Detective in the Red Chamber

Therefore, he planned to find a place with a treasured geomantic omen, display his three-inch tongue, and beg for some jingling treasures, so that he could make a sacrifice to his five internal organs temple.

Who would have thought that when he reached the street with a dog-beating stick, before he could think of a suitable place, he found someone following behind him step by step, peeking at him, but it was the subordinate of the deaf boss!

Could it be that this damned ear really wants to drive people to death? !

Hong Jiu was full of aggrieved anger, wishing he could turn around and fight the evil beggar to the death, but he just turned around and measured the opponent's size, and he wisely gave up this idea of ​​courting death.

What should I do?

Fighting is definitely impossible, and he is limping, and there is no way to get rid of the opponent.

This is really...

"Hey, hello~!"

My mind was in a mess, I didn't notice that a man rushed out from the alley in front of me, and with an elbow, he threw Hong Jiu on his back!

That's not enough, five or six burly men chased after them, and seeing the thin-soled fast boots the size of a casserole pot, they were about to step on them without thinking, Hong Jiu was so frightened that his soul flew away, and he came here in a hurry. Eighteen rolls on the spot, and rolled to the bottom of the south wall, and then stopped in shock.

When Hong Jiu got up from the ground, he saw that the tall and thin man who had knocked him over was already surrounded by strong men chasing after him. He greeted him with fists and slaps, and shouted and cursed.

"Sun thief! You don't want to ask, where is our Silver Hook Gambling House! We stole things from us. The real mother is an old birthday star who eats arsenic and is impatient!"

"Don't talk nonsense with him! Where are the things? Where are the things! Hurry up and hand over the things!"

"Brother Dong, it doesn't seem to be on him! Tell me, where the hell did you hide your things?!"

There is a morning market selling vegetables near here, and it is the time when the crowds are raging. When they heard that a thief was caught, they all gathered around, shouting and killing to join in the fun.

"Who stole your things!"

Seeing this, the thin and tall man jumped three feet high, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Heaven and earth conscience, I am really gold... Ouch!"

As soon as he called himself Lao Tzu, he was slapped again. The tall and thin man covered his face and hurriedly changed his words, "I bought something with real money, how can it be considered stealing?!"

Hearing this, Hong Jiu thought that this person had bought stolen goods, but was caught by the original owner.

Unexpectedly, the thug at the Silver Hook Gambling Shop sneered and said, "It's really not considered stealing. The 'chips' in my house are exchanged for five renminbi for one piece, but they can be sold for seven renminbi outside—you can exchange them in one breath!" Dozens of chips, if you want to sneak them out and sell them at a high price, it’s really a good deal!”

Many people were puzzled when they heard these words. Chips have always been marked with a price, and they would never accept it when they were exchanged in other houses. How could someone want to change the chips and sell them at a high price outside?

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, the leader of the thugs hurriedly explained, "Everyone doesn't know, the chips in our gambling shop are all filled with Tao Zhu Jinbei. It was fine a few days ago, and Tao Zhu Jinbei was only sold for four renminbi a piece of silver." No one has the idea of ​​playing these chips."

"Unexpectedly, after entering June, this special mother's 'Tao Zhu Jinbei' has risen in the wind, and now it has sold for seven silver coins, so my family's bargaining chip has been missed by this thief!"

The voice did not fall.

Suddenly, a few voices of enlightenment came from the crowd.

"No wonder, it turned out to be Tao Zhu Jinbei!"

"I heard that the value of this thing has really increased, and the low-grade gold shells can only be returned. I heard that the middle-grade gold shells have increased from the initial two taels of silver to eight taels of silver a piece!"

"What is this?! My second grandfather's neighbor's nephew's wife-in-law bought a top-grade golden shell with writing for three taels of silver. It was only so small, so I changed it into a three-in-one yard , now that there are five people and six envoys and servants, don't mention how comfortable the mother is!"

"Then it's too early to sell! Look at the current skyrocketing momentum, maybe you'll be able to change to a four-entry mansion in two months!"

