The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 508 Double Ninth Day [Seven]

Grand View Garden.

As usual, there was another lively show on the stage that the old ladies liked. The female family members talked and laughed at the dinner table and remembered to pay attention to their manners, but Jia Zhen, Jia Lian, Jia Rong, and Xue Pan at the male guests' table had already let loose.

When Jiao Shun came to find him, Xue Pan was already half-drunk, with a cosmos planted on his head, and was pestering Jia Qiang to make a pose, without any embarrassment of being involved in a lawsuit.

A kind-hearted person like Aunt Xue, and a slick face like Baochai, why did she put up such a careless thing?

Because Jia Qiang has found true love, she has changed a lot recently, she is not willing to cater to Xue Pan Longyang's favor, but it is also not good to have a falling out with him in public, seeing Jiao Shun approaching with a sullen face, she hurriedly took the opportunity to stand up and respectfully call her uncle.

Only then did Xue Pan see Jiao Shun, and hurriedly got up to greet him with a smile: "Brother Jiao, aren't you going to celebrate the festival at home? Why..."

Jiao Shun nodded slightly at Jia Qiang, but ignored Xue Pan, walked up to Jia Zheng and said, "Uncle Shi, let my nephew borrow the Xue family's brother for a while."

Before the words finished, Xue Biao suddenly got up not far away.

He hadn't planned to come to the Grand View Garden for the banquet, but because of his mother's entrustment, he made a special trip to represent the mother to plead guilty to the elders of the Rongguo Mansion. Therefore, even though he was at the banquet, he was thinking about his mother all over his head, and he didn't even Inadvertent drinking.

Xue Pan was taken aback for a moment, then scratched his head in trouble and said, "What's wrong? Isn't that thing over?"

"Who told you it was over?"

Jiao Shun turned his head and gave him a gouged look, then cupped his hands at Jia Zhengtan, and motioned for the two to leave with him.

At this time, Jia Zheng also vaguely saw something, but he didn't want to pay attention to the Xue family's private affairs, let alone Jiao Shun, who was in the limelight, came forward, what's wrong with it?
Therefore, I pretended to be confused with understanding.

But after walking out of the main hall, Jiao Shun saw Xue Pan with one foot high and one foot low, and was blown by the wind and became more drunk, so he told Xue Bian again: "I'm afraid he can't make up his mind like this, so go and invite your cousin Come, let me tell you that things have changed in the Mei family."

Xue Biao had already guessed that it was because of this. Hearing this, he looked helplessly at Xue Pan, and went back inside to try to contact Xue Baochai.

About half an hour later, Baochai came out hurriedly with Xue Biao, followed by Aunt Xue and Mrs. Wang.

"Brother Shun!"

As soon as she met Aunt Xue, she asked impatiently, "What happened to the Mei family?"

"The old lady of the Mei family died suddenly in the evening."

"what?!"

Everyone exclaimed in unison, even Xue Pan was a little more awake, and quickly asked: "Brother Jiao, didn't you say that she was in good shape, why did she suddenly die again?"

Everyone also stared at Jiao Shun eagerly, trying to figure out what was going on.

But Jiao Shun said: "This is not a place to talk, if it is convenient, why not go to my house, and listen to the reports of the people below."

Mrs. Wang was the first to respond, and the rest are naturally fine.

So with only a few personal servant girls with names and surnames, they went directly to Jiao's house through the side door.

After sitting down in the main hall of Jiao's house, Laiwang and his wife came out to say hello, and then hid in the bedroom again to avoid suspicion.

Then Jiao called Ni Er in by the way, and asked him to explain the ins and outs of the matter in detail.

After Ni Er had finished speaking, and before everyone could express their opinions, Xue Pan jumped up and said happily, "Isn't this a coincidence?! Since no one saw that little bastard when he was arrested, let's just talk about it." Find a place to bury him alive, wouldn't it be..."

"elder brother!"

Xue Baochai interrupted him sharply, and Aunt Xue became even more furious, pointing at her son and scolding: "You, you bastard, what nonsense are you talking about, then you are a son of an official family after all, how can you kill him if you say you can kill him? If people know about it, isn’t it the crime of beheading?!”

Mrs. Wang also couldn't help scolding: "He is not an orphan without father and mother. If he is gone forever, wouldn't the Mei family not report to the government? I'm afraid the report will be more urgent and the investigation will be more ruthless!"

Seeing that his well-established good idea was completely disliked by everyone, Xue Pan could only sit back resentfully.

Xue Baochai took advantage of the situation and asked a few more details, pondering: "There is something strange about it - given the current situation of the Mei family, taking advantage of the death of the old lady is a way out, but Mrs. Mei strictly forbids her son to report to the government. , and even forced him to climb over the wall..."

