Detective in the Red Chamber

Sun Shaozong laughed, first took a piece of glutinous rice cakes and put them on Ruan Rong's dinner plate, then took a large piece of ham from the soup bowl, cooled it repeatedly and threw it into his son's bowl.

Putting down the chopsticks, he rubbed his little head again and said, "Eat, eat, eat, let's build a snowman for your sister and let her cheer us on by the side!"

As he spoke, he spread his hands together and said, "Don't let my daughter play in the snow, just take a look, it won't be a big deal, right?"

When Sun Chengyi heard that he was going to play in the snow, he immediately cheered.

Seeing this, Ruan Rong had no choice but to compromise, and her left and right sons were also tough, and with her watching by her side, it shouldn't be a bad thing.

Just like that, the whole family sat around the dining table, seeing that all the dishes were served, Ruan Rong suddenly noticed something strange - usually Second Sister You rushed over to serve the dishes, but today all the dishes were served , still no sign of her?

"You said her."

Sun Shaozong chewed the green vegetables in his mouth, and said vaguely, "She accidentally twisted her leg last night, and she still can't get off the ground now. Let someone send her the food later."

"She twisted her leg?"

Ruan Rong repeated in amazement, then her face flushed suddenly, she spat three times, then picked up some kidney nourishing food with her chopsticks, and threw it into Sun Shaozong's bowl.

Two flowers bloom, one for each branch.

However, when Sun Shaozong was playing with his children, two people in the clerk's class at the southeast corner of the Daxing County Yamen mentioned his name.

One of the two was sitting behind the desk, and the other was walking around the room anxiously.

Behind the desk was a middle-aged literati in a long gown, and he smiled and comforted him and said, "Old Wei, what's the fuss about this? We've already dealt with the things that need to be dealt with, and now that Zhang Biao is dead without evidence. Who else can climb over our heads?"

The surname Wei came to a screeching halt when he heard the words, and said angrily, "You're so easy to say! That's 'Three-eyed Broken' Sun Shaozong! How many endless cases have been investigated by him?!"

Speaking of this, he straightened his hair in remorse. If Lian Dao had known about the misunderstanding, he should not have forced himself to stand out yesterday. When Wang Zhixian and Sun Shaozong went to court, he would definitely be suspected.

But it turned out that this old Wei was the leader of the Wei team who played an infernal affairs between Sun Shaozong and Wang Qian yesterday.

"Not so, not so."

The long-clothed scribe waved his hands again and again and said, "I know the temper of the county lord best. Since I have offended Mr. Sun, I will definitely not take the initiative to reconcile with him."

"But……"

"Shh!"

Bantou Wei was about to say something, but the long-clothed scribe pointed outside and made a silent gesture.

Not long after, an officer rushed in, saluted the two of them first, and then said, "Just now the government sent someone to summon us, saying that we want us to submit the list of beggars who died and fled in the city last year and this year."

The long-clothed scribe responded calmly, then dismissed the summoner, and looked at the face of Wei Bantou, but his face was already ashen-colored.

"Cause... a disaster!"

He heard him tremblingly saying, "It only took one night to find the beggar..."

As he said that, he suddenly jumped forward, lay down on the desk, and proposed with wide-eyed eyes, "Why don't we... let's just take Yin Zi and our family and fly far away!"

"Fly away?"

"Fly away!"

slap~

Before Bantou Wei's determined voice fell to the ground, the scribe slapped him.

Before Captain Wei could react, he asked sullenly, "You're talking lightly, maybe you forgot who we're working for? I really offended the other side, your whole family will be out of their wits!"

Wei Ban covered his face with his head, his expression changed from anger to pale, then from pale to despair, and finally staggered to sit on the chair, holding his face and said dejectedly, "Then...then we just wait to die?"

"Look at how promising you are!"

The middle-aged scribe snorted, turned around and took out an account book from the bookcase, patted the cover and said with a sneer, "On weekdays, who would pay attention to the life and death of those beggars, and it doesn't all depend on what is written in this file? Just rest assured. , I promise they won't find any faults!"

Chapter 633

On September 29, the lights came on.

The snow in the surrounding area has not yet melted, but in the small pavilion in the backyard of the Dingxiang Building, a raging bonfire was lit.

A fresh and plump elk was slowly rotating on the grill. The fragrant smell matched the cold snow scene outside, making people more and more appetizing.

Seeing that someone next to him picked up a dagger, Zhao Nan, who was serving the grill, hurriedly shook the bracket flat, and then pointed out with a smile on his face, "Master, you should cut the knife on the lower abdomen first, where the meat is the most tender. It's ripe."

But the man refused to listen to him, he insisted on taking a large piece off his thigh, stabbed it with a knife, filled the plate with a lot of sauce, stuffed it boldly into his mouth and chewed it.

