Detective in the Red Chamber

Sun Shaozong lowered his head to hold half a silver ingot-like earlobe in his mouth, blowing on the heat and laughing lewdly, "After dinner, why don't we go together..."

"Yeah~ I was so busy learning embroidery that I almost forgot the business!"

Unexpectedly, when he mentioned dinner, Ruan Rong suddenly remembered something, hurriedly struggled to get off the ground, took out two invitation cards from the back room, and handed them to Sun Shaozong, "These are invitation cards from this afternoon. They are all invitation cards." You went to the banquet."

Sun Shaozong took it over and took a look, and found that the above card was sent by Jia's mansion, saying that he was invited to have a drink at the mansion at noon on February [-]th.

"Your godmother's birthday, why did you send me an invitation?" Sun Shaozong said a little speechlessly, "There is a difference between men and women, I can't even enter the backyard door, so should I celebrate her birthday through the courtyard wall? "

If Mrs. Xing, Mrs. Wang or Mrs. Jia celebrated her birthday, as a junior, it would be reasonable for Sun Shaozong to go to Rongguo Mansion to congratulate him, but how can a dignified man go to pay a birthday greeting to a young girl who has not left the court?

Ruan Rong pushed him, and said coquettishly, "What, you should take a closer look at the inscription first. This is obviously the second master of Rongguo Mansion inviting you to a banquet. What does it have to do with Sister Lin's birthday?"

Sun Shaozong took a closer look, and the inscription really read the word "Jia Cunzhou".

Since it was Jia Zheng who came forward to invite her, it really shouldn't have anything to do with Daiyu's birthday.

Could it be that Jia Zheng wanted to thank himself for his son?

Thinking about it, I felt it was wrong. With Jia Baoyu's usual style, he would definitely focus on Lin Daiyu's side first. When the time comes, he, the righteous master, will not appear, but why is he talking about the word "thank you"?

Unable to think of Jia Zheng's purpose for a while, Sun Shaozong didn't bother to continue thinking about it. He put the invitation on the table, and opened the second invitation casually. There was more content in this invitation. Four or five hundred characters, and it was written with gold powder stained with cinnabar, and when you look at it, you will see gold scum falling down.

Afraid to read it slowly, this invitation will be 'self-destructed' first, Sun Shaozong hurriedly skipped the prefix of "Pian Si Li Liu Liu" and roughly browsed the content.

After reading it, he frowned unconsciously.

Just because this invitation was not sent in the name of an individual, but in the name of all Wu Jinshi in the eighth year of Guangde, inviting Sun Shaozong to attend the same year party in the capital on the night of February [-]th.

The so-called same year means that they were admitted to civil servant Wu Jinshi in the same year, and they may not be very familiar with each other—it’s just that they are just newcomers who want to use their names to weave a network of relationships.

And because the real 'Sun Shaozong' offended Prince Yizhong not long after he was selected as Wu Jinshi, he had to escape to Qianxiang country to avoid disaster, and he had nothing to do with these people.

So Sun Shaozong rummaged through the memory fragments, and only remembered two or three names, and they couldn't match their looks!

Participating in this kind of party full of strangers, coupled with this glamorous tone, Sun Shaozong thought with his ass, and knew that the scene must be boring and embarrassing.

only……

Now that he is in the limelight, no matter whether he is a civil servant or a martial artist, he can be regarded as the leader of that class of Wu Jinshi. If he doesn't show his face, he will inevitably be criticized by someone who is defiant.

Hey~

In the final analysis, it is still the four characters of 'relationship and favor'!

It seems that in the past few days, it is necessary to collect information on these fellow students, so as not to make any jokes when the time comes.

Chapter 71

Three days passed in a flash.

When it came to February [-]th, Sun Shaozong originally thought it was the same-year party at night, but when he arrived at Jia Zheng at noon, he enjoyed the embarrassment in advance.

At that time, there were four people gathered in the Rongxi Hall, namely Jia Zheng, Jia Yucun, Sun Shaozong, and Jia Zheng's favorite student Fu Shi—and this time Jia Zheng hosted a banquet in order to introduce Fu Shi to his second son. people.

According to Jia Zheng's introduction, this Fu Shi was originally the prime minister of the sixth-rank temple in Guanglu Temple. Because he was rated as a top-notch by the Jingcha University Timekeeper last year, he is about to be promoted to Shuntian Mansion. money, food and taxes.

