Detective in the Red Chamber

The recipe for making Shenxian powder has been spread everywhere. If you want to cure it from the source, you must list several common medicinal materials as contraband—but this option has been strongly opposed by the Imperial Medical Office, so it is still Before starting to discuss the feasibility, it was stillborn.

Since the source cannot be cut off, we can only find ways to prevent and control it from the people who smoke.

However, Xu Liang, the left servant of the Ministry of Punishment, and Sun Shaozong "cordially communicated" with each other for a long time on the specific prevention and control policies and assignment of responsibilities, but failed to reach a consensus.

At first, Xu Liang put on the face of a superior leader and wanted to forcefully push the matter to the head of the Criminal Department. At that time, the Criminal Department will only be responsible for supervision and supervision-to put it bluntly, it is a typical example of wanting credit and not trouble.

After several invalid defenses, Sun Shaozong had to come up with two 'petitions' and sent the guy back.

As the former captain of the criminal police, he is well aware of the dangers of drugs. Therefore, after the first month of the first month of this year, Sun Shaozong wrote to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs twice, requesting that "Shen Xian San" be listed as a banned drug, and expressly ordered Buying and selling transactions are prohibited.

However, these two petitions were ignored by Chi Guoguo, the middle level of the Ministry of Punishment, and some people even drew the inference that Sun Shaozong intended to counterattack and persecute literati and refined scholars.

After all, this Immortal San was originally popularized at literary conferences, and some people really had a blast, spewing out a few good poems—good things that can make Evans spring forth, and a mere martial artist is worthy of questioning?

Now that the situation has been reversed according to Emperor Guangde's will, these two rejected petitions naturally became Sun Shaozong's bargaining cards.

Of course, if Xu Liang hadn't been too strong and wanted to do something to overwhelm others, he might not have played these two cards. After all, the Ministry of Punishment is also one of the dual departments in charge of the Department of Criminal Justice. Who is willing to fight against their superiors?

As soon as these two cards were played, the scene immediately became embarrassing.

When there is nothing wrong, the lower levels pay attention to the higher level and ignore it; when something goes wrong right now, they ask the lower level to take the lead and take the blame...

If it is in other places, the people below really have nothing to reason with, but it is obviously inappropriate to do it at the feet of the emperor-especially Sun Shaozong is now in full swing, even within the Ministry of Punishment, there are quite a few technical officials who respect him Come to think of it, Xu Liang might not be able to take any advantage if there is going to be a commotion.

However, the embarrassment of the scene was embarrassment, and the matter that the emperor explained had to be resolved.

So after some 'ardent and friendly' exchanges between the two sides, they finally reached the following consensus

As expected, this pot should be carried by the Ministry of Rites together!

The well-educated scholars gather together to take drugs and even run naked in the street. Isn't this a problem with etiquette? !

Besides, to punish scholars and juren, it is really inseparable from the support of the Ministry of Rites-according to the rules, unless they have committed a felony, they must first have their names removed before the local government can make a judgment.

The academic administration in the capital has always been held concurrently by officials from the Ministry of Rites.

As a result, the meeting that was originally scheduled to end within one day was postponed until the next afternoon.

Regardless of the verbal wars during this period, in the regular eulogizing session, Sun Shaozong also keenly discovered that as soon as Zhang Qiu, the Minister of Rites, made a speech, the clerk of the Department of General Affairs would write like flying.

It seems that it's not that people's ideological awareness is not enough, but that the level of the officials who attended the meeting yesterday was too low, and the flattering failed to capture the height and breadth.

The book does not go into details.

By the time he returned to his mansion with a thick stack of meeting minutes, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse again.

Sun Shaozong was in the courtyard as usual, using a lantern to disperse the "evil spirits" on his body, and then quietly entered the room. Who would have thought that when he went in, there were two people lying side by side on the bed. Xiangling was also on the bed.

"Hush~ Keep your voice down, don't wake her up."

Ruan Rong hadn't slept soundly yet, when she heard a slight movement, she raised her hand and made a silent gesture.

Sun Shaozong tiptoed to the head of the bed, looked at the tears in the corners of Xiangling's eyes, couldn't help frowning and said, "What's the matter? Does anyone dare to bully her in the inner courtyard of our deep house!"

