The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

Zijin Street.

Originally, it was named because there was a Zijin Temple on the street. However, because of the pleasing name, quite a few rich businessmen have settled here recently. The word ”Zijin” has another meaning.

More than ten years ago, the Xue family bought quadrangle dwellings here to settle down in the Capital.

However, in these years, because Xue Pan's father died young, Concubine Xue always liked to live with her sister and brother, hoping to look after them, so the dwellings remained empty for a long time.

So before the Xue family moved here, they made a lot of repairs.

It's said that Xue Pan was the master. Considering his taste…

At noon on the eleventh day, when Sun Shaozong arrived, he saw the golden door of Xue Mansion shining in the sun from a distance.

When he got close, he saw Xue Pan standing on the steps in bright red, with a gold and a silver chrysanthemum pinned to his head. When the wave of the wind blows, the petals swing in the wind, which was unspeakable.

"Second Brother!"

Before the carriage stopped steadily, Xue Pan greeted him cheerfully and said with a grin, "You are here!"

As he spoke, he reached out to help Sun Shaozong get off the carriage.

Sun Shaozong took a step and jumped out for more than half a foot. He naturally avoided his help and looked up at the shining gate. He could not help saying, "Are you not afraid to attract a thief!"

"Who dares!"

Xue Pan stared at him, "If there is one, I will kick and explode his eggs first without the help of your Yamen Runner!"

He then said proudly, "Let's go, Brother. Let me show you around this rare place!"

Sun Shaozong followed him up the steps. When they reached the gate, no one opened it.

Swish!

When he was hesitating whether to open it, Xue Pan blew a loud whistle, and the two gates opened slowly, revealing two… elephants hiding behind them?!

To be exact, these were two little elephants who were more than one person tall. They were all washed and their bodies looked shining and had golden crowns on their heads. They look very cute.

"Aung!"

After the gate was slowly opened, the two young elephants rolled up their noses and gave a cheerful cry.

"Well, isn't it good to see?"

Xue Pan said proudly, "The last time I accompanied Old Feng to the Department of Supervision and saw the ”Elephant God of Justice,” I asked someone to exchange two from Yunnan Guizhou. It's a pity that it's not a white elephant. It's not that interesting after all."

He made so much effort to get two elephants from a long distance, just to be the door boy envoy…

This guy was really a wonderful flower!

After teasing the two little elephants, they walked into the room side by side.

Sun Shaozong came here for the first time, so he naturally had to follow Xue Pan all the way.

As he walked, he felt something was wrong. The pattern of decoration in the two places was not like the place of a banquet at all but looked like the hostess's yard.

He couldn't help slowing down and hesitating, "Where are we going?"

"Oh."

Xue Pan remembered that he had not explained it before, and hurriedly said, "My mother heard that you are coming to visit, so she asked me to ask you to come and see her."

To see Xue Pan's mother?

This widow, who was called ”Concubine Xue” by the Rongguo Mansion, gave birth to Xue Pan at the age of 16. Now she is only thirty-four or five years old. In addition, her husband died early, which was an embarrassing age.

It was reasonable to say that she would not meet an outsider easily.

At present, telling Xue Pan to take him there has the meaning of ”generations-long friendship between two families.”

It’s just that…

The relationship between himself and Xue Pan should not have reached that point, right?

Sun Shaozong tried to excuse him, but Xue Pan had already smiled and said, "Tongxi, go inside and tell the Old Lady that the Second Master of the Sun family has arrived!"

Well~

It's too late to make excuses now.

Without any choice, Sun Shaozong had to smile and followed Xue Pan across the courtyard to the main room without squinting.

In front of the soft couch on the left, several servant girls surrounded a woman, and a few beads were hanging in front of her, which not only did not make people feel estranged but also pointed out the difference between inside and outside.

Needless to say, this woman was Concubine Xue.

But when she was standing behind the bead curtain, dressed in a pleated skirt and covered in emerald gold hairpins, she looked like she was from a noble family. Her white hands with the handkerchief twisted showed her nervousness and anxiety.

"Mother."

As soon as they entered the door, Xue Pan introduced him to her, "This is the person I often tell you about, Sun Shaozong, the Second Brother Sun!"

Sun Shaozong hurriedly bowed to the end and said, "Greetings to the Old Lady."

"Please get up quickly."

Concubine Xue seldom dealt with outsiders. Seeing that Sun Shaozong was one head taller and two circles stronger than her son, even if he bowed, he still brought out a sense of oppression that no one else had. She became more and more nervous.

Fortunately, she recited her lines half a day in advance, and she didn't stutter on the spot.

She said, "My Wenlong [Xue Pan's character is Wenlong] is useless. He usually only communicates with some bad friends and didn’t think that he would be able to make such good friends with a young hero like Lord Sun. I hope that you will pay more attention to him every day. Don't let him cause any more trouble."

There was something else to say, but Concubine Xue suddenly noticed that Sun Shaozong was hunched down, and his eagle-like eyes were just staring at her towering chest!

Concubine Xue was shocked and angry. She was not happy to talk to outsiders, but she was worried about her son. She just wanted to pass over a few words face-to-face. Who would have thought that Sun Erlang's reputation was so great, but he was such a pervert and a rude lecher?

If it were not for the fear of causing trouble, both of them would turn to the bad side. She wanted to leave with a straight face!

But…

It was she who wronged Sun Shaozong.

Even if Sun Shaozong was so lecherous, he would not peep at Xue Pan's mother in public.

The reason why he was so tactless was that Concubine Xue was wearing the same clothes that he used to hide Ping’er's shame when he was in Yiran Pavilion!

This was really a coincidence!

Sun Shaozong sighed in his heart, but he suddenly found that Concubine Xue's handkerchief had been twisted into a fried dough twists shape and that the well-maintained face was also a bit angry at this time…

Oops!

Sun Shaozhong found something wrong at that time. He quickly took his eyes off the clothes and wanted to explain something. But how would he dare to say something about indulging in secret relations with women?

In a dilemma, Xue Pan said impatiently, "Mother, if you have nothing else to tell me, my second brother and I will go to the front to drink and enjoy the chrysanthemum."

Concubine Xue took a deep breath, and then coldly threw out two words, "Go!"

Tch!

He was misunderstood!

Sun Shaozong secretly complained, but he bowed and followed Xue Pan out of the living room.