Chapter 184: Return to the province
Why did the Sun family send a killer to deal with Jin Juren's family?
The answer to this question is still unknown to the reef.
Jin Jiashu's mouth was very tight, and he refused to reveal the inside story to him. He didn't know if his cousin Xie Wenzai and the old military advisor knew the truth, and they wouldn't tell him anyway.
If the answer is as he and his sister speculated, Jin Juren is Concubine Xu Xian's ex-husband, and Jin Jiashu is the eldest son born to Concubine Xu Xian and her ex-husband, and Concubine Sun Guifei in the palace wants to take Concubine Xu Xian, so she sends someone to disadvantage the Jin family, trying to kidnap Jin Jiashu as a hostage, and threatening Concubine Xu Xian to betray the camp of the Empress Dowager Zhou, logically there is no problem.
The problem is that neither the Reef Begonia siblings have evidence to prove their inferences.
At present, it seems that the prefect's yamen found out that there was a dead soldier of the Sun family among the killers, and the old military division found out that Du Boqin, who was an old ally of Sun Ge in his previous life, shielded the young killer who escaped, which can be used as circumstantial evidence of the killer's origin and the identity of the main messenger. However, on the key issue of the identity of the father and son of the Jin family, there are no new clues so far. Unless one day, Jin Jiashu reveals the truth to the Hai family, this question may never be answered by the Haijiao and Begonia brothers and sisters.
Haijiao smacked his lips and said, "Now that the old military division is tracking down Du Boqin, I don't have anything to do for the time being, I just need to wait for news." After going to my uncle's and grandfather's house, if there is no new progress in the prefect's yamen, I will go to the other courtyard again and find a way to find Jin Jiashu to inquire more about his family's past. ”
If you can find clues about the relationship between the Jin family's father and son and Concubine Xu Xian in the palace from those past events, the doubts in their brother and sister's hearts will be answered.
Haitang persuaded him: "Brother doesn't have to force Jin Jiashu too hard. People have just lost their loved ones, and they themselves have been injured, so it's pitiful. Even if he is really the son of Concubine Xu Xian, he is not a sinner, so why bother with him? As the saying goes, the enemy of your enemy is your friend. Since Concubine Xu Xian is the enemy of Sun Guifei and Sun Ge Lao, and she is a person under the Empress Dowager Zhou, even if she is an ally on our side, we should maintain a good relationship with her. Now that Jin Jiashu has escaped the catastrophe, there will always be a time to contact his biological mother in the future. If Concubine Xu Xian knew that her son had been forced to confess by her brother after the disaster, she would probably have an opinion on you, right? She is the future queen mother, why should her brother offend her? ”
Think about the reef too. The case of the Jin family has been investigated so far, and the Sun family has not been able to get out of it no matter what, and the letter that should have been sent to the Zhou family has also been sent to the hands of Zhenguo Gong. Jin Jiashu escaped, the truth will not be buried, and Concubine Xu Xian will be resentful in the future, and she will not be resentful of the Zhou family. The black pot on the back of the Zhou family's inexplicable back in the previous life has been missing one. At this time, it is not so necessary to ask about the identity of the Jin family.
Regardless of whether Jin Jiashu is the son of Concubine Xu Xian, he was ruined by the killers sent by the Sun family, and he must hate the Sun family deeply. He is already an enemy of the Sun family, that is, a friend of the Zhou family and the Hai family. Even if he refuses to reveal his true background, it will not affect what Haijiao plans to do in the future. In that case, why bother him with the reef?
The son born to her ex-husband before the favorite concubine entered the palace, this identity sounds embarrassing. Haijiao asked himself if he was a good person, so let's leave a little dignity for his future friends.
Haijiao made up his mind, and he didn't plan to ask Jin Jiashu anything more, but he still had to tell the latter about the progress of the case. Jin Jiashu can only stay in the Zhou family's three-room village to recuperate, and he can't even deal with the aftermath of his family, so he must be very concerned about the whereabouts of the murderer, right? Haijiao decided to send him a letter, as an apology to scare him with the robe of the letter.
