Detective in the Red Chamber

Just after the game, Siqi came in from the outside yawning, seeing that Yingchun's clothes hadn't moved at all, he couldn't help scolding, "Xiuju, are you blind? It's such a time, why not?" Don't hurry up and serve your wife to rest."

Saying that, he said to Yingchun, "After all, the second master is also taking care of the family. No matter how much he loves his wife, he can't come to accompany you every day."

A little blush appeared on Yingchun's face, and he hurriedly argued, "I just want to tell the second master what my sister-in-law told me, and it's nothing... nothing else."

But Siqi said, "Ma'am, don't wait any longer. I'll find an excuse to find the second master in the morning, and just talk about it."

At this time, Xiuju came in with a copper basin for washing. Hearing what Siqi said, he became a little unhappy, and while putting the copper basin on the shelf, waiting for Yingchun to come to wash up, he said with a little hostility, " There's no need to bother Sister Siqi, I'll tell Second Master, it's the same..."

"You go?"

Siqi cast a sideways glance at her, snorted and said, "If you were to meet Second Master, it might not be that mouth that opened, but those two hooves, right?!"

"you you!"

Xiuju stomped her feet in embarrassment.

"What are you!"

Siqi sneered and said, "Don't think that if you climb up the second master's high branch, you can kick your ass in front of me—if you ruin the reputation of your wife and second master because of your reckless behavior, look at the master or the second master. Forgive you?!"

Ever since Xiuju gave up her body to Sun Shaozong, she really wanted to fight against Siqi in her heart.

But he was overwhelmed by this man with a gun and a stick, and seeing Siqi with his chest upright and his arms stretched out, with a domineering appearance of being ready to accompany him at any time, he immediately became timid.

"Okay, okay, let's not say a few words."

Jia Yingchun hurriedly acted as a peacemaker from the sidelines, "Siqi, you can also go back to the West Chamber to rest, as long as Xiuju is here to serve you."

Siqi didn't refuse, he twisted his buttocks and left the main room.

When she was far away, Xiuju stomped her feet angrily and said, "But relying on your strength, you can bully people like that!"

After the heart-to-heart talk last night, Yingchun became more cheerful than before. Hearing her complain, she couldn't help teasing and said, "Second Master also has two arms. When you are 'bullied' by him, why don't you complain?"

"Mrs!"

Xiu Ju was so ashamed that she stepped forward and laughed and quarreled with her.

Chapter 302

In the early morning of the second day, Sun Shaozong broke free from the entanglement of his limbs and got up from the bed, had a simple breakfast under the service of Shiliu and others, and then went to Xijian to kiss his son and cried loudly.

It's just that he had just arrived at the gate of the courtyard when he saw a tall and burly figure coming up to meet him, and bowed to give him a blessing, "I have seen the second master."

Sun Shaozong stood still not too far away, and asked casually, "Why, could it be that sister-in-law has some orders?"

"I dare not take the word 'command'."

Si Qi respectfully said, "Actually, it's the Second Mistress Lian of the Rongguo Mansion. Yesterday, Mrs. Tuo asked our wife to discuss a business with our mansion - I should have discussed this matter with the old man first, but the old man has been on duty recently, and the wife is afraid The business was delayed, so I had to let the slaves come and inform the second master first."

As he said that, he briefly recounted the timber business that Wang Xifeng said—it was basically Sun Shaozong's old wisdom, but some details were modified, which made the Sun family lose three points of profit out of thin air.

In fact, the reason why Wang Xifeng wanted to discuss this business through Jia Yingchun was not because he wanted to hide the truth from Sun Shaozong and reach a deal with the cheap brother in private - in the case of the Sun brothers, this kind of thinking is not realistic.

Her idea is that no matter what the elder brother and sister-in-law say, they are much closer relatives than the younger uncle. As long as the key point of Jia Yingchun is maintained, it is not difficult to exclude Sun Shaozong from the inner circle.

As for Sun Shaozong's help in the fight, Wang Xifeng couldn't wish for it.

However, how could she have imagined that Sun Shaozong became the closest person to Jia Yingchun after only a few days of marriage, not to mention elder brother and sister-in-law, even his own father, Jia She, was inferior to him There are many markets.

Sun Shaozong naturally knew of Wang Xifeng's plan long ago, but in order not to expose Ping'er as a traitor, he pretended to ponder for a while, and then sneered, "Second sister-in-law Lian is really tricky! You go back and tell sister-in-law, just say that this matter will wait for me After discussing with the eldest brother, we will make a conclusion."

After dismissing Siqi who was a little confused, Sun Shaozong temporarily put this matter behind him.

Originally, he was anxious about this because he was worried that Wang Xifeng would not be tempted. Now that Wang Xifeng has already taken the initiative to attack, he might as well let her dry first, so as not to make her think that there is a rare thing to live in, and make a big mouth.

Anyway, Yingchun, the most important joint, has long been 'opened up' by himself, no matter how Wang Xifeng calculates, it will be in vain after all.

Speechless all the way.

