It Was Only Sentimentality

First update

This question...

Sun Shaozong was slightly taken aback. Then he calmly took the seat of honor, tapped the tea table with a bent finger, and countered instead of answering, "What, are you planning to put righteousness before family?"

"No!"

Jia Baoyu hurriedly waved his hands in a flurry, then stammered with a conflicted expression, "I just... just... just..."

After several consecutive "justs," he truly could not find the right words to describe the turmoil in his heart.

Just then, a young servant brought in tea. Jia Baoyu hurriedly closed his mouth and racked his brains.

Yet even after the servant had replaced the cold tea and silently withdrawn, he remained troubled.

"Go on, then. What unusual thing has happened in your household now?" Seeing this, Sun Shaozong lazily leaned back and assumed a posture of ready attention.

Jia Baoyu had always placed great trust in Second Brother Sun. Besides, it had been Sun Shaozong's reminder that had first made him realize that his own family's treatment of its servants might not have been so clean either.

Thus, when Sun Shaozong pressed him for details, Jia Baoyu hesitated only briefly before saying awkwardly, "Second Brother knows this person too."

The matter of Ping Er and Xiao Hong spending the night with Sun Shaozong had long since spread throughout Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Baoyu naturally knew of it.

So as he reached this point, he could not help stealing a glance at Sun Shaozong before continuing, "It was Xiao Hong, who once served in my courtyard—this morning, she was accidentally beaten to death by Sister Feng."

"What?"

Hearing that Lin Hongyu had been accidentally killed by Wang Xifeng, Sun Shaozong was startled as well. He lurched forward, about to ask what had happened.

Then he suddenly recalled something Jia Lian