Although the kidnappers did not follow the rules, Ma Chunfeng did not dare to break the rules of the kidnappers.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong was not good at assembling a large group, so he only found Qiu Yunfei and Zhao Wuwei in private, joined Ma Chunfeng and Fu Shi, and quietly left the mansion's back door.
Along the way, Sun Shaozong naturally would not waste time in vain. He rode the same car with Ma Chunfeng and carefully cross-examined the incident.
But he said that two days ago, on March 25th, Ma Yingjue, the eldest young master of the Ma family, took his wife and concubines out of the city from the north gate early in the morning for an outing.
They didn't go to any scenic spots, they only played under a small hillside.
It was probably the lamb shank roasted by Ma Yingjue himself at Xiangwu. It was half-baked. In the afternoon, he had an upset stomach. He went to the grass for convenience four or five times in a row, but the situation still could not be relieved.
When he got into the bushes again for convenience, everyone didn't care - who would have known that after a long time, they found that he had disappeared so silently.
At the beginning of the night at [9:00 pm] last night, someone wrapped a stone with a note and threw it into the Mafu across the wall. The servants picked it up and hurriedly presented it to Ma Chunfeng.
After reading the contents of the note, Ma Chunfeng finally determined that his son was tied up by a group of strong men.
Because it was only asking for 500 taels of silver, it was nothing to the Ma family, so Ma Chunfeng did not report the case, but quietly sent the silver to the designated place—a vacant donkey outside the city gate. in the car.
After putting the money on it, the housekeeper in charge of delivering the money whipped a few whips on the ass of the donkey and let it run wild with its hooves.
Having said that, Ma Chunfeng smiled bitterly: "I originally wanted to send someone to secretly follow the donkey cart, so that I could follow the vines and find the strongman who kidnapped Jue'er—who would have thought that the person sent to follow him all the way and found that the donkey was looking for a piece of vegetable field. , they refused to move their nests.”
"Those few rubbish felt wrong, and they checked carefully in front of the car, only to find that the silver on the cab had long since disappeared."
Since the plan to track the donkey cart had failed, Ma Chunfeng naturally had to hope that the kidnappers would take the money and release his son as promised.
Who would have waited until the second half of the night, still no movement!
Ma Chunfeng was so flustered that he thought of letting Fu Shi build a bridge and asking the famous Sun Shaozong to investigate.
However, Sun Shaozong heard Ma Chunfeng's general passage, and before he could figure it out, the carriage stopped near the Ma's house.
Then Ma Chunfeng led the crowd around the backyard, and specially picked a side door that was not often used to enter, so as to avoid the eyes and ears of the servants at home.
After entering the door, it is naturally the same remote path.
Unexpectedly, Ma Chunfeng was leading the way, and suddenly, behind the rockery, he bumped into a woman with a thin spring shirt!
But seeing that this woman is in her early twenties, tall and slender, with a little makeup on, her appearance is still bright and charming, but her mouth is slightly larger, and she is surprised that the O-shaped large Zhang, then immediately lost three points of color.
She was taken aback here, but Ma Chunfeng's expression became more complicated, as if he wanted to be angry, but he was shy, and finally he just squeezed a sentence from his teeth and asked: "You... What are you doing here?!"
"Son... daughter-in-law..."
As soon as the woman spoke hesitantly, Sun Shaozong understood why Ma Chunfeng was in trouble - but it turned out that this woman was Ma Chunfeng's daughter-in-law and Fu Shi's sister.
Fu Shi's expression was also a little unsightly. After all, the life and death of the brother-in-law was unknown at the moment, but the younger sister was dressed up and came to this place alone...
No matter how you think about it, this doesn't seem like a serious road!
Therefore, Fu Shi immediately stepped forward and scolded: "What time is it, why are you still making trouble here? Why don't you go back to your own room - wait a minute, and I will share with you today's affairs for my brother!"
As if receiving an amnesty, the Ma Fu family blessed father-in-law and elder brother, turned around and stepped forward with two thin legs and waited for him.
"Wait a minute!"
However, Sun Shaozong hurriedly stopped her, and explained to Ma Chunfeng who was beside him: "Young Master's situation, the young lady should be most familiar with, since it has happened by chance, why don't you ask the young lady to go and see the details and see if there is anything. What an omission."
