Detective in the Red Chamber

Sun Shaozong rubbed the piece of psychic jade, pondered for a while, and then said, "Let's go, first go to Rongguo Mansion to have a look."

The appearance of this jade is actually quite different from that of Jia Baoyu, but just because of the exact 24 characters, it is worth a visit to Rongguo Mansion.

Chapter 547

Originally, someone like Sun Shaozong who came and went frequently and was related to Jia's mansion by marriage could be led straight to the Grand View Garden by his servants.

But since Qiu Yunfei was beside him, he had no choice but to wait in the front hall according to the normal procedure, waiting for the servants of Rongguo Mansion to invite Jia Baoyu out to speak.

It's just that the Rongguo Mansion occupies a vast area, and Jia Baoyu is restless. He just wanders around the garden every day. It's really not easy to find him, so the two of them waited in the front hall for two full moments. .

When Jia Baoyu was wrapped in a sapphire blue cloak and hurried in, Qiu Yunfei had already twisted into eighteen shapes on the chair.

"Baoyu never greeted her from afar, but the two elder brothers have been waiting here for a long time. It's really a crime, a crime!"

As soon as Jia Baoyu stepped over the threshold, he bowed to the end and confessed his guilt. When he looked up again, he saw that his forehead and temples were covered with fine beads of sweat.

When Sun Shaozong saw this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Are you trying to cover your whole body with prickly heat, or are you planning to winter early? Why did you turn out the cloak at the beginning of September?"

"Second Brother Sun doesn't know anything."

Jia Baoyu smiled helplessly, took off the cloak from his body, folded it carefully and put it on his arm, and then continued, "Sister Feng celebrated her birthday yesterday, and I don't know if she ate a few more cups or what. Got a cold."

"When the old lady heard about this, she insisted on asking someone to reward her with a few cloaks just now - the elders don't dare to resign. I was thinking about wearing them for the old lady to see first, and then changing them later. It happened that the two My brother is here."

Is Wang Xifeng sick again?

This phoenix pepper seems to have been in the nest several times this year, maybe he has some incurable disease? !

To say whether she is dead or alive, originally she had nothing to do with Sun Shaozong, but now the timber business in the south is in full swing, where is Wang Xifeng as a stepping stone?

Sun Shaozong wanted to ask the question carefully, but he couldn't speak rashly because of the defense of men and women.

"cough."

Just as he was thinking about how to insinuate things so as not to be caught off guard, Qiu Yunfei couldn't bear his temper long ago, coughed dryly beside him, and reminded him, "Sir, do you think we should finish our business first before gossiping with Brother Bao?" Homely?"

"Business?"

Jia Baoyu couldn't help but startled when he heard the word 'official affairs', and said in surprise, "The two elder brothers came to see me for business?"

As he spoke, he didn't know what to think of, and suddenly became excited again, patted his chest and said, "Is there any big case? If it's to solve the case, if there is anything that needs my brother's help, brothers can just order!"

He has always had an extraordinary interest in solving crimes, so when he heard that he had come to him because of an 'official business', instead of feeling frightened, he was gearing up and eager to try.

"Not to mention any orders."

Sun Shaozong moved in, and said naturally, "Sit down first and then talk."

But Jia Baoyu didn't feel that he was taking the place out of the way, but rather took it for granted.

After the three of them were seated as guest and host, Jia Baoyu was more active than Qiu Yunfei, with half of his body leaning on the armrest, his neck stretched out, his eyes wide open, and he urged Sun Shaozong to explain why he came.

Sun Shaozong didn't speak directly, but spread his hand in front of Baoyu's eyes, and said, "Where's your psychic jade? Take it out and let me see it."

Although the elders in the family were all guarding the piece of jade like eyeballs, Jia Baoyu never took it seriously, but often felt that it was a burden, so when Sun Shaozong asked to see it, he took it out of his lapel without saying a word. Pulled out.

While taking off the collar hanging around his neck and handing it to Sun Shaozong, he couldn't help but wonder, "It's just a rock, why did my brother suddenly think of looking at it?"

Sun Shaozong didn't answer, but silently took out Zhou Xi's piece from his sleeve, held it in his hand and compared it carefully.

Although he had seen Jia Baoyu's "Psychic Treasure Jade" before, he had never played with it carefully, so he only had a vague impression that the styles of these two pieces of jade were different.

However, comparing them together at this time, the difference is much more and bigger than imagined.

First of all, although the size of the two pieces of jade is almost the same, they are both oval and flat. However, if the above text is used as a reference, Jia Baoyu's psychic jade is standing upright, while Zhou Xi's piece is lying horizontally. .

Secondly, Zhou Xi's psychic jade looks flawless, except for some colorful cloud patterns around it; as for Jia Baoyu's jade, although it also has a circle of colorful cloud patterns, it is white and red inside.

