Detective in the Red Chamber

Therefore, he avoided Jia Baoyu's gaze in advance.

But on this side, he suddenly found someone secretly spying on him in the bushes by the pond.

Sun Shaozong looked around for a moment out of the corner of his eye, and vaguely recognized that the person was none other than Jia Lian who had just left. Want to calculate yourself?

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong couldn't help but raise his vigilance secretly.

but……

He guessed wrong this time.

But Jia Lian hid in the bushes, watched Sun Shaozong, Baoyu, Jin Chuan and others go away, and stayed there for a long time before walking towards his courtyard in a daze.

Along the way, he still muttered to himself, "Why didn't I notice it before, this is really... really..."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Jia Lian's cheeks that were painted with makeup seemed to be a little more rosy.

Seeing his own courtyard, he pushed open the door of the study, and was almost moved by the threshold when he lost his mind. He just stabilized his body when he was suddenly slapped on the back of his buttocks.

Looking back, he saw Zhao'er, his personal servant, hiding behind the door with a playful smile on his face.

Seeing Jia Lian turning around, your Zhao'er put the paw under his nose and sniffed, and said intoxicated, "Second Master really smells so sweet, especially in this land..."

Originally, Jia Lian always used the young servants around him to "get angry", but recently he prefers to "be low and be small", so in private, these young servants gradually became public.

Ordinarily, these kinds of methods are exactly what Jia Lian likes, but now he looks at Zhao'er's thin figure, but he just feels uninterested.

He pinched the orchid with his hand and flicked his sleeves, and said coquettishly, "What is the fragrance, go and go, I don't have time to talk to you today!"

Zhao'er was bored, but seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, she had no choice but to leave the study in a embarrassed manner.

crunch~

Jia Lian locked the door behind her back, leaned her back against the door and closed her eyes tightly, but all that came to mind was the scene of Sun Shaozong carrying the golden bracelet out of the water.

The wet robe was tightly attached to the body, outlining the sharp-edged and strong physique vividly, and the masculine aura emanating from his gestures made people feel glaring and heart-wrenching even from afar...

"Like this, he is considered a man!"

With a murmur blurted out, Jia Lian held the thumping heart with both hands, not to mention that in the ghost's mind, even the deep-seated hatred was melted into...

at the same time.

"Ahh~!"

Sun Shaozong sneezed heavily, which made Jia Baoyu on the side even more embarrassed. He rubbed his hands and said, "It's all my fault. I actually caused my second brother to catch a cold. Why don't my second brother come to my courtyard to warm up first?" , I will find someone to find a suit of clothes that fits, and I will change it for my second brother."

Sun Shaozong didn't feel any discomfort in his body, but since he sneezed, he couldn't go back in his wet clothes, so he half-pushed and went inside.

As for Jin Chuan, it was Madam Wang who heard the news and asked her sister to come and take him back.

In fact, if you really want to say it, this Jin Chuan is also self-inflicted.

Recently, because her old rivals Caixia and Qingwen were sent to Sun's house, she felt a little flustered with pride, and took advantage of Mrs. Wang's afternoon nap to pick up Jia Baoyu, and said that she wanted to take Baoyu to catch Caixia and Jia Huan's adulterer. , now there is no chance to start.

In the end, Mrs. Wang listened to it seriously, slapped her several times across the face, and threatened to drive her out of Jia's house. This is how Jin Chuan committed suicide by diving.

Less gossip.

But when it came to the house, Jia Baoyu hurriedly called Xiren to find new bedding and towels, and invited Sun Shaozong into the usually idle guest room, and asked him to take off his clothes to dry first.

Originally, he wanted to find a suit of clothes for Sun Shaozong to change as soon as possible, but Xiren wore the musk moon and autumn pattern. He searched all over the house, but he couldn't find suitable clothes - he did have a pair of shoes.

Seeing that she was about to return in vain, Musk Moon said casually, "If Master Xue is still in our house, I can ask him to borrow one to wear, but now..."

