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

Chapter 515 Lamentation
When Haitang left the third room of the Zhou family with her grandmother Ma, the servants had already begun to hang white on the door.

Zhou Shigong had asked his wife to prepare the coffin and other items for use in the mourning hall a few days ago. He even asked Mr. Yin Yang where Mrs. Ma was buried, so the couple started the funeral without any panic. It's just that today is not a day for relatives to come to express condolences, so Ma hurriedly took her granddaughter to say goodbye, so as not to interfere with Zhou Ma's arrangement of the mourning hall.

However, after the carriage left the third house of the Zhou family, Ma couldn't help but sigh in the carriage: "I didn't expect Mrs. Ma to die like this. A few months ago, she was the powerful mother of the third house of the Zhou family, and the eldest sister was bullied by her. After decades of anger, she didn't dare to complain a word to her face. She could only complain to her family members in private. She just thought that she would be prosperous until the day she died. She never expected that she would have one. Such an unseemly ending.”

Even though Mrs. Ma was not abandoned, she was still buried as the wife of the former head of the third house of the Zhou family, but that was just a disguise that Zhou Shigong deliberately made because he was afraid that outsiders would find out about his stepmother's scandal, which would damage the reputation of the third house.

In fact, Mrs. Ma will not be buried in the Zhou family's ancestral grave, but will be buried alone in the soil. The memorial tablet cannot be entered into the Zhou family's ancestral hall. Even her name on the genealogy will be blackened, which has completely become a stain on the family. It is estimated that only her biological son Zhou Shicheng will worship her in the future, but Zhou Shicheng has already promised that he will truthfully tell his descendants about the bad things she has done. It is impossible for her to gain any respect and love from her descendants.

The Zhou family has lived together in Chang'an for more than a hundred years, and no daughter-in-law has ever been treated like this. It's okay if the clan members don't know, but once they know how the third wife of the Zhou family handled her funeral, they will definitely guess that she made a big mistake. Her good reputation over the past fifty years under Chang'an's management will also disappear in a short period of time.

Mrs. Ma has been in the limelight for so long, but now it ends in this way. Mrs. Ma feels that this is really disgraceful. But thinking about what she had done, Ma felt that it was all as it should be.

Haitang also agreed with her grandmother's words: "She brought this on herself, and it is just the retribution she deserves."

She also felt that Zhou Shigong treated Mrs. Ma too favorably. If the Zhou family cannot publicly announce that Mrs. Ma has been kicked out of the family tree and draw a clear line, the world will still regard her as a member of the Zhou family without knowing it. In case her dark history is exposed in the future, the Zhou family will be implicated. What to do if there is a misunderstanding? That is too unfair!

My aunt Zhou Shigong was so indecisive and thought she was doing the right thing, but in fact, she created hidden dangers for her family.

Ma kept shaking her head and sighing. She used to think Mrs. Ma was very smart, but now she thinks she is very unwise. She didn't know what she was busy with for decades, and she was so separated from her son.

Although Zhou Shicheng rushed home to see his mother for the last time, he also took the initiative to ask Tu Tongzhi and Ma Shangyi to give his mother the medicine. Perhaps he wanted to show the emperor's people that he was not the same person as his mother, so as not to get involved with her. The commanders Tu Tongzhi and Zeng Qingxi listened to his words and showed expressions of satisfaction. But even if this approach is correct and rational, Zhou Shicheng will still be gossiped about in the future, thinking that he is too cruel to his biological mother, and his reputation will still be affected.

If he didn't say that, he might be misunderstood and held a grudge by people from the capital; if he did, he might be accused of being unfilial. No matter which choice you make, you will be in trouble. But Zhou Shicheng chose the latter. Is it because he was emotionally alienated from his mother? If he wasn't close to his biological mother, how could he be so cruel? !
Those who heard him say this at that time were not only members of the Zhou family, but also the entourage brought by Tu Rong and Zeng Qingxi. It was impossible to keep it secret. The Yingchuan Marquis Mansion was more likely to anger his brother because of Zhou Shuyi. Spread the word about it. I'm afraid Zhou Shicheng will have a hard time in the future.

