Chapter 047: The Heavenly Dog
After Sun Shaozong returned from Jinxiangyuan, he first sought out his eldest brother to inquire about Qiu Yunfei's identity and background - strategically one can despise the other party, but tactically one still has to know both oneself and the enemy.
Speaking of the background of this fat white man, we must first introduce the organization of the capital's garrison. The more than 100,000 imperial guards guarding the capital are roughly divided into four battalions and one guard: the four battalions refer to the Huben Battalion, the Shenji Battalion, the City Defense Battalion, and the Patrol Defense Battalion; the one guard refers to the Dragon Guard directly under the emperor.
Putting aside the Dragon Guards, among the four camps of the Imperial Guards, the Huben Camp is the most respected, followed by the Shenji Camp, and the City Defense Camp and the Patrol Guard Camp are tied at the bottom - and Qiu Yunfei's father was originally the commander of the City Defense Camp, with a similar status to the Shenwu General Feng Tang.
Last winter, due to the vacancy of the chief commander of the Huben Camp, the two families fought fiercely. In the end, it was General Qiu who had the last laugh. Not only was he promoted to the commander of the Huben Camp, he also served as the right palace commander of the Five Cities Army, becoming the real General Qiu.
It was for this reason that Feng Ziying was so dissatisfied and angry two days ago that he picked a fight and beat up Qiu Yunfei, calling it "revenge for his father."
After understanding the whole process and comparing it with his own handling of the matter at that time, Sun Shaozong became more calm.
So after returning to his own courtyard, he had to tell Ruan Rong about his experience in Jinxiangyuan as an interesting story.
Who would have thought that when Ruan Rong heard Xue Pan's drunken nonsense about handing over his beautiful concubine to him, she blurted out: "Master, why don't you agree? This will save Sister Xiangling from being abused by him!"
Sun Shaozong was speechless. He reached out and poked her forehead with his finger, saying with a smile: "That big-headed Xue is just talking nonsense when he is drunk. It's okay to listen to it, but how can you take it seriously? Besides, how can someone take the initiative to recruit women around his own man?"
Ruan Rong also knew that she had said something wrong, and playfully spat at Xiao Dingxiang, but still couldn't help but say, "If it was another girl, even if the master wanted to take her home, I'm afraid she would have to get through me first - but that sister Xiangling is really pitiful, and she is honest and decent. If I can rescue her from the sea of suffering, it would be a good thing for the master, so what?"
As he spoke, he began to recount all the gossip he had heard from Daiyu.
It turned out that Xiangling was born a rich lady, but was abducted by human traffickers when she was five years old. When she was twelve or thirteen years old, she was sold to the Xue family as a slave. Despite her tragic life experience, she did not complain at all. She was kind-hearted all day long and loved to be kind to others.
Ruan Rong couldn't help but sigh when she said this: "She is now considered Xue Pan's concubine, but in fact, she is just a maid. That Dai Bawang is a scoundrel who stirs up trouble every now and then. I don't know how much Xiangling has to suffer on a daily basis."
As she was speaking, she felt a large hand reaching into her abdomen and rubbing it around like kneading dough.
Ruan Rong blushed immediately, and hurriedly slapped Sun Shaozong's claws away, saying, "Bah! Don't mess with me in broad daylight!"
"What are you thinking about?"
Sun Shaozong said with an innocent look, "I just thought that you might be pregnant, otherwise why would you be so full of maternal love when you see a motherless child?"
Although the four words "overflowing maternal love" sound novel, their meaning is simple and easy to understand.
So when Ruan Rong heard this, she immediately threw herself on him and started a fight with Sun Shaozong. When the two of them got excited, they didn't care about day or night. They rolled on the bed like two worms, squeaking and tossing and turning, and didn't stop until the moon was high in the sky!
As they had missed dinner time, they were too lazy to get dressed and simply ate some snacks. Then they called the maid to bring a bathtub for them to wash up briefly, and then went back to bed and fell asleep in each other's arms.
I slept until the fourth watch, and in the dimness I heard the sound of the gate being smashed, and faintly heard bursts of shouting: "Second Master, Second Master! Get up quickly, something big has happened!"
Sun Shaozong sat up straight from the bed, listened for a moment, and vaguely recognized that the voice came from the old housekeeper Wei Bo. He quickly put on his clothes and stood up, shouting to the outside: "Are they all asleep? Hurry up and open the door for the old housekeeper!"
At this time, Ruan Rong had also awakened from her dream. She was half asleep and was about to get up so that she could help Sun Shaozong get dressed and wash up.
Sun Shaozong quickly reached out and grasped the soft mass, and pushed her back to the bed: "Rest first, and it won't be too late for you to get up after I find out what happened."
Having said this, he hastily put on his boots and hurried to the outer flower hall.
When they arrived at the flower hall, Sun Shaozong saw that the old housekeeper was panicking and even a little frightened. He felt nervous and thought to himself, could it be that his younger brother had violated some law and was discovered by the court? !
Considering how Sun Shaozu usually spends money lavishly, it is somewhat possible!
Although he was nervous, Sun Shaozong remained calm on the surface. He smiled and asked, "Uncle Wei, what happened? Why do you have to bother calling me in the middle of the night?"
"Second Master!"
The old housekeeper said anxiously, "Someone came from the government office and said that the Minister of Works, Ge Qingfeng, suddenly died at home, and asked you to rush over immediately to investigate!"
"Well, I thought it was something."
When Sun Shaozong heard this, he immediately put his heart back in his stomach and said with a chuckle, "Minister Ge has no relationship with us, so he can die. Is it worth it for you, Wei Bo, to be so nervous?"
"Second Master!"
Seeing that he was not impressed, Wei Licai hurriedly said, "He was an official from one of the six ministries. Now that he has suddenly died, there must be an explanation! If the case cannot be solved, I'm afraid..."
Although the old butler did not explain clearly, Sun Shaozong understood that he was probably afraid that he would be made a scapegoat by accident, so he smiled and comforted him: "Uncle Wei, other things are fine, but I do have some ."
"Alas~ If it were an ordinary case, the Second Master would have easily solved it, but this case..." The old housekeeper hesitated for a long time before saying, "But this case is caused by a demon dog. How can we find the real culprit?!"
Is it the work of the Heavenly Dog?
No wonder the old butler looked so frightened just now, it turns out this case actually involves ghosts and gods!
According to the old housekeeper, Minister Ge had three toes bitten off by a Shih Tzu while he was enjoying the cool in the back garden the summer before last. Afterwards, Minister Ge was furious and ordered all the dogs in the house to be killed. He also strictly ordered that no one in the mansion was allowed to keep dogs.
This was nothing unusual, but since then, Minister Ge developed an inexplicable habit. Every now and then, he would send the servants around him somewhere else and spend the night alone in the study.
And every time this happened, there would be the sound of dog barking coming from the study, sometimes cheerful, sometimes sad, which made people feel creepy!
Afterwards, when someone bravely asked about this matter, Minister Ge always spoke sternly and insisted that he did not hear any dog barking.
Later, this matter became a hot topic on the streets. Everyone said that Minister Ge was possessed by a heavenly dog and that he would suffer retribution sooner or later. And look, the retribution really came tonight!
