Detective in the Red Chamber

"There are so many of us, why are we afraid of him?!"

"Yes, everyone shoulder to shoulder!"

"This guy may be a silver pewter gun head!"

Seeing that the diving board was full of people and there was no way out, the salt owls could only yell at one another, each with their swords and guns to meet them, trying to rely on their numbers to win.

But the reason why Sun Shaozong wanted to find this big oar first was to be able to defeat a hundred with one, so why would he care about the dozen or so people in front of him?

He shook the big oar in his hand, and swung it left and right like a broom. The half-meter-wide oar tail was neither high nor low, and was stuck on the waistline of the salt owls, making them unable to hide or jump. , I had no choice but to block with a weapon.

However, as soon as he put the weapon on the oar, he felt a huge and unstoppable force coming, not to mention that he couldn't hold the weapon in his hand, even people were swept down to the bottom of the river like dumplings.

Sun Shaozong got the power and was relentless, he rushed to the bow of the boat with the big oar, and after another swaying, he drove all the salt owls who were too late to retreat on the springboard into the river.

Then he inserted the big oar under a certain gangplank, and lifted it up with all his strength. The five-meter-long plank flew into the air like a piece of paper, and collapsed the salt boat with a bang. top cabin!

With this startling move, all the Yanxiaos on the five boats opposite changed their expressions in shock. They really thought that they had encountered the reincarnation of evil and Dian Wei's resurrection, and they couldn't think of fighting against them at all!

Sun Shaozong stood majesticly on the bow of the boat, stretched his arms and pointed forward, the big oar almost poked the face of the opposite Yan Xiao, only to make the salt owl kneel on the ground with a plop in fright, screaming from the gods and ancestors in his mouth.

Sun Shaozong didn't pay any attention to it, and only slightly adjusted his position, pointed the scull at the middle-aged fat man headed by him, and said with a sneer, "Did you just say that you wanted to drive everyone on board into the water?"

The fat man was so frightened that his fat body trembled wildly. If he hadn't been supported by someone, he might have collapsed to the ground.

Being so panicked, he naturally didn't care about any taboos, and hurriedly shouted in a shrill voice, "I am the steward of Prince Zhongshun's house, if you dare to touch a single hair of my hair, the prince will definitely not spare you!"

As soon as the words "Prince Zhongshun" came out, Sun Shaozong felt the air suddenly sink behind him, and even Jia Lian gasped in shock.

But it turned out that this 'Loyal and Obedient Prince' and the emperor were of the same mother and compatriot, and he was no better than others because of his affection, and his behavior was the most perverse and domineering. he.

With his backing, it's no wonder the salt lords dared to transport private salt so swaggeringly.

But he said that after the fat man saw that he reported his background, everyone on the opposite side showed fear, and his courage grew stronger again.

So he puffed up his chest and yelled, "That man, no matter how brave you are, if you offend my lord, you won't be able to please me! I advise you to be obedient and arrest him, and follow me to the lord to wait for your punishment. You can't say that the lord loves you. You are a man. Not only will it save you from death, but it will also give you a great fortune!"

But it turned out that the fat man saw that Sun Shaozong was very brave, so he was moved to recruit him.

He thought to himself that if he could help the prince recruit such a strong general, not to mention the loss of a boatload of private salt, even if everything was in vain, he might not be able to make amends.

Don't say

Someone is really tempted!

It's just that it's not Sun Shaozong who is tempted, but Jia Lian.

He thought that if he could use Sun Shaozong to withstand this catastrophe, it would be the best, so he hurried forward a few steps, and then he opened his mouth to persuade Sun Shaozong to submit obediently.

Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong snorted at this time, "So what about the loyal and obedient prince, can it be greater than the current sage?!"

As he said that, he turned his head and pointed to Daiyu's room on the second floor, and said with a sneer, "The beloved daughter of Lin Ruhai, the salt censor, is now on this ship—Master Lin's body is still alive, and Miss Lin is still filial, but she is stopped by a group of private salt dealers." Humiliation! You said that if this matter reaches His Majesty's ears, how will His Majesty deal with it?"

This time, it was the fat steward's turn to change color suddenly.

Chapter 21 Turning the fight, Daiyu's whim

If Lin Ruhai, the censor of Yanyan, was still alive, the fat steward might not be so afraid.

