Detective in the Red Chamber

"Looking at the teeth" refers to cattle, horses and livestock.

Although she knew in her heart that Sun Shaozong was deliberately making herself happy, Ruan Rong couldn't help but burst out laughing, covering her mouth and saying, "What a beauty, how can she be like an animal in the mouth of the master?"

Sun Shaozong said without hesitation, "Whether she is used as a human or as an animal, it's not all up to you."

Seeing Ruan Rong's more cheerful smile, the half-covered thin shirt loosened a little, revealing a dazzling whiteness.

Sun Shaozong couldn't help becoming interested, stretched out his hand to hold her two bright wrists, and said with a chuckle, "It may not be a good thing to take medicine all the time, why don't I use some other means to help the lady sweat?"

Ruan Rong looked at Sun Shaozong's face, why didn't she know that he had the idea of ​​"a little bird heals people".

Immediately, some blush appeared on his face, but he pushed Sun Shaozong's two paws away, and said coquettishly, "Master, don't be fooled, if you are caught by the cold because of my concubine, how can you go to welcome that beauty back home in two days? "

The two pushed and shoved for a while, but Sun Shaozong failed in the end. Ruan Rong ordered Shiliu to send the food to the inner study, so he also had to go with his tail between his legs.

But when Sun Shaozong arrived in the study, he ate his stomach by himself first. Seeing that it was getting late, he locked the courtyard and room doors behind his back, walked through the windows and walls, and walked into the main courtyard with ease.

He lay on the top of the wall and yelled 'cuckoo, cuckoo' twice, and Xiuju hurried out to greet him.

After confirming that there were no outsiders inside, Sun Shaozong climbed over the wall and entered the main room with a big swagger. He saw Jia Yingchun stepping forward to bless him with a lot of worries, and said timidly, "I heard that my brother committed a crime and offended the second master today? "

He had already guessed that she would feel uneasy after hearing the news, so Sun Shaozong came here at night to comfort her.

"He is him, and you are you. Even if he bumps into me, you don't have to be so worried."

As Sun Shaozong said, he took advantage of the situation and took a handful of her chest, and said with a smile, "Besides, you know my bones best, and he is the one who can 'crash' move?"

Although this 'collision' was not the other 'collision', Jia Yingchun secretly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing what Sun Shaozong said, and decided to separate the two families again, so that Sun Shaozong would not hold grudges against his brother.

It's just that when the words came to her lips, she was afraid that she would offend Sun Shaozong, so she just turned her thousand words into one sentence, "Second Lord, tonight, do you want...do you want to spend the night here?"

Sun Shaozong didn't answer, he just stretched his arms out.

Jia Yingchun hurriedly stepped forward happily, took off the coat for him, went into the room arm in arm, lit red candles, scattered the tents, and left the charming and han with him.

Chapter 381 I would rather eat no meat than hide no shells

The sky will be bright.

Wu Lu, the newly promoted chief steward of the Ningguo Mansion, hurried to Jia Rong's courtyard, and didn't care to find the woman and maid, so he shouted directly under the window sill

"My lord, it's amazing! The person we sent to buy Zhang Hua yesterday was tied to a stone lion outside the gate with his bare buttocks, and fed mosquitoes all night long!"

"what?!"

Before the words fell, there was a vicissitudes of life voice from inside, and then the door creaked and opened left and right, Jia Zhen came out in disheveled clothes, and said angrily while fastening her trouser belt, "How could this be? Could it be that Zhang Huagan?" ?!"

In his haste, he actually wore Hu's bloomers by mistake.

Wu Lu didn't dare to look too much, so he hurriedly bowed his head and reported back, "I heard that Sun Zhizhong had sent people to ambush Zhang Hua's house long ago. As soon as our people came to Daoming, they were taken seriously by the other party. I heard that they even recorded it." Confession..."

"waste!"

Jia Zhen roared angrily, turned her head and yelled into the room, "Didn't you say that this plan will definitely work? Why did that person surnamed Sun take advantage of it instead!"

Following his scolding, Jia Rong also walked out of the room in embarrassment, holding a pair of pants in his hand, and said awkwardly, "Father, look at this..."

"waste!"

Jia Zhen snatched the trousers away with her hands, and hurried into the inner room again. After a while, she heard him changing his trousers on the inner bed, panting, and asked angrily, "You came up with the idea. If he took a bite back, I might not be able to protect you!"

It really is my dear father!

Before the catastrophe was imminent, I first thought about getting rid of the relationship.

Fortunately, Jia Rong is already used to it, and said servilely outside the door, "Father, calm down, if the surnamed Sun really wants to bite back, wouldn't it be more appropriate to hand him over to Dali Temple? Since he sent him to After coming back, I don't think there is any intention of completely falling out."

It was quiet inside for a while, and Jia Zhen came out in a dignified manner again, and said with a sneer, "So, Sun Erlang is really afraid of the prestige of our Ningguo Mansion?"

If he was really afraid of the Ningguo Mansion, how dare he tie a naked person in front of the door?

