The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Zhu Tong discussed with his wife for half a day, and roughly guessed the opponent's strategy.So he changed his clothes and quietly left the back door of Zhu's mansion, heading for Gao's house.

Jia Taijun has passed away, and her confidant, the female general Xiaomei, is guarding her yard.Hearing that Zhu Tong came to visit, Xiaomei was slightly taken aback.After Zhu Tong entered the door, he made a bow directly: "General Mei. I have an important matter to discuss with the general in my later life. Please hold back the general." Although this remark was abrupt, Xiaomei agreed after thinking for a while.Seeing that there was no one else in the room, Zhu Tong reached into his bosom to take out a jade tablet and handed it over.Xiaomei took a look and laughed.

On her birthday the year before last, Liu Feng sneaked out to congratulate her at night, and incidentally said that he was about to be transferred from Qin.He said: "The successor may not arrive until two years later. My nephew wants to ask for a token for him." Xiaomei then gave him a jade plaque from Jia Taijun.This object has just been taken out of Zhu Tong's hand.

Xiaomei shook her head, and said softly: "I really didn't expect it to be you. Was it just a change of guard when you two went out in Lu State together?"

"Yes." Zhu Tong said, "Mr. Zhan Kun made this decision before Liu Feng came to Qin State. After Lu State changed hands, it is inconvenient for Wansheng to stay in the post. Besides, Wansheng is from Qin State, and it is cheaper to work in Qin State than Liu Feng."

Xiaomei nodded: "You came here suddenly today, maybe something happened to the Fuyuntang case?"

Zhu Tong said: "It's a bit tricky. I don't know when the people from the Dajiala Safe Factory will arrive. My uncle brought all the locksmiths in the city, but I just can't open the combination lock." Xiaomei smiled unconsciously.Zhu Tong went on to say, "Master Bi, the owner of Fuyuntang, is nowhere to be seen; the other clue was also broken because of our personnel's misoperation. However, we analyzed the current situation and found that the other party's target was the Gao family. Ask General Mei Help guess the guess, they spent a lot of effort to make King Qin mistakenly think that a young aunt, Master Huiban, is the eldest lady of the third bedroom of the Ding family who almost married the Gao family, what can this threaten the Gao family?"

Xiaomei frowned: "What is the origin of Master Huiban?"

"She is an aunt in her 20s, and she has Buddhist contacts with the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager appreciates her handwriting very much." Zhu Tong said, "I became a monk at the Bodhi Temple in Qinghua Mountain."

Xiaomei was shocked: "Mount Qinghua?"

Zhu Tong made up his mind: Look at the meaning, I didn't go in the wrong direction.Then he nodded and said, "That's right, Qinghua Mountain. The Empress Dowager went to cool off the summer the year before last, and I got to know her."

Xiaomei immediately shouted: "Chunxiang!" Her spirit spread far and wide.

I saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl walking in from the outside, without looking at Zhu Tong indifferently: "General."

Xiaomei said: "Go to the camp and invite the Second Master and General Ou Cheng!" Chunxiang agreed, turned around and left.

Zhu Tong straightened his back involuntarily: I'm afraid that Qinghuashan may have some weakness of the Gao family.Sure enough, Xiaomei said solemnly: "The Gao family has hidden a huge arsenal in Qinghua Mountain, and has private soldiers stationed there. No outsiders should know about this."

Zhu Tong was slightly startled, thought for a moment and said: "The other party is obviously very clear, otherwise they would not directly attack."

Xiaomei said: "Tell me about it from the beginning."

Zhu Tong didn't dare to cover up, and told the case of Fuyuntang in detail. "The news from S.H.I.E.L.D. that the little maid next to Bai Lan is also theirs, and we have sent someone to Xianyang. Also..." He frowned, "A brother made a mistake yesterday."

The chef named Shen Daming at Shilixiang Restaurant got a message from Mrs. Guan, saying that she was sent away urgently by her master.When it was dark, Shen Daming rushed to Ding's mansion, and spent two taels of silver to ask someone to meet that little girl Bai Lan.The two discussed secretly for more than half an hour, the little girl returned to the house, and Shen Daming also returned to the residence.The two brothers who were watching were one at the front door and the other at the back door.After a while, Shen Daming changed into a brocade robe and came out from the back door, wearing an embroidered soft hat like a dandy.The brothers who were staring at the back door didn't pay attention to the movement, which alarmed everyone, and they had to retreat and change their companions to stay far away.

Shen Daming hired a sedan chair to sit in the Chunfeng Building, and when he entered, he asked for a girl with eyebrows.Miss Mei had guests at that moment, so he threw down a large silver coin, and the bustard immediately got Miss Mei out and sent her to his room.But he didn't stay for long, and left in about two quarters of an hour.When leaving, Shen Daming didn't take a sedan chair or a car, and walked back unsteadily.The follower also followed him slowly.Walking to a secluded alley, the inattentive people are gone!Just as he was looking for him, Shen Daming flashed out from behind, so he was able to grab the Escort by the neck.The two immediately raised their hands.Shen Daming's martial arts is very strong, and he has a lot of strong bodyguards, and he can't stand up to the bodyguards after only three or five moves.In desperation, the bodyguard pulled out his pistol and fired a bullet, which hit Shen Daming in the throat.A good job is gone.

