Detective in the Red Chamber

Because the weather was so hot and sweltering, Xue Baochai's womb problems recurred a bit, so she had been recuperating at home for the past few days, and hadn't gone out for half a step.

This afternoon, she took a nap on the couch in the inner room for half an hour, and in a trance, she heard someone in the yard yelling, "Second brother, it's the first time you have come to my yard today, and you have to sit for a while longer today to make it happen." !"

Baochai then knew that it was the restless elder brother, and invited some cronies home. With his usual quarrelsome nature, he might not be clean for a while.

So Baochai simply supported herself with her arm like a lotus root, and sat up straight from the couch.

wow~

Ying'er, the maid on duty, heard the movement, and immediately picked up the curtain and went into the inner room. While she came up to wait for Baochai to wash and wash, she said excitedly, "Miss, who do you think our uncle brought back?"

If it was an ordinary fox friend, Ying'er would not be so excited.

Reminiscent of the phrase "Second Brother" and the word "first time" just now, Xue Baochai's heart moved first, and then she frowned, pinching her handkerchief and asked anxiously, "The guest invited by my brother, but Sun Tong?" Sentence?"

"The girl is really smart, she guesses right." Ying'er smiled and said, "In addition to Sun Tongpan, there is also Feng Yanei——I just saw Mrs. Sun's reluctance, it seems that he was beaten by the uncle and Feng Yanei forcefully invited him here."

As soon as the words fell, Baochai stood up abruptly from the couch, ignored the plain socks hanging on the armrest, and directly put her two snow-white tender feet into the shoes, and hurried out go.

"Girl? You are..."

Ying'er was startled, hurriedly put the jade comb back into the makeup box, and chased it out anxiously.

The master and the servant entered the flower hall through the side door, the man's rough chatter and laughter came to her ears immediately, and Ying'er felt like a drum beating in her heart, fearing that something shameful would happen .

But because of Baochai's strong prestige, she didn't dare to stop her at all. She could only quietly follow Baochai and hide behind the screen, while secretly thinking in her heart that this eldest lady of her family has always been very stable. As soon as I heard that Sun Tong came to the door, I couldn't wait to come and take a peek. Could it be...

Thinking of this, Ying'er's heart beat wildly again, but this time she was more joyful than surprised--the maids in the Rongguo Mansion, who didn't know that Sun Tongjuan was also a man besides "judging cases like a god and having a bright future". Used to be 'painful' Master?

For example, Ruan Rong seemed to be in a honeypot all day long, and no matter how serious the mistress saw it, she would be jealous.

If I accompany the girl to marry the Sun Mansion...

For a moment, Yinger's face looked like a red glow, and she didn't know how many "speakable" and "unspeakable" pictures filled her mind.

It's a pity that these are just her imagination. In fact, Xue Baochai has no affection for Sun Shaozong at this time, but feels as if he is facing an enemy.

As a younger sister, she can't understand what her brother is thinking. Now that she has invited Sun Shaozong home, it is very likely that it is for the marriage of the Wang family-now that the mother is not at home, if the elder brother is really persuaded. How could the Xue family bear this unmanageable situation? !

That's why she didn't care about the rules and decency, and came to the flower hall to spy, so that she could stop Xue Pan from doing stupid things at critical moments.

However, Xue Baochai peeped out from behind the screen, and saw Sun Shaozong sitting in the middle with a straight face, naturally exuding an arrogance and arrogance. Can be modest and attentive, with a smile all over his face.

Seeing that after the third round of drinking, Xue Pan was almost ready, so he hurriedly gave Feng Ziying a wink.

Feng Ziying picked up the jug, poured wine for Sun Shaozong, and said with a smile, "Second brother, although Xue's big head is not a good bird, but the daughter of the Wang family is really... In my opinion, you still have to save him with a noble hand." , if this guy can escape this catastrophe, he will never forget your good friend!"

Since that day in Baihualou, after having a scene with Qiu Taiwei's son, the relationship between Feng Ziying and Xue Pan has become closer, and now they seem to be inseparable from Meng.

Just now, it was because of Feng Ziying that Sun Shaozong reluctantly came to Yiranxuan.

