Detective in the Red Chamber

Hearing Sun Shaozong's question, he muttered aggrievedly, "How do I know? My family moved out of Rongguo Mansion a long time ago, and I went to play with Brother Bao this afternoon, so I found out about such things."

"Think about it again! Didn't you hear a single word during your trip?"

"This is..."

Xue Pan scratched his head and thought for a long time, until the carriage drove more than six miles away, then he thumped his thigh and said joyfully, "I remembered, my aunt seems to have said that the dog slave will die when he dies, why bother pulling out so many things?" Things are coming?"

A minion died?

Could it be Lai Da? !

"You were in Rongguo Mansion just now, so you can see Lai Da?"

"I didn't see it."

As Xue Pan spoke, he also felt strange, "That's right, it stands to reason that such a big thing has been said, and he, the chief housekeeper, should be present."

It might really be Lai Da!

But what happened to Lai Da that made Baoyu so desperate for life?

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, then suddenly remembered a person, and asked quickly, "You just said that a maid was kicked out? Do you know why and where she was driven out?"

"This... I really don't know."

With a bitter face, Xue Pan said, "I only heard that several maids were kicked out, and among them was the big maid Xiren—by the way, there is also a girl named Qingwen, who is usually quite favored."

Xiren, Qingwen?

These two seemed to be Baoyu's favorite maids.

Then why were they kicked out?

Could it be that before Lai Da died, he exposed their secrets that no one knew?

Not right either!

It's just two maids, what great secret can they have?

Besides, if there is really a big secret, it will not be as simple as just being kicked out.

Maybe……

Who was implicated?

"Then Xiren and Qingwen, do they both have family members working in Rongguo Mansion?"

"Qingwen seems to have an uncle who works as a cook in the house, but Xiren's family doesn't have one."

This is wrong again...

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, and continued to ask, "Then, did Xiren's parents and family take advantage of the opportunity to reap any benefits?"

"Second brother, please forgive me!"

Xue Pan held his head in both hands, rounded and flattened his big face, and said distressedly, "I can't sleep with those maidservants, and I'm full to inquire about these many things!"

This stuff is really...

Sun Shaozong sighed, and had no choice but to stop asking. Anyway, he will be in Jia's mansion soon. It seems that he can only wait until he sees Baoyu, and then find a way to verify his inference.

So there was nothing to say next.

When he arrived at the gate of the Rongguo Mansion, because he was led by Xue Pan, the half master, and Sun Shaozong came and went frequently, the gatekeepers naturally didn't dare to step forward to stop them, but only one of them flew in to report.

The two walked around the front yard with ease, and were about to go through the verandah to look for Jia Baoyu's house, but they saw several servants of Jia's mansion walking up to meet him.

When he saw the leader clearly, Sun Shaozong couldn't help being taken aback, but because that person was none other than Lai Da, the chief executive of the Rongguo Mansion!

This fellow is not dead? !

Since it wasn't him, then who would be the servant who caused Jia Baoyu to seek death and life?

"Master Biao."

Lai Da went forward to salute Xue Pan first, then bowed to Sun Shaozong and said, "Master Sun must have been invited by Young Master Biao to comfort my Second Master Jiabao, but you are a step late..."

"what?!"

When Xue Pan heard this, he grabbed his collar in shock and shouted, "Brother Bao is dead?!"

"how can that be!"

Just listen to Lai Dao, "Master Biao, please be careful, Second Master Bao is very well now, and he is asking some girls to accompany him to eat."

"Eat...eat?"

Xue Pan let go of Lai Da in astonishment, and said in disbelief, "Didn't he want to go on a hunger strike to commit suicide? How come he started eating on his back as soon as I left?"

"Ha ha."

While tidying up his collar, Lai Da said with a kind smile, "Second Master Bao is young after all, sometimes he can't think about it for a while and make trouble for two days, but on such a beautiful day, who is really willing to starve to death?"