And the more it is placed in the sun, the brighter and brighter the red color will be, just like the red clouds in the sky.

Then there is the font. Sun Shaozong saw early in the morning that the writing on Zhou Xi's piece of jade was barely engraved by a layman.

Now after comparing the two, I found that not only the level of carving is vastly different, but also the fonts used are quite different. Zhou Xi's jade is in regular script, while Jia Baoyu's is in small seal script.

Such differences make it hard to believe that they come from the same source—but the content of the two texts is generally the same.

Could one of them be a counterfeit?

Who is the counterfeit?

The fact that Jia Baoyu was born with a jade title has been publicized by the Rongguo Mansion for more than ten years, and it is unlikely to copy other people's 'copywriting'.

As for Zhou Xi...

Looking at the appearance alone, it really looks like a defective product that was randomly imitated from hearsay.

But who would treasure and treasure the defective products that were randomly imitated in the interlayer of the incense burner?

What's more, the fact that Zhou Xi's family was silenced may have something to do with the origin of this piece of jade...

"Second Brother Sun."

Sun Shaozong was pondering the relationship between the two pieces of jade. Jia Baoyu, who had been close to him, couldn't help his curiosity, and kept asking, "Where did you get this piece of jade? How did you get it?" The engraved text is exactly the same as mine?"

"This……"

"My lord, show me too!"

Sun Shaozong was about to talk to him, but Qiu Yunfei beside him was in a hurry, staring at the two pieces of jade with desire and dissatisfaction, wishing he could pull out his eyeballs and stick them directly on them.

The left and right just saw that it was almost done, so Sun Shaozong handed the two pieces of jade to Qiu Yunfei, and then explained the origin of the jade to Jia Baoyu.

Hearing that this piece of jade was related to the lives of seven people, Jia Baoyu was horrified and excited at the same time, and asked Sun Shaozong for many details.

Sun Shaozong picked up what he could say and answered one by one first, and then said seriously, "Brother Bao, now I have something to say, and I'm afraid I have to ask it——Is this jade you were born with?"

Jia Baoyu spread his hands, and said helplessly, "Anyway, as long as I can remember, this Lao Shizi has been by my side—the old lady, my parents, my mother-in-law, my nanny, and even my elder brother who died young, all said that this jade came from me. It came out of my mouth."

If this is true, there is no place to copy it.

If this matter is false, the long chain of evidence from Jia Baoyu is obviously a well-prepared plan, and it is even more impossible to extract a few sentences from similar objects and randomly engrave them on them.

In particular, these 24 characters are not famous aphorisms—at least since Sun Shaozong traveled through time, except on these two pieces of jade, he has never heard of similar characters anywhere else.

From this point of view, Zhou Xi's piece is undoubtedly a counterfeit.

But who exactly forged this?

What is the purpose of imitation?

And why hide in a secret place?

There is still no answer to this series of question marks, and suddenly I heard Qiu Yunfei's excited voice from the side, "My lord, I have an immature inference here!"

Sun Shaozong turned his head in surprise, and saw Qiu Yunfei holding the two pieces of jade and looking forward to Zixiong, obviously quite confident in his deduction.

Could it be that this guy really saw something?

Sun Shaozong couldn't help but curiously said, "Let's listen to your inference first, and see if it makes sense."

"Order!"

Qiu Yunfei jumped up, and said "Fat" as if singing an opera, then stared at Jia Baoyu with burning eyes, and said word by word, "Perhaps your father still has a son, an illegitimate son who has been lost for many years!"

This is really not surprising!

Jia Baoyu was dumbfounded by him, and Sun Shaozong couldn't help saying, "You mean, that Zhou Xi was Uncle Jia's illegitimate son?!"

"That's right!"

Seeing that even Sun Shaozong was shocked, Qiu Yunfei became more and more radiant, pacing back and forth in the living room, talking eloquently, "Judging from Brother Bao's appearance and figure, Duke Cun Zhou must have been a romantic and elegant son, and also an honorable son." It is not a miracle to have one or two confidante outside of the status of a descendant of the imperial family."

"It seems that after the woman became pregnant, Duke Cun Zhou did not dare to take her into the mansion because of etiquette and fear of people's words. The woman was disappointed and left angrily. Before leaving, he entrusted his son to others—— They are Zhou Xi's adoptive parents!"

"Zhou Xi's adoptive mother may have had a miscarriage at the time, or her children died young, so she raised Zhou Xi as her own son."

"And that jade pendant is the token left by the birth mother to Zhou Xi!"

"A few years later, Duke Cun Zhou regretted it for some reason. He couldn't find the child, so he came up with a whimsical idea - he created another psychic jade according to the few words left by the woman, and then Lied that brother Bao was born with jade in his mouth!"

"The purpose of doing this is naturally to hope that the illegitimate child will take the initiative to come to the door to recognize him after hearing the rumor."

this story...

