Detective in the Red Chamber

No wonder the family made such a fuss. In the eyes of the world, the Beizhen Fusi is no different from Yan Luodian and Shurachang. Anyone who is involved in the case, skin cramps are minor, and he will be accused of copying and beheading every time!

But when he entered the mansion, Sun Shaozong was going to have a chat with Big Brother Cheap in the living room, but he just passed the screen wall, and saw two maids, Pomegranate and Furong, looking around at the side door.

After seeing Sun Shaozong, Ruan Rong and Xiang Ling soon appeared behind the side door.

"elder brother."

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to confess to Big Brother Cheap, "I'm a little tired right now, I want to go back to the backyard to have a rest, and I'll talk to you tomorrow."

After that, he took three steps and took two steps, and went to the place between the two gates.

"Master~!"

After crossing the threshold, Ruan Rong bumped her head forward, choked up and said, "I've been scared to death these few days!"

Sun Shaozong put her around his chest carefully, and saw her bright and kind eyes again, which looked like red and swollen peaches at this time.

He couldn't help saying half distressed and half angry, "Didn't I tell Zhang Cheng to tell you not to worry? Look at you crying like this, what if you get pregnant?"

Ruan Rong looked him up and down for a while, and saw that his expression was the same as before, and he didn't seem to have been abused, so she wiped away her tears with her backhand, and said arrogantly, "I didn't shed all this for you— —Yesterday, Qianxiang Country sent a letter from home!"

In April, Sun Shaozong asked someone to send a letter from his family to Qianxiang Country, but he didn't want to receive a reply until September.

He couldn't help asking curiously, "What was written in the letter?"

Ruan Rong was taken aback by the question, and after a while Fang hesitated and said, "It's nothing important..."

"master!"

Xiangling on the side suddenly interjected, "Ever since you were taken to Beizhen Fusi, Sister Rong couldn't eat or sleep all day long, and even forgot to open that letter from home."

Sun Shaozong's chest felt warm when he heard the words, but he felt heavy in his heart.

Even though he was in Qian's mansion that day, he accidentally fell into fear, and even his life was at the hands of Ding Xiu.

But Sun Shaozong, who had long been used to all kinds of dangers, didn't think it was a big deal.

In the past few days in Beizhen Fusi, I have eaten enough and slept well. Except that I am not free, it is almost the same as a vacation.

However, after leaving Beizhen Fusi, he regretted his original carelessness more and more.

The eldest brother and the old housekeeper are fine, after all, their bodies are still strong, and they have weathered storms.

But if Ruan Rong was really imprisoned for ten days and a half months, causing Ruan Rong to move his fetus, he might never forgive himself for the rest of his life!

It seems that we must be more cautious in our actions in the future.

After all, he was no longer the captain of the criminal police who was alone and careless.

Secretly keep this matter in mind.

Sun Shaozong carefully hugged Ruan Rong and said with a smile, "Go, go and see what the old man wrote in the letter!"

"Put me down, let me down!"

Ruan Rong pretended to struggle a few times, but she had already pressed Zhenshou to his heart.

Looking at it from behind, Xiangling felt a little envious, but she also knew her status, so she didn't dare to feel jealous.

So ostentatiously all the way to the backyard, Sun Shaozong suddenly stopped in his tracks, looked at the nearby flower gardens curiously, and asked, "This Jiujiu Chongyang, everyone wants to enjoy the flowers and drink, why did our family pull out all the flowers?"

But I saw the potholes in the flower garden, but there was not a single flower or grass in sight.

"Isn't this going to be replaced by a chrysanthemum?"

Ruan Rong said flatly, "Who knows that just after we shoveled out those peonies and roses, the master had an accident. Who in the whole family would care about buying chrysanthemums?"

In order to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, hundreds of flowers and plants have to be shoveled and replaced with newly bought chrysanthemums...

Thinking about the naked disaster victims outside the city, it really is the Zhumen's wine and meat smelly road with frozen bones!

But the emotion is the emotion, it can’t be because there are disaster victims, can’t the festival be celebrated?

Sun Shaozong said again, "If you want to enjoy the flowers, let's find a suitable place tomorrow morning. It happens that you have been at home for a few months, so it's time to go outside for a breath of fresh air."

Ruan Rong was obviously a little moved, but hesitated for a moment, but said, "Let's see what my father wrote in the letter first."

