Detective in the Red Chamber

"grown ups."

Zang Liang was about to be scolded, when Xu Kun suddenly knocked his head on the ground again, and said in a trembling voice, "The humble official is willing to sacrifice his life, and I guarantee that this statement is absolutely true, and I hope that the adults will not embarrass the parents of the humble official."

parents?

"Go in!"

At this moment, there was a scolding sound from outside the door, and Zang Liang subconsciously looked back, only to see his wife Liu staggering into the interrogation room with her young daughter in her arms, followed by his usual pampered daughter. parents.

"Lock them up."

Yang Licai, who was standing silently, gave an order, and several dragon guards flashed out from the left and right, and locked Zang's father and Zang's mother to the wall without any explanation.

The other two were waiting to treat Liu Shi in the same way. The baby girl in Li Shi's arms was so frightened that she began to cry loudly.

"That's it."

Sun Shaozong took advantage of the situation and waved his hands like chasing flies, "This child is really annoying when he cries, so take their mother and daughter away first."

Zang Liang stared blankly at his wife and daughter being taken out, and then heard the crying and howling fading away, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his heart, then Xu Kun must have insisted on climbing for the lives of the whole family. Accused myself!

But he has parents, wife and children, so he doesn't have any? !

Not only did Zang Liang not feel that Xu Kun was justifiable, but he became more and more furious, forgetting that his hands and feet were chained by iron chains, and rushed forward to fight him to the death.

Seeing this, the two small guards of the Dragon Guards next to him hurriedly pressed him to the ground, and the cold bluestone slab was pressed against his face, and Zang Liang regained consciousness a lot. Ah, my lord, Xu Kun is obviously trying to save his life, so he slandered his lowly position indiscriminately!"

"Is it?"

Sun Shaozong stared at him for a while, then turned his head and asked, "Xu Kun, what evidence do you have to testify against Zang Liang?"

"Humble... humble job..."

Xu Kun seemed to be tongue-tied, and he hesitated, "Xiaozhi...Although I didn't see him throwing the note in, I saw him wandering outside the west wall of the small courtyard with my own eyes."

Isn't this over and over again just empty talk? !

Zang Liang was about to refute, but he heard Sun Shaozong suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute, tell me again, what happened to him when you saw him with your own eyes?"

"The villain saw him outside the wall with his own eyes..."

"Xu Kun!"

Sun Shaozong interrupted him sternly, "I am retelling it verbatim by Rang He just now!"

Xu Kun finally raised his head and took a look at Sun Shaozong, then immediately lowered his head, and said with little confidence, "Although I didn't see him throwing the note in, I saw him wandering outside the west wall of the small courtyard with my own eyes."

"Ha ha!"

Just as Xu Kun finished speaking, Zang Liang beside him couldn't help but laugh, "You..."

However, he only uttered two words, as if someone had strangled his throat, he opened his mouth wide and froze for a long while, before turning his breath abruptly, "You bastard, just want to..."

"All right."

This time, Zang Liang's words were really cut off, and he saw Sun Shaozong standing up, staring at him coldly and said, "If you confess now, I can still protect your wife and daughter in front of Lord Zhenfu. "

A little panic flashed across Zang Liang's face, but he still tried his best to defend himself, "I am wronged, my lord, I have a humble job..."

"Xu Kun."

Sun Shaozong interrupted him again, and saw Xu Kun standing up from the ground in response, staring at Zang Liang with some pity in his resentment, shaking his head and saying, "I advise you not to quibble anymore, what I said just now , In fact, it was taught by Master Qianhu."

The blood on Zang Liang's face gradually faded, and finally he knelt down on the ground dejectedly.

Now that things have happened, he still doesn't understand that he has been tricked by Sun Shaozong?

The framing scene just now was to annoy him first—the more the real traitor, the more he couldn't bear the 'wrongedness' of being hit by mistake without any flaws.

And when he lost his mind, Xu Kun deliberately exposed his flaws to lure him into the bait-the note Zang Liang threw it in from the east wall. Since Sun Shaozong had already learned about the process, it is impossible not to know this, but deliberately arranged Xu Kun said it was the Western Wall.

Although Zang Liang came to his senses halfway and didn't swallow the bait completely, his gaffe at that moment was enough to put him in a situation where he could never recover.

But after a long while of slumping, Zang Liang slowly raised his head, and said in a harsh voice, "Master Qianhu, humble parents..."

"Don't push yourself too hard!"

Sun Shaozong flicked his sleeves and said with a frown, "I guarantee that your wife and daughter will not be imprisoned as Jiaofang Secretary. This is already the best of benevolence."

Although he was flatly rejected, Zang Liang believed in Sun Shaozong's sincerity. The seriousness of colluding with Bailian rebels is far more serious than ordinary gangsters. Coupled with the special nature of Beizhen Fusi, if he does not implicate his family at all , but strange.

