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

Chapter 76: Some old melons from past lives ([-])

Queen Mother Zhou was indeed dying.

Hai Jiao can no longer remember exactly when she died.When he was first reborn, he thought she was dead, but later he realized from the words of people around him that he seemed to have remembered it wrong.

At this time in his previous life, he was still suffering in the horse farm of the barbarians. When he escaped, he had been immersed in hard work, just thinking about earning travel expenses to return to his hometown.As for the news in the capital, he had no way to inquire about it, and he had no intention to inquire about it.He later became a spy for Jin Yiwei and began to be ordered to monitor the royal relatives, powerful officials and senior officials in the capital. Only then did he gradually learn about what happened in his early years.

The Queen Mother Zhou passed away probably in the past few years.Because she was dead and the emperor no longer needed to worry about her feelings, when Mr. Sun Ge and Marquis Yingchuan joined forces to "revenge" Zhou Dalang, the eldest son of Zhen Guogong, he did not hesitate to comply with their wishes and even sent people I don’t even have the patience to find out the truth about the death of Prince Yingchuan.

Since Zhou Dalang was dismissed, in the next few years, the Zhou family's children had accidents one after another. They ranged from being demoted and resigned to seriously injured and died, and some even became disabled.Even though there are still Zhou family children who have retained their military positions and continue to guard the border, the Zhou family's momentum is not as good as before, and they all rely on the governor of the town, Marshal Zhou, to support the overall situation.When Marshal Zhou also died, no one in the Zhou family could take over the power of the border army.Mrs. Zhou simply moved back to the capital with the members of her family who had no official positions and her juniors, and lived a low-key life, so that her children and grandchildren would not continue to be plotted by powerful ministers and even lose their lives.

She really didn't think too much.When Marshal Zhou died, one of his nephews was accused by someone of "raising the bandits for self-respect."On the surface, the nephew's crime was just to allow a group of sand and horse bandits to cause harm to the border people and failed to seriously eradicate them. In fact, the group of sand and horse bandits were Hu people, and Uncle Wang, a Hu man, was involved behind the scenes.If Mr. Sun Ge took advantage of this to pursue him fiercely, his nephew would be accused of "collaboration with the enemy and the country" at any time, and the entire Zhou family would be implicated.

How the Zhou family responded was not clear to Hai Jiao.A few years later, he became a Jinyiwei secret agent and heard some inside information from the familiar whip Zhang San.

The magic whip Zhang San was once sent to the border to secretly investigate the case. He had already traced the relationship between the group of sand thieves and the Hu man Uncle Wang, but he was not able to go further and was called back to the capital. Then this task Then let it go.Not long after, Mrs. Zhou moved back to the capital with her family.The emperor was quite kind to them, and arranged for two of the Zhou family's grandchildren to serve as bodyguards in the Forbidden Army, and would also give gifts to Mrs. Zhou during the holidays.

Divine Whip Zhang San has always been worried about this matter, not because he was forcibly suspended because he failed to find out the truth, but because he felt that some things here were too coincidental.Jin Yiwei never interferes in border affairs, so why is he suddenly given such an investigation mission?Was he, a secret agent with no official position or position, the one who took over the mission?After arriving at the border, all the evidence came into his hands easily, without any effort at all... He always felt that there was someone behind this controlling everything, and he also suspected that that person was Mr. Sun Ge...

The hometown of Divine Whip Zhang San is actually in the border town, and he has always respected Marshal Zhou and his family very much.He had been worried afterwards. If Jin Yiwei hadn't suddenly stopped the investigation mission, would he have become a tool for some powerful officials to frame Zhongliang?

Because of this incident, Divine Whip Zhang San has always disliked the Sun family.Later, when Tao Yue took charge of the Jinyi Guards, he was always very active in seeking the task of monitoring the Sun family, vowing to find out the evidence of Mr. Sun Ge's crime and bring him to justice...

