Detective in the Red Chamber

But the three of them said a few words of courtesy to each other, then Baoyu changed the subject and asked curiously, "I saw that the flower gardens in your house were all shoveled to the ground, but I don't know what kind of new rules this is?"

Hearing him take the initiative to ask about this matter, Sun Shaozong smiled wryly, and was about to explain the reason, but suddenly his heart moved, and he thought to himself why he didn't just use his tricks...

Chapter 136 Basic Skills of Criminal Detective Cases

Originally, Sun Shaozong planned to find a suitable opportunity to hand over the price list to Jia Lian.

With Wang Xifeng's greed, knowing that there is such a list, he will definitely compare it with the cost of his own gardening. At that time, Lai Dazhong's behavior of enriching his own pockets will definitely be exposed.

But this plan also has an obvious loophole.

If Wang Xifeng had corrupted wantonly when she supervised the construction of the other courtyard, she and Lai Da would have become fearful of both sides, and in the end they would only end up in a compromise.

For this reason, Sun Shaozong once considered sending the price list directly to Jia Zheng.

It's a pity that the second master of the Rongguo Mansion, who obviously works in the Ministry of Industry, wants to learn from those academicians, and spends all day playing with words, ignoring people's livelihood and economy.

If this price list is sent to him, it is very likely that it will be handed over to Lai Da for verification-by then, not only will Lai Da not be brought down, but Sun Shaozong's true intentions will also be exposed.

It was precisely because of these concerns that Sun Shaozong struggled for a long time, but failed to send out the price list.

but……

Today he found a more suitable candidate, Jia Baoyu!

Although Jia Baoyu is still young and has not participated in the management of Rongguo Mansion, he can't hold back his backstage!

The biggest reliance of Lai Da's family is the love in front of the old lady, but the love between master and servant in this area is obviously not in the same order as Jia Baoyu.

In this case, Jia Baoyu belongs to the victim completely, and there is no possibility of collaborating with Lai Da and others. In addition, Baoyu has always been willful and reckless. As long as he can arouse his interest, he will not worry about him not investigating. in the end.

Therefore, after calculating the benefits and losses in his mind, Sun Shaozong smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't it because the garden at home is too small to plant so many flowers and plants? Every year in order to enjoy the chrysanthemums in Chongyang, the family has to go to war. All the flowers and plants in the season must be replaced."

After a pause, he sighed again, "I just shoveled out the old one this year, but I happened to be imprisoned in Beizhen Fusi. People in the family are panic-stricken, so naturally I can't care about planting chrysanthemums."

If ordinary people listened to it, they would probably be stunned by the extravagant behavior of the Sun family.

But how could rich and idle people like Xue Pan and Jia Baoyu care about money?

Xue Pan immediately patted his chest and said, "Second brother, I happen to be tired of watching these days, and I will have someone shovel up all the chrysanthemums in the morning and send them to your house!"

"Now that the Double Ninth Festival has passed, why do you still want to shovel it?" Jia Baoyu shook his head, and said with a regretful face, "Although admiring chrysanthemums is a beautiful thing, if it hurts many flowers and plants, it will be really unpleasant. "

The way of thinking of this local tyrant and Wenqing is really different from normal people!

Slandering in his heart, Sun Shaozong nodded his head on the surface, "Brother Bao is right. I have been thinking about it for the past few days. I want to expand the backyard and set aside a flower garden alone, so as to save trouble in the future."

As he said that, he said distressedly again, "It's just that I found someone to inquire about it, and the cost of repairing the garden is a bit exaggerated..."

slap~

Before Sun Shaozong finished speaking, Xue Pan beat his chest again, and said with emotion, "What's so scary? If the second brother doesn't get the money, just tell me, I, Lao Xue, will make it up for you!"

This stuff is really...

Sun Shaozong didn't know whether to annoy him for talking too much, or to be moved by his generosity.

In the end, I had no choice but to say, "If I'm really short of money, I definitely won't hide it from you, but brother, what I'm most worried about right now is that those profiteers are shoddy—that's right!"

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered something, and cheered up, "Brother Bao, isn't your other courtyard soon to be completed? The craftsmen and merchants are all ready-made! Why don't you help me find out, if it's still good and cheap?" , I don’t have to find someone else.”

"This one……"

Jia Baoyu, like his father, was the most impatient in his life with such mundane tasks, and he even felt a little better than blue because of blue.

Therefore, when I heard that I wanted to inquire about these mundane matters, I was completely unhappy in my heart.

It's just because of Sun Shaozong's face, but it's hard to refuse his request.

Being in a dilemma, Sun Shaozong laughed and said, "Didn't Brother Bao always want to learn criminal investigations? Collecting all kinds of information is one of the basic skills of investigating a case. Just imagine how you can do it if you can't even collect superficial information." Find out the truth behind the scenes?"

These words hit Jia Baoyu's itch!

