Detective in the Red Chamber

Chapter 462

After listening to Sun Shaozong's seemingly simple but miraculous deduction, everyone's eyes fell on the feet of Jie Chen and Jie Xiu.

Jiechen was refreshing and tight, he helped the apprentice at the side, he cleaned the shoes and socks in three or two strokes, and lifted a pig's trotter with a sour smell.

"Look, look carefully! See if there are strangle marks on the poor monk's feet!"

Everyone was stunned by the smell, and even Sun Shaozong couldn't resist it. He covered his nose and took a few simple glances, then hurriedly asked him to withdraw his magical powers.

Then, all eyes were on Jie Xiu, but his face was ashen, and he didn't move for a long time.

Now everyone naturally became suspicious, Liao Chi even sternly reprimanded, "Stop quitting, hurry up and take off your shoes and socks!"

Jie Xiu gritted his teeth, bent down and took off the shoes and socks on his feet, revealing two feet with several red and swollen marks, but in the amazement of everyone, he protested loudly, "Even if there are strangle marks on my feet What can I do?! Don't forget, the night Jiji was killed, I was punished to kneel in the hall until dawn, how could it be..."

"Your trick has been seen through by our adults!"

Qiu Yunfei interrupted him disdainfully, and said with a sneer, "The monk Jie Nian is actually your accomplice, he was the one who killed Jie Chi that day, but afterwards you two had a quarrel, so you nailed Jie Nian to death at the mountain gate again. outside!"

People in Shuntian Mansion basically knew about this deduction, but it was the first time for all the monks in the hall to hear it, and immediately they discussed it in an uproar.

"That's right, that's right, Jie Nian has always obeyed Jie Xiu!"

"But this is murder after all..."

"So what? When Jie Nian's temper comes up, let alone killing people at night, he dares to kill people during the day for you to see!"

"Amitabha!"

Seeing the chaos in the main hall, Monk Liao Chi chanted the Buddha's name, suppressed the discussion of the crowd first, then squinted his eyes and asked Jie Xiu, "Jie Xiu, what Master Qiu just said is the truth?!"

Jie Xiu opened his mouth, intending to continue his defense, but seeing Sun Shaozong's confident appearance opposite him, he felt that no matter how much he tried to argue, it would be useless.

So he simply smashed the pot and roared angrily, "Yes, I killed them all! But so what?! I am doing justice for the heavens, and I am cleaning up the shameless scum who blasphemed Buddha for the Buddha. !"

Speaking of this, he didn't care about the dignity any more, he gritted his teeth and pointed at the idiot, "I didn't want to kill like this. It's you, it's you who are indiscriminately partial to that ring in private, that's why I was forced to make this move!"

"shut up!"

"Bold!"

"rude!"

"how dare you……"

Before he finished speaking, a few loyal monks who were protecting the Lord jumped out one after another, and shouted loudly at Jie Xiu.

After hearing this, Liao's face was naturally a little gloomy, but he managed to maintain the demeanor of an eminent monk, and asked calmly with his hands clasped together, "Jiexiu, you keep saying that you are doing justice for the heavens and punishing the scum of Buddhism, but you don't know what to do?" I don't know if there is evidence?"

"evidence?"

Jie Xiu sneered and said, "I've heard it with my own ears, can there be fakes?! More than a month ago, when Jie Nian and I were doing business in the city, we encountered..."

But it turned out that more than a month ago, when the two of them were going out, they ran into a woman who was their childhood sweetheart when they were teenagers. The two were about to go up to have a chat, but the woman turned her head and ran away in a panic.

If the woman really ran away, there would be nothing left to do.

But it was such a coincidence that after she turned around and ran a few steps, she tripped over the hitching post and lay down on the ground covering her face and sobbing.

So Jie Xiu and Jie Nian rushed forward to help her, and asked her again and again what happened.