When Sun Shaozong's butt was still hot when he arrived at the Department of Criminal Justice, Zhao Wuwei rushed over and reported the latest progress of Chen Zhu's case yesterday - or the status quo that there was no progress.

After a blanket search, Sun Shaozong didn't even find a trace of what Sun Shaozong explained, but he managed to solve a few cases of petty theft.

In addition, after the mattress was sent to the pharmacy, except for some eyes of "caring for the mentally retarded", they also found nothing.

Seeing that there was no progress in these two directions, Sun Shaozong asked again, "Then Aunt Su has contacts with those monks and Taoists on weekdays, have you ever interrogated them?"

If it is as Sun Shaozong suspects, what is pressed under the mattress is actually some kind of hallucinogenic poison, and it may be difficult for a housewife like Aunt Su to touch it—so those monks who come and go frequently In the Tao, there is a high possibility of her accomplices.

"This one……"

Zhao Wuwei smiled wryly and said, "Master, the woman casually explained that there are seven or eight people with names and surnames, and they all have backing masters. If there is evidence, it's fine. If there is no real evidence, we may not be able to fool around."

It is common practice for monks to make friends with powerful people these days, almost like that wonderful jade, entrusted entirely to a certain powerful person; those with a little bit of skill, deal with several powerful people, not only borrowing their power, but also maintaining certain independence.

A monk like this is naturally not something that Shuntian Mansion can play with casually.

From this point of view, the only way to continue the investigation is to find out the similarities between the two from another case.

Sun Shaozong made up his mind, and was about to call Qiu Yunfei to go to the palace to find Jiang Yuhan and ask about the family's identity and background, but suddenly he heard a report from outside that it was the Second Master Bao from the Rongguo Mansion who was begging to see him outside the door.

This kid is really impatient, he clearly told him to come back in two days...

But since everyone is here, they can't be turned away, right?

Just after watching the love scene last night, Sun Shaozong was really too lazy to go out to meet him, so he ordered his disciples to let Baoyu in directly.

After the door seemed to fly away, Sun Shaozong called Cheng Rixing again, whispered a few words in his ear, and Cheng Rixing also hurried out of the hall.

About half an hour later, I saw Baoyu wrapped in a dark red cloak, striding into the criminal department.

The person was still outside the door, and his voice in the period of changing voice came to his ears first, "Second Brother Sun, I didn't fall asleep all night when I went back yesterday. Gomo will be offended."

Before the words were finished, Jia Baoyu had already entered the room, and bowed to Sun Shaozong, but his bright black eyes fumbled around, as if he was looking for something rare.

Sun Shaozong couldn't help wondering, "What are you looking for?"

"Naturally, she is as beautiful as a flower!"

Although there are two dark eyes, Baoyu's face is still full of brilliance when he talks about the "beautiful woman", and he said with a smile, "I just watched her carriage enter the side door, and the door said Well, she has to come to the criminal department every now and then."

woman?

Do you have to come to the criminal department every now and then?

Sun Shaozong was a little baffled at first, then suddenly thought of someone, and suddenly said, "You are talking about that nun Miaoyu from Changcui nunnery? She comes here often, but she is not looking for me, but someone else."

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the east courtyard.

"Brother Wei?!"

Guessing who Sun Shaozong was referring to, Baoyu was startled, frowned and muttered, "Brother Wei and Sister Miaoyu are involved in this joint, maybe something is wrong?"

Hearing what he said, Sun Shaozong's heart was moved, and he pretended to be nonchalant and said with a smile, "You two are in love with me, what can be wrong, and it even makes you worry."

"Even if you love me, I can't do it!"

Jia Baoyu immediately shook his head like a rattle drum, "The Wei family is currently making arrangements to hire sister Xiangyun as a wife for brother Wei, how can he come and go with sister Miaoyu so often at this time?"

Jia Baoyu might not have cared if she was looking for flowers and willows in general, but Miaoyu is also a serious official lady, and she must not be a concubine for others!

After hearing his words, Sun Shaozong suddenly realized that the Wei family planned to marry the Shi family!

At the beginning, the historian had revealed that he wanted to marry the Sun family. Although Sun Shaozong thought that Shi Xiangyun was too young and pretended to be deaf and dumb, he knew the benefits of marrying Shi Xiangyun. Ming.

No wonder Wei Ruolan suddenly asked to make peace last night - at this critical moment, stability naturally prevails!

After thinking about it, Sun Shaozong immediately put on a look of righteous indignation, and said angrily, "There is such a thing?! That Xiangyun girl's parents died since she was a child, and she is the most lonely. However, she didn't expect to talk about marriage right now. , to meet such a half-hearted playboy!"

As he spoke, he sighed again and said, "It's a pity that she doesn't have any serious parents and brothers, otherwise she wouldn't just sit idly by."

Xiangyun and Baoyu are also childhood sweethearts, so in terms of relationship, they may not be worse than real brothers and sisters.

Sun Shaozong knew this, so he deliberately teased Baoyu with words. Baoyu, who wanted to provoke him, went to Dongkuayuan to find Wei Ruolan to talk about it—as long as things were going to escalate, the marriage between Shi and Wei would naturally be complicated. .