On one side, he was twitching, and on the other hand, he was breathing out hot air, and he swallowed it with great difficulty. It was as if a layer of red powder had been applied on his white and jade-like face.

But he didn't even care to wipe off the oil stains at the corners of his mouth, so he picked up Thumb and praised him repeatedly, "Great, the pepper that the second brother brought is really more powerful than cornel!"

The one who was born with a beautiful face and a heroic demeanor was none other than Liu Xianglian.

Seeing that he was talking and sticking out his tongue, it was obviously the first time he ate this chili noodles, and he couldn't bear it.

"I said earlier that this stuff is very spicy, but you have to be brave."

Sun Shaozong looked around speechlessly, and saw that the table was full of hot shochu, not even a cup of tea, so he ordered Zhao Nan to quickly slice a few more pieces of venison, and asked him to press down on the ones that didn't stick to the sauce.

But Liu Xianglian hurriedly waved her hands and said, "I'm just trying something new, there's no one here, so why don't you just eat it?"

As he spoke, he stroked his tongue a few times with his upper teeth, and swept away most of the contaminated chili noodles, and said twice more.

Just as I was talking, I saw Jia Baoyu, Xue Pan and Feng Ziying talking and laughing in the backyard.

Seeing that Liu Xianglian was already in the pavilion, and there was some venison on the plate, Xue Pan half-truthfully complained, "Old Liu, you're not being loyal, just come here quietly, why not?" Do you have to eat it first?"

"What's so quiet?"

But Liu Xianglian didn't like him, she got up and said with a black smile, "I'm going to be my second brother's attendant, right? Today's promotion banquet is still half of the master's family, so what's the point of being late?" look?"

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of venison with a knife and fork, rolled it a few times into the chili noodles, and passed it to Xue Pan pretending to be his in-laws, saying, "Come on, the whole deer banquet ordered by Brother Bao, first taste how it tastes. "

This time the imperial court rewards are urgent, and the date is near.

On the first day of October, Sun Shaozong was going to officially go to Dali Temple to take up his post. In these few days of free time, it was natural that he had to gather old acquaintances together for a casual meal.

Moreover, Qiu Yunfei hadn't heard from Sun An's case for two days, so he just took this opportunity to ask how it was going.

As for the whole deer banquet, it was Baoyu's proposal - it is said that he baked a piece of food yesterday, but was restrained by the family, and the food was not enjoyable enough.

But Liu Xianglian didn't mention that she wanted to be her follower just now.

At the beginning, Sun Shaozong did say that he should be his master, but he shirked it in every possible way at that time, and now he took the initiative to mention it in front of everyone...

It seems that after getting married, Liu Xianglian has changed a lot.

However, when Xue Pan saw him put the venison to his mouth, he immediately snorted and said, "It's nothing to be courteous, it's either rape or stealing! You think I'm stupid..."

Before he finished speaking, Liu Xianglian stabbed the venison in while he opened his mouth, and pulled out the dagger skillfully.

"How about it? Doesn't this taste very strong?"

"Bah, bah, bah!"

Xue Pan hurriedly spat out the venison, complaining, "What... what... hiss~! Water, water, water, bring me some water!"

Seeing him jump three feet high, with snot and tears flowing freely, Liu Xianglian couldn't help laughing, and Feng Ziying beside him couldn't help but laugh.

Only Jia Baoyu was a cousin after all, and even though he couldn't stop laughing, he hurriedly ordered someone to bring tea for Xue Pan to rinse.

It was easy to clean up, and Xue Pan stuck out his tongue while asking, "What the hell is this? What the hell is this?! You almost killed me!"

"This thing is called chili pepper. It's similar to cornel, but it's much hotter." Sun Shaozong said, "I found it in the south. I'm going to roast venison around today, so I brought some for you to try."

After hearing this, Feng Ziying and Jia Baoyu also tried to taste something new, but they were obviously insensitive to the stimulating taste.

On the contrary, Xue Pan tasted some more cautiously, and got used to the pungent taste, eating one slice on the left and one slice on the right, enjoying himself.

"Look how promising you are."

Liu Xianglian said disdainfully, "There are still people here, but you can't finish eating."

Xue Pan didn't mention it for a moment, and asked vaguely, "Who else is there?"

"Chou Yunfei!"

Feng Ziying laughed and said, "Second brother, have you been entrusting him to investigate the case these past two days? I heard that this kid jumped up and down, tossing everywhere, and no sure news came out. I guess he encountered a problem. "

"You are very well informed."

Sun Shaozong pointed at him with a smile, "This Dragon Guard has hundreds of households, it's really not a joke!"

Two years later, Feng Ziying was no longer a flamboyant dandy, but a serious Beizhen Fusi Baihu.