As soon as he heard this introduction, Sun Shaozong knew that Jia Yucun had come to help him again.

You must know that although Shuntian Mansion's general judgment is not as noble as the court officials, it is an important link between the past and the future. Among the three current judgments, two have been linked to Jia Yucun. It's going to be hard to sleep and eat.

Jia Yucun obviously thought the same way, with a spring breeze blowing on his face and full of ambition, sweeping away the haze of not being able to show his power.

He wanted to solicit, and Fu Shi also deliberately flattered them, so after a few glasses of rice wine, the two of them became brothers and brothers, and used the wine to recite some sour toast poems, and the singing and harmony were very lively.

Jia Zheng was originally fond of dragging articles, so it was effortless to get involved.

But how can Sun Shaozong know any poems?

Sitting at the banquet is really embarrassing!

If he was really a reckless man, he might not be able to detect it, but how subtle is Sun Shaozong?

After watching from the sidelines for a while, he could see that Fu Shi was quite hostile to him, and he took the initiative to mention a poem, which was also intentional - to put it bluntly, he just didn't want to bring a vulgar person like Sun Shaozong to play with him.

If he was the only one like this, then Sun Shaozong would not be left out in the cold.

But Jia Yucun may have failed to get a formal response because of the two "hard-spoken words", so he also wanted to take the opportunity to teach Sun Shaozong a lesson, so that he would know the difficulty of being alone.

With these two people controlling the topic, even if Jia Zheng wanted to take care of Sun Shaozong's face, he still had more energy than he wanted.

Just like that, Sun Shaozong sat alone for a long time, thinking of some reason to get out, but Zhou Rui, the housekeeper of Rongguo Mansion, hurried in and reported, "Second Master, Mr. and Mrs. Zhongjinghou came to visit the old lady." , Elder Master happens to be not at home, you see..."

When Jia Zheng heard that Shi Ding, the Marquis of Zhongjing, had come, he didn't care too much. He hurriedly pleaded guilty to everyone at the table, and hurried to Jia's mother.

As soon as the master left, Jia Yucun and Fu Shi were left, but it was not easy to talk about romantic poems.

Therefore, Jia Yucun took advantage of the opportunity and praised, "In this year, a family like the Bowling Marquis's family can really be called the word 'odd number'."

That Fu Shi also echoed with a smile, "This achievement of leading a division to attack the country is naturally not comparable to others - if Shi Linggong hadn't unfortunately died of illness in Goryeo, maybe we would have another king with a different surname in the Great Zhou Dynasty."

The Marquis Bowling's mansion they were talking about was the natal family of the old lady of Jia's mansion. It was originally the marquis who founded the country. In terms of status, it was far inferior to the Ning and Rong mansions.

But now, Jia She, the elder of the Rongguo Mansion, is only a first-class general, but the Baolinghou Mansion is a duo. A rare anomaly in the court.

When it comes to the origins of the historians, the double lords, they have something to do with the Sun family.

About 16 years ago, the then emperor of Dazhou, who is now the Supreme Emperor, sent 20 troops to conquer Goryeo in a rage because Koryo repeatedly violated borders and plundered the people of Dazhou.

At that time, Sun Shaozong's cheap old man was appointed as the vanguard of the army because of his bravery. He thought he could make great achievements and show his ambitions. Unexpectedly, this battle was a disastrous defeat for the entire army. In the end, only 20 of the 3 troops escaped the Yalu River. people!

Sun Shaozong's cheap Lao Tzu was lucky enough to be among the 3 people—it's a pity that he escaped the pursuit of the Koreans, but he failed to escape the emperor's wrath, and was ordered to commit suicide by the Yalu River to thank the world.

As a result, the Sun family fell into decline, and even had to rely on old relatives and friends to support their livelihood.

Five years later, the Great Zhou once again launched an army to attack Goryeo, and this time it was Bao Linghou's eldest grandson Shi Jue who commanded the army.

Under Shi Jue's wise command, Koryo was defeated one after another, first losing its capital, and later even the entire king's family was killed by his generals, and the heads were presented to Dazhou as a gift.

Originally, according to the meaning of the Supreme Emperor, he wanted to completely wipe out the Goryeo Kingdom and directly divide it into the counties of the Great Zhou.

