Detective in the Red Chamber

Aside from the fact that the numbers of the two sides cannot be compared, Aunt Zhao's side also lost in a mess.

"shut up!"

When he got close, seeing Aunt Zhao's steadfastness, under the support of two thick maidservants, flying embroidered shoes and kicking across the air, while kissing and cursing her mother-in-law, Jia Zheng finally broke out.

He rushed to the nearest place with a few steps, first let out an angry shout, and then raised his hand to slap Aunt Zhao.

Seeing her crying so heartbroken, and looking at the dead body lying on the ground not far away, Jia Zheng still couldn't do it, and instead comforted him: "Don't worry, I have invited Sun Jia Erlang over, we will definitely come here." I can check the water..."

"No! Don't let him check!"

Unexpectedly, when Aunt Zhao heard the words, she screamed again: "He is in the same nest with Baoyu Snake Mouse, so he must be partial to him!"

slap~

Before the words were finished, Jia Zheng finally couldn't help but slapped her across the face, and then, regardless of Aunt Zhao's reaction, she turned around and confessed to Sun Shaozong: "This stupid woman is talking nonsense, please Erlang not to take offense."

"Uncle Shi doesn't have to be like this."

Sun Shaozong waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind, and took advantage of the opportunity to ask for a lantern from the attacker, and took a look at the stone road in the middle, and saw Jia Huan wrapped in a shiny black mink coat, lying on his back with wide-eyed eyes. on the ground.

And in the middle of his throat, a shining golden step shaker was gently swaying in the night wind.

Chapter 895 Gilt

"Last night, the third master suddenly said that he was going to go out, and he wouldn't let us follow - if we had known earlier, I would never let the third master be alone..."

"Yes, yes, serious, serious."

"The third master has gone and never returned, and there was no news around the time of his arrival. The brothers feel that something is wrong - after all, the second master just came back, and the third master dared not stay out at night even though the third master had the guts of a bear. "

"...After inquiring all over the place, no one saw the third master, so we sent more people from the central government to search around the yard, only to find...the third master..."

"Woooooh, my poor third master, why did you just go there?!"

"When the third master went out, what special behavior did he do? This... Oh, yes! When the third master went out, he specially added a big woolen coat and put on thick-soled riding boots of deer velvet!"

"Third Master, Third Master, you are wronged to die..."

As far as Jia Huan is a close servant, he is really a 'hard stubble', afraid of being angered by his master, he clasped his eye sockets with both hands and rubbed them vigorously, which really made him dig two puddles of hot tears.

Seeing this, Aunt Zhao cried together again, biting Jia Baoyu's head every sentence, as if she saw her son killed by Jia Baoyu with her own eyes.

And Lin Daiyu and Shi Xiangyun over there are not easy to provoke, they are guarding Baoyu's side like the two generals, and refute with sharp tongue.

This one said: The murder weapon is obviously a woman's hairpin, and it has nothing to do with Brother Bao. Please respect yourself, Auntie.

The one said: Brother Ai was staying overnight with Mrs. Ai because he had a drink with Master Ai. How could he have the time to come to this bamboo forest to kill people?

Who would have thought that these words would further stimulate Aunt Zhao's imagination, and she jumped up and retorted: "Why does he need to do it himself? Every little wave hoof in this house counts as one, and they all regard him as the uncle of the country." The Lord is holding the offering, as long as he makes a wish casually, there will be no one rushing to help?!"

This is noisy!

Sun Shaozong originally wanted to understand the cause and effect of relatives first, but he didn't want to ask a few words, so he argued again in these two times.

He had no choice but to ask Jia Zheng to come forward and take all the idlers to other places for resettlement, leaving only a few boys with lanterns and torches to assist.

It's fine for others, but Aunt Zhao refused to believe that Sun Shaozong would handle the case impartially, so she specially kept her younger brother Zhao Guoji, and stared at Sun Shaozong's every move without blinking.

To say that this woman is really annoying.

But her inference just now was not completely unreasonable.

and……

Jia Baoyu's performance was also obviously abnormal.

If it is said that he was stunned and confused at the beginning, it can barely be explained, but just now when he faced Aunt Zhao's repeated questioning, he was still speechless, which is somewhat unreasonable.

You know, starting from Zhizhi'er's dismemberment case, he has experienced a lot of scenes, no matter how you think about it, he shouldn't be so lost all the time.

Especially between him and Jia Huan, it can't be said that they are brothers and sisters...

Of course, this does not mean that Sun Shaozong has determined that Jia Baoyu is the number one suspect—he just does not rule out this possibility.