After all, Lin Ruhai is just the emperor's confidant, but the "Lord Zhongshun" is the younger brother of the emperor's mother, so it is easy to know how close he is.

But now that Lin Ruhai has just died after devoting himself to death, the orphan girl left behind was bullied by the royal servants, what would the emperor think of this matter?How will the ministers of the DPRK and China react?

The more the fat steward thought about it, the more he felt chills on his neck. Instead, he began to rejoice that the salt owls were blocked by Sun Shaozong, and they hadn't had time to make a big mistake.

only……

Out of the corner of his eye, he looked at the Yan Xiao on the boat, and then at Jia Lian and the others on the opposite side, but he didn't know how to end it for a while—he had just announced the name of the palace, and he was submissive and loyal in front of the public. If the prince knows, how can he spare him?

Fortunately, there is Jia Yu Village beside it.

"This steward."

Seeing that he skipped the conflict just now, he said like a normal person, "Since we meet each other by fate, it's nothing to help each other, but I've already loaded a lot of luggage on the boat, and I'm afraid I won't be able to fit this full boat." salt goods."

As soon as he stepped up the steps, the fat steward immediately relaxed a lot, and saw the salt owls who fell into the water climbed back to the boat one after another. show mercy.

So he hurriedly went down the donkey road, "It's okay, my five boats are gritting their teeth, and I can still squeeze in half of the salt cargo. You only need to help deliver the remaining half of the salt to the ferry!"

The two agreed on the regulations, and Yucun asked Jia Lian to come forward to make the decision.

Second Master Lian lost most of his soul after being frightened for so long. Now that he has finally turned his sword into jade, how could he not allow it?

So the boatmen here hurriedly anchored, leaned close to the salt boat that hit the rocks, and let the salt lords do what they wanted.

A turmoil was wiped out, and both sides tried their best to pretend that nothing happened, but who can really forget the scene of Sun Shaozong holding a big oar and shaking the crowd?

So the fat steward chatted with Jia Lian and Jia Yucun for a few words, and the topic was impatiently brought to Sun Shaozong.

Anyway, they are all going back to Beijing, and they can't hide it. Besides, Jia Lian and Jia Yucun 'dare not' to lie to the steward of the palace for Sun Shaozong's sake.

Unexpectedly, after asking about the origin of Sun Shaozong's name and surname, the fat steward suddenly slapped his thigh, and exclaimed with surprise on his face, "It turns out that he is Commander Sun's younger brother, so he is not an outsider! Commander Sun usually comes to the palace for business. I've been used to it for a long time, if you know that Commander Sun's younger brother is here, there will never be such a misunderstanding!"

This can also fool a fool!

What is Sun Shaozu's identity?

In terms of title, he is only a third-rank commander, and in terms of actual title, he is only a fourth-rank leader of the patrol camp. Your management habits?

I'm afraid I've only met a few times at most, and I know such a person.

Fat steward spoke like this, on the one hand, he continued to downplay the conflict just now, and on the other hand, he wanted to build a relationship with Sun Shaozong.

How smart is Sun Shaozong?

In Daiyu's words, that's called a bear's skin and a fox's heart!

Dang even realized the fat steward's intentions, so he hurriedly let out an 'Oh', stepped forward and said, "It turns out that the steward is actually my brother's friend, this is really flooding the Dragon King Temple, if we knew about the relationship between them, I don’t dare to do anything indiscriminately!”

The two talked nonsense back and forth, but they actually developed some friendship.

At this point, the fat steward finally got his first and last name, but his surname was Zhou and his name was Jingui, and he was one of the three foreign affairs stewards of the palace.

And these few boats of salt are actually not serious private salt, but because Lin Ruhai died of illness, Yanyin couldn't handle it for a while, and the capital was in a hurry. Wu Jingui relied on his loyalty to the palace He simply decided to get on the train first and then make up for the fare.

--split line--

However, in Daiyu's room, the girls saw that the clouds had disappeared in one day, and the two sides exchanged their arms and words, and there was no hostility in the slightest, so they finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Daiyu ordered Zijuan and Xueyan to close the windows, pursed her lips and said in a rather displeased way, "It's really cheap, that fat man! Brother Sun should have swept him into the river to wash the spray. Dirty mouth of shit!"

