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

Chapter 442 Messenger Showdown
Tu Rong's return did not break the peace in Chang'an City.

On the contrary, it is because he has recently focused on interrogating Mrs. Ma's confidant and the relationship between the Sun family's minions who were arrested before and Du Boqin. He rarely even interferes with the daily affairs of Dusi Yamen, and almost all of them are left to Dusi. The original subordinate officials of the yamen did not make any comments or suggestions on their way of doing things. This actually made Dusi Yamen have a better impression of him. Everyone knows that he is not a person who likes to get involved in things. At most, he will only focus on major cases, but will not dictate other matters, let alone change the rules that have been implemented for many years in the yamen without authorization to show that he authority.

After he arrived in Chang'an, he got along well with the Zhenguo Government. Even if he encountered a major case involving the third room of the Zhou family, he did not force the other heads of the Zhou family to be involved, and even actively requested the Zhenguo Government to participate in the investigation. , and let the town government be responsible for the surveillance and guarding of the third room of the Zhou family. This attitude can be said to be quite friendly. He did not mean to cause trouble with the Zhou family, nor did he mean to seize power from the northwest frontier army. Compared with Sun Yonglu in previous years, such a court representative is not unpleasant at all.

The northwest frontier army had no intention of going against the imperial court. They just hated the treacherous ministers and complained that the emperor treated them harshly with unreasonable suspicion. Now that they met a friendly and fair military attache, everyone would naturally not deliberately go against him. They quickly adjusted their attitude and treated him like Lord Huang, the prefect of Chang'an, that is, respectful, cooperative, and polite. However, I won’t deliberately try to get closer.

Tu Rong feels that his daily working environment seems to have become friendlier and smoother. But he didn't have time to think too much. After all, the interrogation work now kept him busy from morning to night, and he really didn't have the energy to worry about whether the interpersonal relationships around him had changed.

After interrogating some people, he felt that the water in Chang'an seemed to be getting deeper and deeper. There seemed to be a lot of mystery behind the old lady in the third room of the Zhou family, and she was also entangled with the Sun family in the capital. No matter how you looked at it, she looked like Sun The family bribed this old lady to act as an internal agent and cause trouble within the Zhou family!
Tu Rong has not forgotten that he came to Chang'an with the emperor's orders on his back. Now it seems that this imperial mission is not so easy to fulfill. Involving Sunge's hometown, Mrs. Ma's case is not necessarily the Zhou family's fault. On the contrary, it seems more like the Zhou family has been framed. How could he speak to the government of the state? Even if he succeeds in persuading the Duke of Zhenguo to let them become the knives in the hands of the emperor, he still has to be careful that the Sun family has already made plans for the Zhou family, and suddenly stabs the Zhou family from behind, completely destroying the Zhou family's new chess piece that has surrendered to the emperor. void. Then wouldn’t the emperor’s many arrangements be in vain?
In order for the emperor's plan to proceed smoothly, they must first resolve the hidden dangers in the Sun family.

Furthermore, if there is conclusive evidence that the Sun family murdered Queen Wu, the third prince, and Duke Wu Wen'an's family, then they should be dealt with as soon as possible. Otherwise, no one knows whether they will be forced into a desperate situation, so they will resort to their old tricks and set fire to the palace again? Back then, no matter whether it was Kunning Palace or Wu Guozhang's mansion, very few people escaped with their lives. How could we know that the emperor, the queen mother, the eighth prince and the people around them would be safe again? For the safety of the Holy Emperor, such confidential matters must be reported to the Emperor as soon as possible, and the Emperor should be reminded to take more precautions!

Tu Rong made a detailed summary of the situation he had recently investigated, and dispatched three groups of his own personal soldiers, each group consisting of two people, one group per day, to rush towards the capital.

Using this method to send letters to the capital should ensure that at least one group of messengers can arrive smoothly. Even if any group encounters an unexpected incident midway, it will not affect the other two groups. Moreover, they also hold in their hands the token issued by the Shaanxi Dusi and the token Tu Rong himself received from the emperor before leaving Beijing. They can deploy the best and fastest horses at the stations along the way to ensure that the messenger can move as quickly as possible. On the way. If nothing unexpected happens, the letter will arrive at the palace within five days.