These words reminded Xiren that there were no other men in the Grand View Garden except Baoyu and Jialan, so everyone was looking for them in the front yard, and naturally Xue Baochai had never been there.

"Miss Bao and Ying'er love to do some sewing work the most. Now that the weather is getting colder, it is likely that they have made new clothes for Uncle Xue..."

When Xiren said this, he couldn't help being embarrassed. If Yinger did it, it would be fine, if Xue Baochai did it...

After all, she is a lady of every family, so how can she casually wear the clothes she made by herself for a man with a different surname?

Qiuwen and Sheyue didn't think too much about it. When they heard that Xue Baochai might have suitable clothes, they dragged Xiren to the Hengwu courtyard.

After explaining the reasons before and after this to Xue Baochai, Xue Baochai smiled generously and said, "If it's someone else, it's fine. Mr. Sun is my brother's best friend, and he once saved my mother and me. A few clothes count. What?"

As he spoke, he instructed Ying'er again, "Go, get the new set of clothes you made for the uncle, and let Sister Xiren take it back for business."

Ying'er rummaged through the boxes and came up with a complete set of clothes, shoes and hats in a short time. Although Sun Shaozong was a little more thoughtful than Xue Pan, he could use it just by hand.

So all the maids expressed their gratitude and rushed back to the middle school happily with their clothes.

But he said that Sun Shaozong got the clothes, shook them off and was about to put them on, when he heard a crisp sound of "click", a letter fell out of the clothes.

Sun Shaozong shook his head curiously and took a closer look, but it turned out to be Xue Baochai's letter to his brother's family. The whole letter was admonishing him to restrain his temper. Get it right again.

At the end, she hurriedly mentioned that this dress was sewn by herself in her spare time, and if there was anything that didn't fit, she would ask her sister-in-law to help change it.

tsk~

After seeing the earnest words of "Looking for Brother Jackie Chan", thinking about Xue Baochai's appearance and figure, and touching the fine clothes, Sun Shaozong suddenly remembered Jia Zheng's job as a matchmaker—didn't he say that he would wait for the letter? Why is there no text?

"what?!"

At this moment, the attacker outside suddenly exclaimed, "Why is Master Sun's clothes missing? Could it be that one of you put them away?!"

Chapter 452 The Three Monks Have No Water To Drink

This is really strange, the clothes that were hanging in the yard just disappeared.

Until Sun Shaozong said goodbye and left, Baoyu was still gearing up, declaring that he would not give up until the thief was found out.

In fact, if Sun Shaozong personally investigates, it is estimated that the case can be solved in minutes - but what was lost was only a few clothes, and most likely it was done by the family thieves of Rongguo Mansion, so Sun Shaozong naturally didn't bother to make a big fuss about it.

But he said that when he left Rongguo Mansion, the sky was already covered with dark clouds and thunder, and within two streets after walking, it was pouring rain.

Originally, Sun Shaozong was still thinking about going to the house bought by Sun Chengye and Yu Qian, so as to prepare two suitable housewarming gifts in advance - but since the weather was not beautiful, he had to abandon the original plan and go back home.

I got off the carriage at the gate, and walked all the way to the back house along the corridor, but halfway there, I saw more than a dozen servants from the mansion, braving the rain and yelling in the mud. with.

Sun Shaozong was puzzled, so he stopped in the corridor, and was about to take a closer look, when he saw one of the servants wearing a coir raincoat, he walked up to him quickly, and picked up the bamboo hat in the corridor, revealing a clean and neat face. With an oval face, it was the mandarin duck who had just been assigned to Yingchun's side.

"Second Master."

I heard her report in a crisp voice, "Because there were no chrysanthemums in our house during the Double Ninth Festival last year, so the uncle specifically explained that we should buy them in advance this year. Unexpectedly, we just planted a batch yesterday, and today we planted such a big one." For the rain, right now we have to dig it out first, temporarily pile it up in the corridor and gazebo, and replant it tomorrow.”