"It's a pity that I have no way, otherwise I can buy a few golden shells and put them at home, and the income will be multiplied several times in two or three months!"

Everyone who listened to this sentence was full of admiration and envy, but they had long forgotten about the thief.

In the end, someone still questioned, "Since the price of Taozhu Jinbei has increased, why don't you just raise the silver for the exchange of chips, which counts as one tael of silver, isn't it?"

Everyone thought about it for the same reason, so they focused their attention on the thugs in the gambling shop, and their eyes definitely carried a sense of superior IQ.

"We think so too!"

The leading thug hurriedly called Qu and said, "But the boss led the shopkeeper to Jinmen Mansion to discuss business, and now there is no one in the family who can make the decision. Who dares to raise the price indiscriminately?!"

As he spoke, he pushed and shoved, and took the tall and thin man back to find where the golden shells were.

In a blink of an eye, the thugs were all scattered, but the crowd of onlookers did not disperse because of this, they gathered in groups, never leaving the 'Tao Zhu Jin Bei'.

With his ears on the side, Hong Jiu also listened to everyone's discussions, and his heart jumped up excitedly—Gein suddenly remembered that at the beginning of the year, he seemed to have picked up a piece of pottery. Zhu Jinbei didn't know it was a valuable item at the time, so he gave it to Niuzi casually.

Looking back now, the shell is completely white with clear lines, at least it is a middle-grade one, maybe...

Thinking that he might have picked up a big courtyard with three entrances for nothing, the gloom in Hong Jiu's heart suddenly disappeared, and what was replaced was an eagerness like burning coals!

As if wishing he could not fly, he ran back to the ruined temple to check carefully, but suddenly he saw the deaf boss's subordinates standing not far away, also dazzled by hearing.

No!

Going back in such a hurry, if the subordinates of the deaf boss see the flaw, I am afraid that he will immediately take away his chance!

It's just that he entered the house three times in his heart, but how could Hong Jiu still be interested in begging?So I decided to wander around the street casually, stay up until noon and go back to see what happened.

But he said that he was leaning on a bamboo stick, and just ran around aimlessly like this. At first, he didn't feel tired because his heart was hot, but as he walked, the hot sun became powerful, and Hong Jiuhan was directly exposed to the sun. like rain.

Seeing that he would have to suffer from heatstroke if this went on like this, Hong Jiu was hesitating whether to find a shady place so that he could have a rest, but suddenly he heard chickens and dogs jumping up and down in the nearby alleys.

First, a man shouted loudly in the yard, "You poisonous woman, you really want to murder your husband!"

"Pooh!"

Immediately afterwards, another woman screamed, "You thief is clearly not my husband-in-law, and now you live in my house with a shameless face, you must be trying to cheat my family's property!"

The man shouted again, "Okay, okay! You poisonous woman is still talking like this even now, I...I must divorce you today!"

After listening to these few words, Hong Jiu felt a little strange - he usually walked around the streets, and he heard a lot about the quarrel between husband and wife, but the woman insisted that her husband was fake, but let him live at home , but it's the first time I've seen it.

Tired from left and right, he just sat down at the entrance of the alley, first took off the open-toed cloth shoes, knocked off the sand inside on the wall, and then rolled up the trouser legs, revealing two gray and white hairy legs .

When everything was settled, Hong Jiu was about to prick up his ears to listen to the corner of the wall, but suddenly he heard a shrill and high-pitched scream from the yard, "Ah~~~!"

Hong Jiu was so frightened that she got goosebumps all over her body. Just as she didn't know what happened inside, she heard another 'crash'. The door of this house opened left and right, and a pretty little woman staggered and escaped. The lotus root The green sleeves were actually stained with blood!

This is……

Hong Jiu subconsciously got up from the ground, tremblingly grasping the dog-beating stick, and stepped back step by step.

Unexpectedly, the little woman was even more panicked than him. When she went out, she saw a beggar holding a bamboo stick, staring at him with wide-eyed eyes, her feet were limp, and she sat on the ground crying and crying, "I ...I just wanted to scare him, I didn't mean to kill him!"

