Aunt Ma's daughter Xiuju married a servant from the third room of the Zhou family and worked in the embroidery room on weekdays.
Because of her superb embroidery skills, she was deeply loved by Mrs. Ma. Even though she was the daughter of Zhou Ma's confidant Aunt Ma, Mrs. Ma could tolerate her staying in the third bedroom.
Aunt Ma's family was "expelled" to a villa by Zhou Ma's family. Only Ma Xiuju stayed with her husband's family in the third room of the Zhou family and could work normally. In order to protect herself, she would not get involved in matters in Zhou Ma's courtyard. She rarely went to Zhou Ma's house to greet him in public on weekdays. However, she would secretly tell the news in private and kept in touch with her parents and brothers.
Yesterday, she received a letter from her father and brother from Zhou Ma's confidant maid. Today, she went out to buy embroidery thread and visited her mother, sister-in-law and niece at her concubine Ma's house. Apologize and ask Mr. Ma to forgive their father and son for not being able to report to the Hai family so far.
Ma Li and his son had promised at the beginning that they would stay at the villa to pack their luggage for the time being, and would come to Chang'an City to meet their families in two days. However, a few days had passed, and there was no sign of them leaving. Ma family has already mentioned this more than once, but Zhou Ma family has not yet sent over the Ma family's body deeds. She thought that the eldest sister would still be of use to the Ma family and his son, so she did not urge her. Unexpectedly, the eldest sister would really Got into trouble.
Ever since Zhou Ma told his family that Jin Jiashu, the only survivor of the Jin family's murder case, was temporarily staying in a different village, the Zhou family's veterans, the old military advisor at Zhuangzi, and others were paying close attention to him. They came to visit almost every day, and even sent someone to protect him. Zhou Shigong He made a decision and put the building of the workshop on hold for the time being, so as not to alarm the old military advisor.
He even felt that the people in the other village had frequent contacts with Zhuangzi, a veteran of the Zhou family, which would not be conducive to blocking the news and could easily leak the news before the workshop was built, so it would be more appropriate to change the address.
But Mrs. Ma insisted that Biezhuang was the most suitable site. It was closer to Zhoujia Laowei Zhuangzi, so the problem was not big. As long as they said they were building a workshop on the village, they didn't tell people what kind of workshop they were building. People in other villages should keep their mouths shut. How could the people from Zhuangzi, a veteran of the Zhou family, discover the truth about the workshop so early?
When the workshop is built and the finished glass is produced, even if the veterans find out and pass the news back to the city, the town government will still want to consider the clan and allow the three-fang glass workshop to continue operating. Anyway, glassware is selling so well now that Chang'an Glass Workshop is simply too busy. Many people are already secretly trying to recruit glass craftsmen from the Western Regions and prepare to build more workshops. If the Zhenguo government can't stop outsiders, there is no reason to prevent the clan members from getting a share of the pie. Back then, it was thanks to the help of the old man from the third room that the Duke of Zhen Guo successfully took over the power of the border army!
Zhou Shigong once again gave in before his stepmother's strength. He did not veto Madam Ma's site selection anymore, but reminded her that it was best not to let the clan know about it until the workshop successfully produced glassware.
Mrs. Ma agreed, ignored Zhou Ma's dissuasion, and directly sent people to other villages to cause trouble. The people she sent first went around the village to tell people how outsiders could live and eat in the Zhou family's place for so long. After the villagers refuted the fact that the Hai family had paid money and left people to serve the injured, they wanted to I went to talk to Jin Jiashu, trying to persuade this young man who had just lost his family and was helpless in a foreign land to persuade him to go away.
Mrs. Ma and her confidants probably felt that as long as Jin Jiashu left the village, the attention of the veterans of the Zhou family and the old military advisers would also leave, and they would no longer pay attention to what would happen in the village.
It seems that Mrs. Ma was unlucky. Before she sent someone, she did not inquire carefully about what happened to the village recently. Someone was inquiring about Jin Jiashu in the villa, and even went directly to his room in an attempt to kidnap and assassinate him. Even if all the killers were caught afterwards, one of the main arresters was sent by the veteran Zhuangzi, and the other was the grandson of his aunt's wife. The veterans from other villages could only serve as assistants, and they also had to bear the responsibility of leaking the information. I feel like my face is dull. When the killers were almost all silenced in the Chang'an government prison, they became even more angry.