This mandarin duck is quite conscious of being a protagonist, unlike Qingwen who basically regards herself as a temporary tenant at Sun Shaozong's place.

"Actually, some flowers and plants are not worth much money."

Sun Shaozong said with Daidai, "It's true that these people have been busy in the rain for a long time, so don't get caught in the cold."

"Second Master, don't worry."

Yuanyang hurriedly said, "I asked Siqi to bring the two wives to boil a big pot of ginger soup to keep the cold out, and I prepared towels, hot water and clean clothes, so I can guarantee that nothing will go wrong."

After all, it's a good idea to think carefully about someone Jiamu needs to be around, but it's a surprise to be able to hold Siqi steadily.

Seeing that she was handled in an orderly manner, Sun Shaozong didn't ask any more questions, and went to Second Sister You's room alone, where Hu Tian and Emperor Hu stayed together for half a day, and at night they washed and ate at Ruan Rong's place, and talked to each other about their hearts in the middle of the night.

Early the next morning.

A nasty horse with four hooves wrapped in straw and coarse cloth stepped on the muddy ground, and carried Sun Shaozong, Sun Chengye's uncle and nephew out of the side door of the Sun residence.

Sun Shaozong first told about the fact that Jia Baoyu would bring Jia Lan to the door tomorrow to hire Yu Qian as his teacher, but seeing that Sun Chengye looked a little out of spirits, he couldn't help wondering, "What's wrong with you? Could it be that in the past half a month, you met What's the problem? But didn't I ask someone to explain it, but if you encounter something that you can't make up your mind on, don't you just temporarily put it on hold?"

Sun Chengye shook his head and said, "It's not that there is something wrong with my nephew, it's that Wei Tongpan has encountered a difficult and unsolved case, and he often takes Mr. Lin to travel around in recent days, so my nephew has to deal with big and small things in this mansion." Just wait a little longer."

Saying that, he couldn't help but yawn.

Wei Ruolan encountered a difficult unsolved case?

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong really became interested. Although Wei Ruolan is not an expert in investigating cases, Master Qi beside him is a veteran who has worked in the Ministry of Criminal Justice for many years. It must be very special to be able to catch his case. unusual.

Intentionally asking Sun Chengye a few words, it can be seen that he looks overworked, which is not good to disturb his rare leisure time.

Speaking of...

It is true that the manpower of a teacher is a little thin, it seems that it is necessary to urge Liu Xianglian to marry Third Sister You as soon as possible, so that he can report to the criminal justice department.

Just as he was thinking about these things, he heard Sun Chengye take the initiative to say, "Actually, your lord was the one who handled this case at first, but in the blink of an eye, the case of the 'Prince Assassination' came out, and then Master Lin was in charge... ..."

"Lin Delu is responsible?"

Sun Shaozong couldn't help being surprised when he heard this, because Lin Delu had always been in charge of logistics in the criminal justice department, even if he appeared on the scene, he was just on the sidelines, and he never investigated the case alone.

Why did this suddenly make him provoke the leader and cover Wei Ruolan?

and many more!

In the beginning, I was in charge of the investigation...

"Could it be that on the day of the solar eclipse, monk Jiexian died in Fayuan Temple?"

If it is this case, it makes sense to bypass Wei Ruolan and directly hand it over to Lin Delu for investigation. After all, in this case, Wei Ruolan is also considered one of the suspects.

"That's the case."

Sun Chengye nodded at first, but then shook his head and said, "However, Jie Xian is not the only one who was killed right now——Since then, the two suspects, Jie Chi and Jie Ming, have also died in untimely deaths one after another!"

But it turned out that after Sun Shaozong went to the Prince's Mansion, the case of Jiexian was temporarily handed over to Lin Delu.

However, how could Lin Delu find out the truth of the case that Sun Shaozong was unable to solve for a while?

So it was unclear and delayed for a few days, without any progress at all, and with Fayuan Temple's constant pressure, Lin Delu and Wei Ruolan discussed it, and had to let those monks go back to the temple first, and waited. After finding out any clues, send them to the Yamen for questioning.

