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

Chapter 360 Loophole

After hearing what his friend Zhou Yijun said, Hai Jiao couldn't help showing a surprised expression: "You mean... Mrs. Gui and Wu Qiong caught you imitating Jin Jiashu? Didn't you imitate it in your own room? Why? How can we let them break in and see us?!"

When Zhou Yijun talked about this, he couldn't help but sigh: "I don't know how they got in. Because I didn't want others to know what I was doing, I sent all the people waiting in the room away early. The door was closed, so when Mrs. Gui and the others came in, no one reminded me at all. I was pretending to be a cripple and walking with a cane. When they saw me, they thought I was injured and yelled at many people to come over. . I spent a lot of effort to find an excuse to get this matter passed over."

But the problem is that for his own family, he can claim that he accidentally fell and his legs hurt, so he temporarily walked on crutches, but Mrs. Gui and Wu Qiong seemed to be suspicious of something, both inside and outside their words. Test him to see if he has any agenda that he doesn’t want others to know about?

The more Zhou Yijun thought about it, the more something was wrong. After sending the people away, he went to ask the girls and women in the yard how they let Mrs. Gui and Wu Qiong enter his house. Even if there is no one guarding him outside the house, there are so many people inside and outside the courtyard, why don’t they all have eyes? How could a stranger come in where he lived?

However, he inquired for a long time and found no one who had been bribed or made a mistake. All the servants acted according to the usual rules. Madam Gui and her daughter suddenly appeared in front of his house. No one had noticed them before. I don’t know whether they were really lucky or not. Do they have special stealth skills that allow them to avoid everyone's eyes and get directly to where they want to go?

If it's luck, then that's it. Zhou Yijun asked the people waiting in his yard to be more careful in the future; but if Mrs. Gui and Wu Qiong have abilities that the Zhou family doesn't know about, and can walk around at will in the Zhenguo Duke's mansion, then As owners, they have to be extra careful.

There are many military secrets in the Zhenguo Palace, which cannot be seen by outsiders. Even if Mrs. Gui is a widow of the Wu family and has no reason to steal military intelligence and bring harm to the court, the Zhou family must beware that she will bear a grudge against the royal family and do something that violates national laws because of the death of her husband and son. What's more, she is now full of resentment towards the Zhou family, and her daily words and deeds show that she is unreasonable. No one is sure whether she will do stupid things for the sake of her own personal grudges without knowing the importance.

Zhou Yijun kept this incident in mind and ordered people to guard his yard more closely. However, on Thursday, the general and his wife were preparing to go to Beijing to take up their posts. Everyone in the courtyard was packing their bags, and the personnel and belongings were already a bit messy. Even if the door is guarded more strictly than before, it cannot change the fact that many people come in and out of their yard every day.

The outer gates of the Zhenguo Palace are extremely tightly guarded, but the interior is quite loose. The Zhou family has never been very protective of their own family.

Less than a day later, Zhou Yijun discovered that Mrs. Gui and Wu Qiong had come to him without telling others. It can be seen that they have indeed mastered some defense loopholes within the Zhenguo Palace.

This time, Mrs. Gui once again saw him imitating the walking of a cripple, and asked him with a meaningful smile: "Brother avoided everyone and deliberately practiced walking after suffering a leg injury. What was he doing?" Are you planning to?"

Zhou Yijun held back his anger and asked the mother and daughter to leave. Before leaving, Mrs. Gui threatened: "Brother, if you don't want others to know what you are planning to do, you'd better be polite to us. My daughter is from a famous family and is virtuous and virtuous." , how am I not worthy of you? Since you have your own ideas, why can't you cooperate with us? "

Zhou Yijun now remembered what Mrs. Gui said at that time, and his face turned ugly again: "What did she mean by that? How could she know my plan? Even my mother didn't know what we were going to do, and my father only vaguely knew about it. I just have a rough idea. Where did Madam Gui find out about this?!"