"Kill...kill..."

Hearing this, Hong Jiu took another two steps back, turned around and ran at the entrance of the alley, screaming, "Killer! Killer! Someone murdered my husband!"

Chapter 407 Mysterious Case of Husband Killing 【Part [-]】

In Shuntian Mansion, the criminal name is Zhengtang.

"Uh~ ah!"

After a big yawn, Sun Shaozong picked up the pen sleepily, and was about to write on the official document, but suddenly forgot what to write.

After he thought hard, he finally recalled some eyebrows, but he only heard a tick, and the thick ink had already landed on the official document.

Oops!

Sun Shaozong hurriedly took a soft cloth to dip it in. Fortunately, the high-quality Hui ink was used, and it condensed on the paper. After the ink was absorbed with a soft cloth, only a piece of ink the size of a chess piece was left, and the official document was not stained. original typeface.

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong breathed a sigh of relief, but he really had no intention of continuing to review official documents, so he washed the Langhao brush, put it on the mountain-shaped pen holder, and went to the window to scoop it into a copper basin. With clear water, he scrubbed the Chinese character face several times.

In this way, he was finally refreshed.

Hey~

In the past few days, she has been greedy for flowers and lust, she really is a bit too indulgent!

It seems that some restraint is necessary, otherwise there will be some mistakes in official affairs, and it is not a joke.

Then again, Second Sister You is really a natural beauty, her tall and plump snow-satin white body seems to be tailor-made for men, and Sun Shaozong is so happy that she can't extricate herself from it every time.

What's more, she is willing to obey in all kinds of tricks, and she loves to be infatuated with Jiaohan and take the initiative to invite battles. She is not as shy as other women, so it is rare for Sun Shaozong to get a full night's sleep in the past few days.

In addition, I have to spare time to 'soothe' Ruan Rong. The beauty and pain in it are really not enough for outsiders to understand.

Fortunately, Jia Yingchun has already experienced pregnancy, otherwise Big Brother would be urging to 'sow seeds' every day, even if his body is made of iron, it would be difficult to support him.

"uncle."

Just as he was thinking about something, he heard Sun Chengye report outside, "The notice on the trial implementation of the beggar Baojia system has been written. Would you like to have a look at it first?"

"come in."

Sun Shaozong stepped forward and opened the door, took the notice, glanced at ten lines for a few times, then shook his head and said, "It's better to be more straightforward. How many beggars can understand this polite language?"

Sun Chengye hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Then my nephew will go and make another copy."

"No need."

Sun Shaozong said, "First post this notice outside the gate of the mansion, and then draw up another plain and simple one, so that the servants in the mansion can memorize it by heart, and call the beggars to read it directly."

After Sun Chengye agreed and went out to explain the matter of posting the notice, Sun Shaozong sat back behind the official case and prepared to continue to give instructions on the official document.

Unexpectedly, I just got the ink and was about to pick up the pen to write, when I suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside from far to near, and then I heard Qiu Yunfei yelling in a rough voice, "Oh my god, it's really hot to death!" Yes! Master Sun, I have led people to investigate the case of murdering my husband this morning, and it was indeed the woman who killed her."

"Because the man went away for four years and didn't return, this woman got into a heated fight with a handsome scholar. She was planning to marry with her family property, but who knew that her husband came back suddenly, ruining her wishful thinking."

"Therefore, the husband and wife have always been at odds. They quarreled once every three days and once every other day. It's not the first time that a knife was used."

"It's just that this time, I didn't know how to hurry up during the tearing, and actually cut the man's throat with a knife, and died on the spot."

"The case is simple and clear, and she also admitted that she killed her—but she didn't know what was wrong with this woman, so she insisted that the deceased was not her husband."

"Now the man's relatives have followed and are making a lot of noise in front of the mansion, saying that they want to ask the adults to kill her in order to anger the people."

Sun Shaozong understood what he heard from inside, so he simply put down his pen again, got up and went to the outer hall, and asked Qiu Yunfei for the on-site inspection records, but he saw that there were more than ten pages of records in it.

