The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

The reason why Sun Shaozong was willing to come forward to defend Xu Tai was that he was able to take a tense situation calmly and lead the team in pursuing the Japanese invaders after being attacked.

Second, as mentioned earlier, Sun Shaozong has become the leader of the same year, whether he wanted to or not. If he didn’t pay attention to Xu Tai at this time, he would lose his responsibility and backbone as the leader.

Sun Shaozong has always had enough of these two things.

But after Xu Shouye was happy, he suddenly remembered another thing and said, "Brother Sun, should we invite some more people of the same year then, so that we can build up our momentum..."

"Never!"

Without waiting for him to finish, Sun Shaozong shook his head like a rattling drum and said, "You and I welcome each other with ease. That's the friendship between us in the same year. If we gather people to meet him with great fanfare, we will be suspected of demonstrating power to Commander Wang. If we really provoke Commander Wang to take the hard way, we will not only fail to save Xu Tai but also get him killed."

"Right, right!"

Xu Shouye suddenly fell into a daze and bowed in fear. "Thank you for your advice! Fortunately, I came to see you first, otherwise, I would be confused and hurt that Old Xu!"

Sun Shaozong hurriedly lifted him up and said with a smile, "You don’t have to be so courteous. Brother Xu is considerate... Cough Brother Xu's eagerness for justice is really our model."

He had intended to say ”considerate and warm-hearted,” but he felt that these words were also ”filthy” to represent him, so he changed his words halfway.

Immediately, Sun Shaozong requested, "I heard that Brother Xu was stationed at the water transport terminal recently. This news is much better than mine, so I can only ask you to inquire about Xu Tai's schedule to the Capital."

"Just leave it to me!"

Xu Shouye hit his chest, answered, and asked about the party in the same year.

Sun Shaozong was too busy in the government office and had to prepare his son's monthsary banquet, so he had no time to rest. He put the date of the party at the end of February and said that he would announce the time and place of the party in the same year after the monthsary banquet.

The two chatted again, but Xu Shouye declined the invitation to have lunch together and got up to leave.

After seeing Xu Shouye off, Sun Shaozong went to the backyard to play with his son a little, according to the original plan. He also took time to investigate how Shiliu and Furong did as housekeepers.

By the way, he was going to name his son “Sun Chengyi” to commemorate his former self.

In the evening, Sun Shaozong went to the East courtyard as usual to visit his three nephews who were preparing for the exam.

Yu Qian and Sun Chengtao were calm at the sight of the Spring Examination. On the contrary, Sun Chengye was stressed out. He had not slept soundly for several days. His eyes were dark like pandas, and he didn’t seem to have his usual steady appearance at all.

Although the Imperial Examination was the most important event in the era when only studying was the way to success, his performance lowered Sun Shaozong's original evaluation of him among the three people, and indeed, he could only count on Yu Qian!

However, Sun Shaozong didn’t show his thoughts. He encouraged Sun Chengye with a few words without discrimination. In private, he also told the servant boy waiting for Sun Chengye to go to the treasury and get some calm and sleeping aromatherapy so that he could sleep soundly at night.

After the tour, it was time for dinner.

Sun Shaozong was preparing to return to Ruan Rong's yard for dinner, but Zhao Zhongji stopped him halfway and said that he was invited by his Big Brother.

"Has he mentioned the reason?"

"In reply to the Second Master, I guess it's about ”the agreement between the bride's and groom's families on the date of the wedding.””

This actually meant that the man would choose a day and send someone to the woman's house to discuss whether the day was suitable. If the woman had objected to it, she could have chosen another day. Of course, the woman wouldn’t object under normal circumstances, this was just a procedure.

But when Sun Shaozong arrived at the main courtyard of the back house, he saw Sun Shaozu staring at a half-bald old brush and grinning happily.

"Look!"

Without waiting for Sun Shaozong to ask, he held the bald pen in his hand and ostentatiously said, "This is the first champion of this dynasty, and the brush used by Yang, the former head of the cabinet. It is the most suitable for Chengyi to use when seizing during his monthsary!"

The monthsary banquet has not been settled yet. Why had he already thought of seizing items already?

Sun Shaozong sighed helplessly. "Big Brother, how much did it cost?"

"Five hundred taels of silver!"

Sun Shaozu exaggerated the comparison and then said proudly, "I bought it by asking someone for a favor. After all, the Yang family is not short of this money."

A bald pen for five hundred silver taels?

He was really willing to spend!

"Big Brother, if you have the money, spend it on an ancient inkstone or something else? It's an object anyway, but a bald pen..."

"What do you know?"

"There are many excellent inkstones, but can that thing be picked up by children? Besides, if the baby was injured, what would you do?" his Big Brother growled.

Sun Shaozong was really speechless.

Forget it.

Anyway, he earned all the money himself. How he used it depended on his willingness.

"Big Brother."

With such thinking, Sun Shaozong wisely opened the topic, "You asked Chamberlain Zhao to call me here not only to ask me to see this bald pen, right?"

"Of course not."

Sun Shaozu took down the bald pen, took out a red card, and handed it to Sun Shaozong, saying, "Tomorrow you take this thing to the Jia family and set the wedding date earlier so that I can hold my son as soon as possible!"

As he said this, he was full of longing and said, "When the three brothers grow up together, they can take care of each other."

Sun Shaozong took the invitation, hesitated for a while, and still tried his best to say, "Big Brother, have you heard of the case I tried recently? The old man is 42 years old and still able to have a son..."

"Later, the unfilial son made him so angry that he died!"

His Big Brother said angrily, "In my opinion, this bitch was born too late! If she was born young and strong, he would have taught him a lesson!"

There was such an explanation…

Sun Shaozong had nothing to say. He silently opened the post of the "invitation" and, as expected, the wedding date was set for March, and it was also the day of the Imperial Examination on March 18.

But in this way, if one of the three nephews and sons-in-law passed the examination, wouldn't it be too late to attend the wedding?

In response, his Big Brother's explanation was, "Don't worry about that much. Let her get a touch of civility first so that she can have a son in the future who is good at martial arts and civil studies!"

Hehe~

Sun Shaozong didn’t think he had the face to call him ”literate and versatile.”