Chapter 522: Accidents
When Sun Shaozong heard that Xue Pan had come to visit early in the morning, he knew that there must be some progress in the matter of Xiong Guang, so he hurried out of the backyard and rushed to the front living room.
Who knew that when he got to the living room, he heard Xue Pan shouting loudly inside: "If it weren't for my uncle, I would have ignored that nasty guy Huan Lao San! How come I am guilty of what you said?"
Why are we talking about Jia Huan for no reason?
Sun Shaozong hurried to the door and looked inside suspiciously, but saw that in addition to the ferocious-looking Xue Pan, there was also a rough maid in blue kneeling in the living room - who else could it be but the shotacon Caixia?
At this time, Caixia said with her head down: "That's not what I meant, it's just that the Third Master is still young after all..."
"shut up!"
Sun Shaozong shouted, stepped into the living room, and ordered without further ado, "You ignorant slave, why don't you go to housekeeper Zhao and receive your punishment!"
Caixia trembled and looked up, wanting to say something to clarify, but when she met Sun Shaozong's cold eyes, she dared not say another word.
After a slight hesitation, she finally got up from the ground and obediently left the living room.
After Caixia left, Sun Shaozong was too lazy to distinguish between the main and the secondary, and sat directly on the chair next to Xue Pan, and raised his chin to him: "Sit down, what's the point of arguing with a maid?"
"This little hoof is simply inexplicable!"
Xue Pan slammed down on his chair and said angrily, "When she was with my aunt, I never saw her being so arrogant. How come she suddenly became a different person after coming to my brother's house?"
If these words came from someone else, Sun Shaozong might have suspected that the other person was making a veiled attack, but Xue Pan was a man of his word, so it wasn't certain that he had any other intentions.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong just rolled his eyes at him and said unhappily, "She and Qingwen have both been bewitched by your aunt's two brothers. By the way, I just heard you mention Jia Huan. What does that mean? Is he getting close to you now?"
"Get close to your ass!"
Xue Pan curled his lips and sneered, "I don't know who brought this kid to Yunfangzhai. He only had six taels of silver on him, but he ordered a table of top-notch food and two top girls!"
Yunfangzhai is a brothel named after Baihualou, and is mainly famous for training talented prostitutes. However, the top prostitute there is always not liked by Xue Pan because she is very hesitant and has to go through the formalities before going to bed.
But after having made a fool of himself in Baihua Tower a few days ago, Xue Pan didn't want to go there again for a while, so he had to have fun in Yunfangzhai instead.
Who would have thought that the first time he went to Yunfangzhai, he would run into Jia Huan "bullying around" and being blocked by several eunuchs, who made him scream.
Although he looked down on Jia Huan's shameful behavior, they were still nominal relatives after all. Besides, if the matter got out of hand, it would also be a loss of face for the Rongguo Mansion. Therefore, Xue Pan stepped forward to help Jia Huan settle the bill.
Who would have thought that the third brother Huan, seeing Xue Pan's generosity, would take advantage of the situation and become attached to him, shamelessly asking for prostitution and gambling every day - Xue Pan wanted to turn against him, but he could not resist Jia Huan's sweet words and cried and made a fuss.
"You said he was such a piece of shit, and you still have the nerve to blame me!"
Seeing Xue Pan's angry look, Sun Shaozong smiled and shook his head, "Let's not talk about him first. Has Xiong Guang's job been decided?"
"Of course it's settled!"
As soon as the topic came up, Xue Pan immediately became energetic again, patting his chest and saying, "Brother, if I take action, how can I escape? My father-in-law said that as long as there is a vacancy in the Zhili Provincial Surveillance Department, he will fill it immediately!"
After saying this, he suddenly remembered something and said hurriedly, "Oh, by the way, my father-in-law also specifically told me to pay more attention to the news in Huguang recently."
Pay more attention to the news from Huguang?
Sun Shaozong's heart moved when he heard this. At the moment, the only news worth paying attention to in Huguang was probably the rebellion of the Wuxi barbarians.
Could it be that...
The imperial court intends to send me to Huguang to quell the rebellion?
But although he came from the military, he had no experience in leading troops in battle. Logically speaking, it should not be his turn to lead troops to quell a rebellion.
He told Xue Pan about his doubts, but he just shook his head and said, "I only heard my father-in-law mention this, but I don't know ."
Tsk~
This old man is unwilling to give a full favor when he's doing someone a favor. What's the point of being so secretive?