Xueyan also nodded like a chick pecking at rice.

Zijuan's eyes were full of starlight, and he held his chest full of praise, "Second Master Sun is so majestic just now, standing on the bow of the boat, more than a hundred people on the opposite side were so frightened that they didn't even dare to move! I see those in our mansion Men... those servants, together they are not enough to carry the shoes of Second Master Sun!"

She spoke quickly and almost swept the masters into the room.

Although Daiyu doesn't care about her 'slip of the tongue', but comparing today's Sun Shaozong with her brother Bao who loves rouge, she unconsciously feels a little sour.

At this moment, an arm suddenly wrapped around her slender waist, and she couldn't help but pull it into his arms.

Daiyu was startled at first, and looked up, but who else could it be if it wasn't her godmother Ruan Rong?

"Hum, hum!"

Ruan Rong made a small face on purpose, and asked in a 'sinister' manner, "I don't know which unscrupulous people just said that they slandered Brother Sun as a donkey dung on the surface? If such a unscrupulous person is not severely punished, wouldn't it be unreasonable?" Is the law of heaven?!"

As he spoke, he wanted to scratch Daiyu's armpits and waist.

"Madam Sun, please forgive me!"

Daiyu hastily subdued, and shouted in her mouth, "Brother Sun is brave and invincible, ghosts and gods are reborn! Just now, the little girl has eyes that don't recognize gold and jade, and I asked Mrs. Sun to let the little girl die because of the past love!" "

Hearing her call out the word 'Mrs. Sun', Ruan Rong was both ashamed and happy, and even her bones were lightened, but it was even worse to let Daiyu go like this, and said coquettishly, "What a sharp mouth!" Li's girl', so I have to do it up and down.

But Daiyu suddenly raised her small face, and asked expectantly, "Sister, what do you think about letting Baoyu learn martial arts with Brother Sun? Anyway, he doesn't like reading, so he can just inherit the great martial arts skills of his ancestors!"

Hearing this, Ruan Rong almost burst out laughing.

Although she has never met Jia Baoyu, she has been with Lin Daiyu day and night these days, and she has already filled her ears with the deeds of this handsome young man—Jia Baoyu doesn't even have a penchant for reading, but how can she bear the hardships of martial arts? ?

It's just that no matter how disapproving in my heart, seeing Daiyu's serious face, it's not easy to dampen her interest, so he said vaguely, "Brother Sun is not a big problem, but your brother Baoyu is like a golden branch and a jade leaf. Are you willing to let him practice martial arts?"

"How will you know if you don't try?"

Daiyu was originally just a whim, but thinking that Baoyu has no interest in studying and progressing, and even calls scholars "Lu Xi", but admires famous generals and knights throughout the ages, maybe it is really a material for martial arts.

She didn't want Baoyu to make progress, but seeing Sun Shaozong's majestic appearance, and thinking of "bringing beauty to fight against bandits", she couldn't help but have some expectations.

So he insisted, "Baoyu doesn't need to be as good as Brother Sun, as long as he has [-]%... no, [-]%... no, [-]% of Brother Sun's ability, that's enough!"

Seeing that she was going to have a strong temper and raised the standard again and again, Zijuan and Xueyan next to her listened and rolled their eyes, thinking in their hearts that it is [-]% that Baoyu can be as proud as Sun Shaozong, it is considered the merits of the ancestors of the Rongguo Mansion!

Chapter 22

After the episode where the salt lord hijacked the ship, the road to the north has no twists and turns.

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, thousands of sails compete to show off outside Dongbianmen, and there are many cruise ships beside the Datong Bridge.

The slaves of the Jia Mansion unfurled the imperial flag of the hereditary Rongguo Mansion early in the morning, rampaging across the dumpling-like river, really rampant.

Although Sun Shaozong and Jia Yucun both felt that it was inappropriate to be so ostentatious at the root of the imperial city, but Jia Lian had been away from the capital for nearly a year, and it was hard to come back, but how do you know how to write the word "low-key"?

The two tried to persuade him a few words, seeing him as if he had never heard of him, and only cared about posing on the bow of the boat, so they didn't bother to care about him.

Not long after, the passenger ship docked on the pier, and before the boatmen had set up the gangplank, they heard someone on the shore jumping and shouting, "Second Master, Second Master! You are back!"

