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

Chapter 422 Doubts
Ma counted the time: "Twenty years ago... wasn't it said that the Sun family caught a Hu spy more than ten years ago? At that time, the spy was introduced to Beijing using the road given by Mrs. Ma. It can be seen that this Mrs. Ma was still doing the "collaborating with the enemy" thing until more than ten years ago. So she was definitely not entrusted by Mrs. Wang to serve as a guide for the Hu spy! "

Not only did Mrs. Wang ask Mrs. Ma to guide the Hu spies, but Mrs. Ma even distanced herself from her because Mrs. Wang might have recognized the identity of one of the Hu spies. It is clear that Mrs. Wang and the Hu traitors are not the same people. Then how did Mrs. Ma have the nerve to blame others for collaborating with the enemy?
Ma sneered.

Haitang asked Aunt Ma: "Besides this one, is there anything else?"

Aunt Ma nodded: "Yes, there are several other officials and family members who are good friends with Mrs. Ma. They also bought the goods from the merchants from the Western Regions at her request. Old Mrs. Fourteen said that the things are genuine. It's just that it's not really worth that much money. The officials and family members may not know it, but they only agreed to the high price for the sake of the Zhou family's third house. They just thought that the merchant from the Western Regions was flattering and gave him more reward. "

Ma asked hurriedly: "Then the merchants from the Western Regions went to other officials' families?"

Aunt Ma said: "Yes, because he was handsome and funny, many officials and family members thought he was lovable. Later, a general became jealous and had a violent attack on his wife, so everyone stopped seeing him. After he left, he stopped showing up, and many people felt it was a pity.”

It almost caused a scandal? What was Mrs. Ma’s plan for introducing such a man with a suspicious identity and frivolous behavior to other officials’ family members? ! Could it be that the merchant from the Western Region was really a spy and wanted to go to the inner house of the general of the Northwest Frontier Army to inquire about military aircraft information?

Ma couldn't help but spit: "You are not a serious person! Mrs. Ma is too confused! She is not afraid that something scandal will really happen, and people will even hate her?!"

Haitang asked Aunt Ma again: "Is there any more?"

Aunt Ma thought for a while: "Also... Mrs. Ma once entertained several young people in the third room. She said they were juniors from relatives and asked her to help find a job in the army. This was a common thing, but ten The fourth old lady talked to those young people and felt that their accent was not right. She thought they were relatives of the Ma family, but when asked about their relationship with the Ma family, they could not answer. As for relatives, Mrs. Ma only had relatives from the third room of the Zhou family. She had seen all of them, so it was impossible for her not to recognize them, so she was also puzzled. Although Mrs. Ma later explained that they were all subordinates of Mr. Shicheng. He was a nephew, but the fourteenth old lady still felt that their accents were different, so she kept it in mind. "

These young people wanted Mrs. Ma to find positions in the army for them, but the positions Mrs. Ma wanted to arrange for them were in important places and of high rank, so they could not be placed casually. In the end, the matter did not work out, but the old lady Fourteenth kept it in mind, because her children and grandchildren wanted to find an vacancy for the old lady Thomas, but the latter was not so generous. She arranged low-level positions in the border town and took advantage of the reputation. Said "a lot of experience". This made her feel wronged and unbalanced...

Madam Ma would not assign those people to her son. The fourteenth old lady also asked why? Her answer was: "Shicheng is not the chief officer yet, so how can he interfere in personnel affairs? What should I do if I make my boss angry?"

But if Mrs. Ma just randomly found a small guard house to place those young people, no boss would be dissatisfied. This kind of thing is common in Chang'an City. Whose nephew didn't ask relatives and friends to find a job when he first joined the army? When you first join the army, your status is lower. Once you have merit, you will naturally be promoted. If he is not a child of a famous family, but he does have talents and strengths, who would put him in an important position from the beginning?
Madam Ma acted recklessly and unfairly, and the old lady in the fourteenth room secretly complained for many years...