After a pause, he continued: "Furthermore, according to the doctor who consulted, the old lady of the Mei family was fine in the morning and showed no signs of being frightened. Why did she suddenly..."

Everyone looked at each other, thinking that her analysis was reasonable, but they couldn't figure out why.

Everyone subconsciously looked at Jiao Shun, hoping that he could say something, but Jiao Shun still bowed his head in deep thought, and he didn't know if he was stumped by these two questions, or he was thinking about other things.

At this moment, Xue Pan suddenly jumped up again, staring and uttering nonsense: "I know, this old lady must have been killed by that Mei family boy, his mother was afraid of being found out, so she didn't let her go. Report to the officer!"

have to say……

Xue Pan's brain circuit is quite similar to that of Mei Baosen, so he guessed it right away.

However, it was rare for him to be correct once, but everyone thought it was outrageous and absurd.

Xue Biao shook his head even more: "If you can really do this murderous thing, why don't you dare to report to the police? There are many ways to kill people without leaving traces in this world, such as carrying sacks commonly used in prisons-it can't be Then Meibaosen didn't care about it, and strangled his grandmother to death, right?"

Xue Baochai also had a look of disapproval.

Seeing that the two smartest people in the family disagreed with his opinion, Xue Pan had no choice but to sit back resentfully.

"Then why do their mother and son disagree?"

Mrs. Wang raised a question again. Seeing that everyone was still frowning, she turned around and scolded Xue Pan again: "Wenlong, what can I tell you about you? How much effort did Changqing and your sister put in to repay you?" The Mei family’s resignation—it’s better for you, if you insist on playing tricks, the tired family will not be able to survive now!”

Aunt Xue also complained: "Sinister! You got into a life lawsuit in Jinling, and now you are in the capital, but you still don't know how to repent!"

Seeing that the two elders began to blame his elder brother, Xue Baochai hurriedly signaled Xue Biao to invite Ni Er out.

Without 'outsiders', Mrs. Wang and sisters became less and less scruples, and Xue Pan scolded Xue Pan bloody.

"No matter how much you blame brother at this time, it won't help."

Seeing that the scolding was almost done, Xue Baochai came out to smooth things over, and returned to the topic: "The most important thing right now is to make sure that the doctor is willing to testify that the death of the old lady of the Mei family has nothing to do with what happened in the morning - so that , even if it is found on the head of the elder brother, it will be difficult to convict him."

After hearing this, everyone turned their eyes to Jiao Shun.

Apart from the fact that Jiao Shun had the doctor's information, his long silence just now made everyone quite concerned.

Sensing everyone's gaze, Jiao Shuncai finally shook his head slowly and said: "If you stick to me, it's best to remove Wenlong from this case completely. If you really can't escape, I'd rather let Brother Xue take the blame than never implicate him."

"Why is this?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and soon Xue Pan became anxious, jumped up and patted his chest and said, "A good man should be a good man when he does things. Since I scare people to death, I should go..."

"You didn't scare people to death!"

Xue Baochai hurriedly corrected: "No matter what time it is, brother can't misidentify!"

Xue Pan's momentum stagnated, and he sat back resentfully again and said, "Anyway, I did it, and I admit it myself, so there is no need for Xue Biao to take the blame!"

Aunt Xue also disagreed: "It was Wenlong who caused the trouble, but why did he still push it to brother tadpole?"

After a pause, she seemed to remember something, so she resolutely said: "Even if the marriage with the Xia family is missed because of this, there is absolutely no reason to push the brother into the fire pit!"

"My wife misunderstood."

Jiao Shun sighed, and said helplessly, "I said that we must resolutely remove Wenlong from this case because he has a reason that he must never be involved in the case."

As he spoke, he asked again: "Madam also said just now that she was involved in a death lawsuit when she was in Jinling, but I don't know how that case was settled in the end?"

"The case?"

Aunt Xue hesitated and said: "It's okay, it was procrastinated at first, and then changed the magistrate - even the current Yinjiayu Village of Shuntian Prefecture, somehow closed the case."

Mrs. Wang vaguely sensed something at the side, she couldn't help leaning forward slightly, and asked, "Changqing, is there something wrong with the case at that time?"

"I can't tell right now..."

Jiao Shun actually had nothing to do in the afternoon, recalling the plots in the books and TV dramas, and only vaguely remembered the life lawsuit back then. Jia Yucun seemed to declare that Xue Pan was dead, and thus closed the case.

I didn't notice anything wrong when I read the book back then, but now that I put myself in the situation and think about it, there's something tricky about it.

