The Famous Detective of the Red Mansions

Baorunzhai, located in the northwest of Longshengfang, mainly focuses on jade and stone materials, and also serves as a business of various wood carvings. Although it is still better than the industry leaders in Mingyufang, it is also regarded as a leader.

Passing through the four-opened ebony door, there are two long rosewood marble cases facing you. There are more than a dozen jade wood carving samples on them. Or ingenuity to match the heavens...

Of course, this is only for ordinary people. Sun Shaozong is now rich and wealthy, and he has just come out of luxurious places such as Rongguo Mansion. Looking at these objects, he only feels ordinary.

Everyone was scanning the jade wares, the shopkeeper brought the guys to greet him, and the servant girl bowed and said: "The little one has seen thousands of adults. I don’t know if you came to the shop, do you want to buy some ready-made gadgets, or are you ready? Order some utensils?"

Sun Shaozong Jiner was originally going to work with the company in Beizhen. Naturally, he wore the Mojiao Yunyun robe, the upright fifth-grade standard, and the fierce reputation of Longjianwei, so that the treasurer was not cautious.

Seeing his sincere and frightened appearance, Sun Shaozong smiled kindly and reported to his family: "The official is Sun Shaozong, the ruler of Shuntian Mansion. Because there is a jade article involved in the case, I hope Guihao can help him with a palm, but he doesn't know what Guihao is now. Inconvenient?"

Hearing the word ‘Sun Shaozong’, the shopkeeper’s spine suddenly softened a bit. How dare there be any inconvenience?

Busy nodded and bowed in response, he invited an old craftsman who was over half a hundred years old from the backyard and introduced to Sun Shaozong and others: "This is Master Hu from the small shop. Three generations of his ancestors have been in jadesmiths' shop. It is known as the eight-armed Arhat, but there is nothing Master Hu doesn't know about what the jade of the capital does!"

Master Hu was dumb, listening to the shopkeeper admiring himself, his old face was blood-red, and after a long time he squeezed out a sentence of "Don't dare to be", but the words beside him were nothing.

It wasn't until Sun Shaozong handed the piece of jade to his hand that Master Hu suddenly shook his spirits.

He took out his glasses from his sleeve and put them on, holding the jade over and over again. I don't know how long I had to look at it attentively. Then I took off the glasses again and replied with a dull look.

"how is it?"

Sun Shaozong couldn't wait to ask: "Master Hu can see from this piece of jade, is there anything coming?"

"Back to your lord's words."

Master Hu held the jade pin in his hand and screamed, "The little old man has clumsy eyes and can't see too much. He only saw that this piece of jade should have passed through the hands of three people one after another."

"The first one is a southern engraver. He should be a good hand in the industry. The moiré carving is extremely delicate, and the front and back are also cut extremely shiny and smooth, but unfortunately, a lot of good materials have been ruined."

"The second person shouldn't be in our profession, and the calligraphy foundation is good. Unfortunately, Wukong has the ability to write, but he lost to the carving knife.

"The third is the Northern Carver, who is most concerned about the material, so after removing the jade from the artifact, he only did some repairs along the moire pattern. Unfortunately, this person's craftsmanship is a little worse. The imitated moire pattern has its merits. The style has lost its charm. Anyone with a discerning eye can perceive the traces of repair as long as they look closely."

This old man really has a good way!

He stumbled a bit at first, but later it became smoother and smoother, and his remarks were roughly consistent with Sun Shaozong's inference, and he even added a lot of details.

Qiu Yunfei didn't hold much hope at first. At this time, he heard the words of "mysteriousness" from his novice and north-south sect, and couldn't help but ask: "Then can you tell that this thing is the hand of the family? ?"

"This…"

Master Hu looked embarrassed, and he said: "The last of these repairs can be done by most engravers in Beijing. As for the previous Nanpai master, it’s not that an unknown person can rely on this circle of moire. Just want to recognize whose handwriting is, but it is absolutely impossible."

"Look at the patina on this jade. I am afraid that it has been around for more than ten or twenty years. In these years, the southern engravers in the capital have also changed a few times. In addition, the inner government often recruits manpower from the south. Released again in the year..."

"and many more!"

Sun Shaozong suddenly interrupted him and asked: "Can you judge the specific year of this jade more carefully? Is it more than ten years or more than twenty years?"

"This…"

The melancholy expression on Master Hu’s face became even stronger, and he said, “If you play with it often and don’t play with it often, the patina can make a difference. The second child can only judge based on experience. This piece of jade is at least ten years old. It’s more than 30 years old, but it shouldn’t be more than 30 years old.

"As for this repair, it was about three to five years, and the patina was obviously thinner."

It was only dismantled in the last three to five years...

Sun Shaozong compared this time period with his own speculation, and he suddenly felt a little more confident in his heart.

Qiu Yunfei was rather disappointed, so he took Master Hu and asked if there were any.

In the meantime, I couldn't say that I didn't get anything. At least he asked if he was in the capital and wanted to ask a master of the Southern School to carve such a jade, I was afraid that it would have at least ten taels of silver.

But this makes Qiu Yunfei even more puzzled. Since he paid a big price to invite a famous artist to make a shot, why did he imitate it so differently?

You must know that Rongguo Mansion has never been hidden, and it has always spared no effort to promote the story of'Born by Jade'. If you inquire with your heart, you can imitate the appearance of that piece of jade.

