Detective in the Red Chamber

Therefore, after entering the door, without waiting for Wei Ruolan to ask questions, he cupped his hands and advised, "From the student's point of view, Dong Weng should not only go to the banquet, but also try to ease the conflict with Sun Zhizhong at the banquet."

"What do you mean by that?!"

What's the meaning of 'relaxing the conflict'? To put it bluntly, isn't it just asking Wei Ruolan to bow to Sun Shaozong at the banquet? !

How could Wei Ruolan accept such a suggestion?

Dang even got a little annoyed, he flicked his sleeves, and waited to reprimand Master Qi for a few words.

Unexpectedly, Master Qi rushed to remind again, "Don't forget, Dong Weng, recently the princess is trying to promote your marriage with Baolinghou's family. At this critical moment, it is really inappropriate to fight with Sun Shaozong and lose both."

Hearing this, Wei Ruolan yelled at her, and immediately choked back.

This marriage can be said to be another "strategic marriage" of the Wei family after marrying their daughter to the King of Beijing.

The purpose, of course, is to obtain the political legacy left by the previous generation of Marquis Baoling, so as to further consolidate the status of the wealthy family that the Wei family has just acquired.

You must know that although there is only a young orphan left in Shi's family, the two uncles are also famous hollow bosses. Not only are they poor and ugly, but they don't have much real power in their hands.

However, there are many generals under the command of Bao Linghou in the previous generation, and now there are many high-ranking ministers, such as Qiu Yunfei's father Qiu Ying, Feng Ziying's father Feng Tang, and even Prince Teng nicknamed "Southeast King". He once fought under Shi Hou's command.

If Wei Ruolan marries Shi Hou's orphan, although these people may not be able to help, but as long as they don't hurt themselves, some convenience is not a problem.

And this is the most urgently needed political capital for the Wei family, which has sprung up rapidly in recent years!

Therefore, the Wei family is now operating at full capacity, hoping to facilitate this marriage.

If we fight with Sun Shaozong at this time, we will lose both sides, and delay the important event of revitalizing the family, the gain outweighs the loss.

But if he just bowed his head to that surnamed Sun, it would be really...

Less gossip.

But when Wei Ruolan got into a deeper entanglement, Sun Shaozong stood in front of Chen Bo's bed, but also frowned.

After a careful search, no problems were found in other parts of Chen Bo's room, except that there were some strange indentations under the mattress that Sun Shaozong was very concerned about.

Those are six shallow traces, distributed around and in the center of the mattress.

Because of insufficient pressure, the surrounding traces are very blurry, and it is difficult to distinguish what is going on - but the trace in the middle is slightly clearer, vaguely showing the shape of a palm-sized human.

"grown ups."

Zhao Wuwei looked majestic and majestic in the face of a few strong men holding sticks, but now he saw the faint indentation of the human figure, but he was a little frightened, and quietly stepped back half a step, tremblingly said, "This... this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this... Isn’t it really a curse?!”

This opening reminded Steward Liu of the Chen Mansion, who jumped three feet high, pointed at the trace excitedly and shouted, "I'll just say it, I'll just say it! It must be that temptress who cast a curse." , wanting to kill the master and the young master, so that her bastard can inherit the family business!"

Then, he knelt down and grabbed the land with his head, asking Sun Shaozong to release Chen Bo and severely punish the temptress.

Sun Shaozong didn't bother to pay attention to him, and used clothes, towels and other things to test briefly, and confirmed that the things under the bed should be quite thin, probably made of thick paper or cloth - otherwise the traces left should be clearer .

In addition...

Sun Shaozong was still cautious, and leaned over to sniff with his nose, and found that there was a sweet fragrance faintly exuding from the trace, but the smell was very faint, and if he didn't distinguish it deliberately, he might not be able to detect it at all.

Putting down the mattress, Sun Shaozong turned around and asked, "Who has been to this room after Mr. Chen died?"

"That temptress, that temptress must have been here!"

Steward Liu blurted out, but under Sun Shaozong's cold gaze, he had to say in a low voice, "The villain was protecting the young master at that time, and he didn't send anyone to guard here. I really don't know who has come in." .”

In other words, everyone in this mansion has the opportunity to take away the things under the quilt when there is a lot of chaos.

And now more than three hours have passed, as long as the murderer is not mentally handicapped, or has other plans, the body may have already been destroyed.

tsk~

It seems that we can only do our best to obey the destiny.

"Captor Zhao."

"The little guy is here!"

Zhao Wuwei hastily stepped forward and cupped his hands, and then couldn't help but ask, "Sir, shall we arrest that temptress now?"

"Catch...cough, nonsense, now there is no evidence, how can you arrest people indiscriminately?!" Sun Shaozong reprimanded angrily, "You stay here, and take people to search carefully up and down the Chen residence, focusing on finding a Look for objects that are the size of a palm, have a sweet scent, and have a human shape."

