Haitang didn't know what Zhou Shuyi had done or said in her husband's family after the death of Prince Yingchuan in her previous life, let alone how Sun Ge always provoked him in front of Yingchuan Hou and his wife.
She just felt that the Zhou family was really unlucky.
Sometimes the decline of a big family is often not caused by external enemies, but by internal problems first.
The Zhou family's indulgence and tolerance of the third wife for many years caused Zhou Shuyi to do some inappropriate things after getting married, dragging the entire family down for personal gain. The children of the Zhou family served the country loyally on the frontier and paid an unknown price with their lives, but they were no match for the selfish and stupid mother and daughter who were desperately holding them back in the rear. As a result, the Zhou family was first suspected of embezzling military expenditures, and then became enmity with a prominent family of the dynasty due to a murder case. Later, they lost military power and the family's long-term base, and had to move to the capital and became Ordinary general.
If they had restrained the behavior of Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi from the beginning, would all this not happen again?
No one knows the answer.
As Haitang listened to Mr. Ma continue to narrate the private evaluations of Zhou Shuyi's actions by the women of the Zhou family and the women of the Zhou family's relatives, she just wanted to shake her head and sigh.
Ma didn't know anything about her granddaughter's thoughts, and just sighed: "Everyone can see that this girl is just unhappy that the Marquis of Yingchuan looks down on her, so she is engaged to someone else. But she has already married, and she is still married to someone else. We have become a family, so why do we still care about those old things? Marquis Yingchuan offended her, but Mrs. Marquis Yingchuan did not offend her. Isn’t it just that she gave birth to a child a few years later than her, so there is no need to talk about adoption. ? None of her men have ever thought about her brother's title, but she is just greedy!"
The key is that Zhou Shuyi herself only gave birth to one son, so it was too hasty to say that he could be adopted. The eldest son of the Marquis of Yingchuan was only three years younger than her son, and there was also a bastard behind him, so why did he need to adopt his only nephew? The result of exposing his thoughts too early was that the Marquis of Yingchuan and his wife had been wary of this sister-in-law for a long time.
But behind Zhou Shuyi, there was the Zhou family, a powerful and powerful family with military power, who was also related to the Queen Mother. She herself was generous with her money and had a wide circle of friends. Although the Marquis of Yingchuan was the emperor's confidant, he had many worries and could not teach Zhou Shuyi a lesson. His wife had to get along well with her sister-in-law on the surface. Because of the existence of Zhou Shuyi, Zeng's second wife, the Yingchuan Houfu added so much talk to the powerful circles in the capital!
The female relatives of the Zhou family all feel that Mrs. Ma is too indulgent to her daughter, but she only has this daughter, and they have rarely seen each other for more than ten years. It seems that it is understandable to pamper her more? Anyway, everyone thinks it would be better if she didn't spoil her children so much. Both her daughter and her grandson seemed to be spoiled rotten by her. Others tried to persuade her with good intentions, but there was nothing she could do if she didn't listen. The tribe can't tell her not to love her children so much, right?
Haitang couldn't help but sneer as she listened, feeling that the Zhou family thought too much of Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi. Why do they pamper their children, and why are they so angry about their marriage? Their mother and daughter are just here for the title of Marquis of Yingchuan! Zhou Shuyi failed to marry the Marquis of Yingchuan as she wished, so she had to give up the unpromising Master Zeng and then make up her mind on the younger generation.
If she thought so, of course it couldn't just be rumors that she wanted to take over. The Marquis of Yingchuan and his wife have not had any children for many years. Do they really have nothing to do with her? There are many hands and feet that can move in the inner house. If she hadn't been so confident, why would she have rushed to propose adoption after only two or three years? Isn't it too late to wait until the Marquis Yingchuan and his wife reach middle age but have no heirs before mentioning it?
Since the Yingchuan Hou couple had a child only two or three years late, it meant that no matter what Zhou Shuyi had done, the plan had failed. If Zhou Shuyi hadn't really made a big mistake and let the Yingchuan Hou and his wife take advantage of it, how could they hold a grudge against the entire Zhou family because their son died in Ganzhou? She probably felt that Zhou Shuyi's scheme in the capital was not going to work, so she united with her mother's family and killed their son in the northwest, right?
