The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

Chapter 43: Strength of Character

The feudal society also has its advantages. For example, when Sun Shaozong was the Captain of the Criminal Police Department, he was scolded by the media for his ”deliberately mystifying tactics!”

But at present, such a simple and crude method with no technical content has been unanimously praised by the Yamen guards and the onlookers. Especially Jiang Laoqi, who praised him with flattering words like having ”clever strategy and shrewd tactics” and that he can ”solve a case like a God,” it was almost flattering that his butt was going to be sore.

Naturally, it was time for the truth to be revealed.

Just as Sun Shaozong inferred, when Xu Gensheng came to the door, Zhang Erhu was sharpening his knife under the tree. They quarreled in a few words. Zhang Erhu pushed Xu Gensheng and he staggered back and fell next to the sharpening stone.

Seeing that Zhang Erhu was catching up to fight, a moment of anger swept through Xu Gensheng's mind. When he was exasperated to the extreme, he started to stab him with a kitchen knife.

Zhang Erhu immediately screamed and fell to the ground. At that time, he was out of breath.

Seeing this, Xu Gensheng was also flustered. He hurried back to his yard. Later, he pretended to be a spectator and joined the team of invading the culprit in the pig cages. This was nothing new, but the reason for his conflict with Zhang Erhu makes people sob.

It turned out that Xu Gensheng had always been secretly in love with Li. When he heard that she was beaten by Zhang Erhu, in his heart, there was like a knife piercing him. He wished he could replace her with his body.

In the past few days, Xu Gensheng indistinctly heard that Li was beaten and scolded by Zhang Erhu again. Xu Gensheng finally couldn't help coming to fight against injustice. He patted his chest and assured Zhang Erhu that all the rumors about Li were just rumors and gossip from the neighbor’s women, and there was absolutely no factual basis.

However, Xu Gensheng's impulsiveness made Zhang Erhu suspicious. He suspected that he was the man who had an affair with his wife. Therefore, he fought against him, which led to the tragedy later.

After giving an account of the cause and effect, Xu Gensheng knew that he could not escape the blame and spoke more openly. He stubbed his neck and shouted at Zhang Dalong and his wife, "I'm not afraid to tell the truth now. I've been staring at Xiujuan [Li's name] all day for more than half a year. If she gets loose, no one else can do it! She is a person who sticks to her chastity. She did not do anything improper. It's all the rumor and gossip of you people making groundless accusations, which has tainted her good reputation!"

Zhang Dalong and his wife were speechless. Li listened to them, but her heart was still in turmoil, and unable to calm down for a long time. She probably never thought that the word ”innocence’ she cared about most would come from the mouth of the enemy who killed her husband!

For a time, the yard was full of sighs.

Only Sun Shaozong was indifferent. It's not that he was hard-hearted, but it was that he has seen too many human tragedies. Naturally, his psychological endurance was far from that of ordinary people.

However, he was still silent for a moment. After the people had gathered up their emotions, he then stood up, calmly brushed off the dust from his body, and said in a rusty voice, "Leader Jiang, I’ll go ahead now. I’ll leave the case to Wanping County to settle it."

With that, he pulled up Ruan Rong and walked out.

In less than half a month after he took up the position, he had already solved a naked body case. Even if he made another contribution now, it would just be icing on the cake. It would be impossible to get another promotion in a short time. Instead of giving this contribution to the Minister of the Department Liu, he might as well give it to Wanping County as a favor that caused him nothing. Anyway, so many people have seen it, and no one will be able to cover his reputation.

Jiang Laoqi and the others were dumbfounded when they heard what he said. These days, they were used to seeing superiors who steal credit from others. They haven't seen such a boss who didn’t took credit seriously or even give it away!

On second thought, it was this extraordinary character that has lived up to the name of the ”Divine Judgement Assistant Prefectural Magistrate Sun!”

