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

Chapter 402 Chapter Four Hundred and One Disaster
Half an hour later, Mrs. Ma walked out of the house with a pair of grandchildren, got into the carriage driven by Uncle Ma and his wife, and drove towards the third room of the Zhou family.

Hai Xiya left Chang'an yesterday and went on a business trip. After Mrs. Ma heard the news that her grandson Haijiao was brought home, she had no way to discuss it with her husband. She had to go to her eldest sister to inquire about the situation before making a decision.

When necessary, she can also ask her brother-in-law Xie Wenzai for help...

Recently, she has been busy with things. Ma has not visited her eldest sister Zhou Ma for a long time. Therefore, when she walked into the door of Zhou's third room, she was shocked by the depressed scene in front of her.

Compared with the last time she came here, the third room of the Zhou family is much deserted now. Except for the people in the concierge, there are no changes. Whether in the front yard or the inner house, the number of servants walking around has been greatly reduced. The main hall in the front yard was in a mess. It seemed that someone had searched it, and there was furniture lying on the ground.

This seems to corroborate what Tang Meng said, something really happened to the third room of the Zhou family!
Ma quickly asked the maid who was leading the way: "What is going on? Even the main hall is in such a mess? Where is your master? Where is your wife?!"

The servant girl smiled bitterly and couldn't explain the reason. She could only reply: "Madam originally wanted to have someone clean up the front hall, but the master said it was not necessary. Anyway, the officers and soldiers would come again sooner or later, so I just left it alone to save the trouble." Others thought he had done something..."

The hidden meaning behind these words is even more frightening.

Mrs. Ma pursed her lips tightly and strode towards the main courtyard without asking any more questions about the servant girl. She knew that if the third house of the Zhou family really encountered a big incident that would result in the officers and soldiers raiding the house, it would be impossible for a newly elected servant girl to know the details...

As Haijiao Haitang walked, she turned her head and looked in the direction of the front hall a few more times, feeling a bad premonition in her heart.

The three of them finally arrived at the main courtyard where Zhou Ma lived. Caijuan and Cailuo came out and said to Ma with red eyes: "Auntie, you're here! Our wife really doesn't know who to talk to for discussion, so we can only worry now."

Ma couldn't help but said angrily: "Something happened at eldest sister's house, why didn't you send me a letter?! If I hadn't heard other people mention it, I wouldn't have known that eldest sister's husband was in trouble! What did eldest sister say to me?" Don’t you think of me as one of your own family?!”

Mr. Zhou Ma is currently lying on the kang, with a wide bandage tied on his forehead. His face is yellow, and he has not put any makeup on. Even his hair is simply pulled up, and two silver hairpins are randomly inserted. stop. She looked haggard, and after listening to her sister's words, tears fell immediately: "Yumei! It's not that the eldest sister wants to be an outsider with you, but it's true that the eldest sister doesn't know what to do! If our family really has no way of survival this time , then it’s better not to implicate you.”

Ma sat down beside her kang angrily: "What's going on?! What happened to your family's good life? Isn't that old woman in the west courtyard all under house arrest? How can something bad happen again? You and your brother-in-law Don’t you take good care of people?! Well, eldest sister, you and your brother-in-law are just too kind! That kind of vicious woman is just a stepmother, but in fact she has done bad things for decades! Don’t you It's kind enough to offend her children, so why bother to provide her with delicious food and drinks? It's as if she is still a noble and decent old lady!"

Zhou Ma cried feebly: "Stop talking, the more you talk, the more you will regret it! If I had known today, she would have died of an illness years ago, but she is still clean! Just because she is still alive, I and the master think It’s impossible to get rid of the crime!” As he spoke, he began to cry more and more.

"Um, what are you talking about!" Ma couldn't help but keep mumbling, and Haitang quickly interrupted her: "Grandma, don't be busy scolding my aunt now, let's find out what happened first? Why did the third room of the Zhou family get into trouble? Got into trouble? Why is there no way to survive? No matter what bad things Mrs. Ma has done, my aunts and uncles don’t know about it! They have been plotted by Mrs. Ma all these years!"

