Detective in the Red Chamber

One by one looked at the platter in front of them hungry, but just wanted to swallow a few catties of regret medicine.

At this moment, a servant hurriedly arrived at the main table, and whispered something in Sun Shaozong's ear. Sun Shaozong immediately stood up and said with a smile, "Everyone, a distinguished guest came uninvited and came out with me." How about a welcome?"

When everyone heard this, they thought he had invited 'foreign aid'.

Although the reception banquet is generally an internal gathering, it is reasonable to say that outsiders should not be invited to attend - but it would be nice if this embarrassing situation can be resolved, who cares whether it is an outsider or an insider? !

So all the arresters and assistants followed Sun Shaozong with smiles all over their faces, to meet the distinguished guest who 'came uninvited'.

At first, I thought that the person who came was either an old military general with the Sun family, or a descendant of a distinguished family—unexpectedly, when I got outside the gate, I saw a man in a red robe with a jade belt and a four-beam gold crown sitting on the four-carrying official sedan chair. Middle-aged civil servant!

While everyone was in amazement, they saw the middle-aged civil servant get off the sedan chair, laughed and cupped his hands and said, "My dear brother, I never thought that you and I would go to Beijing on the same boat, and we would have to be in the same yamen from now on. I haven't come in time to take office, but I can't wait to drink a few glasses of wine with you!"

Swinging a horse spoon in a yamen?

Those who are smart have already heard some clues from these words, and their faces are filled with ecstasy.

Although the stupid ones haven't figured out the situation yet, it doesn't matter, because Sun Shaozong immediately solved the mystery.

I saw that he also laughed and greeted him, and bowed deeply to the end, "The humble Sun Shaozong, I have met Mr. Fucheng!"

But it turned out that this middle-aged civil servant was none other than Jia Yucun, the soon-to-be Prime Minister of Shuntian Prefecture—no wonder those who guessed his identity would be overjoyed!

You must know that Fu Cheng is in Shuntian Mansion, but he is the only person who is qualified to fight against Lord Fu Yin, and he also controls the evaluation, rewards and punishments of all officials. With this relationship, even if the whole yamen is against Sun Shaozong, he will It can be as stable as Mount Tai!

Zhao Wuwei's snot bubbles came out, and he thought to himself that he really had a unique vision, this bet was a big win!

So he hurriedly led the crowd to come forward to see him.

"Ai~"

Jia Yucun raised his eyebrows pretending to be dissatisfied, stretched out his hand and pulled Sun Shaozong up, and reprimanded him, "I haven't taken office yet, why do I do this? I'm here today to have your wedding wine, brother, not to play an official role. Powerful!"

Just listen to these words, if you really don't want to play the official role, why wear this official uniform on your body?

But they said they were talking and laughing, and went all the way back to the flower hall. Seeing that the hall was empty, Jia Yucun unconsciously let out a 'huh', and wondered, "Why didn't any of my colleagues see it? Could it be that I came too early?"

This is called professional acting!

From this expression and tone, who can tell that the two of them had been discussing secretly for more than half an hour in the afternoon?

Sun Shaozong secretly gave him a thumbs-up, and said with a smile, "Liu Zhizhong may be unwell—as for the other colleagues, they may have misremembered the time of the banquet."

To distinguish Liu Zhizhong from the others, it was also in the afternoon that Sun Shaozong and Jia Yucun had already discussed how to deal with it.

Firstly, it was to fight against the generals and take the opportunity to isolate Liu Chongshan; secondly, Liu Chongshan was one of the three 'officials' after all, so if he really wanted to be there, he would stand up against Jia Yucun, this would be a difficult scene.

"That's the case."

Jia Yucun turned around, and smiled kindly at the assistants of the police officers, "I'm sorry to bother you to inform me again, just say that I'm here to wait for you--it just so happens that I also want to take advantage of Sun Xiandi's reception banquet to get to know your colleagues first." know."

With the word "respectfully waiting" for him, who else would dare not to be present among the officials in the Yamen? !

Zhao Wuwei and the others all responded energetically, leaving only people to wait on them, and the rest were divided into birds and beasts, and went to the officials' homes to spread the word.

About half an hour later, people rushed to Huating one after another. The subordinates who were not of sufficient status naturally sat on the lower chief's face in silence. Those with official status had no way to hide, so they could only bite the bullet and go forward. See Fucheng, Tongju adults.

