After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 131 Complaints
The famous Yingchuan Marquis Mansion is a prestigious family in the capital that controls the imperial army.

In his previous life, when Prince Yingchuan went to Ganzhou for training, he was unlucky enough to be involved in the murder of his wife by hundreds of households, and became one of the victims of the murderer's knife. In grief and anger, the Yingchuan Prince listened to Mr. Sun Ge's instigation. Recognizing the Zhou family as enemies not only caused General Zhou to be dismissed from his post, but he also took revenge on the Zhou family one after another, causing the Zhou family to gradually lose military power in the border army. After the death of Marshal Zhou, they could only become an ordinary military attache.

In the past, Haijiao only knew that the Yingchuan Houfu misunderstood the Zhou family, so he conspired with Mr. Sun Ge to retaliate against them. He never expected that the Yingchuan Houfu and the Zhou family were actually related by marriage? !

Since they are in-laws, what misunderstandings cannot be cleared up?Is it difficult for relatives to pull strings and explain the cause of Yingchuan Hou Shizi's death?He was just unlucky enough to meet a murderer, and there was no conspiracy at all.A small household under the command of General Zhou killed someone. He may be responsible for negligence, but he will not lose his official position, and the entire Zhou family will be implicated!

So, why did Marquis Yingchuan think that the Zhou family was responsible for the death of his eldest son?Could it be that this in-laws were married in vain? !
Hai Liao's breathing became a little heavier, and he calmed down after being poked in the back by his sister Hai Tang.

Now that he knew there was something wrong with this matter, he would still have enough time to investigate slowly in the future. The most important thing right now was to listen clearly to the conversation between the two elders in the room and see if he could collect more information.Now is not the time to think wildly.

Haitang caught a glimpse of her brother's face regaining clarity before she looked away and continued to listen carefully to Zhou Ma's cries in the room.

However, Zhou Ma did not continue to mention the in-laws of Yingchuan Houfu.It is estimated that Mrs. Ma already knew about this marriage, so Mrs. Zhou did not need to explain anything in front of her younger sister. She just started crying about the financial losses she had suffered in the past.

She was lucky enough to marry into a wealthy family like the Zhou family, and her family members also felt very honored.At that time, the Ma family was obviously not very rich, but in order to support his eldest daughter, Mr. Ma still spent all his money to buy a generous dowry for his eldest daughter, including gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, antique calligraphy and paintings, and everything else. There is also a villa covering a large area and a fertile farm in another place.

As a result, the Ma family suffered a huge loss. Ma Yukun, Zhou Ma's eldest brother, and Ma Jiang, his eldest sister-in-law, felt that their father was partial to his eldest daughter.Afterwards, in order to make up for the shortfall in his family, Mr. Ma had to take his young daughter to work in Shanhaiwei, thousands of miles away from home. He was exhausted and died on the job.

However, Mrs. Zhou Ma married into the Zhou family with this generous dowry and should have no shortage of money to spend. However, for more than 30 years, her stepmother-in-law has always asked her to pay for it.

She has to pay for the expenses of her husband and stepson. If she doesn't pay, she doesn't care about her husband or her children.

She also has to pay for the expenses of her father-in-law and step-mother-in-law. If she doesn't pay, it would be disrespectful to her parents.

She also has to pay for the expenses of the children born to her step-mother-in-law. If she doesn't pay, she would be ungrateful and ignore the kindness that her step-mother-in-law has given her in raising her husband and stepson.She also has to pay for the expenses that her stepmother-in-law pays for her husband's relatives. If she doesn't pay, she doesn't care about her clan members and is not worthy of being a clan wife.

Even her step-mother-in-law had to foot the bill for her natal family's expenses, but she refused. She just climbed a high tree and ignored her natal family. She was a blind wolf who had forgotten the basics!
At that time, her father went to work in other places, and her brother and sister-in-law had a quarrel with her and became increasingly estranged. Mrs. Ma suppressed her as a double elder of her mother-in-law's family, and used her as a matchmaker to manipulate her. Her husband was suspicious of her. She is not on her side at all. Her stepson is closer to her step-mother-in-law and her maternal family, and has a hostile attitude toward her. Even the Zhou clan has no good opinion of her. She can do nothing at all and can only obey her step-mother-in-law. She kept spending money and tried to learn to be a virtuous and virtuous daughter-in-law.