But Jia Rong didn't dare to say these words, so she just followed Jia Zhen's tone and said, "Although that Sun Erlang is already timid, we have something in his hands after all, so it's not good to threaten him too much." In my son's opinion, it's better to let Brother Qiang go over and talk about it."

"Never mind."

Jia Zhen flicked her robe sleeves and reluctantly said, "Let's spare him this time!"

It was obvious that he was timid and wanted Jia Qiang to give up and admit defeat, but fortunately, the father and son were so eloquent that they could say that they wanted to let Sun Shaozong go.

Not to mention how the father and son called Jia Qiang to come and explain.

But he said that Sun Shaozong got up before dawn, let Xiuju wait for him to wash up briefly, and then returned to the study over the wall and window.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, he first went to Dongkua courtyard and mentioned to Yu Qian about taking Jia Lan as his disciple.

I heard that he wanted to accept the grandson of the Rongguo Mansion as his apprentice, and it belonged to Sun Shaozong. Naturally, it was not easy for Yu Qian to refuse - but he couldn't be sloppy about accepting an apprentice, especially since this was his first disciple.

So he answered ambiguously, and only said that he would wait for Shu Jishi to finish the exam and let him see the child before making a decision.

When he came out of Dongkua courtyard, Sun Shaozong went to the backyard to visit Ruan Rong, and seeing that she was fine, he agreed to take her and Xiangling to Wangjianglou to listen to an opera tomorrow.

The book does not go into details.

After breakfast, Sun Shaozong hurried all the way to the Criminal Division, called Wei Ruolan, Lin Delu and others to accompany him, and ordered all the officials and servants under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Division. There were two to three hundred people standing in the courtyard.

Sun Chengye moved a Taishi chair and placed it on the steps of the main entrance. Sun Shaozong sat upright on it, and then let Sun Chengye ask on his behalf, "My lord summoned you today to ask if anyone has heard of 'Tao Zhu Jin Bei' ?!"

All the officials below whispered to each other for a while, and someone among them responded that they knew about it.

Sun Chengye ordered again loudly, "Everyone, don't panic. Anyone who has heard of this thing, please stand in front and talk!"

The phalanx of more than 200 people squirmed in a mess, and finally squeezed out 40 people, including clerks and three classes of yamen servants.

In the government, there is actually a ratio of one-sixth? !

Sun Shaozong's heart sank, and he personally ordered, "Those who have bought and sold this thing, stand alone!"

This time, everyone stared wide-eyed for a long time before four people timidly stood at the front of the line, namely a clerk and three yamen servants.

Fortunately, the conversion rate is not very high.

If most of the people who have heard of 'Taozhu Jinbei' bought this thing, then things will really get serious.

Sun Shaozong relaxed a little now, and asked the four people, "Why do you buy and sell this thing?"

"Go back to the words of the adults."

The scribe first cupped his hands and said, "This object means auspiciousness, and it is said that it has the benefits of prospering the family, so I bought twelve pieces and kept them at home."

"But I don't know how much it costs?"

"The villain bought it earlier and shared 32 taels of silver."

When the scribe said this, he was rather complacent, Gein, these twelve medium-grade golden shells had already risen to nearly 50 taels of silver in the market.

"My mother, it turns out that this thing is really valuable!"

Hearing this, a yamen servant next to him couldn't help but say, "No wonder people like to use this thing as a bargaining chip when they go to the casino to play money!"

"As a bargaining chip?"

Sun Shaozong frowned, and quickly asked, "Is this really used as a bargaining chip in casinos nowadays?!"

Those yamen servants exchanged glances, and it was still the dumbfounded person who cupped his hands and said, "Returning to the master, it seems that not every family is like this, but the gambling shop that the little people often go to recently replaced some of the bamboo with this thing." Chips, it is said that one coin can be worth five silver coins!"

Another person added, "Master, the little ones actually only used it in the casino, and didn't bring that thing home - in fact, there are quite a few people like us."

As soon as he finished speaking, two clerks and four yamen servants flashed up behind him, all of them said in awe and fear, "Your Excellency, it's not that I deliberately concealed it, but I really don't know how to use it as a bargaining chip, and it can be regarded as buying and selling this thing. "

tsk~

It is not worth mentioning to use it as a bargaining chip in a gambling shop. After all, in the past, many gambling houses used bamboo chips as chips to avoid the trouble of weighing money.

But if this matter is taken seriously, it will endow Jinbei with the function of being exchanged into equivalent silver at any time!

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, then asked again, "If you bring similar golden shells there by yourself, can they be used as bargaining chips?"

"This one……"

Several gamblers exchanged glances with each other, Qi Qi shook their heads and said, "Jin Bei in the gambling shop has stamped a red seal on the inside—they probably won't recognize Jin Bei from outside."

One of them said, "It's not that I don't deny it. I heard that two gold shells from outside can be exchanged for one stamped gold shell, but this thing can be sold for more than four yuan directly outside, and only fools are willing to take it." Go change it with them!"

In this way, although it is not as good as the legendary market price, it can indeed be exchanged for silver envoys in the casino!

"Humph~"

At this time, the clerk who collected the gold shells suddenly snorted disdainfully, "My lord, the gold shells they call are just low-level defective products. Compared with the real gold shells, their value and appearance are inferior." It is far inferior, let alone the top-quality 'Taozhu Jinbei'!"

