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

Chapter 351 The dark history of returning home

Haitang suddenly realized.

She had heard Mrs. Gui's story before. After returning home, something happened to the Wu family, and she protected her daughter and granddaughter who were born at her parents' home. Although she hesitated whether to send Wu Ke, the only remaining male member of the Wu family, in exchange for the safety of her daughter and grandson, she finally decided to do so. I was convinced by Gui Shi. The Gui family also had the credit for saving Wu Ke's life, and made great contributions to the Wu family in the eyes of outsiders, and so on.

It turns out that when I returned home, I didn’t really want to betray Wu Ke because I wanted to protect my daughter and grandson, but I almost sent Wu Qiong away to protect myself? Although they did not sacrifice their biological daughter to Gui's family, the newly born Wu Qiong was also Gui's biological granddaughter and a blood descendant. Gui Jia could be so cruel that he almost cut off the Wu family's bloodline, and he was not a kind and kind person.

His family also betrayed old friends to the Sun family, which can be said to be a betrayal of political allies. Just doing this did not preserve Guijia's reputation in the capital. When he returned home, he was demoted to a local official and was unable to return to the capital. After his death, the careers of his descendants did not go well.

Of course, compared with those former Wu clan members and followers of Wu Wen'an who were executed or exiled, they were very lucky to return home. The men in their family are still working as officials, but they just can't return to the center of power.

Mrs. Gui didn't know if she knew what her natal family had done before, but she should have known better after she asked the Queen Mother Zhou and Marquis Chengen to help Gui return home to the capital but was rejected. Didn't Queen Mother Zhou and Marquis Chengen tell her the whole story clearly? Then what reason does she have to complain about the Zhou family?

Zhou Wenjun then told Haitang: "Gui's actions at home are not secretive. Mrs. Gui didn't know about it in the palace. She should have heard some rumors after arriving at Cheng'enhou's mansion. She didn't want to believe it herself. She just thought it was her uncle and the others who found it troublesome. She didn't want to help her brother get promoted, so she deliberately made up bad things about her father and brother. The cousin said that since then, she has become even more eccentric. But what the uncle's family told is the truth. Mrs. Gui herself refuses to believe it, but others can What should we do? It is impossible to promote Gui Jia anyway. For the sake of Mrs. Gui, the Zhou family was kind enough not to kill all Gui Jia. Now the Gui family is notorious among scholars. After Mrs. Gui’s brother became a filial piety, She can still follow the path of her wife's clan and become a minor official in a remote place, but her nephew wants to study abroad, and no great scholar is willing to accept him as a disciple, so he can only study with his fathers at home..."

Haitang understood in her heart.

When he returned home, he betrayed his friends in order to protect himself, but he was still demoted from the capital and had no hope of promotion. After being suppressed by the Sun family, the officials of the Wu faction were dissatisfied with the behavior of returning to their families and alienated them one after another. Gui Jia was struggling in his official career, and he was displeased by both parties. When the emperor discovered that the Sun family was too powerful and intended to promote former Wu clan members to the court to compete with the Sun family, Guijia was not included in the list of promotions by the emperor because he had betrayed his companions, and he was still in the local officialdom. struggle. In the future, when the Sun family falls, the new king succeeds to the throne, and the old disciples of the Wu family return to the center of power, there will be no place for Guijia to gain a foothold in the capital.

When they chose to betray back then, they were already destined to have a bad end, and even the future of their descendants was affected. Now they are paying the price for what they have done. However, Mrs. Gui has lived in a closed environment for many years and is not well-informed. She does not know this. Even if she heard the news later, she is not willing to accept the reality.

Mrs. Gui was deeply loved by her parents in the past. After something happened to the Wu family, her parents would rather abandon their granddaughter than save her life. She misses her relatives and doesn't want to think too badly of them, which is human nature. It's just that such stubbornness doesn't make much sense. After her parents passed away, had her family ever contacted her over the years? Do her brothers and sisters-in-law still love and care about her?

