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

Chapter 484 Regret
However, Zhou Shuyi had nothing to hide at this time.

She had said almost everything she could say before, and the rest were all side details, or things that she knew but didn't take to heart, and that Marquis Yingchuan and his son didn't know. If they didn't ask, she wouldn't think of it.

But after Yingchuan Hou and his son read the letter from the old Hu Khan King in the ancestral hall, they learned more details that they had not known before.

For example, the old Hu king used his confidant as a spy and sent him to the capital of Chu to guide the Sun family to dig out the secrets of Zhou Shuyi and Mrs. Ma, and then attack the entire Zhou family. This plan failed in the end. The Hu spies did attract the attention of the Sun family and told the Sun family about the clues about Zhou Shuyi and Mrs. Ma's mother and daughter. However, the Sun family only used the channels of the mother and daughter to achieve their own goals, but never used them. Come and deal with the Zhou family.

So what happened to this Hu spy?
The news that Zhou Shuyi knew was that when the Hu spy first disappeared, she was worried that he would be caught by the court and betray her, but the Sun family contacted her and told her that he had fallen into their trap. In hand.

The Sun family claimed that they had caught a Hu spy and would hand him over to their son Sun Yongbai and ask him to hand him over to accumulate merit. However, in order to ensure that the Hu spy would not say anything he shouldn't say, after he was handed over to Jin Yiwei, He will die a violent death soon, and on the surface it will look like he has taken poison, which will not arouse anyone's suspicion. The Sun family claimed that they did this to protect Zhou Shuyi. From then on, the people who had the handle on Zhou Shuyi were no longer Hu spies, but the Sun family.

It was obviously a threat, but because of the Sun family's clever words, Zhou Shuyi actually trusted them. From then on, she became more and more willing to interact with the Sun family. Not only did she help them secretly purchase kerosene, but she also voluntarily handed over her family's wealth in exchange for The other party promised that once the prince of the Sun family became the new king, he would help Zhou Shuyi's son inherit the title of Marquis of Yingchuan.

When the Sun family's prince grandson died, the Sun family continued to make promises in the name of their son-in-law, Prince Ji, and Zhou Shuyi continued to believe it. Even though she knew that her behavior was to cut herself off from her natal family, she had no intention of changing her mind.

It is said that some female relatives of the Sun family privately told Zhou Shuyi that when the new king succeeds to the throne in the future, the queen in the middle palace will naturally be the daughter of the Sun family, and the eldest prince must also be the daughter of the Sun family. But as long as the grandson of the Sun family becomes the prince, the grandson will The family doesn't mind helping Zhou Shuyi's daughter become the new king's concubine, or even giving birth to children.

The female Sun family member also said to Zhou Shuyi: "By then, your mother's family won't be able to accuse you anymore, right? Then it will be the Zhou family's turn to look at you and your mother's faces."

Although Zhou Shuyi was not sure whether the other party was serious when she said this, she was still very moved in her heart. Although she did not mention this matter to her husband, she still intended to seek a marriage between her son and the daughter of the Sun family, so as to increase the feasibility of her daughter entering the palace. When a well-matched family tried to test her opinion on her daughter's marriage, she found various excuses to refuse. She also said to her husband, Mr. Zeng Er, "Our husband and wife only have a daughter, Chun Lin, who we regard as the apple of their eye, so why rush to give her to her?" She said marriage? We can choose slowly and find a perfect husband for her." Mr. Zeng Er was convinced by her.

Now that she has woken up from the dream, Zhou Shuyi looks back on the past and feels that she was really blinded by lard!
In order to ensure that her son could become the crown prince, Concubine Sun showed no mercy to the princes and concubines in the harem. If the aunt is so jealous and domineering, how can the niece be a kind and generous person? The words of the Sun family members were just used to deceive her. When the eldest son of Prince Ji succeeds to the throne, the Sun family will only try to ensure that all his children are the daughters of the Sun family. How can they allow the daughters of other families to give birth to princes? !