Just as he was complaining in his heart, Xue Pan eagerly stuck his head over and asked stealthily, "Second brother, I heard that you Shuntian Prefecture is going to clean up the prostitutes in the city again?"
When it comes to romance, this guy is very well-informed.
Knowing that he had some familiar brothel madams and pimps in the brothels, Sun Shaozong thought he was just trying to tip him off in advance and didn't take it too seriously, so he casually told him the whole story.
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Xue Pan felt a little uneasy. He said a few irrelevant words and hurriedly said goodbye and left the Sun Mansion.
This guy...
It seems like he's up to something?
After watching him leave, Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, then sent someone to tell the beggar chief Hong Jiu to arrange a few smart and capable beggars to keep a close eye on Xue Pan, to prevent him from getting into trouble again.
After explaining this matter, Sun Shaozong was thinking whether he should go to the Prince's Mansion to ask the Prince to find out more about the suppression of the rebellion in Huguang, or go to Rongguo Mansion to try to get in touch with Concubine Xian De, when he saw Zhao Zhongji coming up to him again.
"Second Master."
He rubbed his hands together and said with a smile, "I wonder how you would like me to deal with Caixia who committed the crime?"
"how?"
Sun Shaozong said impatiently: "You don't even remember the rules of our house? Do you need me to remind you?"
“No, no, no!”
Zhao Zhongji hurriedly explained: "According to the rules of our mansion, if she repeatedly betrays her parents, she should be sold to a brothel - but she is an old lady in Rongguo Mansion after all, and she has only been in our house for a few days..."
Although Sun Shaozong was very annoyed with this stubborn shotacon, it would be too cruel to sell her to a brothel.
"That's all."
After a slight hesitation, Sun Shaozong said, "Give him a beating first..."
As he was speaking, the doorman suddenly came rushing over and said that the young man named Li, who had come to the mansion for a banquet last time, came to visit again.
Has the child prodigy Li Xian arrived?
Sun Shaozong hurriedly ordered someone to bring the person in quickly. Soon, he saw Li Xian's childish figure trotting through the doorway. As soon as he stepped down the stairs, he knelt down on his knees and said in a trembling voice: "How can I be so worthy as to trouble you to come and greet me!"
In fact, the reason why Sun Shaozong was in the yard was because he had just seen Xue Pan off.
However, seeing Li Xian's grateful look, he was happy to make the best of a bad situation. He stepped forward and pulled Li Xian up from the ground, saying with a smile: "I welcome you for no other reason than that you have the courage to seek justice for your father at such a young age."
Then he asked with concern, "How is your father's injury?"
"Thanks to you, my father's wound has begun to scab over. The doctor said that although he will not be able to exert much strength in the future, he will be able to walk, sit or lie down without any problem."
As they were talking, Sun Shaozong led him to the living room and was about to tell him to take a seat. Unexpectedly, Li Xian saw that there was no one in the private room, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "I came here today to thank you for your kindness, but I also have something to report to you."
Hearing what he said was quite mysterious, Sun Shaozong couldn't help but become a little interested. He pointed to the armchair below and said, "No hurry, sit down and talk - someone, bring tea!"
Li Xian thanked him solemnly and acted calmly. He waited until the maid who brought the tea had left the room before he bowed and said, "I saw this incident by accident. I went to get medicine for my father that day and it happened that..."
It turned out that two days ago, Li Xian went to the drugstore to get medicine for his father, but the drugstore happened to be short of a main medicine for replenishing blood and qi.
Li Xian was just about to go to another store, but the owner of the drugstore got angry first, called the shop assistant over and scolded him angrily, then ordered the shop assistant to go to the store and get a restock of the medicine.
The shop assistant was scolded so much that his face turned pale. He took the money for the medicine and ran out quickly.
After listening to their conversation, Li Xian figured that the herbs in the store would definitely be cheaper, so he followed the shop assistant all the way.
At first, the shop assistant was so busy rushing forward that he didn't notice Li Xian following him. He kept muttering along the way, complaining that the drugstore owner was mean and that he would be harmed by his cheating wife sooner or later.
Li Xian found what he said interesting and moved closer without realizing it. As a result, he was caught by the shop assistant.
The clerk was afraid that he would tell his boss what he had said, and seeing that he was just a half-grown boy, he put on a sullen face and tried to scare him.