Hai Jiao hurriedly held his shoulders: "Calm down. She may not really know anything, maybe she is just testing. Why don't you tell Duke Zhen that if there is any problem with Mrs. Gui and her daughter, he can also Stop the person in time to prevent the news from leaking."

Zhou Yijun took a deep breath: "I didn't take good care of my home, and I was too negligent during practice, so I let the mother and daughter sneak in and peek twice. If the news is really leaked because of this, I can't absolve myself of the blame. Wait for me today If you come home late, report it to your grandfather immediately." At present, this is all he can do. It stands to reason that Mrs. Gui, her daughter, and the Sun family have a deep feud. There is no way they could have colluded with the Sun family's spies and leaked the news that he was training a lame man to walk. It was impossible for the Sun family's spies to infer from this incident that he was imitating Jin Jiashu and guess that the news they released was a trap. As long as the plan goes well and he can still successfully deceive the Sun family's spies and let them dive into the trap, then even if Mrs. Gui and her daughter know more secrets, it will not hinder them.

It's just that Mrs. Gui can avoid other people's eyes and ears in the Zhenguo Duke's mansion and walk around at will. This fact makes Zhou Yijun like a stick in his throat. If in their own home, the children of the Zhou family have to guard against the prying eyes of outsiders and cannot avoid them even if they want to, then this life will be too boring!

Hai Jiao had no way to influence the government's attitude toward Gui's mother and daughter. He could only say to Zhou Yijun: "The plan should be carried out soon, right? Before it comes to fruition, your family can find reasons to prevent Gui's mother and daughter." Madam, mother and daughter, are you going to go out? As long as they stay in the Zhenguo Palace, there will never be any spies from the Sun family in the palace, so they should be fine."

"That's all I hope." Zhou Yijun sighed and made another request to Hai Jiao, "With the current situation at my home, I don't know if Mrs. Gui and her daughter will come to my house secretly again. Anyway, I can no longer practice at home. I'm going down. Right now I'm just imitating Jin Jiashu's walking. When I need to imitate his tone of voice, and Mrs. Gui sees me again, it won't be a few lies to cover it up. I don't know if there are other places. It’s safe and reliable, can you borrow the empty room in your house?”

Hai Jiao thought of the second courtyard specially vacated by his family and agreed: "My grandparents have already prepared a place for Jin Jiashu and the people who protect him. It is vacant now, so you can just practice there. That place is just right." It's also close to my house, so I can go over and watch you practice from time to time, help you find faults, and make you imitate more closely."

Zhou Yijun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this and said with a smile: "I knew you would definitely help me! Apart from you, I don't know who to go to. There are not many people who know about this matter, and I can't go to Tang Meng." At present, his marriage to Tang Hui is over, but there is still Tang Ruo in the Tang family, and he does not dare to take risks!

Hai Jiao took Zhou Yijun to see his grandmother, claiming that Zhou Yijun wanted to use the empty house to prepare a homework to deal with his father's inquiries.

Mrs. Ma knew that her grandson and his friends had secrets, so she agreed readily without asking any further questions. She also ordered Aunt Ma to add two more braziers to the main room in the second courtyard and send some tea and snacks there.

Hai Jiao accompanied Zhou Yijun to the second courtyard, watched him practice for a while, then left to the backyard and told his little sister about it.

Haitang pondered: "It is impossible for Mrs. Gui to know that the Zhenguo Palace is planning to set a trap for the Sun family's spies around Chang'an. She must have misunderstood something... I remember that when I was a guest at the Zhenguo Palace last time, I caught up with Zhou Xuejun to ask Zhou Huajun complained that Zhou Yijun invited himself to Ningxia Zhongwei to train in order to avoid marriage. When Wu Qiong heard this, he was shocked..."

Mrs. Ruogui was still thinking about this matter. When she saw Zhou Yijun pretending to be lame and walking, she could not have misunderstood that he regretted going to Ningxia and wanted to use the excuse of being injured to escape from the experience, right?

(End of this chapter)