However, he said that he couldn't ask anything else, and Sun Shaozong told the store not to disclose today's affairs to the outside world. This led everyone to leave Baorunzhai.

When he was able to get out, Qiu Yunfei asked again.

This time, Sun Shaozong was determined to get rid of him, found a reason casually, and rode towards Beizhen Fusi alone.

Seeing Beizhen Fusi's neighborhood, he turned his horse's head again and chose a street shop casually, filling his stomach without knowing the taste.

After eating and drinking, while guarding a table of cups and plates, looking at Beizhen Fusi not far away from the window, Sun Shaozong was caught in a dilemma.

And what made him dilemma was the whimsical brain hole mentioned above:

In the Rongguo Mansion, Qiu Yunfei once believed that Jia Baoyu's piece was a counterfeit, and deduced from this that Zhou Xi was Jia Zheng's illegitimate son.

However, as the argument of the ‘illegitimate child’ was completely overturned, Rongguo Mansion has no reason for counterfeiting. After all, it is something that was used to make a name for the child. If there is no special reason, who would plagiarize from the same item?

Therefore, it can basically be concluded that Zhou Xi's psychic jade is a counterfeit.

So the mystery that needs to be solved most urgently at the moment is that Zhou Xi has spent a lot of money to get the four different images. What is the purpose? Is there a direct relationship with his being killed?

Sun Shaozong was also confused at one time. After all, it was just inferred from common sense, and he refused to even inquire, but he paid a lot of money to make a four-different image, and put it in the mezzanine, which is really unreasonable.

But when he was in Rongguo Mansion, he suddenly thought of another unreasonable possibility. Perhaps the owner of that piece of jade had started to imitate it before the birth of the psychic jade!

This sounds even more illogical at first. Without a reference, how can imitate it?

Don't forget, there are transversalists in this world, and there is more than Sun Shaozong!

Although Sun Shaozong had not read "A Dream of Red Mansions", he also judged from the name of Jia Baoyu that this psychic jade must be one of the important props in the book.

Imagine if there is a traverser who has read the Dream of the Red Mansions, before the birth of Jia Baoyu, and through the existence of the second house of Rongning, knows that he is in the world of the Dream of the Red Mansions, so he has not seen the psychic treasure jade in advance. It is excusable to come up with such a four-dimension.

That's right, this is the prince Yizhong who was banned!

And Sun Shaozong's speculation was not an unsupported fantasy.

First of all, Prince Yizhong loved the white dragon fish clothes most when he was young.

And that Zhou Xi's father, first served as an official in the Jiaofang Division of the Ministry of Rites, and then reduced to a musician, entering and exiting the brothel brothel, and there was some intersection with each other, which is also a reasonable guess.

Second, if the inference of Qiu Yunfei's ‘illegitimate child’ is applied to Prince Yizhong and Zhou Xi, it seems to make more sense.

Of course, the theory of adultery during the funeral period certainly does not exist.

The reason why Prince Yizhong did not dare to recognize this illegitimate son was probably because Zhou Xi was indeed born to the Zhao family-and the Zhao family had already married Zhou's father at that time.

In addition...

With the story of Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei before, plus the childlessness of these years, Prince Yizhong probably dare not be 100% sure that Zhou Xi is his own son.

Third, Zhou Xi's parents both died in the fall of the eighth year of Guangde, and it was at the turn of summer and autumn that year when Prince Yizhong was imprisoned for attempted rebellion, and most of his party members were also implicated.

According to Master Hu’s inference, the jade was removed from the ornament at this time.

If you follow the previous train of thought, Zhou Xi's parents both passed away. I am afraid it may not be a good story of ‘birth and death, the same acupuncture point’, but a chain reaction after Prince Yizhong’s bad incident!

After the death of his parents, Zhou Xi removed the fake Baoyu and hid it in the interlayer of the incense burner. It is very likely that he already knew his'true life experience'.

Inferring based on this, the masked man would be afraid that Zhou Xi would fall into the hands of the government, shoot him and commit suicide again, and...

wrong!

Some necessary factors seem to be missing here!

Just because he was afraid that Zhou Xi would fall into the hands of the government, he shouldn't directly kill him.

You must know that even if it is only suspected, that is the ‘son’ of the owner, he cannot be sacrificed casually!

And the masked person apologized with death afterwards, obviously not afraid of being implicated by Zhou Xi.

Besides, since he had been until Zhou Xi was captured by the government, he would promptly notify his comrades who had contact with Zhou Xi to transfer him in advance, so how could he be willing to shoot Zhou Xi with an arrow?

unless…

There are some shocking secrets hidden behind this, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com is either involved in the struggle for the throne, or it can endanger the life of Prince Yizhong. Of course, it is very likely that there are both.

Therefore, the masked person will not hesitate to kill the killer, and then apologize with death.

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong became more and more embarrassed.

Prince Yizhong had old grudges with his family. Once Prince Yizhong made a comeback and even usurped the throne, the Sun family would not be overturned, nor would it be reused as it is now.

Therefore, in consideration of his own interests, Sun Shaozong should expose it, or at least verify his inference first.

But the problem is...

This inference is based on the premise that Prince Yizhong is a traverser, otherwise the whole thing would be difficult to make sense.

However, Sun Shaozong didn't dare to say anything about the traveler.

So things have fallen into a deadlock, and people are in a dilemma!