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

Chapter 318 Broken Clues

Haitang blinked.

When the carriage stopped, she jumped out of the carriage holding the carriage with one hand and held Hai Jiao's sleeve with the other: "Brother, what do you mean by this? The Tang family's education nun was invited from the capital. Didn't we already know that?" Have you? You suddenly mentioned this matter. Are you suspecting something? "

Hai Jiao looked up and saw that Ma Li had opened the door and came to welcome her. He winked at his sister and said, "We'll talk in detail later. You go see grandpa and grandma first."

Haitang had no choice but to let him go and return to the main courtyard on her own, reporting to her grandparents that she was back.

Ma asked her: "How beautiful are the lanterns tonight? Why are you empty-handed and didn't buy anything?"

"There were too many people on the street. Sister Wenjun took us to the tea house. Looking out from the private room, the lanterns were also very beautiful." Haitang replied, "After that, I just focused on warming myself by the fire, eating and talking, and did not go out to the street. I went up there, so I didn’t buy anything." She patted her belly, "But I was full and warm, so my trip was not in vain."

Ma couldn't help but laugh: "Okay, just have fun and eat and drink enough. Your second uncle and the others went out for a walk, and they brought back three or four lanterns, just messing around! No matter how beautiful the lanterns are, they are just for display at home. What are you going to do with that wasted money for two or three days?! It’s better to buy two more bowls of Yuanxiao!”

Haitang chatted and joked with her grandmother for a while, then left, just as she met Haijiao and returned to the house. She quickly followed him: "Brother, tell me quickly, otherwise I won't be able to sleep well tonight."

Hai Jiao had no choice but to look out the window. Seeing no one passing by, he lowered his voice and said to his younger sister: "Actually, it's nothing. When I checked the Sun family's agents in Chang'an, I found that the Tang family only had one external buyer. The servants above have been bribed, and there is no one else. There are at least two or three in other families. The more prominent and wealthy the family, the more eyes and ears they have. It is rarely a single person, and there is no one to respond when trouble occurs.

"The situation of the Tang family made my cousin feel strange at that time. Is there someone else who has not been found out? The Tang family said that their housekeepers are very strict, and the male and female servants in the family are not the same ones who have worked in the Tang family for several lifetimes. Raw slaves were tenants of their hometown, or people selected from the families of veterans. They were never hired or bought raw faces from outside. The mistress of the house was kind and careful, so few people would be raped because of money. People buy it off, and outsiders can’t do it even if they want to put people in.”

Since the Zhou family has not been found out, there is only one household with a foreign surname on the two streets where the Zhou family lives. The newly married daughter-in-law the year before last was suspicious and was found to have problems. The Tang family only has one servant from the outer courtyard because the family brother owed foreign debts. It seemed reasonable to be bribed with money. Neither the Shaanxi Dusi nor the Chang'an prefecture government continued to pursue the case.

Hai Jiaoyuan didn't think there was anything wrong with this, but today when he heard his little sister talking about the Tang family's upbringing nanny, he felt something was wrong.

Since they were educated nuns invited from the capital, which wealthy family did they work in before? If it is said to be someone from the palace, which palace did it come from? Do they really have nothing to do with the Sun family?

How valuable is the Tang family's outlaw purchaser who was found to be a spy? Is it necessary for the Sun family or Du Boqin to ask how much grain, meat and vegetables the Tang family needs to buy on a daily basis? Or is it that even a purchasing servant within the Tang family has access to information about several Tang generals in the army?

