Chapter 154: Rongguo Mansion Corruption Incident [M]
"Second brother!"
Sun Shaozong was observing Jia Baoyu's situation, and Xue Pan came up again, and whispered: "Why do I look at Brother Bao, there is still something wrong?" He wasn't like that when his sisters were there. ”
Even this product can be seen, which shows that Sun Shaozong's feeling is not wrong.
He took a few steps forward and said, "Take the food down, I haven't eaten for the past two days and nights, and if I eat too much, I can't restrain my stomach." ”
Those maids and mothers-in-law were actually worried about it a long time ago, but they didn't dare to stop it for fear of angering Jia Baoyu and causing something to happen.
At this time, he heard someone speak, so he tentatively stepped forward to grab those meals, and saw that Baoyu had no intention of stopping him, so he hurriedly served them down.
said that when Jia Baoyu heard Sun Shaozong's voice, he was shocked at first, looked up hopefully, and opened his mouth to greet him.
But then, he didn't know what he remembered, and a little tangled and cringe faintly appeared on his face, and he snorted for a while, and only shouted resignedly: "Second brother." ”
Seeing this, Sun Shaozong was even more puzzled.
Chong Xue Pan gave him a look, but who knew that this product was staring at it with wide eyes, and his face was unknown.
Helpless, he could only instruct again: "Brother Baoyu and I have something to say, you guys go down first." ”
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Xue Pan reacted at this time, and hurriedly scolded like a fly: "Hurry up and get out of the way for Lao Tzu, don't delay our brother to speak!" ”
After all, he is a young master, and he has always been known for being arrogant, and the maids hesitated for a moment, and then they all hurried out of the house.
Sun Shaozong pulled over a spring stool, sat opposite Jia Baoyu, and said with a smile: "Tell me, what have you found out these days, and what are you going to die or live?" ”
After a pause, he added: "Your family has made such a big commotion, you can't hide it if you want to cover it up in the future, it's better to say it directly, and save everyone from listening to rumors later." ”
Jia Baoyu was reluctant to speak, but when he heard what he said, he had to frown and sigh: "In this way, this time our family is afraid that it will become the biggest laughing stock in the capital." ”
As he spoke, he told him all kinds of experiences in the past ten days.
But said that Jia Baoyu knew about the absurdity of 'one man and two families' that day, and was ordered by Lin Daiyu, and learned that the silver was actually greedy by the minions, so he was angry and vowed to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Because of the price list sent by Sun Shaozong and the method of how to distinguish the authenticity of the materials, Jia Baoyu investigated the case, and it was not a smear.
After only two or three days' work, he found out more than a dozen real hammers that filled his pockets!
And those who were caught on the feet of the horses were basically the side branch relatives of the Jia family.
Because these people rely on the identity of relatives, when they go up and down, Leng is more 'reasonable' than others, and naturally they don't bother to cover up anything.
Originally, according to Baoyu's temperament, he was going to poke this matter out at that time, and let the elders in the family know the faces of these people who are 'called relatives, but are actually moths'.
However, his idea was vetoed by Lin Daiyu, who served as an assistant, on the grounds that Sun Shaozong had no enmity with his relatives in Jiafu, and it stands to reason that he would not deliberately set up a situation to expose them.
Therefore, there must be something behind this that has not been found!
Besides, what was found was only more than 3,000 taels of silver, and it was less than 200 taels of silver to be distributed among each household—if it was for this little money, it would be necessary to turn against a dozen relatives, which seemed to be a bit unworthy.
Baoyu felt reasonable, so he discussed with Daiyu and decided, if there was anything else to find out, it would be fine, if only these people were involved, they would try to deal with it in a low-key manner.
After that, the two launched a more in-depth and detailed investigation.
Because of the previous experience, more corruption was found this time, including relatives of Jiafu and wealthy slaves.
The methods are more hidden than those before, and most of them collude with outside merchants to do shoddy and false prices.
And with the gradual deepening of the investigation, a big tiger is gradually revealed.
"I found out at the time that there were many things that filled my pockets, and in the end they all pointed to the housekeeper Wu Xindeng! At that time, I roughly counted the unexplained deficit difference on his body, not to mention 30,000 taels! ”
Wu Xindeng?
When Sun Shaozong heard this, he couldn't help frowning, and blurted out: "The slave who died in your house is this Wu Xindeng?" ”
"That's it!"
Baoyu said hatefully: "I had collected a lot of evidence at that time, and when I was about to expose him, he suddenly jumped into the well and committed suicide, and ...... And there will be a list, posted everywhere in the house! ”
"List? What list? ”
"A list of pocket-fillers!"
Jia Baoyu said, with mixed tastes on a baby's face.
But it turned out that on the list thrown out by Wu Xindeng, the first one to be exposed was Jia Lian and Wang Xifeng.
In addition, there are Jia's mother's cronies, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Xing's companions, Aunt Zhao's brother, Jia He's little servant, and Jia Zheng's Qingke......
There are all kinds of people, all of them are the closest people to the masters of the house, and the amount of silver involved is as high as hundreds of thousands of taels!
Now, it's really a stone that stirs up a thousand waves!
The guilty pleas, the aggrieved, the sensational, the embarrassed and angry......
Jia Lian even started a knife with Wang Xifeng, and Wang Xifeng, who was chasing after him, ran around - according to Jia Lian's own words, this was because Wang Xifeng borrowed his name to enrich his own pockets, so he was extremely resentful.
However, others privately believed that the conflict between his husband and wife must have arisen due to the uneven distribution of spoils.
In short, everywhere in this Rongguo Mansion, there was a big havoc in the Heavenly Palace at the same time!
Seeing this, Jia Baoyu was also blinded, and then he was a little disheartened.
At the beginning, he said that there was a family of robbers in this Rongguo Mansion, but it was just angry words, but now it seems that this is not wrong at all!
Especially even a few favored maids around him were more or less implicated, which made Jia Baoyu even more unacceptable.
At this time, there was pressure from all directions, accusing him of making trouble out of nothing and stirring up so many storms in vain.
Jia Baoyu was angry, so he simply went on a hunger strike and committed suicide, not eating or drinking for two days and one night!
Hearing this, Xue Pan couldn't help but interject: "Then why did you suddenly eat again?" ”
"This ......"
Jia Baoyu was speechless for a while, and only after half a sound did he smile and said: "After all, I still have my grandmother and father in the hall, if they send white-haired people to black-haired people, wouldn't it be extremely filial?" ”
After a pause, seeing Sun Shaozong's burning eyes staring at him, he twisted his neck uneasily, and added: "Besides, I'...... I'm hungry and I can't stand it. ”
"Haha, you kid ......"
Xue Pan laughed, and was about to comfort Baoyu for a few words, but who knew that the back of his neck was tight, and he was actually picked up from the chair by Sun Shaozong.
Just listen to Sun Shaozong's unquestionable order: "Go outside and keep an eye on it, don't let people get close and eavesdrop!" ”