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

Zhou Ma quickly returned to the main courtyard with the two girls.

At this time, Zhou Shigong and Hai Jiao had already left with Zhang Pinggui.Cailuo, who stayed behind in the main courtyard, reported that the fourth general of Zhenguogongfu had just brought ten soldiers over and personally escorted the car away.

Although General Zhou is not the son of the Duke of Zhen, he is a smart and capable man with both civil and military skills.With him escorting Zhang Pinggui as an important witness, this journey should be foolproof.Not to mention that Zhou Shigong also brought along several other highly skilled veterans, as well as Hai Jiao, a young master who could equal or even slightly beat Zhang Pinggui.Zhang Pinggui's accomplices may not know that he has been arrested. Even if they know, they can't do anything to this powerful escort team in a hurry.

Mr. Zhou immediately breathed a sigh of relief.She no longer needs to worry about what will happen to her family, she only needs to wait for her husband to return.

She had just asked the two juniors to sit down again in the upper room, and before she could take a sip of water, Caijuan, who was a little behind, also came back.

She brought follow-up news about the West Courtyard after Haitang and the others left.

Madam Ma naturally refused to return the marriage property of Zhou Jinpu's deceased mother Tu's family.She didn't mention the matter and just cried to go to the ancestral hall.The nuns are clamoring to ask the clan elders to make the decision to punish the master Zhou Shigong and the eldest master Zhou Jinpu, who have repeatedly disobeyed the old lady recently. Some people want to implicate the matter on Zhou Ma, the veteran scapegoat.

But this time, Zhou Jinpu unexpectedly did not follow their advice and did not want to blame his stepmother Zhou Ma at all.

He said that his stepmother is indeed not a good person. She has been saying bad things about her in front of her father since she entered the house. However, she does not pretend to be a good person, does not lie to him, and has never successfully framed him. Every time she provokes trouble, she is scolded by her father. The younger brother she gave birth to was no threat to his status as heir.Therefore, Zhou Ma's family is nothing at all.Whether it was the matter of the glass workshop or in the past, she had never been qualified to interfere, and no one would believe her if she started a fight.

What he resented was that his step-grandmother, Mrs. Ma, had always pretended to care about and protect him, but in fact she was secretly plotting against him!
Taking the current trivial matter of returning the dowry as an example, Mrs. Ma always claimed to take good care of his property for him and would show him the account books every quarter of the year, but he was just too impatient to pay attention to it before.Why is it that Mrs. Ma is not happy now that he proposes to take back the marital property?Does this mean she has been lying to him before?
At this time, it would be too obvious for Mrs. Ma's henchmen to drag Mr. Zhou into trouble.

Zhou Jinpu said that he hates his stepmother, but he is not a fool!I won't be fooled by Mrs. Ma's few words and forget my true purpose.He can scold his stepmother at any time.But Mrs. Ma's refusal to return the marital property proves that she has a guilty conscience and must have tampered with the account!
Mrs. Ma has always regarded herself as a virtuous wife of the Zhou family, but now she has done all the tricks to deceive her son and grandson for her aunt Zhou Shuyi, which shows how short of money she has in her pocket.If she had money, would she be able to take this risk?Is the marriage inheritance of Zhou Jinpu's late mother that was given to her by Zhou Jinpu still intact?Did she really not do anything to these industries?

Zhou Jinpu must find out the answer to this question today!
Caijuan imitated Zhou Jinpu's ferocious expression when he said this, then returned to his submissive posture, lowered his head and said: "The eldest young master is still making trouble in the west courtyard. The mothers said they were going to invite the elders, and he also shouted to go. Invite the elders of the clan, invite a few more people, and invite everyone in each house. It is best to invite the Duke and his wife of Changfang Town to hold justice, and also invite the people from the Tu family to testify and find out what the marriage property is. What happened now? The nuns didn’t dare to mention it anymore, they just surrounded the old lady and cried about the old lady."

Zhou Ma sighed: "It's rare that Zhou Jinpu has sobered up today and is not led by the old lady with a few words. It can be seen that he has made progress after experiencing a setback."

