Detective in the Red Chamber

Not to mention, this extremely nonsense rhetoric has really bewitched many people.

At this time, there was a crowd of people kneeling at the foot of the mountain. Those who recited Buddha, worshiped the Tao, praised the emperor, and begged to have a baby early, all talked differently, but they seemed extremely harmonious.

And Sun Shaozong's immediate task is to lead the guards from one prefecture and two counties to set up a cordon at the foot of the mountain to prevent anyone from colliding with the auspicious signs on the mountain.

And on the mountainside, there is a second line of defense formed by the Huben Camp. Not to mention ordinary people, even court officials like Sun Shaozong are not allowed to approach at will.

To be honest, Sun Shaozong didn't have much interest in that hot air balloon—it wasn't a Zeppelin airship. If you glanced at it from a distance, you could tell it was a shoddy thing. What's so strange about it?

But he really wanted to know if there were people sitting on the hot air balloon, or... if there were any traversers on it!

Although it may not be a good thing to have two traversers in the same world, Sun Shaozong still has some expectations.

"how."

Just when Sun Shaozong was looking up at the top of the mountain frequently, someone beside him suddenly laughed and said, "Master Sun also wants to take a look at that big Kongming lantern?"

Kongming Lantern?

Sun Shaozong was taken aback when he heard the words. The principles of these two things are indeed similar, so it is quite appropriate to call the hot air balloon a large Kongming lantern.

only……

Cheng Rixing, a small county magistrate, can see the truth in it, but the court is still so motivating, isn't it afraid of making some jokes?

Just as he couldn't figure it out, he suddenly saw the crowd receding from the left and right not far away like a tide, and a group of dragon guards wearing ink dragon swallowing cloud robes and two green woolen sedan chairs carried by eight people flashed out.

At this glance, he knew that a big man was coming, so Sun Shaozong didn't dare to neglect, so he hurriedly called Wang Qian, the magistrate of Daxing County, Xu Huaizhi, the magistrate of Wanping County, and others to greet him together.

When he got close, Sun Shaozong was waiting to ask respectfully who was in the sedan chair, when he saw the door curtain of the sedan chair in front lifted, revealing a white and beardless face.

Sun Shaozong hurriedly replaced the salute with a one-knee military salute, and respectfully said, "Sun Shaozong, the humble officer, has met Commander-in-Chief!"

Needless to say, the person sitting in this sedan chair was naturally the eunuch Dai Quan.

In the past, when Dai Quan met Sun Shaozong, he had to make a few jokes, but today he was not in the mood. He waved the blue silk handkerchief against the wind, and said, "People should step back. The Sa family has been ordered by the emperor to welcome the auspicious people on the mountain back." to the palace."

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong hurriedly told everyone to get out of a mountain road, but he became more and more certain in his heart that this matter was not simple—at least it was not like what he thought at first, it was a traveler who invented a hot air balloon, which caused the accident. commotion.

If you say that this Eunuch Dai is a vigorous and resolute man.

Come fast, go fast!

About half an hour later, I saw a group of people coming down from the mountain in a mighty way. In addition to the two sedan chairs, there was a half-burned hot air balloon in the middle.

According to the shape and size of the hanging basket, seven out of ten people were carrying people on it, but Sun Shaozong went through the whole team, and he didn't see anyone who seemed to be in disguise.

In the green baize sedan chair?

It seems that the reason for mobilizing the crowd is really because of the people on board, not the hot air balloon itself!

After sending away Dai Quan and 'Xiangrui', there is naturally nothing to guard about Wuhuang Mountain.

So Sun Shaozong discussed with the generals of the Huben army, leaving only a small group of people to continue guarding the foot of the mountain, and the rest went back to the city separately—after all, the order in the city also needs manpower to maintain.

But Sun Shaozong didn't go back to the city directly.

It's so hard to come out, how can we not go to the refugee camp and visit Big Brother Cheap?

But Sun Shaozong asked the direction clearly, so he galloped all the way along the official road, about a dozen miles away, and saw countless thatched huts in front of him, guarding a military camp.

Although the refugee camp was a mess, but Sun Shaozong was riding a horse and carrying a knife, and he had a valiant figure, and he didn't have that short-sighted person who dared to block his way.

So he went all the way to the gate of the barracks unimpeded. Sun Shaozong was about to explain his purpose when he saw a young man on the side of the road grabbing the land with his head.

Seeing that his forehead was bruised and purple, and there were dried blood stains, he had obviously been kneeling for a while - but the soldiers guarding the camp gate turned a deaf ear to him.

