Feng Qing Shaoyi

Chapter 101
While Qi Ze and Chu Kainan were investigating, Jiang Wen was standing in front of a field of blue irises, looking at the budding irises, and said quietly: "After all these years, you still like irises so much .”

There are many flowers and plants in Fangfu, but the most conspicuous among them is the unopened iris.In the deepest part of the sun, this piece of blue irises is planted all over the ground.There are clusters of brightly colored irises, but the smell is elegant, and the faint fragrance smells extremely comfortable, if there is nothing there.

The woman in a light blue long dress next to her looked at the iris in front of her and smiled knowingly, "Although many years have passed, the iris is still the same and has not changed."

Jiang Wen bent down to look at the graceful iris, and said, "This year's iris should bloom very well."

"The irises in Fangfu are blooming so well." The woman lowered her head, with a hint of nostalgia in her tone, "But I still like the irises in the Imperial College."

There is a blue iris blooming beautifully in the Imperial College. When Su Wanqing went to the Imperial College for the first time to teach, she happened to see the iris blooming.After that, I liked it very much, and sometimes I would read a book in the gazebo next to it.

The flowering period of iris is very short, only more than seven days, and the longest will not exceed more than 20 days.But Su Wanqing would go to the iris to read every time. Even if the iris was not in bloom, the woman would watch quietly, as if waiting for the flower to open and then to wither.

At the beginning, many male gentlemen and students could not understand, so they would go up to the woman and ask what is so good about the unopened and perishable flowers, but the woman just smiled and did not answer.The male gentleman and the students saw that the woman did not answer, so they never asked again.

Originally, the flowering period of the iris was too short, so many people thought of shoveling the iris and replacing it with a flower with a longer flowering period, which made them feel happy.But Jiang Wen doesn't think so, and thinks that although the flowering period of iris is short, it is extraordinarily beautiful when it blooms quietly.

In addition, Su Wanqing likes it very much. Su Wanqing is the first female gentleman in the Imperial College, so the male gentlemen and students will naturally maintain some.Moreover, the woman has been reading next to her since she came, so the iris was not wasted, so she kept it.Even after Su Wanqing got married, she still stayed in the Imperial College.

Jiang Wen looked at the woman with a slightly sad expression, and asked slowly after a while: "How have you been all these years?"

"I've had a good life these years. Jingzi has treated me very well, and Shuoming has been with me all the time." The woman looked at Jiang Wen and smiled with curved lips, which was mixed with a trace of imperceptible sadness.

Jiang Wen naturally saw it too, looked at the woman for a while and then smiled and said: "You are still as stubborn as before, even though you are not doing well, you still smile and say it is good, before knowing that many people will not accept you But you insist on giving lectures to make people accept you, and you still haven’t changed at all.” Then he praised, “But your lectures are very good, and many students like your lectures very much.”

"Then I would like to thank Lord Jijiu. If Lord Jijiu hadn't gone to Su's house to ask, how would I have the opportunity to teach at the Imperial College?" the woman said with a smile.

How easy is it for a woman to stand out among the many male gentlemen in the Imperial College?When the master of the Su family agreed to let Su Wanqing go to the Imperial College to teach, many male gentlemen and students sent letters to Jiang Wen saying that women were not suitable for teaching, and Su Wanqing naturally knew about it.

The master of the Su family even persuaded Su Wanqing for this. It wasn't that the Su family disagreed, but that there had never been a female gentleman in this world, and it was this world that disagreed.But Su Wanqing still stubbornly insisted on teaching. In order to let the students accept her, she often prepared the lecture content until midnight.

At the beginning, the Su family wanted to persuade them, but Mrs. Su often said: "If you want to be a female gentleman, you don't have to work so hard. Anyway, no matter how hard you work, you won't surpass those male gentlemen. And even if you don't do well, no one will What can I say, just go to the Imperial College to fool around, and I will come back to marry in the end, and I won’t stay in the Imperial College for the rest of my life.”

But the woman replied: "Even if I don't stay in the Imperial College for the rest of my life, then I have to do well. What's more, my daughter has this ability. Master Jijiu values ​​his daughter so much and protects her in public. How can my daughter disappoint Master Jijiu. After finishing speaking, he continued to study and prepare.

Now the Su family had no choice but to follow the woman's wishes.

When I went to the Imperial Academy for the first time to give lectures, many male gentlemen and students were amazed, and I didn't waste these days of hard preparation.Facing their various intellectual difficulties, the woman also answered them in an orderly manner.