"Ugh."

Zang Liang sighed heavily, and said with a wry smile, "When I was young, I was greedy for beauty, but I didn't expect that a mistake would cause eternal hatred."

"Back when the humble official was ordered to search the family of the criminal, he fell in love with the daughter-in-law of that family, and secretly used some despicable means to get the little woman onto the bed."

"At first, the little woman would rather die than follow, but because she saw how handsome the low-ranking student was, and she really liked her, she half-pushed and got up."

"But who would have thought that not long after, her father-in-law would recover again, and he would go all the way up..."

"Wait a minute!"

Hearing the word "swinging straight up", Sun Shaozong immediately stopped Zang Liang, and then ordered people to take Zang Liang's parents and Xu Kun down together.

When only Sun Shaozong, Yang Licai, and Zang Liang were left in the interrogation room, he ordered Zang Liang to continue talking.

"Your Excellency acts so cautiously, no wonder he can ascend to a high position at a young age."

Zang Liang praised enviously, and then said dejectedly, "But at that time, who would have thought that the old man who was dying in the imperial prison would become a prime minister in just a short period of time?!"

As soon as these words came out, Yang Licai couldn't help shivering.

If he remembered correctly, among the elders in the dynasty, it seemed that the only one who had been imprisoned was Cifu to He Tiren, and there was only one eldest son in He Ge's old family.

I fell asleep as the eldest daughter-in-law of Chao Cifu in a daze, I really don't know if this guy is unlucky, or just shit luck!

In other words, Mr. Sun really had the foresight to drive out the idlers and others in advance, otherwise if the news really leaked out, I'm afraid there will be another big disturbance!

wrong……

My lord should have kicked himself out just now!

Just when Yang Licai was full of complaints, Zang Liang said again, "After Mr. He Ge was released from prison, he was in constant panic in his humble position. He was afraid that things would be revealed. Whoever wants to be more afraid will come here. In a few days, someone will come." Come to the door and use this scandal to blackmail the humble official."

"Who is it?"

Hearing that he finally mentioned the mastermind behind the scenes, Sun Shaozong couldn't help asking, "How could he know that you secretly did the next scandal?!"

"The man refused to tell."

Zang Liang smiled wryly and shook his head, "Besides, he came at night, always covered with a veil, and never revealed his identity or life—Humble job helped him find out a few times, and he felt uneasy, so he took the initiative to apply for a foreigner. Let Jiangnan."

"As for Beizhi's departure, I have no contact with him for six or seven years."

"Until not long ago, he came to the door again, and he didn't bring up the matter of the White Lotus Sect. He just asked the humble official to find a way to cause trouble for Beizhen Fusi, otherwise he would bring the scandal of the year to Mr. He Ge. .”

"If elder Ge really knows what Humble Job has done, Humble Job will really die without a place to bury him!"

"It coincided with the White Lotus Sect going to Beijing to cause chaos. I thought that no one would suspect that I had something to do with the White Lotus Sect, so I followed the trend..."

Depend on!

In the end, it was another 'mystery', and even the other party's motives were not clear.

Isn't this another waste of work? !

Sun Shaozong's complexion darkened, and he asked Zang Liang sternly if he was hiding something - in fact, he also knew that Zang Liang was unlikely to lie about anything, after all, the matter of his old daughter-in-law alone was enough to put him in a desperate situation, let alone return There is a charge of privately adhering to the White Lotus Sect.

Seeing that Zang Liang hesitated for a long time, he said hesitantly, "The humble official didn't hide anything, but from the way the man talked and behaved, the humble officer vaguely found that he seemed to be in serious trouble, and it was very likely, the same as the one from a few days ago. It has something to do with the Tengu swallowing the sun."

Is the dog swallowing the sun again? !

Chapter 543 Two Concubines

It even has something to do with the solar eclipse!

This pile of piles, one after another, is endless!

Walking out of the interrogation room, Sun Shaozong's confusion did not decrease but increased. At the same time, he had some faint doubts that there might be some connection between this incident and the previous case of Zhou Xi being silenced.

If this is the case, the conspiracy and secrets hidden behind it may be even bigger than what he figured out before...

"Sun Qianhu."

At this moment, Lu Hui came out from the next room, also frowning, and asked hesitantly, "In your opinion, what is the purpose of the person in charge behind this?"

The interrogation room is equipped with wiretapping channels on the left and right sides, so there is no need for Sun Shaozong to report, he has already listened to every word in the next door.

Although Sun Shaozong has not been able to figure out what the mastermind behind the scenes is planning, but he ordered Zang Liang to cause trouble for Beizhen Fusi, he must be trying to divert Beizhen Fusi's attention.

