Detective in the Red Chamber

Just like this, they left each other and got back on the carriage again, hearing the rustling of the wheels and rolling up the snow all over the ground, but Sun Shaozong not only let out a long sigh.

As I said earlier, filial piety was the most important thing in feudal dynasties. Although killing relatives and uncles is not as good as killing fathers and mothers, it is also an act of treason and immorality.

Even if there is a reason for the incident, Zhang An is afraid that he will inevitably die - if it is really drunk and immoral, he may be sentenced to half-cut or Ling Chi.

And the only thing that can save his life right now is the word 'prostitution'.

If Wang Zhen's speculation is the same, if Zhang An's wife and uncle violated human relations, it would be justifiable for Zhang An to kill his uncle in anger.

Especially since he has just returned from military service, even if it is only for the sake of the army, the court will certainly forgive him.

only……

Zhang An has the best face. If he could survive death by wearing a deformed forgiveness hat, he would rather die.

Hey~

He came back from victory in a good manner, so why did he encounter such a shitty thing?

That's it.

Whether Zhang An is willing to expose it or not, it is always better to find out the truth first.

…………

Zhang An's home is located in the northwest of the outer city.

Because he was only a mere seventh-rank military man, and his ancestors did not leave any shadow behind him. There were only four tile-roofed houses and a small courtyard in his home, and he never had any slaves at his disposal.

Getting off the car in front of that door, Sun Shaozong was looking at the small courtyard of the Sun family, when Wang Zhen pointed to the front and said, "The butcher shop in front is opened by Zhang An's uncle, Zhang Biao."

Sun Shaozong looked up, and saw a flag standing upright thirty or forty steps away, with the words "Zhang Yidao" written in black on a blue background, waving in the wind in the snow.

It turned out that the deceased was a butcher.

From a literal point of view, he is still a butcher who is very confident in his craft.

"Is there any relatives in his family?"

"This……"

Wang Zhen hesitated for a moment, then Sun Shaozong ordered, "Zhao Wuwei, take someone to inquire about Zhang Biao's situation, try to ask clearly."

"Understandable!"

Zhao Wuwei immediately took orders and went.

Sun Shaozong winked at Wang Zhen again and ordered him to come forward and call for the door.

Wang Zhen had already decided in his heart that Zhang An's wife Wu Shi was a flirtatious slut who didn't pay attention to etiquette, so she stepped forward and smashed the door panel loudly.

After smashing it a few times, I suddenly heard a child crying inside.

Wang Zhen immediately held his fist in embarrassment. He was only dissatisfied with Wu, but he never thought that he would scare Zhang An's son.

"Who? Sleeping knocking on the door?"

After the crying died down a bit, a woman in the yard answered.

Wang Zhen shouted angrily, "It's me, Wang Zhen!"

After returning to Beijing, Wang Zhen also came to Zhang's house several times, so when the woman heard the word 'Wang Zhen', she immediately stepped forward and opened the door, covering her face sadly and crying, "It turns out that Uncle Wang has arrived. , my husband-in-law, he...he..."

Sun Shaozong looked carefully at the side, but saw that Wu's birth was quite charming, but now that his hair was unkempt and his face was like peaches with swollen eyes, his beauty was a little less.

"Sister-in-law..."

Wang Zhen could read the word 'sister-in-law', and frowned into the word Chuan, but couldn't think of any other address for a while, so he could only hold back his nausea and said in a muffled voice, "Sister-in-law, come and see our Lord Sun!"

Mrs. Wu was taken aback when she heard the word 'Master Sun', and then she was terrified and wanted to kneel down to salute Sun Shaozong.

"It doesn't have to be."

Sun Shaozong helped her up, pointed to the courtyard and said, "Can I talk inside?"

"My lord, please come in, my lord, please come in!"

Mrs. Wu hastily let the two of them in, and then invited Sun Shaozong into the house in fear.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a six or seven-year-old boy looking out timidly. When he saw Wang Zhen, his eyes lit up again. He hugged Wang Zhen's thigh and shouted, "Uncle Wang, go and save me!" Daddy!"

Wang Zhen hugged him in his arms, sighed and gritted his teeth.

Just as he didn't know how to coax him, he listened to Sun Shaozong's order again, "Take him out to eat something, and bring some back to Zhao Wuwei and others by the way."

Wang Zhen was somewhat reluctant, but he did not dare to disobey Sun Shaozong after all, so he had to goug out Wu's eyes, carefully wrapped the child in his cloak, and pushed the door outside.

After Wang Zhen left, Sun Shaozong found a chair and sat down on his own, looking back and forth at Wu Shi with probing eyes.

The Wu family watched her son being taken away, but she didn't stop her, she just pinched her fingers and stood in the middle nervously, not even daring to look at Sun Shaozong.

slap~

After a long while, Sun Shaozong slapped the table suddenly, and asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Zhang Wu, are your tears shed by your own husband or by your adulterer? Why don't you tell me the truth?!"

