There are five main entrances in the Grand View Garden. The barrel tiles and loach ridges above and the door and window partitions below are all finely carved with fresh patterns, but they are not painted with vermilion powder, which is a model of low-key and luxurious.
Sun Shaozong was chatting with Jia Baoyu on the white stone steps in front of the door. Seeing Jia Lian rushing in, thinking of the absurd behavior last night, it was inevitable that he felt a little embarrassed.
However, Jia Lian was calm, and when he got close, he fixed his eyes on Sun Shaozong, winked and said with a smile: "Those two little hooves didn't disappoint Erlang last night, did they?"
"Cough..."
Although Sun Shaozong is also cheeky, he still can't say the lines like 'You are a beautiful woman', especially in front of Jia Baoyu, so he can only vaguely say: "Second brother's kindness, little brother is ashamed. Got it."
Jia Baoyu next to him was confused and wondered: "What kind of riddles are the two brothers playing, did something strange happen last night?"
Yesterday at the Yihong Courtyard at noon, although Jia Lian had already forcibly sold a wave, but Jia Baoyu was already very drunk at that time, and he was reluctant to take the initiative to mention it after the incident, so he naturally had the slightest impression. No way.
Since Jia Lian took the initiative to mention the matter, he didn't mean to hide it from Baoyu, and immediately pursed his lips and smiled: "Of course it's peaceful..."
"cough!"
Sun Shaozong hurriedly coughed, interrupted his words, and urged, "Since everyone has arrived, let's sieve the garden quickly, so as not to cause a disturbance in your house."
Saying that, he took a sheathed single knife from Jiading's hand, hung it crookedly around his waist, and led the curious Jia brothers to take out more than a hundred famous Jiading, and they poured into the Grand View Garden in a mighty manner.
Most of these people, under the leadership of managers at all levels, will go to various places in the park to conduct carpet screening to confirm that the thieves are not lurking in the park.
A small number of people, under the leadership of Sun Shaozong, started their investigation from the bamboo forest where the thief was first discovered.
The book does not go into details.
However, he said that Sun Shaozong led the team to the bamboo forest next to the Fengyao Bridge, and first ordered the servants to surround the forest in general, and then took Jia Baoyu, who was in a state of excitement, and Jia Lian, who seemed to be unwell and always had a red face, and walked around the bamboo forest. Cut in circles.
"Second brother."
I thought it was Jia Lian who had no interest in solving the case first, but Jia Lian still followed silently on the sixth lap, but Jia Baoyu couldn't take it anymore.
I heard him urged: "Second brother Sun, didn't you say that those thieves put a map in the bamboo pavilion? Let's not go to the pavilion to see what it is, what's the use of going around in circles?"
"Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't."
Sun Shaozong said without turning his head: "But you have to check it before you know whether it's useful or not."
Jia Lian also said with a 'faceless' help: "You just follow along, why is there so much gossip
The two elder brothers had such an attitude, so Jia Baoyu had no choice but to calm down, imitating Sun Shaozong's style, and poking around randomly.
It was like this, until the ninth lap, when the three finally reached the open space deep in the jungle.
Seeing that the small pavilion was showing a shadowy figure, Jia Baoyu stretched his neck in a hurry, wishing he could step out of the jungle in one step, so as to see what traces the thief had left in the pavilion.
At this moment, Sun Shaozong suddenly stopped, and then slowly squatted in front of a weed.
"What? But what did you find?!"
Baoyu also regained his energy, and squatted side by side with Sun Shaozong in front of the weeds, his eyes widened and he carefully scanned.
"what?!"
Soon he let out a low cry, pointed to a piece of weed and said, "This seems to be a mark cut by a sharp tool!"
Indeed, the leaves of some of these weeds were obviously cut off by sharp blades.
Sun Shaozong picked up two broken leaves from the ground, carefully inspected the situation at the break, and after confirming that it was the trace left yesterday, he straightened up and looked around, looking thoughtful.
"Second brother Sun."
Jia Baoyu also got up and asked curiously like a baby, "Do these cut weeds have any special meaning?"
Sun Shaozong shook his head first, then nodded again, and under Jia Baoyu's inexplicable gaze, he took off the single sword from his waist, hunched over and pointed the blade at the weeds, and swiped sharply.
Then he frowned, looking at the swaying grass, and after a long while, he handed the knife to his left hand, and then he drew the gourd and slashed diagonally.
After observing this time, he finally hung the single knife back to his waist with satisfaction, and explained to Jia Baoyu, who was full of curiosity: "These cuts may not have any special meaning, but as long as you are willing to try to figure it out, you can still get a lot from them. useful information."
"For example, at least it can be determined now that one of the three thieves is left-handed. In addition, he was very emotional at the time, so he vented on these weeds, and he also slashed three times in a row."
Jia Baoyu suddenly realized: "No wonder the second brother has to change his left hand to hold a knife!"