People think that Su Wanqing, the young lady of the Su family, is talented and knowledgeable, but in order to answer these questions, she studies and studies late into the night every day.It's just to prevent them from underestimating the female gentleman and her.The final result was also very gratifying. Su Wanqing won the admiration of everyone in the Guozijian, and even participated in the imperial examination questions, which made everyone in Dingjing remember that there was a female gentleman in the Guozijian.

"You don't need to thank me for this. This is the result of your own hard work. I just gave you a chance, and you seized it tightly."

"But there are very few people who can give women opportunities like Master Jijiu. I will always keep this kindness in my heart and will never forget." Take it to heart."

"That's why you didn't listen to my advice at the beginning?" Jiang Wen looked at the woman and asked, "I said that although the status of the Fang family is not low in the capital, they are right with the Su family. But Mrs. Pan is illiterate and unreasonable, you will suffer greatly because of this in the future, Fang Jingzi is not a good match for you."

The woman just looked at the irises in front of her and smiled faintly, "I haven't forgotten what Master Jijiu said at the beginning, but now that I have married into the Fang family, it doesn't matter what I say now. Now I just want to tell my Shuo Ming Raise an adult, study hard, and be a teacher in the future. It is my regret that I can’t stay in the Imperial College for the rest of my life. I hope that Shuo Ming can teach in the Imperial College instead of me. It’s just..."

Su Wanqing frowned suddenly, quickly covered her mouth and lowered her head, with a painful expression, as if she wanted to hold back something.

Seeing this, Jiang Wen was a little stunned, and quickly stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter? Are you feeling unwell?"

Su Wanqing waved her hand quickly, expressing that she was fine.But his face immediately turned pale, and the cold sweat on his forehead showed that it was not all right.

Jiang Wen stared at Su Wanqing closely, and wanted to ask questions, but heard a warm and cool voice from a distance.

"I'm already taking medicine, is it all right?"

Qi Ze approached and took out the handkerchief in his arms and handed it to Su Wanqing. Su Wanqing took a look at Qi Ze, took the handkerchief, and said, "Thank you, Mr. Qi." At the same time, his voice became a little dull because his mouth was covered with his hands.

"Drinking medicine? Shaoyi, what's going on?" Jiang Wen looked at Qi Ze and asked.

"When Han Fei and I went to the dining hall to investigate, we saw a pot of medicine being boiled. There was a maid looking after this pot of medicine, so it could not be the illness of the servants. Seeing Mrs. Fang's appearance now, it must be Only Mrs. Fang is taking medicine." Qi Ze explained.

Jiang Wen frowned, and looked down at the woman, "Wan Qing, what's going on? You've always been healthy, how could you be sick?"

Su Wanqing straightened up and quickly held the handkerchief in her hand and put it behind her back, with a soft smile on her lips, "I'm fine, Lord Jijiu, it's just because the weather is a bit cold these days, and I accidentally caught a cold, and I'll be fine in a few days gone."

Jiang Wen looked at the pale Su Wanqing and said nothing. They had known each other for so long.He naturally knew Su Wanqing's character, which looked weak on the surface, but was actually very strong on the inside.Although she doesn't compete with others for anything, she never reveals her weakness in front of outsiders.

She said she was fine, but in fact she might have been sick long ago.It's just that she is never seen by others, and she is introverted, and she never speaks, so people ignore her.

Qi Ze looked at Su Wanqing's hand behind her back, bright red blood was faintly visible on the handkerchief in her hand.I'm afraid he's been sick for more than a day or two, and he's still very sick.

Fang Jingzi has been at the border, I'm afraid he didn't know it yet, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the border as usual.Pan has always disliked Su Wanqing, so of course she would not take care of Su Wanqing's affairs.His son Fang Shuoming is too young, so he may not realize that his mother is sick.

In this way, no one knew that this seemingly quiet and weak woman was already terminally ill.

Qi Ze and Jiang Wen couldn't help but kept looking at the woman in front of them. Perhaps the sympathy and distress in their eyes were too obvious. The woman raised her head and was a little stunned at first, then smiled relievedly, "You two adults don't have to worry, this is just an old problem for many years. I've been used to it for a long time."

Years old problem?Jiang Wen just said that Su Wanqing has always been in good health and rarely gets sick.I am afraid that this disease was acquired after marrying into Fang's family.The two kept looking at the woman, speechless for a while.

Su Wanqing is also a smart woman, of course she knew that her weak words would definitely not be able to fool the two in front of her.Just as he was about to speak, he frowned again, picked up a handkerchief and coughed, his voice became more and more intense, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

"Squeak-"

Just as the two of them looked at the woman in front of them and didn't know what to do, they heard the sound of a door opening, and then a little boy ran out, with short legs running towards them, He said in a childish voice: "Mother, how do you write '鸿' for iris? Shuoming wants to draw an iris for mother, but he can't write."

