Hai Jiao ran to find Jin Jiashu again.
At this time, New Year's Eve is approaching. After many years, the Hai family returned to Chang'an to celebrate the New Year. All the things needed to celebrate the New Year and worship their ancestors had to be purchased again, and all kinds of relatives, friends and acquaintances had to give gifts again. Mr. Ma is very busy every day. Even Haixiya, who has just gone on annual vacation, has to take his cousin and old friends out to visit friends and give gifts every day. Hai Changan and his wife have been assigned new jobs. Haitang can still enjoy some leisure time because of her young age. , but I also have to help with accounting, writing gift orders, etc. every day...
At this time, Haijiao actually ran out to see his friends? !
Even if it was a good friend with a pitiful background and miserable situation, Grandma Ma would still be driven crazy!
She has been nagging about this matter almost since she knew her grandson was out. She was so nagging that her adopted son Hai Changan took a temporary purchase task and went out; her daughter-in-law Hu hid in her room on the pretext of wanting to see her son; Cui went back to her room. Auntie went to the kitchen to take stock of the ingredients for the New Year; Auntie Ma went to the sewing room and claimed that a piece of new clothing that had just been made was missing a trim... In the end, Haitang, who was left with only half of the gift list, could not escape and could only forcefully He continued to stay in the main room with his scalp, listening to his grandmother complain about his brother.
When Ma finally calmed down, Haitang couldn't help but secretly wiped her sweat.
Ma stopped to take a sip of water, only to realize that no one was in the room anymore. Only she and her granddaughter were left. She couldn't help but asked, "Where have everyone gone? Why haven't Jinhua and Caixia come back yet?" She suddenly felt in her heart. I was worried that if there was something wrong with the kitchen or the sewing room, my two confidants would never come back. She wanted to find someone to send the message, but her granddaughter was immersed in writing, and her grandson was not there...
When Mrs. Ma remembered why her grandson was not here, she became angry again: "It's all Baoshun's fault..."
Haitang didn't understand why her grandmother complained about Aunt Cui and Aunt Ma for not coming back in the first sentence, and then blamed her brother in the second sentence? In order not to be tortured any more, she quickly finished writing the last gift list, put down the pen and stood up and said: "Grandma, I've finished copying the gift list. Can you take a look? I'll go find Aunt Cui and Aunt Ma and come back to see you." ..." After saying that, he ran away quickly.
At this time, if you are a dead Taoist friend rather than a poor Taoist, of course she will find Aunt Cui and Aunt Ma and let them listen to Grandma Ma's nagging!
Haitang felt that she had made a big sacrifice today. Because she was afraid of being angered by her grandmother, she wrote more words than usual today, and even calculated twice as many accounts as usual! There is also needlework, which is done faster than usual. She didn't need to curl it up like this.
When Haijiao came back in the evening, she told him all these things: "Brother, look, I have been hurt a lot by you today, you must compensate me!"
Hai Jiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he still agreed fondly: "Okay, okay, brother will pay you. What do you want this time? Which old store sells food, or which printing house sells new books?"
Haitang is not interested in any of this. Anyway, if he wants it, he can get it at any time. She made a request: "I want to go out for a walk during the Chinese New Year. Can my brother accompany me? As long as you accompany me, grandma will agree."
Hai Jiao thought for a while: "Are you going to visit the temple fair? That's fine. Chang'an city management is stricter during the New Year. In fact, there are no gangsters who dare to run wild at this time. If you meet any young master or lady from the general's family, You deserve to be unlucky. If you want to go, just ask, but not on the first, fourth, seventh or eighth day of the lunar month. My brother has made an appointment with someone on those days."
Haitang raised an eyebrow: "It sounds like my brother really made a lot of friends in Chang'an City. You are so busy these days, how do you manage your time?"
Hai Jiao smiled, there was no need to elaborate on this, he had his own way anyway.
The plans for the New Year are only secondary. What Haitang wants to know most right now is what the latter's reaction was after Haijiao met Jin Jiashu?
Hai Jiao said: "He seemed very surprised when he heard what I told Magistrate Huang and Duke Zhenguo about the results of their interrogation of the second wife of the Jin family."