Who would have thought that not long after returning, these monks hit Wen Po's precepts with wooden basins, and were inexplicably strangled to death in their own meditation room.

Since Wei Ruolan died in Fayuan Temple this time, Wei Ruolan's suspicion was basically ruled out, so after receiving the report, Wei Ruolan led the investigation instead.

And this investigation lasted five or six days, but before the cause of Ming Jiechi's death was found out, the monk Jieming, who was also a suspect, was nailed to death outside the mountain gate of Fayuan Temple by iron rods.

Now even the abbot, Zen Master Li Chi, couldn't sit still anymore, and went to the government office to have a heart-to-heart talk with Jia Yucun in person, urging Shuntian Mansion to solve the case as soon as possible, so as to avoid panic in the temple.

This Zen Master Chi is the master who has been in and out of the emperor's palace all year round. It is said that even the empress pays respect to him. Jia Yucun is now at the critical moment of "wanting to go to heaven every day", how dare he offend Zen Master Chi?

However, the King of Beijing Jing behind Wei Ruolan, he also can't afford to offend him.

Therefore, on the one hand, he promised to solve the case as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he didn't want to be too urging. He has been worried for the past two days, and even lost his hair. '.

"In my opinion, after my uncle arrives at the government office today, Prime Minister Jia will entrust the case to my uncle for investigation. Whether you want to evade it or accept it, uncle please make preparations early."

tsk~

After all, Sun Chengye has little experience, it seems that such news should have been told to himself earlier.

If he had known the current situation of the government office, Sun Shaozong would have only asked for a day or two of leave, and then continued to hide in the prince's mansion, and waited until he had seen enough of Jia Yucun and Wei Ruolan's foolishness before coming out to clean up the mess.

But right now...

I've been to the Rongguo Mansion, wouldn't it be too deliberate not to visit the mansion?

Worth mentioning~

Left and right in the Prince's Mansion, other than bragging... um, maybe talking is more appropriate here.

In short, I was in a panic at the prince's mansion, and now I just went to solve this unsolved case and change my mood.

Chapter 453 The Beginning

"Sister-in-law Fan?"

Sure enough, Sun Chengye had guessed it. As soon as Sun Shaozong arrived at the government office, he had not yet settled down in the Criminal Division, when Jia Yucun came in a hurry.

What are "I look forward to my virtuous brother, like looking forward to the rain after a long drought", "This case is complicated and confusing in ancient and modern times, and it can't be solved without a virtuous brother", "I just lost a governor in Shuntian Mansion, so there must be no more mistakes" and so on. , There are always a lot of things to say.

Although Sun Shaozong had already made up his mind to investigate the case, he deliberately took Joe for a long time, and after listening to his flattery, he reluctantly agreed.

After that, Sun Shaozong summoned Wei Ruolan and others to inquire about the investigation process of the case and whether any useful clues had been found.

And the key clue given by Wei Ruolan is the word 'Sister-in-law Fan'!

The so-called "Fan Sao" is a bad habit left over from Xiangguo Temple in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is said that there were monks who married prostitutes at that time, so they called them Fan Sao.

"What your lord said is the old calendar."

Qiu Yunfei curled his lips aside and said, "Now this Fanmao is not referring to a prostitute, but a woman from a good family who has an affair with a monk."

Master Qi added from the side, "In fact, this is the legacy left by the Mongol Tartars when they invaded the Central Plains. Those Mongols were extremely harsh on the people of the Central Plains, but they treated the monks with more courtesy, so some lawless people entrusted themselves to monks and beat them up." In the name of a monk, he commits all kinds of evil."

"At that time, many temples had quite a lot of land, and it was not like ordinary people who had to pay heavy taxes. Therefore, these evil monks often used this as a bait to lure those desperate tenants to offer their wives and daughters for their humiliation in exchange for renting temple properties. qualifications."

"And these women are collectively referred to as Sister-in-law Fan."