Shen Bin is still an infatuated person."
"Who says it isn't?"
Passersby nodded in agreement.
"Nowadays, many girls who are about to get married say that the best way to get married is to marry someone as infatuated as Shen Bin. Even the dancers at the Sand Dance Theater said that if Shen Bin comes to them to dance Sand Dance, they will not charge money. "
"Is there such a thing?"
Zhu Xiucai and several strong men were very envious when they heard this.
Qin Shaoyou captured several details.
"Shen Bin's home is next to Yatan Tang? He can draw? He happened to be away from home when the fire happened?"
As soon as Zhu Xiucai heard this, he knew what Qin Shaoyou was thinking.
After sending away the passers-by, he approached Qin Shaoyou and asked in a low voice: "My lord, are you suspecting that Shen Bin is related to the ghost in the painting?"
Qin Shaoyou nodded slightly, and then asked: "Have you investigated this person before?"
Zhu Xiucai recalled: "When we investigated that night, Shen Bin was not at the scene, so we did not check him. However, the Demon Suppression Department should have sent someone to check him afterwards."
At this time, Liao Lishi and others figured out what Qin Shaoyou was suspecting, and whispered: "Sir, there should be no problem with this Shen Bin, otherwise he would have been arrested long ago."
Although Qin Shaoyou thought what they said made sense, he still kept an eye out and told Zhu Xiucai: "After dinner, send a few people to keep an eye on Shen Bin secretly."
"I will send someone now, and it won't delay the brothers' meal."
Zhu Xiucai said and walked to the roadside.
Under the corner of a shop, a beggar was sitting. Zhu Xiucai threw a few coins into his broken bowl.
The beggar heard the noise and quickly reached out to pick up the copper coins. He raised his head and was about to say a few words of compliment. When he saw it was Zhu Xiucai, he stood up quickly and asked with a smile on his face: "Master Zhu, what do you want me to do?"
Zhu Xiucai quietly pointed to Shen Bin in the distance and whispered: "Assign a few smart people to keep an eye on him. Every detail must be written down for me."
"No problem." The beggar agreed, put away the begging bowl, turned around and left.
Zhu Xiucai returned to Qin Shaoyou and said with a smile: "Sir, don't underestimate these beggars. They are still capable of keeping an eye on them. Of course, it's not possible to rely solely on them. After dinner, I will personally take people over to keep an eye on them." Focus on Shen Bin."
Qin Shaoyou stared at the beggar's back and asked, "Can they trust it?"
Zhu Xiucai smiled and said: "Don't worry, sir, no matter who they are playing tricks on, they don't dare to play with me."
"That's good." Qin Shaoyou nodded and looked away.
At the same time, after Shen Bin walked away holding the scroll of his wife and children, the people watching the excitement dispersed and went about their own business.
Qin Shaoyou and the others continued to the restaurant.
But at this moment, Qin Shaoyou suddenly heard a nursery rhyme.
I don’t know if the person singing the nursery rhyme is too far away, so the sound seems intermittent, drifting, and unclear.
Qin Shaoyou just barely heard one of the sentences.
The song is: "Red umbrella, white pole, after eating, I lie down with my mother..."
He turned his head and looked in the direction where the nursery rhyme was coming from.
There were a few children playing and playing on the roadside in the distance, and I didn’t know if this weird nursery rhyme was sung by them.
When Zhu Xiucai saw Qin Shaoyou stop, he also stopped.
While following his gaze, she asked in a low voice: "What's wrong, sir? Is there something wrong?"
Qin Shaoyou raised his hand and pointed at the children in the distance: "What does the nursery rhyme they sang mean?"
"Nursery rhymes?"
Zhu Xiucai was stunned and asked: "What nursery rhyme? I didn't hear it."
"did not hear it?"
Qin Shaoyou couldn't help but frown, secretly wondering if there was something weird about this matter?
But he quickly gave up the idea.
Because those children were too far away, even he only heard a vague sentence.
The five senses of Zhu Xiucai and others were far inferior to him, so it was normal not to hear.
Zhu Xiucai thought so too, and planned to find those children.
"I'm going to ask them what nursery rhymes they are singing."
As a result, he had only taken a few steps when the group of children laughed and disappeared into the alley.
"Okay, stop chasing."
Qin Shaoyou called Zhu Xiucai back and repeated the nursery rhyme he had just heard.
After listening to it, Zhu Xiucai smiled: "I know this, it's about eating poisonous mushrooms."
"Poisonous mushrooms?"
“Yes, at this season every year, many people go to the mountains to pick mushrooms to eat.
Aren't those poisonous mushrooms just red umbrellas with white poles, and you have to lie down after eating them?
But for this nursery rhyme, I remember we were lying on the couch together after eating, and these children sang it blindly, changing the words. "
Although Zhu Xiucai noticed that the child had changed his lyrics, he didn't take it seriously.
Because it is so common to change the words of nursery rhymes.
When he was a child, he even changed famous poems, not to mention nursery rhymes.
Something like 'There is bright moonlight in front of the bed, two pairs of shoes on the floor', and 'Spring sleep without waking up, mosquito bites everywhere' and so on.
This group of children only changed two words of the nursery rhyme, which is considered a minor change, so it is not surprising.
"This is actually a nursery rhyme to remind people not to eat poisonous mushrooms?"
Qin Shaoyou clicked his tongue in surprise.
But his warrior intuition believed that this nursery rhyme was not that simple.
So he told Zhu Xiucai: "Ask your beggar friend to help check the complete content of this nursery rhyme after changing the words."
"yes."
Although Zhu Xiucai didn't understand Qin Shaoyou's intention, he still agreed without asking why.
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