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

Chapter 164
Today, the old military advisor led a large group of troops to the third room of the Zhou family before noon. The journey was grand and grand, and the posture exceeded every time he visited in the past. Moreover, his face was solemn and seemed to be a bit angry.

This makes people have to suspect that his visit this time is to bring bad luck to the third room.

The three-bedroom house of the Zhou family is located in a neighborhood where the Zhou family lives together. The people living on the two streets in front and behind are all Zhou family members or close relatives. Even if there are people with foreign surnames, they are mostly soldiers and generals. There are basically no outsiders, and the houses are well-built. dense.The old military advisor went to the third room with such great fanfare. When the neighbors saw this, they couldn't help but talk about it.

One of them is the neighbor of the third room of the Zhou family. It is also a branch of the Zhou family, and it is a branch of the big family. The original head of the family was the younger brother of the old man of the third house. After the old man of the third house retired to the rear, After recovering from his injuries, he went to the northwest frontier as the third brother, but was later separated from the family.According to the clan ranking, his room is considered the fourteenth room of the Zhou family.The head of the family, the Fourteenth Grandfather, died in battle before he was thirty, leaving behind a young widow with a pair of children to live a hard life.

There are many widows and children like this in the Zhou family. The public school distributes financial and material assistance to the families of the deceased children every month. The border army also distributes pensions, and the government also makes certain gestures every New Year. , the lives of the bereaved families of fallen soldiers can usually be maintained.It's just that Mrs. Lu, the fourteenth old lady, hopes that her children can live a more prosperous life, so she has been fawning over her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ma, in the hope of getting more benefits from her.Over the past few decades, she has become one of Madam Ma's regular followers.

Nowadays, although the children of the Fourteenth Old Lady are not high-ranking officials and rich, they are still living in peace and stability. Their children and grandchildren all have official positions in the military, and their daughters are happily married and live a prosperous life. The Fourteenth Old Lady has nothing to worry about. The number of times she fawned over Mrs. Ma in front of Mrs. Ma decreased a lot.However, she would still go over and chat with her sister-in-law every month to maintain the friendship between the two parties.Although the third bedroom is not as prosperous as it used to be, it is still much better than the fourteenth bedroom. The little benefit that leaks out from the fingers is enough to make the children and grandchildren of the fourteenth old lady develop more smoothly in the military.

The fourteenth old lady lived next to the third-bedroom ancestral house. The house was originally divided from the third-bedroom house. When she learned that the old military advisor came to the door aggressively, she felt a little worried.She is of a higher generation and was born in a separate family from the third house. She has a deep understanding of the conflict between the old military advisor and Mrs. Ma in the early years.However, out of her own interests, she always sides with Mrs. Ma almost every time.

Her own husband died on the battlefield at a young age. Mrs. Ma did not want to be a widow at a young age and urged her husband to stay in the rear to recuperate. What was wrong?If she had had this ability back then, she would have persuaded her husband to stay, even if it was just to work as a civil servant or patrol the city to maintain law and order, it would have been better than losing her life at a young age.She wouldn't have suffered alone for most of her life, and now at such an old age, she still has to continue to please her sister-in-law in a low voice for the sake of her children and grandchildren.

Thinking like this, Mrs. Fourteen felt that this time the old military advisor was trying to teach Master Wu a lesson to hit Mrs. Ma behind him for a similar problem.She thought that this was another great opportunity for her to please her old grandmother, so she quickly packed up, took a maid with her, pretended to be concerned, and went to the door of the third room of the Zhou family.

No one knows what happened next in the third room of the Zhou family.More than half an hour later, the fourteenth old lady walked out of the third-room ancestral house with a livid face, holding on to the maid's hand. She couldn't help turning around and spat, then rolled up her sleeves and left.

Who among the neighbors who saw this scene would not find it strange?When did even the fourteenth old lady, who had always been attached to the third room, dare to spit at the door of the third room?What happened to make the fourteenth old lady, who was always good-tempered, so angry?