However, Jia Yucun just laughed and chatted with Sun Shaozong, and didn't pay much attention to others. Anyone who came would just say "sit" lightly, and there was nothing to say - but it was this attitude of acting as if no one else was there that made everyone feel even more confused. Feeling anxious.

Seeing the hustle and bustle of people in the hall, even Chen Zhichuang, who was in charge of the department, sat down at the bottom with a smile on his face.

Only then did Sun Shaozong smile slightly, and said, "Brother Yucun, this person is almost here, how about we have a banquet?"

"Wait a minute."

But Jia Yucun waved his hand, looked around at the green and green officials on the table, and suddenly asked loudly, "Who prepared today's welcome banquet?"

With just this sound, the needle drop can be heard quietly in the flower hall!

After a while, only one person in the seat next to him stood up in a cold sweat, and said in a trembling voice, "Yes...it was prepared by the lower official...Zhou Da, the procurator of the Department of Criminal Justice."

The school inspector is just a junior official, not to mention Fu Cheng, even Sun Shaozong can easily crush him to death!

If it weren't for the unanimity of the civil servants this time, he would never dare to get involved in this kind of thing-but who would have thought that a mansion would jump out halfway to support Sun Shaozong? !

Zhou Da really regretted it at this time.

"Since you are in charge of preparing the reception banquet, it's fine if you don't wait here early, how can you even get the time wrong?!" Jia Yucun's face became more gloomy the more he said, and he slapped the table for the last time and shouted, "Could it be that we usually deal with human life lawsuits?" Are you also so negligent?!"

puff~

Zhou Da knelt down straight on the ground, and opened his mouth to cry out, "Your Excellency, the villain is really..."

"Zhou Da!"

The governor, Lin Delu, jumped up, and cut off Zhou Da with a stern voice, "How do you do things?! You made all the colleagues in the yamen almost miss Mr. Sun's welcome banquet!"

The key point of what he said was the word 'Many Yamen colleagues', which actually meant to remind Zhou Da that if he told the truth, he would offend all his colleagues!

If Zhou Da had an official rank of seven or eight ranks, he might not be afraid of these words, but who made him just a low-level Zhima official?

After weighing it up, he could only bite the bullet and say, "Please forgive me, Mr. Fu Cheng. The lower official was also confused for a while, and made such a mistake."

"Humph."

Jia Yucun snorted coldly, and Zhou Da trembled three times that day, thinking that disaster was imminent, when Sun Shaozong laughed and said, "Brother Yucun, this is a private banquet after all, and it's not an important business. Forgive him this time—how about just three drinks as a penalty?"

When Zhou Da heard the words, he was moved and thanked repeatedly.

Unexpectedly, when the three cups of wine were placed in front of him, they turned out to be three half-jin bronze statues, and the insides were not the usual low-alcohol rice wine, but serious shochu and baijiu!

That Zhou Da's face suddenly changed color again, but under the watchful eyes of Jia Yucun and Sun Shaozong, how dare he shirk?

He had no choice but to pinch his nose and downed the three cups of shochu one by one.

After drinking this catty and a half, he staggered and was about to step forward to salute, but he bent down and got under the table, mumbled a few times with his mouth full of mud, and then remained silent.

"Serve the food and serve the wine!"

In the silence, Sun Shaozong yelled.

The wine and dishes were placed on the table like flowing water, and everyone seemed to be 'joyed' as they tossed and changed glasses, but no one dared to look at Zhou Da half a eye.

Chapter 37

The day before, after Jia Yucun showed up at the reception banquet, Sun Shaozong saw the big boss of Shuntian Mansion—the Governor Han Anbang the next day.

After Han Anbang called him over, he only said a few official phrases. Apart from encouraging him to be diligent in serving the public and law enforcement for the people, there was basically nothing nutritious.

But these few words of nonsense sent an obvious signal——Han Anbang didn't want to fall out with his future deputy because of Sun Shaozong!

So in the next few days, everything became calm again, as if the series of difficulties at the beginning were just Sun Shaozong's illusion.

Of course, Sun Shaozong would not really think that this was an illusion, let alone lose his vigilance because of this, but became more and more cautious.

Han Anbang chose to put his flag down at this time, mainly because Jia Yucun's sudden horizontal attack caught him off guard. When he recovers, he may not be able to think of 'peace is the most important'.

Therefore, during this period of time, Sun Shaozong couldn't allow people to pick out a single flaw and find a clue. Otherwise, once Han Anbang had an affair with Jia Yucun in the future, he would definitely use him to make an example of him!