That's right, if the cheap old father-in-law did some tricks of "judgment of kindness and justice", how could she still be interested in admiring the flowers?

"Okay, let's read the letter first."

As Sun Shaozong spoke, he was about to take a step forward.

"Second Master, Second Master!"

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a woman rushing forward, and when she got close, she said out of breath, "Second Master Lian, Second Master Bao, and Uncle Xue of Rongguo Mansion, as well as the small yamen of General Shenwu's family, Feng Uncle Feng Feng Xin from Zuixiang has come to visit you!"

These guys are really well-informed.

Sun Shaozong hesitated for a while, Ruan Rong struggled to get off the ground, pushed his chest, and said, "Go quickly, don't keep people waiting."

"Then you can't open the letter secretly by yourself!"

As Sun Shaozong said, he gave Xiangling another wink, signaling her to keep an eye on it, so that Ruan Rong would not be further stimulated by opening the letter alone.

Chapter 133 Making wind and waves

However, Sun Shaozong rushed to the front hall in a hurry, and after exchanging pleasantries with everyone, Cheng Rixing, Lin Delu, Zhou Da and other subordinates came outside before he could get to the point.

These people are not at the same level, so Sun Shaozong had to roughly arrange them into two groups to take care of them respectively.

Unexpectedly, not long after, Xu Shouye and others arrived after hearing the news.

Sun Shaozong became more and more overwhelmed.

Fortunately, everyone just came to visit, and didn't intend to drag him into a detailed discussion. After a few simple words brought their hearts to him, they all scattered again.

Among them, Xue Pan was the only one who was not stingy, and stayed behind to stalk him, insisting that Sun Shaozong go to his house as a guest at [-] o'clock in the afternoon.

He said that he wanted to make up for the housewarming banquet on the sixth day of junior high school, as if if Sun Shaozong didn't go there, he would not be able to live comfortably in the mansion.

Sun Shaozong couldn't refuse several times, so he had no choice but to agree, and Xue Pan returned to the nest beaming with joy.

After the hall was empty, Sun Shaozong suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to give Jia Lian the price list for repairing the garden.

Fortunately, according to Jia Lian's opinion, the Provincial Family Hospital in Rongguo Mansion will be completed soon, and relatives and old friends will definitely be invited to have a look at it at that time, and it will be the same to find an excuse to leave the thing at Jia's house.

Sun Shaozong thought so, and prepared to leave for the backyard.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the entrance of the hall, he saw Cheng Rixing hastily turned back under the guidance of his servants.

The two are employer-employees, Sun Shaozong would not be polite to him, so he asked in front of the door, "Why are you back again? Could it be that something happened to the government office?"

Cheng Rixing pointed in, "Dong Weng, let's go in and talk."

Sun Shaozong had no choice but to lead him back to the living room.

After the guests and hosts were seated, Cheng Rixing said with some worry, "Dong Weng, the mansion is not in the right spot these days. There are a lot of unfavorable news for you, it seems..."

"Seems like what?"

"It seems that someone is eyeing Zhizhong's position!"

Someone eyeing Zhizhong's position?

Sun Shaozong frowned, but he didn't find it strange in his heart. Although he was the best candidate to succeed him based on common sense, the best candidate was not the only one!

Among other things, the Ministry of Criminal Justice alone has more than a dozen Yuanwailang from the fifth rank to the sixth rank, who are qualified to be promoted to this position.

Although these people's abilities are not as good as Sun Shaozong's, they can't stand up to their seniority.

However, if these people wanted to make waves in Shuntian Mansion, they were beyond their reach.

If one has the ability to make waves in the Shuntian Mansion and is qualified to succeed the government, I am afraid that there is only...

Yantietong sentenced Zhao Liben? !

But this guy's backer, Han Anbang, is about to fall. Where does he have the confidence to compete with himself for the throne?

Could it be that this guy also secretly betrayed Han Anbang, so he got Jia Yucun's support...

Not right either.

Jia Yucun has been trapped in the Gongyuan for more than half a month, and such things as official strife can't be shouted through the gate.

After pondering for a while, but still not getting the point, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to ask again, "Then who is Zhao Liben walking closer to recently?"