In front of Lin Daiyu that day, he boasted that he wanted to "solve the cause and effect for others", and he talked about "flick off the clothes after the matter, and hide his body and name deeply".

This big talk has been blown out, and Daiyu has also won a lot of admiration, but for several months, except for reading some miscellaneous detective scripts, he has made no progress at all-but Xiren passed the script and unlocked it again. several new poses.

Coupled with Daiyu and Tanchun asking questions from time to time, Jia Baoyu inevitably became a little restless.

Therefore, he took the initiative to come here today, in fact, he wanted to ask Sun Shaozong for advice on how to achieve his goal.

Hearing Sun Shaozong talk about the basic skills of investigating a case at this time, he suddenly regained his energy, leaned forward and asked, "Second brother, tell me quickly, what are the basic skills necessary to solve a case?"

Although this is obviously a bit off topic, but seeing Xue Pan also booing, Sun Shaozong could only point his fingers and said, "Leaving aside the details, I think the most important thing in investigating a case is to maintain curiosity."

"Stay curious?"

"That's right, if you're not interested in the case, or even curious about the truth behind the scenes, how can you persevere in the investigation?"

Jia Baoyu thought about it carefully, and found that these words were very reasonable. After some "introspection", he said excitedly, "I don't lack curiosity! My second brother quickly went on to say, what else is there?"

"Secondly, it is naturally a keen observation ability. If you can find more information than others at the crime scene, then you will naturally be one step closer to the truth than others."

"What's more, it is necessary to accumulate enough knowledge, so that when faced with intricate secret cases, you will not miss any important clues due to ignorance."

"Finally, it is the ability to sort out information. If you can sort out a fairly clear thread from the seemingly chaotic clues, it will definitely give you twice the result with half the effort in solving the case!"

"There are naturally many other abilities that need to be used, such as good memory ability, but compared to these four, I think they are all slightly less important."

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong spread his hands and said, "In addition to the first one, the most basic of the remaining three is keen observation. If you can't even collect information well, no matter how rich your knowledge is and how you can sort out clues, you can't do it." Heroes are useless."

"I understand!"

Jia Baoyu's eyes sparkled when he heard this, and he said without hesitation, "In this case, I will leave this matter to me. Don't worry, second brother, I will definitely check it out for you! "

Second-year teenagers or something, it's really best to be fooled.

Sun Shaozong was secretly complacent, but said with a warm smile on his face, "This is the first time you investigate alone, so don't rush to set too high a goal—it just so happens that I also collected some materials and prices, and I will give them to you tomorrow." Send it over as a reference."

Chapter 137

After fooling around with Baoyu, Feng Ziying arrived not long after. The four of them chatted, laughed, ate and drank, and it was not until Shenmo at five o'clock in the afternoon that the host and guest broke up happily.

After teasing the two little elephants at the door, and talking nonsense about 'we'll meet again some other day', the three of them boarded the car and bid farewell.

After Sun Shaozong got into the car, he was waiting to lean on the pillow habitually, but suddenly found that the angle of the pillow was slightly different from when he got off the car, and there was a faint fishy smell in the car...

Zhang Cheng, the coachman, was a man of the rules, and he never dared to come in and rummage!

Sun Shaozong's drunkenness disappeared immediately, he unfolded his sleeves and wrapped his right hand completely, then reached out and gently pushed aside the pillow, only to see a dirty oil paper bag on the apricot cushion .

If it was really a trap, it shouldn't be so 'weird'.

However, Sun Shaozong still carefully probed for a while, and then he untied the oil-paper bag, but saw that there was nothing inside, only a graffiti drawn with charcoal, which showed a small man carrying a big knife surrounded by four walls. among them.

tsk~

Sun Shaozong immediately understood, needless to say, it must be Ding Xiu who was trapped in the city and wanted to ask him to help him escape.

but……

Even if the Dragon Guards sent more people at the gate of the city, with Ding Xiu's abilities, it shouldn't be difficult to sneak out of the city, right?

But since he asked, let's just come up with an idea.

After arriving home, Sun Shaozong drew a picture of "a civilian husband carrying burdens out of the city", threw it into the carriage, and told Zhang Cheng to tie two vicious dogs to the carriage, and then Shi Shi ran back to the backyard.

When I arrived in the main room, I saw Ruan Rong lying on the couch, gently stroking her protruding belly.

Ordinarily, at this point, it should be earlier than her nap time.

Sun Shaozong's heart tightened, and he hurried forward and asked concerned, "Is it uncomfortable there? Could it be that you were tired from viewing the flowers yesterday?"

Ruan Rong shook her head with a smile and said, "How can I be so delicate, here, come and listen, the child is moving inside."

"real?!"

Sun Shaozong hurriedly stepped forward and put his ear on her lower abdomen, and after a short while, he exclaimed joyfully, "It's moving, it's moving, it's moving! Even your belly is bulging because of his kick!"

