When she looked at it from a distance, Chen Ying only felt that this camp was very neat, but now when she was in it, she felt that it was not so much neat as a kind of desolation.

Under the cloud-covered sky, there were rows of towering shacks, most of them empty, and occasionally one or two scrawny homeless people appeared, also bowing their heads and shoulders, and flashed into the houses quickly.

The morning breeze was blowing, and with the coolness of an early summer morning, the cry of a baby was heard in the distance, and that cry echoed in the gloomy and empty shack, with an indescribable sadness.

It can be seen that the impact of the fire on the homeless camp has not dissipated to this day.

"After the self-evacuation of the water, the rest of the camp is gone, and now it is much empty." As if sensing what Chen Ying was thinking, Pei Shu said.

The tone is careless, but the expression is cold.

Chen Ying didn't speak, and looked into the distance.

At the end of the shack, there was a makeshift iron fence, and on the other side of the fence was a large area of charred black earth.

"There...... It's the place where the fire broke out. She whispered, her eyes swept over the land, but she saw that on the scorched earth, weeds had grown in several places, and the green blades of grass swayed in the wind, in stark contrast to the charred black.

Life and death appear at the same time in this ruin, which is inevitably embarrassing.

Pei Shu was also looking at the other side of the iron fence, his face became more and more awe-inspiring: "More than a month has passed since this matter, and I was originally just ordered to come over and take a look, and by the way, I helped His Highness settle these remaining homeless people, but it was just ......"

He stopped talking, looked sideways at Chen Ying, and said in a very low voice: "...... It's just that something has changed. ”

Chen Ying raised her head and stared at him, but did not answer.

This change should be the purpose of Pei Shu's invitation to come, and she waited for him to say it himself.

After stopping for a moment, he heard Pei Shu continue to whisper: "In addition to the dozens of people who died in this fire, three other people survived, but because the injuries were too serious, they were almost all hung in one breath and fell into a coma. ”

It turned out that there were survivors, and it was the first time Chen Ying had heard of it.

At this moment, Pei Shu said again: "Just before I came to Dengzhou, two of these three people had died of injuries, but there was a homeless man named Erhammer, but a few days ago, he returned to the light, and he actually sobered up for half a cup of tea, and also explained a strange thing. ”

In his deep voice, the group of three had already reached the edge of the iron fence.

There were a few messengers guarding here, because they saw that the person who came was Pei Shu, and they wanted to know his identity, so they let them in without asking.

At the time of the handover between the two parties, Pei Shu did not continue to speak, and it was not until he walked a little further that he spoke again:

The second hammer said that on the night of the incident, he got up in the middle of the night and saw two men and a woman running towards the camp gate. Because he slept in a daze, he did not take it seriously, but when he returned to the house, he lay down and went back to sleep, and when he did not want to open his eyes again, the fire had already burned in front of him. ”

Chen Ying's heart sank.

No wonder Pei Shu called her, it turned out that he got the survivor's confession, and the appearance of this confession made the fire confusing.

"What does the little marquis mean...... Someone set fires? She looked at Pei Shu.

Pei Shu nodded slightly: "I thought that there was a possibility." ”

After saying this, his brow tightened, and his single-eyelid eyes looked in a certain direction of the void, as if he hesitated.

"Is there anything else going on?" Chen Ying immediately asked.

Pei Shu was silent for a while, his expression was still a little undecided, and after a few breaths, he said uncertainly: "The homeless man named Erhammer also said before he died that the woman who ran away seemed to be holding a burden in her hand, and one of the two men said something about Northern Xinjiang vaguely. ”

"Northern Xinjiang?" Chen Ying stopped, and the expression in his eyes instantly turned cold: "Is it the spies from the northern Xinjiang who sneaked in?" ”

If spies are also involved, then the matter is too complicated.

"Not really." Pei Shu shook his head and said, with a deep groan: "Erhammer just heard that man say something to himself, because what that person said was official, and he barely understood it." ”

"Is that so......" Chen Ying put her mind at ease and muttered to herself, always feeling that the name of the place that Erhammer heard seemed to have great meaning.

Pei Shu also had the same expression as her at the moment, as if he wanted to think of something, but he couldn't figure it out.

"When I heard Erzhu say this, a thought crossed my mind, but it was too fast, and it was confusing for a while." Pei Shu's answer was indeed not what Chen Ying expected.

His eyebrows were still tightly locked, and he had a look of reminiscence on his face, and said: "Northern Xinjiang is now at peace with Great Chu, and the news from the border is also calm. His Majesty has never relaxed his vigilance against Northern Xinjiang, and if there is anything different over there, His Majesty will definitely know it as soon as possible, so the word Northern Xinjiang should not be a border war, but something else. ”

He frowned in annoyance, his face bewildered and confused.

Chen Ying said "hmm" softly and didn't make another sound.

For a moment, neither of them spoke, but the slight damp wind swept by, and a few sparrows fluttered their wings and jumped among the weeds, and soon flew away again.

"I've been thinking about this for a long time, and I can't figure it out." Pei Shu shook his sleeves and said.

In the past few days, he has been thinking about this every day, but the more he tries to think about it, the more blurry his mind becomes, and it makes people have a headache.

"How's the second hammer?" Chen Ying changed the subject.

Pei Shu leaned down his tall body, pulled up a piece of grass from the field, stared at the morning dew on the tip of the grass, and said lightly: "It's dead." ”

This is the expected answer.

Chen Ying was silent for a moment and sighed: "The events of that night should have left a deep impression on his heart, so he can still clearly recall the situation at that time after being in a coma for so long." ”

At this point, she turned her eyes to look at Pei Shu with a serious expression: "However, I also want to remind the little marquis that people's memory is sometimes wrong, and Erzhu's confession is likely to be mixed with his own imagination and cannot be trusted." ”

"I understand." Pei Shu quickly spoke, threw the weed on the ground, and raised his hands: "So I invited you to come over just to verify his confession." ”

He raised his chin and nodded at the scorched earth in front of him, his face was slightly cold: "Whether it is arson or accident, this matter must not be ambiguous, and it must be clearly decided." ”

After speaking, he looked sideways at Chen Ying, and his voice softened: "There is also the meaning of the word Northern Xinjiang, and I want to ask you for help." ”