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

Chapter 379 Reminder
After Hai Jiao finished telling the news he knew, he couldn't help but sigh: "Mrs. Gui is really a scammer. Her behavior is so ridiculous that even the Sun family's minions were shocked. It's a pity that the Zhou family didn't do it for the sake of the Wu family. It’s unpleasant to think about how to drive her out and ignore her, and continue to provide her with delicious food and drinks.”

Jin Jiashu pursed his lips and whispered: "This Mrs. Gui... I also heard you and Yi Jun talk about her. Did she have a rift with Concubine Xu Xian when she was living in Cining Palace? Why? ...Why does she seem to hate Concubine Xu Xian and the Eighth Prince so much? The Sun family has a life-and-death feud with her, but in order to prevent Concubine Xu Xian and the Eighth Prince from getting into trouble, she seems to be willing to let the Sun family benefit. How big is her relationship with Concubine Xu Xian? Where is your hatred?"

Haijiao couldn't understand either. In his previous life, he had never heard of Mrs. Gui or the survivors of the Wu family, let alone the incident of Sun Cai kidnapping the female members of the Wu family as hostages.

In his previous life, when he heard Sun Cai's name, he had already gone to Beijing to work as a spy. At that time, Sun Cai was known as Sun Yongbai's number one confidant. He was cunning and vicious, and he had harmed many people. After Sun Yongbai left Jinyiwei, he threatened Jinyiwei's people to do things for him. One Baihu refused, so Sun Cai kidnapped his children and forced him to bow his head. Although the children were released afterwards, one of them became disabled. Later, something happened to the Sun family. These hundreds of families took people to ransack Sun Yongbai's home. They would rather risk being punished later than accuse Sun Cai of "disobeying the emperor's orders and fleeing without permission" and hacked him to death on the spot. .

But now, according to Sun Cai's associates, he was sent to Lintong County by Sun Yongbai to run the estate industry and intelligence network for the Sun family for two or three years. Because he invested a lot but achieved little results, Sun Yongbai was very dissatisfied with him and had already planned to send another confidant to replace him. When Du Boqin's accident happened and Chang'an's intelligence network was almost completely destroyed, Sun Caicai saw hope of making a comeback.

In order to make a contribution and prove his ability to Sun Yongbai, he did not hesitate to run to Chang'an to kidnap Jin Jiashu, and also targeted two correctional nuns sent by Sun Yongping. After the operation failed, he was afraid that he would completely lose power and there would be no hope of turning around, so he kidnapped the Wu family's mother and daughter, thinking that they were also a thorn in the side of the master's family. It was better than getting nothing and throwing them away with nothing. The master's family's property in Guanzhong was returned to Beijing in a hurry...

Sun Cai's whereabouts in the past few years are completely different from his previous life!

Could it be that in the previous life, the Sun family had Sun Yonglu as a thorn in the northwest, and the Zhou family had suffered repeated setbacks and gradually lost power, so there was no need for the Sun family to find someone else to run an intelligence network to deal with their relationship?

After the Battle of Suzhou, Sun Yonglu was kicked out of the Northwest Frontier Army. Now he only relies on his family's power to resume his official career, rather than being idle. The forces he had left behind in the northwest frontier army were basically eliminated by the Zhou family. Those who were not cleared out were all recruited after Du Boqin was arrested. If the Sun family refuses to give up the target of the Zhou family, they will have no choice but to start a new business in Guanzhong.

However, Lintong County actually has the Sun family's manor property? Haijiao really didn't expect this. The Zhou family also looked very surprised.

Lintong is less than a hundred miles away from Chang'an. In such a close place, there is actually a stronghold of the Sun family. It seems to be a long-term operation. It also has financial support from the manor industry and can be self-sufficient. Even if the Zhou family didn't notice such a big target, wouldn't the local officials and the army be aware of it at all?

The Sun family raised many desperadoes in the manor, but they also sent death warriors from the capital to Chang'an to kill people. What medicine was being sold in the gourd?