Among them, Qiu Yunfei probably also played a stimulating role-the two of them used to pinch each other when they met, but now Qiu Yunfei has made a general judgment of the sixth grade, so Feng Ziying is willing to accept it later?

Speaking of the hundreds of households of the Dragon Guard, Feng Ziying said depressedly, "I originally pointed out that the second brother came back, so that I could enjoy the glory. Who would have thought that you would come back, but you also resigned from the errand of Beizhen Fusi." Already!"

The other people obviously didn't know about it yet, so they hurriedly asked Sun Shaozong to find out.

Sun Shaozong spread his hands, and said helplessly, "Don't you understand? Now that I'm older, I can barely be regarded as one of the Xiaojiuqing, who is still in charge of the world's prison litigation. This will continue to bear the title of inspecting thousands of households. I'm afraid someone should write a letter to impeach me every now and then."

Although everyone was not as transparent as him, they were all descendants of officials and eunuchs. After thinking about it for a while, they knew that Sun Shaozong's move was to avoid suspicion.

Since nothing went wrong, everyone slacked off again.

Xue Pan raised his wine glass and yelled, "Let's not talk about this official matter, how about we drink two cups to warm our stomach first?"

But no one answered him. Last time, this guy also said to warm his stomach first, but in the end he filled half the table with him.

Liu Xianglian couldn't help but said sourly, "With your old man here, you don't need to pay attention to the official affairs—I don't see you going to the Yamen every day, so I quietly transferred to the Ministry of War, and now I'm still a sixth-rank official. The master is a lot stronger than Feng's elder brother."

"Pull it down, I'm just using a name!"

Xue Pan curled his lips when he heard this, "Besides, my father-in-law may not be willing to contribute to the sixth rank, and I guess it will be like this until death."

This allowed him to say for sure that it would be good if he could get a sixth-rank idle job, and if he went up, he would either be a light and expensive civilian job, or he would have to be responsible for some actual official duties.

If he doesn't care about things and has no fame, he basically has no chance to make progress.

As Xue Pan said, he wanted to persuade him to drink again.

Liu Xianglian and Feng Ziying were willing to answer a few words with him.

Jia Baoyu, who was deeply hurt by it that day, pretended not to hear it, moved to Sun Shaozong's side, and said jokingly, "Second brother, we used some of you to compose poems yesterday. Guess who won the prize?"

Sun Shaozong also heard Xiangling talk about his family's poetry club several times. It was basically Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai's Lunzhuang. Occasionally, Shi Xiangyun could catch a leak, and the chances for the rest of them to shine were few and far between.

Considering the personalities, knowledge and other factors of the three of them, Sun Shaozong guessed casually, "It's probably either your sister Lin, or the Xiangyun girl from the historian."

The reason why Baochai was not guessed was because she seemed too steady on weekdays, and she might be a bit weaker when faced with such topics that require enthusiasm and appeal.

"Ha ha!"

Go and listen to Jia Baoyu's proud smile, "Second brother guessed wrong this time. Although sister Xiangyun's poems are very good, she is still inferior to Miss Baoqin, and she can only come in second."

Xue Baoqin?

Immediately in Sun Shaozong's mind, Xue Baoqin was graceful and charming.

But I didn't think that this little girl was also a talented woman.

"Look at your happy face, those who don't know think you have won the lottery."

He casually teased Baoyu, and Sun Shaozong wanted to hear how Xue Baoqin made that winning poem, when he suddenly saw a person rushing towards him with big strides.

Just looking at the round and plump figure, one knew that it was none other than Qiu Yunfei, the protagonist of this banquet.

Chapter 634

Qiu Yunfei stepped on the snow to the outside of the pavilion, but Xue Pan was the first to greet him.

Seeing him chuckle a few times, suppressing the spicy taste in his mouth, he shook his head and teased, "Old Qiu, your body is getting more and more stable--Second Brother treats guests, and you came so late! "

"roll!"

Qiu Yunfei stared, and retorted, "Even if I'm fatter, I'm still taller than you!"

Although the two of them were arguing with each other, there was no sign of annoyance on their faces. It seemed that they were used to messing around on weekdays.

This is also Xue Pan's rare advantage - he is familiar with himself and can get along with anyone.

Of course, sometimes it is unavoidable to put a hot face on a cold ass.

After Qiu Yunfei finished scolding Xue Pan, he rushed a few steps to salute Sun Shaozong, and said with a wry smile, "My lord, I originally wanted to find out some clues, and then I will reply to you. Who would want to toss for a long time and it will be in vain."

But it turned out that in the past two days, Qiu Yunfei first checked the list of beggars who died and fled, and then sent people to the dental office, the Ministry of Health and Welfare to verify the situation, but the results were very little.

This afternoon, he ordered someone to search for the list of missing reports of the families of noble gentry and officials in recent years. As a result, the criminal officials searched wildly, but they still couldn't find the point.