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

Chapter 1030: Scolding
After Haitang saw her grandmother off, she did not forget to send someone to follow behind. The person was not there to help Ma and her group, but was responsible for delivering messages between the two houses so that she and Hai Baozhu would know the situation on the scene.

Ma took many of the Hai family's servants with her, so Haitang sent Wang Xiaoqing, Xie Wenzai's servant. The young man was agile and clever, and soon he sent back the first-hand news, which was vivid and lifelike.

Hai Baozhu felt relieved immediately when she heard that the first thing her great-aunt Ma did after arriving home was to tear apart the great-aunts and aunts who were surrounding her mother Fang, and then ordered people to pull her brother Baozhu over so that they were no longer besieged.

Then, regardless of how the clansmen shouted and cursed, Ma first showed her status. As a fifth-rank imperial official, neither her status nor her seniority could be easily offended by those clansmen, and she quickly shut everyone up.

Then it was Ma's turn to show off her power. She pointed at the elders leading the clan and scolded them for being unfilial, stupid and incompetent. They watched the eldest branch Haidongling lose his family business without trying to stop him. They did not dare to resist the Jiang family from the same hometown who bullied others by taking advantage of their power. They also watched the third branch collude with outsiders to bully the orphans and widows of the eldest branch. Fang of the eldest branch gave herself to her enemies to protect the whole clan. If they had any sense of shame, they should have been grateful. However, they took advantage of Fang's misfortune after she left the Jiang family. They were simply ungrateful. And so on.

Ma had a lot of resentment in her heart today, and she had the chance to vent it on the useless people in the clan. How could she be soft-hearted? She scolded for two quarters of an hour, and did not give anyone a chance to interrupt her. She scolded until the elders in the clan blushed and were filled with shame.

The clan members might have been unable to get a say, or they might have been concerned about Ma's status as a royal concubine. Due to the second branch's current official position and power, they did not dare to treat them with the same attitude as the eldest branch. But Fang and Hai Baozhu were moved to tears when they heard Ma's words defending them. Their tears of grievance immediately turned into tears of emotion, and they wanted to rush over to hug Ma and cry.

Hai Baozhu was also very moved when she heard Wang Xiaoqing's retelling in the second room. She hugged Haitang and cried, "Now only the people in your second room will treat the three of us as human beings! If I had known that the clan members were so ungrateful, my mother should not have wronged herself. If she could let Aunt Qiu take Baozhu away, she could also take me away. At worst, we can abandon our ancestral land and leave Jianghaitun with only our private belongings. Can the Jiang family still catch us back?! I We can live a quiet life outside, and let those ungrateful people in the clan fend for themselves. When the second uncle comes back, he will teach the Jiang family a lesson, and then the things that were robbed from the Hai family will be returned, and we can go back to our hometown to live a good life. This way, we can get benefits without worrying about being stigmatized, so why not do it? It was those people in the clan who deliberately came to my mother to cry, pretending to be pitiful, to make my mother soft-hearted, and made my mother suffer countless grievances for them, but then they turned their backs on us..."

Haitang could sense the resentment and grievance of her and her daughter from Hai Baozhu's words. To be honest, the reason why Fang had to marry into the Jiang family for the second time was just to repay her parents-in-law and uncle and aunt for raising her. In fact, as long as she protected the two children of the eldest house, she would have repaid the favor. The reason why she also protected the clan was because she thought that the eldest house of the Hai family had been the clan leader for generations and had the responsibility to protect the clan members. But she made such a great sacrifice, but was stabbed in the back by the Hai family members who had benefited from her, so she naturally felt disheartened.