"Where did the master think of going?"

Ruan Rong rolled her eyes at him, and stretched her snow-white arms forward. Sun Shaozong immediately understood, stepped forward and gently pulled her up, and put pillows and quilts on her back.

Then he himself leaned against the end of the bed in sixty-nine styles, covering his legs with the quilt, and then he heard Ruan Rong continue, "I didn't realize until we met today that the eldest son of the third young master's family is actually a rabbit mouth—Xiang Ling came back." Then I muttered, and I coaxed him for a while before I fell asleep."

Rabbit mouth?

Sun Chengye's son was born with cleft lip? !

Sun Shaozong couldn't help being surprised when he heard the words, he had never heard this matter mentioned before,

Then he hurriedly asked again, "How did sister-in-law cope? Didn't anything go wrong?"

If there hadn't been such an accident, he wouldn't have worried that Jia Yingchun would be at a loss, but now...

"I was a little flustered at first."

Ruan Rong shook her head and said, "But the eldest lady is kind-hearted after all, I helped smooth things over a few words, and she took advantage of the time of giving the gift to surround the child so that she felt sorry for her—see what the third young lady means." , I am very grateful."

"That's good."

Sun Shaozong breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't feel relieved.

If it was in later generations, congenital cleft lip could still be repaired through surgery, but now it is a "stigma" that will be carried for a lifetime, especially on the most conspicuous facial features.

And one of the basic requirements of the imperial examination is "correct facial features". Although it doesn't need to be so handsome, images like rabbit lips are definitely excluded.

In the Sun family of Jinling who regarded themselves as heirs of poems and books, this alone is enough to make people sigh.

Now that I think about it, Sun Chengye wanted to move to the capital because of the child's reason. Regardless of whether it was out of good intentions or malicious attention, it was a heavy burden for Sun Chengye and his wife.

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong instructed, "Morrow morning, remember to prepare that gift for me—by the way, add a small dagger, which is the one that elder brother left for Yi'er to use when he was going to catch Zhou."

Chapter 335 Formation Eyes

April seventeenth.

God probably didn't like Jia Zhen very much, so it began to rain lightly from the second half of the night, and by dawn, the rain had not weakened, but it had become more dense.

To say that being tall is not all good, Sun Shaozong carried the oil-paper umbrella all the way to the front yard, and the hem of his clothes was already mostly wet.

Zhang Chengzao was waiting under the porch in a coir raincoat. When he saw Second Master Sun coming, he rushed to the front of the car, spread a leather cushion on the ground, and opened the curtain of the car with a waterproof cover.

Sun Shaozong first rubbed the soles of his shoes on the leather mat, and then hung the umbrella on the barb on the top of the carriage. Then he quickly jumped into the carriage, and was about to order Zhang Cheng to get up on the road, when someone outside shouted, "Second brother , Second brother, just wait for me!"

Looking around, he saw that Xue Pan didn't even open an umbrella, rushed in from the side door with his head in his arms, and ran all the way to the front of the carriage, and said with a heartless smile, "I just ran into Jia Yucun, and I heard that the two Brother is going to Ningguo Mansion to celebrate his birthday today, let's go together, so we can talk some gossip on the way to relieve boredom."

With that said, he climbed into the car carelessly.

"foot!"

Sun Shaozong glared angrily, and then he got out of the car and rubbed the soles of his shoes again.

When this fellow climbed into the car shamelessly again, Sun Shaozong had no choice but to shrink his body inward to make room for him.

Xue Pan also took it seriously, and sat firmly on his buttocks in the car, so he raised his voice and said, "Old Zhang, let's go!"

The combined weight of the two of them weighed more than 400 kilograms, and the carriage really lost a lot of energy when it started.

When the wheels were rolling and they left the side gate of the Sun Mansion, they saw Xue Pan's golden carriage parked outside the gate—then silently followed behind without being greeted by anyone.

"I heard that you caught a cold a few days ago."

But he said that in the carriage, Sun Shaozong looked Xue Pan up and down, saw that his complexion was rosy, and said, "Looking at it now, it seems that he has recovered."