Zhou Yijun frowned and said: "My uncle scolded me so unpleasantly. When did my grandmother frame him? He listened to others' instigation and talked to himself. Now that he knows that the old lady is not a good person, why does he continue to misunderstand his grandmother? Kindness?!"

Zhou Ma quickly waved his hand: "That's all, I don't want to be a loving mother to him. I can't stand his temper. It doesn't matter if he continues to hate me. I don't have to pretend to be in front of the master, which makes it easier."

Haitang looked at her speechlessly, thinking that her aunt had really been PUAed successfully by the weirdos from the third room of the Zhou family in the past 30 years.Zhou Jinpu scolded his stepmother Zhou Mashi, who had never harmed him, but as long as he went against his stepmother who had lied to him for decades and did not implicate innocent people, Zhou Mashi felt that he had made progress and was happy for him. .Her stepmother has done something too pathetic, right?What a waste of reputation!

Haitang didn't want to hear Zhou Ma say how happy she was anymore, so she changed the subject: "That person Zhang Pinggui said that he was Mrs. Zeng's second wife, and knew many of Mrs. Zeng's shady secrets. I wonder what they are? Is it possible? Will it implicate my mother’s family?”

Zhou Ma was immediately agitated: "Isn't it possible? Didn't he say those words to bluff people? He was afraid that they would hand him over to the Zhenguo government, so he deliberately used words to scare them, right?"

Zhou Yijun said: "I think he is a bit evil. Since he is conceited and smart, he probably won't tell lies. He must know something about his great-aunt. He also said that his father also died because he was doing things for his great-aunt. Yes, maybe he still holds a grudge because of it. But what can his father do for my aunt, even if he loses his life? "

Zhou Ma frowned and thought hard for a while, and suddenly came up with a guess: "Could it be... just like Zhou Jinpu said, the old lady and the aunt secretly spent all the family's money? What big thing could happen to them? Did you spend so much money? Well, I have never heard the master mention it? If it is an honest matter, do they need to hide it? "

Thinking like this, she became scared: "Isn't it really a serious crime? If it really involves our family, it would be too unfair!"

Zhou Yijun quickly comforted her and said: "Grandma, don't worry. My great-aunt is now the second wife of the Yingchuan Hou Mansion in the capital. What serious crime can she commit? It's nothing more than loan sharking, forced buying and selling, and soliciting lawsuits. If this kind of crime is really confirmed, the court will only pursue her husband's family, and will not involve her natal family. As long as the old lady does not get involved. "

"But I wonder if she was involved!" Zhou Ma felt uneasy. "Although mother and daughter haven't seen each other for many years, they exchange letters from time to time. The old lady often sends things to Beijing. I don't know if she is doing it for her aunt. My wife had the capital to commit the crime."

Haitang said: "Although these are illegal behaviors, they are all done to make money, right? If we spend more money, Mrs. Zeng's dowry alone is enough. Do we need to spend all our money? I think, Mrs. Zeng Er has always had thoughts about the title of the Zeng family since she married into the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion. She may have done something shady a long time ago!"

Zhou Yijun blinked.She didn't know much about what happened before, and she didn't quite understand why Haitang said this.

But Mrs. Zhou Ma understood immediately: "You mean... she only gave birth to a son two or three years earlier than Mrs. Yingchuan Hou, and she dared to mention adoption, as if she was sure that the son would not be born. She did it secretly Hands and feet?!”

"Well, it depends on the outcome of Zhang Pinggui's interrogation." Haitang smiled, "Of course, there is another possibility. Mrs. Zeng Er is determined to cling to the Sun family, and she plans to marry the Sun family's daughter for her son. Could it be a delusion for no reason? Where did she get the confidence to think that she had a chance to succeed? Could it be that she had a long-standing friendship with someone in the Sun family? How much did she spend for this friendship? Is it to earn money? Have you ever done anything illegal with money?"

Zhou Ma took a breath: "That's a bottomless pit!"

(End of this chapter)