Judging from this, he should be the one who is most familiar with this thing among the hundreds of people present.

Sun Shaozong pretended to be very interested and asked, "But I don't know what is the difference between the two?"

"Return to your lord."

Just listen to the scribe eloquently saying, "The real gold shells are pure white, and the gold thread that forms the pattern of the coin is bright golden; while the color of inferior gold shells is more mixed, and the gold thread that forms the pattern of the coin is even brighter." It's dull, and even the pattern is very blurred!"

"As for the top-quality 'Taozhu Jinbei', not only is the color more transparent, but even some characters can be faintly revealed in the coin pattern!"

As he spoke, he spread his hands and said, "It's a pity that I didn't bring Jin Bei here, otherwise I can distinguish it carefully for my lord."

Unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking, someone behind him suddenly shouted, "You didn't bring it, but I did!"

There was only a part of the crowd, Qiu Yunfei was late carrying a cloth bag, and when he got close, he shook the cloth bag away, but saw that there was nothing inside, only three shells.

"After my lord gave the order yesterday, I asked someone to find three of them, which are 'Taozhu Jinbei' worth four taels, four taels, and thirty taels of silver!"

Although the people this kid associates with are not good enough, his work efficiency is not bad.

Sun Shaozong raised his chin to the scribe and said, "Since the things are already there, I'll trouble you to distinguish them for me."

The clerk did not refuse, and approached with bright eyes, carefully took the three gold shells, and quickly discarded one of the impure color into the shoe.

As for the other two, he held them in his hand for a long while to carefully distinguish them, and then he took one in one hand, held the one in his right hand to Sun Shaozong's eyes first, and said, "Please look, my lord, this golden shell is white all over, with clear and translucent gold lines. It is very different from the gray one, and it is undoubtedly genuine at a glance!"

Immediately, he showed another one to Sun Shaozong, and said excitedly, "As for this one, the color is fine and transparent, just like ivory, and there is a faint word'treasure' on the left side of the money pattern, which is really rare in the world. Zhu Jinbei'ah!"

When he was introducing, Sun Shaozong also took a closer look at the two shells. To be honest, they looked really good. They should belong to seashells, and the gold thread did faintly form a pattern of copper coins.

but……

The so-called "treasure" character, if it wasn't for the scribe's swearing, Sun Shaozong really didn't realize that it was a character.

Seeing the excitement on the scribe's face, Sun Shaozong asked curiously again, "But I don't know how much taels of silver do you think this 'Taozhu Jinbei' is worth?"

"Fifty...no, 60 taels!"

The scribe said convincingly, "If it's the next one, as long as it's not higher than 60 taels, even if it's a pot of iron, it must be included in the bag!"

"Ten taels?"

Sun Shaozong frowned and said, "Didn't you say that the market price of this thing is about 28 taels?"

"That's the price that will only be given when there is only one vague word." The scribe said, "But the word 'treasure' on this piece can already be vaguely distinguished, and its worth is naturally far higher than that of ordinary 'Taozhu Jinbei' !"

"If the word 'treasure' could be made clearer, it wouldn't be a problem for the price to exceed one hundred taels!"

The price is more than one hundred taels?

Lin Delu's eyes widened unknowingly, and he lost his voice and said, "This shell with weird patterns needs to be exchanged for a hundred taels of silver? Are you crazy?!"

"My lord's words are wrong!"

When the scribe heard that someone belittled the value of 'Tao Zhu Jinbei', he couldn't care less about the value of 'Tao Zhu Jinbei'. He raised his head and said incessantly, "The rule of taking shellfish as treasure has existed since ancient times, so there is ' Baby' talk!"

"What's more, such gold shells are only found by the Mandala Lake in the Western Regions. How difficult is it to transport them to the capital?"

"That's why it's not just a villain. There are many high-ranking people in the city now, and they all respect them!"

"For example, in the home of a member named Li in Dongcheng, there is a top-quality 'Taozhu Jinbei' with a clear word 'Zhou' on it. Willing to give up love!"

"A certain old Hanlin in the Hanlin Academy even expressed the emotion of 'I would rather eat no meat than hide no shells'!"

"It can be exchanged for such a 'treasure', what's the point of a mere hundred taels of silver?!"

Hearing him say so much, including Lin Delu, when many people looked at the golden shell again, they really felt more golden.

Chapter 382 The Second Standing Committee Enlarged Meeting

Letting all the scribes and yamen servants disperse, Sun Shaozong led Wei Ruolan, Lin Delu, and Qiu Yunfei into the main room, and sat down behind the public case with a heavy face, without saying a word for a long time.

The others were okay, but Qiu Yunfei couldn't stay idle, he grinned at Wei Ruolan a few times, and when he saw that the latter ignored him, he became more and more bored.

So he simply broke the silence in the hall, and said carelessly, "My lord, aren't you a bit of a ghost? The 'Shen Xian San' last time was fine. After all, it is something that can kill people, but this time it is just a mere plaything." , is it worth mobilizing so many teachers?"