After listening to the woman crying, I realized that when she was offering incense last winter, she was unfortunately drugged and abused by the virtuous monk, and later she was "recommended" to become the exclusive Buddhist wife for precepts.

In fact, the reason why this woman became a pilgrim of Fayuan Temple was precisely because two playmates of the same age became monks in Fayuan Temple.

So the two were angry and ashamed, and when they returned, they quietly spread the news, intending to let the Discipline Academy thoroughly investigate the matter - who knew that Jie Chen had just started to investigate, but they were stopped by Jie Nian.

All the monks were silent when they heard this, only Jie Chen stamped anxiously and said, "Since you have witnesses, you can call that girl to the Discipline Academy, but why do you have to..."

"Call the witness to the precepts?"

Jie Xiu sneered disdainfully and said, "Let's not talk about it, is she willing to stand up and testify, just say that there are hundreds of pairs of eyes in this temple, how can you ensure that her affair with a thief will not be known to everyone? ! "

"She also has a husband's family and children now. Once this matter is leaked, how do you let her and her family deal with each other?"

"At that time, although the world is big, I'm afraid there won't be a place for her anymore!"

"Instead of this, it's better to let the poor monk remove these evil obstacles with his own hands. First, let them atone for their sins with death, and second, they can protect her well!"

"Amitabha!"

Speaking of this, he clasped his palms together and recited the Buddha's name, revealing some majestic taste, and said majesticly, "The Buddha said that if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell--I just became a Dharma protector monk, I should do That's all."

Frightened by the piety on his face, all the monks were a little dumbfounded and speechless.

At this time, Sun Shaozong sneered and said, "So, if you get rid of your closest friends, you are also following the meaning of the Buddha?"

Hearing him talk about this, the solemn treasure on Jie Xiu's face suddenly turned into a ferocious look, and he raised his neck and hissed, "I don't want to, and I don't want to kill him! But he...but he But he doesn’t understand the principle of eradicating evil and doing everything! He even wanted to let Jie Nian, the culprit behind the scenes, drag me out of the capital together!”

"Seeing that I refused to agree, he even threatened me with surrendering to the government!"

"I was also forced to do nothing, only, only..."

"So you killed him?"

Sun Shaozong said curiously, "But even if you want to kill him, you don't need to go to such lengths to pierce his heart with an iron nail? Is there any special significance in doing this?"

Seeing that Sun Shaozong didn't care how he defended himself, he was only curious about his method of killing people and what kind of mystery he was hiding.

Jie Xiu's momentum couldn't help but weaken a bit, he gritted his teeth and said, "I originally made up my mind to write blood next to his body, and took this opportunity to draw suspicion on Senior Brother Jie Chen."

"But I didn't expect... I didn't expect that when Jie Nian found out that I was going to kill him, he didn't have the slightest intention of resisting, but instead looked relaxed and about to be relieved!"

"So after I killed him, I panicked inexplicably, and forgot to write that bloody word."

rely on ~

No wonder Sun Shaozong thought hard and couldn't figure out the intention of quitting to do this. The plan of love was only halfway through and then aborted!

Chapter 463

The next morning.

After Sun Shaozong finished disposing of the last official document, he first rubbed his red eyes, and then couldn't help but yawned greatly.

After the trial of the case was completed overnight yesterday, it was already past the fourth watch. Seeing that it was not far from dawn, Sun Shaozong also gave up the idea of ​​going home to rest, and simply stayed in the Criminal Department to do his best to save the money he had accumulated during the past few days. The official business has been dealt with in sevens and eights.

Now that he was finally done, he couldn't help feeling tired, he was thinking whether to go home directly, or take a nap in the yamen first, and then talk about it when the yamen was scattered, when the curtain was raised, Sun Chengye came in from the outside, respectfully He said, "Uncle Thirteen, I have already drawn up the notice, see if there is any room for improvement."

When Sun Shaozong heard this, he cheered up quickly, took the notice and scanned it carefully.

The content of this announcement is still related to the Fayuan Temple case.