Xue Pan sounded reasonable, but felt that something was wrong. He was scratching his head at a loss, so he heard Sun Shaozong say, "Since Brother Bao is fine, it would be best! Brother Bao didn’t even see him, so why don’t you go back?”

Xue Pan thought about it for the same reason, and hurriedly said, "Second brother, walk slowly, I will go ahead and let the younger sisters avoid it first."

As he spoke, he hurried away.

Sun Shaozong and Lai Da looked at each other for a while, then cupped their hands and said, "Boss Lai, then I will go ahead."

Lai Da bowed neither humble nor overbearing, "Master Sun, please do your own thing. If you have anything to do, just ask."

He didn't intend to stop him at all!

Is it because he didn't know that Baoyu was investigating the case, and was he bewitched by himself?

There is such a possibility.

But Sun Shaozong always felt that this was not the case. He could vaguely feel that Lai Da's appearance here was actually demonstrating to him, or showing off...

In short, there are too many mysteries right now, which need to be solved one by one!

Thinking in this way, Sun Shaozong quickened his pace a little, and when he saw Jia Baoyu's yard, he saw a group of Yingying and Yanyan coming out with lanterns, and it was Lin Daiyu who took the lead.

Sun Shaozong hurriedly moved away from him, but was still stared fiercely by Daiyu's peach-like red and swollen eyes.

In addition, there was a girl with a plump body and white skin like snow, who looked Sun Shaozong up and down carefully.

Sun Shaozong vaguely remembered that when he met Xue Pan for the first time, he saw this girl from a distance - it seemed that she was the one who helped Xue Pan up.

But at that time, he was too busy talking to Wang Xifeng, so he didn't pay attention to her appearance.

Could this be Xue Baochai?

But hasn't Xue's family moved out?

It's a pity that it's a big night, and there is still a distance away, so I really can't see exactly what kind of demeanor this heroine of the Red Mansion, who is also known as Lin Daiyu, is.

Feeling regretful in his heart, the group of Yingying and Yanyan had gradually gone away, so Sun Shaozong hurriedly stepped into the courtyard.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw two maids kneeling upright in the corner, who seemed to be Xi Ren and Qing Wen.

Sun Shaozong hesitated for a moment, resisting the urge to ask a few questions, and walked into the main room.

I saw that the flower hall was as bright as daytime, and several maids and women were surrounding a young man who filed a case, but who else could it be if it wasn't Jia Baoyu?

At first, Sun Shaozong thought that this rich and idle man was hungry, and he was no different from a refugee.

But when he took a closer look, he found something strange again—not only did Jia Baoyu not have the slightest sense of hunger and indignation on his face, but there was some depression and anger between his brows.

Rather than saying that he is satisfying his hunger, it is better to say that he is using overeating to vent the depression in his heart!

Chapter 154 Rongguo Mansion Corruption Incident [Part [-]]

"Second brother!"

Sun Shaozong was observing Jia Baoyu's situation, Xue Pan came up to him again, and whispered, "Why do I look at Brother Bao, there is still something wrong? He was not like this when the younger sisters were around."

Even this guy can see it, which shows that Sun Shaozong's feeling is not wrong.

He took a few steps forward, and said, "Take the food away, I haven't eaten for two days and one night, eat too much and be careful that the stomach will not digest it."

Those maidservants and mothers-in-law were already worried, but they were afraid that Jia Baoyu would be angered and something would happen, so they didn't dare to stop him.

At this moment, when someone spoke, he tentatively stepped forward to grab the food. Seeing that Baoyu didn't intend to stop him, he hurriedly took it all down.

But when Jia Baoyu heard Sun Shaozong's voice, he was startled first, looked up hopefully, and opened his mouth to say hello.

But immediately after, he didn't know what he thought of, and a faint look of entanglement and shrinking appeared on his face, and he murmured for a while, and only called out "Second brother."

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong became more suspicious.

He gave Xue Pan a wink, but this guy stared wide-eyed with a puzzled look on his face.

