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

Chapter 189 New Melon
Ma didn't know the relationship between the Sun family and the Jin family murder case, but she was very clear about the hostile relationship between the Zhou family and the Sun family.Hearing that Zhou Shuyi, the third aunt of the Zhou family, might be colluding with the Sun family, she quickly asked her brother what was going on.

Uncle Ma said: "I also heard about it from other places. Seeing that no one in Chang'an knew about it, I reminded your eldest sister privately. Unexpectedly, she went to tell brother-in-law Zhou, but brother-in-law Zhou didn't believe what he said at all. I complained to your eldest sister privately, saying that I would talk nonsense and make things up to sow discord. Afterwards, when we met during the New Year and holidays, I would show off my face. I was very angry, but I couldn't bear to see your eldest sister in the middle, so I I won’t mention it to anyone anymore.”

This is a coincidence.

In the early years, Zhou Shigong's original wife Tu's natal family always followed Madam Ma and Zhou Jinpu to pick on Zhou Ma's stepmother.Uncle Ma couldn't bear to see his biological sister being wronged, so he looked for ways to win over the Tu family so that they wouldn't interfere with the affairs of the third wife of the Zhou family.

At that time, his leg disease was not serious and he was able to speak in the Chang'an avant-garde.Chang'an Vanguard originally had a caravan formed by veterans and military families, who were responsible for doing business to earn money in exchange for grain and supplies. Sometimes the purchased grain and grass were too much for the caravan to transport by themselves, so they had to find other caravans for help.From time to time, Uncle Ma asked his colleagues to assign this job to the Tu family's caravan. The Tu family accepted his favor and benefited a lot over the years. In recent years, they rarely gave Zhou Ma a hard time.It's just that Zhou Jinpu has a deep prejudice against his stepmother, and the Tu family can't do anything to persuade him.

When the Tu family's caravan transported things from Zhili for the Chang'an vanguard last year, it brought along the family members that Zhou Shuyi sent back to Chang'an to send messages of greetings to her mother.Perhaps it was because the Tu family was often dispatched by Mrs. Ma, and Zhou Shuyi's servants did not treat them as outsiders. They mentioned it while drinking on the way that the second wife, Zhou Shuyi, was not in a good mood at that time.

She originally wanted to arrange a decent marriage for her precious son, but she tried her best to facilitate a meeting between the two parties, but the other party's daughter fell in love with Yingchuan Hou Shizi who came over accidentally, and the two families began to talk about marriage.Zhou Shuyi's son had lost a good marriage and wanted to meet another daughter, but no girl was as good as the girl Zhou Shuyi originally liked.The latter really couldn't swallow this feeling in his heart, and he couldn't let his chief know about it, so he could only vent his anger on the servants around him privately.

A girl who had been waiting for her for many years was beaten, and later she was given an unsatisfactory marriage. She could only hide in the house secretly and cry.This girl's parents were one of the family members who were ordered to deliver things to Chang'an that time. They made a drunken mistake and poured out all the bitterness in their hearts.

At that time, this person complained that the daughter-in-law that Zhou Shuyi was interested in was the granddaughter of Mr. Sun Ge and the niece of Concubine Sun.This girl has an old grandfather, a father who is the commander of the Five Cities Military and Horse Division, an aunt of a noble concubine, and a sister of the Crown Princess Ji. How distinguished is her status? !It is said that the girl herself is a legitimate daughter, has both talent and beauty, and is loved by all at home.For such a famous lady to marry the Prince of Yingchuan, she is a perfect match, a talented man and a beautiful woman.Although Zhou Shuyi's son is also a descendant of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion, he is just a side branch. His father is only a fifth-rank idle official. How can his granddaughter like him?It was natural that this marriage would not work out, but Zhuyu came first, and Zhou Shuyi no longer looked down upon the noble daughter of another family.I have delusional thoughts, but I want to vent my anger on innocent servants and ruin a good girl's family for the rest of her life.

Most of the people in the Tu family's caravan were from Chang'an, and they knew that the Zhou family had a bad relationship with the Sun family. They found it strange that the married daughter of the Zhou family would want their son to marry Sun Ge's granddaughter.They knew that such a thing was not something they could bring up in front of Mrs. Ma, the third bedroom of the Zhou family, but they still couldn't help but talk about it in private. One of them later met Uncle Ma and couldn't help but tell him because he wanted something from him. .

