Chapter 130: Grievances
The famous Yingchuan Marquis Mansion, the capital lord and famous family in charge of the forbidden army.
In the previous life, it was because of the Yingchuan Hou Shizi went to Ganzhou to experience the experience, and was unlucky to be involved in the murder of his wife in a hundred households, and became one of the victims under the murderer's knife.
Haijiao used to only know that the Yingchuan Hou Mansion had misunderstood the Zhou family, so he would conspire with Sun Ge Lao to retaliate against them, but he never expected that the Yingchuan Hou Mansion and the Zhou family were still in-laws?!
Since they are in-laws, what misunderstanding can't be explained? Is it difficult for relatives to draw around and explain the cause of the death of the Hou Shizi of Yingchuan? He was unlucky enough to meet a murderer, and there was no conspiracy in it. The small hundred households under the command of General Zhou killed people, and he may be responsible for negligence, but he will not lose his official position, and he will also implicate the entire Zhou family!
So, why did the Marquis of Yingchuan think that the Zhou family was responsible for the death of his son? Is this in-law a white knot?!
The reef's breathing was a little heavier, and he was poked in the back by his sister Haitang before he calmed down.
Now that he knew that there was something wrong with this matter, there was still enough time to investigate slowly in the future, and the most important thing at the moment was to listen to the conversation between the two elders in the house clearly and see if he could collect more information. Now is not the time to be cranky.
Haitang caught a glimpse of her brother's face regaining clarity, so she withdrew her gaze and continued to listen carefully to Zhou Ma's cry in the house.
However, Zhou Ma did not continue to mention the in-laws of the Marquis of Yingchuan. It is estimated that Ma's family affairs have long been clear, so Zhou Ma's doesn't need to explain anything in front of her little sister, she just began to cry about her past losses in money.
She was lucky enough to marry into a family like the Zhou family, and her mother's relatives also felt very honored. At that time, the Ma family was obviously not very rich, but in order to support the face of the eldest daughter, the old lady Ma still did everything she could, and made a rich dowry for the eldest daughter, not to mention gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, antique calligraphy and painting, as well as a special village covering a wide area and a fertile grange located in other places.
The Ma family had a big deficit because of this, and Zhou Ma's eldest brother Ma Yukun and sister-in-law Ma Jiang had a lot of resentment, feeling that the old father was partial to the eldest daughter. In order to fill the gap in the family, Mrs. Ma had to take her little daughter to Shanhaiwei, thousands of miles away from home, to take up her post, and she was tired and died in office.
However, Zhou Ma married into the Zhou family with this rich dowry, and there should have been no shortage of money to spend, but for more than 30 years, he was always asked by his step-mother-in-law to pay money.
She has to pay for her husband and stepson, and if she doesn't pay, she doesn't love her husband and children.
She also has to pay for the expenses of her father-in-law and step-mother-in-law, and if she doesn't pay, she is disrespectful to her relatives.
She has to pay for the children born to her stepmother-in-law, and if she doesn't pay, she is ungrateful, ignoring the step-mother-in-law's kindness to her husband and stepson.
She also has to pay for the expenses spent by her step-mother-in-law for her in-laws, and if she doesn't pay, she doesn't care for her clansmen and is not worthy of being a clan wife.
Even the stepmother-in-law had to pay for the expenses of her mother's relatives, but she refused, even if she climbed a high branch, she didn't put her mother's relatives in her eyes, she was a white-eyed wolf who forgot the roots!
At that time, her father went to work in other places, her brother and sister-in-law had a dislike with her, and became more and more estranged, Mrs. Ma pressed her as a double elder of her mother-in-law's family, and used the kindness of matchmaking to pinch her, her husband was suspicious of her, and he was not on her side at all, and his stepson was closer to his stepmother-in-law and other families, and he had a hostile attitude towards her, even in the Zhou clan, there was nothing good to say about her, she could only do nothing at all, she could only be at the mercy of her stepmother-in-law, and kept taking money out, trying to learn to be a good daughter-in-law who was virtuous and virtuous.