But he certainly couldn't tell the truth, so he said vaguely: "Because I have some friendship with Jia Yucun, after drinking once, I also forgot whether it was he who said it or his master. The brother reported a sudden death due to illness—since the suspect is dead, the case will naturally be closed."

Mrs. Wang and Aunt Xue hadn't heard the seriousness of the problem yet, but Xue Baochai and Xue Biao got up together and said in shock: "There is such a thing?!"

Immediately, Xue Biao said seriously: "If that's the case, then I'll take the lawsuit!"

"How did this happen?!"

Xue Pan became anxious again, and was about to argue when he got up, but his sister said: "I can only wrong you."

"This this……"

Xue Pan stomped his feet anxiously, nothing else was up to him, he always wanted to be a hero, so how could he let his cousin take the blame for him?

At this moment, Aunt Xue quickly asked: "What's the matter? What's wrong with this case?"

"It's simply inappropriate!"

Xue Baochai gritted her silver teeth and said bitterly: "According to Jia Yucun's practice, my brother is cheating death to get off the crime. According to the law, the crime should be increased!"

"This……"

Aunt Xue also panicked, got up and took her daughter's hand and asked: "But your brother has been doing well all these years, and no one has asked him to blame..."

"It's okay if no one is looking for it, but what if this matter is found out?"

"Yes."

Jiao Shun interjected: "Some things are so insignificant that they can't be weighed even if they weigh a thousand catties——Jinling's case may not have a deposit elsewhere, but the Ministry of Punishment must have a deposit! Long's name appeared in the case file again, and it was found out by the Ministry of Criminal Justice, so I'm afraid it will be punished for both crimes!"

"That, that..."

Aunt Xue turned pale with fright, and asked in a trembling voice, "What crime should that be?"

Jiao Shun hesitated for a moment, but chose to say in a more serious way: "I'm afraid the death penalty is inevitable."

Aunt Xue's eyes darkened and she fell back. Fortunately, Baochai and Mrs. Wang were beside her, who supported her in time, pinched someone and poured tea, and soon she regained her composure.

Jiao Shun originally wanted to frighten her, so that he could get a bigger return when he showed favor later, but he didn't expect her to faint.

At this time, he took the initiative to comfort: "Madam, don't worry, no matter how bad this time is, Brother Xue Biao will act as a shield, and Wen Long will not be implicated."

After Aunt Xue breathed a sigh of relief, he said again: "But it's always troublesome if things drag on for a long time. It's best to find a way to get rid of the case."

"How to do?!"

Xue Baochai hurriedly stated: "If there is something that needs to be taken care of, Brother Jiao just ask, even if our family goes bankrupt, we will get rid of the trouble forever!"

"I don't have a clue right now."

Jiao Shun shook his head slightly: "However, the person who needs to tie the bell to untie the bell, this matter must be found on Jia Yucun's head!"

After a pause, he continued: "I have already sent someone to invite Jia Yucun just now, and there is no rush to close the case. I am afraid that it is appropriate to deal with Meibaosen right now."

Before the words finished, Aunt Xue stepped forward and grabbed his hand, excitedly said: "After all, Baochai and I are women's generation, and Wenlong is a worthless person, we can rely on you for this matter!"

"mom!"

Xue Baochai hurriedly said, "You can't force Brother Jiao..."

"Ma'am, don't worry!"

Before she could finish her sentence, Jiao Shun said firmly: "My nephew will definitely do his best to save Wenlong's life!"

As he said that, he pinched the weak and boneless little hand back with all his strength.

Aunt Xue just lost her composure under the impulsiveness of her emotions, but now she was pinched by Jiao Shun, and suddenly she had some other meanings. She knew that it was because of herself that Jiao Shun worked so hard. Letting go, instead, he clenched Jiao Shun's hand tightly, and raised his head to meet his eyes.

"All right."

Others hadn't noticed anything yet, but Mrs. Wang had already known that the two were tricky in private. She was afraid that her younger sister would continue to lose her composure and show her feet in front of her children, so she hurriedly stepped forward to separate the two and said, "Who is Brother Shun? Can you not know? If you don’t say this, he will definitely not watch Wenlong suffer.”

As she spoke, she covered herself with her skirt, and stomped on Jiao Shun's shoe twice.

Jiao Shun shuddered unconsciously, thinking to himself what does this mean?
Could it be that it is impossible to ask yourself to meet at the second watch?
But you didn't say where you met?
Just thinking about Bi Mawen's heart, Xue Pan scolded from the side: "I still think that Jia Yucun is a good person. I didn't expect him to play such a trick on me. When I see him, I will definitely... ..."

Before the words fell, he heard Yu Chuan's voice outside reporting: "My lord, Mr. Fu Yin has arrived!"

(End of this chapter)