Wu's body trembled, and she couldn't help but fell to her knees again with a thud, and asked Ai Ai, "My lord...why did your lord ask such a question?"

"Humph!"

Sun Shaozong sneered and said, "Since you have been in the capital for a long time, you have never heard of my name, right? What's more, Zhang An is my personal guard!"

"But I have been here for a long time, but I have never heard you cry out for grievances or beg for forgiveness! If you say that there is no hidden truth in it, I will never believe it!"

"me……"

That Wu raised his head, but he hesitated to speak, biting the two cherry lips until they gradually swelled.

At this time, Sun Shaozong suddenly restrained his stern expression, and said softly, "Actually, after seeing your left wrist, I knew that you and Zhang An still have some relationship as husband and wife—now that he is dying, you should do everything possible to save him. Yes, but why are you so hesitant?"

Hearing this, Mrs. Wu subconsciously looked at her left wrist, but saw that it was covered with a layer of white cloth, and there was still some blood on the inside.

Others may not be able to see anything, but Sun Shaozong can see through it at a glance. This Wu family has recently attempted suicide.

At this time, seeing Wu's mood loosening, he immediately said in a hot tone, "You just don't care about the relationship between husband and wife, so you are really willing to let the child lose his father at a young age?"

Hearing Sun Shaozong mentioning the child, the Wu family finally broke down emotionally, crying uncontrollably, "Yes... he said, don't... tell others, otherwise... otherwise, you will be a ghost... even a ghost will not let you go I!"

Chapter 629 Asking about adulterous love brings out hidden feelings [Part [-]]

Same as yesterday, the second update is around 12 o'clock.

When Zhang Wushi burst into tears, he also opened up the conversation box, telling the cause and effect of the incident one by one.

However, after Zhang An joined the army, that Zhang Biao often went to and from home, and every time he was not empty-handed, either carrying two catties of meat, or sending some rice noodles.

Although Zhang Wu felt that he was a bit too attentive, but after all, he was her husband's uncle and took care of her family with good words, so it was hard to say anything.

But gradually, Zhang Biao lost his scruples in his speech, and he had to say a few dirty words from time to time, and the things he sent gradually changed from food to things for women such as rouge and water powder.

Knowing that Zhang Wu's feelings were wrong, she declined several times in a row, and there were many warnings in her words, but Zhang Biao still moved forward shamelessly, and even bought a woman's underwear for her.

Now Mrs. Zhang Wu was really annoyed. She shredded the little clothes with scissors face to face, scolded Zhang Biao sharply, and said that until her husband came back, the two families should not communicate with each other.

That Zhang Biao was stunned for a long time, and when he saw that he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly rushed forward and hugged Zhang Wushi, speaking nonsense, he was about to forcefully be rude.

Zhang Wushi struggled desperately, grabbed the scissors and stabbed Zhang Biao in the shoulder, finally forcing Zhang Biao to flee in embarrassment.

After the fight, the two families completely cut off contact.

Just like that, Mrs. Zhang and Wu lived a few months of peaceful life with their children, thinking that the matter would just pass.

Unexpectedly, at the end of last year, Mrs. Zhang Wu came back from shopping at the street corner, and saw Zhang Biao sitting in the main room with a big horse and a golden knife, holding the only son of the Zhang family who was asleep in his arms.

Mrs. Zhang Wu was shocked, and just as she was about to step forward to grab her son, that Zhang Biao took a sharp knife from the table, saying that if Mrs. Zhang refused to obey, he would goug out the heart and liver of his nephew and grandson.

Zhang Wushi panicked immediately.

Hearing Zhang Biao's vivid description of the details of cutting open the chest with a knife and picking out the heart, and the appearance of the child struggling and moaning in pain while not dead, he completely lost the courage to resist.

At first, after Zhang Biao, Zhang Wu thought about committing suicide several times, and even thought about going to the government to sue—but firstly, she was reluctant to bear the loneliness of her son, and secondly, she was afraid that Zhang Biao would bite back and become a shameless slut title.

So time passed day by day in struggle and cowardice.

Knowing that Zhang Anli had returned to Beijing not long ago due to his meritorious service, after Zhang Wu's hesitation, he finally mustered up the courage last night, told Zhang An what happened, and intended to commit suicide by using his full name.

After Zhang An rescued his wife, he was silent outside for a whole night.

The next day, I went to Zhang Biao's place with a pot of good wine. Not long after, I returned home covered in blood, and told Zhang Wu that he was not allowed to reveal a single word about being cuckolded by his own uncle. .

Zhang Wu didn't dare to ask any more questions, she waited on her husband and drank two pots of soju. It wasn't until the officials came to her that she realized that Zhang Biao had been killed by her husband.