"Forget it."

Speaking of the word 'wind-cold', Xue Pan had a gloomy expression on his face, "I fell ill as soon as I returned from the Rongguo Mansion, and my mother thought it was some kind of evil spirit, so I mobilized the crowd for several days, and even suffocated me to death." !"

As he said that, he pretended to be mysterious and said, "Second Brother, do you know that Brother Zhen asked someone to invite you over, why exactly?"

This is exactly what Sun Shaozong was puzzled by, so he sat up a little bit and put on a posture of listening attentively.

Seeing that he was interested in this topic, Xue Pan got up immediately, and said happily, "I also heard from an old Taoist privately that Brother Zhen has always missed his original daughter-in-law, Qin..."

But it turned out that a few days ago, Aunt Xue made a big fuss and invited many "skilled people" to exorcise Xue Pan - but he just had an occasional cold, so what can be done to exorcise him?

He chased away several cheaters who pretended to be ghosts, and seeing that it would be endless if this went on, he simply discussed with the new old Taoist that the two of them would stay in the house without disturbing the river, and when he recovered from his illness, he would give him a reward.

Of course, in fact, Xue Pan was thinking about it, and when he was in better health, he would throw this old liar out of the world.

But the two of them stared at each other in the room like this, especially the old man who was not a handsome man, so after a long time, it was inevitable that they would be a little embarrassed-so I don't know who picked the head first, and the old and the young began to feel embarrassed. chat up.

Not to mention, although the old Taoist is a pretender, there are quite a lot of anecdotes and strange things in his stomach, and even the words and gestures are vivid and vivid, and he listens to them for two or three days without repeating them.

In the end, Xue Pan was reluctant to let go, and personally sent the old Taoist out of the house. Not only did he give enough money for the 'talk therapy', but he also agreed to continue listening to the old Taoist's stories when he had time.

And what happened to Jia Zhen was also heard from the old Taoist.

It is said that this Ningguo Mansion uncle is the most "love and justice". After the death of his daughter-in-law Qin the year before last, not to mention the great funeral of his family and property, he still dreams of her from time to time.

At the beginning Jia Zhen didn't care much, she just thought that she was thinking day by day and dreaming at night, but as the number of times increased, it was inevitable that she would start to mutter.

I invited a few experts, and they all said that it was Qin's soul that would not go away, and I am afraid that it will turn into a ghost after a long time, so it must be rescued, so that it can be reincarnated as soon as possible - but this rescue comes and goes, But Jia Zhen's dream has never been broken, and her health is getting worse and worse.

Recently, an expert pointed out that the evil spirits in this mansion are too strong, and a large amount of evil spirits must be attracted to break the pattern of evil spirits and make the ashes return to the ashes.

This large amount of malevolent yang energy naturally refers to the breath of a masculine man.

It just so happened that Jia Zhen had to celebrate her [-]th and [-]th birthday recently, so she specially invited many middle and low-level generals from the four battalions and one guard, intending to take the opportunity to break the evil situation.

And among them, it is necessary to find someone who is extremely yang to act as the most important formation!

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong was stunned, but he couldn't help but feel a little depressed - how could they all use themselves as yang weapons... Uh, used them as magic weapons?

In the final analysis, it is because people these days always like to associate solving cases with gods and ghosts, so a case-solving expert like Sun Shaozong, in the eyes of the general public, naturally becomes an expert in exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts.

At this time, Xue Pan suggested again, "In my opinion, the second brother might as well take the opportunity to hit him hard, he can't help him do this for nothing, right?!"

Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes noncommittally, and then moved the topic aside.

Speechless all the way.

When they arrived near the Ningguo Mansion, two young men in bamboo hats came out to greet them. They asked Zhang Cheng a few words, and then let the carriage inside—not everyone is qualified to enter by carriage. Most carriages All the cars and sedan chairs can only be parked outside the red wall.

"Hahaha……"

The carriage had just stopped at the designated place, and before Sun Shaozong and Xue Pan got down, Jia Zhen hurriedly greeted him from the hall. From a long distance away, she cupped her hands with joy and said, "Brother Sun is here, the whole house is really good." Flourishing and shining!"

