Detective in the Red Chamber

Naturally, this was to pave the way, otherwise everyone would have noticed something wrong when they went straight to Shen Peilan's place - Lin Xiuyuan is currently fully supporting the investigation, but he must know that he is suspicious of his daughter-in-law. Whether he expects Sun Shaozong to continue the investigation is hard to say.

However, while leading all the yamen servants to dig the ground three feet to search, Sun Shaozong's mind kept showing Shen Peilan's appearance of pear blossoms with rain.

Why is she crying so sadly?

It really doesn't make sense to say that Shen Peilan is acting in a play - because she obviously cried too much and has already crossed the emotional boundary between her grandfather and grandson-in-law.

A person who can act so well that he can hide it from his own eyes, shouldn't make such a low-level mistake, right?

After racking his brains, Sun Shaozong couldn't come up with a reason for it.

Fortunately, the search team finally found Shen Peilan's courtyard.

Perhaps, the answer he wanted was in it!

Chapter 926 Deliberation 【End】

The setting sun is slanting.

The light and shadow on the window edge, which never stopped, finally slowly and firmly climbed onto Sun Shaozong's head, reflecting his frowning mottled.

After nearly four hours of carpet search, the final result was in vain—not to mention secret passages and secret rooms, not even a decent hidden compartment was found.

The question in Sun Shaozong's mind seemed not only to be unanswered, but to become more and more obscure.

Could it be that there was a problem with his speculation from the very beginning?

Lin Qisheng's body was not actually hidden in some secret room, but was secretly transported to hide elsewhere?

If this is the case, the suspicion of Lin Xiuyuan will be greatly increased. After all, it is not something that anyone can do to transport a corpse out of the Lin residence without anyone noticing.

but……

If it was Lin Xiuyuan who killed his father, he could have concealed the body and used Li Daitao's deadlock to create an alibi, and then lied that his father had suddenly left home and disappeared.

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to take the risk and transport the stinking corpse back to the mansion?

It doesn't make sense, it really doesn't make sense!

"grown ups."

Just when his thoughts inevitably fell into an endless loop, a clerk suddenly came in and carefully reported: "Huang Catcher is back."

Sun Shaozong was shocked immediately. Huang Bin was sent to the tooth shop by him to look for the craftsman who was in charge of the reconstruction three years ago. It took a long time to come back, and it seems to be rewarding.

Or maybe, the information he brought back can help him straighten out his thoughts!

Immediately gave an order, the scribe turned his head and went out, and after a while, Huang Bin came in instead.

Huang Bin's journey was obviously full of dust, his face was covered with a thick layer of sludge, and his lips were dry and cracked.

"grown ups!"

However, when he opened his mouth, he was still very capable: "As you ordered, the villain visited several craftsmen who had participated in the reconstruction of the Lin Mansion at that time, but they all said that they had never heard of any secret rooms or secret passages."

"However, under the repeated questioning of the villain, a craftsman recalled that there were a few foreigners who also participated in the reconstruction of the Lin Mansion, but they were not in the same place as the local craftsmen, so what exactly were they responsible for? , outsiders have no way of knowing.”

"As a result, the villain went back to the dental office to investigate, but the dental office did not have any records, so we can only infer for the time being that the Lin family hired them in private.

"But Housekeeper Hu, who went with me, didn't have the slightest impression of this."

Foreigners not hired through a dental firm?

Even the officials of the Lin Mansion don't know about it?

This seems to reaffirm the inference that there may be a secret way in the Lin family.

But where is this secret passage?

When the search was carried out today, it was obvious that all the places where there might be entrances to the secret passages in Lin's mansion had been carefully screened!

No matter how ingeniously the design of the entrance to the secret path is, with Sun Shaozong's vision, insight, and patience, he shouldn't get nothing.

Among them, where is the deviation?

Sun Shaozong fell into deep thought again.

But not long after, Yang Zhiming, Tang Weishan, and Chen Jingde all gathered around.

Sun Shaozong had no choice but to pull himself together and listen to their reports of "results" one by one.

First of all, Yang Zhiming was in charge of controlling the situation. According to the results of his monitoring of the Lin family, everything seemed to be quite normal, and there was nothing wrong with it.

Next is Tang Weishan, who is in charge of statistics and interrogating the behavior of the old servants of the Lin family. He led a team to investigate about [-] people today, but the results were very few.

In the end, it's Chen Jingde who doesn't care...

In short, summing up the reports of the three people, that is the four words 'lack of good news'.

However, Sun Shaozong still tried his best to extract the nutritious part from it, and then planned further actions based on it.

for example:

"Tang Si Zheng, you should work with the stewards of the Lin Mansion as soon as possible to draw up a map of the distribution of the old servants of the Lin Mansion inside and outside the city, and then according to the investigation records, see if there are any people who live in the same area but have not come to worship."

"If there is, then send someone over to check and see why they haven't come."

Another example:

"Yang Sicheng, you find a way to recruit some trustworthy women—whether they are yamen servants, your wives, or sisters and children—and let them temporarily live in the courtyards of the back house of the Lin Mansion in the name of personal protection."

"Be sure to record every move of the women of the Lin family."

as well as:

"Deputy Chen Si, you... you are in charge of the night watch tonight."

After setting up these tasks, Sun Shaozong saw that it was getting late and there was no new direction for investigation, so he prepared to go home and rest for the time being.

But before leaving, he once again came to the mourning hall in the front yard.

After quietly looking outside the door for a long time, after taking a panoramic view of the behavior and speech of everyone in the Lin family, he still couldn't help but focus on Shen Peilan.

Her tears seemed to have never been broken, and even the eye sockets from crying began to swell.