After hearing this, Xiaomei immediately said: "Send someone to check on that big girl from Chacha Ding's family."

Zhu Tong hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with this girl?"

Xiaomei said: "Since they have such a master as Shen Daming, why don't they simply kill Miss Ding to silence them? To avoid future troubles. It's just a family temple."

Zhu Tong stumbled with an "Aiya" and said, "I didn't expect that."

After a while, Chunxiang, the girl who had just gone to invite someone, came back, came in and said, "Second Master and General Ou are here, do you want to invite them in?" Xiaomei looked at Zhu Tong.

Zhu Tong thought for a while: "It's better for fewer people to know my identity. I'm not afraid of other things, but I'm afraid of being seen by outsiders."

Xiaomei said calmly, "Don't worry about it, and I don't worry about it either. The secrets of Mount Qinghua have already been noticed." So she asked Chunxiang to take him away from behind.

That night, Biaotou Kong personally led two people to Ding's family temple.After turning around twice, I found a small yard.Four seasons of flowers are planted here, and there is a rockery fish pond. It doesn't look like an ordinary aunt's residence.There are four treasures of study in the room, and the bookshelves are full of books.It's just that there are only two sister-in-laws living in this courtyard, and there is no big girl Ding.

It had been four watch days when Zhu Tong received the telegram from the Escort.The couple had already fallen asleep, and hurriedly got up to read the telegram, full of suspicion, and sat speculating.Suddenly, Zhu Tong patted the pillow: "Sleep!" Without any explanation, he dragged his wife to lie down.Liu Jing had just turned her head around before resting again.After only lying down for half a stick of incense, another telegram came.Beijing.Zhu Tong was a little excited after watching it, holding the oil lamp in one hand and holding the telegram in the other, he smiled and said, "Daughter-in-law! It's interesting to watch this."

Liu Jing said angrily: "Sleep!"

Zhu Tong said: "It's really interesting. We've been guessing for so long when they came up with a riddle, should we also give them a hook and pay them back?"

Liu Jing was already extremely sleepy, but when he heard this, he became interested again, sat up and said, "What telegram, show me." Zhu Tong giggled.The couple pondered until dawn.

In the afternoon of the next day, the Bahe fishermen returned with their nets.It is cold now, and although the river is still flowing, someone from the government has come to tell that it is not far from freezing, and ask everyone to fish less and make more nets.Suddenly, a black shadow floated upstream.When everyone took a closer look, it turned out to be a dead body.An old fisherman hurriedly called his son to stop the corpse, seeing that he was wearing brocade clothes, obviously a wealthy man.

Not long after, the body was sent to the magistrate's yamen.The deceased was a man in his fifties, but he was killed first and then dumped.Liang Wuzuo looked at the wound and found that someone had pierced his throat with a slender sharp instrument and died.This person had a menu plate from Shilixiang Restaurant on his body, and the government sent people to Shilixiang to call for identification of the corpse.Cao Dong's family went there in person and recognized the deceased as Shen Daming, the chef of their restaurant.The day before yesterday, this person went to work perfectly, but he hasn't come since yesterday for some reason. The boss is still a little bit worried, but he is gone.Dong Cao's face was full of sadness.

But at this moment, someone came to report the case again, and it was a steward of Ding Bozhang's residence, the imperial historian.It turned out that a woman surnamed Guan disappeared in their mansion a few days ago.I thought she was in some emergency, or ran away.I never thought that when I sent someone to clean her house today, I found that she had a box with a sandwich, and there were five scrolls, three iron sticks and a handkerchief in the middle. There is blood.The person in charge was afraid that there was something wrong with Mrs. Guan, so he rushed to report to the official.

Cao Dong's family happened to hear people from the yamen yelling about this matter, so they hurried out of the morgue to join the clerks in charge of affairs and case records in Ding's residence to listen to them.

Then I heard the official ask: "What are those five scrolls?"

The steward said, "It's a complete set of the Diamond Sutra. Look at the handwriting, it's written by a woman, and it's not signed."

"Does that woman believe in Buddhism?"

The steward thought for a while: "It seems...he believes in Buddhism."

Literary officials write like dragons and snakes: "What is the iron brazing?"

"We don't know about that. It's a bit like a barbeque grill for a barbarian. The handkerchief belongs to her, and the daughter-in-law who is in the same class as her recognizes it." The steward said, "Remember the report notice issued by the government said, don't destroy the scene , Wait for the official to check before taking the evidence, so I didn’t touch the things in the house. Otherwise, I would have brought the box.”

The clerk nodded: "You did a great job. Thank you for not destroying the scene, we will go there." He arranged for a leader to go there.The owner surnamed Cao listened, his complexion was cloudy, and he lingered in the yamen, refusing to leave.