After this man was arrested, no useful information was found. He does not seem to be responsible for inquiring about information, but only passes the information obtained by others to fixed people. The person he confessed to was the woman next door to the Tang family, and the person he confessed to was the owner of a tavern near the Tang family. The former would hide the information he obtained in a tall and dense tree in the back garden. Its branches stretched over the courtyard wall. He could reach out and touch the item at the passage in the backyard of Tang's house, and then send it to the back of the tavern. When the person is there, the task is considered completed. Outsiders would only think that he left the Tang family through the back door and went to a familiar pub for a couple of drinks, and would not think that his behavior was suspicious. The problem is that his wife-in-law has no idea that she has done such a thing. She had never hidden anything in the trees in the back garden of her main house. Her son died on the battlefield. In order to support her few grandsons, she went to the city to work as a servant. How could she be a spy for the Sun family? Although she is a confused and half-deaf old lady, she also knows that the Sun family is not a good person, and almost caused the Northwest Frontier Army to be unable to pay out pensions. She was a military dependent receiving a pension, how could she work for his family? !

This woman did recognize the purchaser in the outer courtyard of the Tang family, but the reason was that she was responsible for sweeping the back garden and she often met him. But she never conveyed any news to him, and she didn't know that he was a spy of the Sun family. He suddenly confessed that she was a spy, and she wanted to bite him!

However, the purchaser from the outer courtyard of the Tang family also felt that he had been wronged. He swore he had never lied, and often found small packages containing information on that tree. Several times he saw the woman on the other side of the wall. If it wasn't her, then who put the small package on the tree?

The owner of the tavern was bribed and was only responsible for keeping the information. Someone would come to collect it every three days. As for where that person came from, and who directed him? What is the information in the small package? He knew nothing and never peeked or inquired. Except for the Tang family's outer court purchaser who sent the information, he didn't know anyone, and he didn't even know if the source of the information was his mother-in-law.

This thread has been cut off for the time being. The interrogators still had many spies, ears and eyes to interrogate. Caimai and the mother-in-law each had their own opinions, and no one else had the time to patiently persuade them to tell the truth, so they had to be imprisoned separately until after the New Year.

At that time, Haijiao only heard about this incident as news and let it go, but now that he thinks about it, he feels that it is very problematic.

If the Tang family's neighbor's mother-in-law is just a cover, and the real source of information is elsewhere, then... who can guarantee that the person who is really responsible for inquiring about the information is not hiding in the Tang family? The big tree can be reached by the people next door, and the people of the Tang family can also reach it. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the purchaser in the outer courtyard to reach out and get the small package on the tree.

More importantly, compared to the Tang family, whose next-door neighbor is headed by a mid-level military officer who has been stationed in border towns for many years, has several generals, and has family members serving in several military posts in Shaanxi and Chang'an, there is no doubt that the Tang family is a more valuable source of intelligence.

Will the nun who is responsible for educating the two legitimate daughters of the Tang family have a better chance of contacting the head of the family and hearing the internal intelligence of the Northwest Frontier Army?

The Tang family is also a second-generation in-law of the Zhou family of the Duke of Zhenguo. Originally, the two families were interested in continuing the marriage. If the two correctional nuns follow the young lady, will they also have the opportunity to directly contact the head of the Zhenguo Palace?

Hai Jiao told her thoughts one by one, and Haitang felt a chill behind her: "I haven't heard that the two correctional mothers have ever been to Zhen Guo Duke's Mansion, but if they want to come... Zhen Guo Duke's Mansion should not be They will stop her. The ladies of the Tang family are very favored by Mrs. Zhen Guo. During the New Year's Eve dinner, they were seated very close to Mrs. Zhen Guo. Naturally, the attendants accompanying them were also in close proximity. Far away. If those two nuns are really spies planted by the Sun family, no one will be on guard against them once they receive the order to assassinate them!"

Even the female relatives of Duke Zhen Guo are not weak women, but within a short distance, as long as they relax a little bit, Duke Zhen Guo's wife and daughter may be fatally injured. This conjecture is chilling.

Haitang took a deep breath: "Can you find a way to confirm it? If there is really a problem with these two nuns, it's better to control it as soon as possible. Even if they can't hurt the Zhou family, they will hurt the women of the Tang family. very bad."

Having said this, Haitang's heart moved slightly.

Mrs. Tang suddenly clamored to fire the nanny. Did she notice something?

(End of this chapter)