Judging by the degree of sadness, could it be that she and Lin Qicheng were really in collusion?

But this pear tree crushed the begonia, and it was an unethical love, and Shen Peilan's husband's life was involved in it. How heartless and shameless would she be to be willing to live with Lin Qicheng?

Staring at that petite figure, Sun Shaozong was puzzled in every possible way.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the mourning hall. Almost everyone looked at the coffin under the north wall in unison. Lin Xiuyuan even stood up in surprise.

There was only one person, who was not affected at all, and was still kneeling on the straw mat in grief - this person was Lin Qicheng's daughter-in-law, Shen Peilan.

At this moment, a thought popped into Sun Shaozong's mind: Lin Qicheng might not be the one Shen Peilan was saddened and missed!

Could it be that she was crying for her husband who died young?

But this still doesn't make sense!

If she hadn't been the murderer, her husband would have been dead for more than two years. Even if she was emotional, she shouldn't be sad endlessly.

If she is the murderer, now that her revenge has been avenged, there is no reason to cry so sadly.

Then who is she crying for?

Just as he was thinking about it, the commotion inside was getting bigger and bigger. Several concubines were terrified, and even shrank to the door, as if they might run away at any time.

Seeing this, Sun Shaozong went to the door and asked, "What happened inside? Why is it so noisy in the mourning hall?"

"Master Sun, you came just in time!"

Seeing Sun Shaozong's sudden appearance, Lin Xiuyuan was overjoyed. He rushed forward a few steps, grabbed his arm, and said in panic, "My father... my father, he seems to have let...a fart just now!"

As soon as the words fell, an outspoken concubine next to her couldn't help screaming in horror: "Isn't the master a fake corpse?!"

As soon as these words came out, there was another commotion around.

Lin Xiuyuan gave her a dissatisfied glance, but the muscles on his face couldn't stop trembling.

After hearing this, Sun Shaozong asked indifferently, "Did someone move the corpse or the coffin just now?"

"Just now... the master of Fayuan Temple used incense to purify my father's body just now, and it seems that he touched the corpse at that time."

"Then there's nothing surprising about it."

Sun Shaozong explained: "After the corpse rots, the body is full of all kinds of gas, and occasionally leaks out, which sounds similar to a living person farting."

After all, he is a recognized professional. With his explanation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Sun Shaozong took advantage of the momentum to bid farewell to Lin Xiuyuan, but Lin Xiuyuan sent him all the way to the gate of the courtyard.

And during this period, Shen Peilan still knelt and sat on the spot, turning a deaf ear...

Chapter 927

[As in the title, let’s talk about Kawen here. 】

The cock crows at five o'clock.

Another night passed.

Seeing that it was almost time, Xiuju tiptoed into the room, walked around the screen, and was about to get closer to the bed, when suddenly she stepped on something and made a crisp sound of 'click'.

"Who?!"

Nervous questioning voices came from Hong Luan's tent immediately.

"Second Grandma, it's me—Xiuju."

While Xiuju hastily opened her mouth to reveal her identity, she lowered her head to distinguish carefully, and saw that what she was stepping on was a pair of silver-plated scissors.

That's right, this should be the one that Second Mistress used to sneak attack when Second Master entered the door yesterday.

At that time, I was taken aback, but the two of them tugged and shoved, and somehow they ended up on the bed again...

It would be fine if the second master used brute force, but when he was on the bed, the two long legs of the second grandmother were obviously faster than the scissors, and with a little 'pick', they went straight to wrap around the waist of the tiger. Entangled.

One moment they were still clamoring for life and death, and the next moment they were in perfect harmony, without a single gap, and it was rare that the two of them were able to turn things around with ease, without any jerky or forced.

shuh~

Just thinking about what happened last night, the red luan tent was half lifted, but it was Sun Shaozong who turned over and sat up, putting his two thick thighs on the edge of the bed.

Xiu Ju hurriedly restrained her thoughts, stepped forward to take off her trousers, knelt down on the footbed and served carefully.

At this moment, Wang Xifeng's faint sigh came from the bed again: "You villain, ruined my aunt's innocence... um..."

Halfway through the speech, it suddenly turned into a muffled hum.

Xiuju looked up in surprise, only to realize that it was Sun Shaozong who leaned sideways and kissed her red lips fiercely.

This kiss seemed to last forever, and when Sun Shaozong pulled back, Wang Xifeng's mind was blank, only the instinct to breathe heavily remained.

And when she finally regained her strength, how could there be any sign of Sun Shaozong in the room?

…………

But when Sun Shaozong returned to his study through the tunnel, he couldn't help laughing when he remembered his fight with Wang Xifeng last night.

As soon as he entered the room, he heard Jia Yingchun screaming as a warning, and then Wang Xifeng waving scissors and pounced on him, talking about life and death.

For a moment, Sun Shaozong really thought that she was going to fight to the death to prove her innocence.

However, after snatching away the scissors with his hands and taking another look at Jia Yingchun, his heart suddenly became like a mirror—if he really wanted to assassinate himself, how could he not restrict Jia Yingchun's actions at all so that she could warn her in advance?

If it is an ignorant and stupid woman, there may be omissions.

But Wang Xifeng...

Obviously, she did this just to show a certain attitude, or to increase the bargaining chip in the negotiation.

as predicted.

Sun Shaozong only tried a little bit, and he elicited her intention to make a three-chapter agreement.

In fact, for the sake of Yiye Yunyu, if she made some modest requests, Sun Shaozong would definitely not be able to refuse.

however……

This woman was obviously tricked by one ear [Jia She], and she tried to take the opportunity to include Sun Shaozong in the applause.

But how can Sun Shaozong be easily fooled by a woman?