It wasn't until his stepson grew up and got married and had children smoothly that Zhou Ma proved his innocence in front of his husband and the Zhou clan, and was no longer scolded by his mother's and in-laws' clansmen because he paid a sum of money less.
At that time, she was also much more mature, and she saw that her step-mother-in-law was a sweet-faced and bitter-hearted person, pretending to be virtuous and virtuous on the surface, but in fact, she loved to calculate people the most. The money she paid, and the people who got the benefits all remembered their kindness on her step-mother-in-law, but they didn't have much gratitude to her, which was all thanks to her step-mother-in-law slandering and belittling her in front of people!
Zhou Ma actually couldn't figure it out. The stepmother-in-law, Mrs. Ma, obviously inherited the huge property of her adoptive mother, and she still holds a large amount of money in her hand to accompany the birth mother of Friday, so she is not short of money at all, why do she have to calculate the three melons and two dates in the hands of her daughter-in-law?
Her dowry was actually spent almost all ten years after her marriage, and the rest was the head jewelry at the bottom of the box, as well as the sustainable and profitable industry of the Grange. She's not stupid, she won't send these out anyway, cutting off her own way back. She also has children, even if she doesn't think about herself, she has to think about the future of her children.
In order to save expenses, she simply did not fight for power, lest she have to pay out of her own pocket to fill the shortfall, let her stepmother-in-law Mrs. Ma take charge of the house, receive monthly money every month, and her daily clothes are as simple as possible. Even if some concubines or elders in the clan said that she had lost the dignity of the Zhou family, she insisted on proclaiming that she was a "poor person". After a long time, the step-mother-in-law, Mrs. Ma, took into account her reputation and reduced her deduction.
However, when Zhou Shuyi, the step-mother-in-law's biological daughter, got married, Zhou Ma was still forced to come out with blood. In her dowry, there is a set of precious red gold and treasure heads, which are good things that Mrs. Ma spent a lot of money to build for her eldest daughter, so that she will not be rude in the concubine when she encounters a grand occasion in her husband's house. Mrs. Ma had to say that her daughter's dowry lacked such a good face, forcing Zhou Ma to cut the meat. Zhou Ma's was unwilling, so many relatives and daughters said that she was stingy, not filial to her mother-in-law, and not friendly to her sister-in-law...... At that time, her own daughter was also older, and she would have to say that she would kiss in a few years, so in order not to affect her daughter's reputation, she had to grit her teeth and give up this set of faces, and pretend to be generous in front of people, and say something about caring for her sister-in-law.
In fact, her sister-in-law, niece, and daughter-in-law, who had just entered the door, as well as her own daughter, were very unhappy about this. Because of this set of heads, they thought that they had hope of getting it, but they were generously sent out by her.
When Ma Shi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Why didn't you say it earlier?!" At that time, I still complained about you! The dowry that Daddy carefully created for you, you can give it to outsiders casually, even if it is for your daughter-in-law or daughter-in-law! You're still saying things in front of your forehead that the family doesn't have to worry about. I'm so angry that I don't want to talk to you! ”
Zhou Ma cried: "How can I tell you the truth?!" Everyone in the family thinks that they have climbed the high branches and are living a prosperous life, so that you know what kind of life you are living and what kind of face you have?! ”
She really has a bitterness that she can't say. The stepmother-in-law is obviously scheming, but she has done enough work in front of people, so that people can't find fault with her. If it weren't for the death of her father-in-law, her stepmother-in-law sat firmly on the throne of the old feudal monarch, supported by her promising son and her daughter-in-law who was highly married, and took the well-known stepson, and acted with less scruples, so that people could see her true face, and now everyone in the Zhou clan praises her for being virtuous and kind!
Ma looked at the eldest sister with hatred: "It's been more than thirty years!" You've asked her to handle it for so many years, and now you know how powerful she is?! She wants your Zhuangzi again now? ”
Zhou Ma cried: "She wants to take out the Zhuangzi to build a workshop for our lord and the boss in front of her, and even the title deed has to be changed, but she doesn't give a penny." The master doesn't speak for the forehead, the forehead is really helpless! ”
(End of chapter)