Detective in the Red Chamber

The day before yesterday, Sun Shaozong heard from Brother Cheap that he was the son of Ma Chunfeng, Zuo Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple, who was kidnapped by thieves during his outing.

And as soon as this person came up, he begged Sun Shaozong to save his son. In addition, Fu Shi was transferred from the Guanglu Temple Chancellor at the beginning. All these aspects are connected, so it is not difficult to guess his identity. .

"Your Excellency is indeed as insightful as a torch, and this is Ma Chunfeng of Guanglu Temple."

As Ma Chunfeng said, he stretched out his hand to remove the hood, showing a haggard old face, and said with a wry smile, "Because those strong men once threatened the old man, saying that they dared to report to the officials, they immediately killed the dog to vent their anger - so the old man had no choice but to This kind of hiding his head and showing his tail makes Mr. Sun laugh."

After hearing these few words, Sun Shaozong already frowned, and he was not in a hurry to argue with Ma Chunfeng, but first glanced at Fu Shi and said, "Since there is such a saying, the fewer people who deal with it, the better. "

This means that it is obvious that he dislikes Fu Shi being in the way.

There was a little anger on Fu Shi's face, but he restrained himself immediately, and still said with a smile, "To tell you the truth, my sister is Ma Shaoqing's daughter-in-law, and Ma's family committee is not an outsider."

Among the six and five temples, Guanglu Temple is almost at the bottom of the ranking, and Zuo Shaoqing is only a deputy of the fifth rank. In terms of real power, he may not be able to catch up with Shuntian Prefecture's money and grain general judge.

That's why Sun Shaozong thought it was a bit strange to see Fu Shi being so considerate and even condescending towards him just now, but now it suddenly dawned on him that the two families were actually related by marriage.

That being the case, it is not good to exclude him.

Sun Shaozong simply ignored him, and said seriously to Ma Chunfeng, "Dare to ask Mr. Ma, but you have received letters from those thieves the night before yesterday?"

"This... How could Mr. Sun know about this?!"

Ma Chunfeng was shocked when he heard the words, only five or six people in his house knew about the letter sent by the kidnappers, and they were loyal servants who had been used to it for several generations.

Since it wasn't leaked by his family, how did Sun Shaozong know about it?

Could it be that he...

The old man muttered in his heart, and when he looked at Sun Shaozong again, he was vigilant and hostile.

When Sun Shaozong saw this, he couldn't laugh or cry, "Master Ma is not suspicious of Sun, is he connected with those thieves?"

"Of course not!"

Ma Chunfeng immediately denied it, but then said suspiciously, "But I have never mentioned this matter to outsiders, how did Lord Sun know about it?"

"Of course I guessed it."

Sun Shaozong spread his hands, and said, "Since those thieves have threatened Mr. Ma not to try to use the power of the government, they will definitely send this news to your mansion as soon as possible—otherwise it will be too late, and your lord will report the case in advance. Wouldn't it be bad from time to time?" Their wishful thinking?"

"And it's not easy to get away because there are so many people in the daytime, so it's not logical to speculate that the thief brought the news to your mansion at night?"

Ma Chunfeng nodded repeatedly when he heard this, and then the suspicion in his heart was relieved.

Just as he was about to make amends carefully, he heard Sun Shaozong say again, "Besides, my lord didn't arrive yesterday, so I came here dressed like this today to ask Mr. Sun for help. I'm afraid he has already paid the ransom to those thieves, right?"

"It's just that those thieves accepted the ransom, but they still refused to let them go. My lord had no choice but to entrust them to Fu Tongpan. I don't know if it's true or not?"

"exactly!"

Seeing that it was only a few words, Sun Shaozong deduced that the matter was inseparable. Ma Chunfeng admired him, and hurriedly saluted deeply, and said excitedly, "Master Sun is indeed worthy of the name of 'God's Judgment'. The dog is saved!"

