"They like to quarrel since they were young, and I'm used to it. When they quarrel, I go back to my room and play games. It has nothing to do with me anyway."

Liu Tong had an indifferent face, as if what he was talking about was someone else's business and had nothing to do with him.

Shen Rui asked again: "Aside from quarreling?"

"Uncle policeman, you want to ask if there is still a fight?" Liu Tong glanced at Zhou Yuan and the others with a mocking look, "I said quarrels, of course fights are inevitable. But usually my dad does it, we Mom will be beaten twice."

Shen Rui frowned. Liu Dongjun's neighbors also mentioned this issue before, saying that Liu Dongjun would sometimes beat his wife.

"Do you beat your mother often? Is it hard?" Shen Rui asked.

Liu Tong sneered: "When I was young, I often beat them. When I was young, I cried and stopped them, and my dad beat me. Later, I learned to be smart, and I didn't care about their fights. It's over if they make trouble. Instead, they didn't fight much. Now, isn't it amazing?"

Shen Rui: "Then the day your father disappeared, did they fight?"

"No, my dad said the food was unpalatable, so he went out." Liu Tong said with a smile, "My mother scolded him at home, saying that she married the wrong person. Marrying my dad is a grievance every day. Just listen to her scolding. I didn't expect my dad to come back after going out..."

"What do you think of your parents?" Shen Rui asked with raised eyebrows.

Liu Tong blurted out almost without thinking: "I don't have any ideas, as long as they give me money, I will be my good father and mother."

Shen Rui was choked by these words and didn't know how to reply for a long time.

Zhou Yuan, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke when Shen Rui was racking his brains on how to continue the topic. He asked Liu Tong: "Xie Cheng is three grades younger than you, how do you know each other?"

Seeing that the topic turned to the dead Xie Cheng again, Liu Tong was a little unhappy, thinking that these policemen came to find fault again under the guise of his parents, and suddenly made a face, and said in a somewhat aggressive tone: "Same school, see you!" We'll get to know each other sooner."

"Knowing you, why would you think of harming others?"

Liu Tong was obviously impatient, and stared at Zhou Yuan with his teeth bared: "Uncle, I said it before, I was playing games with him, do you understand playing games? It's because of his bad luck that such an accident happened, so you can't blame me .”

Shen Rui was so angry at his words that he wanted to slap the little bastard, "Xie Cheng has a life."

"I know, I deny it. And my parents also lost money, uncle, do you want me to pay for my life?" Speaking to the police, Liu Tong had no scruples or burdens, he sneered: "Uncle, if Nothing else, I have to go to class."

From what he said, he knew that the child hadn't repented at all, but was complacent. Shen Rui only felt a pang of anger gathering in his chest. He wanted to teach the child a lesson, but because of his status and occupation, he couldn't do it.

And the law gave this kind of devil child a protective umbrella. He hated and got angry, but there was nothing he could do.

Alas... sin.

Without any substantive words from Liu Tong's mouth, Shen Rui and the others had no choice but to leave the school first.

After leaving the campus gate, looking at the children in school uniforms jumping around, Shen Rui's heavy heart was slightly relieved.The children were youthful and high-spirited, and the positive aura on their faces made him unable to hold back the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Zhou Yuan looked at him: "...What are you laughing at?"

"Isn't it the same when we were studying?" Standing under the shade of the school road, Shen Rui looked at the vigorous students, couldn't help but sighed, and made a gesture with his hand, "At that time, you were taller than me." Shorter and more lively, do you remember?"

Zhou Yuan froze, and slowly looked at Shen Rui. After a moment of silence, he shook his head and continued walking towards the school gate.

He said, "I don't remember."

That tone was blunt and cold, causing Shen Rui to be stunned for a moment, and suddenly the old man Zhou Yuan said to him, he raised his eyes to look at Zhou Yuan who was walking in front, his eyes were bright, as if he wanted to break through the dark clouds, cut through the sky, But also the perseverance to see the moon through the clouds.He raised his legs and followed quickly, and said in a hurry, "Forget it, forget it, just remember me."

That tone was like ripples in stagnant water, overflowing with pampering, causing Zhou Yuan to pause.

He said in a muffled voice: "Yes. Do you want to go to Qingyun Temple while you have time?"

Above the white clouds, on the top of Yunshan Mountain, where the sun rises, there is a Taoist temple that has survived hundreds of years of wind and frost.

Walking up the thousand steps until the end, looking up, the Taoist temple hidden in the sea of ​​clouds in front of you is Qingyun Temple.

Because of the temple fair, Qingyun Temple was full of pilgrims, and when Zhou Yuan and the others entered, they could hear whispered prayers at any time.

After looking around, he couldn't find Chen Wang, so Zhou Yuan had no choice but to call him. After a while, a man wearing a plain green robe and a small bun came out from the inner hall. The man saw Zhou Yuan's face overflowing. Smiling, she turned her head to see Shen Rui, and nodded slightly to him.

"Senior brother in charge is in the inner hall, you follow me in."