Ruan Rong rolled his eyes at him, "What did you kick? It was his fist."

"This kid really follows me."

Sun Shaozong said triumphantly, "I haven't been born yet, this fist is stronger than the strength of other people's legs, and I will definitely be able to defeat a hundred with one in the future!"

Ruan Rong seriously corrected, "One enemy against one hundred is nothing, my son will be admitted to Jinshi in the future!"

tsk~

In the past, when Ruan Rong mentioned those useless scholars, she was very contemptuous, but since she was pregnant with her child, she always thought about getting the title on the gold list—it seems that women and mothers are indeed two different creatures .

"correct."

Ruan Rong suddenly remembered something, covered her mouth with a smile and said, "If the child wants to be a Jinshi, I'm afraid there will be more waiting, but our family is going to have a talented girl soon!"

"Talented woman?"

Sun Shaozong wondered, "What do you mean?"

"Didn't Xiangling see some sour poems on the wall of Xuanzhen Temple yesterday?" Ruan Rong smiled and said, "The girl seemed to be fascinated when she came back, so I asked me to buy her some anthologies of Tang and Song poetry. Today I nestled in the West Wing and watched it for most of the day, and I haven’t even eaten lunch until now.”

A very lively girl, why did she suddenly contract this kind of Wenqing disease?

Sun Shaozong chatted with Ruan Rong for a few more words, and then left for the West Chamber, wanting to see how Xiangling was fascinated.

But when he entered the west chamber, he could hear Xiangling repeatedly chanting "the desert is solitary, the long river falls into the sun", and there was no more words for a long time.

Sun Shaozong continued to listen to the corner impatiently, pushed the door open and said with a smile, "Wang Mojie's "Envoy to the Fortress" is concise and to the point, shouldn't it be so difficult to understand?"

"ah!"

Seeing that it was him who came in, Xiangling jumped up hastily, and put the collection of poems back carefully, then blushed and said, "I'm just playing around indiscriminately, and the master will laugh at me."

"Is it really just for fun?"

Sun Shaozong deliberately said, "I also said that if you really like these things, you can ask a female gentleman to teach you. Since it's just a casual pastime, then..."

"master!"

When Xiangling heard this, she didn't care about anything else, and hurriedly said, "I used to listen to girls... I heard Miss Xue talking about poetry with others, and I was secretly envious. If I can have one-third of her talents in this life, I will die." It's also worth..."

Sun Shaozong covered her small mouth, and said with a smile, "It's very good, what are you talking about?"

Originally, it was just a joke to ask for a female gentleman, but seeing Xiangling's gaffe, Sun Shaozong was really moved.

With the financial resources of the Sun family, it is not a big deal to hire a female gentleman to teach the concubine to read. Even if Xiangling can't learn anything, it's just a pastime.

If she can really succeed in her studies, she won't have to look for outsiders when the children are enlightened in the future.

Thinking in this way, Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand and pulled her into his arms, blew hot air on his earlobe and said, "It's not difficult if you want to learn poetry, as long as it makes me happy, don't say one female gentleman, it is ten." I can invite you too."

Xiangling naturally knew what he meant, she lowered her head in embarrassment, and suggested after a while, "I can't even recognize the words now, and I'm afraid it would be a waste to invite a female teacher. Why don't you let Ying'er come back to teach me first, and let the thousand Once you've mastered Chinese characters and a hundred surnames, it's not too late to invite a female gentleman."

Sun Shaozong frowned when he heard the words, "It's pretty good, why did you mention her? Did she say something to you?"

After dealing with Xu Chunsheng that day, Sun Shaozong turned around and sent Ying'er to the room of the cheap elder brother again.

Sun Shaozong has no interest in this kind of heartless scheming bitch.

Sun Shaozu is different, as long as he is decent in figure and appearance, he has always been open to anyone-and if he wants to be an aunt, there are plenty of opportunities for him!

but……

Ying'er doesn't seem to want this kind of 'opportunity'.

Although Xiangling heard that Sun Shaozong was a little displeased, but thinking of Yinger's pitiful appearance, she still boldly said, "She was quite excluded in the uncle's room, so I thought..."

"What do you think?!"

Sun Shaozong didn't wait for her to finish, and scolded, "If she comes again, you can let her serve the uncle with peace of mind, and don't think about those messes! Don't say that she is just a maid now, even if she becomes an aunt in the future, it will not be her turn to come." call the shots!"

These words are not only for Ying'er, but also for warning Xiangling, don't be spoiled and meddle in the trivial matters in the elder brother's house.

After Xiangling was scolded, she really didn't dare to intercede for Yinger again.

In order to let her have a longer memory, Sun Shaozong deliberately slept in the living room of the main room at night.

Not to mention how Xiangling worried about gains and losses that night.

But he said that early the next morning, Zhao Zhongji hurried over and said that a thief was recruited at home last night, and he stole the two dogs tied to the carriage without making a sound...

Chapter 138