It's a pity that just as the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou Dynasty were making great strides, Shi Jue suddenly contracted an epidemic and was unable to continue commanding operations for a while.

Helpless, the imperial court had no choice but to accept the alternative condition of allowing Goryeo to surrender and establish the Korean vassal state, bowing his head to the Great Zhou.

Almost at the same time as the founding of North Korea, Shi Jue also died of illness and died in a foreign country.

According to the merits he made during his lifetime, it may be a bit of a stretch to become a king, but a duke of the state must not be able to escape.

But Shi Jue left only one woman named Xiangyun under his knees—this made the court face a difficult situation.

Not knowing how to deal with it, Shi Jue's two younger brothers, Shi Nai and Shi Ding, gritted their teeth and donated all their family property, asking the court to use it to comfort the soldiers who died in battle.

In this way, the imperial court simply pushed the boat forward, first let the second son Shi Nai inherit the title of Marquis of Baoling, and then made the third son Shi Ding the title of Zhongjinghou, which can be regarded as repaying Shi Jue's credit.

After that, the Taishang Emperor felt that his merits and virtues were perfect, went for a walk on Mount Tai, and when he came back, he gave up the throne to Emperor Guangde.

But he said that Sun Shaozong was having one or the other, and when he heard Jia Yucun and Fu Shi discussing the history of the Shifu, he heard a hearty voice from outside the door, "Which one is Sun Shengtao's youngest son?"

As he said that, he saw a short and strong man stepping into the Rongxi hall, his eyes swept casually, and then fell on Sun Shaozong.

Seeing this posture, Sun Shaozong knew that Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding had arrived, so he hurriedly stood up and said, "Sun Shaozong has seen Lord Hou."

Jia Yucun and Fu Shi also hurriedly got up to salute.

But Shi Ding ignored the others, looked Sun Shaozong up and down again, and said in his mouth, "As expected, he is the kind of Sun Shengtao. This figure is the material for a charge! Recently, I have been full of stories about your solving crimes. Today I finally met the real person!"

At this time Jia Zheng also followed in from the outside, stroked his beard and smiled and said, "They are all from my own family, don't be restrained, just sit down, let's all sit down and talk."

While talking, a servant deftly placed another chair between Jia Yucun and Jia Zheng.

That Shi Ding was not too polite, he sat up with a golden knife, leaned forward and asked curiously, "What were you talking about just now? Could it be that you were discussing the recent strange case of dismemberment? I heard that the murderer Breaking into the Rongguo Mansion and even hurt Brother Qin, who is in the third room, but I don't know what happened?"

He opened his mouth to ask about the case, which fell into Sun Shaozong's arms, and immediately told the details of the case of dismembering the corpse, only to hear Jia Zheng and Shi Ding admire him.

After all, Jia Yucun had read the dossier, so he could still say a few words by the side.

But Fu Shi was like a book from heaven, even if he tried to strike up a conversation occasionally, he would be deliberately ignored by Sun Shaozong.

In the end, he had no choice but to shut up obediently, and sat there for more than half an hour, cursing Sun Shaozong hundreds of times in his heart, but completely forgot that he actually started this secret war first.

Chapter 72

There is another update before twelve o'clock.

"At this birthday party, Sister Lin's complexion looked a little ruddy. I heard that since I practiced your aerobics, the three meals a day have become much sweeter."

"Oh."

"For some reason, the widowed grandma is always a bit evasive towards me—you don't think she looks down on me, do you?"

"Oh."

Coming out of Rongguo Mansion, Sun Shaozong rested on Ruan Rong's lap, all he could think about was the party at night, and the nagging to Ruan Rong naturally came out of the left ear and in the right ear, and he only answered indiscriminately. .

If you want to talk about things in this world, if you don't check, you don't know. Check it out and you will be shocked!

In the eight years of Guangde, a total of [-] Wu Jinshi were admitted, and it has only been one year and seven months since the list was published, but there have already been many "capable people" who embezzled military rations, were captured alive by Japanese pirates, and provoked civil uprisings Those who molested good women...

After a year and a half, there were as many as a dozen people who lost their horses, and four were sentenced to death, which is definitely the most in the history of martial arts!

Of course, there are some good people among them. For example, the No. 2 No. 17 Xu Tai became the county magistrate of a southeast coastal county because of his conversion to a civilian job. Retired Japanese pirates, killed and captured [-] real Japanese, more than [-] fake Japanese, and captured three warships.