Cheng Rixing said without hesitation, "Fu Tongpan, and the magistrate of Daxing County!"

tsk~

That Fu Shizhang is Jia Zheng's beloved apprentice, and has always been arrogant and tight in the government office; and that Wang Qian is even more a master with no eyes.

Sun Shaozong would not be surprised at all if these two guys would encourage Zhao Liben to usurp power!

But as long as it wasn't Jia Yucun's handwriting, there was nothing to worry about.

So Sun Shaozong smiled indifferently, and said, "Don't worry, they are just a few clowns who want to compete with me, and they are still a little bit too good!"

After finishing speaking, seeing that Cheng Rixing was still a little uneasy, he smiled and said, "Eunuch Dai's godson made it clear in the morning, His Majesty appointed me to attend this year's Luming Banquet!"

The day after the results of the township examination are released, the local government will prepare a banquet for the invigilators and new imperial examination candidates, which is called the Luming Banquet.

Needless to say, people can't sit at the table.

As for the invigilators, even counting the same examiners who graded the test papers, there are as many as 30 to [-] people. It is obviously impossible for so many people to sit on the top table.

Therefore, in addition to the principal and deputy chief examiners, there are often only three or five of the same examiners who can be selected to sit on the top seat—and only these few fellow examiners who sit on the top table can be called the recognized 'room teachers'.

It is not without precedent that the tour envoys are on the table, but they are all high-ranking and powerful people. It is the first time for someone like Sun Shaozong who is young and has no more than six ranks of officials.

Coupled with the fact that the emperor personally added the plug, this flattery is beyond words!

Cheng Rixing was also an old man in the examination room, so he naturally knew the meaning of "ranking the seat", scratched his head in joy for a moment, and repeatedly praised "Long live Shengming".

When he left in a down-to-earth manner, Sun Shaozong was free, and was going to go back to the backyard to open the family letter with Ruan Rong to see what the cheap old father-in-law had written.

Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the back house, Ruan Rong couldn't wait any longer, so she opened the family letter and read it again and again.

Fortunately, seeing her happy face, there should be nothing wrong with the letter.

"master."

Seeing Sun Shaozong enter the door, Ruan Rong smiled and said, "My father has been promoted, but his temper has changed. He babbled in the letter and talked about a lot of official affairs."

Said a lot of business trifles?

Sun Shaozong picked it up curiously and looked at it, and found that this cheap old father-in-law had indeed been promoted, and he was also a rich vacancy such as the servant of the household department.

And about half of this letter is about missing my daughter, and the other half is about writing a lot of trivial matters, complaining that I have been busy with work recently, and I don't even have time to rest.

but……

If you put all these trivial things together and think carefully, you will find that this is not as simple as complaining!

According to Sun Shaozong's inference at the beginning, Qianxiang Kingdom should be preparing to attack Zhen Kingdom, so he hoped to get the full support of Da Zhou.

However, this letter reveals that the supplies from Qianxiang Kingdom are being mobilized to the border of Dazhou, but the supplies from Zhen Kingdom are much less...

Could it be that Qian Xiangguo had taken the courage of the bear and leopard, and wanted to take advantage of the two fronts of the Great Zhou Dynasty to counterattack? !

And look at the meaning, the Zhen Kingdom has probably been involved in it!

If this is true, there will be chaos on the southwest border.

But the cheap old man, why did he disclose this information to himself?

Could it be that he is the legendary 'Akane traitor' and 'leading party'? !

After carefully reading it several times, Sun Shaozong's mind was full of thoughts, but he smiled on his face, "Since Lao Taishan has been promoted, he has to go to celebrate. Tomorrow, let's go to Xuanzhen Temple. There are many chrysanthemums, and the mountain road is also neatly repaired, so that the road will not bump you."

Chapter 134 Seeing Old Clothes But Annoying the 'Newcomer'

Zijin Street.

It was originally named because there is a Zijin Temple on this street, but because of the pleasing name, some wealthy merchants have settled here recently, and the word 'Zijin' has added another layer of meaning.

As early as more than ten years ago, Xue's family bought a courtyard with four entrances here for the purpose of staying in Beijing.

However, in these years, because Xue Pan's father died young, and Aunt Xue always liked to live with her elder sister and elder brother, hoping to have a caregiver on weekdays, so the house was vacant for a long time.

So before Xue's family moved here, they made a lot of renovations.

I heard that Xue Pan is still in charge of it, considering this guy's taste...