From the person who first discovered it to the people who reported it to the officials, from the neighbors to the relatives and friends of both sides, and even the rumored 'adulter', they were all carefully cross-examined.

"Alright."

Sun Shaozong couldn't help but nodded and said, "Recently, your errands have become more and more similar."

Although it is not a serious compliment, but to get Sun Shaozong's affirmation, he still smiled at Qiu Yunfei's happy brows, and was about to boast a few words.

However, Sun Shaozong waved his hand again, and ordered unquestionably, "Since the bitter master has followed, and it's a life lawsuit for murdering your own husband, let's have a trial first-you go and find all the witnesses, before the time comes, the judge will come at [-]:[-] p.m. Then go up to the hall to ask questions!"

When Qiu Yunfei took the order, Sun Shaozong carefully considered the survey record twice from beginning to end.

At first glance, there is indeed nothing unusual about this case.

The deceased’s surname was Song, his first name was Chang Geng, he was 26 years old, his parents died early, and he had no children. His family ran a small tea plantation. Four years ago, he led a young man south to buy tea, but he never knew it. audio.

After a long time, his wife Xu also believed that he died outside, so half a year ago, through the matchmaking of neighbors, she met a nearby scholar named Zhou Yuansheng.

Because the scholar was very handsome and famous, so after meeting him a few times, Mrs. Xu made a secret promise to her, and planned to marry into the Zhou family with the house and shop left by Song Changgeng.

Unexpectedly, at the moment when the two started preparing for the wedding, Song Changgeng suddenly returned home, saying that he suffered a catastrophe outside and was seriously ill, and it took him several years to recover.

As a result, the marriage between Xu and Zhou Xiucai naturally fell through, and Song Changgeng even gathered two cousins ​​from his uncle's family to come to his door and beat Zhou Xiucai severely on the charge of seducing a wife.

With these causes and consequences, both Xu and Song Changgeng had a grudge in their hearts, and they would quarrel from time to time.

This morning, the two started to quarrel again. Song Changgeng said he was going to divorce Mrs. Xu and let her go out of the house; but Mrs. Xu was not angry, so he picked up a kitchen knife and threatened to die.

Unexpectedly, between the two pushing and shoving, the kitchen knife accidentally cut Song Changgeng's neck, causing him to die on the spot.

Because the beggar Hong Jiu happened to hear the incident, Xu couldn't deny it, so he had to confess to the killing of her husband. Therefore, there is nothing worthy of investigation and doubt in this part of the case.

The only strange thing is that Xu insisted that the deceased was a counterfeit and not the real Song Changgeng.

But this statement was refuted by Song Changgeng's uncle, thinking that she made such a ridiculous lie in order to mitigate the crime.

but……

If you really want to make up a lie to get rid of the crime, you shouldn't use such a bizarre excuse, right?

Sun Shaozong looked at this survey record and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

The words are divided into two parts.

But Hong Jiu, who happened to be involved in the life lawsuit, was also brought to Shuntian Mansion as a witness.

And because Qiu Yunfei saw that he was a beggar without roots, he was afraid that he would disappear if he didn't pay attention, so he simply ordered someone to temporarily detain him together with the Xu family in the lobby.

Hong Jiuchu was so frightened that he was so weak that he knelt in the hall and didn't even dare to breathe.

But after kneeling for more than half an hour, seeing that it was past meal time and his stomach was growling with hunger, but still no one came to inquire, Hong Jiu couldn't kneel anymore.

Stealing a glance left and right, he saw that the yamen servants were all outside, and no one was paying attention to him, so he simply tilted his body, sat down on the ground, and rubbed his knees with his teeth bared.

After rubbing for a while, he found that no one was interfering, so he became more courageous. While rubbing his knees, he sneaked a glance at Xu who was not far away.

I saw Mrs. Xu kneeling on the ground in a daze, her skirt was torn apart by the relatives of the Song family, revealing half of her white porcelain shoulder, but she couldn't think of covering it up at all.