Uncle Ma was greatly surprised at the time. In order to confirm whether the matter was true, he asked his eldest son Ma Luyuan to privately contact the family member of the Yingchuan Hou Mansion who had leaked the news, and got a positive answer.The family got the money and revealed some more inside information. It is said that Mrs. Ma also knew about this. In order for her daughter to successfully get to know the Sun family, she had privately provided her daughter with a lot of valuable clothing materials and jewelry since the year before last. , and used his private room to buy many precious spices from the Western Regions, and gave them to his daughter to give as gifts.Zhou Shuyi spent so much effort and effort but failed to get what she wanted, so she sent someone to write a letter to her mother to cry out afterwards.In order to appease her daughter, Mrs. Ma asked her to keep up her efforts and tried to convince her grandson that a daughter-in-law from a noble family was back. She also provided her daughter with many good things again.

This family came to Beijing from Chang'an with Zhou Shuyi in the past. They are from Chang'an themselves and have relatives who have joined the border army.He watched his mistress make mistakes, but he couldn't say anything, so he was already frustrated.Now he just wants to save more money and prepare more dowry for his daughter so that his daughter can live an easier life after marriage.He knew Uncle Ma's identity, but as long as he had money in his pocket, he didn't care about the others.

Uncle Ma got this important news and felt that Zhou Shigong, the head of the third room of the Zhou family, must not know about it. He hurriedly went to talk to his sister's brother-in-law, but unexpectedly he was beaten up by her brother-in-law.He was equally frustrated now and no longer wanted to get involved in his eldest brother-in-law's family affairs.It's not easy for him to manage his own family well. The Zhou family doesn't care about their married daughter, so why should he, an outsider, talk too much?
When he told his younger sister Ma about it, he told her not to take it too seriously: "Although the third-bedroom aunt of the Zhou family wants to try to get ahead of Mr. Sunge, she doesn't think much of her son. If she didn't succeed, even if the Zhenguo Palace found out, they couldn't punish her. As for the marriage between Yingchuan Hou Shizi and Sun Ge Lao's granddaughter, that was a matter for the Yingchuan Hou Palace, and the Zhou family didn't have much to say. room.

"I just complain that when I was being conspired by Sun Yonglu to seize the property, I wanted to ask brother-in-law Zhou for help, but Mrs. Ma sent me back in a few words. Why didn't I see it at the time? I'm afraid she had already had the intention. They are colluding with the Sun family. This time, they are poaching the frontier army to build a private glass workshop. They are probably colluding with the Sun family, just to steal the frontier army's money. Unfortunately, brother-in-law Zhou didn't use it, and let the old man go several times. This time, although the whole Zhou family is accusing the old woman, it is still unknown whether she can be nailed to death in the end!"

Ma couldn't help but sigh: "I have been out all these years and had no idea that there were so many shameful things going on in my eldest sister's family. What did Mrs. Ma think? The Sun family and the Zhou family fought to the death, but she actually She also asked her own daughter to hook up with the Sun family. Is she trying to become a traitor? Isn't she afraid that the Sun family will use Zhou Shuyi to harm the Zhou family? Without the support of her natal family, Zhou Shuyi will not be able to hold her head up in her husband's family? Her own son is also Zhou Shuyi. My family also depends on the border troops for their livelihood, so why are you so stubborn that you insist on destroying your own foundation?!"

"Well, I think she is old and confused, but who told her to have filial and good children and grandchildren?" Uncle Ma smiled bitterly, "The third family of the Zhou family doesn't care about her, and she still has the final say in everything. If she fails in the future, she will deserve it. I just hope that our Ma family will not be too depressed by then and can still support your eldest sister and two nephews. If we are unable to do so, we will have to rely on you and brother-in-law Hai to help."

"No, no," Madam Ma said hurriedly, "Isn't Mrs. Ma going to be punished now? Her daughter has not gone to the Sun family either. It's still too late. Let's go back and discuss it with the master, and think of ways to remind him. The Zhou family should just be careful."

Ma tried her best to comfort her brother, but she didn't know that her granddaughter Haitang took a bite of the new melon and was already eager to share it with her brother.

(End of this chapter)