Jia Lian took a glance at the boat, then laughed and said, "Bao Er, it's you, the idiot!"

As he said that, seeing that the springboard had been set up, he walked ahead without hesitation.

Sun Shaozong and Jia Yucun evaded each other for a few words, and they got off the boat third in line. Originally, they were thinking about whether to go to the city with the carriage of Jia's mansion, or to break up with him here, and go back to the manor by another way.

"Second Master!"

Suddenly a person fell forward, grabbed his arm and burst into tears, "Why don't you respond to this old slave? This old slave has been waiting here for more than half a month, and finally I hope that you, the second master, will come back!"

Only then did Sun Shaozong realize that he still had his share in the "Second Lord" of his feelings.

He hurriedly took a closer look, but saw that the man who called himself 'Old Slave' was in his early fifties, although his hair was already grey, but his stature was quite majestic and burly, only half a head shorter than himself.

After groping in his mind, Sun Shaozong immediately remembered the identity of the person—Wei Licai, the old housekeeper of the Sun residence.

When the Sun family was down and down, all the servants in the family were scattered, only Feng Weili never left, and he insisted on spending seven or eight years of hard life with the Sun family brothers, so he was called master and servant, and he was really with his family. No difference.

"Weibo!"

Remembering this festival, Sun Shaozong naturally did not dare to be negligent, he hurriedly supported Wei Licai with his backhand, and said angrily, "How can you keep waiting here for me in such a cold weather? What about the little monkeys at home, don't they all come here one by one?" Have you all rebelled?!"

The little servant next to him hurriedly said, "Second Master, it's not that the little ones don't know the rules, it's really..."

"It's the old slave who wants to be the first to see the second master, so he insisted on this job." The old housekeeper looked up and down Sun Shaozong while talking, and after a while, Fang praised again, "I haven't seen you for more than a year. Grandpa is getting more and more handsome!"

Sun Shaozong was speechless for a while when he heard the words. As far as his majestic body is concerned, no matter how he describes it, he will not be able to use the word 'handsome', right?

But Jia Lian originally wanted to take Sun Shaozong along, seeing that he was also greeted by his family here, so he didn't worry about it anymore, but told Sun Shaozong not to forget to go to Jia's mansion to talk to him after he settled down at home.

Needless to say, Jia Yucun must be going to Jia's residence for a while.

So the three of them cherished each other inside the East Bianmen Gate, and took the women's family members and luggage into the car, and went to Rongguo Mansion and Sun Mansion respectively.

Because the Sun House sent two carriages, Sun Shaozong distributed one of them to Feng Xin, and asked the young man to take him home first, and then return to the house with the luggage on the cart.

Not to mention Feng Xin.

However, when Sun Shaozong brought Ruan Rong to the car, he was thinking about how to introduce her to the old housekeeper, but Wei Licai acted as if he had never seen Ruan Rong before, and he didn't even ask, which made him waste some thoughts .

The carriage passed through the East Bianmen Gate and Chaoyang Gate into the inner city, and then headed northwest all the way. Seeing that the front was not far from the Sun Mansion, Sun Shaozong was trying to recall the situation at home, so as not to make any jokes when he suddenly felt something. A sweat-stained little hand clenched his wrist.

Looking up, I saw Ruan Rong's uneasy expression, not at all as heroic as usual.

"Do not worry."

Sun Shaozong hurriedly said, "I only have one elder brother in my family, and I don't have parents in the hall. I can be more than half of the master in the marriage!"

That's what I said, but these days the emphasis is on 'elder brother is like father', especially Sun Shaozong grew up with his elder brother since he was a child. If Sun Shaozu didn't nod, how could Ruan Rong marry into the Sun family steadily?

Just because she didn't want him to accompany her to worry about it, Ruan Rong forced a smile, said "Of course I trust you", and then fell silent again.

call~

After a while, Wei Licai stopped the horse and shouted angrily, "Open the door quickly, the second master is back home!"

These days the main entrance is usually a decoration, and usually only enters and exits through the corner gates on both sides. Only when encountering important events or welcoming distinguished guests, will the main gate be opened deliberately—for example, when Lin Daiyu first entered the Rongguo Mansion, she used the corner gates.