The Famous Detective of the Red Mansion

Minister of the Department Liu was separated from others.
Sun Shaozong and Jia Yucun had already discussed the response.

Firstly, he took the opportunity to overturn the chess game by Liu Chongshan to fight against the Generals.
Secondly, Liu Chongshan is also one of the three ‘Magistrates and Superior officials’.
It will not be easy to sing this play if he comes to the scene and competes with Jia Yucun.

“In that case.”

Jia Yucun turned back and smiled genially at the constables and assistants, “Would you please inform them again? Just say that I am waiting here.
It’s just right for me to take advantage of Brother Sun's reception banquet to get to know my colleagues first.”

With the word ‘waiting’ in his presence, who else dares not to be present?!

Zhao Wuwei and others took his instructions and left in high spirits.
Only three or five people were left to serve them.
The rest were divided into birds and pigeons and went to their officials' homes to deliver the news.

About half an hour later, some people arrived at the Flower Parlor one after another.
The petty officials who were not enough in status naturally sat down quietly on the lower floor of the banquet.
Those who had higher official positions could not hide.
They had to go to greet the Prefectural Magistrate and the Assistant Prefectural Magistrate.

Jia Yucun just laughed and chat with Sun Shaozong and didn't pay much attention to others.
Anyone who came was just replied with a lightly “sit down” by him, and there was no more following.
It was this attitude of acting as if there was no one else present that made the people more nervous.

Seeing the hustle and bustle in the hall, even the Authority Chen Zhichuang, who was in charge of the Local Authorities Division, sat down with a smile on his face.

Sun Shaozong smiled and said, “Brother Yucun, all the people are almost here.
Shall we start the dinner banquet now?”

“Wait a minute.”

Jia Yucun waved his hand, looked around at these green-color attire officials on the table, and suddenly asked in a loud voice, “Who prepared this reception banquet today?”

With this sound, the Flower Parlor is so quiet that the needles could be heard falling!

After a while, a man stood up in a cold sweat on the side seat and said in a trembling voice, “It’s…
It's me…
the Evaluation Inspector Zhou Da of the Criminal Department had prepared it.”

The Inspector is just a junior official.
Let alone the Prefectural Magistrate, even Sun Shaozong can easily crush him!

Had it not been for the unity of the civil servants, he would never dare to get involved in such a thing.
But who would have thought that a Prefectural Chief Officer would jump out on the way to support Sun Shaozong?!

Zhou Da really regretted that his intestines had turned green at this time.

“Since you are responsible for preparing the reception banquet, let’s not talk about you not waiting here early.
How could you even make a mistake about the time?!” The more Jia Yucun said, the more gloomy his face became.
At last, he hit the table and shouted, “Are you going to be this careless when you deal with human life cases?”

Putong~

Zhou Da knelt to the ground straightly and opened his mouth crying out, “Your Excellency, I'm really…”

“Zhou Da!”

County Magistrate Lin Delu gets up and cut off Zhou Da's words, “How do you do things?! You made all your colleagues in the Yamen almost miss Lord Sun's reception banquet!”

The key point of his words was the word ‘Yamen's colleagues’, which meant to remind Zhou Da that if he told the truth, he would offend all his colleagues higher and lower in rank!

If Zhou Da had an official rank of seven or eight grades, he might not be afraid of this, but too bad that he’s just an unworthy low-ranking official?

After weighing it up, he could only say, “Please forgive me, Prefectural Chief Officer.
I was confused for a while, so I made such careless mistakes.”

“Hmph.”

Jia Yucun gave a cold snort, and Zhou Da got three shudders.
Just as he thought that a great disaster was coming, Sun Shaozong laughed and said, “Brother Yucun, after all, this is a private banquet, and it's not an important business.
I think we can spare him this time.
How about just punishing him for three cups of alcohol?”

When Zhou Da heard the speech, he was only moved to thank him repeatedly.

Who knows, when the three cups of wine were placed in front of him, there were actually three bronze statues full of wine that weighed a kilo and a half.
It was not the usual low-alcohol rice wine, but the authentic liquor, Baijiu!

Zhou Da's face suddenly changed color, but under the gaze of Jia Yucun and Sun Shaozong, how will he dare to refuse?

He had to hold his nose and pour down the three liquor one by one.

After drinking this one kilo and a half of alcohol, he staggered his steps and still wanted to greet.
Unexpectedly, he stooped down and went directly under the table.
His mouth was all muddy and murmured a few times, and then there was no more movement after that.

“Serve the dishes and lay out the wines!”

In complete silence, Sun Shaozong shouted.

The wine and dishes were put on the table like flowing water.
Everyone seemed ‘happy’ when they toast their glasses like they had a good relationship, but no one dared to look at Zhou Da even slightly.