Although Ma Chunfeng felt that his daughter-in-law's actions just now were suspected of immorality, but he listened to Sun Shaozong's reasoning and thought about his son's life, so he ordered Ma Fu to go to his own small study with everyone. .
When he got to the study, Ma Chunfeng took a few steps, took out a small box of red sandalwood from the interlayer of the bookcase, squeezed out a four-finger-wide note from it, and carefully handed it to Sun Shaozong.
"Master Sun, this is the note that the strongmen threw in at around 10:00 the night before yesterday."
Sun Shaozong took it in his hand and opened it to take a closer look, but saw a lot of teeny small characters written crookedly on it. At a glance, he knew that it was written by someone with a foundation in calligraphy, and he deliberately wrote it with non-habitual handwriting.
As for the content above, just like what Ma Chunfeng said before, he first revealed the identity of the kidnappers, then deterred the Ma family from reporting the case, and finally proposed the amount of ransom and the method of delivery.
Looking at the choice of words and sentences, it seems to be quite literary.
Sun Shaozong carefully observed the note to the sun, and then leaned closer to smell the ink. Although it took a little longer, it was undoubtedly the cheapest stinky ink.
As for writing paper...
Sun Shaozong carefully tore off a small strip at the edge and handed it to Fu Shi: "Fu Tongjuan, try to write a few words on it and see."
Although Fu Shi didn't know why, he had been in Shuntian Mansion for a long time, and even if he didn't deal with Sun Shaozong, he knew that he was capable of solving cases.
So I didn't think much about it, so I took the pen, ink, paper and inkstone by myself. After researching the ink, I was full of the pen. I held my breath and put up my posture, hanging my wrist on the paper, just like everyone's atmosphere.
only…
As soon as the pen tip fell on the paper, the ink dyed the thin strip of paper black!
Fu Shi was a little dumbfounded at the time, and with this stunned effort, the rest of the notes turned black.
"Pfft~!"
Others are concerned about his face and have to barely hold back their smiles, but why does Qiu Yunfei care about this
Zao po chi ~ with a laugh, he leaned forward and back together, patted the table and said, "Fu Tongjuan, your posture is really incredible!"
Fu Shi's face turned red, but he didn't dare to argue with Qiu Yunfei, so he could only explain awkwardly: "This paper is really... it's really bad."
Qiu Yunfei snorted and said, "Then how could the kidnappers be able to write so many petty words? Could it be that you were born in these two ranks, and you are not as strong as a kidnapper?"
Fu Shi was speechless for a while.
However, Sun Shaozong shook his head and said, "It's not that Fu Tong's judgment is not good enough, it's that the kidnapper is used to writing on this kind of bad paper."
When Fu Shi heard that he actually explained it for himself, he felt a little consolation in his heart. He felt that this warrior was not completely useless, at least he was just and upright.
Qiu Yunfei has been really good recently. Hearing Sun Shaozong point out this information, he rolled his eyes and suddenly said: "So, there must be a poor scholar among the kidnappers!"
"good."
Sun Shaozong shook the note and said, "Since writing with the left hand can be so neat and smooth, it shouldn't be difficult to get the name of a scholar."
"But he was accustomed to using inferior pen, ink, and paper, and obviously failed to gain fame."
As the saying goes, 'the poor are talented, the rich are juren', not only because Juren can directly become an official, but also because Juren has a quota of 100 mu of fertile land under the name of Juren, and does not need to pay taxes to the court.
Therefore, as long as the person is selected, there will be a voluntary slave with his family and family, just to avoid the suffering of taxation.
Having said that, Sun Shaozong suddenly changed the subject and said sternly: "But these are not the most important for the time being. What I want to know the most is why Ma Yingjue wants to go out for an outing!"
Why go out for an outing
This question made everyone present feel a little inexplicable. This outing is an outing, so why is there any 'why'
Ma Chunfeng asked suspiciously, "I don't know what Master Sun means?"
"Out of the blue, it is natural to find a day when spring flowers bloom." Sun Shaozong sneered: "But it was a cloudy day on the 25th, and the temperature outside was very low, so it is not suitable for a spring outing at all!"
He has personal experience of temperature.
Thanks to the book friend 'The Leaf of EVE' for the tip.