Although the truth about the serial murder case has been revealed, the matter of "Sister-in-law Fan" has not yet ended. In addition to Jie Nian, Jie Xian, and Jie Chi, several other monks are also suspected to be involved.

But "suspected" is "suspected" after all, if you want to punish them, you still have to find the sufferer to testify.

But even if this kind of thing is left in later generations, a large number of people choose to endure it silently, unwilling to stand up and fight back with the weapon of law. Naturally, women in ancient times were even more worried.

In order to dispel the concerns of the humiliated women, Sun Shaozong decided to do something special, allowing those women to cover their faces to sue, and only need to explain what happened, without revealing their identities.

Although in this way, there may be false accusations - but with Sun Shaozong's vision, there should not be many who can succeed in front of him.

In fact, at the beginning, Sun Shaozong thought about setting up an anonymous report box in front of the Shuntian Mansion, following the example of later generations, so that those women would not even have to go through the court masked, so naturally they would be less worried.

But after thinking about it carefully, even men's literacy rate is not high these days, let alone women who are discriminated against in education, so reporting boxes and so on are really useless for heroes right now.

But Sun Shaozong checked the notice carefully, and saw that the words and sentences were much simpler, enough to be passed on by word of mouth, so he couldn't help nodding in satisfaction, "You have become more and more experienced in your recent errands—that's it, you Let someone transcribe a few more copies and post them on the bulletin board near Fayuan Temple."

Sun Chengye nodded in agreement, but he was not in a hurry to leave, but seemed hesitant to speak.

"how?"

Sun Shaozong wondered, "You look like this, could it be that you have encountered something embarrassing?"

"This is not."

Sun Chengye shook his head hastily, "With two uncles taking care of me, what difficulties can my nephew have? It's..."

After a little hesitation, he still lowered his voice and said, "When chatting with Ting Yi last night, he once said that Uncle Thirteen really shouldn't be involved too deeply in the case of the prince. The reason to retire after success."

Stop when you click, and retire after success?

Sun Shaozong pondered silently for a while, then Fang nodded and said, "I see, you should go do some serious business first."

When Sun Chengye said this, he got rid of a piece of his heart, so he bowed slightly and went to Dongkua courtyard to find someone to transcribe the notice.

However, after watching him leave, Sun Shaozong couldn't calm down.

In fact, recently he is also thinking about how to get out of the prince's mansion - he doesn't want to 'retire after success', but because he accidentally kissed the right ass and got too close to the prince.

If this goes on like this, I'm afraid that the life of the Sun family will be tied to death on the Prince's chariot that lacks a barrel.

It would be fine if the crown prince can successfully succeed to the throne, but what if there is another disturbance...

Thinking of these troublesome things, Sun Shaozong really couldn't sleep well in the Yamen, so he simply decided to go home early, and after eating and drinking, he would sleep soundly with his wife and children in his arms.

Thinking in this way, Sun Shaozong walked out of the criminal department and walked towards the gate of the government office.

Unexpectedly, on the way, he ran into Lin Delu who was in a hurry.

He had originally followed Sun Shaozong's instructions to submit the final report of the Fayuan Temple case to Jia Yucun, but seeing the haste of the trip, could it be that something happened again?

"grown ups."

Lin Delu hurried a few steps forward, bowed and said, "The humble official has just obtained the imperial court's decree from the Fu Cheng, and the review of the autumn decision this year will still be carried out in accordance with the rules and regulations, and there is no need to re-sentence."

This is really good news.

And in this way, he also has a reason to get out temporarily.

Sun Shaozong took advantage of the situation and confessed to him that he sorted out the case of judging the prisoner in July and filled it in the original list of autumn judgments, so that he could submit it to the Zhili procuratorate at any time.

Speechless all the way.

But after returning to the Sun Mansion, he first got a report from Zhao Zhongji, saying that after Jia Baoyu brought his nephew to hire Yu Qian as his teacher, he was not in a hurry to leave, and now he was gossiping about his parents in Jia Yingchun's house.