After listening to Zhang Wu's words, Sun Shaozong asked a few more questions, and saw that there was nothing unusual in her answers, so he was [-]% convinced in his heart.

According to this statement, Zhang Wu and that Zhang Biao did not commit adultery, but were coerced to lose their chastity.

This is undoubtedly great news for Zhang An's successful exoneration.

only……

Listening to Zhang Wu's retelling of Zhang An's words and deeds, he has obviously made up his mind, and would rather get killed because of this than make public the fact that his wife was raped.

If this matter is brought to light, Zhang An's life will naturally be saved.

But with Zhang An's temper of wanting face and suffering, Sun Shaozong is not sure whether he can survive with a green hat.

At this moment, there was a sound of horseshoes outside the courtyard gradually approaching.

Sun Shaozong got up and looked out, and saw Qiu Yunfei getting off his horse and rubbing his frozen fat face.

He rushed out to greet him, and asked, "What's the matter? But what news did you find out?"

Qiu Yunfei entered the courtyard, grinned his teeth first, and did a set of facial exercises to loosen his frozen muscles, and then said, "It's not that we found out, but someone else took the initiative to send a message."

It turned out that he and Master Qi were trying their best to inquire about the news, and suddenly someone came to find him, but it was Wang Gaosheng, the magistrate of Daxing County.

Because Wang Gaosheng had assisted Sun Shaozong in uncovering the case of dismembering the carpenter's body, he was recommended to be the registered disciple of Lao Xu, the master of Shuntian Mansion, so he was also acquainted with Qiu Yunfei.

After he stepped forward to pay respects, he said that he had heard that Master Sun's personal guards had gone wrong, so he secretly went to the prison to visit him through his relationship, thinking of doing his best.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhang An heard about his intentions, he asked him to find a way to send a message to Mr. Sun, saying that he was immoral after drinking, and his crime was unforgivable.

got~

This is more difficult.

In the end, no matter what Zhang An thinks, just use the green hat to save people, or simply let him seek benevolence and get benevolence?

At the moment when he was in a dilemma, another person rushed over from outside, but it was Zhao Wuwei who went to investigate Zhang Biao, and led his team back to return.

In fact, Sun Shaozong sent them to investigate Zhang Biao, mainly because they were afraid that Mrs. Wu would not reveal the truth, so they wanted to collect some information from the side first, so they could be prepared.

However, the Wu family has no reservations at the moment, and it would be meaningless to investigate Zhang Biao again—except for the word 'obscenity' these days, there are really not many reasons that can offset the crime of killing an uncle.

But Zhao Wuwei and the others braved the wind and snow to inquire for a long time, but it was not good to ignore them.

So Sun Shaozong still called Zhao Wuwei to the front and listened to him report the results of the investigation just now.

Zhao Wuwei said, "Master, that Zhang Biao really has some problems!"

"He was originally the son-in-law who married in, but after his father-in-law died, he inherited the butcher shop in his wife's house."

"His mother-in-law also died two years ago, and Zhang Biao was alone, and he didn't seem to have any thoughts of continuing his life. He only devoted himself to living in the butcher shop."

"However, in the early summer of last year, this guy suddenly became addicted to gambling. I heard that within two or three months, he owed a whole lot of debt, and even if he lost his fortune, he couldn't pay it back."

"The neighbors all thought that his family had been ruined since then. Who would have thought that this guy, who was neither human nor ghost, survived for more than a month, but somehow made a fortune. Not only did he pay off his gambling debts, but he also lived on That’s how it came about.”

"From then on, I don't rely on the butcher shop to make a living. Eight days out of ten, the door is closed. Even if the door is open, it is not a serious business. If you ask for half a catty, you can give 14 taels. If you have a few good words, you can give it away for free. .”

"The neighbors in the neighborhood are all thinking, this guy must have found something wrong!"

In the early summer of last year, it was the time when Zhang Wu and Zhang Biao had a falling out. This guy had trouble hooking up with his nephew and daughter-in-law, so it made sense to use gambling to relieve boredom.

But later, when he had nowhere to go, he made a living out of his own business, and after gradually becoming bandit-like, he came to threaten Zhang Wu's again, which can be called a smooth success.

But these days, relatives are so important to concealing relatives, even if you want to give Zhang An the name of killing relatives righteously, I'm afraid it won't be enough to make a fool of yourself...

and many more!

Sun Shaozong's heart suddenly moved, since Zhang Biao didn't care about the income of the butcher shop, he just closed the shop, why did he open the shop every now and then to do business?

Could it be that the side door he fished for was related to the butcher business, or... the butcher business was needed to cover it up?

After pondering for a while, Sun Shaozong turned away from the left and right, and asked the Wu family alone if he knew what Zhang Biao was secretly relying on to make money.

"This... the slave family has never heard him talk about it."