Let's say that for seven or eight days in a row, while Sun Shaozong was familiar with his official duties, he took time to review the case files accumulated by his predecessor. If there was anything he didn't understand, he had to go to the Da Zhou Law, or lead Zhao Wuwei and others to the scene for investigation. It's too busy for a moment.

However, he couldn't trust any of the subordinate officials of the famous criminal department, and he really didn't dare to let them touch the official files, so he thought about hiring a secretary these years and asking the master to help him.

After going home and discussing with Brother Cheap, Sun Shaozu said, "Our family is full of knives and guns. How can we know any master? The second master of Jia's mansion is the favorite to keep clean guests. It happens that the Lantern Festival has three days off for bathing. Why don't you go?" The Rongguo Mansion took office immediately, so I asked Jia Zheng to see if he had any reliable candidates to recommend."

Sun Shaozong was in a hurry to employ people here, and couldn't think of a more suitable way for a while, so he had to act like this first.

So on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Sun Shaozong brought Ruan Rong to visit Rongguo Mansion again.

It's just that this time when I came to the gate of Rongguo Mansion, I saw that the quiet long street was full of traffic, which completely cut off half of the street.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, don't block the distinguished guests in the house!"

Sun Shaozong was looking at the seriously congested road and was worried, when he heard someone screaming in front of him, several donkey carts hurriedly avoided the side of the road, and the figure of Xing'er, a close servant, appeared.

Na Xing'er held a street cleaning whip in his hand, and under the awed and fawning gazes of the crowd, he swayed to the front of the carriage, then bowed and sang fat, and laughed, "Second Master Sun, this messy mess Makes you laugh--come on, and I'll lead you in."

Along the way, seeing men and women of all ages on the street, all of them dressed brightly, but could not conceal the poverty in their bones, Sun Shaozong couldn't help being a little curious, so he rushed to Xing'er to find out what happened.

"Isn't this the great grace of the emperor, allowing our eldest lady to go back to the house to visit her relatives?" Na Xing'er showed off, "Since you want to visit your relatives, you must naturally prepare a family visitation hospital!"

He swung the street cleaning whip twice from Rongguo Mansion to Ningguo Mansion, exaggeratingly said, "A few days ago, the master and wife passed the word that they were planning to open up the gardens of the Rongguo Mansion and Ningguo Mansion, and put them back together properly. place!"

As he said that, he glanced at the poor people on the left and right with disdain, and said, "Naturally, this boss' project is indispensable for oil and water. Take a look, anyone who is related to our house will smell it. "

Immediately afterwards, he lowered his voice again, and said triumphantly, "But these people outside are all without status, and those who really have connections have blocked that fat vacancy early in the morning!"

Judging by his smug face, it is likely that he has already taken some 'fat position'.

Sun Shaozong thought to himself, if Brother Cheap had failed to seize the title, the Sun family might also be one of the 'inherited relatives', he wondered whether it belonged to those who had no status or those who had connections.

You Xing'er opened the way ahead, and naturally arrived at the gate of the mansion unimpeded.

As usual, Sun Shaozong first sent Ruan Rong to Lin Daiyu in the West Wing, and then asked Xing'er to lead the way and go to Rongxi Hall to pay a visit to Jia Zheng. Therefore, before taking office, meeting Jia Zheng is also the meaning of the title.

Compared to the bustling atmosphere outside, Rongxi Hall was solemn and solemn.

Because he was hiring a tutor for his son, this time Jia Zheng didn't hold it like last time, he greeted him early and invited Sun Shaozong into the main hall.

After the guest and host were seated, Jia Zheng couldn't help sighing after a few polite words, and said, "Your elder brother Zhu was a self-motivated person before, but it's a pity... now I don't ask that karma to learn anything." As long as you are famous, as long as you can strengthen your muscles and bones, it is enough to pass on my family business."

"Uncle Shi was joking."

Sun Shaozong laughed, and said casually, "I heard that Brother Baoyu is talented and intelligent, and he brought some psychic treasures with him when he was born. I think he will have a great future in the future--I'm afraid that I will delay him because of my lack of skills."

Hearing Sun Shaozong's praise of Baoyu, Jia Zheng felt a little more complacent, but hurriedly waved his hands and said humbly, "What kind of talent and intelligence are just a crooked idea! My nephew can do whatever he wants, regardless of his character, talent, learning, It's still martial arts riding and archery, but anyone who can benefit that Nizi, I will definitely thank you!"