When Zhao Wuwei obediently agreed, Sun Shaozong pulled up the quilt together with the mat underneath, stuffed it into his arms, and said, "Also, take this thing to the pharmacy, and see if there is a smell coming from these traces. Come on, figure out what."

"This one……"

With a bitter face, Zhao Wuwei stammered, "I'm afraid it's..."

"I let you try it, but I didn't say that I must find out something!"

Sun Shaozong glared, and after Zhao Wuwei stepped back, he greeted Qiu Yunfei, escorted Chen Bo back to the government office, then took off his official robes and changed into casual clothes, and rushed to Dingxianglou for the banquet.

When we got to the Dingxiang Building, we saw that although the banquet hadn't started yet, everyone who was supposed to come had already arrived, such as Jia Baoyu, Jia Lian, Jia Qiang, Feng Ziying, Liu Xianglian, Jiang Yuhan, plus a few famous courtesans from the capital. There was a large table full of people.

Wei Ruolan was among them!

However, Sun Shaozong was not surprised by him, but Jia Rong, the son of the Ningguo Mansion, who also came to join in the fun.

Chapter 299

There are so many wonderful things for a rich man, and Jia Rong, as the eldest grandson of Ningguo Mansion, is even more so.

Needless to say, love for flowers, lust, and dissolute behavior are common problems of the younger generation of the Jia family. Character!

Let's just talk about the Qin family he married before. I heard that she is a stunning beauty with a crown of beauty, and her temperament is also very good. No one in the whole family praises her.

If ordinary people get such a stunner, they will probably have to be a treasure to protect them all day long.

However, Jia Rong was a "selfless" person, and she gave the Qin family "filial piety" to her own father, Jia Zhen. The two father and son did not know how to mess with each other, and within two years, the Qin family disappeared.

Now that the bones of the Qin family are not cold, Jia Rong married another Hu family and returned home. She still does not change her true nature as a "filial son"!

It is said that every night, the Hu family is like rushing to the market. After spending time with Jia Rong and Jia Zhen, after spending time with Jia Zhen, he goes to coax Jia Rong again. Otherwise, if the Hu family is allowed to conceive a child, I really don't know how to judge seniority.

Such a "topic character" is fine for talking about a few words, so why invite him to the table?

Isn't this a toad on the feet-doesn't bite, but responds to others?

But then again...

Xue Pan's reputation doesn't seem to be much better, especially since he just married a daughter of the Wang family who is forgiving—maybe the two of them suddenly saw each other as "heroes cherish heroes, and bastards love mung beans"?

But Sun Shaozong was thinking about it, everyone at the table saw him coming, but they all got up to greet him, even Wei Ruolan was no exception.

"Second brother!"

"Erlang~"

"Second Brother Sun."

"Master Sun."

According to the distance of the relationship, there are greetings and so on.

After Sun Shaozong responded one by one, most of them met with Qiu Yunfei who was beside him—although he was basically running errands for Sun Shaozong in the criminal justice department, who would dare to ignore the background of this small yamen outside?

Seeing Sun Shaozong's face, Xue Pan stepped forward to greet Sun Shaozong with a half smile and said, "Here you are?" ', Feng Ziying acted as if she hadn't seen it.

However, Sun Shaozong did not agree with them, but bowed down to everyone and sat at the top seat on the right side of Xue Pan.

From Sun Shaozong's point of view, the reason why these two men became hostile to each other was actually due to the deliberate guidance of their elders - Emperor Guangde might not be at ease if the several major army leaders stationed in the capital had a close relationship in private.

After figuring this out, Sun Shaozong would naturally not be foolish enough to help the two of them turn their fights into friendships.

But at this table, sitting on the left of Xue Pan are Jia Lian, Feng Ziying, Wei Ruolan, Jia Rong, Jia Qiang; beside Sun Shaozong are Qiu Yunfei, Jia Baoyu, Jiang Yuhan, Liu Xianglian and others.

Of course, there were a few Yingying and Yanyan among the crowd, but Sun Shaozong said several times that he didn't like brothel women, so there was nothing around him.

And almost as soon as he sat down, Liu Xianglian got up and made a noise, asking him to punish himself with three cups of apology, and everyone around him also booed.

Sun Shaozong didn't refuse, he poured himself three cups of shochu, and compared the empty cup to the crowd, there was another burst of applause from all around.

Only then did Sun Shaozong laugh and said, "Actually, I was a bit wronged by drinking these three glasses of wine—if it wasn't for the sudden sudden death of brother Xue's immediate boss, I would have rushed over early in the morning."

Xue Pan only knew that Sun Shaozong had gone to investigate the case, but he didn't know that it was Chen Zhu, the right counselor of the General Administration Department who died. Hearing Sun Shaozong's talk at this time, he hurriedly opened his mouth to ask what happened.

Sun Shaozong briefly introduced the general situation, and finally said helplessly, "The thing under the bed is probably the key evidence in this case!"