But Li Xian was so young, yet he was able to remain calm in court and clear his father of the charges. How could he be frightened by a pharmacy clerk?
He just smiled and said that he only wanted to get the medicine cheaply, and he wouldn't care about other people's affairs as long as he could save money.
When the clerk heard this, he patted his chest and promised to help him buy some cheap and good medicinal herbs from the store.
The two of them then traveled together.
The waiter was probably very upset, and thought that Li Xian had already heard it anyway, so it didn't matter if he told him some details. So on the way he described to Li Xian in vivid detail the anecdotes about the boss's wife having an affair.
Many shop assistants these days were contract apprentices, and they all took care of their eating, drinking, and defecating in the shop. A shop assistant named Wang Ergou was no exception. He usually lived in the woodshed behind the drugstore.
The proprietress of the drugstore was about thirty years old, tall, with big breasts and a big butt. Although she had no children, she still controlled her husband very well.
Wang Ergou had always been afraid of her, so when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet a dozen days ago, he saw the landlady strolling in the yard, and he held it in and did not dare to come out.
Originally, I wanted to wait until the boss's wife returned home before going to the toilet.
Who would have thought that at this moment, two cat meows suddenly came from outside, and then the proprietress opened the back door and let in a sturdy man wearing a bamboo hat.
Wang Ergou's eyes widened as he watched the proprietress and the man whispering a few words at the door and then quietly sneaking into the drugstore in front. It was pitch dark and not even a light was on.
Adultery, this is definitely adultery!
At that time, Wang Ergou wanted to go over and take a look, but due to the boss lady's dominance, he didn't dare to move. He even held his urine for most of the night and didn't dare to go to the toilet until dawn.
After that, Wang Ergou became attentive. Whenever he heard any movement in the middle of the night, he would get up and quietly look around the yard.
As a result, he actually ran into it twice!
Once he even heard the adulterer say something. He couldn't hear the specific content, but he definitely spoke with an accent from another place.
Li Xian didn't take all the gossip seriously at first.
When he arrived at the business, he pretended to be Wang Ergou's younger brother and followed him in to buy medicine. However, he heard the shop clerk say that at the beginning of the month, the pharmacy where Wang Ergou worked had already purchased this kind of medicine, and the quantity was enough to sell for half a year.
How come you're coming here to buy again in less than a month?
Wang Ergou was also confused. He said that business had not been very good these days, but the medicine wore off very quickly. He didn't know which rat had stolen it.
It was after hearing this conversation that Li Xian suddenly became suspicious.
"Lord Sun."
Li Xian said a little awkwardly: "When I went back, I specifically asked Wang Ergou about it. The herb that was inexplicably reduced in his pharmacy was not only this one, but also several other herbs that are commonly used to treat injuries."
At this point, he looked up at Sun Shaozong's face, then pursed his lips carefully and said, "My home is near Qingxu Temple. Some time ago, someone was arrested and killed, and blood flowed like a river. I also heard a few people mention it, so I wondered if there was any connection between this and others."
This person is really different from others!
When I was twelve years old, I seemed to be still addicted to arcade games. How could I have such meticulous ability?
When Sun Shaozong heard this, he was already full of admiration in his heart, but he asked calmly, "Why do you think so?"
Li Xian had obviously prepared a response in advance. When he heard Sun Shaozong's question, he immediately answered, "That woman led people into the shop in the middle of the night without turning on the lights. It was obvious that she wanted to avoid being seen."
"But according to what Wang Ergou said, the owner of the medicine shop was resting in the house at the time and did not go out. This is a bit strange. When the woman came out of the house in the middle of the night, wasn't she afraid of disturbing her husband?"
"This obviously doesn't make sense!"
"So the student thought, maybe the woman brought the outsider in not to do anything dirty, but to take a look and give him the medicinal herbs!"
"But if an ordinary person wants to take the medicinal herbs, why would he have to be so sneaky and covert?"
“So the students thought of the thieves who were fighting with the police!”
After he finished speaking, he looked at Sun Shaozong eagerly, trying to infer from Sun Shaozong's expression whether what he said would be approved by Sun Shaozong.
Sun Shaozong had a blank expression at first, but when Li Xian began to feel uneasy, he suddenly smiled at him and asked, "Li Xian, are you willing to be my disciple?"
Li Xian was stunned at first, then he quickly jumped up, knelt down in front of Sun Shaozong, and said loudly: "Master, please accept my greetings."