In other words, something that Fusi Beizhen was paying attention to, or was about to pay attention to, probably touched the core interests of the mastermind behind the scenes.

"You mean..."

After listening to Sun Shaozong's analysis, Lu Hui seemed to have thought of something, he hesitated to speak, but finally shook his head slowly.

Although he didn't reveal his heart, Sun Shaozong vaguely guessed something from the changes in his facial expressions.

It's not that Sun Shaozong suddenly realized the mind-reading technique, but that he also suspected that there was an unexplainable existence - the Niu family of Zhen Guofu.

If it weren't for the sudden incident of the White Lotus Sect's entry into Beijing, Beizhen Fusi would definitely cooperate with the imperial court and carry out an overt and covert investigation of the Niu family - of course, at that time, it would be inevitable to carry the old Fengjun to death together. Therefore, in a sense, the other party's mistake caused Beizhen Fusi to escape.

And if you consider it from the perspective of maximizing benefits, the Niu family is undoubtedly the biggest suspect.

But if you think about it carefully, this kind of speculation is full of loopholes.

Because Zang Liang was pinched, it happened in the winter of the second year of Guangde.

At that time, not long after Emperor Guangde ascended to the Great Treasure, the Supreme Emperor, who had been in power for 36 years, was on his head. He walked on thin ice all day long.

More importantly, Beizhen Fusi was also controlled by the Supreme Emperor at that time. Under such circumstances, what reason did the Niu family have to add sand to Beizhen Fusi?

Besides, even if you really want to mix sand, with the power of the Niu family at that time, there is no need to find a small general flag, let alone act secretly.

But he said that Sun Shaozong was deliberating on Lu Hui's psychological activities, and he heard Lu Hui ask again in a deep voice, "Then what do you think this Zang Liang is hiding?"

In fact, from Sun Shaozong's point of view, Zang Liang should have explained everything that can be explained.

But who will take care of this matter?

What's more, with Lu Hui's temperament, as long as there is a [-]% possibility, he will never give up continuing to torture Zang Liang.

So Sun Shaozong directly stated the bottom line, "Your Excellency just heard it too, and the humble job promised to keep his wife and daughter..."

"You can rest assured."

As Lu Hui was talking, he suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said, "By the way, a steward came to the Prince's Mansion just now, saying that His Highness wants to call you over to play the right thing."

The prince summoned himself to play in the past, right?

Sun Shaozong suddenly had a headache, and at this moment he was in a hurry to find himself. Most likely it was the correct performance in Jingren Palace yesterday, which reached the ears of the prince—although the prince fell out of favor, the queen is still the lord of the six palaces It's not a problem to inquire about some news for my son.

grandma's!

The father and son were fighting each other, and neither of them wanted to make it clear to their faces, but let themselves be the ones in the middle...

The slander belongs to the slander, and the headache belongs to the headache. After all, the prince's crooked neck tree is still needed to shelter from the wind and rain, so Sun Shaozong can only temporarily deliver the errand and rush to the prince's mansion.

Speechless all the way.

Seeing Sun Shaozong urging his horse to arrive, Wang Dexiu, the chief secretary of Zhan Shifu, came out from the door opening, his two short legs took a few steps tightly, stepped forward to help Sun Shaozong hold the reins, and said anxiously, "Your Excellency, you have arrived. The prince is getting impatient waiting in the flower hall in the backyard!"

Seeing his fat face full of oil and sweat rubbing against his leg, Sun Shaozong hurriedly got off his horse from the other side, and said casually, "Since that's the case, I will be the master of labor."

After finishing speaking, he threw the horse to Wang Dexiu and strode into the prince's mansion.

Who in this mansion doesn't know that the crown prince is in a hurry to see him?

Therefore, after entering the door, it is unimpeded.

Turning to Zhu Pavilion and Yueyou Corridor, seeing the red maple trees in front of me, the flower hall was already looming, and Sun Shaozong was about to quicken his pace, when suddenly a maid with big arms and round waist appeared behind the rockery, and greeted with a straight face, "Sir, stop, my family!" The empress is calling for something!"

Could it be that this kind of 'practical' servant has become popular among the royal family recently?

Although the servant girl's attitude was a little bad, but considering that the princess always valued her, she came to her at this time, probably because she wanted to mention something.

So Sun Shaozong didn't think much, and followed the maid to the nearby courtyard.

But as soon as he entered the courtyard, Sun Shaozong noticed something strange—a few maids waiting under the eaves all looked surprised when they saw Sun Shaozong being brought in.

At the beginning, Sun Shaozong thought it was true, they didn't know that the princess concubine had summoned him, so they showed strange expressions.

But when I saw the door, two servant girls stepped out of the corridor hesitantly, as if they wanted to come up to block it.

wrong!