"It's a pity that the Chen family was in a mess at the time, and it took more than two hours before I thought of reporting the crime. It may not be so easy to find out the truth."

After he finished speaking, he saw that everyone at the table had strange expressions on their faces. The only one who was quite normal was Qiu Yunfei who rushed over with him.

"what happened?"

Sun Shaozong wondered, "Could it be that Chen Bo is familiar with you?"

What he said just now was extremely brief, and he didn't deliberately exaggerate any weird atmosphere, so after thinking about it, this is probably the only reason why this incident touched everyone.

Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong guessed wrong this time, and saw that Xue Pan swallowed his saliva, and said in a shy voice, "Second brother, this... can't this be really caused by grudges?"

Jia Lian on the side also nodded with lingering fear, "Yes, if you want to say this is the only one, you can also say that someone pretended to be a ghost, and this time I was stunned..."

"Demonized two?"

Sun Shaozong was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Are you just now, are you also discussing similar things?!"

"Isn't it!"

Then I heard Jiang Yuhan interject, "I just heard about a similar evil thing from a nobleman in the palace yesterday, and I just finished telling you about it, but who would have turned around and brought you another one, Mr. Sun!"

As he spoke, he also briefly told Sun Shaozong the evil stories he had heard.

But it turned out that half a month ago, the nephew of a concubine of King Zhongshun suddenly went crazy for some reason. He either fell asleep in a daze all day, or chased others with a sharp weapon.

They had no choice but to tie him up on the bed, eat, drink and lazard all by maids and mothers-in-law. As a result, he left in a daze within a few days.

Later, it was said that he was too arrogant on weekdays and accidentally offended some high-ranking person, so he was cursed by the five ghosts.

Everyone has heard it a long time ago, but at the time it was just a strange talk, but now it sounds a little bit cold - it is said that this is still far away from the Ghost Festival, so how come there are curses one after another up?

And those who were cursed were all officials and eunuchs...

Others are fine with that, but Jia Rong is a cowardly master, she couldn't help shrinking her neck and asked, "Master Sun, everyone says you're judging Yang by day and Yin by night, but I don't know how to prevent this curse." method?"

Although Sun Shaozong looked down on this fellow, he couldn't show it too clearly in front of so many relatives, so he shook his head and laughed, "It's just rumored by the common people in the market, so how can it be taken seriously? Besides, the method of preventing curses has been handed down by our ancestors long ago."

Jia Rong was taken aback when she heard the words, and said inexplicably, "What is the method, why haven't I heard of it?"

"What else could it be?"

Sun Shaozong smiled, "The left and right are just 'Don't do bad things, don't be surprised when you knock on the door in the middle of the night' that's all. Most of these ghost stories are fabricated out of thin air. As long as you don't have ghosts in your heart, what curse are you afraid of?"

As he spoke, he raised his wine glass high and said, "Let's not talk about this—come on, everyone, let's drink a full glass first, and wish Brother Xue to fill up his official position!"

Everyone responded abruptly, so Jia Rong couldn't ask any more questions, otherwise wouldn't it appear that he had done a lot of bad things?

Afterwards, the banquet became more and more intense, and everyone put this episode behind them, but Sun Shaozong didn't mention it, but he felt that these two things happened one after another, and it was by no means a coincidence.

So when the show was over, he went to find Jiang Yuhan alone, planning to ask the identity of the concubine's cousin so that he could investigate the case with Chen Bo.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked near Jiang Yuhan's carriage, he saw Jia Baoyu holding hands with him, just saying goodbye to each other, and Jiang Yuhan's left hand even covered Jia Baoyu's face, caressing tenderly ...

Chapter 300 Beijing [ji] city under the night

Midday on the moon.

The carriage of Prince Zhongshun's mansion is thick and wide, like the background of a stage play, and the coachman sits proudly on the shaft, although he is dressed in green clothes and a cap, it looks like he is covered in bright yellow.

That is, in this dense and arrogant blind spot that cannot be touched for the time being, there is a pair of people, facing each other in the moonlight and darkness.

But I saw that these two people had good looks!

One has a delicate voice, tender body, charming and gentle, and is still pretty even when reprimanded, that is, her brows are fixed but full of spring; the other has a face like the autumn moon, eyes like autumn waves, and although angry, sometimes smiles, that is, she is angry and affectionate.

That slender hand is like pinching Zhilan, brushing...

Vomit~!

Sorry, I can't write any more.

In fact, when Sun Shaozong saw this scene, the first thing he thought of was the alpaca—yes, there were countless 'grass mud horses' galloping in his heart!

There are already little fairies like Sister Lin, and she even came out as a fake mother? !

What about life and death and joint marriage? !

Did it go down the drain with the chrysanthemum? !

Having lived in this era for nearly two years, Sun Shaozong's kindness to Longyang is actually not so discriminatory - after all, there are too many examples around him, and it is really impossible to discriminate.