Ch. 105 - Public is Not As Good As Private, Private is Not As Good As Secret
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”The dawn breaks in the east and the long night ends.” It means the truth has been brought into daylight.
Seeing that the sky was already getting bright outside, Sun Shaozong would need to go to the Yamen for the morning call soon, so he carefully pulled his arm out of Ruan Rong's neck.
He hasn't seen Ruan Rong for more than half a month. Ruan Rong had a lot to say. But the first day, Sun Shaozong got drunk, and the next day he had sex with Xiangling. Although Ruan Rong personally arranged this, she was still a little jealous.
So it was not until last night that the two had the opportunity to talk to each other.
They were talking from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. until Ruan Rong fell asleep with Sun Shaozong's arm on her back. Sun Shaozong naturally did not want to move, so he had to sleep with his innerwear on for fear that he might accidentally crush the child.
The quality of the night's sleep need not be mentioned.
When he crept up from the bed and was about to go outside to wash up, he heard Ruan Rong murmur behind him, "When did I fall asleep? Why didn't you wake me up?"
Unexpectedly, he woke her up.
Sun Shaozong straightened his back, stretched his muscles, and said, "It's about midnight. I think you slept soundly, so I didn't wake you up. But I slept with one eye open last night for fear of accidentally hitting my son."
In fact, at the very beginning, Sun Shaozong insisted on calling the child "daughter" to avoid putting pressure on her, until Ruan Rong asked him half-heartedly, "Am I not worthy of having the eldest son?"
Sun Shaozong realized that the pressure on Ruan Rong at present was not just *"son preference." He quickly changed and called for his son.
While Sun Shaozong was complaining about his suffering, he turned back to look at Ruan Rong. However, he saw her leaning on her side, caressing her slightly raised belly, and her lazy face was full of tiredness, attachment, and the love of a new mother.
Somehow, Sun Shaozong suddenly became excited.
"Who made you so strong? I'm afraid any one of your arms and legs could not bear it." Ruan Rong said, but then said, "Forget it, you'd better go to the West Wing for the night so that you can have a good sleep at night."
"Don't take it to heart. I have to talk more with my son. What if he doesn't get close to me after he is born?"
Sun Shaozong laughed and stretched out his hand as if to touch Ruan Rong's stomach, but when he placed his hand down, his angle was a few inches off.
Snap!
Ruan Rong was alert and hit his claw away and said angrily, "What are you doing so early in the morning?"
Sun Shaozong, however, did not give up. He put his hand on her leg and said with a smile, "In fact, after the first three months, it doesn't matter so much. Just pay attention to good posture..."
"Xiangling, Xiangling!"
Before Sun Shaozong had finished speaking, Ruan Rong shouted aloud.
After a while, Xiangling hurriedly walked in from outside and asked, "Yes, Sister Rong. What can I do for you?"
Seeing the wet mark on her face, it was obvious that she was just washing up in the west wing.
Ruan Rong pointed at Sun Shaozong and said, "The Master is tired again. Take him back to the west chamber to relieve his fatigue."
"Sister!"
Xiangling immediately made a flush on her face, stamped her foot, and ran out again.
Sun Shaozong was also much less interested in this incident. Seeing Ruan Rong protecting her stomach, he had no room for compromise, so he went out to wash up bitterly.
—Dividing Line—
There were no further accidents, so Zhou Da asked for sick leave after arriving at the Yamen.
Sun Shaozong went to his courtyard and asked someone to call Lin Delu from the Department of Criminals.
Lin Delu came here very quickly, but his figure was like a fat pig to be slaughtered. He looked like he wanted to be close but didn't dare to be close. It makes people feel uncomfortable.
Sun Shaozong was also too lazy to beat around the bush with him, so he asked directly, "Lin Delu, I heard that you are always complaining recently, complaining that our officials favor one over the other. Is that true?"
Lin Delu shivered, he knelt on the ground and hurriedly explained, "You've wronged me! I... I just want to help and be at your service, My Lord. I dare not complain!"
To tell the truth, when Sun Shaozong just took office, Lin Delu didn't pay attention to this superior official. He thought that this kind of "transferred official" was either excluded or marginalized and that the Criminal Division would be the world of Governor Liu sooner or later.
Who would have thought that Jia Yucun came to the rescue first, and then Sun Shaozong repeatedly solved strange cases, which won the favor of the Emperor? Now he has skipped Governor Liu and become the ”patrol envoy” directly, which seemed to be a sign of dominating the Criminal Division!
What's more, Zhou Da, who used to be his direct subordinate, started to rise in rank?!
At present, Lin Delu was both jealous and hateful, almost regretting.
"So you have a helping out of goodwill."
As Sun Shaozong said, he brought forward a paper note he prepared before and said, "If that’s the case, I have something here that I want you to deal with. Here is a woman on the note. Go to the Criminal Department and check carefully to see if you can find her family."
Lin Delu picked it up carefully. He saw that there were details written on it, such as "Although he was about sixteen years old," "Suspected to be near Jinling," and "There is a rogue mark about the size of a grain of rice in the middle of her eyebrow." It was not at all uncertain with all these details. Thus, he has set his mind on it.
At the same time, he couldn't help being curious and inquired, "My Lord, I don't know who this woman is."
"This is my new concubine. It's also an act to rely on the public service for my matters."
Sun Shaozong didn't mean to hide anything, but he added, "If you don't think it's appropriate, then..."
"No, no, no!"
Lin Delu hurriedly put his hands on the rattle and said firmly, "It's appropriate, very appropriate! Since My Lord has a love for your concubines, I will do my best to help your concubine find her family. I will never stop until I succeed!"
The so-called ”Public is not as good as private, private is not as good as secret” was to handle this kind of half-public and half-private job, to be the ”person” of the superior.
When Lin Delu happily went to the Criminal Department, Sun Shaozong calls Cheng Rixing to discuss the matter of sending people undercover to fish out the dealers.
Cheng Rixing proposed several candidates. Sun Shaozong was deliberating here. Suddenly someone sent an invitation card outside, and it was Jia Lian who got several jars of Shaoxing aged wine and invited him to come and taste it.
Jia Yucun just told him a moment ago, and Jia Lian sent someone to invite him after. It's really a coincidence.
So when Sun Shaozong heard this, he ”doubted” the invitation on the head of Mr. Lai. He thought about the matter of ”taking the plan as it is” and answered vaguely, saying that he would go to the Rongguo Mansion to visit when he took a rest four days later.