Chapter 287: Spring Outing Kidnapping Incident (Part 1)
Although the kidnappers did not follow the rules before, Ma Chunfeng did not dare to break the kidnappers' rules.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong could not gather a large group of people. He only privately found Chou Yunfei and Zhao Wuwei to come over, and joined Ma Chunfeng and Fu Shi, and quietly left the back door of the government office.
Sun Shaozong naturally would not waste time along the way. He rode in the same car with Ma Chunfeng and carefully questioned him about the incident.
But two days ago, on March 25th, Ma Yingjue, the eldest son of the Ma family, left the city through the north gate with his wives and concubines early in the morning for an outing.
They didn't go to any scenic spots, they just played around at the foot of a small hill.
Probably because the lamb leg that Ma Yingjue had roasted himself was a little undercooked, he started having diarrhea in the afternoon and went to the bushes to relieve himself four or five times, but the condition did not improve.
When he went into the bushes to relieve himself again, no one paid much attention - but after a long time, they discovered that he had disappeared without a sound.
At about 9:00 p.m. last night, someone wrapped a stone in a piece of paper and threw it over the wall into the Ma Mansion. It was picked up by a servant on night patrol and hurriedly presented to Ma Chunfeng.
After reading the contents of the note, Ma Chunfeng finally confirmed that his son had been kidnapped by a group of thugs.
Because the request was only for five hundred taels of silver, which was nothing to the Ma family, Ma Chunfeng did not report the case, but quietly delivered the silver to the designated location - outside the city gate, on an empty donkey cart.
After putting the silver on the donkey, the steward in charge of delivering the money whipped the donkey's butt a few times and let it run wildly.
At this point, Ma Chunfeng smiled bitterly and said, "I originally wanted to send someone to secretly follow the donkey cart so that we could follow the clues and find the robber who kidnapped Jue'er. But the person I sent followed it for a long distance and found that the donkey had found a vegetable field and refused to move no matter what."
"Those idiots felt something was wrong and went to the front of the carriage to check it carefully. They found that the silver they had put on the shaft had disappeared long ago."
Since the plan to track the donkey cart failed, Ma Chunfeng naturally had to hope that the kidnappers would release his son as agreed after receiving the money.
Who knew that after waiting until the second half of the night, there was still no movement!
Ma Chunfeng was so panicked that he thought of asking Fu Shi to act as a bridge and ask the famous Sun Shaozong to come forward to investigate.
However, Sun Shaozong listened to Ma Chunfeng's general account of what had happened. Before he could figure out what had happened, the carriage had already stopped near Ma's mansion.
Ma Chunfeng led everyone around to the backyard and specially chose a side door that was not often used to enter, so as to avoid the eyes and ears of the servants in the house.
After entering the door, you naturally walk along the secluded path.
Unexpectedly, Ma Chunfeng was leading the way in front, when he suddenly bumped into a woman in thin spring clothes behind the rockery!
The woman was about twenty years old, tall and slender, with a little makeup on, and looked pretty and charming. However, her mouth was a little too big, and it opened in an O shape in surprise, which made her look less pretty.
She was surprised, but Ma Chunfeng's expression was even more complicated. He looked like he wanted to be angry, but he was hesitant. In the end, he could only ask through his teeth: "You...what are you doing here?!"
"Son...daughter-in-law..."
As soon as the woman spoke hesitantly, Sun Shaozong understood why Ma Chunfeng was so troubled - it turned out that the woman was Ma Chunfeng's daughter-in-law and Fu Shi's sister.
Fu Shi's face also looked a little unhappy. After all, his brother-in-law's life or death was uncertain, but his sister dressed up and came to this secluded place alone...
No matter how you think about it, this doesn't seem like a proper approach!
Therefore, Fu Shi immediately stepped forward and scolded: "It's already this late, why are you still here making trouble? Go back to your room quickly - I will explain today's matter to you later!"
Ma Fu was as if she had been pardoned. She bowed to her father-in-law and brother, turned around and walked away with her two slender legs.
"Wait a minute!"
Sun Shaozong hurriedly stopped her and explained to Ma Chunfeng beside him, "Young Madam should be the most familiar with your son's situation. Since we have already bumped into each other by chance, why not ask Young Madam to go and take a look to see if there are any omissions."