Qingyun Temple is very large, with plastic gold halls on the upper, middle, lower, left and right sides, unlike Liufang Temple, which has only the main hall in the front yard and the residence in the back yard on an area of ​​three acres.Walking with Chen Wang for a while, bypassing two wooden corridors, and finally stopped outside a large room when the sound of chanting could no longer be heard.

A faint sandalwood scent wafted from the room, and Chen Wang knocked on the door, "Brother, they are here."

"Please come in." A deep male voice came from inside the door, hoarse but dignified.

When the old shaft was turned, the door made a tooth-losing sound. With a "squeak", the door opened in response. A long table was placed in the hall facing the door. On the table was a Set of tea sets.A Taoist priest wearing a black robe sat on the master's seat and nodded to Zhou Yuan outside the door: "Come in, let's drink tea together."

It smells faintly of sandalwood outside, but when inside, it is found that the sandalwood is mixed with bamboo fragrance, which is fresh and refreshing.

"Senior brother, long time no see." Zhou Yuan pulled Shen Rui to sit opposite the Taoist priest, "I came to visit suddenly today, please forgive me if I disturb you."

Listening to their coming and going, Shen Rui felt that people who opened temples and Taoist temples talked like this, and when they opened their mouths, they made people feel unfathomable, like a master.

The Taoist priest poured tea for Zhou Yuan and the others, "It's okay, I'm just sitting here and reading a book anyway. Chen Wang told me the purpose of your visit, that incident seemed to have happened five or six years ago, it's a bit long ago, but I still have some memory."

"Brother, please tell me." Zhou Yuan said.

The Taoist priest recalled what happened back then, took a sip of warm tea, opened his mouth and said slowly: "There is indeed a benefactor named Li Caihua who deposited the money with me and entrusted it to a man."

At this point, he paused, and said: "The man is a middle-aged man. He would come to talk to me during the Spring Festival in the first one or two years, but I didn't see him in the third year. He probably died."

"Master Dao, why did you say he was dead when he didn't come?" Shen Rui was puzzled.

If you don't come to the meeting, it may be because you have other things, and you can't come because of things.

The Taoist priest took another sip of tea, shook his head and said, "He told me that if he didn't come for the Spring Festival, one possibility is that he died."

"Is that person sick?" Zhou Yuan asked.

The Taoist priest shook his head, "I don't know, he didn't tell me these things. He rented a room at the foot of the mountain before. I saw that he didn't come to the meeting, and I went down the mountain to look for him, but the building was empty. He probably went back to his hometown in Binhai."

"Binhai? Is he from Binhai?" Zhou Yuan asked.

"Yes, he told me about it, I always remember it." The Taoist priest sighed.He stood up, walked into the inner room, came back after a while, and sat down again, but there was a small object in his hand, which was a cowhide drum.The Taoist priest placed the cowhide drum on the table and said to Zhou Yuan: "I heard from Chen Wang about Li Caihua's benefactor. The cowhide drum was left by that man. He said that all his drums came from here." .”

Zhou Yuan took the cowhide drum to his hand to look at. The cowhide drum in Daoist Priest's hand was bigger than the one Li Caihua got, and the patterns on his body were more delicate. He opened the bottom of the drum and suddenly froze for a moment. Daoist, "Brother, why did that man leave you this drum?"

The Taoist priest took another sip of tea, looked at Zhou Yuan, and said slowly: "He said, if someone comes to me to ask about this drum or his news, let me show him this drum and tell him, He is a survivor of the Dynasty Club."

Shen Rui, who was sitting by the side, listened to these words with a straight face, keeping his back straight.

"I didn't expect that it was Junior Brother Zhou who came to look for me." Daoist looked at Zhou Yuan with burning eyes, "I don't know what he meant, but I think, Junior Brother Zhou, you might understand."

Zhou Yuan nodded, "Brother, can I take this cowhide drum?"

"It's yours." The Taoist stood up, "Go, it's time for me to go out of the hall."

When going down the mountain, Shen Rui, who had held back for a long time, finally couldn't help asking: "I know about this, Dynasty Clubhouse."

Although he was still young more than ten years ago, because it happened in this city, it was spread by word of mouth, and almost every household in the area where he lived had heard of it. Shen Rui also said: "The fire that year killed many people. .How did I hear there were no survivors?"

"I also heard that there are no survivors." Stopping, Zhou Yuan looked at Shen Rui, "A good friend of my father was also burned to death in the Dynasty Club, and my father went to collect the body."

Shen Rui stared in surprise.

Zhou Yuan suddenly took out the cowhide drum he got from the Taoist priest and handed it to Shen Rui, "Look at this cowhide drum."

After taking the cowhide drum, Shen Rui looked at the cowhide drum with some doubts.To be honest, it was similar to the cowhide drum that Li Caihua had obtained before. After looking around for a long time, he felt that the pattern was more delicate.However, he remembered that Zhou Yuan turned over the bottom of the drum to look at it, and he turned it up too.

I saw a row of small characters engraved on the bottom of the drum, Shen Rui squinted his eyes to look at the row of characters, and began to read, "Fengdu Great Emperor?"

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