He kept saying 'rebellious son, karma', but this time when Sun Shaozong came to teach, he taught far more than Baoyu alone, but he didn't mention the concubine Jia Huan and the first-line grandson Jia Lan at all. Obviously the most important thing in his heart was still Jia Baoyu .

Sun Shaozong stood up and responded solemnly, then changed the subject, cupped his hands and said, "To tell you the truth, my nephew is quite struggling in Shuntian Mansion recently, and I want to ask two masters to help me out, but I really can't find a suitable one—I heard that Uncle Shi has a lot of talented people around him, I wonder if we can bear the pain and give up, and recommend one or two to my nephew?"

The so-called Qing guests are mostly low-ranking people who are unwilling to be petty officials, so they rely on swaying and showing off to make a living in the big family. They say they are noble, but they know how warm they are.

It would be a good job if he could become a master of the sixth-rank general judge—especially Sun Shaozong became famous at a young age, and he might be of great use in the future.

Naturally, Jia Zheng was happy to be a favor, so he asked people to invite a few outstanding ones, such as Zhan Guang, Hu Silai, Cheng Rixing, Shan Pinren, Bu Guxiu, and Wang Zuomei. There were probably seven or eight of them.

Although Jia Zheng didn't make it clear about the matter of hiring a master, these people are all clear-eyed people, and after just chatting a few words, they made a [-]% or [-]% guess. The flowers are full of flowers, and the faces are red and red.

If it wasn't for Jia Zheng's face, they would all attack each other.

However, from Sun Shaozong's point of view, most of these people are boasters, and it's okay to talk about it, but if they really want to do something, I'm afraid it will be useless.

Among them, there is only one Cheng Rixing who is worth looking at, especially besides his identity as a Qing customer, he also works as a shopkeeper in Xue's antique shop. He has experience in handling common affairs and is proficient in accounting.

Just based on the first impression alone, it was not enough for Sun Shaozong to make up his mind, so he invited Cheng Rixing to visit his house at night, so as to further understand him.

Chapter 38

Sun Shaozong vaguely remembered that there was a martial arts arena in the northeast corner of Rongguo Mansion, and he thought it would be there to teach martial arts riding and archery. Unexpectedly, after leaving the Rongxi Hall, Xing'er led him to the back house in the northwest corner.

"Second Master Sun, you don't know, the surrounding area has been enclosed by the Provincial Hospital, and even our grandfather and Aunt Xue's family from Lixiangyuan have moved to the northwest." Xing'er explained with a froth, "So The second grandma made arrangements and vacated another courtyard in the northwest corner for you to practice martial arts."

tsk~

To dismantle the martial arts field left by the ancestors, but to set up some relatives' homes with great fanfare-it seems that this Lao Shizi's teaching really doesn't have to be too serious.

By the way, this Aunt Xue should be Xue Baochai's mother, right?

I don't know what the other protagonist of this love triangle looks like.

"Bah!"

Sun Shaozong was sketching Xue Baochai's appearance in his mind, when he heard a yell coming from the sidelines, he followed the reputation, and saw a big man with simple and savage eyes coming up, looking at his size, he was not much smaller than Sun Shaozong.

Seeing the approach, he squinted at Sun Shaozong a few times, and then asked carelessly, "You are that Sun Tongpan, right? Tell me, how much money are you willing to sell that red-haired beauty Qianxiang?"

Hearing this guy's nonsense, when he said such a sentence suddenly, Sun Shaozong's face darkened immediately.

Na Xing'er had followed all the way from Yangzhou to the capital, so he naturally knew about the relationship between Sun Shaozong and Ruan Rong, so he hurriedly stepped forward to stop him and said, "Master Xue, don't make jokes..."

But it turns out that this simple and savage person is Baochai's elder brother Xue Pan.

"Who's kidding!"

But Xue Pan didn't appreciate it. He pushed Xing'er away with his arms crossed, and said with a shy face, "Is 3000 taels enough? How about 5000 taels? Then 1 taels should be enough, right?! If it doesn't work, I will take the little one at home again." My concubine sent you to be a hair extension, is it finally over? Then Xiangling was also me at the beginning..."

Xue Pan was talking here, when Sun Shaozong suddenly stepped forward, grabbed his collar with his left hand, inserted his right hand into his crotch, and lifted him high above his head with a light and skillful effort!

Before Xue Pan could react, he felt his body fall down first, and then a huge force rushed in, and he was thrown up two feet away!

"careful!"

"No!"