Unexpectedly, Jia Baoyu's complexion changed a few times, and he suddenly bowed solemnly to Sun Shaozong, and said in a deep voice, "I will definitely ask Brother Wei to find out what happened in the future, and please ask Second Brother not to spread this matter, so as not to cause trouble."

Sun Shaozong "..."

This is really a disciple of the church who starved to death of his master. If Sun Shaozong hadn't woken him up several times, how could he have thought so thoroughly? !

Chapter 303 Every family has a hard-to-read scripture

Having been a life mentor for so long, Sun Shaozong has always looked down on Jia Baoyu, and now he was suddenly choked by his words, and he couldn't get over it for a long time.

And just as soon as it was lost, Baoyu saw that something was wrong!

Fortunately, at this moment, Cheng Rixing hurried back with a few files.

"Dong Weng, the student has already found what you want!"

As he spoke, he bowed to Jia Baoyu and said, "Second Master Bao, we haven't seen each other for a while, right?"

Cheng Rixing used to be a Qing guest by Jia Zheng's side, and now he is a master under Sun Shaozong's subordinates. Although his status has not been very high, he has a certain influence on his master's family.

Therefore, Jia Baoyu didn't dare to ask for it, and returned the gift in a hurry, and said with a casual smile, "Why is Mr. Cheng in such a hurry?"

"It's not all for you!"

At this time, Sun Shaozong finally regained his strength, took the files with a calm face, and said, "Come on, come in and talk with me."

With that said, he went into the room.

Seeing this, Baoyu immediately remembered his reason for coming, hurriedly gave Rixing an apologetic smile, and hurriedly followed in.

After entering the door, he saw Sun Shaozong took a volume, spread it out on the desk, and flipped it quickly. After a while, he pointed to the words on a certain page and said, "Here, come here and have a look."

Jia Baoyu had been very curious for a long time, so he hurriedly stepped forward to take a closer look.

But I saw that on the page it was written in small letters that in the spring of the eighth year of Guangde, Hong Guan'er, an actor from the palace, slipped and fell into a well and died. After investigation, it was purely an accident and there was no secret.

Just as Baoyu finished reading this paragraph, Sun Shaozong immediately turned to the next page, pointed to the top line, and said, "Look here again."

In the summer of the eighth year of Guangde, Xiguan'er, an actor in the royal family, died suddenly of an emergency. No clue was found.

"And here!"

In the autumn of the eighth year of Guangde, Mrs. Zhang, a musician in the palace, hanged himself, but found nothing hidden.

In half a year, three people in a row were killed, and three people in a row found nothing hidden!

Just looking at it, Jia Baoyu's hairs stood on end, he seemed to understand something vaguely, but he couldn't figure it out, so he asked in a shy voice, "What... does this have anything to do with Brother Jiang?"

He originally thought that Sun Shaozong would continue to analyze it like before, but Sun Shaozong shook his head and said three words calmly, "I don't know."

"do not know?"

Jia Baoyu's eyes widened in astonishment.

"That's all I know right now."

Sun Shaozong said sternly, "That official Hong was originally the most favored actor in the palace, and that official Xi was his most trusted deputy troupe master."

"In addition, including the dead musician Zhang, there were as many as five or six people who were injured or expelled from the opera troupe of the Wangfu at that time, and it was in that winter that Jiang Yuhan became the new favorite of the prince."

Jia Baoyu was stunned for a while when he heard the words, then looked down at the words on the booklet, and found it even more glaring.

But thinking of Jiang Yuhan's gentle and jade-like appearance, he still found it unbelievable, so he couldn't help questioning, "This doesn't seem to prove that Brother Jiang harmed them, right?"

Sun Shaozong spread his hands together' that's why I said 'I don't know'. "

Saying this, he turned the booklet a few pages back, pointed to another record and said, "Look at this one again."

Jia Baoyu followed his instructions, but saw that it said that in the summer of the ninth year of Guangde, Chunmei, a maidservant of the palace, had an affair with someone, and she was sentenced to death with a stick on the spot.

Sun Shaozong introduced, "This Chunmei is the most favored maidservant around the side concubine. She said that she was killed with a stick, but she didn't say a word about the adulterer."

"Could it be...Could it be Brother Jiang..."

"of course not!"

Sun Shaozong first denied it flatly, and then explained, "With the prince's love for Jiang Yuhan, what's the point of sleeping with a maid?"

"However, according to the rumors, the two side concubines of the original palace were quite jealous of your big brother Jiang, but soon after the maid died, rumors spread that a three-bed marriage was a joy."

"Since then, Jiang Yuhan's status in the palace can be said to be below one person and above ten thousand people."

To make an example to others? !

After all, Jia Baoyu was not a fool, and his expression changed again, he stared blankly at the records on the file, and didn't say a word for a long time.

Sun Shaozong also followed silently for a while, then patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "I don't know what role Jiang Yuhan played in it, but he can survive all the ups and downs, and he can maintain his glory for several years." The favor is not fading, the city mansion is absolutely comparable to others!"