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

Chapter 547 Letter
After the birthday banquet of Duke Zhenguo, everyone in Chang'an was talking about the seventh prince.

No one has ever heard that the queen left a legitimate prince, but some people have noticed that the little prince born to Concubine Xu Xian is ranked eighth, while the son of Concubine Sun who died a few years ago is ranked sixth, so the seventh one is who?

Before the birth of the eighth prince, the fact that the emperor had no successor was once a hot topic in the city. Many people secretly criticized it, thinking that this was retribution for the emperor's lack of conduct and being too harsh and ungrateful towards the frontier soldiers and loyal ministers and good generals. At that time, no one mentioned that there was a seventh prince in the palace. Everyone knew that the little prince born to Concubine Xu Xian was the eighth queen. They thought that the seventh prince was of low birth and died early. They never expected that he was still alive and the direct descendant of the middle palace. !
The Sun family controls the power in the capital, and the Sun Pavilion has great power, but they did not realize that such a legitimate little prince has lived to such a great age and can now directly establish a heir at any time. This shows that the power of the Sun family has been exhausted!

People talked a lot and were very happy. Although everyone's impression of Gui, the second grandmother of the Wu family, is not very good, Wu Ke, the orphan of the Wu family, is a good boy who is polite and courteous. Wu Qiong also has a good reputation. Mrs. Wu, the eldest sister of Zhen Guogong, also gave gifts to the elders of Chang'an. The folks were very impressed. Everyone is very happy to see that Mrs. Wu and her grandchildren are still alive and well. Based on the relationship between the Wu family and the Zhou family, if the seventh prince becomes the crown prince and inherits the throne in the future, the unfair treatment of the northwest frontier army by the court will definitely change.

Taking a step back, even if the seventh prince does not become the crown prince and inherit the throne, the new prince will be the eighth prince. The biological mother of the little prince is also close to the Zhou family. As long as the future new king is not Prince Ji, whom the Sun family supports, the future of the Northwest Frontier Army will be bright.

Everyone is more confident in the future of Northwest China.

This topic is being discussed not only by the Zhou family members, relatives and friends, but also by the generals and generals of the Northwest Frontier Army. Even the middle and low-level civilian officials who have heard the news one after another are also discussing it in private.

Not only did someone from the Hai family work in the Shaanxi Dusi Yamen, they were also guests at the birthday banquet, so they were naturally among the insiders. While they were having private discussions at home, neighbors who had heard about the incident often came to inquire about it.

Not to mention Jin Jiashu, even if Ma Shangyi didn't come to visit him for several days, he could still get relevant information from Hai Jiao and Zhou Yijun. But the other neighbors have to find ways to find out from insiders.

Hai Xiya quickly left Chang'an City under the pretext of being on a business trip; Xie Wenzai only had to say that he would concentrate on teaching students and thank guests behind closed doors, and no one would come to bother him shamelessly; since Hai Chang'an had never attended the banquet, he could still avoid it with the excuse of not knowing. Other people's inquiries; only Ma, the matron of the house, who was accustomed to dealing with neighbors all year round, really had no way to escape, so she could only bite the bullet and accept the questioning of everyone, and then think about what information she could reveal.

Haijiao always used the excuse of going to school, leaving early and returning late every day. After school, he would also invite friends to practice riding skills, trying to avoid the waves of guests at home. Of course, Haitang would not just stay in the upper room of the main courtyard and suffer with her grandmother. She didn't even go to the study room in the main courtyard. She hid in the room in the backyard on the pretext that she wanted to study. No matter how many people came to visit, they could not disturb her leisure time.

Taking advantage of this time, she read a new book, drew two new paintings, practiced calligraphy on dozens of pages, and made a small purse to wear with new clothes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Just when she was wondering whether she should scent her new purse with lotus or osmanthus, she received a letter from Zhou Yijun, the third roommate of the Zhou family.

During this period of time, the third and third houses of the Zhou family have been keeping filial piety behind closed doors, with no new news coming out, and their sense of presence in the Zhou family has been reduced a lot. If Mrs. Ma's matter hadn't caused private discussions among relatives and friends of the tribe, no one would have mentioned their family. Zhou Ma and the Ma sisters were in constant contact. From time to time they would send people to send things and messages to each other, and Zhou Yijun also wrote to Haitang frequently. It's just that every time she writes a letter, she asks the maid sent by her grandmother Zhou Ma to run errands at Hai's house. This is the first time she solemnly sends a close maid to go alone.