Maybe even Yingchuan Hou Shizi went to Ganzhou to practice and had her handiwork.
Although the death of Prince Yingchuan was an accident, no one dared to guarantee it. Zhou Shuyi really had no preparation in the northwest, but the wife-killer Baihu took action first.
The Zhou family later declined, and Zhou Shuyi probably would not end well either. The Zhou family didn't do anything, but they were tricked by Marquis Yingchuan and Mr. Sun Ge. How could someone like Zhou Shuyi, who had really done something, end up like this? If something happens to her, Mrs. Ma will probably be implicated as well.
Haitang could only ask her brother Hai Jiao later to find out if there was any follow-up news about the third room of the Zhou family in her previous life, and what happened to the second room of the Yingchuan Hou Mansion in the capital. She just wants to know now, how to stop Zhou Shuyi from continuing to implicate the entire Zhou family?
She thought that since Zhou Shuyi was far away in the capital, she and her brother would be unable to stop her from bringing Prince Yingchuan to the northwest. But where Yingchuan Hou will go after arriving in the northwest depends on the arrangements of the Zhou family. The Zhou family must first understand the thoughts of Mrs. Ma and her daughter. Only if they first understand Madam Ma and Zhou Shuyi's malice towards Prince Yingchuan will they understand how important that young man's safety is.
If he still died in the northwest, within the Zhou family's sphere of influence, even if the Zhou family had Tao Yue as an ally in the court, he would still offend another emperor's confidant, Marquis Yingchuan. The hatred of killing a son is not so easy to resolve. The Zhou family has been conniving with Zhou Shuyi for so many years and has been giving her money and things. In disguise, they have been supporting her actions in Beijing. After the incident, they said that the whole family had no knowledge of her plan. How could the Yingchuan Marquis believe it?
If the Zhou family wants the northwest frontier army to be stable and their own children to be safe and well, some people must be well controlled. Otherwise, no matter how much merit they make, no matter how much blood they shed, and no matter how many lives they sacrifice, they will not be able to stop someone behind the scenes from desperately seeking hatred for them. Since they have taken the first step in making friends with Tao Yue, why not do more?
The Hai family's motorcade finally arrived at Chang'an City before dark. They entered the city via Anding Gate and arrived at the City God's Temple not far away. The Hai family's house in Chang'an was located nearby.
At this time, people were still coming and going on the street, which was very lively. Every household turned on the lights, and the whole street was filled with the aroma of food, mixed with the smell of temple incense and smoke, accompanied by the smell of hawkers coming from the surrounding area. The sounds of hawkers and parents shouting for their children to go home form a picture of a market full of human fireworks.
Haitang lifted a corner of the car curtain and looked out. She felt that Chang'an City was indeed more prosperous than the Gua, Su, Gan, Liang and Lan states she had seen in the past. This level of prosperity was incomparable.
Listening to this familiar voice, Ma relaxed and yawned: "We're home now! After sitting in the car for a long time, my forehead, ground and waist are all sore." He cleared his throat again, feeling a little thirsty. .
After chatting for so long on the road, I was mentally happy and not bored at all, but it was just too taxing on my throat. The large pot of tea they brought from the villa had reached the bottom, and the tea stove used in the carriage had long since run out of charcoal. After she got home, she had to drink two bowls of tea to moisten her throat, otherwise she would be mute when she woke up in the morning.
The carriage convoy turned into an alley, and then Haitang heard the voices of Hai Changan and Cui Dazhuang talking in the car.
Hai Chang'an specially came to the carriage and greeted his mother Ma through the curtain. He also said that his father hadn't arrived home yet, but the house was packed, the hot water and the kang were boiled, and the food was ready at any time. Mother can rest when she gets home.
Mrs. Ma praised her son with satisfaction and sent him to meet his wife and children behind the scenes.
Haitang lifted the car curtain on the other side and winked at her brother Hai Jiao.
(End of chapter)