Hai Baozhu continued to cry, "My mother has been able to support the Jiang family for so many years. She was also a well-known shrewd person in the Hai family. How could she not have any tricks? If she wanted to deal with those ungrateful people in the family, she had plenty of ways to do it, so she wouldn't be forced to flee! The reason why she didn't do it, but took me to the capital to avoid it, was just because she was disappointed and didn't want to care about those people anymore. Otherwise, my mother would have taken revenge on the Jiang family, let alone those incompetent people in the family?! My mother didn't want to make trouble with the Hai family for the sake of my grandfather, grandmother and grandmother. But the people in the family thought she was easy to bully, and they actually came to the door. This time, no matter what my mother says, I have to persuade her not to be soft-hearted anymore! If those people in the family make trouble again, I'm afraid that even Baozhu's future will be implicated!"

Haitang listened to her words and couldn't help but think of what Haijiao had said before. In the previous life, Fang had also taken revenge on the Jiang family. It seemed that she had hired someone to pretend to be a bandit and robbed the road. At that time, she really wanted to kill them... Unfortunately, by mistake, the Jiang family got in touch with high-ranking officials and their power increased greatly. Although Fang successfully killed several Jiang family members, she also exposed herself and lost the lives of her mother and daughter. Haijiao, the assistant, had to hide his identity and flee far away. Hai Baozhu's whereabouts were unknown...

From this point of view, Fang Shi is indeed scheming and cunning. If she is really ruthless, the weak and incompetent members of the Hai family will never be her opponents. They are still so arrogant until now, it is really because Fang Shi has shown mercy to them because of their past friendship.

Now that the Second Branch has stopped the clan members from continuing to embarrass the Fang family, it can be regarded as saving the lives of those ungrateful clan members. They should be grateful!
Wang Xiaoqing ran back again to deliver the message.

This time, several elders finally found an opportunity to interject and started talking about the pair of bottles. They believed that it was the foundation of the eldest house and was also related to the interests of the entire clan. Hai Baozhu was young and ignorant, and should not have taken the bottles away without permission, let alone let it become a dowry for the sisters. They suspected that it was instigated by Fang mother and daughter.

Ma sprayed back again. Hai Baozhu acted on his own, but Fang knew the importance of the matter. She had already taught him a lesson and even left the bottle in the courtyard of the second house, saying that Hai Baozhu would take it back to his hometown after the New Year. The so-called instigation by Fang and her daughter was completely groundless. Besides, the ancestral property of the eldest house, even if the eldest house owner wanted to sell or give it away, was the internal affairs of the eldest house and had nothing to do with the clan. It couldn't be that just because Fang was the mistress of the eldest house and kindly protected the property of the clan members, the clan members thought they could decide whether the property of the eldest house should stay or go. This was not only repaying kindness with enmity, but also turning the tables, which was too greedy!

The elders in the clan all argued that they were not greedy and were purely thinking about the eldest branch of the family and the interests of the entire clan.

However, Ma didn't believe it at all. She mentioned that when the eldest grandfather of the eldest house died, she called all the branches of the family to the bedside and distributed the property and industry under their names to each branch. She asked everyone if they still remembered the oath they made that year? If they could not keep their oath and protect the interests of the eldest bloodline, then they should return the things they took away that year. It just so happened that the eldest branch of the Hai family had suffered too much loss over the years, and they could take this opportunity to replenish their vitality. In this way, Hai Baozhu would not have to worry about the expenses when studying abroad and preparing for the exam.

In the past few decades, the Hai family has not produced any military generals who can enter the guard post, and only two old students have been educated. Now Hai Baozhu is the only member of the family except the second branch who has a reputation. Although he is only a scholar at present, he has a good chance of passing the imperial examination and has a bright future. If the elders of the family really want to consider the interests of the eldest branch and the interests of the entire family, they should consider him more, disturb his study life less, and stop holding him back.

If he wanted to be filial to his stepmother, they shouldn't say too much, but should help him fulfill his filial piety. Could it be that he abandoned his stepmother who had been kind to him, committing a taboo that could not be pardoned, and still won a good reputation in the literati? !
If Hai Baozhu's reputation and future are affected due to harassment and slander from clan members, thus hindering the family's revival, they will be the sinners of the family!
These words weighed heavily on the clan members, and this time no one dared to refute Ma.