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

Chapter 754 Speech Skills
Haitang reminded Jin Jiashu of this, hoping that he would take the initiative to ask Ma Shangyi for advice after returning home. If Ma Shangyi was willing to teach him how to guard against others using poison, that would be great.

Ma Shangyi has been in the palace for more than 40 years, serving the mother of a country. She should have mastered the knowledge in this area, right?
If she is willing to teach Jin Jiashu this knowledge, even if it is just a little bit, Haitang will be able to find out the specific content from Jin Jiashu afterwards, and then take out the relevant knowledge she "found from the books of her elders" and compile it into a booklet to let Jin Jiashu know more about anti-poison and antidote methods. In this way, if he encounters a conspiracy related to poison after entering Beijing, he will know how to protect himself.

Haitang had spent decades in the palace in her previous life, and several years in the royal palace. She thought she had seen a lot of things, and knew that the nobles in the capital had some prescriptions that could kill people without using weapons. The Sun family had been in power for more than 30 years, and Concubine Sun had been the de facto head of the harem for many years. Who knows if they had learned these prescriptions? What if they attacked Jin Jiashu? Of course, it was better to be prepared for such a thing.

I just don't know if the nobles in the capital have developed any new prescriptions in the decades since she left. I'm afraid she won't be able to deal with such things.

Of course, if Ma Shangyi doesn't know this knowledge, or is unwilling to teach Jin Jiashu, Haitang also has a plan to deal with it. At worst, she can just give the compiled booklet to Jin Jiashu. At that time, she can say that she saw it from her cousin Xie Wenzai, the two grandfathers Cao and Lu, and the books in the Zhenguo Mansion. Now that Haijiao and Zhou Yijun have gone to Beijing, Jin Jiashu has few friends who can tell confidential matters. Even if he wants to verify it, he has nowhere to find anyone. Afterwards, he used the detoxification recipe recorded in her booklet. Even if she was exposed as a liar, what would it matter? Her approach was beneficial to him and harmless. She just didn't want to explain the origin of the things. Is it a big mistake?
Haitang sent Jin Jiashu away and went back to the west study to sort out the booklet. She had won a few seeds of herbs with powerful detoxification effects in the system lottery a few days ago, and then she thought of compiling such a booklet. Unfortunately, what she won was seeds instead of the herbs themselves, and they still need to be planted for a few years before they can be used. She can only use the methods currently available to detoxify.

I hope that the Sun family will only use open means or conspiracies to harm people. If they also have the skills to use poison, the lethality will be too great. How can Empress Dowager Zhou, Concubine Xu and the two little princes resist it?

Haitang was fiddling with her detoxification booklet and playing with her newly grown medicinal herb seedlings. Her life was peaceful and leisurely.

Since that day, Jin Jiashu really couldn't stay at the Hai family for an hour or two every day, but every now and then, he would always take time to visit Ma and chat with her, and before or after that, he would try to find an opportunity to meet and talk with Haitang. However, the intensity of Guard Lin's martial arts lessons was obviously higher than Haitang's, and he was tormented a lot every day. Haitang saw that his face was bruised and swollen several times, and he was not walking steadily. Ma also gave him several bottles of medicated oils and wines, which were used by Hai Dingcheng, Hai Chang'an or Hai Jiao when they practiced martial arts in the past. Haitang also experienced it personally and found that the medicinal effects were excellent. With these medicated oils and wines, plus Ma Shangyi asked Aunt Lu to make medicinal food for Jin Jiashu every day to nourish his body, he was able to bear it and gradually adapted to this intensity of martial arts training.

In such a hard time, Jin Jiashu did not forget to visit the Hai family. Ma Shangyi really didn't know what to say. She still hoped that Jin Jiashu would obey Concubine Xu's arrangement and marry the girl from the Zhang family, but Jin Jiashu's previous statement was not without reason. If this marriage displeased the emperor, it would be better not to get married. Not only would it be bad for Jin Jiashu's future, but the Zhang family would not benefit from it either.