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—Dividing Line—

Sun Shaozong, got into the carriage surrounded by the Yamen guards and the citizens. Even after the carriage ran out more than half of the street, he still saw that hundreds of people were looking forward to seeing him off. He was feeling some complacency, but he saw that Ruan Rong was in a trance and seemed to be still immersed in the case just now.

So Sun Shaozong hurriedly took her into his arms. He also took advantage of the situation to hook up her small head with picturesque eyebrows and eyes. He asked in a relatively soft voice, "What's the matter? Are you still thinking about the case of Xu Gensheng?"

Ruan Rong nodded silently, hesitated for a while, and then said, "I always feel that Xu Gensheng is a pity. If he and Li form a pair, they will certainly be a loving couple. It's a pity that God has made fools of people. In the end, he ended up like this."

Loving couple?

It's hard to say. As the saying goes, “A wife is not as good as a concubine, a concubine is not as good as a mistress, and a mistress is not as good as unable to take down a lady.” Maybe if Xu Gensheng got married to Li, he would begin to miss Lady Wang or Lady Zhang.

However, it's better not to say such a wet blanket in front of women.

Therefore, Sun Shaozong followed Ruan Rong's tone and sighed lightly, "What a pity! After all, he has injured human life and violated the law. This law does not speak of human feelings."

Seeing Ruan Rong's face darken for a few minutes, he suddenly said with a laugh, "However, if you become someone else's wife, I will certainly kill the husband and take his wife, who cares about the Emperor's order or whatever law. At that time, even if the Heavenly King wants to stop me, I will only care about killing him and disregard burying him!"

Ruan Rong was both delighted and moved when she heard these direct love words. She had already thrown away the little sadness at the bottom of her heart.

When they returned to the mansion, Ruan Rong was eager to show her feelings with her whole body, eagerly and attentively. She practiced the moves, such as the sexual positions of the female being on top and the male being at the bottom, several times with Sun Shaozong. Only in the middle of the night did she fall asleep spooned in Sun Shaozong’s arms.

The next morning, he heard from his family that Cheng Rixing, who had been here once last night, came to the door again in the morning. Sun Shaozong remembered that there was still a private adviser matter.

So he hurriedly asked people to call Cheng Rixing to the side hall. After a long investigation, Cheng Rixing was barely able to pass the test until he was sweating hard.

When he was admitted, he saw that the Lantern Festival had already started vigorously. Sun Shaozong immediately took Ruan Rong out of the house and they played happily at the Lantern Festival for two days.

They had gathered half a cart of those kinds of lanterns, adorned with a revolving circle of paper horses, and the Lotus Lantern back. In particular, on the 16th day of the first month, they bought two palace lanterns. The picture on it was ”Divine Judgement Assistant Prefectural Magistrate Sun breaks the naked corpse case in wisdom,’ which made Sun Shaozong proud again.

It was a pity that the figures on the portrait were too ugly, with leopard heads and black eyes, just like Zhang Fei's resurrection and better than Li Kui's reincarnation. Therefore, Ruan Rong was making fun of him.

Under Sun Shaozong's ”becoming angry from embarrassment,” he had to do something in the middle of the night again and again. He didn't rest for an hour until about four o'clock. Then he hurried to the official office. Jia Yucun took over his position on the seventeenth day of the first month. As an important party member of Prefectural Magistrate Jia, he naturally had to rush to support him in advance.

However, it's just a matter of supporting people. No one dares to offend a powerful person or do something risky because of Jia Yucun's status.

After Jia Yucun successfully took the position, Sun Shaozong worked in the Yamen for several days, during which he made a mistake and broke a murder case disguised as committing suicide by jumping into a well.

Because he captured the real murderer in half a day, his name, ”Divine Judgement” has become more and more famous, and his position in the Central Judicial Office has become more and more stable. No one dared provoke him easily except County Magistrate Lin Delu, who was still speaking bluntly to him.

It was so calm until the 29th day of the month, when someone suddenly came to the door and sent an invitation. It was the Great Conquering General Feng Tang's Yamen who invited Sun Shaozong to go to the Baihua Restaurant for a banquet at noon tomorrow.