Chapter 67: Portrait (1)

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "You slippery little guy, why haven't you been returned by Changyuan yet?"

Yunxi grinned.

Mrs. Wei felt that Wei Qian's marriage was all due to Yun Xi, so she attached great importance to it, Wei Qian was busy some time ago, and she didn't worry about changing her little girl for a while, and just started talking to Mrs. Wei the day before yesterday, Mrs. Wei directly pressed him to death.

Don't look at Wei Qian's solving the case like a god, it seems that everything is in the palm of his hand, and it doesn't work when he goes to Mrs. Wei. It's not that Mrs. Wei has more eyes than him, but once she makes up her mind, she will be unmoved by what you say and do.

Fu Yuan said goodbye to Cui Ning and rode away.

"Second lady Cui, the little one wants to apologize to you. Yun Xi said and made a big salute.

Cui Ning said: "I'm not angry anymore. ”

"That's the lady is magnanimous, and the adults don't remember the villain. Yun Xi said busily.

Cui Ning snorted, "I think about it, if you dare to do this next time, see if I don't beat you to death on the spot!"

Yun Xi thought to himself, in order to let Lang Jun marry his daughter-in-law, what does it matter if he is beaten a few times!

It is calculated that Yun Xi can still be by Wei Qian's side with all his beards and tails, not only because of the cover on it, but also because of his sincerity. Wei Qian knew that even though he had many shortcomings, he could be reliable at a critical time.

When Cui Ning returned to the garden to change into the clothes of the little girl, he went out.

The carriage still carried her to the house of the Imperial Lady.

The acacia huā bloomed more luxuriantly, and a shallow layer of huā petals fell on the ground, and the fragrance was bursting.

When Cui Ning arrived, Wei Qian was in the house opening the books left by Mrs. Huangfu. Cui Ning saw him wearing an official uniform for the first time, and his skin was as white as jade, his face was handsome, and the depth between his eyebrows and eyes was also diluted a little. made him a little more boyish than usual.

Wei Qian noticed that the light had changed, and when he looked up, he saw Cui Ning standing at the door, "Come in." ”

"Fifth brother, it seems that there are a lot fewer official errands this time. Cui Ning remembered that when she came back, there were officials standing all around, and there were people guarding the yard everywhere, this time there were only about a dozen people inside and outside.

Wei Qian said, "They were sent to do other things. ”

"How's the case going?" asked Cui Ning.

"Sit. Take a look at these books. Wei Qian handed her a copy casually.

Cui Ning took the book. At a glance, it turned out to be the "Youting Fragrance Book" written by my grandmother.

She didn't ask, sat down and flipped through the pages. This is a rubbing, and she can recite the contents of it word for word, and this book is not much different from what her grandmother wrote, both in terms of words and content.

Cui Ning patiently looked at the end from the beginning. I didn't find anything out of the ordinary, and I was about to ask something. Wei Qian raised his hand and handed over another copy, and she had to continue reading.

This book is the "Huā Yunshe Poetry Collection", which contains poems written by different people, a total of ninety-nine poems.

Cui Ning can't write poetry. But I can appreciate it, and I thought it was good when I first read it, but when she finished reading the ninety-nine poems, she felt a little bored. Poetry is good poetry, but it is too soft. There are also some feelings of sorrow for the new words. In retrospect, I only think those lively and bright poems are better.

Cui Ning paid attention to it, and the poems were signed "Qi Duyun" and "Fifth brother, is Qi Duyun the wife of Huangfu?"

"Well, Twilight is her word. Wei Qian looked at her, as if asking her how she felt after viewing.

"Madame Huangfu is quite talented, and she has nearly twenty of the ninety-nine poems. The first few poems were quite bright, but later they became melancholy. Cui Ning felt that it was not as good as the happy ones before.

She still doesn't quite understand the thoughts of her daughter's family, especially the woman who is pregnant with spring. When the mind is simple and carefree, look at huā is huā, look at the leaf is leaf, but once you secretly love someone, look at huā and look at the leaf are melancholy, this small mood is difficult for others to understand, so it seems that you will feel "forced to say sorrow".

Wei Qiandao: "This collection of poems screens and records the poems of the Huāyun Poetry Society in the third year of its establishment, that is, thirteen years ago, when Qi Duyun was fourteen years old. ”

Cui Ning suddenly realized that there were a total of six volumes of poems in the Huā Yun Poetry Society, and Wei Qian showed her this volume because Qi Duyun's style had changed a lot this year.

"Look at this one again. Wei Qian handed her a collection of poems marked with the word 'C'.

Cui Ning understood the reason, so she didn't look at anything else, but only picked Qi Duyun's poems to read.

There are obviously more poems by Qi Duyun in this volume, about nearly thirty, and like divine help, the level of each poem is much higher than that of the previous year. Cui Ning looked at the end from the beginning to the end, and felt that after watching Qi Duyun's ups and downs throughout the year, the ups and downs, as if she was mentally ill.

Good poems are all inspired by feelings, and looking at these words and sentences, it is obvious that they are not simply a pile of rhetoric.

