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

Chapter 552 Guilty Wu Qiong

Rumors about the change of attitude of Zhen Guogong and his wife towards Mrs. Gui gradually spread among the civil and military officials in Chang'an City.

Although Mrs. Gui has never appeared in public, gossip about her is always spread from the Zhenguo Palace to the outside world.

In the past, if she had any physical discomfort, the Zhenguo Duke's mansion would always ask the doctor in the mansion to diagnose and treat her, which was convenient and reliable. But now, it seems that because of Mrs. Gui's request, the Zhenguo Duke's mansion invited doctors from outside to come back to the mansion. Checked her pulse.

The doctor also had a small reputation in the city, but he was not very strict with his words. According to the information he revealed privately to his relatives and friends, Mrs. Gui seemed to have a lot of dissatisfaction with the Zhenguo government. She always felt that the Zhou family would harm her life. But the people in the Zhenguo Duke's mansion were obviously very good to her, taking good care of her, and generous in using medicines. They were willing to spend money to buy any expensive medicines, which showed that her vigilance was completely unnecessary.

However, Mrs. Gui is indeed ill. She has no appetite for food, and can't sleep at night. She has a bad temper, gets angry easily, is arrogant to others, and is very petty. Even if the doctor was invited to treat her, she would often get angry suddenly because of the smallest things, and she suspected that the doctor had been bribed by the Zhou family to harm her.

Although the doctor only went there three times and was no longer invited, and another doctor with whom he had no good relationship was invited, he did not feel angry. He is not willing to serve such an unreasonable patient, whose condition is difficult and unwilling to listen to the doctor's orders! He used to worry about the reputation of the Zhenguo Palace, so he managed to force out a smile and come to the house for follow-up consultation. Now he no longer has to go, but he is happy and relaxed, and he can secretly gloat about his enemy's upcoming encounters!

When the second doctor was kicked out by Mrs. Gui, news about Mrs. Gui's condition quickly spread in Chang'an City. Everyone knew that she couldn't eat or sleep well, often cried alone, had an arrogant and irritable temper in front of others, and her temperament and behavior were really weird, but they were in line with what she had done in the past. Everyone disliked her even more, and they only felt sorry for the Duke of Zhen and his wife, who had to endure such a superb nephew and daughter-in-law.

In the past, they could use their seniority to suppress her, but now that the Seventh Prince has come out of the blue, it is not known whether he has a different regard for the three remaining survivors of his mother's clan. Because of the Seventh Prince, the Duke of Zhen and his wife have no choice but to return home. Madam, please be more polite. If you can't control her as strictly as before, you will naturally be a little angry. Everyone in Chang'an who heard the news felt very sympathetic to Zhen Guogong and his wife.

But is this really the case?

After the third room of the Zhou family left the city, Haitang paid close attention to the news from Zhenguo Gongfu, and Haijiao also asked acquaintances about it. In addition to the young masters of the Zhenguo Palace, his sources of information include the younger generation of the Zhou family's in-laws from the Tang family, his cousin Xie Wenzai, the guards and minor officials of the Dusi Yamen, and Huang Captou of the prefect's Yamen, and so on. Occasionally, neighbor Jin Jiashu would hear some gossip from Zhou Xiaojian and Lu Gawa and share it with him. The two brothers are quite well informed.

After rumors confirmed that Mrs. Gui was indeed ill, Haitang wrote a letter to Wu Qiong, expressing her sorrow and comforting her. Wu Qiong replied to her quickly.

The rumors were true. She did move out of the residence where her mother and daughter lived and did not live with her mother, Mrs. Gui. At present, Mrs. Zhen Guogong arranged for her to live with Zhou Xuejun in the fourth room. The place is spacious, and the two cousins ​​have a harmonious relationship, so they are a good companion. It is said that Mrs. Gui explicitly said that she did not allow her daughter to live with her. She only said it was to avoid getting sick. As for the actual reason, only the mother and daughter knew. Wu Qiong himself was a little frightened. She felt that she was very sorry for her mother. She was sick and she could not be there to take care of her. But at the same time, she was a little angry and didn't understand why her mother had become so irritable and suspicious. Because Mrs. Gui insisted on not having the doctor in the Duke's mansion diagnose her illness, she insisted on inviting a doctor from outside. After she invited the doctor, she also suspected that the doctor had been bribed by the Zhou family to harm her. Wu Qiong now felt that It's almost a joke that he lives in the Zhenguo Duke's mansion.