In general, it can really justify itself!

YouQi also explained by the way why the Rongguo Mansion concocted a rumor about being born with jade.

As for Jia Baoyu's sluggish appearance, it is obvious that because of this inference, he has fallen into a situation of doubting his life.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a long while before questioning, "Why did the masked man shoot Zhou Xi to death?"

"Perhaps it has nothing to do with this psychic gem."

Qiu Yunfei first spread his hands, then stared straight at Jia Baoyu and said, "Perhaps there is some secret hidden in Zhou Xi, which may be implicated in the Rongguo Mansion!"

This is almost questioning that the Rongguo Mansion is the mastermind behind the masked man!

Chapter 548 A Whimsical Brain Hole 【Part [-]】

Faced with Qiu Yunfei's naked testimony, Jia Baoyu woke up from the nightmare of ruining the Three Views, subconsciously got up from the chair, and blurted out, "Brother Yunfei, what evidence is there for this deduction!"

"Of course there is evidence."

Qiu Yunfei pinched Zhou Xi's piece of jade between his fingers, and explained, "According to the words on this jade, this should be something that has been worn around since childhood."

As he spoke, he twirled his fingertips, showed Jia Baoyu the side of the jade, and continued, "Judging from the traces of re-polishing, it was indeed originally made into a portable accessory."

"Since it is an accessory that is carried around, why take it apart and hide it carefully?"

"The only reasonable explanation is that Zhou Xi has discovered the secret hidden in this piece of jade, and may even find his biological father through it!"

"But Zhou Xi's biological father was unwilling or afraid to recognize him, so Zhou Xi was disappointed and hid this token."

It is another inference that can be roughly justified.

With only half a year's experience in the Department of Criminal Investigation, he was able to perform like this. It seems that Qiu Yunfei really has a talent for criminal investigation.

Seeing that Jia Baoyu was messed up again by what he said, Sun Shaozong comforted him and said, "He is just inferring, it may not be true - besides, if you really want to follow his inference, the masked man is from your family. How could he shoot and kill Zhou Xi indiscriminately?"

"What Sun Er said is really..."

"correct!"

Jia Baoyu was in high spirits, and was about to agree with Sun Shaozong's words, but Qiu Yunfei suddenly let out a strange cry, and asked like a cannonball, "When did the old man in the family die? I remember it was more than 20 years ago, right? But Jianping 22 Between 25 and [-] years?!"

"How do you..."

Jia Baoyu blurted out three words, then his complexion changed drastically, and he asked in a trembling voice, "How old is Zhou Xi now?"

However, halfway through his speech, he suddenly understood what Qiu Yunfei meant - having an affair with a woman during the funeral of his parents, and even causing her to become pregnant, is a serious crime of disobedience and unfilial piety!

This can also just explain why Jia Zheng didn't dare to take that woman as his concubine, and why the masked man shot and killed Zhou Xi, and then committed suicide by taking poison!

All this is to keep Jia Zheng, and even the wealth and reputation of Jia Mansion!

But regardless of the purpose, in the final analysis, the masked man killed Jia Zheng's son with his own hands, and apologizing with death is also part of the title.

Jia Baoyu was having all sorts of terrible thoughts in his mind, when he heard Qiu Yunfei say again, "Zhou Xi was born in February of the 25th year of Jianping, because his neighbors had seen him when he was a child. Too much difference."

Hearing this, Jia Baoyu couldn't hide the panic on his face anymore, he backed away shyly, bumping his leg against the chair without realizing it, and muttered in his mouth, but no one could hear him clearly What the hell are you talking about.

This change was due to the fact that his grandfather Jia Daishan died in the summer of the 23rd year of Jianping, which meant that if Zhou Xi was really Jia Zheng's illegitimate son, it must have been caused by adultery during the funeral!

All this seems to have the answer!

"Wait a minute!"

But at this moment, Sun Shaozong shook his head suddenly and said, "I'm afraid this inference cannot be established."

"Can't be established?"

Qiu Yunfei lived such a big life, and it was the first time he crushed others with his IQ, especially Sun Shaozong, whom he had always looked up to. Great.

While dazed, I couldn't help asking angrily, "My reasoning is reasonable, why can't it be established?"

Sun Shaozong glanced at him, and asked Jia Baoyu lightly, "Where is your father's tomb?"

"In Jinling..."

Jia Baoyu blurted out the word 'Jinling', suddenly swept away his depression, jumped excitedly and said, "Yes, my father was in Jinling at that time to observe his filial piety, and he never returned to Beijing on the way, so how could he be that Zhou Xi's biological father? ?!"

Now it was Qiu Yunfei's turn to be dumbfounded. After finally coming up with such a set of inferences, who knew that it would be overturned by decisive evidence in just a blink of an eye!