51. Inquiry
Zhu Yuanzhang returned with the people of the Zhang family, which alarmed the entire Ma family compound. After all, what happened to the Zhang family is too big, and people who have nothing to do with this matter want to know what happened when the chaotic people attacked the Ma family, and now that the survivors of the Zhang family have returned, how can there be any reason not to hurry up and ask.
Zhu Yuanzhang and a group of Zhang family's maids were quickly summoned to the hall in the front yard, only to see two rows of neat chairs in the hall in the front yard, and almost all the important people of the Ma family were sitting.
Sitting in the first place, of course, is Ma Zhixiong, the eldest young master of the Ma family, he is sitting in a precarious position, his face is serious, and his expression is not good-looking, on the one hand, the Ma family's plan to make friends with a county magistrate is bankrupt, and the second is also because his personal guard Fang Xuan died in Zhang's mansion.
Ma Qianjiu put his hands on either side of his body and stood respectfully beside Ma Zhixiong, his head lowered.
Ma Zhibin, the second young master of the Ma family, sat on the second chair under Ma Zhixiong, sitting in a very strange posture, not so much sitting, but asleep, the expression on his face was obviously a little sluggish, it seemed that he was not too interested in what happened in Zhang's Mansion, but other people came to see the excitement, so he stopped by.
Beside Ma Zhibin, there was a woman Zhu Yuanzhang had never seen before, and there was a personal maid standing behind her. She has a small round face, good-looking big eyes, and a slightly plump figure, but she is not fat, she is the kind of body shape that is just right, fair and delicate skin, and she is considered the last beauty. Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that he had seen this woman somewhere, and after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized that this woman looked a little like Zhang Douyao, it seems that she is the Miss Zhang family who married the second young master, and now she should be regarded as the second young grandmother of the Ma family.
There are obvious tears on her face, obviously after hearing that her father and brother were killed, she washed her face with tears, and saw Zhu Yuanzhang walking into the hall with a group of subordinates from Zhang's mansion, she jumped up from her seat and ran over to Zhu Yuanzhang and his party, a pair of entangled little feet could not support her body, and she stumbled, she completely ignored the dignity of the young grandmother, and cried: "Autumn leaves...... You're alive? ”
A group of maidservants behind Zhu Yuanzhang also cried at the same time, and one of them said while crying: "Miss...... Akiba narrowly escaped with his life, but both the old master and the young master ...... Woo......"
The second young grandmother suddenly threw herself into the pile of maids behind Zhu Yuanzhang, holding one of the maids and crying sadly, Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head curiously to see that the maid was almost insulted, and later escaped with her life, and gave Zhu Yuanzhang a blanket The kind-hearted girl, it turned out that her name was Qiu Ye, and she was one of the maids who grew up with the second young grandmother since she was a child and had the best feelings.
A group of women burst into tears, and the sound of cries echoed through the lobby, disrupting everyone. The eldest young master of the Ma family frowned, but he didn't speak. The second young master's straw bag said, "Cry, cry, cry!" Women are trouble...... I said lady, you hugged a few lowly subordinates and cried like this, what kind of system did you become? Come back and sit down. ”
The second young grandmother was so shouted by her newly married husband, her brows suddenly wrinkled, and her two willow eyebrows were erected. Her face is very interesting, she usually looks very beautiful, and when she frowns, she is a little fierce. It seems that the three virtues and four virtues have not yet taken root in her heart, and she is a woman who dares to compete with her husband.
At this moment, a gentle voice sounded at the right time: "Second brother, what are you talking about?" At this time, I don't want to say a word...... The second sister-in-law mourned, now don't be busy crying, hurry up and ask clearly, what happened that day, and how to deal with the aftermath, this is the right reason. ”
It turned out that the third lady of the Ma family was also sitting, on a chair opposite the second young master, and the little maid purple heart was sitting behind her. She was born with a kind surname and didn't like disputes, and when she saw that her second brother and sister-in-law were about to fight, she hurried out to play a round.
The third lady's words played a role, and the second young grandmother didn't return to her seat, so she hugged the maid named Akiba and asked, "What happened that day?" Say ...... Say."
"Son-of-law...... The servant doesn't know...... Woo...... That day, the guards of the Ma family came to see the master, and they were talking in the back garden, as if they were talking about the third miss of the Ma family marrying the young master of our family, at this time, there was a huge shouting of killing from the county yamen, and then there was a government official who ran to the master and said that there were rioters attacking the county yamen, shouting to kill the official and rebel......"
The little maid named Akiba said in a frightened tone, "Later...... Later, the lord ordered the guards to move the rockery in the garden to the top gate, but before the door was topped, the rioters rushed in and killed people when they saw them...... Everyone was hiding in the house, and the maid was hiding in the grass by the weeping flower gate, but was caught by three rebels, and they took off the maid's clothes...... Woohoo......"
