Mrs. Zhou Ma helped her granddaughter Zhou Yijun to the west courtyard.
Hai Jiao decided to follow Zhou Shigong to escort the car to the Zhenguogong Mansion, which would strengthen his power to guard Zhang Pinggui.
Zhou Shigong would naturally not object. He was still in a mess, and wanted to find someone to talk to, to soothe the anger and entanglement in his heart. There were many things that he couldn't figure out yet, and he also needed to find someone to talk to. The stewards and guards didn't know much and couldn't share his worries. Hai Jiao is willing to accompany him to the Zhenguo Palace, which is of course the best thing. In front of his cousin Zhen Guo Gong, if he encounters a question that he cannot answer, Hai Jiao, a junior who has followed the question from beginning to end and guessed the sinister intentions of Zhou Shuyi and the Sun family, can speak on his behalf.
Haitang discussed it with her brother and decided to stay in the third room of the Zhou family.
When it comes to interrogating prisoners, Hai Jiao and the old military advisor are here to preside over it, and Marshal Zhou, the Duke of Zhenguo, is there, and there is a high probability that other generals will show up. It is difficult for a little girl like her to show up, even if she goes with her. After arriving at the Duke's Mansion, it was very likely that Zhou Wenjun or Mrs. Zhou would invite her to the back house to talk, so why would she make such a trip? Grandmother Ma has already sent a greeting note to Mrs. Wednesday. She will be able to visit the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. She will not miss this day's work.
Secondly, what she should say and speculate has basically been said, and with the involvement of Hai Jiao, a reborn person who knows what happened in her previous life, there is no need for her to get involved too much in the subsequent events. Well.
After she followed her family to Chang'an, she met the survivor of the Jin family murder case and Jin Jiashu before entering the city. Then there was the killer and the spy of the border army. She had to solve the problem of Mrs. Ma's forced marriage for her aunt. They also want to find out the truth about Zhou Shuyi's attempt to assassinate the Yingchuan Hou Shizi in her previous life, and eliminate hidden dangers for the Zhou family. Each one of these things takes a lot of brain cells! She and her brother Hai Jiao worked very hard to figure everything out, deduce the most credible version, and then reveal it to the victims of the previous life, okay? Now that she can be lazy for a while, why should she be too curled up?
In her previous life, she was so curled up and didn't end up well. In this life, as long as she could live a decent life and the crisis could be solved, she would rather worry less.
She spent so much time cultivating her brother Hai Jiao's ability to use his brain, wasn't it just so that she could lie down peacefully?
Haitang made an agreement with Hai Jiao that they would wait for him to return from Zhenguo Palace before going home together. Before that, they could send Ma Changnian back to report to his grandmother Ma, saying that her aunt Zhou Ma had left some food and asked her not to worry.
The people from Zhen Guogong's Mansion had not arrived yet, so Hai Jiao had to stay in the main courtyard, chatting quietly with Zhou Shigong, while staring at the carriage outside the courtyard gate to be wary of anyone approaching. Haitang said goodbye to her brother for the time being, followed her aunt Zhou Ma and her new little sister Zhou Yijun, plus a colorful silk, to the Zhou family's three-bedroom house on West Road, and watched the middle-aged naughty boy Zhou Jinpu and his step-grandmother Mrs. Ma having fun. play.
Before they arrived at the west courtyard, they heard the sound of quarreling in the distance. It sounded like Zhou Jinpu was quarreling with the confidants around Mrs. Ma, and the quarrel was very fierce.
Zhou Ma's steps slowed down involuntarily, and he felt tangled in his heart.
She is happy to share her husband's worries, and also wants to watch the jokes between her stepmother-in-law and her unfilial stepson, but she is afraid of being involved in their disputes. Judging from past experience, once she appears in front of her stepmother-in-law and stepson, there is a high probability that they will jointly target her.
Although she has been scolded for more than thirty years, today, her granddaughter Yijun and her younger sister's granddaughter Haitang are both present. As an elder, if she was scolded so badly in front of two girls, she would lose all dignity...
Haitang noticed Zhou Ma's hesitation and asked with a smile: "Why don't you seem to hear Mrs. Ma's voice? It was actually the servants who were arguing with Zhou Jinpu."