Sure enough, he had something to ask for, otherwise he would still be the title of the second rank, so he wouldn't have to be so polite to Sun Shaozong.

but……

Hadn't the 'Hui' of Ningguo Mansion been stripped away by him a long time ago?

With such thoughts in mind, Sun Shaozong also got out of the carriage with Xue Pan, and exchanged his hands with him for a few words of courtesy.

When Jia Zhen saw that Xue Pan was there, she was obviously hesitant, but then she remembered something, and smiled again, "To be honest, since I saw my brother's tricks in there that day, I wanted to make friends with him—— There is still some time before the birthday banquet, brother, why don't you accompany me to the backyard for a chat?"

As he said that, he smiled at Xue Pan again and said, "Brother Xue, come along too. I heard that you and my brother Rong have done a lot of great things recently, and I was just about to scan and listen."

Xue Pan felt embarrassed when he heard this, obviously this so-called 'big event' is by no means a good thing.

Chapter 336 Third Sister You

No wonder Xue Pan specially invited Jia Rong to attend the banquet at Dingxianglou last time. It turned out that the two had been hooking up in private.

I don't know how these two products smell like each other...

Sun Shaozong was very curious, but it was not easy to ask in detail in front of outsiders, so he could only follow Jia Zhen to the back house.

Because the rain did not stop, and the three of them did not bring any rain gear, they naturally had to walk around the corridor. It took more than half a quarter of an hour to walk out of this winding road. Suddenly, they saw a unique and elegant hall in front, which was a bit of a nostalgia. a sense of independence,

Just listened to Jia Zhen's triumphant introduction, "This flower hall was built by my ancestors in his later years. Although it is not as grand and dignified as the Rongxi Hall in the West Mansion, it is also unique inside."

"What are you doing..."

Xue Pan couldn't listen to people's tricks, he opened his mouth and was waiting to ask what happened, but his eyes suddenly turned round like light bulbs - but it turned out that at the corner in front of him, there were a few women walking towards him, all of them looked at each other. It is a slim figure with picturesque eyebrows and eyes.

Among them was a slender and tall girl whose dress was most different from others.

It is said that today is the birthday of the Patriarch of the Ningguo Mansion, so even if you don’t wear bright red, you should at least choose a warm color—but she is wearing a long snow-satin white dress, only the corners of the skirt are dyed with light blue, and her hair is full. The long hair is only tied with ebony hairpins, and the whole body is like ink and waterfalls, without a trace of impurities.

This attire looks so plain at first glance, but when paired with her charming facial features, it actually adds a bit of sultry beauty!

Even when Sun Shaozong met those black magnetic eyes, he couldn't help but want to tear away that 'innocence' and see what kind of scenery she has in her charming body.

But at this time, the women opposite had also seen Jia Zhen and the three of them, and the petite woman in the lead became a little flustered and wanted to go back the same way, but it was too late.

She had no choice but to lead Yingying Yanyan behind her, and stepped aside with lowered eyebrows.

The women behind her also shrunk their shoulders like quails, but the tall and charming girl, instead of bowing her head, raised her snow-white neck and looked at Sun Shaozong and Xue Pan with great interest.

Meeting Sun Shaozong's scrutinizing eyes, she even raised her eyebrows and raised her lips, as if she was looking at her secretly, and also seemed to be joking and mocking, but the more unpredictable she was, the more people wanted to find out.

Fortunately, Sun Shaozong still had some concentration. If it was Xue Pan who was on the side, he would have shown all kinds of ugly things.

When the three of them approached, the petite woman who was the leader hurriedly blessed her, and said softly, "Master."

"Ah."

Jia Zhen answered vaguely, and casually introduced, "This is Zhuo Jing."

It turns out that the petite woman at the beginning is Jia Zhen's successor Youshi.

In the Rongguo Mansion before, I heard that she had an nickname called 'Deaf-mute Granny'. I thought she would be an elderly woman like Jia She's Xu Xianxing.

Seeing her true face now, she turned out to be a 27-year-old young woman—not tall, but with excellent proportions, and her brows and eyes were supple and timid, which belonged to the standard small bird and human shape.