There are five main entrances in the Grand View Garden, with barrel tiles and loach ridges on the top, and doors and windows below, all of which are finely carved new flowers, but there is no vermilion powder decoration, which can be called a low-key and luxurious model.

Sun Shaozong was chatting with Jia Baoyu on the white stone steps in front of the door, and when he saw Jia Lian coming in a hurry, thinking of last night's absurd behavior, he inevitably felt a little embarrassed in his heart.

However, Jia Lian was calmly tight, and when he got closer, he locked his eyes on Sun Shaozong, and smiled with a smile: "Those two little hooves, didn't disappoint Erlang last night, right?" ”

"Ahem......"

Although Sun Shaozong is also a cheeky person, he can't say lines like 'your woman is very moist', especially in front of Jia Baoyu, so he can only say vaguely: "The second brother's kindness, the younger brother is ashamed." ”

Jia Baoyu next to him was confused and wondered: "What kind of dumb riddle are the two brothers playing, could it be that something strange happened last night?" ”

Yesterday at noon in Yihong Courtyard, although Jia Lian had already forcibly promoted a wave, Jia Baoyu was already drunk at that time, and he was reluctant to take the initiative to mention it afterwards, so he naturally didn't have any impression.

Since Jia Lian took the initiative to mention this matter, he had no intention of hiding it in front of Baoyu, and immediately pursed his lips and smiled: "Naturally, Ping'er and ......"

"Ahem!"

Sun Shaozong hurriedly coughed, interrupted his words, and urged: "Since everyone has arrived, let's quickly sift the garden, so as not to make a noise in your mansion." ”

As he spoke, he took a single knife with a sheath from his hand, hung it crookedly on his waist, and led the curious Jia brothers to take out more than 100 family members, and poured into the Grand View Garden.

Most of them, under the leadership of stewards 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.

And a small number of people, under the leadership of Sun Shaozong, began to investigate from the bamboo forest where the thieves were first discovered.

The book is not too much to say.

However, it was said that Sun Shaozong led the team to the bamboo forest next to the bee waist bridge, first instructed the family members 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 blushing, and cut it in circles around the bamboo forest.

"Second brother."

I thought that the first person who couldn't bear it should be Jia Lian, who was not interested in solving the case, but when he turned to the sixth circle, Jia Lian still followed silently behind him, but Jia Baoyu was a little impatient.

I heard him urge: "Second Brother Sun, didn't you say that those thieves put up a map in the bamboo pavilion?" Let's not go to the pavilion to take a look, what's the use of going around in this circle? ”

"Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't."

Sun Shaozong didn't look back and said: "But you have to check it before you know if it's useful." ”

Jia Lian also said in a 'faceless' voice: "You just follow honestly, why is there so much gossip?"

The two brothers have this attitude, and Jia Baoyu had no choice but to stop and follow Sun Shaozong's example, and walk around.

It was not until the ninth lap that the three of them finally reached the vicinity of the clearing deep in the dense forest.

Seeing that the shadow of the small pavilion was revealed, Jia Baoyu stretched his neck urgently, and he couldn't wait to step out of the dense forest 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 suddenly came to his senses, and squatted side by side with Sun Shaozong in front of the weeds, his eyes widened and he carefully scanned.

"Huh?!"

Soon he let out a low cry, pointed to a patch of weeds, and said, "This seems to have been cut by a sharp weapon!" ”

Indeed, some of the weeds had their leaves cut off in part.

Sun Shaozong picked up two broken leaves from the ground, carefully checked the situation at the fracture, and after confirming that it was the traces left yesterday, he straightened up and looked around a few times, looking thoughtful.

"Second Brother Sun."

Jia Baoyu also got up, and asked curiously: "Do these cut weeds have any special significance?" ”

Sun Shaozong shook his head first, nodded again, and in Jia Baoyu's inexplicable gaze, he easily untied the single knife on his waist, leaned over and aimed the blade at those weeds, and swept it diagonally.

Then he frowned, looked at the swaying grass, and after a while he handed the knife to his left hand, and then drew a gourd and slashed at it diagonally.

This time, after observing it, he finally hung the single knife back on his waist with satisfaction, and explained to Jia Baoyu, who was full of curiosity: "These cuts may not have any special significance, but as long as you are willing to figure it out with your heart, you can still get a lot of useful information from it." ”

"For example, at least now it is certain that one of the three thieves is left-handed—and he was in a mood swing at the time, so he vented on these weeds, and slashed three times in a row."

Jia Baoyu suddenly said: "No wonder the second brother wants to change to holding a knife in his left hand!" ”

Sun Shaozong was upright again, and said: "But this information is not important, what really matters is that they should not have come to explore the way, but have some special purpose." ”

"Where does that start?"

