How could you think that way!
Gu Songhan was quite helpless. Was there something he hadn't done well enough?
How could a little girl think of him like that!
Seeing his helpless yet resentful expression, Jiang Segu shrank back, pretending not to see, and told him while eating his braised pork knuckle, "My cousin is leaving tomorrow!"
"You can't bear to part with it?"
Jiang Segu felt that the braised pork knuckle in his hand no longer tasted good.
Seeing her listless expression and that she had stopped chewing the braised pork knuckle in her mouth, Gu Songhan felt that he shouldn't have bought so much food today. She was reluctant to leave because of her cousin!
Thinking of this, he angrily bit into the foie gras in his hand!
Jiang Segu was naturally reluctant to part with it!
She lost her cousin three whole years ago!
I never imagined that our reunion would be so fleeting.
It's good that you've left. It's best not to stay in this man-eating capital for too long!
For some reason, Jiang Segu suddenly remembered Ding Weichang's beloved concubine.
How much must one love someone to commit suicide upon their passing?
Did she think of her children before she left like that...?
Jiang Segu recalled his past life!
After her mother died, her brother had an accident. If it weren't for her grandmother, she really wouldn't know what to do!
I wonder how that concubine's child is doing now!
She sighed again, a long sigh tinged with melancholy, her round, mischievous eyes, like a cat's, seeming to glance at Gu Songhan intentionally or unintentionally.
Gu Songhan's hand, which was eating foie gras, froze. Could it be...?
He was in a dilemma, unsure whether to swallow or spit out the foie gras in his mouth!
He forced a smile and looked at Jiang Segu awkwardly.
Jiang Segu was stunned. What did this mean?
Could it be that he choked?
She quickly handed the water pouch to Gu Songhan, saying, "Have some water!"
What?
Gu Songhan was also a little confused.
This water pouch was meant for the little girl to drink from tomorrow. If he drinks from it now, will the little girl... not mind?
Or is it a matter of reciprocity?
He swallowed the foie gras in his mouth, took the water pouch, and thanked him.
Seeing that he was alright, Jiang Segu hesitated before saying, "Um... could you please ask Wen Dong to help me inquire about Ding Weichang and his concubine's child? If possible, please try to help them out!"
Gu Songhan nodded in agreement, then handed a basket of steamed buns to Jiang Segu, saying, "This is a newly opened steamed bun shop on Jingui Street. Try it and see how it tastes..."
***
When Wen Dong sent back the message, Jiang Segu felt that Ding Weichang's beloved concubine, Aunt Liu, had died under suspicious circumstances!
Ding Weichang and Aunt Liu only had one son, but he drowned in the lake when he was two years old, five years ago.
According to the servants in the mansion, Aunt Liu had questioned Ding Weichang's wife, Madam Xia, but Ding Weichang needed the Xia family's help in his business at the time, so the matter of the child's death was left unresolved.
After that, Ding Weichang doted on her, but Aunt Liu never had another child.
Would Aunt Liu commit suicide for a man who would disregard his son's death because of business?
Jiang Segu felt it didn't make sense!
Could it be that Aunt Liu poisoned Ding Weichang, but then committed suicide out of fear of being exposed?
But that doesn't make sense!
Five years after the child died, wasn't it a bit too late to poison Ding Weichang to avenge the child?
Besides, if it were her, the first person she would have poisoned would have been Xia, who was being questioned at the time, not Ding Weichang.
"...Wen Dongxin said that Xia Shi fell ill at the end of last year, and after Ding Weichang's death, she became even more seriously ill and is still in a daze. Moreover, Xia Shi and Aunt Liu have had no conflicts in recent years. In fact, in the last two years, Xia Shi has treated Aunt Liu much better than the other concubines in the mansion, and even supported Aunt Liu's younger brother in his medicinal herb business!"
If it's not the Xia family, then who could it be?
Is Xia's kindness towards Aunt Liu an attempt to compensate her for the loss of her son? Isn't that a bit too late?
Jiang Segu couldn't understand it.
First Ding Weichang died, and then Aunt Liu died. No matter how you look at it, the biggest beneficiary was Madam Xia. But even if Madam Xia wasn't sick, why would she kill Ding Weichang?
Although Concubine Liu was favored, a concubine without children, no matter how favored she was, could never surpass the principal wife!
Killing Concubine Liu was clearly unnecessary!
"Who is in charge of the Ding family now?"
"Ding Weichang's younger brother, Ding Weiming."
"Is there anything unusual about Ding Weiming?"
Although Gu Songhan had previously said that no one in the Ding family was a suspect, Jiang Segu still held onto a sliver of hope.
Gu Songhan shook his head, "Ding Weiming is the county magistrate of Shunde. Ding Weichang relies on Ding Weiming for many of his businesses, and Ding Weiming's promotion is also inseparable from Ding Weichang's support. The brothers are very united and have never had any conflicts or disputes..."
For some reason, Jiang Segu always felt that Ding Weiming might be the key to Ding Weichang's death!
"What about the shops under Ding Weichang's name? Who's managing them now?"
"The shops are all being managed by the original managers, so there shouldn't be any major problems for the time being!"
Since Ding Weichang's death, Ding Weiming has never met with any of the shop owners in private. He only told the shop owners at Ding Weichang's funeral to focus on their work and promised that the Ding family would give them everything they were entitled to!
But if anyone harbors ill intentions, he will definitely clean house for his brother!
Not only that, he also had several shopkeepers immediately acknowledge Ding Weichang's only son as their new boss.
At this point, Jiang Segu chimed in, "Ding Weichang's son is only eight years old!"
An eight-year-old child, fatherless and with a sick mother, must need someone to support him...
Whether to genuinely support him or to use him as a puppet ruler is entirely up to Ding Weiming!
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