It wasn't until her stepson grew up, got married, and successfully gave birth to children that Zhou Ma finally proved her innocence in front of her husband and the Zhou clan, and no longer was scolded by her parents' and husband's clan members just because they missed paying a sum of money. .

At that time, she had also matured a lot and realized that her step-mother-in-law was a sweet-faced and bitter-hearted person. She pretended to be virtuous and virtuous on the surface, but in fact she loved schemers the most.The people who benefited from the money she paid all remembered their step-mother-in-law, but they didn't feel much gratitude to her. This was all because her step-mother-in-law slandered and belittled her in front of others!
Zhou Ma was actually a little confused.Madam Ma, the stepmother-in-law, had obviously inherited a huge amount of property from her adoptive mother, and was still holding a large dowry from Mr. Friday’s biological mother. She was not short of money at all, so why did she want to plot against her daughter-in-law’s three melons and two dates?
In fact, her dowry was almost spent ten years after her marriage, and the rest were the head jewelry at the bottom of the box, and sustainable and promising properties like the farm.She is not stupid, and she will not give these away anyway, cutting off her own escape route.She also has children, and even if she doesn't think about herself, she still has to consider her children's future.

In order to save money, she simply did not compete for the power of the central government, so as not to have to pay for the shortfall out of her own pocket. She allowed her step-mother-in-law, Mrs. Ma, to take charge of the house. She received a monthly salary to live on, and her daily attire was as simple as possible.Even if some sisters-in-law or elders in the clan said that she had lost the dignity of the Zhou family, she still insisted on promoting herself as a "poor person".As time went by, Mrs. Ma, the stepmother-in-law, considered her reputation and reduced her deprivation.

However, when her stepmother-in-law's biological daughter Zhou Shuyi got married, Zhou Ma was still forced to bleed.Included in her dowry was a set of precious red gold and multi-treasure headdresses, which Mr. Ma spent a huge sum of money to build for his eldest daughter, so that she would not be rude to her sisters-in-law during grand occasions at her husband's house.Mrs. Ma insisted that her daughter's dowry lacked such a good reputation, and forced Zhou Ma to cut off her flesh.Zhou Ma didn't want to, so many relatives and female family members said that she was stingy, stingy, unfilial to her mother-in-law, and unfriendly to her sister-in-law... Her own daughter was getting older at that time, and she wanted to marry her in a few years, in order not to hurt her daughter. Because of her reputation, she had no choice but to give up her appearance and pretend to be generous in front of others and say some words of love for her sister-in-law.

In fact, her sister-in-law, niece, her stepson's newly married daughter-in-law, and her own daughter were all very dissatisfied with this matter.Because of this set of masks, they thought they had a chance to get it, but she gave it away generously.

When Mrs. Ma heard this, she couldn't help but sigh: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?! I was still blaming you at that time! The dowry that your father carefully crafted for you was given to outsiders casually, even if it was left to your daughter-in-law. Or even kiss my daughter! You are still saying things in front of me that the whole family doesn’t have to worry about. I’m so angry that I don’t want to talk to you anymore!”

Zhou Ma cried: "How can I tell you the truth?! Everyone in my family thinks that I have climbed a high branch and lived a happy life. I want you to know what kind of life I have been living, and how can I have any dignity?!"

She was really suffering and couldn't tell.The step-mother-in-law was obviously very scheming, but she did her best in front of others so that no one could find her fault.If not for the death of the father-in-law, the step-mother-in-law firmly sat on the throne of the old prince, with the support of her promising son and her daughter-in-law who married in a high age, and she also controlled the famous stepson, and acted with less scruples, which would have made people see her true face. Come on, now everyone in the Zhou clan praises her for being virtuous and kind!
Ma looked at her eldest sister with hatred: "It's been more than 30 years! You have asked her to manipulate you for so many years, and now you know how powerful she is?! Now she wants your Zhuangzi again?"

Zhou Ma burst into tears: "She wants to take out Zhuangzi and build some kind of workshop for our master and the eldest son born before us. Even the land deed has to be changed, but she doesn't give a penny. I won't speak for you, really." There’s nothing we can do!”

(End of this chapter)