The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

ero, but Jia Lian isn’t one!

The two men went up the spiral stone steps to the top of the mountain.
They saw that there were four or five pots of silver frost charcoal in the red lacquer Pavilion.
Jia Lian still held a stove in his arms and they laughed and said, “It's Erlang who has arrived.
I looked at you from a distance in the dark and thought that it was an old bear.”

Sun Shaozong was wearing a black cloak, so he said so.

Sun Shaozong laughed and pointed to Jia Lian's dark purple robe, “Don't need to mention if it was an old bear, even if they're a bear that jumped out and saw you, The Prince's maternal uncle, I'm afraid that they will have to retreat from you too.
“

“What kind of The Prince's maternal uncle am I? Baoyu is the real maternal uncle of The Prince.” With complacent modesty, Jia Lian took advantage of the situation to welcome Sun Shaozong into the pavilion.

There was a silver basin on the stone table in the middle.
There was shallow hot water in the silver basin.
In the middle of it, there were a few beautifully carved gold boats.
It looked chic, but he didn't know what it was for.

Seeing Sun Shaozong looking at the silver basin and golden boats, Jia Lian reached out and opened the roof of one of the golden boats.
The rich aroma of wine immediately came out.
It seems that the original golden boats were cups to warm up the wine.

It is really a first-class luxury!

Sun Shaozong praised him with a few words.
As soon as he sat down with Jia Lian, he heard a rush of footsteps from far to near.

When they looked, they saw that it was the gatekeeper who had just brought Sun Shaozong's horse down for rest.

Seeing that he was panting like a cow and had no dignity of a rich family at all, Jia Lian was a little unhappy.
He patted the stove on the table and shouted from a distance, “Hey talented dog, are you rushing to reincarnate with your eyebrow staring so furiously?!”

After receiving his scolding, the gatekeeper hurried forward a few steps and hurriedly said, “Second Master, it's not a small rush.
It's the guards from the Central Judicial Office outside the door who said that there was a homicide case at Yunshui Lane.
Please ask the judge to investigate the case!”

Homicide case?

Sun Shaozong frowned when he heard the speech.
According to the order, he would only go to the Central Judicial Office to take over the position after the New Year.
How could they find him for a murder case that happened before the New Year? And found him all the way here at the Rongguo Mansion!

When he’s trying to figure out what was strange in this matter, Jia Lian scolded, “Are you a dog with hysteria? There is a Central Judicial Assistant Officer in our mansion, but where is the Assistant Prefectural Magistrate?!”

The gatekeeper didn't dare to argue, so he had to look at Sun Shaozong.

“Sigh~”

Sun Shaozong sighed and stood up and said, “Brother Lian, I'm afraid our 'hero' is out of the question today! I took the order at noon yesterday to temporarily take over the Central Judicial Office after the Chinese New Year.
Who would have thought that just one day later, the trouble would come to me.”

He deliberately emphasized the words ‘after the New Year’.
Originally, he wanted to arouse Jia Lian's suspicions and helped himself to find out what’s going on in his given title of The Prince’s
maternal uncle.

However, Jia Lian didn't notice what he meant.
When he heard that Sun Shaozong had become the Assistant Prefectural Magistrate of the Central Judicial Office and was about to investigate the murder case, his eyes lit up, and said with joy, “Since it's a major case involving human life, what are we waiting for? I've never seen anyone investigate a case since I’m young!”

Then he raised his voice and said, “Xing'er, go and tell my wife that I will accompany the second master of the Sun family to solve the homicide case of human life.
I won't be eating at home after the afternoon!”

Sun Shaozong was speechless, but it was not easy to express his concern.
He had to send a message to Ruan Rong, asking her to stay at the Rongguo Mansion and talk to Lin Daiyu.
After he had been to the scene of the crime, it was not too late to come back to pick her up.