Ma was reminded by her words: "Yes! I almost asked my eldest sister to throw you into the ditch. Please stop crying and tell me quickly what is going on?!"

Zhou Ma opened her mouth, but without saying a word, she burst into tears again, which made Ma anxious: "Sister, don't just cry!" It was Haijiao who found out something about the situation from Caijuan and Cailuo. : "Mrs. Ma is having an affair with a foreign enemy? Was this discovered by Commander Tu from Beijing? Did he come to threaten my great-uncle?"

Ma was surprised: "What? How is this possible?!"

No matter how vicious Mrs. Ma is, she is also the widow of the third-generation old man of the Zhou family. The old man from the third room of the Zhou family used to be a general on the battlefield. Later, even though he retreated to the rear, he was still in charge of the logistics of the northwest frontier army and was a powerful figure in the frontier army. How could his wife have an affair with a foreign enemy? Does this foreign enemy refer to the barbarians? If Mrs. Ma really colludes with the Hu people, the third wife of the Zhou family will be in trouble!
Only then did Haitang understand why Mr. and Mrs. Zhou and Ma thought they had no way out. If Mrs. Ma really commits the crime of liaison with a foreign enemy, not to mention the death of the old man from the third room of the Zhou family, the entire third room of the Zhou family may be in danger! This is a serious crime that will implicate the whole family!

Ma family hurriedly asked Zhou Ma family: "This is impossible! Your old man has not been on the battlefield for decades! He only manages food and grass. His wife is having an affair with a foreign enemy? How can he help the barbarians? ? This place is more than two thousand miles away from the frontier battlefield! His wife has never been to the front line, how can she collaborate with the enemy?!"

Zhou Ma choked up and said: "The Hu people sent spies into Dachu... General Tu said that Ajia helped the spies enter the Central Plains and even went to the capital..."

Ma took a breath. This crime seems even more terrible. If Mrs. Ma only betrayed the intelligence on the frontier, then only the soldiers of the northwest frontier army would suffer, and the court might not care. But if Mrs. Ma helped the barbarians enter the hinterland of the capital and threatened the safety of the dignitaries in the court, even if they were only used unintentionally, it would be an unforgivable crime in the eyes of those in the court!

Once this kind of thing spreads, not to mention whether the third family member of the Zhou family can survive, I am afraid that the entire Zhou family will be implicated!
Ma's claws suddenly became numb. She has never encountered such a thing before, what should she do...

Haitang was also frightened when he heard this, and quickly asked the key point: "When did this happen? How did General Tu know about it? Could it be that the Hu people's spies were caught in the capital?"

Zhou Ma cried and shook his head: "General Tu said... he was the one who tried Du Boqin and came out..."

"What? Du Boqin?!" Ma said hurriedly, "Isn't this person an accomplice of Mr. Sun Ge? How can we trust his words? Maybe the Sun family instigated him to lie and deliberately framed the Zhou family!" The more she thought about it, the more she felt. That's what happened. She hurriedly said to Zhou Ma, "Sister, have you mentioned this matter to your brother-in-law and the Duke of Zhen? If you knew that the Sun family had dug such a big hole for the entire Zhou family, the Duke of Guo would definitely not Just sit back and do nothing!”

Zhou Ma said with tears: "The master said, don't alarm the eldest brother... Just wait for the results of General Tu's investigation. Whether dead or alive, A's family belongs to the third eldest brother of our family. She committed the crime." Just let your family members take care of the matter. If the eldest brother is involved, the whole family will be in trouble, and then the traitor will really succeed!"

Ma understood. No wonder something big happened to the third room of the Zhou family, but there were no rumors outside. If the children of the Tang family hadn't warned Hai Jiao privately, the Hai family would still have been kept in the dark!

However, it was not a smart move for the third brother of the Zhou family to hide the secret of the Duke's mansion from the chief house.

This disaster may implicate the entire Zhou family at any time. If we continue to hide it from the Duke of Zhen at the moment, what if the situation becomes worse in the future and the Duke of Zhen is too late to deal with it? !

(End of this chapter)