Haitang looked at the letter in her hand, but without opening it, she asked Zhou Yijun's maid: "Has anything happened in the house recently? How are you girls?"

The maid answered honestly: "Everything is as usual in the house. The girl is fine." Then she paused and added, "Some news came from the clan. The master and the wife are planning to stay in the manor for a while. Miss I want to go together, maybe because I want to say goodbye to my cousin." Haitang was surprised: "Why are you moving to the village again? I thought only the second master and the eldest son of your family would observe mourning in the village."

The maid hesitated for a moment before replying: "The master and his wife are going to the village where the wife was married, not the place where the second master and the uncle live."

Is that the Zhuangzi where the Hai family and Jin Jiashu stayed before? Not far from Zhuangzi, a veteran of the Zhou family. Although it was close to the mountainside, it was still some distance away from the small village near Mrs. Ma's graveyard, at least seven or eight miles. It wasn't far, but it wasn't close either. If they wanted to observe filial piety, what would Zhou Shigong and his wife do there?
Haitang was confused, so she asked Shiliu to take Zhou Yijun's maid down for tea and snacks, while she stayed alone in the room to open the letter.

As expected, Zhou Yijun mentioned that she was about to leave Chang'an City and accompany her grandparents to stay with her grandmother in Zhuangzi. They used the banner of observing filial piety in rural areas, but in fact they did not go there to observe filial piety.

Zhou Shigong now hates Mrs. Ma as his stepmother, but he is also full of boredom. He is willing to do all the superficial things, resigning from office and observing filial piety for three years. This is already a great honor. How could he be willing to go to the countryside to endure hardships? He was forced to do this!

The news from the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion was that Mrs. Gui, the survivor of the Wu family, heard about the things that Mrs. Ma had committed at the birthday banquet of the Zhenguo Duke's wife, and learned that Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi had helped The Sun family collected kerosene, and the kerosene was used by the Sun family on the fire at Guozhang's Mansion, which exploded immediately. Now that she had no way to bring bad luck to the Sun family, Zhou Shuyi was far away in the capital, and Mrs. Ma was dead, and no one who was the culprit was around, so she planned to bring bad luck to the third brother of the Zhou family, asking brothers Zhou Shigong and Zhou Shicheng to pay for the lives of her husband and son.

The people in the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion tried to persuade her to calm down, saying that only Mrs. Ma and her daughter among the three rooms of the Zhou family had committed the crime, and they were also deceived by the Sun family. Zhou Shigong's family was kept in the dark from beginning to end, while Zhou Shicheng's family had been kept in the dark for a long time. The guards stationed outside Minshan didn't know anything about it. She wanted to blame them, but she couldn't blame them.

Mrs. Ke Gui refused to accept it. She just felt that the three houses of the Zhou family were all members of the same family. The mother had harmed someone, and the son should atone for his mother's sins. Not to mention that Zhou Shigong was not Mrs. Ma's biological child. Mrs. Ma had also raised him since he was a child, and he had always respected his stepmother. Even if he was not his biological son, it would be better than his biological son.

Mrs. Gui made a fuss about coming to seek bad luck on the third room of the Zhou family. She was the one who suffered the most, and the government could not stop her too tightly, so they could only slowly persuade her. At the same time, she also reminded the third room of the Zhou family to be careful and not to get into trouble with Mrs. Gui.

How dare Zhou Shigong have a quarrel with Mrs. Gui? He himself is still weak in his heart! To others, he could confidently say that he didn't know anything. But the Wu family is both a relative and a victim, and he has no shame in standing up in front of the Wu family.

Can't afford to offend, can afford to hide. So Zhou Shigong chose to hide.

He took his wife and granddaughter and went directly out of the city. There were not many three-bedroom properties left in the Zhou family, and he didn't want to run too far, so he simply moved to his wife's dowry village. Anyway, there were many veterans of the three-bedroom property there, so they must be able to understand his pain.

As for family matters, my youngest son Zhou Jinlin will be back soon, so let him handle everything!

(End of this chapter)