Originally, Sun Shaozong planned to find a suitable opportunity to hand over the price list to Jia Lian.

With Wang Xifeng's greed, knowing that there is such a list, it will definitely be compared with the cost of building his own garden, and Lai Dazhong's behavior of enriching his own pockets will inevitably be exposed.

But this plan also has an obvious loophole.

If Wang Xifeng had also been engaged in corruption when she was supervising the construction of the courtyard, she and Lai Da would have become afraid of beating wolves, and in the end, I am afraid that they would only end up with a compromise between each other.

For this reason, Sun Shaozong also considered it for a time and directly sent the price list to Jia Zheng.

It's a pity that the second master of Rongguo Mansion is obviously working in the Ministry of Industry, but he prefers to learn from those Hanlin scholars, dancing and writing all day long, and ignoring the people's livelihood and economy.

If this price list is sent to him, there is a good chance that it will be handed over to Lai Da for verification - not only will Lai Da not be defeated at that time, but Sun Shaozong's true intentions will also be exposed.

It is precisely because of these concerns that Sun Shaozong has been entangled for a long time, but he has not been able to send the price list out.

But......

Today, he found a more suitable candidate: Jia Baoyu!

Although Jia Baoyu is still young and has not participated in the management of Rongguo Mansion, he can't stand his backstage hardness!

The biggest reliance of Lai's family is the affection in front of the old lady, but the master-servant affection of this mere is obviously not of an order of magnitude compared to Jia Baoyu.

And Jia Baoyu is completely the injured party in this matter, and there is no possibility of collusion with Lai Da and others - plus Baoyu has always been willful, as long as he can arouse his interest, he will not worry about not investigating to the end.

Therefore, after calculating the gains and losses in his mind, Sun Shaozong took the opportunity and said with a wry smile: "It's not that the garden at home is too small to grow so many flowers and plants?" Every year, in order to enjoy chrysanthemums in Chongyang, the family has to work hard to replace all the flowers and plants in spring and summer. ”

After a pause, he sighed again: "I just shoveled out the old one this year, but it happened that I was imprisoned in Beizhen Fusi, and the people in the family were panicked, so naturally I didn't care about planting chrysanthemums instead." ”

If ordinary people listened to it, eighty percent would smack their tongues for Sun Fu's extravagant behavior.

But how can rich idlers like Xue Pan and Jia Baoyu care about any silver?

Xue Pan immediately patted his chest and said: "Second brother, it just so happens that I'm tired of watching it these days, and early tomorrow morning, I will have people shovel all the chrysanthemums and send them to your house!" ”

"Now that Chongyang has passed, what are you doing with it?" Jia Baoyu shook his head and said with a regretful face: "Although appreciating chrysanthemums is a beautiful thing, if you hurt a lot of flowers and plants because of this, it is really a tight scenery." ”

The way of thinking of this local tyrant and Wenqing is really different from normal people!

Slandering in his heart, Sun Shaozong nodded his head on the surface: "Brother Bao is right, I have been thinking about it in recent days, to expand the backyard and set aside a separate flower garden, which will save trouble in the future." ”

As he spoke, he said distressedly: "It's just that I asked someone to inquire, and the cost of repairing the garden is really exaggerated now......"

Syllable~

Without waiting for Sun Shaozong to finish speaking, Xue Pan beat his chest again and said angrily: "What are you afraid of? If the second brother doesn't make up for the money, just explain, and my old Xue will make it up for you! ”

This is really ......

Sun Shaozong didn't know whether to annoy him for talking too much, or to be moved by his generosity.

In the end, I had to say helplessly: "If I really lack silver, I will definitely not hide it from you, but what my brother is most worried about now is that those profiteers are shoddy - that's right!" ”

As he spoke, he suddenly remembered something, and said excitedly: "Brother Bao, isn't your courtyard about to be completed?" This craftsman and merchant are all ready-made! Why don't you help inquire, if it's still cheap, I don't have to find someone else. ”

"This ......"

Jia Baoyu, like his father, is the most impatient with such mundane affairs in his life, and even has some meaning that he is better than blue.

Therefore, when I heard that I wanted to inquire about these mundane things, I was not happy in my heart.

It's just that because of Sun Shaozong's face, it's not easy to refuse his request.

was in a dilemma, so he heard Sun Shaozong smile and said, "Hasn't Brother Bao always wanted to learn criminal detectives?" This collection of all kinds of information is one of the basic skills of investigating the case, imagine if you can't even collect superficial information, how can you find out the truth behind the scenes? ”

These words hit Jia Baoyu's itch!

In front of Lin Daiyu that day, he boasted that he wanted to 'cut off the cause and effect for others', and he talked about something that 'went to his clothes and hid his body and fame'.

This big word was blown out, and it also won a lot of admiration from Daiyu, but for several months, except for reading some miscellaneous detective scripts, he didn't make any progress at all - but through the script, he unlocked a few new postures.

In addition, Daiyu and Tanchun asked from time to time, and Jia Baoyu was inevitably a little anxious in her heart.

Therefore, he took the initiative to come today, in fact, he wanted to ask Sun Shaozong for an idea to see how he should achieve his goal.

At this time, when he heard Sun Shaozong talk about the basic skills of investigating the case, he immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly leaned over and asked: "Second brother, tell me quickly, what are the basic skills necessary to solve the case?" ”

Although this is obviously a bit off-topic, seeing that Xue Pan is also coaxing on the side, Sun Shaozong has no choice but to bend his fingers and say: "Regardless of the details, I think the most important point in investigating the case is to maintain curiosity." ”

"Curious?"

"That's right, if you don't have an interest in the case, and you're not even curious about the truth behind the scenes, how can you keep tracking?"

Jia Baoyu thought about it carefully, what he said was really very reasonable, and after some 'self-reflection', he said excitedly: "I don't lack curiosity!" The second brother quickly continued, what else is there? ”

"Secondly, nature is the keen observation ability, if you can find more information than others at the crime scene, then you will naturally be one step closer to the truth than others."

"Furthermore, you must accumulate enough knowledge so that when facing the intricacies of the secret case, you will not miss any important clues due to ignorance."

"Finally, it is the ability to sort out information, if you can sort out a fairly clear context from the seemingly chaotic clues, it will definitely allow you to achieve twice the result with half the effort in the process of solving the case!"

"There are naturally a lot of other skills that need to be used, such as good memory skills and the like, but compared to these four, I think they are slightly less important."

Speaking of this, Sun Shaozong spread his hands and said: "In addition to the first one, the most basic of the remaining three is keen observation, if you can't even collect information, no matter how rich your knowledge is, no matter how you can sort out clues, it is useless for heroes." ”

"I see!"

When Jia Baoyu heard this, his eyes were already shining, and he said without hesitation: "Since this is the case, this matter is on me, although the second brother can rest assured, I will definitely find out clearly for you!" ”

The second middle school boy or something, it's really best to fool around.

Sun Shaozong was secretly complacent in his heart, but he smiled kindly: "It's the first time you check things alone, don't be in a hurry to set too high a goal - it just so happens that I have also collected some materials and prices there, and when Ming'er sends them to you, it can be a reference." ”