They really want to know, who is the person who caused all this trouble? He did this under the noses of the Zhou family. Did he really not take the Zhou family seriously? Where did he think Chang'an was? !
Therefore, after Mrs. Ma's people entered the Villa, they immediately ran into the swords of the veterans of the Villa.
This man went around asking the bankers about the Jin family's case, where the surviving Jin Jiashu lived, and even wanted to find an excuse to enter the house to see Jin Jiashu! What on earth does he want to do? ! You’ve already done something bad once, do you want to do it again? !
The veterans at the other village quickly blocked the person and did not allow anyone to enter the main house. They also took the person to the owner's house and surrounded him to ask him what his identity was.
Mrs. Ma's confidants saw that something was not good, and probably knew that they seemed to have committed some taboo, so they quickly used Mrs. Ma's banner. Mrs. Zhou Ma has been suppressed by her step-mother-in-law for a long time, and the people in other villages have also suffered from Mrs. Ma's losses. Although it was not easy to beat someone up openly, the people in the other village had no intention of submitting. They refused the other party's request to enter the main house to find someone and drove him away.
What if this person is an accomplice of the assassin, pretending to be sent by the mistress's mother-in-law, and trying to sneak into the house and carry out the assassination again? By then, the faces of their three-room veterans will really be humiliated!
Mrs. Ma's confidant has no intention of giving up. He knows that the owner of the Villa, Mr. Zhou Ma, cannot disobey Mrs. Ma's orders. He went to the nearby butcher's village to stay for one night, and then returned to the city to resume his duties. He would probably come back soon with new orders from his master.
People from other villages followed.
Ma Li and his son immediately reported the matter to Zhou Ma's knowledge, and were immediately given a new task. They were to stay at the villa to monitor Mrs. Ma's new actions. They also had to find a way to let Jin Jiashu stay in the villa to recuperate, while letting Zhou The people in Lao Lao Zhuangzi "naturally" knew Mrs. Ma's "conspiracy".
The Ma Li family are still members of the Zhou Ma family, so of course they will not refuse the order of their mistress. They had no choice but to ask Zhou Ma to inform Ma on their behalf and ask for leave for their father and son, so that Ma would not be angry if they did not wait for them and anger Aunt Ma, grandson and grandson. Zhou Ma was worried and did not send a message directly to her sister. She only asked Xiuju to take advantage of the opportunity to go shopping and report the message to Hai's house.
Hai Jiao frowned even more when her sister told her the whole story: "What worries does grandma have? If something like this happened, shouldn't she tell grandma directly?!"
Haitang replied: "From Ma Xiuju's words, it seems that Mrs. Ma has been keeping a close eye on my aunt recently. My aunt didn't dare to let her know that she was deliberately ruining her good deeds. Ma Xiuju didn't even meet her. These things It was all relayed to her by my aunt’s girl.”
Hai Jiao sighed and shook his head: "This Mrs. Ma is really difficult to deal with. Why on earth did she decide that she would not let go of the village where my aunt and grandma married? Isn't she really sincere about helping her step-grandson develop new industries? She just wants to find an excuse to steal Learn the secret recipe? As long as she learns the secret recipe, she doesn't care whether the workshop will be shut down and whether the farm will be left with a mess? "
Haitang pouted: "Who knows? Anyway, she was unlucky and hit the knife edge. Not only did the henchmen sent out do similar things to the killers, but the henchmen also stayed at the Tujia Village for one night. , It’s as if he is taking the initiative to take the blame on himself.”
The people in the village may not know the latest results of the old military advisor and veterans tracking down the mysterious boy, but Haijiao has already tracked down Tujia Zhuangzi and Dujia Zhuangzi, and has identified the target of the latter with the help of memories from his previous life. The old military advisor also suspected that he had gone to the Du family.
At this moment, Mrs. Ma's confidant dragged the Tu family into the family. Could this cause any misunderstanding?
(End of chapter)