No matter what the truth of the case is, the scene must be surveyed before making inferences.

…………

Putting aside his distracting thoughts, Sun Shaozong picked up the lantern, first centered on the corpse, and made a spiral inspection several times, but as expected, there was no gain at all.

After all, before and after the incident, dozens of people had trampled on it, and the sky was so gloomy, trying to identify the traces of the incident was tantamount to nonsense.

So Sun Shaozong quickly focused on the corpse itself.

The face of the deceased was very hideous, but it should be an instinctive reaction under the pain. Apart from those twitching body expressions, the emotions frozen on the face before death were probably mainly shock.

Carefully pull out the golden step shaker, visually measuring the length of the hairpin into the flesh about an inch or so [3.3 cm], you can faintly see some milky white trachea stubbles inside the wound.

Coupled with the traces of skin contraction, blood splatter, and suffocation residue on the face, it should be possible to conclude that Jia Huan's fatal injury was an open wound in the throat.

The cause of death was asphyxia caused by a broken trachea.

However, the murder weapon that killed Jia Huan seemed to be somewhat strange.

Wiping away the blood and flesh stained on the golden step shaker with a handkerchief, Sun Shaozong weighed it in his palm, then squatted down, turned the hairpin upside down, and stroked it hard on the ground.

When I put it under the lamp again and took a closer look, I saw that the gold hairpin had already broken its appearance, as if it was made of brass plated with gold.

He conveniently handed this step to Zhao Guoji who came up to take a closer look. Sun Shaozong asked, "Who does anyone in your house use this kind of gold-plated step?"

Hearing the word 'gilt', Zhao Guoji understood what Sun Shaozong was doing just now, and hurriedly lowered his head to look at the gold hairpin carefully, but the more he looked at it, the more puzzled he became: "This... this hairpin... this hairpin is really ..."

"How is it?"

"Unable to speak."

Zhao Guoji scratched his ears and cheeks with a bitter face: "I have also bought a few gold-plated hairpins for others, but I have never seen anything similar to this style in the mansion."

Although he didn't say that he could clearly explain the strangeness of this gilt hairpin head, but Sun Shaozong already knew it clearly.

To put it simply, if this gilt step rocker appears in the streets and alleys, it can be said that there is nothing wrong with it.

But in a wealthy family like Rongguo Mansion, this Bu Yao seemed very abrupt.

The problem lies in its exquisite, luxurious, but younger style.

This kind of stuff is usually bought by families with small savings for their daughters to show off. It's not that the maids in the mansion gate can't afford it.

Especially the rich officials and officials like Rongguo Mansion, the most important thing is the difference between superiority and inferiority.

And the head jewelry of the ladies in the house are all made of real gold and silver at home, how can they condescend to use these fakes?

Therefore, according to common sense, this gold-plated walker should not appear in the Rongguo Mansion.

unless……

For some reason, a certain lady had to use this thing to distinguish the real one from the real one—the reason why the suspect was locked as the lady in this house was because the weight of this thing was far from the real golden hairpin, as long as you hold it in your hand If you go up, you will wear clothes immediately.

So this can only be the handwriting of a certain young lady, even if others want to pretend to be fake, it will be extremely difficult to do so.

And considering the personalities and situations of the girls in this family, it seems that only...

This also explained Jia Baoyu's distraught state just now - the two of them were already close, so they might have recognized this hairpin a long time ago!

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong wanted to pass the hairpin again, weighed it carefully for a moment, and then ordered firmly: "Come here, call Brother Bao to speak for me."

A young man hurriedly responded and was about to leave.

"and many more!"

But Sun Shaozong stopped him again, bowed his head and pondered for a long while, then Fang added: "Invite the girls from the house together, I have some questions to ask the girls about this hairpin."

Although the owner of the hairpin has been roughly identified, the owner of the murder weapon may not necessarily be the one who killed Jia Huan.

But calling her over alone at this time will inevitably arouse the suspicion of others.

Instead of this, it would be better to simply invite everyone here to make a fool of themselves, so as not to create too much pressure on her in advance before the truth comes out.

Chapter 896 The Death of Jia Huan 【Part [-]】

[Tomorrow three more to make a bottom. 】

The words are divided into two parts.

But because the bamboo forest was not very far from Rongxi Hall, Jia Zheng simply led everyone to the courtyard where Rongxi Hall was located.

But I didn't go to the main hall, I just waited in the three side rooms in the northeast corner.

Jia Zheng shared a room with Aunt Zhao, and all the brothers and girls shared a room. As for the last room, it was naturally cheaper for the servants with status in the house.