This posture...

Could it be Big Brother Cheap who forcibly robbed his woman?

"Master Sun?!"

At this moment, a person came out in surprise, cupped his hands and said, "Are you here to visit my lord general?"

This person seems to be a captain under Brother Cheap's command, but Sun Shaozong can't remember the exact name.

He raised his chin at the young man who kowtowed, and Sun Shaozong asked, "What's the matter with this man?"

The captain glanced at the young man, and said nonchalantly, "This guy must say that the girl the General bought in the morning is a childhood sweetheart with him, arguing and asking the General to give her to him—if it wasn't for the fact that he has a scholar For my fame, I was driven away long ago."

Sun Shaozong raised his eyebrows, "Childhood sweetheart? Is there a marriage contract?"

Before the captain could speak, the kowtowed scholar rushed to shout, "Although there is no matchmaker's words, my sister Ying'er and I have long been in love with each other, and the sky is the proof, and the earth..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sun Shaozong urged his horse into the barracks.

If there is a marriage contract, maybe he still has to weigh it, but how can the friendship bestowed and received in private these days compare to the contract of selling one's life in exchange for real money?

But Sun Shaozong is not hard-hearted after all, after entering the gate, he lowered his voice and confessed, "If this kid kneels until tomorrow morning, you can let him go to my house to lead someone."

The captain was too busy responding.

But Sun Shaozong wondered again, "By the way, didn't you say that His Majesty allocated a lot of money for disaster relief? How come there are still people who sell their sons and daughters?"

The captain hurriedly explained, "I don't know what adults are. After this catastrophe, epidemics often follow. The younger brother in the woman's family was infected with the epidemic and had no money to ask a doctor for treatment, so she had to sell her daughter to keep her son. life."

tsk~

It turned out to be patriarchal.

Chapter 124 The Night Is Messy

August thirty.

Sun Shaozong was in the government office, but his heart had already flown to Beizhen Fusi—whether Jin Yichuan was the last victim of the bloody letter case, we will see tonight!

After finally getting to Sanya, Sun Shaozong was about to go to Beizhen Fusi to find out the truth.

But suddenly he received a report from his family, saying that Sun Shaozu went back to the city for a rest, and now he has already set up a banquet in the mansion, waiting for him to go back and not get drunk.

After hesitating for a while, Sun Shaozong sent Zhou Da to Beizhen Fusi, waiting for any news there, and immediately went to inform himself.

Back at the mansion, Brother Cheap was impatient with waiting, and was molesting a newly bought maid at the wine table.

The maid was about thirteen or fourteen years old, her arms were sprinkled with amber wine, her moon white skirt was open, her mandarin duck green bellyband was half rolled up, letting the big brother's beard look like a steel brush. Arched in disorder.

Seeing Sun Shaozong coming in, the servant girl panicked and wanted to struggle, but she really didn't dare, and her eyes were red with anxiety.

"Big brother."

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong teased helplessly, "Why don't you take out the wine and replace it with two catties of goat's milk? It will save you wasting effort."

"Ha ha……"

Only then did Sun Shaozu raise his head, and he pinched the girl's heart, and said with a laugh, "You're a full man who doesn't know how hungry a man is, and it's not convenient for me to play with women in the military camp. Day, I'm almost suffocating!"

Saying so, he still let go of the maid.

The maid was able to cover her chest, and rushed out of the living room like a frightened rabbit.

But Sun Shaozu glared immediately, and cursed, "This unruly little hoof, I don't know how to say hello when I see the second master! Come on, catch up with me and beat her..."

"Forget it."

Seeing that he was about to turn his face and be ruthless, Sun Shaozong hurriedly persuaded, "I just bought it a few days ago, so it is inevitable to forget the rules for a while."

"That's why it's even more important to use a whip to let them have a long memory!"

As Sun Shaozu said, he ignored the maid, lifted the wine jar and poured a cup for Sun Shaozong, and said somewhat mysteriously, "Erlang, do you know who fell on Wuhuang Mountain that day?"

Last time in the barracks, the two brothers guessed for a long time but couldn't figure it out, but judging from what it means today, Brother Cheap seems to have heard something.

Sun Shaozong snatched the wine jar and filled it up for him, but asked curiously, "Who is it?"

Seeing that Big Brother Cheap looked around a few times pretending to be mysterious, he lowered his voice and said, "It's that Prince Yizhong!"

The rebellious prince?

No wonder the imperial court is so inspiring!