Su Wanqing heard this childish and innocent voice, and wanted to raise her head with a smile and walk over, but just as she put away the handkerchief, she couldn't help coughing again.As the little boy ran closer and closer, she was also trying to suppress the sound of coughing, trying not to let the little boy hear it.

Fang Shuoming was holding a pen and paper in his small hand, and he almost couldn't hold the pen and paper in his hand. There were a few crooked and unformed characters on the paper, and there were a few faint ink marks on his round face. It looks awkward and cute.

Jiang Wen saw Fang Shuoming getting closer, and the woman next to him had turned her back and tried to suppress the sound of coughing.Because he was trying to suppress it, his body trembled slightly.He could only sigh and hurriedly walked in front of Su Wanqing, covering the woman's trembling body.

Fang Shuoming ran to the irises, unfolded the paper in his hand and put it on the stone table beside him, and said with a bit of annoyance: "Really, mother likes irises the most, but Shuoming is too stupid to even write a word." Write."

Just when the little Fang Shuoming was upset, he felt a warmth wrapping his little hand, and at the same time there was a deep and cool voice, "It is written in this way, I will teach you."

Hearing the reputation, Fang Shuoming looked over, and saw a cold young man with a gentle face. The fingers holding his small hand were slender and white, which formed a strong contrast with his dirty little hand covered with ink marks.

After a while, a word with vigorous handwriting was displayed on the paper, and the voice of the noble man in indigo blue brocade clothes was softer than usual, "Have you learned it?"

Fang Shuoming looked at the words on the paper, and then turned his head to look at Qi Ze behind him. There was a big smile on Yuanyuan's face, showing some naughty and cute canine teeth, and he whispered, "Thank you, big brother."

"Where is mother?" Fang Shuoming looked up and looked around, saw the corner of Su Wanqing's light blue dress, and was about to run over with a smile, but Qi Ze grabbed his little hand.

Fang Shuoming couldn't help turning his head, and saw Qi Ze squatting down and supporting his immature shoulders with both hands, with a gentle smile in his eyes, "Shuoming wants to draw an iris, right?"

"Well, mother likes irises the most, and Shuoming wants to draw a picture for mother." The little Fang Shuoming was carved with jade, with a pair of lovely almond eyes.

Qi Ze remembered that Fang Jingzi had a pair of almond eyes, and the jade tree was facing the wind. It seemed that Fang Shuoming looked more like Fang Jingzi.

"Then Shuoming will draw a picture quietly, without letting mother know, and then give mother a surprise, okay?" Qi Ze said with a smile.

"Surprise? Will mother laugh happily then? After father left, mother rarely smiled happily." Fang Shuoming said very obediently.

Sure enough, children's hearts are the most pure and transparent. Many adults can't see that Su Wanqing seldom smiles happily, but children can see it.Everyone thought that Su Wanqing married into the Fang family and lived a happy life. After all, the Fang family and the Su family were in the same family, Fang Jingzi did not take concubines, and the backyard was always clean.

Even after going to the border, Su Wanqing left behind a well-behaved and sensible Fang Shuoming, which is indeed happiness for an ordinary woman.There is no annoying concubine to disturb the ears, there is a young, promising and handsome husband, and a lovely son.But only Su Wanqing knew if she was really happy or not.

There is an illiterate mother-in-law who makes trouble all day long. Although life is not difficult, it will not be easy after all.Otherwise, since she married into Fang's mansion, she wouldn't get sick, and only Su Wanqing could understand the bitterness in it, and it was difficult for others to understand.

"Yes, mother will smile happily by then, does Shuoming want to see mother smile happily?"

"think."

"Then Shuoming will go back to his room to draw now, and then he will be able to see his mother smiling happily."

"Okay, Shuoming will go back to draw now." After speaking, the little Fang Shuoming quickly ran back to the room quietly, as if he was really afraid that Su Wanqing would find out.

The corners of Su Wanqing's eyes were slightly wet behind Jiang Wen, and she could no longer restrain herself from coughing violently, and it took a long time before she recovered.

At some point, her face was already full of tears, and what she was most worried about was her son.She was afraid of Shuoming's panic when he saw her sick and dying. If she really couldn't make it to Jingzi's return, then Shuoming could only be taken by Mrs. Pan.

Although Pan is Shuo Ming's biological grandmother, she has always disliked her, so I'm afraid she won't take Shuo Ming with her.Then Shuoming will really become an orphan without parents. He is only four years old. How can he take care of himself? How can this not worry her?

The woman looked deeply at the room Fang Shuoming entered, and heard Qi Ze's approaching footsteps behind her, she hurriedly wiped away the tears on her face, turned around with the same soft smile as usual, but the expression in her eyes The desolation can't be concealed, "Thank you two adults for helping the minister's wife to hide it just now."