Hearing Feng Ziying speak out about Xiang at this time, he rolled his eyes, and said angrily, "You think that you can say such things casually? Go back and look up the laws of the Zhou Dynasty to see what the crime of 'monsters talking about blessings and misfortunes' is! "

This was obviously a refusal, but Xue Pan asked curiously, "What crime is it?"

Sun Shaozong couldn't help but rolled his eyes speechlessly, and then said viciously, "If it's light, it will be eight hundred miles away, and if it's serious, it will be all over the house!"

As soon as these words came out, Xue Pan didn't know how to respond, and hurriedly winked and signaled Feng Ziying to come forward to smooth things over.

Feng Ziying accepted his benefits in advance, so she could only bite the bullet and smile and said, "Brother was joking, there are not a few adults in the court who like Zhou Yi Bu Suan, and I haven't seen anyone who was convicted of this matter."

"That's because no one is staring at them." Sun Shaozong said helplessly, "Don't look at me now, secretly, I don't know how many people think that I don't like it, but if I make a mistake, I will provoke a crowd to attack me!"

After finishing speaking, seeing that Xue and Feng were suspicious, they knew that these two materials could not understand the taboo of being a military officer and serving as a civil servant.

So he sighed again, and said, "Furthermore, even if I am willing to help, do you think an old fox like Wang Shangshu can't see the tricks in it? If you make the Wang family angry, it won't do your Xue family any good."

"Whether it's good for him or not!"

Xue Pan swears indifferently, "I'd rather be a eunuch than marry this woman!"

"Ha ha……"

Sun Shaozong squinted at him, and said, "With the bold and unrestrained style of the daughter of the Wang family, do you think people will care if you are a eunuch? Maybe you are happy to have an excuse to seduce others!"

Xue Pan suddenly became wilted again, gloomily poured a few cups of yellow soup, suddenly put the wine glasses on the table, and said angrily, "Nat mother's father just ran away from home and couldn't find anyone. I see how she will marry come over!"

bang~

Before he finished speaking, he saw the screen in Zhengbei swaying flickeringly for a few times, and then stopped quickly.

"Who is there?!"

Xue Pan shouted and got up to investigate.

However, Sun Shaozong had sharp eyes. When the screen was shaken just now, he had already seen four embroidered shoes hidden inside. Although one of them was plain in color, it was adorned with a few shining opals, obviously not something a maidservant could have.

So he figured out that Xue Baochai was most likely hidden behind it.

Although Sun Shaozong had always wanted to meet the heroine of the Red Mansion, if Xue Pan pulled her out from behind the screen right now, it would be embarrassingly tight.

So he hurriedly pushed Xue Pan back on the seat, and said seriously, "Xue has a big head, Lingtang is fine, haven't you ever thought about why Lingmei insists on you marrying that Wang's daughter?"

When Xue Pan was full of anger, he said without thinking, "My younger sister has always disliked me as useless, and I just want to get a useful relative!"

But she said that Baochai accidentally bumped into the screen just because she was annoyed that he didn't take responsibility. Now that she heard these words, she was even more heartbroken, and felt that all her good intentions had been fed into the dog's stomach.

When all thoughts were lost, he heard Sun Shaozong say, "Could it be that there is a paste in your big head? If the daughter of the Wang family really wants to marry into your family, the first thing that will be affected is your sister's reputation. I'm afraid I want to find a suitable marriage in the future." Marriage is difficult!"

"This kind of relative, for a woman who has not left the cabinet, is really avoided. How can I talk about the word 'useful'?"

"I think there must be something hidden in this. Lingtang and Lingmei are probably afraid that you will do something stupid on the spur of the moment, so they deliberately hide it from you."

Chapter 81

But Baochai hid behind the screen, listening to Sun Shaozong's eloquent talk, he understood his own thoughts better than his brother who had been with him for more than ten years, and heard him persuade Xue Pan to have a good talk with his mother. After hurting the family relationship, I feel even more mixed feelings.

Seeing that Xue Pan had been persuaded, the master and servant quietly returned to the boudoir in the west wing.

Seeing Baochai staring blankly beside the low couch for a long time, Ying'er never thought of taking a seat, and her lotus pink cheeks were sometimes happy and sometimes sad, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so she boldly asked, "Girl, I can't think of it." This Sun Tongpan understands your thoughts better than the uncle."