Sun Shaozong took out his pocket watch and took a look. Seeing that it was almost time for dinner, he ordered Zhao Zhongji to set up a table of food and wine, and when he returned to the room to say hello to Ruan Rong, he came over to have a few drinks with Baoyu. Do the best of the landlord's friendship.

Not to mention how Zhao Zhongji arranges food and wine.

But when Sun Shaozong returned to his small courtyard, he saw Qingwen sitting alone on the porch, holding a sewing dustpan in her hand, but she forgot to do any work that was out of her mind.

Is this trying to pretend to be Wangfushi?

Sun Shaozong's footsteps paused for a while, and he entered the main room as if he hadn't seen it.

When he got to the inner room, seeing Ruan Rong teasing his son with a rattle, Sun Shaozong laughed and stepped forward, took both mothers into his arms, and rubbed his son's face with stubble a few times. Scratching Bai Shengsheng's little hands, he couldn't help laughing, forgetting all the troublesome things.

Ruan Rong turned her mouth away, and said, "The master who has lost his soul, can you see it? Yesterday I heard that the second master Bao was coming to our house, and I didn't sleep well all night, so I sent her When she went to the eldest wife to deliver something, she deliberately avoided suspicion, and only delivered it to the door and then turned it back."

"You said it was awkward, why did you come here?"

"I'm not afraid of the other ones. I'm afraid that she will become sick from lovesickness and make troubles again—the master doesn't have that kind of thought, so I should send it back to Master Bao as soon as possible. To save us from getting involved inexplicably."

If possible, Sun Shaozong would naturally not want to take the responsibility for nothing, but if Jia Baoyu dared to hide Mrs. Wang's knowledge and take Qingwen as a foreign residence, how could he just watch her being sent here?

But since Ruan Rong said so, he had no choice but to agree indiscriminately, "I happen to have a few drinks with Brother Bao later, and I'll ask him to see what he thinks."

Ruan Rong didn't continue to worry about this problem, turned her face from the bedside, took the red post, shook it at Sun Shaozong, and said, "This is the invitation post that Mr. Liu sent to You's family, and You's family sent it This post was forwarded, saying that it was to ask the second master to help choose a suitable day."

Seeing what Mrs. You meant, she was thinking about making herself a middle-aged person, and in the future it would be equivalent to Third Sister You having half an extra natal family.

The left and right sides are not outsiders, so Sun Shaozong naturally wouldn't refuse. He took the invitation post and flipped through it casually, and chose a recent day, "Let's say the sixth day of September. The weather is neither cold nor hot, which is suitable for lively arrangements. A happy event."

Ruan Rong made a mark on the post, and the two chatted for a while, and then Sun Shaozong gnawed on his son's face, and reluctantly left the backyard.

When we arrived in the front hall, most of the food had already been laid out.

Not long after, Jia Baoyu also came in with a smile, cupped his hands and said, "Second brother is investigating a series of strange cases, and also has the leisure to play with the beautiful woman's jade feet, what a joy!"

As soon as he heard this, he knew that Baoyu was joking about yesterday's incident of pinching the mandarin duck's ankle.

Sun Shaozong immediately stared, pretending to be annoyed, "What's more, brother, I have solved all the strange cases here, but where is my clothes?"

Mentioning 'clothes', Jia Baoyu's complexion suddenly became strange, hesitated for a while, or changed the subject, curiously said: "What is a piece of clothing, second brother, hurry up and tell me, the Fayuan Temple serial strange Who is the murderer of the case!"

Sun Shaozong looked at his appearance, talking about him from left to right, and felt puzzled. Could it be that the person who stole things was someone who was useful to him?

But that dress was not something uncommon. The maids around Baoyu, who hadn't seen the master before, how could they be interested in an ordinary dress?

Besides, which woman can wear my clothes?

Is it possible to steal it and use it as a quilt?