Ma frowned when she heard this: "It sounds like they are people of unknown origin. Why does Mrs. Ma value them so much?" Aunt Ma shook her head: "Old Mrs. Fourteen doesn't know. Back then she suspected that Mrs. Ma had accepted them. The wealthy businessman's money was used to obtain military positions and change families for the children of the businessmen, but those young people seemed to have real abilities, good at riding and shooting, and they did not look like playboys. The fourteenth old lady couldn't tell, so she just assumed that they were really her. A relative’s nephew, maybe from his parents’ side.”

This is related to Mrs. Ma's true life experience. The old lady in the fourteenth room knew that Mrs. Ma never mentioned her life experience and was very taboo about others asking, so she naturally didn't talk too much. However, judging from Mrs. Ma's words and deeds when she first married into the third room of the Zhou family in her early years, she was probably from the capital. Her food tastes and speaking accents matched hers, and her extraordinary demeanor revealed by raising her hands and feet was enough to prove her Noble birth. But how could a distinguished young lady come to Chang'an to marry and fill a house? I guess her mother's family is in trouble, right? Then her relatives, nephews, and their situation are naturally not much better. No wonder they have to hide their names and use the back door.

The old lady in the fourteenth room has her own guess about Madam Ma's life experience, but she just doesn't dare to say it out loud.

But Ma and Haitang now know that Mrs. Ma is most likely a daughter of the clan. If people from her family wanted to join the army, the royal family and clan would have to worry about it, and there was no need to go to the northwest and suffer. Those people are more likely to be like the merchants from the Western Regions, suspected of being spies from the enemy country. Fortunately, the military control in the northwest was strict and Mrs. Ma was not allowed to successfully place people in key positions. Otherwise, when the war came, God knows what trouble would happen? When the Hu troops came to the city, whether there was something wrong with their weapons or armor, or there was something wrong with their supplies, it could overturn the outcome of the war.

Ma secretly gritted her teeth: "This woman is so brave... She just leads the way for the spies and helps sell some goods on the Matching Tower Bridge. She actually dares to arrange spies to enter important positions in the border army. What is she trying to do? What?! Isn't she afraid that if something happens before the battle, her husband and wife will be implicated? Even if the old man from the third house loves her, he can't stop her from such a fatal crime!

Haitang frowned, feeling that this was not something Song Yuzhu would do.

Although she does not take the interests of her family and country to heart, she attaches great importance to her own interests and will never take risks for things that are not beneficial. Place Hu spies at key positions in the northwest frontier army? Once this kind of thing is leaked, she, the introducer, will never be able to escape! How deeply does she love the old king of the Hu people? He even risked his own life and death to do something for him. And if she was really so affectionate for her old lover, then why did she need to make her injured, disfigured, and run away in embarrassment?
Could it be that she was threatened by the old barbarian Khan King?

She changed her name and fled to Chang'an. Her family didn't know her whereabouts. How did the old king of the Hu people find out? What handle does he have on her? What would allow her to do things like collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country regardless of the consequences, must be a very fatal thing, right? Where is this handle? Once Mrs. Ma refuses to obey, how will the Huren Old Khan use this leverage to harm her?

Now, the old Khan of the Hu people has been dead for several years. I wonder if anyone still knows about this? Apart from the failure of deploying manpower and helping the spies find a way to Beijing, what has Mrs. Ma done for the Hu spies?
Haitang silently wrote down her questions one by one, while Ma continued to ask Aunt Ma. However, most of the following are the conflicts between the old lady in the fourteenth room and the old lady Ma. They are mostly trivial and there is no important information. Later, due to time constraints, Zhou Shigong personally went to the 14th room to pick up the person. Zhou Ma and Zhou Yijun could not continue to ask questions, so they made an appointment with the old lady in the 14th room to see them another day and went home.

　I have the flu and a terrible headache...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)