After waiting for a long time, the person who went to Ding's house came back.The leading catcher carried the box into the morgue, and shouted, "Master Liang, come and have a look at this iron drill. I see it is about the same size as this cook's hole."

Liang Yuzuo immediately said, "Bring it to me." The catcher hurriedly took out the iron braze.

Cao Dong's family went closer, and saw five scrolls neatly arranged in the interlayer at the bottom of the box, with blood dripping from them.While the headhunters were thinking about the iron rod and the wound, Mr. Cao's family secretly took out a scroll, opened it and took a look.The head catcher shouted: "Hey, don't move! This is important evidence."

Cao Dongjia laughed flatteringly: "The villain is only a little curious, and he didn't break it."

Catcher frowned: "You are so old, you should know the seriousness."

While talking, someone shouted outside: "Jiang Wuzuo is here."

I saw Jiang Yuzuo striding in, and said in his mouth: "I heard that you have a corpse soaked in water here. I want to verify that what you said is true. I came here uninvited. I hope you will forgive me."

Jiang Yuzuo has been to their Yamen, so everyone recognizes him.Who doesn't know that he came from Lu country with Mr. Zhu Tong?As the saying goes, if one person attains enlightenment, the chicken and the dog will soar.Mr. Zhu Tong is obviously valued by the prince, and Jiang Yuzuo will also benefit from it.The head catcher hurriedly said: "Jiang Wu is willing to come, it is naturally the best."

At this matter, Jiang Wuzuo had already walked to the corpse, first asked Liang Wuzuo about Shen Daming's situation, looked at it carefully for a while and said: "This person is not from Qin, right?"

Cao Dong's family immediately said: "He is from Chu."

"Chu people?" Jiang Wuzuo opened the box and put on white gloves, "Shu people." Liang Wuzuo nodded with a smile.

The head catcher asked, "How did you see that?"

Cao Dongjia pointed to this man's neckline and said: "Look at the style, it is clearly Shu brocade. How can he afford Shu brocade as a cook, not to mention that this is Qin State, and Shu brocade is more and more expensive because of its rarity. Either he bought it at his hometown, which is cheaper , or someone in his family can weave this. If he is not from Shu, his wife must be from Shu."

Dong Cao said: "Shen Daming is single and has no wife."

"That's weird." Jiang Yuzuo pondered, "Could it be that this person has some kind of foreign wealth? Or does he have a rich concubine and widow?"

The catcher said with a smile: "With this face, which rich widow would look up to him?" He suddenly clapped his hands and said, "This old woman is an old widow!"

Jiang Wuzuo's eyes lit up: "Could it be that the two of them are selfish?"

The head catcher said: "Grandma Guan has a lot of things, we have moved them here. Do you want to go to Shen Daming's house?"

Jiang Yuzuo nodded: "Alright. I'll go with you."

The catcher smiled and looked at Dong Cao's house: "Where does this cook live?"

Cao Dong's family secretly hated why Shen Daming wore Shu brocade, and hated himself why he didn't slip away earlier.It's impossible to go now, and I have to honestly lead them the way.

After searching Shen Daming's house for a while, he saw a lot of gold and silk hidden in this man's chest. He arrested the head and said: "This cook is really rich. Mr. Cao, how much salary does your restaurant give him?"

The inside of Dong Cao's house was like cooking oil, wishing he could drag Shen Daming over to whip the corpse!On the face, he only pretended to be timid and afraid of getting into trouble: "The villain doesn't know at all! Even the villain can't afford to wear Shu brocade."

"It may not be that his money has a wrong origin." Jiang Yuzuo picked up a list and said, "We guessed that it was not guaranteed just now." The head catcher took it over and took a look, it was an advertisement list for an embroidery workshop, Xianyang Jixiang Embroidery Workshop.Jiang Wu said, "A few days ago, I was drinking in Hualou, and I heard Fantou mention this embroidery workshop, saying that it sells Sichuan embroidery and is very expensive. The work is done well, and many Huakuan ladies in Chang'an specially come to her to order clothes. The owner is a widow, surnamed Huang."

The head catcher laughed: "The cook actually hooked up with two widows? What a blessing." He looked at the list again, "Could it be that the two widows were jealous, and the widow Guan killed her lover?"

"It's too early to draw conclusions." Jiang Wuzuo began to investigate again.

The head catcher thought: "Now that Mrs. Guan is missing, I'm afraid the brothers will have to go to Xianyang."

Jiang Wu said: "I'm afraid it will be hard for you, go quickly." He took out some paper from the pillowcase, and held it in his hand with his fingers.Everyone took a look, it was two tickets, a combined train and boat ticket at [-]:[-] tomorrow afternoon, from Chang'an to Tianjin and then to Dongying.

The head catcher took it over and said with a smile, "I don't know which widow I went with."

Do not hesitate.The catcher took the boat ticket and the list of Jixiang Embroidery Workshop back to the yamen and told the master, begging to go to Xianyang immediately.Jiang Wuzuo led two people to continue the search.Cao Dong's family accompanied them in the search, and they had already torn Shen Daming's body to pieces.