Haitang couldn't help but sigh.
Zhou Shuyi thought she had plotted against someone, but she didn't expect that she was the one being plotted against.
If Haijiao hadn't been reborn, he didn't want to see the Zhou family being implicated by Zhou Shuyi, and tried his best to reverse the situation. Zhou Shuyi would probably have been led by the Sun family, and killed Yingchuan Hou Shizi, thinking he had a plan, but Unexpectedly, there was the oriole of the Sun family behind him, and he would use her to block the knife at any time.
With her as a scapegoat, the Sun family not only cleared the suspicion of murder and cleared the way for their youngest daughter to become the princess of Prince Ji, but also instigated an internal fight between the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion and the Zhou family, taking away the Zhou family's military power. Killing three birds with one stone is simply a win!
Hai Jiao thought this was God's will: "If God hadn't shown mercy and allowed me to live another life, I wouldn't have been able to participate in this matter. It was God who didn't want to see loyal ministers being wronged and traitors in power, so he gave me the order to expose the Sun family. conspiracy!"
Okay, whatever you want.
Haitang changed the subject: "Is this what Zhang Pinggui explained?"
Hai Jiao said: "After hearing the whole story of the Sun family plotting Zhou Shuyi to assassinate the Yingchuan Hou Shizi, the Zhou family's great-uncle left, saying that as long as their third wife's innocence was proven, the subsequent events would have nothing to do with him. I I followed him, so I had no choice but to follow him. Until I left the Zhenguo Palace, Zhang Guiping only said this much. I don’t know what happened next.”
He was originally worried about why he should find any reason to inquire about follow-up information from the old military advisor in the future. But now that he knew that his cousin Xie Wenzai had been invited to the Zhenguo Duke's Mansion to participate in discussing the big plan, he felt relieved. The old military advisor might not necessarily tell him the content of Zhang Pinggui's subsequent confession, but his cousin would probably not hide it from him.
Haitang had the same idea and was not in a hurry to guess what other secrets Zhang Pinggui knew. According to what Haijiao learned, it can be said that Zhang Pinggui was involved from beginning to end in the Sun family's attempt to assassinate the Yingchuan Hou Shizi. During this period, what kind of instigation and calculations did Zhou Shuyi encounter, and what reasons were he prepared to use to get rid of it? He knew everything about himself and helped the Sun family lie to Zhou Shuyi a lot. It is not difficult to see from his attitude that Zhang Pinggui did not regard Zhou Shuyi as his master from the bottom of his heart. To him, she was just a tool, a shield that allowed him to gain a foothold in the Northwest and win people's trust.
Haitang couldn't help but sigh: "Brother said that Zhang Pinggui described his life experience in such detail in order to make himself miserable in front of the Zhou family. Now I understand what you mean."
It can be said that both Zhang Pinggui's parents were tricked by Zhou Shuyi, so it's no wonder that he harbors resentment towards her.
Zhang's father was ordered by her to poison a skilled Forbidden Army commander like Marquis Yingchuan. One visit was not enough, so he went twice. As a result, he failed the mission and escaped with serious injuries. He originally just hid in a wealthy family to avoid his enemies, but he didn't expect that he would end up losing money all his life. Although he once had a small life when his wife and son were on the hot bed, how much happiness could his reluctant wife have in those short few years of recuperating from injuries?
Not to mention Mrs. Zhang. The decent maid of the inner house, in terms of appearance, may be better than the daughter of an ordinary official family. If she doesn't want to be a concubine, she can be a housekeeper's wife. However, she is kicked out of the prince's house by her mistress, and she can only marry Jianghu Caomang as his wife. . She was quite smart after giving birth to a son. She taught her with all her heart and hoped that when her son grew up, he could enter the Marquis Mansion as a servant and a long-term attendant. Unexpectedly, Zhou Shuyi did not even give this hope. No matter how outstanding his son was, he could only Who wouldn't be devastated by inheriting his father's business as a snitch? It's no wonder that Zhang Muhui is despairing.