Jin Jiashu was surprised, not because the second brother-in-law of the Jin family admitted that he was suspected of not saving the Xu family, but because the second brother-in-law of the Jin family actually admitted that "the Xu family" was killed by them and buried in the capital.
Hai Jiao described to his sister the change in Jin Jiashu's expression after hearing the address of his "dead mother's" grave: "He looked as if he had seen a ghost... I suspect that he had always thought that the grave in Beijing was fake and there was nothing inside." The bones are just a pretense to trick people, so he never mentioned going to worship. I occasionally tried to suggest that he live in the capital in the future, but he also looked blank, as if he had never thought about it, and was a bit repelled..."
Jin Jiashu's rejection of going to the capital is easy to understand. Since he was Concubine Xu Xian's son, he decided that this was a secret that no one could know. By not going to the capital, he could avoid causing trouble to his biological mother and his half-brother, the Eighth Prince. Wasn't this the reason why he refused to admit that he was a child of the Jin family and insisted on saying that he was the son of a wet nurse?
But there seems to be a problem with his understanding of the tomb of the "Xu family" in the capital. Could it be that his wet nurse never told him who was buried in the grave?
Hai Jiao guessed: "The identity of the woman buried under the name of the Xu family may really be problematic. Jin Jiashu's wet nurse didn't explain it to him in detail, but it's not that she couldn't understand it. She only needed to tell Jin Jiashu that his biological mother was not dead yet. , just let Jin Jiashu give up the idea of going to the capital to pay homage to his dead mother. As for the rest... I guess the Jin family will never mention Mrs. Xu at all, let alone the woman buried under the name of Mrs. Xu. So what does it matter if Jin Jiashu knows the identity of the woman?"
If the wet nurse could see Jin Jiashu grow up, she might tell him the truth. But now that he was still a half-grown child, she died to protect him first, so naturally there was no follow-up.
Haitang couldn't help but sigh: "It seems that this secret cannot be solved in a short time. The second wife of the Jin family knows the inside story but refuses to reveal it. Concubine Xu Xian in the capital may know the truth, but she has no intention of telling it. We can only Like Jin Jiashu, he continues to be kept in the dark."
The confession and various details revealed by the second roommate of the Jin family actually rounded off the lie. The Zhenguo Duke's Mansion and the Chang'an Mansion didn't think much about it, so what could Haitang do?
Hai Jiao smiled and said: "If you don't know, then you don't know. There are many things in this world that we don't know. Anyway, it is obvious that the second wife of the Jin family cannot easily pass the test. The Zhenguo Duke's Mansion and the Chang'an Mansion will give them a profound understanding." A lesson. This can be regarded as a little bit of anger for the dead woman and Jin Juren’s family, right?"
Haitang was a little disapproving: "What's just a small outburst? The second wife of the Jin family knew that Magistrate Huang knew about Xu's entry into the palace, but refused to reveal the identity of the woman. He probably actually killed the person, fearing that the government would They kept their mouth shut until they were investigated. Now even if the Zhenguo Government Office and the Chang'an Government Office can convict the second wife of the Jin family on a few charges, they are still on the same level as committing a felony of murder. It is really too easy for them!"
Hai Jiao also knew that this time he was getting the second wife of the Jin family, but he had no choice. Once the truth was found out, the life and death of "Xu" would be difficult to explain, and it would also involve Concubine Xu Xian in the palace. It was the lesser of two evils, and they had to accept the outcome.
However, if my sister just wanted to know the truth, Hai Jiao felt that there was another way: "When I was leaving, Jin Jiashu suddenly asked me if there was any way for him to meet the second roommate of the Jin family? Jin Xin, Jin Liu or Aunt Jin are fine, forget about the others. I suspect he wants to find out the inside story from them. "
Fortunately for Jin Xin, Mrs. Jin Liu and Aunt Jin are still in the government prison. How can we see them?
Hai Jiao also said that Jin Jiashu wanted to meet one of them alone, and obviously did not want others to participate in the conversation.
But for old spies like Hai Jiao, if they want to know the content of other people's private conversations alone, there are many ways!
(End of chapter)