She was very embarrassed every day, always feeling ashamed of her benefactor's family, and wished she could move her mother out of the house immediately, not wanting to see her mother making jokes in front of others anymore. But Mrs. Zhen Guogong and Mrs. Saturday's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were not angry at all. Instead, they repeatedly comforted her and told her not to worry about her sick mother. They were so generous and kind, which made Wu Qiong feel even more guilty.

She told Haitang in the letter that now she was too embarrassed to raise her head in front of Zhou Xuejun and did not dare to speak loudly because her mother's nonsense had hurt the Wu family's face. She really wanted to see her mother and persuade her to stop messing around, but both her mother and the Duke's wife hoped that she would not get over her illness and stay away for a while.

Now Wu Qiong can only greet her outside her mother's yard at most. Unfortunately, most of the time, she could only hear her mother's angry and cursing words. She tried to persuade her mother but failed. Her mother simply refused to listen to her nagging. Whenever she said something that didn't suit her mother's liking, the latter would even scold her, her own daughter, away without politeness.

This happened so many times that Wu Qiong himself became annoyed. She felt that her mother was just relying on the power of the seventh prince. But their mother and daughter were not familiar with the Seventh Prince at all. How could her mother dare to be sure that the Seventh Prince would favor them while ignoring the kindness shown to them by the Empress Dowager Zhou and the Zhou family?

There were some things that Wu Qiong couldn't tell anyone in the Zhen Guogong Mansion. The people in that mansion were all members of the Zhou family, who were her mother's victims. And my cousin Wu Ke lives outside the house and often goes to the teacher's house to attend classes, so he can't go into the house to see her every day. Now that she had the opportunity to communicate with Haitang, an outsider, she couldn't help but write a few more pages.

Wu Qiong also heard rumors from the outside world and knew that her mother had been planning to find bad luck in the third room of the Zhou family. For this she felt very sorry for Zhou Yijun. The two of them got along very well in the past, but since the accident happened to the third room of the Zhou family, Zhou Yijun has never been to the Zhenguo Palace again, and she has never seen this cousin again. Because of her mother's commotion, the third family member of the Zhou family was forced to hide out of the city, and Zhou Yijun also had to leave with her grandparents. After Wu Qiong heard the news, she didn't dare to look up at the expressions of Zhou Xuejun and Zhou Huajun. She knew that their cousins ​​had a good relationship...

For this reason, Wu Qiong specifically told Haitang in the letter, asking her to send a message to Zhou Yijun, so as not to think that his mother, Mrs. Gui, really held a grudge against the third wife of the Zhou family. Not to mention that Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi, mother and daughter, were only used by the Sun family to collect kerosene. They were not the masterminds of the death of Queen Wu, mother and son, and the Wu family. They had no knowledge in advance. Even if the culprits were the Sun family and her mother, Mrs. Gui, they were not the masterminds. After enduring it for many years, neither in the palace nor in the Chengenhou Mansion, I never thought of retaliating against them, let alone making trouble at their door. She is making trouble now because she knows that the Zhou family will not argue with her. At the same time, she also wanted to find an excuse to torment Zhen Guogong and his wife so that they would agree to some of her excessive requests.

However, Madam Gui's plan has now been scrapped. She is still making a fuss now, she is just venting her anger. Because she was betrayed by her natal brother, she felt angry and aggrieved, but could not vent her anger on her brother, so she suppressed her illness. But she still missed her brother in her heart, and didn't want people outside to know what her brother had done, so she had to use the third room of the Zhou family as a cover to deceive outsiders. In her heart, she also complained a little about the Duke of Zhen, who refused to help her brother find an official position, so that Let them choose backstab...

When Haitang saw this, she couldn't help but show a question mark on her face.

What does it mean? Mrs. Gui is sick, and what about Gui’s brother?
(End of this chapter)