Tu Rong sent away the last group of messengers, already looking forward to the emperor's reply. He took a deep breath, quickly calmed down, and then returned to the interrogation and investigation work.

Probably because he was too focused, he didn't notice that in these days, the Zhenguo Government also sent fast-horse messengers to the capital. The couriers of Zhen Guo Gongfu are professional and experienced. They are already very familiar with running on the road to Beijing. The horses they are equipped with are also good and fast horses. Zhen Guo Gongfu does not need to be like Tu Rong. They must master If you have enough evidence, report to the capital. The messenger from Duke Zhenguo's Mansion set out two days earlier than Tu Rong's messenger. Presumably, by the time Tu Rong's first group of messengers arrived at the palace gate, they had already delivered the letter written by Duke Zhenguo to the hands of Marquis Chengen, who then sent it to Chengenhou. Enhou and his wife forwarded it to the palace.

While the Zhenguo government and Tu Rong were engaged in a messenger showdown that the latter was unaware of, the Hai family continued to live their own peaceful lives.

When Hai Xiya was busy with government affairs, he would also secretly inquire about the inside information about the case of the third wife of the Zhou family. Unfortunately, after Tu Rong returned, he issued another order to block the news. Now there are very few people discussing this case within the Dusi Yamen. Haixi Ya couldn't get much information. Fortunately, his cousin Xie Wenzai was able to get second-hand information from the Zhenguo Palace. He knew that the case was temporarily closed, but Zhou Shigong and his wife were in a pretty good situation, and Tu Tongzhi did not suspect their family. He was involved in collaborating with the enemy, but the case involving Mrs. Ma became more and more serious as the investigation progressed, and it was obvious that things could no longer be resolved.

Hai Xiya felt a little heavy. He told his wife the situation after returning home. While Mrs. Ma was relieved for her eldest brother-in-law, she was also worried that even if they were proven innocent, they would still be implicated by Mrs. Ma.

Now she really wants to go to the third room of the Zhou family to find her eldest sister, Zhou Ma, to find out. If Mrs. Ma really did so many heinous things, why has no one in the three rooms of the Zhou family discovered it over the years?
Didn't their old man retreat from the frontier to the rear a long time ago and live at home? Why couldn't such a wise and decisive person discover the secret of his step-wife? Mrs. Ma is a noble lady in the inner house, and she relies on her confidants for everything. Doesn’t anyone feel that something is wrong and report the matter to the old lady’s ears? Or is it that the old man was really so confused by his wife that even though he knew she had a problem, he didn't say anything but allowed her to make mistakes again and again? !

This is not the Zhou family hero that the world used to think of!

And the servants of the Zhou family, their loyalty is too questionable, right? When Mrs. Ma married into the third house of the Zhou family, she only brought a few dowry girls and a few companions from the old aunt of the Ma family. The remaining shopkeepers, clerks, and craftsmen all worked outside and had never entered the third house of the Zhou family. room interior. The number of servants who accompanied Mrs. Ma into the third-bedroom house of the Zhou family has decreased a lot over the years. Many of them have died or retired. Mrs. Ma regards them as confidants, and many of them are recruited from the third-bedroom house. Or maybe they have been received one after another in recent decades. Why would these people be so loyal to Mrs. Ma and help her hide secrets from the real owner? !
After his father's death, Zhou Shigong became the head of the third house, but he was completely unaware of his stepmother's actions. As the head of the house, he was like a dog! Even after taking away his stepmother's power and driving away so many of her confidants, he still didn't realize her true secret. Is he really as smart and capable as the world has always praised him for? !
Mrs. Ma was so worried that she sent people to keep an eye on the movements of the third room of the Zhou family every day to see when the third door would allow outsiders to visit again. At the same time, she couldn't help but curse her brother-in-law and his family at home.

Her eldest sister was really harmed by this family and Mrs. Ma!

(End of this chapter)