Chapter 644: Trouble from Sleeping
With Sun Shaozong's current power and fame, there won't be any unexpected problems at the welcoming banquet in the evening.
Under the personal leadership of Wei Yi, the Minister of Dali Temple, the meeting could be described as united, tense, serious and lively.
However, after the wine was drunk and everyone left, Sun Shaozong's evaluation was "holding a position without doing any work".
As the institution that oversees all the criminal cases in the country and the only one of the Three Judicial Departments with independent trial power, the Dali Temple currently does not live up to its reputation.
The root cause is that the subjective initiative of top leaders is too poor.
Needless to say, Li Wenshan is an expert at picking out sentences to decide the severity of sentences, but asking him to do anything else would be too much to ask.
Liu Fang, who has already resigned from his post, is a typical son of the rich and powerful. He is ambitious but incompetent, and always wants to make a big news to shock the public. But in fact, he can't even recognize the clerks in the government office.
As for this old fellow Wei Yi, he has never been able to take responsibility. He would never sacrifice his personal interests for the sake of his official duties and do tasks that would offend others.
Controlled by these three people, one can imagine the passivity and decadence of the Dali Temple.
In recent years, the Dali Temple has seldom taken the initiative, and all the cases it has tried have been handled by the upper and lower branches.
But how many cases are assigned by higher authorities in a year?
And if local officials reported difficult and complicated cases, it would inevitably affect the court's evaluation of them - who would be willing to tarnish their own political achievements?
In addition, the difficulty of appealing to higher authorities in ancient times was much greater than it is today, so even if there were suspicious cases, unjust cases or wrong cases, they would often be covered up by the local authorities and would never be reported to the Dali Temple.
As a result, the number of cases handled in a year by the Dali Temple, which was responsible for overseeing all the criminal cases in the country, was not even as many as those handled by some large provincial governments.
If this continues, the Dali Temple's presence in the Three Law Courts will probably become lower and lower, and may even completely destroy the checks and balances effect of the Three Law Courts.
This time, the court appointed Sun Shaozong as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, hoping that his youth, strength and enterprising spirit would effectively improve this situation.
However……
The enterprising reformists in officialdom are bound to offend people.
Thinking carefully along the way.
Arriving at the mansion, Sun Shaozong got off the carriage and was about to follow the long corridor back to his own courtyard to wash up and rest, when he saw Zhao Zhongji hurriedly coming up to him and said happily: "Second Master, you are finally back!"
From the sound of it, it seems like he has encountered some difficulties.
"What's the matter?"
Sun Shaozong asked suspiciously, "Could there be an accident in the mansion?"
"It's not really an accident..."
The joy on Zhao Zhongji's face faded a little, but he showed some hesitation again. He opened his mouth three times before finally uttering a complete sentence: "It's Master Huan San from Rongguo Mansion. He is now making trouble in the eldest wife's courtyard."
It turned out that Jia Huan had heard the news of Caixia's loss of virginity from somewhere, and he ran to the Sun Mansion late at night to seek an explanation.
According to him, Caixia was prepared for him by Jia Zheng and was originally to be kept in the house in a few years. But now, she was snatched away by Sun Shaozong. This was intolerable and he would not give up until justice was served.
Although he is not welcome in Rongguo Mansion, he is also a Jia after all. Now he is making trouble and making unreasonable demands. Others are afraid of the consequences and cannot take forceful measures.
Jia Yingchun, the only person qualified to deal with him, was a weak and submissive person, so for a while no one could control Jia Huan.
But when Sun Shaozong heard the whole story, his face darkened. He ordered Zhao Zhongji to call a few servants and went straight to the back house.
When they got closer, they saw Si Qi standing guard outside the courtyard gate with a stern look in his eyes. There were a few maids peeking around, but no one dared to approach.
Sun Shaozong strode forward and said in a deep voice, "Go in and tell them that I need to see my sister-in-law for something."
Although no one knows how many times they have slept together in private, they are uncle and sister-in-law after all, so they still have to observe the etiquette.
However, Si Qi did not go in to report, but stepped aside to make way and said, "Madam has ordered that if the Second Master returns home after the court session, please come in and talk."
Since Jia Yingchun had already given instructions, Sun Shaozong went straight into the courtyard.
He hurried to the door of the main hall and heard Jia Huan shouting and cursing in a hoarse voice: "Listen, listen! Caixia also said that she is obsessed with me! If it weren't for Sun Shaozong forcing a good woman into prostitution..."