Not to mention the whole thing, but just talking about the ear room in the middle, because Wang Xifeng was still hangover, and Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing didn't show up, so Li Wan occupied the soft house in Zhengbei alone.

She didn't know why, her red and swollen eyes were slightly closed, her left hand was tucked into the sleeve, half of her right hand was exposed, and she counted and counted a string of red sandalwood beads, but she didn't say a word.

And below her, the women's army sitting close to the wall, those twisting their handkerchiefs, holding their cheeks in their hands, and rolling their eyes, were also silent.

Among them, Jia Baoyu was the most important one—in other words, if he hadn't lowered his head and neck in a dazed look, the atmosphere in the room wouldn't have been so frozen in the first place.

Suddenly the door curtain was lifted, but Sheyue and Qiuwen walked in, each holding a few cups of tea and distributing them.

At this juncture, Shi Xiangyun jumped up suddenly, and pouted at Baoyu with his honey-colored mouth: "Second brother, what on earth are you..."

click~

Unexpectedly, as soon as the conversation started, there was a sudden sound beside him, but it was Qiu Wen who accidentally knocked over the teacup, and the fragments and tea splashed all around, making She Yue and Xue Baoqin beside him exclaimed repeatedly.

However, the rest of the people turned a blind eye, or hoped, or warned, or were suspicious, and all locked their eyes on Shi Xiangyun.

Shi Xiangyun usually became anxious, and he always had a somewhat generous posture, but at this time, facing so many gazes, and looking at Jia Baoyu's lowering head and neck, he finally swallowed his words and sat back on the official hat chair Up, the oval face turned blood red.

Following Musk Moon's complaints and Qiu Wen's repeated confessions, new tea was quickly brought up, and the remains of the teacup were also cleaned up, leaving only a large wet mark.

After that, the room returned to deathly silence.

Not long after, Zhou Rui came in and reported: "Grandma, Mrs. Sun invites Second Master and all the girls to come over."

Everyone came alive again.

Xue Baoqin was the first to get up, although she was very congenial with the brothers and sisters in this house, but after all, she has only been here for more than a month, and she still has some spectator thoughts in her bones.

Jia Tanchun and Shi Xiangyun stood up next to each other, followed by Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai, and Jia Xichun.

But after all the girls got up, they didn't move, but looked at Jia Baoyu in unison.

"Brother Bao?"

After a long while, seeing that Baoyu was still sitting there, Xue Baochai lightly shoved Baoyu's shoulder with his backhand: "Second brother of the Sun family let us go over."

"Ah? Ah!"

Only then did Jia Baoyu come to his senses, he hurriedly got up from the official hat chair, raised his head subconsciously, but just as soon as he saw something, he lowered down in a hurry, hunched over, and fled out of the ear room.

"Second brother, wait for me!"

Shi Xiangyun chased after him, followed by Yingying and Yanyan.

This time Lin Daiyu was left behind instead, watching Jia Baoyu's staggering back silently through the many figures in front of her, and clenched her silver teeth unconsciously.

At this moment, Daiyu suddenly noticed someone approaching her, subconsciously turned her head to look, but met Xue Baochai's gaze.

Sensing the probing emotion in those eyes, Lin Daiyu couldn't help but blurted out: "It's not him! Brother Bao would never do such a thing!"

The smile in Xue Baochai's eyes flashed away, she nodded solemnly, and said in a low voice, "Of course I know this, I'm afraid he might be confused and take the matter onto himself..."

Lin Daiyu heard that there was something in her words, so she hurriedly pressed her voice and asked, "Sister, what did you see?"

Then he remembered something, and tentatively added a sentence: "My sister has always been the most careful about the cost of food and clothing. Didn't she see that hairpin somewhere?"

Back then Lin Daiyu used this to mock Xue Baochai, but when she talks about it now, it is full of hope.

Xue Baochai neither denied it nor admitted it, but said softly: "Sister, let's take care of Brother Bao first, let me go and find out what the second brother of the Sun family has to say."

Lin Daiyu hurriedly arranged Zhenshou, and at this time she was in a hurry to go to the doctor, and she also wanted to promise Baochai some benefits, but she was absolutely unwilling to give what Baochai wanted.

In the end, he could only say a thousand blessings with complicated thoughts, and then speed up his pace to catch up with Baoyu.

The book does not go into details.

When the group arrived in the bamboo forest, they saw a few young men holding lanterns, surrounding the corpse and Sun Shaozong.

And half of the sable fur on the corpse had already been stripped off, revealing the cotton vest inside and the thin arms with the sleeves rolled off.