"Prince Yizhong loves to tinker with these ingenious and obscene techniques. Back then, the cannon he made privately was said to be more powerful than the ones used by the Shenji Camp!"

"The western glass mirrors sold on the street were made by him in the first place, and they were made by foreigners in order to raise the price."

"And the soap we use at home, I heard it's also..."

The more I listen to this, the more I feel that Prince Yizhong is a time traveler!

But since he was a time traveler, and started as a prince, why did he end up in this mess?

"I heard that His Majesty favored him at the beginning, but this righteous and loyal prince is so capable of making troubles. All the adults in the court are worried that after he succeeds to the throne, he will be aggressive and destroy the foundation of the ancestors. Therefore, he overwhelmingly supports His Majesty today, so... ..."

Militarism?

To put it bluntly, it's not because he is afraid that after the Yizhong prince succeeds to the throne, he will overthrow the pattern of emphasizing civility over military affairs!

And Prince Yizhong would have such thoughts, Sun Shaozong was not surprised - ordinary people suddenly ascended to high positions, and have not experienced the polishing of officialdom, it is simply normal to look down on these old bureaucrats.

Unfortunately, he still underestimated the power of the old bureaucrats.

The emperor and the scholar-bureaucrats governing the world together are not just talking.

But luckily this fellow failed, otherwise Sun Shaozong, who offended him, would have been exiled overseas forever.

The wine feast is exhausted.

Sun Shaozong staggered back to the back house, originally wanted to go to the main room to find Ruan Rong to talk about himself, but when he inquired, Ruan Rong couldn't hold on anymore and had already fallen asleep.

So he went to Xiangling's West Wing by himself.

He paralyzed into the mandarin duck tent, threw off his boots indiscriminately, and immediately wrapped them up with two warm, jade-like hands, leading his feet into a basin of warm water.

Sun Shaozong took a bleary-eyed look, and saw that it was not Xiangling who was serving him, but a maid named Yinger, so he struggled to get up, involuntarily pulled Xiangling's little hand, and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes.

At the same time, he asked vaguely, "How many times have you been pierced today?"

Xiangling wanted to break free, but how could she move?

I had to laugh and said, "Not a few times, I just want to finish embroidering that veil."

"Embroidered? I guess before you finish embroidering the veil, your hand will be tied into a sieve."

As Sun Shaozong said, he simply took her into his arms and murmured, "Since you have news about your family, you should be happy. Why are you so frizzy and restless all day long?"

"I... When I'm free now, my mind is in a mess."

Although Xiangling didn't make it clear, Sun Shaozong also knew that she was 'cowardly from the hometown'.

Originally, there was no news for more than ten years, and I thought it was for the benefit of my family, but once I got the news, I was worried about the gains and losses, and I was afraid that there would be a tragedy of having a child who wanted to raise her but would not wait for her.

In the past two days, Sun Shaozong also said that he didn't know how many baskets he had said in comfort, so he didn't bother to say anything more right now.

He lowered his head and pecked on the silver ingot-like earlobe, and said with a smile, "Master, I will work overtime tonight, so that you can't rest for a while, how about it?"

Hearing him say these words in front of the servant girl, Xiang Ling's face flushed with shame, her plump yet firm body writhed resolutely in Sun Shaozong's arms, but on the contrary, it aroused his evil fire even more.

Taking advantage of his drunkenness, he didn't care if there were other people in the room, and being unscrupulous was a grind.

When the interest came up, she didn't even want to idle her feet, picked up the water splash, and flicked the Ying'er's chest.

After Ying'er finally washed and dried those feet, her front was wet. Seeing that those two feet were still refusing to let go, she had no choice but to squat in front of the bed expectantly, not knowing whether to retreat or enter. .

"You... go down first."

Fortunately, although Sun Shaozong was drunk, Xiangling was sober, so he hurriedly gave orders when he had some free time.

Only then did Ying'er hurried outside with the footbath in her hands, and when she kicked in and out of the door, she heard the sound of spring inside.

She tremblingly closed the door, leaned against the wall, held her apex, and eavesdropped for an unknown how long before she went outside to pour out the footwashing water as if stepping on cotton.

pat~

Just after pouring out the water in the basin, a stone suddenly fell not far in front of her, and Yinger let out a low cry, and hurriedly looked around, but she didn't see the slightest movement.

While he was wondering, he suddenly discovered that there was a piece of paper wrapped on the stone!

Chapter 125

Yinger, take care of yourself, I will rescue you as soon as possible!

——Pure Health.

tsk~