Mrs. Chengen Hou Shizi was probably too angry with Gui Clan and was about to leave, so she completely put aside all worries and told a lot of dirty information about Gui Clan and Gui Jia in front of people in the family.

For example, Zhou Wenjun once heard her mention: "Guijia's old house in Beijing is still there, and a room of family members has been left to guard it. In the early years, when Master Gui was still alive, he would send letters back every year, hoping to be able to communicate with the palace. After Chengenhou took Mrs. Gui and the others out of the palace, he sent someone to ask about Guijia’s old house and brought back all the letters. However, since Mr. Gui passed away, the Guijia brothers have never been there again. Letters were delivered in the old house. Now the servants who guard Guijia's old house have to open fields in the garden, grow flowers and vegetables and sell them to make a living. Mrs. Gui has wanted to move back to the old house several times, also because The house became increasingly deserted and difficult to live in, and I was afraid of being discovered by the Sun family, so I gave up."

Mrs. Gui once asked Chengenhou and his son to help deliver a letter to the old house, hoping to contact her brothers and relatives. Ke Gui's family did not return to Beijing, so naturally they could not be contacted. She repeatedly begged the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Chengen Hou Gang to return home and return to the capital, maybe also to contact her relatives? But judging from the attitude of Gui's family, I'm afraid they have already forgotten her. Zhou Wenjun sighed: "No wonder Wanjun is soft-hearted towards her and doesn't want to care about her. Although this person is hateful, but she has lost her husband's family, and her family is unreliable. Only mother and daughter depend on each other, and they have to live at the mercy of others. Being serious with her is like bullying, even if you win the argument with her, it's not interesting."

Haitang said: "Although you are all kind and kind people and don't want to be acquainted with her, she may not know in her heart that she has done something wrong when she returns home. She is just pretending not to believe it. If you always feel that she is pitiful, maybe you have She will soften her heart in one day and be persuaded by her to help her family return to Beijing."

"Impossible!" Zhou Wenjun said hurriedly, "The people who were betrayed by Guijia back then were exiled to our northwest. Our elders all know what good things Guijia has done, how can we be soft-hearted towards them?!" She paused After a pause, he looked hesitant and said, "Sister Hai, are you saying that Mrs. Gui... is not unwilling to believe the truth, but is deliberately pretending to be like this, but in fact she is fully aware of the crimes of her mother's family?"

Haitang asked her to think back to the time when Mrs. Gui had a quarrel with Mrs. Chengenhou Shizi: "If she really didn't want to believe that Guijia had done those bad things, she should have retorted loudly when Mrs. Chengenhou Shizi sarcastically said about Guijia. How can I be speechless when I go back?"

Zhou Wenjun suddenly realized and stamped his feet: "I was almost deceived by her!" Gritting his teeth, "I have to tell my grandmother and aunts! I can't let her deceive me anymore! She used this method to deceive us. How many times!”

Haitang advised her to calm down: "Just be more vigilant. Anyway, your family can't really fall out with her. For the sake of Wu Qiong and Wu Ke, we have to protect and respect her. If the relationship between the two parties becomes too tense, in the future, It’s also awkward to get along with.”

Zhou Wenjun sighed: "I really wish that the three of them would move out. Our family can give away a house, give out servants, and give away money. As long as we don't live in the same house, I can keep out of sight and don't need to look at it anymore. Mrs. Gui’s face.”

Haitang reminded: "If it had fallen in the past, Chang'an is the territory of your Zhou family anyway. No matter how much trouble Madam Gui makes, you can still protect her. But now isn't it said that someone from the capital will serve in the Northwest Frontier Army? ? What if the person here is a member of the Sun family, and Mrs. Gui acts in such a flamboyant manner, what if she is targeted? "

"I'm not afraid of this." Zhou Wenjun said with a smile, "Among the few people who came, the highest-ranking military attache, one is the emperor's confidant in Jinyiwei, and the other is the Marquis of Yingchuan, they are not very close to the Sun family. They all have When you have serious things to do, how can you spare the time to care about a housewife?"

Haitang blinked: "Really? Who are these two people? Are they difficult to get along with?"

(End of this chapter)