Ma listened to the eldest sister Zhou Ma talk about the gossip of her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for a long time, and now her mind is full of grievances and hatred in the Zhou family's house. She was annoyed that her eldest sister was not angry, and she was led by her stepmother-in-law, but she refused to listen to her sister's advice, and she was holding her breath.

Now that her granddaughter Haitang asked, she immediately had a desire to talk. When the trip is boring, gossip about relatives can not only pass the time, but also let the granddaughter know some of the inside story of the Zhou family in advance, so as not to offend people unknowingly in the future.

So she told Haitang in detail about the situation of the eldest sister Zhou Ma's mother-in-law, Mrs. Ma.

Mrs. Ma is actually half a daughter of the Ma family. She is the adopted daughter of the grandmother of the Zhou Ma family and the Ma sisters, and her surname is not known, and her adoptive mother's surname is Ma, and her maiden name seems to be called Yuzhen.

"Yuzhen?" As soon as Begonia heard the name, she couldn't help but interrupt her grandmother's words, "Is the 'jade' of gold and jade, and the 'zhen' of pearls?" But isn't she grandma, your elder? You and your sisters are both from the 'jade' generation, right? Isn't this heavy? ”

Ma said: "It's not the 'jade' of gold and jade, it's the 'education' of childbirth." It sounds the same pronunciation, but it's not a word at all. "Her maiden name is Yumei, her eldest sister's maiden name is Magnolia, and her sisters of the same generation are all jade characters, named after flowers. Although Mrs. Ma's maiden name sounds like that of their generation, because there are very few people who call her by her maiden name, no one thinks that there is anything wrong with this name.

Begonia's heart is not so calm. "Yuzhen", the name sounds ordinary, but it feels very familiar to her. In her previous life, the pair of daughters of the clan she taught, her sister was called "Yuzhen", and her sister was called "Yuzhu". Song Yuzhen had already married and had children, so it was naturally impossible to marry into the third room of the Zhou family, but Song Yuzhu abandoned her family and didn't know where to go. The system said that she recognized a wealthy businessman as her adoptive mother and married the children of a prominent family to fill the house. Mrs. Ma's name is "Yuzhen", is it really just a coincidence?

Haitang calculated the time: "Grandma, when did Mrs. Ma marry into the Zhou family?" ”

"How do you know this?" Ma thought for a while, "My aunt and grandmother drank too much full moon wine back then, when her adopted daughter had just been married, she became the mother-in-law of the general of the Zhou family, and she was ...... in the scenery" Speaking of this, Ma suddenly remembered one thing, "At that time, the golden lock given by my aunt and grandmother was exquisite, don't look at the style now that it is old, it can be fried and golden, and I can't find such a good craftsmanship in Chang'an, and I am reluctant to give it away." When you were born, you gave it to you, and now you still have it in the box! ”

Haitang is not interested in the golden lock, only thinking in her heart: this is more than 50 years ago, the time is right!

She took a deep breath, she didn't expect to hear the news of that white-eyed wolf student here!

This girl not only recognized someone else as her mother, but also married into a big family, and changed her name to her sister's maiden name to confuse the public. She still doesn't have much contact with the edicts of the Zhenguo Mansion, this is because she is afraid that the relationship is close, and the other party is familiar with the emperor's relatives, is it possible to detect her true identity?

Haitang was thinking about it, when she heard her grandmother Ma complaining: "Just listen obediently, don't always interrupt your forehead!" I've almost forgotten what I just said. Haitang hurriedly sat up straight, and said with a flattering smile: "Grandma, you continue, I won't intervene again." ”

Ma Shi continued with satisfaction.

The old aunt and grandmother of the Ma family are also hard-working. She was young and widowed, but had no children and no daughters, so in order to prevent her husband's family from beating her idea, she could only sell her property and return to Chang'an to live with her mother's family. Although the Ma family is not prominent, it is also an old family in Chang'an, and her relatives and friends are enough to support her in business.

She also repaid the clan and raised one person and two talents, and was quite respected in the family.