Sun Shaozong dodged the ceremony, shook his head and said, "Sun can only promise to do his best."

After hesitating for a while, he still gave Ma Chunfeng a vaccination, "With all due respect, Mr. Ma really shouldn't have sent the ransom so soon. Those thieves are not willing to release them as promised. If they still ask for something, just pay it back. If there is nothing left to ask for..."

Although it was just to the point and didn't say the whole thing, but Ma Chunfeng was able to reach the fifth rank, so he is not a stupid person.

He thought for a while, then his complexion changed drastically, he raised his hand and gave himself a slap, he stamped his feet and beat his chest and said, "I'm so old-fashioned! If something happens to Jue Er, I...I won't live anymore!"

Chapter 287 Spring Outing Kidnapping Incident [Part [-]]

Although the kidnappers do not follow the rules, Ma Chunfeng did not dare to break the rules of the kidnappers.

Therefore, it was not easy for Sun Shaozong to gather a large group of people, so he secretly asked Qiu Yunfei and Zhao Wuwei to come over, joined Ma Chunfeng and Fu Shi, and quietly left the back door of the government office.

Along the way, Sun Shaozong naturally didn't waste his time in vain. He took the same car with Ma Chunfeng and cross-examined the incident carefully.

But two days ago, that is, on March 25th, Ma Yingjue, the young master of the Ma family, took his wife and concubines out of the city from the north gate for a spring outing early in the morning.

They didn't go to any scenic spots, they just played around at the foot of a small hill.

It was probably Xiang Wu Ma Yingjue's own roasted leg of lamb, some of which were half-cooked, and he had a stomachache in the afternoon, and went to the grass for convenience four or five times, but the situation still couldn't be relieved.

When he got into the bushes again for convenience, everyone didn't pay attention—who knew that after a long time, they found that he had disappeared so silently.

At nine o'clock in the evening on the first day of Haichu last night, someone wrapped a stone with a note and threw it into Ma's mansion through the wall. The servants who watched the night picked it up and hurriedly presented it to Ma Chunfeng.

After reading the contents of the note, Ma Chunfeng finally confirmed that his son was kidnapped by a group of strongmen.

Because the above was only asking for 500 taels of silver, which was nothing to the Ma family, so Ma Chunfeng did not report the case, but quietly delivered the money to the designated place - outside the city gate, in a certain vacant donkey in the car.

After putting the money on the donkey, the steward in charge of delivering the money whipped the donkey's butt a few times, letting it run wildly.

Speaking of this, Ma Chunfeng smiled wryly and said, "I originally wanted to send someone to follow the donkey cart secretly, so as to follow the vines and find the strongman who kidnapped Jue'er—who knew that the people I sent followed all the way and found that the donkey had found a vegetable field. , so he refused to move his nest."

"Those trash thought something was wrong, and went to the front of the car to check carefully, only to find that the silver on the shaft had already disappeared."

Since the plan to track the donkey cart failed, Ma Chunfeng naturally had no choice but to hope that the kidnappers would release their son as promised after taking the money.

Unexpectedly, after waiting until midnight, there was still no movement!

Ma Chunfeng was so flustered that he thought of asking Fu Shi to build a bridge and ask the famous Sun Shaozong to come forward to investigate.

But Sun Shaozong listened to Ma Chunfeng tell the general story, and before he could figure it out carefully, the carriage stopped near Ma's house.

That Ma Chunfeng led the crowd around the backyard, and specially picked an unused side door to enter, so as to avoid the eyes and ears of the servants at home.

After entering the door, it is natural to take the remote path.

Unexpectedly, Ma Chunfeng was leading the way ahead, and unexpectedly bumped into a woman in thin spring clothes behind the rockery!

But seeing that this woman is about in her early twenties, she is tall and slender, with a little makeup on, her appearance is still pretty and charming, but her mouth is a little bit bigger, and she is surprised by the large O shape. When he opened his eyes, he suddenly lost three points of color.