Sun Shaozong turned serious and said, "But this information is not important. What's really important is that they didn't make a special trip to explore the way, but had some kind of special purpose."
"Where does this come from?"
Jia Baoyu wondered, "Could it be from these weeds?"
"That's right."
Sun Shaozong explained: "This place is relatively close to the Fengyao Bridge. Whether they are chasing you or escaping after the incident, they should never choose to leave in this direction - that is to say, this trace should be left before they are alerted by you. has been left."
"If you were a thief trying to make money, you went all the way to the vicinity of Yihong Courtyard, and found that a garden in Nuoda was unguarded, full of valuable treasures, young and beautiful women - you would have a leisurely heart in the woods. , take these weeds to vent your emotions?"
Jia Baoyu thought about it carefully and shook his head vigorously.
"So, I guess they sneaked into the garden for other purposes, but they went around looking for this place, but failed to achieve their goals, so a certain thief would lose control of his emotions for a while."
Hearing this, Jia Baoyu's eyes were filled with admiration, and he couldn't help but ask, "Then what is their purpose?"
"You think I'm a fairy?"
Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand and punched him on the shoulder, and said angrily, "With just such a tiny trace, how could I possibly analyze what their purpose is?"
After speaking, he turned his head and took a step forward again, greeting with his mouth: "Let's go, let's see if there are other discoveries.
Jia Baoyu answered with a crisp voice, and quickly followed suit, but this time, it was not a blind fumble, but a serious search for evidence - but he didn't see it. When Sun Shaozong was on the road again, the flash in his eyes flashed Natural color.
Although Jia Baoyu rallied, but in the next two laps, no clues were found.
Fortunately, the main event of the pavilion was just around the corner, so Jia Baoyu was not too frustrated, but jumped up to the bamboo pavilion excitedly, as if he had found a treasure, surrounded the mud and stones that were suspected to be a map, and looked over and over several times. .
This time, Sun Shaozong didn't follow him, but waited until Baoyu had seen enough, then stepped forward and asked, "How? Are these things piled up according to your home?"
Although he has been to this garden more than once, when it comes to familiarity, how can Sun Shaozong catch up with Jia Baoyu, who has been wandering in it all day long
"Um… "
Jia Baoyu hesitantly squatted in front of the 'map', stretched out his fingers to pick up some of the stones, put them aside for the time being, pointed to the remaining stones and said, "If you only look at this part, it will be the same as Qiushuangzhai and Nuanxiang. The layout near the dock and Daoxiang Village is similar, but there is a lotus flower in the middle."
Sun Shaozong immediately asked, "If we follow the above pattern, where should the Ouxiang Pavilion be?"
Jia Baoyu's finger was between several stones, and he drew back and forth twice, pointed at one of the open spaces with certainty, and said, "According to the spacing of the pattern, it should be near here!"
Without saying a word, Sun Shaozong immediately crawls to the ground, carefully closes his eyes to the open space, and after repeated inspection for a long time, finally found two scratches thinner than a hair.
He used a stone to outline the two scratches, and then made a virtual circle, and found that the range was not far from the place Jia Baoyu had just pointed, so he got up from the ground, patted the dust on his body, and said: " It looks like there should have been a pebble in this place, but it was accidentally messed up by me—or by those thieves on purpose."
While talking, there were suddenly two more hands in front of him, but Jia Lian came up to help pat the dust diligently.
Although Sun Shaozong felt a little awkward, he was embarrassed to reject Jia Lian's kindness - especially since he was still begging Jia Lian.
He heard Jia Baoyu frown and said: "Looking at the number of stones on the ground, the thief is afraid that he has already figured out the terrain inside and outside the garden."
"This… "
"Second Master, Second Master Lian!"
Sun Shaozong was waiting to talk, when a family hurried in from outside, he said in a panic, "It's amazing! The ancestor said that he was going to take that grandma Liu to the garden, and now he has led people to the Grand View Garden, the second grandmother. It's not easy to stop you and your wives, what do you think?!"
Jia Lian just reluctantly retracted her hand, and when she heard this, her complexion changed greatly, and she stomped her feet in a hurry: "How can this be made?! Now the mountains and plains are searching, if the old lady sees it, how can you hide it? live?"
Because Mother Jia saw the stables on fire yesterday, she was already frightened, so no one dared to mention the thief in Daguan Garden at night.
Seeing that Jia Lian was in a hurry, Sun Shaozong reluctantly patted Jia Baoyu on the shoulder and said, "It seems that it's time for you to step in again, no matter whether you're being good and foolish or being pitiful, in short, hold off the old lady first, at least until the search engine. Complete the whole garden, and let the maids and mother-in-laws go back to their respective homes."
Thanks to the book friends 'Reading every night reading, Tianya Mingyue fell to people, Ao Xinghui, Su Huanhuan 12, Huang Shaolong' for their rewards.