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

Chapter 511 Early Morning
Seeing her eldest sister pouring out her heart in the letter, Mrs. Ma couldn't help but look at each other with her granddaughter Haitang.

Poisons and the like, if casually mixed into tea, water, or food, can kill people and make people unable to guard against them. If the poisoner and the person who was poisoned do not live in the same home, they can still stay away from each other; but if the two live in the same house, no matter how estranged the relationship is, there will always be festivals throughout the year when the family gathers for dinner, and Or when you are given a cup of tea or a bowl of soup when you wake up in the morning or dusk, you can avoid it for a while, but you cannot avoid it for a lifetime. How can you be prepared?

Ma couldn't help complaining: "Zhou Jinpu silently found such poison, who did he intend to use it on? Could it be really Sister Er? That Sister Er is so unjust! Although she doesn't want to see Zhou Jinpu, But he didn't hurt him? He and Mrs. Ma had been bullying him for decades. If we hadn't returned to Chang'an City and exposed Zhou Jinpu and Mrs. Ma's scheme against the border army's glass workshop, they would have been in trouble. Well, the elder sister can’t get the housekeeper’s right! She has always been a victim, why does Zhou Jinpu need to poison her if he wants to deal with her?”

Haitang thought for a while: "It's hard to say when Zhou Jinpu got the poison. Although he has been banned from home since the end of last year, his people can still come and go normally. Maybe it was the poison he asked others to find. What? He didn't take his aunt seriously in the past, but when he was punished and Mrs. Ma was put under house arrest in the West Courtyard, her aunt gained the respect of her uncle and got the power of middle school. I have the motive to kill my aunt."

Ma thought about it and snorted coldly: "Brother-in-law can no longer protect Zhou Jinpu this time. If Zhou Jinpu really ordered his servants to get the poison under his nose, and also attacked Mrs. Ma, the entire Zhou family would be Fang Yu may be involved! If my brother-in-law is not stupid enough, he should know how to make decisions. Zhou Jinpu is so old and has been studying for 20 or 30 years. He is still not sensible. Is it possible that my brother-in-law really wants to marry the third brother of the Zhou family? In the hands of such a fool?"

Haitang read the last part of the letter: "Don't worry, grandma, even if my great-uncle is going to be stupid, the Duke of Zhen will remind him - there doesn't seem to be anything important at the end of the letter. I guess my aunt has been worrying about the original purpose of the chronic poison." She is worried that Zhou Jinpu will do something bad to her. Grandma has nothing important to do today. Do you want to go to the third room of the Zhou family to comfort her? "

Ma hesitated for a moment and then said: "Well, I should go there once. Even if it's not to comfort the eldest sister, I should give her advice. Zhou Jinpu killed Mrs. Ma one after another, including the Duke of Zhen, his wife, Tu Tongzhi and Ma Shangyi both knew that if the brother-in-law still decided that Zhou Jinpu could inherit the third house of the Zhou family, it would be stupid! I don't think the brother-in-law is that stupid, and he would probably choose another successor. There are only two sons in total, either Zhou Jinpu or Zhou Jinlin. It’s just that Jinlin has been away from home for many years and is working in a border town. How to bring him back and inherit the family business needs to be carefully planned by the eldest sister! "

Thinking about this, Ma felt more and more that she had to go to the third room of Zhou's family today.

Since she was going to see her eldest sister, of course she had to take her granddaughter with her.

Mrs. Ma drove Haitang back to the house to comb her hair and change clothes. She also called Aunt Ma to come over and tidy up her clothes. After a while, her grandfather and grandson met in the main courtyard, went out together and got into the carriage, heading towards the third room of the Zhou family.

While the ancestors and grandsons of the Hai family were going out, Ma Sufang and Ma Shangyi from the Zhenguo Palace also finished their breakfast. She had the cups and plates removed from the table, and the little girl Chunyu came over with some water to help her rinse her mouth and hands. After that, she asked, "Is there any news in the Duke's mansion today?"