She was taken aback here, but Ma Chunfeng's complexion became more complicated, with a look of wanting to get angry and having some scruples, and in the end he could only grit his teeth and ask, "You...what are you doing here?!"

"Son... daughter-in-law..."

As soon as the woman hesitated, Sun Shaozong understood why Ma Chunfeng was in a dilemma - but it turned out that this woman was Ma Chunfeng's daughter-in-law and Fu Shi's sister.

Fu Shi's complexion is also a bit ugly, after all, the life and death of his brother-in-law is uncertain at the moment, but his sister is dressed up beautifully, and she comes to this place alone...

No matter how you think about it, this doesn't seem like a serious way!

So Fu Shi immediately stepped forward and scolded, "What time is this, why are you still making trouble here? Hurry up and go back to your own room - I will share today's affairs with you when I am free!"

As if being pardoned, Ma Fu gave a blessing to his father-in-law and elder brother, turned around and walked away with two thin legs.

"Wait a minute!"

But Sun Shaozong hurriedly stopped her, and explained to Ma Chunfeng who was beside him, "Young Madam should be the most familiar with the situation of Young Master Ling. Since we have bumped into each other by chance, why don't you ask Young Madam to go and see what's going on?" Omissions."

Although Ma Chunfeng felt that his daughter-in-law's behavior just now was really suspected of being immoral, but he heard that Sun Shaozong was reasonable, and he was thinking about his son's life, so he ordered that Ma Fu to follow everyone to his small study .

When he arrived in the study, Ma Chunfeng took a few steps, took out a small rosewood box from the interlayer of the desk, squeezed out a four-finger-wide note from it, and carefully handed it to Sun Shaozong.

"Master Sun, this is the note that those strong men threw in the night before yesterday."

Sun Shaozong took it in his hand and opened it to take a closer look, but he saw a lot of crooked small script written on it. At a glance, he could tell that it was written by someone with a foundation in calligraphy with a non-dominant hand on purpose.

As for the above content, it was the same as what Ma Chunfeng said before, firstly revealing the identity of the kidnappers, then deterring the Ma family from reporting the crime, and finally proposing the amount of ransom and the delivery method.

Looking at the choice of words and sentences, it seems to be quite literary.

Sun Shaozong looked at the note carefully against the sun, and then sniffed the ink closely. Although it has been a little longer, it should be the cheapest stinky ink.

As for writing paper...

Sun Shaozong carefully tore off a small strip at the edge, handed it to Fu Shi and said, "Fu Tongpan, try to write a few words on it."

Although Fu Shi doesn't know why, but he has been in Shuntian Mansion for a long time, even if he doesn't deal with Sun Shaozong, he still knows that his ability to solve cases is miraculous.

So without thinking too much, he took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone by himself, researched the ink, filled the pen, held his breath and concentrated on the pose, hanging his wrist on the paper, just like a master.

only……

As soon as the pen tip fell on the paper, the ink stained half of the thin paper black!

Fu Shi was a little dumbfounded at the time, and with just this dumbfounded effort, the rest of the notes turned black.

"Pfft~!"

Others were concerned about his face, and had to hold back their smiles, so why did Qiu Yunfei care about that?

Early puchi~ He leaned forward and back with a laugh, patted the table and said, "Fu Tongpan, your posture is really amazing!"

Fu Shi's face turned red, but he didn't dare to argue with Qiu Yunfei, so he had to explain embarrassingly, "This paper is really... really bad."

Qiu Yunfei snorted and said, "Then how can the kidnappers write so many petty words? Could it be that you are from these two lists of Jinshi, and you are not as good as a kidnapper?"

Fu Shi was speechless for a moment.

But Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "It's not that Fu Tongsan is not good enough, but that the kidnapper is used to writing on this kind of inferior paper."

When Fu Shi heard that he actually explained it for himself, he immediately felt a little relieved, thinking that this martial artist is not completely useless, at least he is upright and upright.