Isn’t this all caused by Mrs. Ma? ! She committed suicide, but she harmed her whole family, and even her children and grandchildren could not live in peace. Why didn't she die earlier? ! She had to struggle, harming everyone, but she also had to protect her glory and wealth. Now that the poison was in her mouth, she still had to struggle, forcing others to restrain her and forcefully drink it down, which made her death look particularly hideous and ugly.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Ma couldn't help but get sulky: "Fortunately, brother-in-law and the others sealed the coffin early. Otherwise, if outsiders could see Mrs. Ma's appearance when she died, we don't know how many rumors there would be. Er, eldest sister wants to do it again. Got gossiped about!"

Haitang smiled and said: "Don't worry, grandma, the third room of the Zhou family has to hold a low-key funeral. There won't be so many people coming to express condolences. At most, it will be relatives and friends of the clan. Everyone knows about the scandal that Mrs. Ma caused at the end of last year. Previously, She was the one who helped set up the Sun family spy that the Tang family caught. She had so much dark history, even if people outside didn't know that she had done more extreme things in the past, they could still understand the third wife of the Zhou family who didn't want to be publicized. The Lord doesn't want to hold a big funeral. It's enough for outsiders to come and go through the ceremony. Who is going to find fault?" Ma thought about it. Speaking of it, it was Mrs. Ma's own fault that led to today's retribution.

But she soon couldn't help but sigh: "Even if his family is not doing well, the in-laws still have to come to visit. Who said that Sister E and Mrs. Ma are both from the Ma family? Eh, they still have to deliver letters to the Ma family. Well. Since the third member of the Zhou family has arranged the funeral for Mrs. Ma, the Ma family, as in-laws, must be very careful in order to show respect to the eldest sister. But I don’t know if the Ma family will make random guesses when Mrs. Ma suddenly dies. What? They heard some rumors before."

Haitang mumbled, "Grandma, don't worry about these things. This is my aunt's job."

Ma irritated her: "Well, don't you know? But the eldest sister is already busy enough just presiding over the funeral. How can she have time to care about other things? Well, as a girl, I have to share her worries for her."

Okay, you are always willing to share the worries for your aunt and grandma, so just go on with your thoughts and forgive your granddaughter for not being able to accompany her.

After arriving home, Haitang went back to the house without mentioning it. When Hai Jiao came back from school in the evening, she watched her brother come out of the upper room to greet him, and immediately took him back to the east wing and told him everything that happened today.

Hai Jiao couldn't help but was stunned: "Mrs. Ma is dead? Was she poisoned by the medicine given by Yu? She didn't struggle?"

Why not struggle? Haitang was not in the house at that time, but he could hear the noise in the house even in the courtyard. It was a chaos. Mrs. Ma yelled many unpleasant words, cursing the person who delivered the medicine, the people who were watching, her parents and sister who she thought had harmed her life, her old lover, the old king of the Hu people, the Sun family, and Lian Yuan. The emperor and queen mother in the capital didn't let her go. In the end, Zhou Shicheng asked her outside the door if she really didn't care about the life and death of her children and grandchildren. Do you really not plan to be buried peacefully after death? She just stopped.

But even so, when the poison took effect, she struggled awkwardly for a long time, so that her clothes and hair accessories were all messed up. It was after she died that Zhou Ma, Mrs. Saturday and Ma Shangyi worked together to freshen her up and put her into the coffin with dignity. But with the ferocious expression on her face and the marks left on her face from the previous struggle, everyone had no choice but to quickly seal the coffin lid to prevent outsiders from seeing her and gossiping.

She is a person who has struggled all her life but has never made it in the right direction, always going down the wrong road. It is really sad to end up like this now.

Haitang took a deep breath, packed up everything she saw today, and threw it into the depths of her memory.

Her life has turned over, and from now on, she no longer has to think about that person.

(End of this chapter)