Chapter 346 Provocation
April 27th, Ningguo Prefecture.
It was time for the daily nap, but Youshi lay on the couch, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
After that beautiful night, she was quite panicked for several days. Whenever she thought of her impulsive behavior that night, she felt regretful and terrified.
However, as time went by, the mansion became calm and peaceful without any rumors, so the panic gradually subsided, and what replaced it was the unforgettable feeling.
Three parts of uneasiness, three parts of taboos, plus the bravery and exhilaration she had never experienced before, made Yu Shi unable to control her emotions every time she thought about it.
Today is no exception.
She tossed and turned on the couch for a while, and suddenly raised one of her slender and well-proportioned legs, and hooked her crescent-shaped arch of the foot back, as if she wanted to hook that strong and sturdy body onto her couch out of thin air.
After a while, although Youshi returned empty-handed, her palm-sized face had already turned extremely red. She buried it in the pillow for a long time to cool down, and then the redness finally subsided a little.
Then she locked the door, changed her underwear, and sat in front of the bronze mirror for a long while, but she no longer felt sleepy.
So Youshi pushed the door open and went out, ready to call the maids and old women to go to the West Mansion to find Wang Xifeng or Li Wan to relieve her boredom. But before she could shout, she suddenly heard some intermittent words coming from outside the door:
"Then Lord Sun... stole..."
Yu's delicate body trembled violently, and the remaining heat in her body instantly turned into coldness. She had only one thought in her mind: her affair with Sun Shaozong had been exposed!
She felt dizzy and reached out to hold on to the wall, but still couldn't keep her balance. She stumbled forward a few steps and suddenly heard another maid outside the door exclaiming, "Really? Who is so bold as to dig out and deliberately hang it on the Shuntian Mansion's injustice drum?"
"You don't know this, do you? I heard that this case involves five strangers, under the instructions of a masked man..."
"So the six people who died were all heartless human traffickers? They really deserved it!"
After hearing this, Youshi finally crawled out of the gates of hell.
While she was feeling relieved, Sun Shaozong was not in a good mood.
Yesterday at the Longsheng old store, after learning that the mysterious man had reappeared, Sun Shaozong did not dare to delay and immediately brought all the criminals back to the Criminal Law Department for strict interrogation.
After half a day of review, there was little result, and no one could provide any useful information.
The only clue that seemed to be of some use was that the six human hearts that were dug out were not actually fed to the wild dogs.
According to the instructions of the masked man, Wang Ergou prepared two food boxes in advance and placed one of them near the inn. When he came out of the Longsheng old store, Wang Ergou exchanged the food box containing the heart and liver with the food box prepared in advance.
Later, when Wang Ergou secretly went back to check, the food box containing the heart had disappeared. Since then, he had not heard of anyone finding the liver, so Wang Ergou privately guessed that it was probably taken away by the masked man.
Although this clue was a bit strange and difficult to trace after more than half a month, Sun Shaozong still analyzed it repeatedly with Master Qi for a long time.
Then……
Before dawn this morning, someone found a cloth bag on the drum. When they opened it, they found six human hearts that had been dried and made into specimens!
By the time Sun Shaozong arrived, the rumors had already spread everywhere.
Han Anbang and Jia Yucun from above summoned him to explain, and the officials below also tried to find out from him indirectly.
Seeing that if the situation continued, who knows how it would be spread, Sun Shaozong simply summoned the officials from the Criminal Law Department and explained the whole story in detail.
Therefore, before noon, the story of "Sun Shen solved the strange case with his fragmentary words and the masked man killed the evil thief with a clever trick" spread throughout the capital.
Although in the story, Sun Shaozong's image of wisdom and bravery was once again consolidated, how could he be happy?
The masked man's act of hanging six specimens of hearts on the drum of complaint is a blatant provocation no matter how you look at it!
Unfortunately, Sun Shaozong investigated carefully for a long time but still failed to send any useful information.
At present, he only knew that the masked man was tall, liked to instigate others to attack evil people, and had a considerable understanding of the evil forces around the capital. The six human traffickers in the heart-stealing case were not scholars like Ma Yingjue who turned a deaf ear to the outside world.
It is not possible for ordinary people to grasp the whereabouts of human traffickers and lure them into the trap without any defense!
in addition……
This masked man might be a perfectionist, so after Sun Shaozong solved the case, he used the heart, which had been made into a specimen and preserved for more than half a month, as a demonstration prop without hesitation!
"uncle."
Just as he was writing down these clues on paper and marking them, Sun Chengye came in and said, "It's almost time to go back home, you see..."
Only then did Sun Shaozong realize that it was already evening without him noticing.
He threw away the scribbles on the rice paper, stood up and stretched himself, then said to himself: "Once there is a first, there will be a second, then there will be a third. As long as this fellow keeps committing crimes, we will catch him sooner or later - let's go!"
Sun Chengye hesitated for a while, but couldn't help but said: "The people outside are all hoping that you can't catch him."
Tsk~
This idea is not incomprehensible.
The uncle and nephew left the government office together, and in the car they discussed how Sun Chengye's son should exercise his muscles so that he could make achievements in the army in the future.
This was the suggestion Sun Shaozong had made when he delivered the gift a few days ago. After Sun Chengye discussed it with his wife, he was really tempted - even if he couldn't achieve great things in the army, it would always be good to be able to keep fit.
But when they returned home, the uncle and nephew said goodbye to each other.
Sun Shaozong was just about to go back to the backyard to entertain his son, when Zhao Zhongji came up to him and reported that at noon, the second wife of Rongguo Mansion came over specially to invite the first wife [Jia Yingchun] to go to Qingxu Temple for a prayer ceremony on the first day of next month.
It is said that in order to get rid of the bad luck in the family, even Lady Jia will come out in person this time, and all the young and old masters from the Rong and Ning mansions will come out in full force.
Since Lady Jia was going and Wang Xifeng came specially to invite her, it was naturally difficult for Jia Yingchun to refuse.
"Master had already agreed to accompany me, but when he was preparing to go to the camp outside the city to take up duty in the afternoon, he suddenly remembered that he had important official business on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so he asked me to tell Second Master that you will escort the First Madam to Qingxu Temple to hold a ceremony."
Sun Shaozong had no interest in such ceremonies, but Wang Xifeng came all the way here. Was it just to invite Yingchun to burn incense at the Taoist temple?
Looks like I have to plant seeds again tonight...