Jiang Wen looked at Su Wanqing, sighed after a while and said, "Why are you doing this?"

"Shuoming is still young, just at the age of being lively and active, let him know that this incident is too cruel for him." The woman smiled sadly.

"Why didn't Fang Jingzi tell? As long as you say so, Fang Jingzi will stay with you and won't go to the border." Qi Ze couldn't help asking.

"It was because I said that he would stay for me that I chose not to tell him. I still understand how important an official career is to a man. If he stays for me, regardless of the food and grass needed by the border guards, what should I do? His official career will also be stagnated because of this. It's unfair to him, and I don't want to see this." The woman smiled reluctantly, "And whether my disease can be cured, I still know in my heart. Since the cure No, what's the point of staying."

Qi Ze and Jiang Wen didn't know what to say to comfort the woman, she didn't seem to need them to comfort her.It's just because she sees everything too clearly in her heart, knows the cause and effect of everything, knows the importance of official career to a man, and knows that if it is meaningless to speak out about her illness, then she will accept it calmly.

"Let's not talk about this, I wonder how Master Qi and Master Chu are doing with their investigation?" Su Wanqing asked with a gentle smile.

Qi Ze looked at Su Wanqing, knowing that Su Wanqing was very smart and couldn't hide it from her, so he could only say: "I have found the clues, and we can only do further investigation when Master Chu returns to the Ministry of Punishment."

After finding clues to the cinnabar poison, Chu Kainan didn't even bother to change her clothes before getting on the carriage back to the Ministry of Criminal Justice. She saw Su Wanqing bent down with a pained expression, and remembered the pot of boiling medicine in the dining hall. Make sure that the medicine is for Su Wanqing.

"Have you found the clue?" Su Wanqing couldn't help asking.

"Yes, but the murderer may not necessarily be in Fang's residence, Madam Fang, please rest assured." Qi Ze could only blur the fact that the murderer was in Fang's residence, and comforted him.

Su Wanqing didn't get suspicious either, and said, "I believe that my lord will see clearly and give Fangfu an explanation." As soon as she finished speaking, Su Wanqing saw a little maid coming from a distance with a bowl of medicine in her hand, she turned around and said : "My lords, the minister's wife will excuse me first."

Qi Ze and Jiang Wen naturally also saw the medicine in the little maid's hand, so they nodded.

After Su Wanqing left, Jiang Wen asked: "Shaoyi, Han Fei has already determined that the murderer is already in Fangfu?"

Just now when Qi Ze and Chu Kainan explained their intentions to Su Wanqing, Jiang Wen was listening by the side, so he knew that the murderer of the eldest wife of the Cao family, Chen Shu, might be in Fangfu.

Chu Kainan's reputation in the imperial court was well known to Jiang Wen, and if he hadn't suspected that the murderer was in Fangfu, he wouldn't have come to investigate.Now that the clues have been found, there is a high probability that the murderer is in Fangfu.Although Su Wanqing was smart, she had never been involved in court and did not understand Chu Kainan's ability to solve cases, so she could still believe what Qi Ze said.

"That's right, we found a piece of Chinese herbal medicine that has been stored for a long time in the dining hall. If Han Fei finds traces of cinnabar on the Chinese medicine, then as long as he finds out the person who fell ill half a year ago, the truth will be revealed." Qi Ze said with a serious expression.

"Then if the cinnabar is really found, then the Fangfu will..." Jiang Wen couldn't imagine that although it was a matter of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, he could not intervene as a Guozijian offering wine, but Su Wanqing was the female gentleman he valued back then. Inviting her personally to teach at the Imperial College, the two of them are considered friends.

"Fang's residence may not be peaceful in the future. After all, Fang Jingzi is not in the capital, and many things beyond the fixed number will happen. We have no way to stop them." Qi Ze said seriously.

Jiang Wen could only nod his head. These things are really not something they can stop, and it can only depend on the Fang family's own good luck.

Just when the two were about to leave, Qi Ze felt someone pulling her sleeve, turned his head and saw that the little Fang Shuoming was looking at her with a bright smile, and his voice was sweet and sweet.

"Big Brother, will you come to Fang Mansion in the future?"

"Of course." Qi Ze squatted down, with a gentle voice, "When does Shuoming want me to come?"

"Shuoming wants big brother to come when the irises are in bloom." Then he said very mysteriously, "Big brother, do you know why mother likes irises?"

"why?"

"Because daddy will come back every time the irises bloom." Fang Shuoming said with a sweet smile on his round face and eyes full of expectation.

(End of this chapter)