Xu Tai became famous because of this, and now he has been promoted from the fifth-rank magistrate, becoming the highest-ranking official in the same class. Because low-level military posts are really not very valuable, when comparing them with civil officials, one always subtracts the first and second ranks first. do calculations.

But when it comes to real power, Xu Tai, the prefect, can only come second.

It is recognized that the number one in real power is not the number one scholar, Tanhua, or Sun Shaozong's "shenjuantongjudgment", but Zhu Peng, who was the ninth in the second class at the time—he who also transferred to a civil position is now serving as the eighth rank in the Ministry of Household Affairs Take care of your job.

If it's just about official rank, the Ministry of Household Terumo is naturally far inferior to Zhizhou.

However, the "Household Ministry Zhaomosuo" is directly led by Shangshu, and it holds the right to evaluate the merits and demerits of the top and bottom of the household department and audit the accounts. It can even radiate influence across the country.

Under normal circumstances, don't say that Wu Jinshi transferred to a civil position, even if it is a serious Wen Jinshi, it doesn't matter and don't even think about this position.

And the reason why Zhu Peng was able to serve as Zhaomo of the Ministry of Household Affairs was all because he married the only daughter of Wang Guangzu, Shangshu of the Ministry of Officials, when he was waiting for an official position. A matter of minutes?

It is precisely because of this that almost all the same year people in the capital regard Zhu Peng as their respect, regardless of whether they are literary or martial arts. Even this so-called same year party was organized by him alone.

but……

There were rumors that the Shangshu Qianjin used to hang out with the male servants on weekdays, and she was pregnant with Liujia before she got married, so she had to withdraw the original engagement, which made Zhu Peng, who had no background, 'cheaper'.

But Sun Shaozong was thinking about whether the official hat on Zhu Zhaomo's head was "forgiving", when suddenly two slender fingers pinched his ear and turned it [-] degrees without pain.

"Ouch~ Don't, don't, don't, it will fall off if you twist it again!"

Sun Shaozong exaggeratedly called out, raised his head to meet Ruan Rong's dissatisfied gaze, and said with a smile, "What's the matter? This is, how did I offend Madam again?"

"I'm no lady."

Ruan Rongcherry pursed her lips, but she immediately let go of Sun Shaozong's ear, poked her finger on his forehead, and asked, "Sister Shijia, are you marrying or not?"

"What historian sister?"

Seeing Sun Shaozong's bewildered expression, Ruan Rong had no choice but to repeat what she had just said.

But it turned out that when Lin Daiyu was celebrating her birthday at noon, the wife of Zhongjing Hou Shi Ding also came to congratulate her. Hearing that there was Sun Shaozong's aunt here, she specially called Ruan Rong to her, and asked about a bunch of Sun's residences. Case.

Speaking of this, Ruan Rong said with a little jealousy, "Look at her, it's [-]% because she wants to promise her niece to you!"

Seeing this sour and jealous look, Sun Shaozong hurriedly put his arms around Ruan Rong's fragrant shoulders, intending to say a few words of thoughtfulness to comfort him.

Unexpectedly, before he could speak, Ruan Rong sighed again, "Sister Xiangyun is going to marry someone from the main room, but sister Xiangyun is straightforward and cheerful. If she can marry her, she will save a lot of trouble." .”

Having said that, Sun Shaozong was really moved. Although the two princes of the historian family have no real power, they are still a famous card in officialdom.

Besides, Shi Jue has many old students in the army, and now they all hold real power...

Thinking of this, he couldn't help inquiring curiously, "How is Shi Xiangyun's life? How is it compared to... Bi Lian's second sister-in-law?"

"This is..."

Ruan Rong thought about it for a moment, then said, "Sister Xiangyun hasn't bloomed yet, so she can't compare to Second Grandma's enchanting charm, but it can be seen that she is also a beauty, and she may not be..."

"and many more!"

Before Ruan Rong could finish speaking, Sun Shaozong's expression changed, and he asked in confusion, "What does it mean that she hasn't grown up? How old is she this year?"

"Yomo is a few months younger than Daiyu, and is not yet 12 years old."

I'll go~

Like a deflated ball, Sun Shaozong threw his head back on Ruan Rong's lap and said weakly, "It's so small, it will take a monkey year to marry back home as a wife?"