Helpless, he had no choice but to order on his behalf, "Brother Baoyu and I have something to say, you guys go down first."

"exactly!"

Only then did Xue Pan come to his senses, and lashed out like a fly, "Hurry up and get the hell out of me, don't delay our brothers talking!"

After all, he is a cousin, and he has always been known to be domineering. The maids hesitated for a moment, and then hurried out of the room.

Only then did Sun Shaozong pull a spring stool, sat opposite Jia Baoyu, and said with a smile, "Tell me, what exactly have you found out these days, and you're going to die?"

After a pause, he added, "There's such a big commotion in your family. If you want to cover it up in the future, you won't be able to cover it up. It's better to say it directly, so as to save everyone from listening to rumors later."

Jia Baoyu didn't want to speak at first, but hearing what he said was reasonable, he could only frowned and sighed, "So, this time our family is going to become the biggest laughing stock in the capital."

As he spoke, he recounted all his experiences in the past ten days or so.

But that day Jia Baoyu knew about the absurdity of "one man and two families", and was instructed by Lin Daiyu, and learned that the money had been stolen by the slaves, so he was furious and vowed to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Because of the price list sent by Sun Shaozong and the method of how to distinguish the authenticity of the materials, Jia Baoyu's investigation of the case was not so blind.

In just two or three days, he found out more than a dozen real hammers of self-pocketing!

And the ones who got caught were basically the offshoots of the Jia family.

Because these people relied on their status as relatives, they were more 'reasonable' than others when they made moves, so naturally they didn't bother to cover up anything.

Originally, according to Baoyu's temperament, he wanted to disclose this matter at that time, and let the elders in the family know the face of these people who are called "relatives, but are actually moths".

However, his idea was vetoed by Lin Daiyu, who was acting as an assistant. The reason was that Sun Shaozong had no enmity with the relatives of the Jia family, and logically he would not deliberately set up a situation to expose them.

Therefore, there must be something behind this that has not been found out!

What's more, what was found out was only more than 3000 taels of silver, and it was distributed to each household, and it was less than 200 taels of silver. If it was for this little money, it would have to turn against more than a dozen relatives. Not worth it.

Baoyu felt that it was reasonable, so he discussed with Daiyu and decided that it would be fine if they could find anything else, and if only these people were involved in the case, they would try to deal with it as low-key as possible.

So after that, the two launched a more in-depth and detailed investigation.

Because of the previous experience, more corruption was found this time, including relatives of the Jia family and slaves.

The methods are more subtle than the previous ones. Most of them are colluding with outside merchants to do dirty things like shoddy goods and false prices.

With the gradual deepening of the investigation, a big tiger gradually revealed itself.

"I found out at the time that there were a lot of private pockets, and in the end they all pointed to the housekeeper Wu Xindeng! At that time, I made a rough calculation, and the unexplained deficit on him was as huge as 3 taels!"

Wu Xindeng?

When Sun Shaozong heard this, he couldn't help but frowned, and blurted out, "Wu Xindeng is the dead slave in your house?"

"It's this fellow!"

Baoyu said bitterly, "I had already collected a lot of evidence, and when I was about to expose him, he suddenly committed suicide by jumping into a well, and... moreover, he posted a list all over the house! "

"List? What list?"

"A list full of pockets!"

As Jia Baoyu spoke, there were mixed feelings on the baby's face.

But it turned out that on the list Wu Xindeng threw out, the first ones to be exposed were Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng.

In addition, there are mother Jia's cronies, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing's companions, Aunt Zhao's brother, Jia He's servant, Jia Zheng's clean-up...

There are so many things, all of them are the closest people of the masters in the house, and the money involved is as high as 10,000+ taels!

This time, one stone really stirred up waves!

Pleading guilty, groaning grievances, sensational sensationalism, anger into anger...

Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng even used knives, and Wang Xifeng, who was chasing him, fled around the house-according to Jia Lian's own statement, it was because Wang Xifeng used his name to enrich his own pockets, so he was extremely resentful.