The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion-Chapter 400: A Chaotic Situation

The next day, when he arrived at the Criminal Department, it took about two hours for Sun Shaozong to dispose of the case files, complaint papers, and various internal documents submitted in these two days.

Just as he was preparing to stretch his muscles and bones, he met with the subordinates of Wei Ruolan and brought a brief report on recent verification operations, as well as about the ten arrest warrants.

It was natural to say that the wanted orders were all human traffickers identified through this investigation. Therefore, Sun Shaozong didn’t even look at them, approved them, and then sent them to the Ministry of Justice for nationwide arrest.

But…

Relying solely on the victim's recollection and description, the wanted warrant drawn might not have some accuracy, so it could only be said that they were doing their best to obey fate.

As for the verification briefing, Sun Shaozong had to carefully distinguish word by word and line by line because the combination of Wei Ruolan and Qiu Yunfei was truly a double-edged sword.

If he could make good use of it, he could be called being swift and resolute, achieving twice the result with half the effort. If he couldn’t control it, their reckless behavior style might cause some trouble for the Criminal Department.

Especially this action to verify the storage of slaves has already affected the interests of all parties and couldn’t tolerate carelessness.

He just wanted to take a closer look, but it was not an easy task.

Because the weather was really too hot!

The morning was still better, but as soon as the afternoon passed, the temperature began to skyrocket. Towards noon, the room was like a steamer, damp and sticky, making people restless from inside to outside.

Therefore, before Sun Shaozong could turn over a few pages, sweat trickled down and couldn't be wiped with a handkerchief.

Even if the buttons of the official robe were opened, the folding fan was shaken up and down, and two bowls of mung bean soup were poured in, the sticky dryness still couldn't be suppressed.

Last year they just had a flood; wasn’t there another drought?

It was so hot that Sun Shaozong couldn't bear it. He had to leave the briefing and called for someone to bring a bucket of well water, ready to make do with wiping his body and to relieve the scorching heat, so that he could continue to handle his official duties.

Who knew he had just unlocked the door and was removing his clothes, he heard someone outside smashing the door loudly.

“Lord, Lord! I have something important to report to you.”

He thought it was either Qiu Yunfei or Wei Ruolan who acted recklessly. Unexpectedly, when the person outside the door spoke, it was Lin Delu's voice.

If this guy didn't have a hundred thousand urgent matters, he wouldn't have dared to come and smash the door.

Therefore, Sun Shaozong hurriedly dressed in his official robe and opened the door to let him in. Then sat back in the courtroom and asked calmly, "Lord Lin, what's the matter with you in such a hurry?”

Lin Delu, however, was not in a hurry to speak. He first locked the door and then approached like a thief, saying in panic, "Your Excellency, the mastermind behind the ”pottery, pearls, gold, and shell's” scheme has finally been found out!”

So it was about this matter.

Sun Shaozong suddenly realized that, although he had received the promise from Prince Zhongshun, he was worried that he would do one thing at a time. Therefore, as a precaution, he didn’t ask Lin Delu to stop the investigation.

Now, looking at Lin Delu's anxious appearance, it seemed that he had already found Prince Zhongshun’s Residence.

But…

Wasn’t this proof that Prince Zhongshun had indeed not stopped his plan to hype up ”pottery, pearls, gold, and shells?”

In this way, things were really troublesome!

Since Prince Zhongshun has already spoken, if Sun Shaozong were to ”go over the level to petition” again, wasn’t it a rush to confront him head-on?

But if he didn’t report this matter to the court, once someone leaked the information that Sun Shaozong once investigated this matter, wouldn't he be charged with not reporting the truth and having ulterior motives?

He was in a dilemma, but he heard Lin Delu sneakily said, "No wonder Assistant Magistrate Wei didn't agree to the investigation of this matter that day. It turned out that this matter was caused by Prince Beijing's Residence.”

What?! 𝖋𝔯𝔢𝔢𝖜𝖊𝖇𝖓𝔬𝔳𝖊𝔩.𝖈𝖔𝖒

At that time, Sun Shaozong was somewhat deceived. How could this scam done by Prince Zhongshun have been carried out by him on Prince Beijing?

He couldn’t help but frown and said, "Did you make a mistake?”

Lin Delu put on a bitter face and said, "When I just found out about this, I was afraid I may have made a mistake. Therefore, after carefully investigating for a few days, I found that the people who bought in the market and spread rumors came to sing double reed to drive up prices and promoted this thing at the poetry society literary meeting that they were indeed from Prince Beijing's Residence.”

Speaking of this, he remembered another thing and quickly added, "I heard that there was originally a big customer with a general mind, but in recent days, it suddenly disappeared, leaving only Prince Beijing's Residence shouting around.”

Tch!

Was this scam done by them together?

Now that Prince Zhongshun wanted to retreat, Prince Beijing refused to give up?

But that was not right either!

Prince Zhongshun has never had much connection with Prince Beijing and even had some malicious intentions in his conversations [thinking about his long-legged princess consort]. How could he have teamed up with Prince Beijing to set up a game?

And with the power of Prince Zhongshun, there was no need to collaborate with others.

Or could it be that after Prince Zhongshun realized the power of this, he simply threw the pot at Prince Beijing and wanted to see his joke?

It seemed that it was not right either. He has already exposed the interests in this matter to Prince Zhongshun. Even if he wanted to pit Prince Beijing, Prince Zhongshun should first communicate with him to prevent this matter from leaking out, right?

Otherwise, he wouldn’t sit idly by and watch Prince Beijing make things bigger. If any news leaked from his side, wouldn't he also bear the charge of not reporting the truth and harboring malicious intentions?

Or perhaps it was Prince Beijing, like Prince Zhongshun, who also fell in love with this ”pottery, pearls, gold, and shells” and wanted to take the opportunity to accumulate wealth?

“Your Excellency?”

Sun Shaozong had a headache, but Lin Delu was anxious to wait. He couldn't help but cautiously inquired, "As you see, should we still care about this matter?”

Well…

Sun Shaozong hesitated momentarily and then said, "You check it first; don't make any public statements.”

Lin Delu nodded first, but then hesitated and said, "But Assistant Magistrate Wei's side...”

That’s right!

Assistant Magistrate Wei was aware of the fact that he wanted to investigate the matter of ”pottery, pearls, gold, and shells.” However, the problem was whether he had disclosed this matter to Prince Beijing, but he had no way of knowing.

If Prince Beijing knew he was trying to cut off his financial path, it would be difficult to predict how he would react

This was making a scene!

He was originally planning to deal with a few unscrupulous merchants, but who would have thought that there were two great white sharks underwater?!

But now it was difficult to ride a tiger, and it was already too late to retreat.

Sun Shaozong hesitated for a moment and ordered, "Go back now, record all the information you have found concisely, and then follow me to a place after we end work.”

Since it was already difficult to ride a tiger, he was afraid that they could only walk one way in the dark!

If the inference just now was not wrong—Prince Zhongshun was not aware of Prince Beijing's actions and was ready to give up this plan—then he should not sit idly by and continue with this crazy plan.