The little girl Chunyu handed the basin, towel and other items to the old woman standing at the door of the room, then rushed back to Ma Shangyi and replied in a low voice: "The news of the accident in the third room of the Zhou family has reached the house today. Although not many people know about it, everyone says it. "Ma Shangyi is not surprised by this. Although the Zhenguo Duke's mansion is noble, the family lives together with the clansmen and is very close to each other. The family members and friends come and go freely. Although the family is strict externally, it is very loose internally. Although Zhou Shigong, the third-bedroom member of the Zhou family, had ordered people to block the news early on, his prestige was not enough, and most of the servants in the family were new ones, so it was not so satisfactory to arouse him. And in the west courtyard where Mrs. Ma lives, there are so many soldiers of the Zhenguo Palace who are responsible for guarding it, so it is even harder to keep it secret. Not to mention that the neighbors and the back house of the Zhou family's three-bedroom house are all members of the Zhou family. As long as the noise in the west courtyard is slightly louder, it may reach the ears of the neighbors. Therefore, no matter how hard Zhou Shigong tried to block it, rumors had already spread among the Zhou family.

What happened just last night is now known to all the young and old masters of the Zhenguogong Mansion. This kind of thing is completely normal.

Ma Shangyi sighed secretly. She was originally the daughter of a servant of the Zhou family. She couldn't comment on the behavior of the current head of the Zhou family's third room, but she would inevitably have some opinions in her heart.

In her opinion, the root cause of all disasters lies with the previous generation head of the third room of the Zhou family. If the old man hadn't indulged his step-brother, failed to educate his eldest son well, and allowed him to grow up to be as indecisive as he is now, how could he have caused today's disaster? Before she entered the palace to serve the young lady of the Zhenguo Palace, she had heard many people praising the old man of the Third Bedroom for his wisdom and military skills. Even if he was not fighting on the front lines and had retreated to the rear to sit in command, he still strategized without losing his grace. At that time, many people secretly compared the old man with the young Lord Zhen Guo, believing that the old man was the most outstanding person among the Zhou clan. It was not until Duke Zhen Guo made great achievements in the frontier that such discussions disappeared. But there are still many people who praise the old man Sanfang.

In Ma Shangyi's view, a general who is clearly capable of fighting but gives up his military exploits on the front line because of personal affairs can no longer be called a hero. Now that we go back and look at what happened back then, it makes people feel even more unwise about the old man. I don't know if Mrs. Ma deliberately spread those words of praise for him, hoping to use the opportunity to belittle the young Duke Zhenguo and praise her husband. However, talents and military exploits are real things, how can they be erased with just a few words? The old man from the third house may have had his high-spirited days, but now that Mrs. Ma has persuaded her husband to give up, there is no need to be jealous of other people's achievements. It would be too greedy to want everything. And the reason why Mrs. Ma ended up today is because she was too greedy, right?
Mrs. Ma has been scheming against her stepson and step-grandson for decades, and now that she is suffering backlash, she has nothing to complain about. It's just that the mission assigned by the emperor was originally very simple, but so many changes were added to it out of nowhere, which was really tiring.

Ma Shangyi really wants to know when Zhou Shicheng from the third bedroom will arrive in Chang'an to see his mother off for the last time? If she finishes this job as soon as possible, she can get rid of her duties as a female official as soon as possible and go to live a quiet life with the Jin family brother for a few years.

She let out a long sigh and asked Chun Yu casually: "After the news about the third room spread, did anyone come to inquire? I just hope that the fifth master will not come to the Zhen Guogong Mansion again. Instead of asking the Duke to help him, To block the news and preserve the reputation of Sanfang, it is better to stay at home and take care of the eldest son, and don't let that man cause any trouble again. Even if I don't want to report these messy things to the boss, Master Tu will not save his face. , let alone the Zeng family."

Chunyu said: "The Duke sent the Sixth General to the Third Room early in the morning. I think the Fifth Master will not leave home again. No one else went to the Third Room, and only two went to the Fourteenth Room. But Five My wife sent a letter to her sister-in-law."

"Is it Mrs. Hai's wife?" Ma Shangyi raised her eyebrows, "The two sisters have a good relationship. The Jin family brother knows so much about Mrs. Ma. It was also the Hai family who told him."

(End of this chapter)