Caijuan ran over quickly, whispered a few words to a waiting maid, and then reported back: "The eldest young master just made a big fuss, and now the ladies around the old lady are scolding him and scolding him very unpleasantly. The old lady didn’t stop me either.”
Zhou Ma coughed and said, "Stay far away, don't let the old lady see her, lest she say that she is sneaking around and watching her jokes. I don't want to be instigated by her to confront Zhou Jinpu."
Haitang and Zhou Yijun both agreed obediently, and the four of them walked to the entrance of the corridor near the gate of the West Courtyard. From here, they could clearly hear what was happening in the West Courtyard. People in the West Courtyard could not see them because they were separated by two walls. It could be said that they were just watching and eating. Gua's safe and good location. Mr. Zhou immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
The scolding in the west courtyard had already attracted many servants to watch, but Mrs. Ma still did not stop her confidants from scolding her step-grandson.
The nuns directly scolded Zhou Jinpu as an unfilial and untidy good-for-nothing. The latter had probably never been scolded so harshly in his life, not to mention that the person who scolded him had always praised him as sensible, smart, and smart before today. Competent and filial... They used to be so kind to him, but today they turned against him and refused to recognize him. However, his step-grandmother, Mrs. Ma, who always claimed to love him the most, turned a blind eye to this and just sat indifferently at the top, without any stoppage. mean.
Zhou Jinpu finally understood. It turned out that his father was really right. His step-grandmother had only been using him all along. She just pretended to care and love him, but in fact she didn't mean anything at all! If she really loved him, why would she let her servants be rude to him? !
Thinking like this, Zhou Jinpu became more and more angry.
His wife whispered a few words in his ear, and he suddenly came to his senses, and shouted that since his step-grandmother looked down upon him so much and said that she had a clear conscience for him, she would give his late mother's dowry back to him. Bar. Now that he has a wife and children, he has no shortage of people to take care of his property, so he doesn't have to worry about his step-grandmother who looks down on him.
After hearing these words, Mrs. Ma's expression changed for the first time: "Naughty! If I had known you would grow up to be as unfilial and rude as you are today, I shouldn't have kept you by my side to take care of you in the first place! All the years of hard work have paid off. Dog!" He pointed at Zhou Jinpu's wife's nose and scolded her, "You bitch! In the past, you pretended to be filial and virtuous, but you turned out to be hiding an adulterer in your heart. Today I finally see you clearly!"
Zhou Jinpu's wife said aggrievedly: "Old madam, my granddaughter-in-law has no other intentions. My husband is very angry now, and I also think that he has misunderstood you. I just need to clear up the misunderstanding. Isn't it just a bit of marriage?" You have a rich family, but you still care about those things? If you walk upright and sit upright, and return the things to your husband, he will naturally know your innocence and kindness. How can he misunderstand you again? You have always loved your husband, and you must I am willing to reconcile with him as before. When the time comes when the ancestors and grandchildren are at peace, who will take care of those properties, what does it matter?"
Her two daughters cooperated tacitly and hugged Mrs. Ma's arms. One said, "Great-grandmother, don't be angry. Father just misunderstood." Just leave it to my father to worry about. He has experienced the difficulties and understands my great-grandmother's painstaking efforts." The two sisters sang together, and Zhou Lianghou also came to join in: "Great-grandmother, don't be angry. Mother and sisters just hope that father can understand your love and painstaking efforts. They are all thinking about you!"
Mrs. Ma was so angry that her face flushed red, and she couldn't get her three children away, so she started crying loudly and shouted that she wanted to go to the ancestral hall to cry for the old man.
She really shed tears, crying realistically.
The nuns under her hurriedly gathered around and pulled the three children apart. While comforting her, they began to cry about the old man. Some people said they would ask the elders of the clan to administer justice and punish the young master. Others suspected that the wife was there. Sow discord.
When Zhou Ma heard this, he immediately shuddered and quickly took the hands of the two girls: "Hurry up, hurry up, don't let them see, or the fire will soon burn your forehead and body!"
(End of chapter)
