The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion - Chapter 79

Chapter 79: Eat Melon and Hear a Case

Sun Shaozong was fighting with himself about whether he should ask Jia Lan for some “details.” He then heard Jia Huan and Jia Yin shouting outside the door, “We have finished picking the watermelon, Master. Are we going to put it on the stone table under the corridor or send it to the practice ground?”

“Put it outside.”

Sun Shaozong replied casually, and waved at the two teenagers on the stage who had been caught by the word “watermelon” and had their minds attracted away. He said, “Stop for a moment, those who want to eat watermelons can go outside to get them.”

All the teenagers and boys cheered at the news, but no one dared to rush out. Instead, they all focused on Jia Baoyu until Baoyu was the first to go out and get three watermelons, the rest of the people rushed out.

The reason was that more than a dozen of these boys are either Baoyu’s cousin or his nephew. They were much inferior in status and age. Therefore, he was the mainstay of everything and dared not rush ahead of him.

Sun Shaozong secretly speculated that this situation should be intentional by the Jia family, and the purpose was nothing more than to cultivate Jia Baoyu’s ability to lead others.

But as for the actual effect…

Don’t mention it.

“Second Brother Sun.”

Jia Baoyu handed the watermelons to Sun Shaozong and Jia Lan respectively. He asked shyly, “What clues have been found in the recent case of “sinking a corpse in a pool of accumulated water?” It is said that this matter has become so huge that it even alerts the Emperor!”

In the beginning, he was scared by the head of the intelligent child and fell ill. It took him more than two months to recover. The Jia family was so worried at that time. In particular, Old Lady Jia, Madam Wang, and Lin Daiyu cried for a long time for this reason. Their tears would be enough to take a bath.

After this incident, Jia Baoyu suddenly strengthened his courage and became even more fascinated with the investigation of criminals. Not only did he pester Sun Shaozong every time he went to his house, but he also bought many legendary novels, such as Justice Bao’s case and Di Renjie’s case, in private.

Sun Shaozong casually put the watermelon on the tea table, and while continuing to drink the sour plum soup, he said lazily, “The corpse has turned into white bones in the Capital, and many parts of the bones have been kicked away by elephants in confusion. So far, they have not been able to figure it out at all. How can it be so easy to solve the case?”

When it came to the discovery of this “sunken corpse case,” it was really dramatic.

Because of the hot and muggy weather recently, the eunuchs in the Palace took the elephants from the six countries in southern Xinjiang to take a bath near the puddle of accumulated corpse-hiding.

A few days ago, in the evening, maybe he was too comfortable to soak in the water. A male elephant refused to go ashore. The more the elephant herders threatened and lured, the deeper it ran. Somehow, a human skeleton came out of the water!

Ugh~

To be exact, it should be more than half because there were quite a few bones that have been kicked by elephants.

In Sun Shaozong’s opinion, there’s nothing to make a fuss about. The Capital was densely populated, and merchants gathered. What types of birds were there in the forest? Every year, there were at least two figures of people who were muddled under the water!

But the people are superstitious these days, and they love to create stories about gods and ghosts.

So within three days, the story of “There is no one at the bottom of the pond to ask about the grievances, the white elephant came from the east to solve the grievances” was spread all over the streets. Later, even the Emperor was alerted, and he was amused to send the male elephant a good job as the “Guard of the Central Judicial Office.”

To entertain this “big” Lord today, the whole of the Central Judicial Office was working overtime to build the elephant room, the highest judicial office in the country. The whole place was like a wild zoo.

Hearing that there was no clue about the “corpse sinking case in the puddle of accumulated water,” Jia Baoyu was not discouraged. He first took out a small book from his sleeve and carefully wrote it down. He then asked, “What about the “disappearance of the divine bird” in the suburb of Daxing County?”

This “case of the disappearance of a divine bird” naturally refers not to the loss of a bird but because the informant claimed that his wife had been taken away by a giant divine bird.

“That case…”

Sun Shaozong said, “The Tianwang County Magistrate reported to the government the other day, so I went to investigate the scene myself. Now, I suspect initially that the woman should have gone away with the adulterer. As for the strange birds, it’s probably the informant’s nonsense to save face.”

“How could this happen?”

This time, however, Jia Baoyu could not calm down and grumbled in frustration, “I always thought that the reporter killed his wife and hid the body!”

Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes at him and said, “How are there so many corpse-hiding cases in the world? Besides, can’t you expect others to be better?”

Jia Baoyu was unwilling to record the result in his notebook and asked again, “How about the case in the City of Nan…”

“Are you finished?”

Sun Shaozong put the sour plum dessert on the table and said angrily, “I’ve been busy with cases all day in the Central Judicial Office, and it’s not easy to rest for a day. Can’t you let me be at peace? You have bought a lot of “storybooks” to solve the cases. Finish the books first before coming to me!”

Seeing his frown, Jia Baoyu was not afraid. He only said with a smile, “The cases you are dealing with are real. How can they be comparable to those who make up nonsense? Besides…”

He looked at Jia Lan with a red face and whispered in Sun Shaozong’s ear, “What’s more is that the “storybook” looks like a case-solving novel, but it’s actually a matter of men and women. The day before yesterday I received a book called “The Strange Case.” It turned out that it was full of dirty words, even with embroidered images!”

Although Jia Baoyu was young, he has more beautiful young girls than Sun Shaozong and if the content of the storybook makes him blush when he mentions it, it must be quite…

Sun Shaozong’s face immediately sank and scolded, “How can you see such things when you are young? If your uncle finds out, he will peel your skin!”

Jia Baoyu was startled by him. He thought that he was going to report to Jia Zheng. He hurried and begged for a few words.

Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong’s words changed, and he continued, “Bring them all to me in a moment. I’ll take them back and destroy them for you, so as not to cause any trouble!”

Baoyu was speechless for a while, but he still let Mingyan take the books and hand them over to Sun Shaozong.

Sun Shaozong, with the help of “nature calls,” flipped through the pages and found that there were indeed pictures and texts, and there were even some extreme exchanges of posture. He felt even more “annoyed.”

So when he returned to the practice room, he announced that today’s practice had ended ahead of schedule. He then was ready to go home and carefully destroy these high spirits’ ”drugs,” so as not to poison the innocent youths of the Jia Family who “start to have sex at the age of 10” and “forcibly robbed ladies at the age of 12.”

Who knew that just after arriving at the second door, two people jumped out from the slant, one from the left and one from the right, that sandwiched him in the middle!