Qiu Yunfei has been really good lately. Hearing Sun Shaozong's specific information, he rolled his eyes a few times and suddenly said, "In this way, there must be a poor scholar among the kidnappers!"

"good."

Sun Shaozong shook the note and said, "Since writing with the left hand is so neat and smooth, it shouldn't be difficult to get the fame of a scholar."

"However, he is also used to using poor-quality pen, ink and paper, so he obviously failed to win the title of Juren."

As the saying goes, "Poor scholar, rich Juren", this is not only because Juren can directly become an official, but also because Juren has a quota of [-] acres of fertile land under his name, and does not need to pay taxes to the court.

Therefore, as long as you win the Juren, someone will immediately drag their families and voluntarily serve as slaves, just to avoid the pain of taxation.

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong suddenly changed the subject and said seriously, "But these are not the most important things for the time being. What I want to know most right now is why Ma Yingjue wants to go out of the city for an outing!"

Why go out of town for an outing?

This question made everyone present feel a little inexplicable. This outing is just an outing, so why is there any 'why'?

Ma Chunfeng asked suspiciously, "I don't know what Master Sun means?"

"For a spring outing, of course we have to find another day." Sun Shaozong sneered, "But it was cloudy on the 25th, and the temperature outside was very low, so it's not suitable for a spring outing at all!"

He has a personal experience of temperature.

Chapter 288 Spring Outing Kidnapping Incident [Part [-]]

Because the end of March and the beginning of April are usually the days to go out for spring outings, so before Sun Shaozong raised any questions, no one felt that there was anything wrong.

But listening to what he said, it was really suspicious.

If it were someone who was busy with official duties and only had time to go out for fun that day, that would be fine, but Nama Yingjue was all about getting into the Jinshi exam, so he didn't have any serious errands at all.

That being the case, why did he choose to go out for a youth tour on a gloomy and cold day?

Everyone was suspicious, and gradually turned their attention to Ma Fu. After all, among the people present, she was the only one who had gone outing with Ma Yingjue, and she was the closest couple. Naturally, she should explain this doubt clearly.

"This this……"

That Ma Fu pursed his lips timidly, but he really showed a bit of amorous feelings.

It's just that at the moment, no one cares about the amorous feelings, especially Ma Chunfeng, who said anxiously, "Daughter-in-law, when you went outing the other day, did you find anything wrong with Jueer?"

"This this……"

Then Ma Fu said 'this' twice, but he was still ashamed to express himself.

Ma Chunfeng was even more annoyed, and he was about to yell at him.

"Chou Jianxiao, Zhao Butou."

Sun Shaozong rushed to order suddenly, "You two go out first."

Although Qiu Yunfei was somewhat reluctant, he obediently left the study room with Zhao Wuwei.

After the two went out, Sun Shaozong said kindly again, "Young Madam, Mrs. Ma and Fu Tongpan are your close relatives, and as the person in charge of this case, I really cannot avoid it—but I can swear that no matter What you said today, without your consent, I will never let others know."

After saying that, he solemnly made an oath, and then urged, "Young madam, don't you want to rescue Mr. Ma as soon as possible?"

Ma Chunfeng and Fu Shi were also on the sidelines. Seeing that he couldn't make excuses, Ma Fu had no choice but to confide in the truth, "If you want to say something is wrong, it was about two days ago—I'm talking about the 23rd. Get...be a little hyper."

"On weekdays, he only favors the slave's family once every ten days or so, but that day he actually asked for the slave's family twice in a row,"

Ma Chunfeng heard that what she was talking about was in her boudoir, and had nothing to do with the disappearance of her son, so he frowned and wanted to urge her to say something useful.

Sun Shaozong hurriedly stopped it with his eyes, and asked gently, "Then what? But is there anything wrong?"

Encouraged by that, Ma Fu bit his lower lip and said, "On the second day, my uncle ate three meals of medicinal food in a row, all of which are to...replenish the body. I thought he would have to..."