Wei Qian said, "At the beginning of the fourth year of Yongchang, Qi Duyun met a man and secretly fell in love, at the end of the fourth year of Yongchang, that person seemed to notice her love, so he deliberately stayed away from her, which made her very uncomfortable. Yongchang five years, I don't know what the reason is, they got closer, got to know each other, Yongchang eight years, she separated from this person and married Hua Guogong. ”

Cui Ning was already accustomed to seeing the subtleties, and he was not surprised when he heard this, "The man who can make the Qi family infatuated must be very good, right?" And it is said that there are many people who are infatuated with the Qi family, why should this man deliberately stay away from her?"

There are many people who love Qi Duyun, and she is not like other women who pretend to be reserved and deliberately avoid, but she is generous, but she has never had a deep friendship with anyone, so her reputation is not bad, this man avoids her, obviously not because of her reputation.

"Do you think the Qi family's family is too low?" Cui Ning has been instilled with a lot of family concepts, and it is easy to think of this.

Men are extremely disgusted with women, and they will never deliberately avoid them, Wei Qian, as a man, feels that it is not as Cui Ning said, Pei Shujun is a living example, but her words inspired him, "Maybe it's because the family is lower than the Qi family, and much lower." ”

In this way, men will have an inferiority complex, and from the bottom of their hearts, they feel that they are not worthy of Qi's family, and if he is a person who knows etiquette, Qi's love will definitely lead him away.

But in this case, an attractive woman like Qi's family, as long as she takes the initiative to express her affection, this man is easy to struggle, and then has the possibility of starting this relationship.

Cui Ning said, "If the speculation is true, Pei Shujun can be ruled out." ”

Wei Qian didn't answer, his fingers tapped lightly on the table, staring at the poetry book in contemplation.

Cui Ning thought about it again, among the four people, only Li Ning was not from a good background, except for Pei Shujun, the other two were all from the scholarly family, and there was no difference between the zài family and the family.

Speaking of which, the Qi family is not very noble, if it is much lower, it may be a story of a poor boy falling in love with a rich girl.

Cui Ning didn't bother Wei Qian, she was holding a collection of poems and thinking nonsense, she felt that the family was not the only reason, maybe the two families had a feud that made this man deliberately avoid it, and the Qi family was so worried?

She held her head to imagine the beginning and end of the whole story, and when she retracted her thoughts, she saw Wei Qian's brows furrowed.

"Fifth brother?" Cui Ning called softly.

"Hmm. He replied absentmindedly.

Judging from the clues that Wei Qian has found now, the four of them can rule out suspicion.

Regardless of other conditions such as the family lineage, first of all, these four people all knew her in the fifth or sixth year of Yongchang, that is, when Qi was sixteen or seventeen years old, and there was a full gap of two or three years from the time guessed from the poetry collection.

Qi is well-known to many people and pursues the age of sixteen or seventeen years old.

When Yongchang was four years old, Qi's figure was still relatively average, and her face was not so good, before this, she was talented, but not so outstanding, after meeting that man, her attainments in poetry suddenly improved a lot, this kind of improvement, not only emotionally convenient "true".

Can it be shown that this man not only brought her feelings, but also a talented person who can guide Qi's poetry?

Assuming that there is a big gap between him and the Qi family, then the possibility of acquaintance is reduced, in other words, the scope of acquaintance that can be made to them is much narrower. It may be a chance encounter, so when they meet for the first time, the man must have shown a talent that amazed Qi, or it is also conceivable that he looks very good. Moreover, he was able to know Qi for four years and fall in love for two or three years, which shows that he should have lived in Chang'an during this period, and it is very likely that he is from Chang'an, otherwise he will live in the house of friends and relatives.

Since the identity and the Qi family are very different, they are either very poor or ordinary people. In Chang'an, whether it is renting an inn or eating, it is a lot of money, not to mention that he has lived for four years?

If he is the murderer, it means that he is still in Chang'an, has he always been there, or has he come back again?

Assuming that he didn't attract Qi for the first time they met, how could they fall in love with each other for a long time with the difference in their identities?

He must not be very young, because a man who can make a woman fall for him, at least the male characteristics of his appearance begin to appear, and most of the time, fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls also prefer men of the same age or a little older, so he cannot be twelve or thirteen years old, at least fourteen years old.

If he is Qi's teacher, then he will be a little older, and there will be a certain gap with Qi, but the gap will not be too outrageous, about thirty-five years old, more likely under thirty years old, because the average man begins to grow a beard at the age of thirty, and a normal cardamom girl likes to grow a beard like an old pedantic man is not particularly likely.

So he is most likely between seventeen or eighteen and twenty-seven or eighteen.

These assumptions, based on subtle clues, gradually sketched an image of a man in Wei Qian's mind: when Yongchang was four years old, this man was between seventeen and twenty-seven or eighteen years old, lived in Chang'an, was not of high origin, even very poor, good-looking, very talented, good at poetry, and may have participated in the imperial examination, but he had not yet become an official, and he did not have much success. (To be continued)

ps:, I landed for half an hour!! tears ran ~~ It's past twelve o'clock, and it's broken!! woo woo woo. The next one is going to be late, let's wash and sleep, I'm sorry for the delay in uploading today.