Hai Jiao recalled his experiences in his previous life and was a little chatty, but Haitang still discovered information worthy of attention from his chattering in time: "Brother said before that Mr. Sun Ge was in charge of Jinyiwei. When did that start? ? Before Marshal Zhou passed away? Approximately in what year? If the Jin Yiwei were very powerful, would they have discovered the whereabouts of my cousin and told Mr. Sun Ge to know? "

Hai Jiao stopped chattering and thought about it seriously: "Jinyiwei was originally controlled by the emperor. After the emperor became seriously ill, the cabinet took it over and asked Mr. Sun Ge to take it into his hands. But that should have been several years. It's a matter of later events. The emperor's health is still fine at the moment." He paused, "But... a nephew of Mr. Sun Ge served as the governor of Jinyiwei for several years, and was later transferred to the Five Cities Military and Horse Division. This man He has a vicious personality and loves to scheme against people. He often helps Mr. Sun Ge eliminate dissidents. Counting the time... He was transferred from Jinyiwei just before and after the Zhou family returned to Beijing. As soon as he arrived at the Wucheng Army and Horses Division, he followed the Zhou family A grandson got into a conflict and almost killed him. The emperor ordered the Zhou family's grandchildren to join the Forbidden Army, and the matter was settled." It was also because of this incident that Zhang San, the divine whip, became more and more convinced that he was behind the plan to raise the bandits. The black hand is Mr. Sun Ge.

As for whether Jin Yiwei will discover Xie Wenzai's whereabouts... Hai Jiao thinks it is impossible: "Jin Yiwei is busy with affairs on weekdays, and it may not be possible to investigate just the cases in Beijing. Who would worry about a former man who has been in exile for many years and was pardoned not long ago? What about the officials? If my cousin returned to the capital and made friends with powerful officials, they might pay more attention. But my cousin has no intention of going back at all, so they won’t care!"

Haitang felt relieved and asked again: "Why did Jin Yiwei suddenly stop the investigation of Divine Whip Zhang San? Did they also find out that someone was planning everything behind this?"

Hai Jiao shook his head: "I don't know about this. The divine whip Zhang San only said that it was an order from the superior. Who knows who this 'superior' is? Anyway, Zhongliang has not been framed, and the Zhou family can be at peace after returning to Beijing. After a while, he didn’t pursue it further.”

In fact, there is no way to pursue it.Mr. Sun Ge is extremely powerful, and his cousin is ruthless. Zhang San, the divine whip, doesn't want to die yet. No matter how much resentment he has in his heart, he will give in first. When the new king succeeds to the throne and Mr. Tao Ge rises, he can take advantage of the opportunity to take revenge.

Haitang silently wrote down the information hidden in these old melons from the past life, and then said: "According to my brother, you were trapped in the racecourse for three years. After you escaped, you worked for the caravan in Suzhou for half a year before you collected the travel expenses. to Ganzhou. And Zhou Dalang was dismissed from his post some time before you arrived in Ganzhou. The Queen Mother died before that. So, the Queen Mother should have died within the next two years? How did she die? "

Hai Jiao thought for a while: "I really don't remember the specific time. It was many years after I came to Beijing. The Queen Mother has been dead for a long time, and no one talks about it. It's hard for me to ask people about this. I only vaguely remember that she died suddenly. Although she had been ill for a long time, her death was very sudden. When she died, the emperor was not in the palace, but hurried back during the inspection to attend the funeral. Later, the Sun family was convicted. At that time, Queen Mother Xu... who was Xinjun's biological mother and is still a virtuous concubine, accused Concubine Sun of murdering the Queen Mother. However, there was no evidence, the Zhou family lost power again, and Concubine Sun died neatly, so the matter was dropped. "

Of course, it may not be without reason.Concubine Xian has always been low-key and sensible, and will not accuse Concubine Sun without any reason.She was originally a palace attendant of the Queen Mother. She became a concubine with the support of the Queen Mother and gave birth to the eighth prince.For her to say this, it must be because Concubine Sun had something inappropriate in her words and deeds before and after the death of the Queen Mother.At that time, Concubine Sun was in charge of the harem, and many secrets were known only to those in the harem.

It's just... Concubine Sun and the Queen Mother Zhou have a bad relationship, and they have been peacefully together for more than 30 years. How could she suddenly attack the Queen Mother Zhou?

Haijiao felt that the water was a bit deep in this matter.

Haitang raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and asked another question that she thought was very important: "Why didn't the Empress Dowager Zhou refuse to let the emperor pursue the title of Concubine Tao Hui? Does she have any grudge against Concubine Tao Hui?"

(End of this chapter)