Most of Zhang's father and Zhang's mother's lives were ruined by Zhou Shuyi. After their deaths, Zhou Shuyi ignored the great contribution Zhang's father had made for her and ignored their orphans. If this were not the case, Zhang Pinggui might not have had the opportunity to climb up with his own talents. How could he have been fooling around with others since he was a child, accidentally provoked the Sun family's children, and could only become a Sun family's pawn?
Zhang Pinggui unfolded his life for the Zhou family to let them know who caused him to end up like this. He originally didn't want to be a murderer, nor did he want to betray his master's family and become a lackey of the Sun family. He originally wanted to join the army and fight for the country... It was Zhou Shuyi who made him lose everything. It was the Sun family who forced him to He has gone astray!
Haitang sighed, but Haijiao said: "Poor people must be hateful. There are many miserable people in the world. It is not that he has no way out, but he has to go to the dead end. Who can blame him? "
Hai Jiao's own experience in his previous life was quite miserable, so he didn't think Zhang Pinggui was any more miserable than him. If Zhang Pinggui really wanted to be a good person, and Zhou Shuyi abandoned him after his parents passed away, but there were kind-hearted people willing to support him in his dowry, he could have gone on the right path.
He was still young at that time, and his parents' identity was unclear and unknown. He also had no clear contract of sale. If he was determined to run away, it would not be difficult to change his identity. Would Zhou Shuyi still be able to send people to arrest him?
If you are worried that you are too young to make a living, then just stay on the farm and have kind people take care of your food and drink, and be pampered by good gentlemen when you study. When you grow up, go out and find a serious job, and you can still support yourself. Who forces you to do so? Has he gone to hang out with unscrupulous people and provoke the children of powerful people?
Even if it was the past, he couldn't get rid of it. Now, almost all of his associates are dead, and the surviving only seedling has fallen into the hands of the government. Who else in the entire Chang'an City knows who he is, Zhang Pinggui? He could completely escape quietly, stay anonymous from now on, and find a place where no one knows him and become a commoner. If he doesn't show up in front of the Sun family or Zhou Shuyi, what can anyone do to him?
But he refused to do so. He had been hiding in the village of Du Boqin, a secret ally of the Sun family. After being discovered, he ran away and pretended to be someone else and moved into the third room of the Zhou family, planning to start a second murder mission... He was doing his own evil. If he continues to kill people for the Sun family, he deserves to be caught eventually.
Haitang listened to Hai Jiao's analysis and felt that it was very reasonable: "Brother will tell this to my cousin or the old military advisor later, and ask them to persuade the Zhou family. Don't let Zhang Pinggui's family be cheated a little bit by Zhou Shuyi, right?" He was given a lighter sentence.”
"Don't worry, the Duke of Zhen and the major generals will not be merciful to such people!" Hai Jiao sneered, "That boy Zhang Pinggui is conceited and smart. He thought that this trick would make the Zhou family let him go, but he didn't expect to interrogate him. The man was also a master, and a few words led him to tell the truth. It turned out that Sun Yongbai had promised to reward him with a good future after the project was completed, and let him choose by himself, whether to stay in the frontier army and earn military merits, or to return to Beijing and join the army. A branch of the Sun family is an heir, changing his identity and becoming an official in the name of a descendant of the Sun family? He was afraid that if he stayed in the northwest, his crime would be exposed sooner or later, so he chose the second option. How could he be forced by the Sun family to kill someone? Arson? It’s obvious that he risked his life for wealth and power!”
If the chips offered by Sun Yongbai were not tempting enough, how could Zhang Pinggui carry out those two assassination missions so actively? Those seven killers were dead men, but Zhang Pinggui was killing someone for the first time, and the person he killed was a child of the top powerful person in the dynasty!
After hearing this, Haitang couldn't help but "tsk, tsk" twice: "If he chose to stay in the northwest, he might really have a chance to be successful one day, but he chose a shortcut. To become an official as a descendant of the Sun family... Such a promise , Zhang Pinggui actually dared to believe it?! The Sun family would only kill him to silence him, how could they really recognize a killer as a relative? He himself said that many people in the capital knew that he was working for Zhou Shuyi. The Sun family wanted to hide it from Ying How can Marquis Chuan leave such a big flaw? Could it be that he believed this and thought he would have a great future, so he thought highly of himself and felt he was qualified to look down on the Zhou family?"
(End of chapter)