Haijiao thought hard. He suspected that there might be some problems within the Sun family. Could it be an infighting between Sun Yongbai and Sun Yongping? Sun Yongbai is smart and vicious, but he is only the nephew of Mr. Sun Ge and the cousin of Concubine Sun. Sun Yongping is mediocre and stupid, but he is Sun Ge's biological son, Sun Guifei's biological brother, and the father of Prince Ji's concubine. As long as the Sun family can continue to be prosperous, he will continue to be prosperous. His status allowed him to enjoy wealth and splendor even if he was stupid and incompetent. This was something that Sun Yongbai, who worked hard to please Mr. Sun Ge, could not do. It is perfectly normal for them to have a rift between them...

Hai Jiao was thinking about how to take advantage of this, and then heard his younger sister Haitang discussing with Jin Jiashu the question the latter had just raised: "I also think Mrs. Gui's idea is strange, so I just asked Wu Qiong specifically. But Wu Qiong didn't know anything about it. She didn't think there was a problem. She said that when mother and daughter were still in the palace, Concubine Xu Xian was just a palace servant next to the Queen Mother. When she rarely met them, she was always polite and respectful when they did. In comparison Concubine Xu Xian's attitude towards the other palace servants around the Queen Mother who were dissatisfied with their mother and daughter was good enough. When Wu Qiong heard what Mrs. Gui said to Sun Cai, she was also very surprised and couldn't understand why she Do this."

Hai Jiao temporarily put aside his previous thoughts and participated in the discussion between his sister and his friends: "What did my sister and Wu Qiong talk about just now?"

Haitang told him what she had said to Wu Qiong.

Hai Jiao hesitated for a moment: "Are you... trying to win over Wu Qiong? Let her stop Mrs. Gui from continuing to fool around? But I heard that Wu Qiong has a weak temperament and obeys her mother's arrangements in everything. I'm afraid she won't do it even if you try hard. How dare you disobey your mother."

Haitang smiled: "How do you know if you don't try? I didn't say her mother was bad. I only said that her mother might be confused. She got so angry over a trivial matter that she forgot her own position and didn't think about the future. . She herself felt that her mother's behavior was weird, and she easily felt the same way as me. Now her mother had just made a big mistake, and Wu Qiong knew it was a big mistake, and she was feeling guilty and uneasy in her heart. I didn't blame her. Let her heart be filled with gratitude, and she will naturally feel that I am amiable and trustworthy.

"Even if she is really forced to go against her mother's wishes in the future, it is not that she is unfilial, but a strategy she is forced to use so that her mother can live a better life in the future. That is true filial piety! Otherwise, would she want to Let my mother be stupid and dig her own grave. Will she be kicked out of the Zhou family in the future, lose her asylum, and end up in a miserable state?!"

Hai Jiao understood and said with a smile: "That's not bad. What you said is all right. No one who listens can fault it. If Wu Qiong is truly filial to his mother, he will naturally agree with what you say and believe it. Move. As long as she stops being Mrs. Gui's puppet and starts to have her own ideas and is willing to resist her mother's stupid orders, then we have an important eyes and ears around Mrs. Gui. Once Mrs. Gui makes another stupid move, we will Being able to get the news as soon as possible allows the people from the Zhenguo Palace to stop the person quickly."

Haitang nodded and looked at Jin Jiashu: "I have already mentioned it to Wu Qiong and asked her to help find out what kind of grudges Mrs. Gui and Concubine Xu Xian have, so that Mrs. Gui can secretly encourage people from the Sun family to kill the eighth prince. Find out earlier. It's good to be aware of this matter, otherwise the Zhou family would not touch Mrs. Gui, and they would probably not put her under house arrest in the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion. She wanders around all day long, and she doesn't know what kind of trouble she will cause. It won't be long before, The generals from the capital are about to take office in Chang'an. It would be bad if Mrs. Gui talks nonsense in front of others and has people spread the matter back to the capital, affecting Concubine Xu Xian and the Eighth Prince."

Jin Jiashu's heart suddenly trembled. He did not dare to be careless and said hurriedly: "Now that the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the post road will surely be reopened. I want to write a letter to my aunt. I wonder if it can be delivered to her as soon as possible? I don't know when she will be with her. Mrs. Gui has created a grudge, and even I was almost implicated. After all, the Wu family is the father-in-law's house, and Duke Wu Wen'an has always had prestige among the scholars. What if Mrs. Gui has some relatives or friends in the Wu family for her own selfish reasons? It would be bad to speak ill of my aunt and the Eighth Prince in front of me and affect the Eighth Prince's reputation..."

(End of this chapter)