These words pierced Xue Baochai's heart at once, and she first bit her red lips lightly, then shook her head slightly, and murmured, "Although she is a good person, it is a pity that she is not a good match."

"how come?!"

Ying'er's beautiful eyes widened in doubt, but she didn't care about her dignity, and said like a cannonball, "In terms of family background, ability, future, and personality, Sun Tongpan is always the best. Even the Second Lord Bao in this mansion...is only a little more literary than him, how can he not be considered a good match?!"

She was in a hurry for a while, but she almost derogated Baoyu. Fortunately, she woke up in time and changed her words hastily.

Seeing Yinger's anxious look, Baochai couldn't help but chuckle, reached out and poked the tip of her nose, and joked, "Look at your anxious look, don't you have a crush on Mrs. Sun? Would you like me to talk to my brother at night?" , let him send you to Lord Sun's residence as a concubine?"

"Girl, what are you talking about!"

Ying'er bent down and knelt down, arguing anxiously, "The servant has been with the girl since she was a child. Wherever the girl goes, the servant will go. How could she leave the girl to cling to others?!"

"Get up, get up, it's just a joke, how can it be taken seriously?"

As Baochai spoke, she pulled Ying'er up from the ground, but she couldn't help sighing, "I said Mrs. Sun is not a good match, but it's because of the beautiful concubine Qianxiang in his family——"I love you at first sight, and you follow me thousands of miles away." 'The friendship cannot be overwhelmed by the status of a regular wife, and no matter who enters Lord Sun's house in the future, there will probably be a battle between dragons and tigers."

Just now behind the screen, Baochai did have a little heart, but she is not Ruan Rong after all, and she will not be desperate for a moment of emotion-on the contrary, she has already moved that moment of emotion in just this moment. Pressed to the bottom of my heart.

--split line--

Not to mention how the people in Yiran Pavilion are.

But that afternoon, Li Wan sent the "Sangha Zha Sutra" that Jia Mu entrusted her to transcribe to the West Chamber, and wentssip with the old lady.

Passing through the passage between the two gates, seeing that it was not far from Wang Xifeng's courtyard, Li Wan was hesitating whether to go in to say hello, when he suddenly saw a shadowy book lying in the flower bed on the left side of the gate.

Although the printing technology of the Great Zhou Dynasty was already quite popular, books were only barely out of the category of luxury goods, and far from cheap goods.

Besides, Li Wan was born in a family of poetry and books farming and reading, and he is a book lover, so he hurriedly asked Suyun to pick it up, and wanted to come over to take a closer look, but he saw "A Tale of Strange Cases" written on the sapphire blue cover three words.

She didn't know that it was dropped when Sun Shaozong was arguing with Xue and Feng, but she thought it was Baoyu who dropped it accidentally. After all, Baoyu is the only person in this mansion who likes to buy such scripts.

Originally, he was thinking about asking someone to send this book directly to Baoyu's room, but he opened it inadvertently, but his face blushed with shame, and he changed his mind immediately.

Now Baoyu should still be in the 'Yanwu Hall', and my widowed sister-in-law has sent such silver and evil things to his room. If people find out, they may not be able to make some gossip.

About to throw the book back to the flower bed, Mrs. Wang's maid, Jin Chuan, walked in front of her. Li Wan had no choice but to put it in her sleeves first, pretending that nothing happened, chatted with Jin Chuan'er for a few words, and then He hurried back to his yard.

After Ben went back, he immediately found a way to destroy it, but when he got to the house, he saw his precious son Jia Lan holding a copy of "Thousand Characters" and reciting.

But she can still take care of others?

He hurriedly stepped forward and said with concern, "Lan'er, why did you come back so early today?"

"mother."

Jia Lan put the book in his hand, pulled Li Wan to sit side by side on the couch, and then said, "Sun Jiaoxi has something to do, so he told us to leave early—by the way, today, the teacher drank the sour plum soup sent by mother, He also specially reminded me that after starting to practice boxing, I should do aerobics at most once a day, so as not to hurt my body."

As he said that, he hugged Li Wan's arm and said coquettishly, "Mother, can you practice boxing with me in the future?"