When it came to the words "forcing women of good character into prostitution", someone probably objected a few times, causing Jia Huan's voice to suddenly stop.
But soon, this guy started to yell again: "Don't tell me this! Now I know that you, the elder sister-in-law and the younger brother-in-law, are of the same mind. How can you not care about me as your younger brother?!"
This was unpleasant to hear in the first place, not to mention that Sun Shaozong and Jia Yingchun were really having an affair.
He couldn't help but stepped into the house and sneered, "Then tell me, who in Rongguo Mansion would value someone like you who has all five poisons?!"
This appearance caused the room to fall into complete silence.
Sun Shaozong took the opportunity to take in the situation in the room, and saw Jia Yingchun, protected by Yuanyang and Xiu Ju, standing not far from the door of the inner room.
She was originally flustered, but when she saw Sun Shaozong coming in from outside, she immediately showed joy. She subconsciously took half a step forward, but suddenly came to her senses and quickly retracted her foot. She just looked at him with a pair of big watery eyes full of anticipation.
Jia Huan was standing in the middle, with Caixia, who was looking at him with tears in her eyes, beside him.
Seeing Sun Shaozong rushing in with a ferocious appearance, he shrank back two steps, his eyes wandering downwards.
But then he suddenly remembered something, he gritted his teeth, sat down on the ground, stamped his feet and beat his chest and cried:
"God damn Sun Er! It's fine that you bully me, but you actually want to bully my woman! I... I'm not done with you today! If you have the guts, kill me in front of my sister. If you can't kill me, you have to take my last name from now on!"
Everyone present here, no one, has ever seen a young man from a wealthy family behave like this.
They were all stunned for a moment.
Only Caixia, the lover, sees beauty in everything. She thinks her lover is willing to sacrifice his reputation for her and is a hundred times better than those hypocrites.
Just as he was about to go forward to comfort him, he was unexpectedly pushed by Jia Huan and stumbled.
"Get out of here! Let him come and kill me, come and kill me! Anyway, I'm cuckolded, and I can't vent my resentment. Sooner or later, I'll die of depression!"
Jia Huan cursed and swung his body around like a fan.
Seeing that he was like a cannon sitting on the ground and was becoming less and less human, Sun Shaozong suddenly frowned and walked in front of Jia Huan.
"You...you you what are you going to do?!"
Jia Huan was immediately horrified and crawled to hide behind Caixia. Then he thought it was not safe enough, so he pulled Caixia and went straight to Jia Yingchun.
It's a pity that such a guy was born with such a good appearance!
Sun Shaozong secretly complained in his heart, but said calmly: "Tell me, how much taels of silver do you want."
It was okay for the women in this room, but Sun Shaozong was used to seeing ruffians and had long seen that this guy had ulterior motives.
Thinking back to how he had begged Caixia for help in borrowing money a few days ago, how could Sun Shaozong not understand?
But Jia Huan's worries were exposed, and he couldn't help but blurt out, "Two hundred... No! At least three hundred taels of silver, otherwise this matter will never be over!"
As soon as these words came out, Sun Shaozong couldn't help laughing, and then raised his hand and ordered: "Throw this guy out, and never let him step into our house again!"
A few maids were still hesitant, but after he glared at them, they rushed forward and grabbed Jia Huan, dragging him out.
How could Jia Huan have imagined that he would change his attitude faster than turning the pages of a book?
He was stunned for a moment, then struggled hard, cursing: "Sun Er, Sun Er! How dare you ... How dare you play tricks on me? I'm going to sue you for forcing a decent woman to death! I'm going to sue you..."
Sun Shaozong ignored her until he was driven out of the courtyard. Then he bowed to Jia Yingchun and said, "Sister-in-law, please go back to your parents' home tomorrow and talk to the old lady and Madam Wang about how Jia Huan came to extort money but failed and is trying to falsely accuse me."
If Jia Huan only talked about love between men and women, it would make people a little cautious, but now that his true purpose has been exposed, even his reasonableness becomes unreasonable.
Especially since Sun Shaozong is now on the rise and has always been on good terms with the Rongguo Mansion, the old lady and Mrs. Wang in the mansion will not allow him to continue to act recklessly unless they have serious problems.
After Jia Yingchun responded, Sun Shaozong glanced at Caixia again. Seeing her distraught look, he could not help but sneered, "Someone, send this bastard to the woodshed. If she still can't figure it out after being locked up for a few days, kick her out of the house!"