Not to mention, the Sun family's daughter only mentioned this matter to her in a private chat. The other party is not the mistress of the Sun family, nor is she qualified to decide on real important matters, nor is she making a formal commitment in front of others. When the incident came to an end, the other party regretted it and insisted that it was not the case. What could she do to them? By then, her daughter's life had been delayed, and she had nowhere to complain.

Zhou Shuyi cried until she fainted several times in front of Yingchuan Hou and his son. The Marquis of Yingchuan and his son had to call Mr. Zeng to take care of his wife. But after the latter knew the truth, he no longer had any sympathy for his wife and did not want to rescue her at all. It turns out that his wife married him not out of love at first sight that didn't care about his status and title, but simply because she wanted to use him to enter the Zeng family ancestral hall and find evidence of a crime from many years ago. However, he easily believed his wife's words. In order to realize his wife's wish, he did not hesitate to plot against his brother and his nephew, and almost killed his nephew. He regretted that he had been stunned by his wife and could no longer bear to live with her. He handed over his wife to his brothers and sister-in-law and let them handle it. He planned to take his children to Jiangnan to take up his post. If news of his wife's death came to his home in the capital one day, he would put three days of mourning on his wife and then completely forget about her.

Marquis Yingchuan carefully wrote down his brother's words, and also described Zhou Shuyi's collapse and pain after hearing about it, and the cold and resentful look on Zhou Shuyi's face when her two children came to say goodbye to their mother. All of this was specifically told to Mrs. Ma so that she would know what evil she had done.

But before Madam Ma could say anything, Zhou Shigong already showed that he couldn't bear it.

Although he had a lot of resentment and dissatisfaction with his sister Zhou Shuyi, after learning that she had been manipulated by her stepmother throughout her life, he couldn't help but feel sorry for her. He looked at his stepmother with an even colder look: "Is the old lady satisfied now? It's all your fault!"

Mrs. Ma said with a numb expression: "I was also deceived...Shuyi was deceived by someone else again...Isn't it because Shuyi was too stupid that things turned into the situation they are now?! She If I were smarter and smarter, I wouldn't be so misled... How could this be caused by me?"

She raised her eyes and looked at Zhou Shigong, who looked angry: "Don't just blame me. There are not many truly smart people in your family. If the father is stupid, how can the children be smart? I was I shouldn't have married your father! If I hadn't married him... If I hadn't recognized the Ma family's adoptive mother, I wouldn't have been exposed, and I wouldn't have been plotted by the barbarians. I would have escaped safely and lived a good life. !”

Zhou Shigong was furious: "How dare you say such a thing?!"

Mrs. Ma seemed to have not heard what he said. She closed her eyes and shed two lines of tears: "If I had known this was the case, when Prince Pingxihou came to chase me, I should have gone back with him. He didn't know the truth, and he He is deeply in love with me, and as long as I nod, the engagement can be renewed even if it is broken off. As long as I marry into the Pingxi Hou Mansion, my parents will not say anything they shouldn't, and I can continue to be a wealthy and respectable daughter of the clan. ... Even if the Hu man has a good skin, he can't be trusted after all. Why did I lose my mind and want to stay with him forever? It's all that cunning and heartless man who deceived me..."

Tu Rong coughed twice and interrupted Madam Ma's imagination: "Old Madam, that is impossible. Marquis Yingchuan mentioned at the end of the letter that the first Marquis Yingchuan had passed down a secret to future generations, saying that he He made a big mistake back then, but he was able to make amends with it thanks to someone's reminder. However, his father resigned because of this and died in depression. After the first Yingchuan Marquis revitalized his family, he left a family motto prohibiting any descendants from taking wives and concubines. Bringing it into the ancestral hall and strictly prohibiting revealing the secrets to the descendants other than the heirs is a lesson learned from one's own experience."

Tu Rong paused and looked into Mrs. Ma's disbelieving eyes: "He knew the truth back then and there is no way he would marry you."

(End of this chapter)