Li Wan smiled when he heard this, and was about to coax him a few words, but Jia Lan said "Huh" and stretched out his hand to fumble on Li Wan's sleeve and asked, "Mother, what are you hiding in this sleeve? It feels hard to the touch."

Oops!

Only then did Li Wan think of the "Strange Cases" in his sleeve, quickly pulled his arm out, and forced a smile, "It's nothing, it's the Buddhist scriptures brought back from your grandma. If you don't tell me, I'll forget it. Wait for me first." Go put it away and come back and talk to you."

With that said, he hurried to the inner room.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he took a step, he heard Jia Lan say from behind, "Sun Jiaoxi also took a sleeve of books back today. They are all detective scripts bought by Uncle Bao. He said he wanted to take them back and destroy them, so as not to be summoned." What kind of trouble is coming—Mother, how can this detective script bring trouble?"

Why can scriptures bring disaster?

Li Wan didn't know it at first, but when he thought of the "real thing" with pictures and texts in his sleeve, he naturally understood it.

I can't help but secretly rejoice that I didn't send it to Baoyu hastily, otherwise I wouldn't be able to explain the hand tail in the middle even if I jumped into the Yellow River.

only……

She went into the inner room and took out the "Strange Case", but a sudden and whimsical thought came to her mind, saying that Sun Erlang can pinch and count, maybe he just threw the book somewhere, Just waiting for myself to pass by...

As soon as this idea came together, it seemed to take root in my heart, and I couldn't linger no matter what.

The idea of ​​destroying the book was thrown out of the sky even unconsciously.

That night.

Li Wan scratched at the storybook and hesitated for a long time, finally opened the cover tremblingly, and read the embroidered portrait word by word.

In this lonely and cold window in the deep house, no one knows what she saw and what she did in the dark.

It's just that the next morning, the eldest maid Suyun carried out the two quilts in the inner room and the outer room, and washed them several times. She was so tired that she was covered in sweat and sweat, but she refused to let others touch her hands.

Chapter 82 Death List

After Sun Shaozong enlightened Xue Pan and came out of Rongguo Mansion, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon at the end of Shenyou and the beginning of the year.

After getting into the carriage, he leaned on the pillow and squinted his eyes to wake up from the wine for a while. He suddenly remembered that there were a few copies of "Liu Bei" in his sleeve, so he took them out and looked through them, but he couldn't find the "Liu Bei" with rich pictures and texts. Strange Case Tan".

Could it be where Xue Pan fell?

Seeing that he hadn't gone far, Sun Shaozong originally intended to turn back, but on second thought, he had just pretended to be a life mentor for a long time, and then turned to beg for 'Liu Bei' again...

Does this affect the image too? !

So he dismissed this idea, and decided that even if Xue Pan came to his door afterwards, he would never admit it.

However, without this most classic book, the other books are a bit dull—after all, Sun Shaozong has also been influenced by the Internet age, and ordinary crudely made things are not in his eyes.

So he simply threw the words into a corner, and closed his eyes to rest again.

Speechless all the way.

About half an hour later, seeing that the front was not far from Sun's residence, the coachman chose a corner with his back, carefully reined in the reins, and turned around to report, "Second Master, we are almost arriving at our residence, look..."

Sun Shaozong immediately picked up the curtain and got out of the carriage. After checking that there was no one around, he trotted a few steps, stretched out his hand to paw at the outer wall of the Sun Mansion, and slipped in easily.

The coachman waited for him to climb over the wall, then unhurriedly raised the curtain with a hook, exposing the empty carriage to the public, and then drove the carriage towards the gate of the Sun Mansion.

When I got closer, I saw two stone lions standing on the left and right with six parasols, surrounded by four to fifty people, men, women, old and young, rich and poor, high and low. Seeing the carriage approaching, a swarm of bees immediately surrounded it. up.

"You are wronged, sir, you are wronged!"

"Master, there are only six generations of my family, and there is only one son!"

"My lord, please be kind, my husband didn't intend to kill someone!"

"If my grandson dies, I won't live!"

"Daddy, I want Daddy, I want Daddy!"

Men yelled, women yelled, the older ones cried, and the younger ones made noise. It was like setting up a stage on the street to sing "Havoc in Heaven!"