She has never remarried, nor has she adopted a son, everyone thinks that her huge wealth will sooner or later cheapen the Ma family, never expected, she went to the capital, and brought a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl back to be an adopted daughter.

This girl named Yuzhen was born quite beautiful, and she is knowledgeable and courteous, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and the housekeeper is not a problem. This girl's temperament is not broken at first glance, she must have an extraordinary background, and somehow she fell into the situation of being the adopted daughter of a wealthy businessman.

It is said that when she first came, she once showed her mouth to the people around her, claiming that she had noble blood and even entered the palace. For a while, gossip about her life story spread within the Ma family, and it was the old aunt and grandmother who spoke, so everyone stopped talking about it.

Later, this girl somehow married the general of the Zhou family's third room to fill the house. In the Ma clan, only the old aunt and wife are using marriage to find a backer for the family, and they help prepare the dowry. When the old aunt and grandmother announced in public that all their property would be handed over to the adopted daughter to inherit before they died, everyone was dumbfounded.

However, it is useless for the Ma clan to be dumbfounded, Mrs. Ma has already gained a firm foothold in the third room of the Zhou family, and she has an edict on her body, where do the Ma clan people dare to offend her?

Mrs. Ma also said that she would regard the Ma family as her mother's family, and inherit her deceased mother's last wish to continue to sponsor the Ma family's children to study, and the Ma clan people obeyed her again.

Ma said to his granddaughter: "This one, with my aunt and grandmother, is about to come out of the five suits, and it is a hereditary military household, so I don't need to get ahead by studying, but I don't have any light, and I can still mumble a few words in my heart about my aunt and grandmother's arms turning out." But the clansmen of the other branches are still eager to continue to cling to the Zhou family's wife! Who would dare to compete with Mrs. Ma?! ”

But even if the Ma family's mother's family was not very interested in the actions of the old aunt and the old lady Ma's adoptive mother and daughter, the eldest sister of the Ma family received the olive branch handed by the old lady Ma and knew that she had the opportunity to become the young grandmother of the Zhou family of the Chang'an Wang family, so she did not hesitate at all.

At that time, Ma's father, Mrs. Ma, was still a little sensible, and felt that the two families did not match, so he was afraid that his eldest daughter would marry to fill the house and be wronged in the future. But Ma Yulan herself is very happy, even if she can marry another official eunuch who is the right person to be the original match, it is not as good as directly marrying Zhou Shigong, who has a five-grade top. What about filling houses? She has her mother-in-law's support, and she is afraid that the dead person in front of her will not succeed?!

Ma Yulan regarded Mrs. Ma as a role model. When Mrs. Ma married into the third room of the Zhou family, not only did she have the eldest son left by the original match in front of her, but also a few uneasy concubines and concubines, and there were picky and difficult mothers-in-law above, but Mrs. Ma still came all the way smoothly, and after serving her mother-in-law for several years, she raised her stepson, and kicked her out of the army early, and the concubine also married far away. Ma Yulan felt that as long as she followed the path of the example, she could live like Mrs. Ma.

So Ma Yulan became Zhou Ma's and fell into the pit, never expected that the most difficult thing for herself would be the cheap cousin and stepmother-in-law who thought she would support herself.

Mrs. Ma has an excellent reputation in her husband's family. If Zhou Ma complains, it will only attract accusations from the people around him. Her mother's relatives did not support her, and everyone in her mother's family stood on Mrs. Ma's side, and over time, she became accustomed to swallowing her anger, and she had to slap her swollen face and become fat in front of her mother's family and outsiders.

Zhou Ma's husband and stepson, under the guidance of Mrs. Ma, did not follow the family's traditional military route, but studied and studied literature since childhood, so that they failed to inherit their father's position in the army. Mrs. Ma's parents and son took this road, but due to their talent, they are only middle-level officers in the border army now, and they only have the opportunity to be promoted after going to Lanzhou to guard the town.

Ma looked at what happened to the eldest sister's family coldly, and always felt that this matter was quite boring.

As for Mrs. Ma's daughter Zhou Shuyi, she can marry into the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion in the capital, which is even more unclear.

(End of chapter)