But if the emperor doesn't say it clearly, who knows whether it can be done or not?

Ma Shangyi was conflicted, thinking that if Jin Jiashu really wanted to return to Beijing, she would definitely accompany him. Then she would report the matter to the Empress Dowager and Empress Xu in person, and ask the two empresses to consider carefully whether Jin Jiashu must be engaged to the Zhang family.
Thinking that the two ladies might change their minds, Ma Shangyi hesitated for a long time and then went to Hai's house under the pretext of visiting and chatting, and tried to probe her opinion on her granddaughter's marriage in various ways.

Ma Shangyi had discussed Haitang's marriage with Ma many times in the past, so Ma was not surprised that she would bring up the old matter again, and told her the truth: "Nothing can be said for sure now. Our family is going back to Zhili. If we can't find a husband for the child in our hometown, we must at least find one in Beijing. We can't leave Tangtang alone in Chang'an. Otherwise, there are so many good young men in the Zhou family, and cousin Xie also knows a lot of scholars in Chang'an. There are also young talents among those people's children and grandchildren. We would have found someone for the child a long time ago. Why would we wait until now? In fact, almost everyone who is familiar with our family knows what you and your wife mean, and no one will come to propose marriage. Someone said before that several old students from the Wu family who I knew in the past had outstanding children in their families, and their age, character and appearance are compatible with Tangtang, and they said they are willing to be matchmakers. I thought that I had to meet the person and take a closer look before I could hand the child over with confidence, so I planned to talk about it after arriving in Beijing." Ma felt very sorry. Although Ma Shangyi tried to be a matchmaker for Haitang twice and nothing came of it, she really had good intentions. It was just that the Hai family rejected her kindness due to their own considerations.

But after hearing Ma's answer today, Ma Shangyi seemed to be in a good mood: "You are right. The child's marriage affects her whole life, and it must not be decided rashly! You can take your time to choose and look around. If you think a child from a good family is good, you can tell me and I will inquire for you. I know a lot of people in the capital, and I can always know some secrets that outsiders don't know. It also saves you from being fooled by others and mistaking fish eyes for pearls, which will ruin the child's life."

Ma was very surprised when she heard this: "Sister Ma, are you serious? Thank you so much!" This kind of network channel is exactly what the Hai family lacks in the capital!

Ma Shangyi smiled and nodded, and promised again. She didn't dare to say who Jin Jiashu would marry in the end, but if Madam Xu really gave in and let him make the decision, then she would at least help delay Haitang's marriage until then, so that Jin Jiashu would not miss the marriage opportunity and blame Madam Xu and herself...

Ma Shangyi used her rhetoric to persuade Ma to seriously consider the marriage of her grandchildren. Even if the children married late, they should not choose the wrong person and delay their life. As they talked, they talked about the recent wedding, that is, the wedding of Zhou Xiaojian and Pu Tao.

The wedding is the day after tomorrow. In the past few days, Ma Youli's family has taken leave, and even Shi Liu has said hello to Hai Tang, planning to go home to see her sister off. Zhou Ma specially showed mercy and allowed them to return to their old home in the third room of the Zhou family to reunite with their family and friends, and Grape can also go there to ride in a sedan chair to leave the house. Considering that Hai Tang's room lacked maids to serve, Ma asked the new Xiangcao and Cuiguo to go to her room together to temporarily replace Shi Liu's work.

Haitang didn't want to have so many people in the house. After sending Ma Shangyi away, she went into the house and suggested to her grandmother that Xiangcao should be the only one on duty. However, Ma refused, "There are not many people in the backyard. Xiangcao may still have to take care of her mother. With Cuiguo here, even if one of the two maids leaves temporarily, you will still have someone to serve you."

Mrs. Ma refused to give in, so Haitang had no choice but to accept her arrangement and let Xiangcao and Cuiguo move into their own rooms with their bedding.

(End of this chapter)