Jia Baoyu wondered, "Could it be that you also see it from these weeds?" ”

"That's right."

Sun Shaozong explained: "This place is relatively close to the Bee Waist Bridge, whether it is when chasing you or escaping afterwards, they should not choose to leave from this direction - that is, this trace should have been left before they were alarmed by you." ”

"If you were a thief trying for money, and you went all the way to the vicinity of Yihong Courtyard, and found that a garden in Nuoda was unguarded, and there were valuable treasures and young and beautiful women everywhere—would you have the leisure to vent your emotions in the woods with these weeds?"

Jia Baoyu thought about it carefully and shook his head vigorously.

"So, I guess they must have sneaked into the garden with some other purpose, but they didn't reach their goal when they went around and around to find it, so a thief would lose control of his emotions for a while."

When Jia Baoyu heard this, his eyes were full of admiration, and he couldn't help but ask again: "Then what is their purpose?" ”

"You think I'm a fairy?"

Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand and punched him in the shoulder, and said angrily: "With such a little trace, how can I analyze what their purpose is?" ”

As he spoke, he turned his head and took another step, beckoning, "Let's go, see if there are any other discoveries."

Jia Baoyu responded crisply, and hurriedly followed, but this time it was not a blind touch, but a serious search for evidence - but he didn't see the look of understanding that flashed in Sun Shaozong's eyes when he re-entered the road.

Although Jia Baoyu mustered up his energy, in the next two laps, he did not find any clues.

Fortunately, the main event of the pavilion was immediately reached, so Jia Baoyu was not too depressed, but rushed to the bamboo pavilion, like a treasure, around the soil and stones that seemed to be a map, and looked over and over several times.

This time, Sun Shaozong didn't follow, but waited for Baoyu to see enough, and then stepped forward and asked, "How is it?" Are these things piled up according to your home? ”

Although he has been to this garden more than once, when it comes to familiarity, where can Sun Shaozong catch up with Jia Baoyu, who wanders in it all day?

"Hmmm......"

Jia Baoyu hesitated to squat in front of the 'map', stretched out his fingers to pick up some of the stones, temporarily put them aside, pointed to the remaining part of the stones and said: "If you only look at this part, it is similar to the pattern near Qiushuangzhai, Nuanxiangwu, and Daoxiang Village, but there is a lotus root in the middle." ”

Sun Shaozong immediately asked: "Then if you follow the pattern above, where should the lotus root champs be?" ”

Jia Baoyu's fingers were between several stones, back and forth, and he pointed to one of the open spaces firmly, and said, "According to the pattern spacing, it should be around here!" ”

Sun Shaozong didn't say a word, immediately crawled to the ground, carefully put his eyes close to the open space, and repeatedly checked for a long time, and finally found two scratches thinner than a hair.

He used a stone to outline the two scratches, and drew a circle in a vague way, and found that the range was not far from the place where Jia Baoyu had just pointed out, so he got up from the ground, patted the dust on his body, and said: "It seems that there should have been a stone in this place, but I inadvertently - or deliberately messed up by those thieves. ”

As he spoke, there were suddenly two more hands in front of him, but it was Jia Lian who came up and helped to beat the dust diligently.

Although Sun Shaozong felt a little awkward, he was embarrassed to refuse Jia Lian's kindness - especially since he still had a request for Jia Lian at the moment.

I heard Jia Baoyu frown on the side and said: "Looking at the number of stones on the ground, the thieves are afraid that they have already explored the terrain inside and outside the garden." ”

"This ......"

"Second Master, Second Master Lian!"

Sun Shaozong was about to talk, and hurriedly rushed into a family outside, and said in a panic: "It's amazing!" The ancestor said that he wanted to lead Grandma Liu to visit the garden, and now he has led people to the Grand View Garden, and the second grandmother and his wife are not easy to stop, how do you think this is good? ! ”

Jia Liangang reluctantly retracted his hand, and when he heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he stomped his feet anxiously and said, "How can this be done?!" Now the mountains are searching, if the old lady sees it, where can she hide it? ”

Because Jia's mother was already frightened when she saw the horse shed on fire yesterday, no one dared to mention the matter of the thief in Daguanyuan at night.

Seeing that Jia Lian was anxious and panicked, Sun Shaozong helplessly patted Jia Baoyu on the shoulder and said: "It seems that it is time for you to go out again, no matter whether you are stupid or pitiful, in short, drag the old lady first, at least until the whole garden is searched, and then let the maids and wives go back to their respective homes." ”