Chapter 79: Eating Watermelons and Asking Questions
Sun Shaozong was struggling with his conscience, wondering whether to ask Jia Lan for some "details", when he heard Jia Huan and Jia Yin shouting outside the door: "Teacher, we have prepared the watermelons. Should we put them on the stone table in the corridor or send them to the training room?"
"Put it outside."
Sun Shaozong responded casually, and then waved his hand at the two young men on the stage who had been hooked by the word "watermelon", and said, "Pause for a moment, those who want to eat watermelon can go outside and get it."
All the young men and boys cheered when they heard this, but no one dared to rush out. Instead, they all cast their eyes on Jia Baoyu. It was not until Baoyu was the first to go outside and get three pieces of watermelon that everyone rushed out.
This was because these dozen or so young men and boys were either Baoyu's cousins or his nephews, and were much inferior to him in both status and age. Therefore, they always took him as their leader in everything and did not dare to compete for the first place.
Sun Shaozong privately speculated that this situation should be intentional by the Jia family, and the purpose is nothing more than to cultivate Jia Baoyu's ability to lead others.
But the actual effect...
Let’s not talk about it.
"Brother Sun."
Jia Baoyu handed the watermelon to Sun Shaozong and Jia Lan respectively, and then asked with a shameless face: " Have you found any clues about the recent 'Jishuitan corpse case'? I heard that this matter is so big that even the emperor was alarmed!"
At that time, he was frightened by Zhineng'er's head and fell seriously ill. It took him more than two months to recover. At that time, everyone in the Jia family was frightened, especially Grandmother Jia, Mrs. Wang and Lin Daiyu. I don't know how many gold beans they dropped for this. If you put them together, it would be enough for a bath.
However, after this incident, Jia Baoyu suddenly became much braver and became even more fascinated by criminal detective stories. Not only would he try to pester Sun Shaozong whenever he came to his house, he also privately bought many legendary novels such as Bao Gong's Cases and Di Gong's Cases.
Sun Shaozong casually put the watermelon on the coffee table and continued to drink sour plum soup while lazily saying, "The body has already turned into bones, and the elephant kicked away a lot of bones in the panic. Until now, it has not been put together. How can it be so ?"
Talking about the discovery process of this "drenched body case", it was really dramatic.
Because the weather has been extremely hot and humid recently, the eunuchs in the palace followed their usual practice and brought the elephants that were tributed by the six southern Xinjiang states to the Jishuitan area to bathe and cool off.
A few days ago in the evening, a male elephant refused to come ashore, probably because it was enjoying the water so much. The more the herder threatened and tempted it, the deeper it ran. As a result, somehow, a human skeleton emerged from the bottom of the water!
Uh~
To be precise, it should be most of the body, because a considerable part of the bones were kicked away somewhere by the elephant.
In Sun Shaozong's opinion, there was nothing to be surprised about. The capital was densely populated , there were at least more than a dozen people who died in the water.
But people these days are very superstitious and love to make up all kinds of stories about gods and ghosts.
Within three days, the story of "No one cared about the injustice at the bottom of the pond, but the white elephant came from the east to resolve the injustice" spread throughout the streets and alleys. Later, even the emperor was alarmed and assigned the male elephant a good job of "guarding the Dali Temple".
Now, in order to entertain this garrisoning 'big man', the Dali Temple is working overtime to build an elephant house - the highest judicial institution in the country is being made like a wildlife park, which is really speechless.
Hearing that there was still no clue about the 'Jishuitan corpse case', Jia Baoyu was not discouraged. He first took out a small notebook from his sleeve and carefully took notes. Then he asked: "What about the 'divine bird disappearance case' that happened in the suburbs? Is there any clue in Daxing County?"
This "missing divine bird case" naturally does not refer to the loss of a bird, but because the person who reported the case claimed that his wife was kidnapped by a huge divine bird.
"That case."
Sun Shaozong said, "The county magistrate reported the incident to the government yesterday, so I went to investigate the scene myself. Now I have a preliminary suspicion that the woman must have fled with her adulterer. As for the strange bird, it's probably just something the reporter made up to save face."
"how so?!"
This time Jia Baoyu could not remain calm, and muttered in frustration: "I always thought that the reporter had killed his wife and hid the body!"
Sun Shaozong rolled his eyes at him and said speechlessly: "How can there be so many cases of hiding corpses in this world? Besides, can't you hope for the best for others?"
Jia Baoyu reluctantly recorded the result in his notebook and asked, "What about the incident in South City..."
"I say, are you done yet?"
Sun Shaozong poured the sour plum soup on the table and said unhappily, "I 'm busy with cases in Shuntian Prefecture all day, and I finally have a day off. Can't you let me, your brother, have some peace and quiet? You bought a lot of "storybooks" about solving cases, right? Finish reading them first!"
Seeing him frowning and glaring, Jia Baoyu was not afraid. He just smiled and said, "Brother, these are all real cases. How can they be compared with those fabricated stories? Besides..."
He looked at Jia Lan with a red face, and whispered in Sun Shaozong's ear: "Besides, the 'storybooks' are openly about solving cases, but secretly they are about the affairs of men and women - the day before yesterday I received a copy of 'Strange Cases', and it turned out to be full of disgusting words, and even specially accompanied by embroidered pictures!"
Although Jia Baoyu is still young, he has probably slept with more beautiful girls than Sun Shaozong in his two lifetimes combined The little imperial book that makes him blush when he mentions it must have quite...
Sun Shaozong's face suddenly darkened and he scolded, "How can you read such things at such a young age? If your uncle finds out, he will expose your skin!"
Jia Baoyu was frightened by him and thought he was going to tell trolls on Jia Zheng, so he hurriedly tried to beg him.
Unexpectedly, Sun Shaozong changed the subject and continued, "Give them all here in a while, and I'll take them back and destroy them for you, so as to avoid any trouble!"
Baoyu was speechless for a while, but finally asked Mingyan to take the book and hand it to Sun Shaozong.
Sun Shaozong flipped through the book with the help of his "Urine Escape" and saw that it was indeed rich in pictures and texts, and even had some cross-species communication. He became more and more "annoyed".
So he returned to the practice room and announced that today's practice would end early. Then he prepared to go home and carefully destroy these spiritual opium to avoid poisoning the innocent young men in the Jia family who "started eating meat at the age of ten" and "raped girls at the age of twelve".
Unexpectedly, just as he reached the aisle between the two gates, two people jumped out from the side and sandwiched him on the left and right!