"What?" The second young grandmother was furious: "They insulted you? Damn it! ”
Akiba whispered, "No...... They had just undressed their servants, and they hadn't had time to do that...... The leader of the rebels happened to pass by, two leaders, one tall and one short, one strong and one thin, and they drove away the three rebels who were about to insult me, and told me to flee for my own life...... I changed places to hide, and I don't know what happened next...... Hide until it is almost dark, and there are no more chaotic people in the house, and the maid dares to come out. She said in a mess, calling herself a maid for a while, and calling herself me again, obviously emotionally returning to the environment of the day, and still palpitating in her heart.
"Not insulted...... Fortunately, a blessing in misfortune. "The second young grandmother has always regarded Autumn Leaves as a sister, and when she heard that she escaped, she felt a little comforted in her heart.
At this time, the second young master spoke again, and said in a strange manner: "The clothes have been stripped off, is this not an insult?" Ha! That's a loss of mode......"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" The willow eyebrows of the second young grandmother raised again: "Just picking off the clothes is considered out of moderation?" I have to strip naked and take a shower once a day, and I have to take off my clothes to sleep, don't I have to lose two knots every day? Haha, then the cuckold on your head is going to drip oil. ”
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was really angry and funny, these two young masters and two young grandmothers, both of them are muddy people. What's the situation now? The two of them actually quarreled here, and each of them shouted with some flimsy reason.
It turned out that this Miss Zhang originally planned to marry into each other's family with Miss Ma Jiasan on the same day, and they both chose March 22, but Zheng Yanfu killed the official and rebelled on March 21, and Miss Ma San failed to marry.
However, Miss Zhang's marriage to the second young master was held as scheduled, because the news reached Baishui one day late, and Miss Zhang happened to be close to the second young master of the Ma family......
Miss Zhang immediately burst into tears, and naturally she couldn't enter this cave room.
The second young master didn't enter the good cave room, and as soon as his temper came up, he scolded her a few words. Her whole family is dead, and the second young master is still scolding people here, it is simply a wound with oil, adding fuel to the fire, and the two immediately quarreled, and the relationship between the husband and wife was completely broken before it began to arise.
The result was that the two slept in separate rooms that night, and the second young master caught a little maid of his own in the new house, and without Butcher Zhang, wouldn't he eat pork, let's just eat Butcher Li! He made such a fuss, it was really worse, what woman could stand her man hugging another woman on her wedding night? Miss Zhang's family is really sad and angry, her family is dead, and her newly married husband is this kind of person, how can she live this?
Although the cave room did not enter, although the relationship was broken, the wedding had already been completed, and the identity of the two had been decided, and they couldn't regret it, so the two quarreled today and tomorrow, and they quarreled desperately at every opportunity. Until the hour before Zhu Yuanzhang led the family members and maids of Zhang's Mansion to come back, the two were still arguing in the backyard.
Now that the two of them quarreled in the hall again, the eldest young master Ma Zhixiong, who was sitting on the first seat, suddenly became angry: "You two will die if you don't say a few words?" What's going on now? Still talking about trivial and sloppy things. ”
He slapped heavily on the table, suppressing everyone's voices, and the second young master couldn't be angry in front of his brother, so he had to keep silent. The second little grandmother didn't have a reason to offend the uncle, so she quickly shut up.
Ma Zhixiong said to Autumn Leaves in a deep voice: "Little girl, do you know that's all?" How did my guard and your lord die? Do you see that? ”
Akiba quickly shook his head: "I know this, I don't know anything else." ”
Ma Zhixiong didn't have time to care about the trivial matter of whether a maid was out of order, he turned his head to the other maids and said, "You come one by one and tell what you saw that day." ”
The family and the maids talked about the situation of the day in turn, these surviving family members and maids were hiding from the beginning, so each of them didn't see much, pieced together, and added up what they all saw, roughly it was clear about the killing and looting that occurred in the front yard and the back yard, but the battle that happened in front of the firewood room, no one saw it, they only knew that the guards protected the old man and the young master and hid in the firewood room, and then there was a "clanging" weapon exchange sound from the firewood room, Then I heard Zheng Yanfu shouting: "I'll kill Zhang Douyao, let's go, let's go back to the yamen......"
Ma Zhixiong asked for a long time, but couldn't get the most important information, so he had to ask Zhu Yuanzhang again: "Zhu Ba, you also entered Zhang's mansion that day, and you also carried out the body of Fang Guard, what did you see?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang said in a low voice: "The little one only saw the Fang guard and the old man of the Zhang family, the young master fell to the ground, and I didn't see anything else, and the bandits had already retreated at that time." ”
Ma Zhixiong sighed: "When such a big thing happens, no one can see the most critical place." That's it, anyway, it's come to this, and you can roughly guess what happened that day, so let's talk about the aftermath. ”
He paused for a moment and asked again, "How did the aftermath of the Zhang Mansion be handled?" ”