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

Chapter 825 Planning
Ma Shangyi and her old sisters from Zunhua Prefecture agreed to get together. The date is tentatively set for April, and if nothing unexpected happens, the address should be in Beijing.

Hai Jiao had already made an appearance in front of Ma Shangyi and had made an appointment with Jin Jiashu to attend the gathering of the old people in the Cining Palace. From then on, he would be able to make this kind of connections. He was the grandson of Mei Niangzi's student, the cousin of the younger generation protected by Cai Xiaoju and Granny Cai, and had been a good neighbor of Ma Shangyi for several years. He was also a life-long friend of Jin Jiashu. I think the old maids and eunuchs in the Cining Palace would not dislike him.

Hai Baozhu still had to stay in Yongping Prefecture to study, and he might not be able to come to Beijing for a while. The rest of Fang, Hai Baozhu, and Hai Baozhu's biological mother were all female relatives, and it was not convenient for them to travel far. Hai Jiao planned to wait for the official appointment documents to come down, and before he officially took office, he would take advantage of the holiday to return to his hometown in Yongping Prefecture to worship his ancestors, re-promote the reputation of the Hai family, and support Fang and her son.

The Jiang family is now in a difficult situation, so they can no longer bully the Hai family and seize their assets. It is said that the foolish members of the Hai family were plotted against by the Jiang family after Fang left Jianghaitun. If the soldiers had not searched the Jiang family quickly enough, they would have been forced to sell their houses and land.

At this time, they had come to their senses and knew that they had wronged Fang in the past. If Fang had not married Young Master Jiang and pretended to be good to the Jiang family, the family property they had would have been swallowed up long ago. These ungrateful people did not even have the qualifications to be angry with Fang, and would have been driven out of the land left by their ancestors and starved. They were not grateful, but had the nerve to blame Fang and say bad things about her all day long. It was really too much.

Now, they watched the entire Jiang family being confiscated, the father and son of the Jiang family being locked up in jail, and it was rumored that they would be executed or exiled soon, and all their property would be confiscated. The women and children of the Jiang family could only cry at home, and the relatives and friends who once supported them were now avoiding them, and even deliberately adding insult to injury... The Hai family was extremely grateful that their property had not fallen into the hands of the Jiang family, otherwise it would have been confiscated by the government and they would never be able to get it back. This was all thanks to Fang, the former eldest daughter-in-law of the clan!

The Hai family felt guilty and ashamed to see Fang, but they wanted her to go home and take charge of the situation and support the Hai family again. They didn't know where Fang had gone, but they knew that the second branch must have been involved in this matter, so they found Xie Zhong, an old servant of Xie Wenzai - he was now arranged by Cui Dazhuang to guard the house allocated to the second branch, and he would communicate with Hai Chang'an and Hai Jiao in Beijing every ten days, and presided over the restoration of the old house.

Xie Zhong knew that Cui Dazhuang, under Hai Jiao's order, had bought a house in Yongping Prefecture. This was for the Hai Xiya family to live in when they returned to their hometown to retire in the future. Now it was temporarily accommodating Fang and others. He did not directly pass the news back to the capital, but sent the message to Fang. After repeated consideration, Fang decided not to return to Jianghaitun for the time being.

The clan members certainly felt guilty about her at this time, but they didn't know if this idea could last long. If she returned to the Hai family and took charge of the household affairs, if the clan members were dissatisfied one day, they might talk about her remarriage again. It was fine for her, but she was afraid that her daughter would be wronged. Now that her second uncle's family was willing to support her and she had a bright future in the capital, she wanted to take her daughter to the capital to join her second uncle, and from then on she would just regard herself as a widow who had lost her support, and live in the capital where no one knew her with the concubine and two children left by her late husband. With her private property and assets, she was confident that she could support her family. Isn't this better than staying in her hometown, where everyone knew her experience and could hear rumors at any time?
Her uncle and nephew had advised her, and she changed her mind. She had preserved the bloodline of the eldest branch of the Hai family, and had prevented outsiders from encroaching on the ancestral property of the Hai family. She had done nothing to let down the Hai family. She had supported the Hai family for many years, and now that the family's great enemy was gone, the family members could live a stable life by maintaining their achievements, and she didn't need to worry too much. She should now think more about herself and her daughter.

Haijiao thought Fang's idea made sense and agreed with it. He wrote to his family this time to ask his grandparents whether they should buy another property near the house in the capital to accommodate the eldest family in the future. He had to find out what arrangements his grandparents had for Fang, his former niece-in-law and his own niece.

Haitang thought that it would be a good idea for the eldest family to come to Beijing and live where no one knew them, so that their lives would be much quieter.

Even if the Hai family never talked about Fang's remarriage again, they couldn't control the public opinion. Fang could ignore the gossip, but Hai Baozhu wanted to propose marriage and Hai Baozhu wanted to get married, so they still had to interact with the outside world. How could they shut up others? What's more, although the Jiang family was unlucky this time, their crime was at most a few leaders who suffered, not the extent of the whole family being executed or even the nine clans being implicated. Those surviving Jiang family members continued to live in Jianghai Village. They were not good people with noble character. Would they really not come to harass Fang?

Rather than staying in Jianghaitun and being disturbed every day, the Fang family might as well leave. When they are old and want to return to their roots, they can go back to Jianghaitun to live, but that will be at least several decades later, and there may not be many people who remember the past and come to cause trouble again. This arrangement should be a good result for the Fang family, right?

At least that's what Haijiao thinks.

Hai Jiao refused to elaborate on his past life, but from the few words he accidentally revealed, none of his relatives and friends in the Hai family had a good ending. Fang's mother and daughter were both dead, and he himself lost his support and was hunted by the Jiang family, so he drifted to the capital and became a spy for the Jinyiwei. If he had not been forced to do so, as a son of a military family, after a soldier died in battle, he would have studied and practiced martial arts since childhood. Even if he had no fame and was penniless, he would not have been unable to make a living in the capital and had to become a cannon fodder spy for the Jinyiwei.

The Jiang family once caused great harm to the Hai family, and now they have ended up like this, which is retribution.

Haijiao finally saved his relatives who had done him a favor. I believe the knot in his heart can also be untied, right?

Hai Jiao's letter was almost finished here. He talked about some trivial matters at home, and said that he would send a letter to his family as soon as he was appointed. He also mentioned that the old doctor in the Ministry of Revenue who was about to retire seemed to be in poor health and might not be able to hold on until the originally scheduled retirement date. He suggested that his grandfather Hai Xiya should complete the handover work as soon as possible and go to Beijing in advance so that he could smoothly take over the position of doctor in the Ministry of Revenue.

Now that Lord Sun has been kicked out of the cabinet, his old relatives have also left in disgrace. Another Lord who formed a party with him has already decided to retire and seek a good end. He has been preparing for the ceremony of establishing the crown prince, and from time to time, he has been rumored to be tired and old. I am afraid that it will not be long before he will formally write a letter to retire. Lord Tao is now the invisible prime minister in the cabinet. He is very busy and has no right people under him. If my grandfather Hai Xiya had come to Beijing earlier, he would definitely be able to help Lord Tao. Maybe his career in this life would be further advanced, and he might not retire as a fifth-rank doctor.

Haitang couldn't help but raise an eyebrow as she read her brother's letter.

Why does this sound so much like a dream? At my age, is there really still hope for me to move up?

(End of this chapter)