Although Ma Chunfeng felt that his daughter-in-law's behavior just now was indeed suspected of being immoral, he listened to Sun Shaozong's reasoning and was also concerned about his son's life, so he told Ma Fu to go to his small study with everyone else.
When they arrived at the study, Ma Chunfeng took a few quick steps, took out a small rosewood box from the compartment of the desk, and pinched out a four-finger-wide piece of paper from it, and carefully handed it to Sun Shaozong.
"Master Sun, this is the note that the gang threw in around midnight the night before yesterday."
Sun Shaozong took it in his hand, unfolded it and took a closer look, only to see a lot of crooked small characters written on it. It was obvious that it was written deliberately with the non-dominant hand by someone with a foundation in calligraphy.
As for the above content, it is the same as what Ma Chunfeng said before. First, the identity of the kidnappers is revealed, then the Ma family is deterred from reporting the case, and finally the amount of the ransom and the method of delivery are proposed.
Judging from the choice of words and sentences, it seems to be quite literary.
Sun Shaozong held the piece of paper up to the sun and observed it carefully, then moved closer to smell the ink. Although it had been a little long, it was undoubtedly the cheapest stinky ink.
As for the writing paper...
Sun Shaozong carefully tore off a small strip from the edge and handed it to Fu Shi, saying, "President Fu, try to write a few words on it."
Although Fu Shi didn't understand why, he had been in Shuntian Prefecture for a long time. Even though he didn't get along with Sun Shaozong, he knew that Sun Shaozong was an amazing talent in solving cases.
Without thinking too much, he took out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, ground the ink, dipped the pen in it, held his breath, concentrated on his posture, and placed his wrist on the paper, looking like a great calligrapher.
only……
As soon as the pen tip touched the paper, the ink dyed half of the thin strip black!
Fu Shi was a little dumbfounded at the time, and in the time it took him to be distracted, the rest of the paper turned black.
“Puff~!”
Others were concerned about his face and had to hold back their laughter, but Qiu Yunfei didn't care about that.
He burst into laughter and slapped the table, saying, "President Fu, you are really showing off!"
Fu Shi's face flushed red, but he didn't dare to argue with Qiu Yunfei, so he could only explain awkwardly: "This paper is really... really too bad."
Qiu Yunfei sneered, "How could a kidnapper write so many tiny words? Could it be that you, a successful scholar, are worse than a kidnapper?"
Fu Shi was suddenly speechless.
But Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "It's not that Fu Tongpan's ability is not good enough, but this kidnapper is used to writing on this kind of inferior paper."
When Fu heard him actually speaking in his defense, he felt relieved and thought that this warrior was not completely useless. At least he was fair and upright.
Qiu Yunfei's skills have really improved recently. After hearing Sun Shaozong specifically point out this information, his eyes rolled a few times and he suddenly realized: "In this case, there must be a poor scholar among the kidnappers!"
"good."
Sun Shaozong shook the paper and said, "Since he can write so neatly and fluently with his left hand, it shouldn't be difficult for him to get the title of a scholar."
"But he was used to using inferior pens, ink and paper, and obviously failed to achieve the title of Juren."
As the saying goes, 'the scholar is poor and the juren is rich'. This is not only because the juren can directly become an official, but also because the juren have a quota of hundreds of acres of fertile land under their name and do not need to pay taxes to the court.
Therefore, as long as one passed the imperial examination, there would be people who would immediately volunteer to become slaves with their families, just to avoid the burden of taxes.
At this point, Sun Shaozong suddenly changed the subject and said seriously: "But these are not the most important things for now. What I want to know most right now is why Ma Yingjue wants to go out of town for an outing!"
Why go out of town for an outing?
This question made everyone present feel a little puzzled. This outing was just an outing, so why would there be any 'why'?
Ma Chunfeng asked in confusion, "I wonder what Lord Sun means by this?"
"For an outing, we naturally have to find a day when the spring weather is warm and the flowers are blooming." Sun Shaozong sneered, "But the 25th was cloudy, and the temperature was very low, which was not suitable for a spring outing at all!"
He has a personal experience of temperature .