The old military advisor was still in the three-bedroom house of the Zhou family, but people from the neighbors had already gone to the fourteenth room to find out the news, especially the female relatives of the clan who had close contact with the fourteenth old lady. After a while, even her natal nephew My daughter-in-law also arrived after hearing the news.The fourteenth old lady was obviously very angry and had no intention of covering up for her.By the time the old military advisor left the third room with an angry expression, rumors about his purpose had spread throughout the two streets where the Zhou family lived.

Zhou Ma, who originally lived in the three-bedroom apartment, naturally got the news early and thought it was an unexpected surprise.Before her step-mother-in-law could find time to question herself, she quickly made an excuse, ran out of the back door with her confidant maid, and took refuge with her sister.

So Haitang once again listened to the conversation between her grandmother Ma and her eldest sister Zhou Ma in the main house under the cover of doing embroidery work.

Zhou Ma did not dare to face the scene where the old military advisor was angry at her husband and step-mother-in-law. She hid in the distance and eavesdropped for a while, but could not hear clearly. She then sent her confidant maid to come closer and eavesdrop. Later, her husband's confidant drove her back. .Although she was not able to eavesdrop on everything, she knew very well that the news about her stepmother-in-law and her husband's plan to build a private glass workshop was leaked, and the old military advisor found out about it, and then the old military advisor came angrily to seek bad luck on their stepmother and son.

However, Mrs. Zhou Ma couldn't help feeling aggrieved for her husband. She believed that Lord Zhou Shigong was only forced by his stepmother, Mrs. Ma, to agree to such an unreasonable request. He also tried to dissuade Mrs. Ma, but failed.It was because of his filial piety that he didn't stop him. How could it be his fault?The old military advisor was too unfair to him.Does the old military advisor still expect Zhou Shigong to disobey his mother's orders?When rumors begin to spread, will the veteran military advisor still be able to defend Zhou Shigong who has been wronged? !
Zhou Ma first gloated, and then began to defend her husband.Ma listened for a long time and realized that the eldest sister really didn't realize the truth, so he had to interrupt her: "The news did not leak from Chang'an Glass Workshop, it was our family Baoshun who told the old military advisor. Didn't you order Ma Li Are father and son going to handle this matter? Baoshun must have helped them. Early this morning, Baoshun went to the other village."

Zhou Ma suddenly choked: "What?" He immediately realized that he no longer cared about complaining for her husband, and began to worry about herself, "Will the master find out the truth? If he puts the blame on his forehead..."

Ma said: "Well, I just want to tell you the truth, so that you know what to think and don't talk nonsense at home. Now the old military advisor has pushed this matter to the Chang'an Glass Workshop. The matter of building a workshop in Biezhuang is also yours." The confidant of the stepmother-in-law revealed it. If her confidant refuses to admit it, just think that he spilled the beans but shamelessly shirks the responsibility. In short, you just said that you only mentioned the transfer of ownership of another village to me, and you stopped me. No, you are still clamoring to find your eldest brother and sister-in-law to make trouble in the Zhou family. You have spent a lot of effort to calm the trouble. In this way, even if the old military advisor is shrewd and wise to guess your mother-in-law's plan, it has nothing to do with you. It was not you who leaked it, eldest sister. Keep it secret, brother-in-law, you can’t be blamed. If you want to complain, you can only blame them for not keeping things secret and employing people improperly, so the news leaked out!"

Zhou Ma immediately felt at ease: "That's a good statement. I'll just say it when I get back!" She soon thought that she had gone to her sister's house at noon. It could be said that she came after hearing the old military advisor's angry rebuke. Ask about my sister's words to see how much the Hai family knows about this matter.

As for whether Zhou Shigong suspected that his brother-in-law Hai Xiya had leaked the information because of his close relationship with the glassmakers in Chang'an Glass Workshop, Zhou Ma couldn't care less.Anyway, it was the third family of the Zhou family that was in trouble. Could Zhou Shigong still come to blame the Hai family?
Zhou Ma couldn't help hiding her mouth and snickering: "In the final analysis, it was the A family that forced the family to seize the marriage property, which alarmed my sister's family, and leaked the news to the old military advisor. It was all the A family's fault. What does it have to do with uh?!"

(End of this chapter)