There was nothing to do all night, and when he got up early the next morning, Haixiya went to the yamen early. After Ma's housework, he ordered his second son Hai Chang'an and his second daughter-in-law Hu to take care of the family, and he took a pair of grandchildren to visit his sick brother Ma Yukun at his mother's house.
The Ma family house is located in the southeast area of Chang'an City, close to Yongning Gate, not far from the Hai family house. Ma took his granddaughter Haitang to ride in a carriage, his grandson rode a horse on Haijiao, and Uncle Cui and his wife accompanied the car.
The Ma family lives in the inner street, and the alley in front of the door is narrow, and the larger carriages cannot pass. Ma took his granddaughter to get out of the car at the entrance of the alley, looked up at the surrounding scenery, and only felt familiar and nostalgic. However, the streets here seem to be much older than they were more than a decade ago. I don't know if it's because the wax moon is approaching and the weather is cold, there is no vegetation and trees, and there are few pedestrians, and the whole block seems to be decayed.
Ma sighed, didn't say anything, and walked down the alley with the children.
Begonia is the first time to return home, and her heart is more curious. And the reef has been here a few times in my previous life, and each time I have returned disappointed, so I basically don't have much good impression of this place. He looked at the dark and mottled gate of the Ma family a little critically, and felt that it was not much more decent than the new and decent he had seen in his previous life. It can be seen that even if the Ma family's uncle and grandfather never moved away from Chang'an, the Ma family has already shown a trend of decline. In his previous life, even if he recognized this relative, he might not be able to live a good life, but there was nothing to regret.
There was a middle-aged man standing in front of Ma's house, with a round and chubby face, looking kind. When he saw Ma, he immediately greeted him with a smile on his face, and called him "Second Aunt" as soon as he opened his mouth, and said a lot of cordial greetings, but Ma couldn't interject a word.
Haitang guessed on the side that this should be the second cousin of the Ma family, and he remembered that it seemed to be called Ma Lusheng, who was deeply favored by his mother. Unexpectedly, when Ma returned to his parents' house today, Uncle Ma would arrange for his second son to come to receive him. Is she just not waiting to see her eldest son and eldest daughter-in-law?
Ma finally grabbed Ma Lusheng's panting while speaking, and interjected: "Your father and mother are at home, right?" ”
Ma Lusheng's eyes obviously showed a weak heart, and he squeaked: "Dad has been waiting for you to come back for a long time, and he just urged his nephew to come to the door to see if you have arrived!" ”
He didn't mention his mother.
Ma sneered, didn't enter the door, and raised his voice directly in front of the gate of Ma's house: "Sister-in-law, I haven't been back to my parents' house for more than ten years, and I finally came back to the province for a trip, why don't you even want to see your forehead?" But the rent of your house for more than ten years, as well as the money lost by the tenant who burned the house, are all taken out to give you a gift for a reunion after a long absence. Could it be that my sister-in-law can't even look down on this thousand taels of silver?! ”
As soon as she finished speaking, there were immediately four or five sounds of opening the door in the alley, and it seemed that the neighbors were attracted by her words, and they couldn't wait to open the door to watch and eat melons.
Just as Ma Lusheng was stunned and watching Ma's loud performance, a loud sound of opening the door came from inside the Ma family's house, followed by the sound of footsteps, and an old woman with gray hair and a big waist appeared at the gate of the Ma family, with a straight face: "What are you shouting about?!" The second aunt and wife go back to their parents' house, and they still want their sister-in-law to go out of the door? ! Hurry up and come in, don't be embarrassed in front of your neighbors! ”
Ma Shi curled the corners of his mouth: "Yo, where are you, sister-in-law?" Listening to Lu Sheng's tone, I thought you were afraid of being forced into debt, so you were scared to avoid it! ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" Mrs. Ma tried to squeeze out a twisted smile, "Knowing that you are back, my sister-in-law is too late to be happy, why is she scared by you?" You also prepared a big gift for your sister-in-law, and her sister-in-law was overjoyed. I was looking forward to you early in the morning with your brother, and the journey was going well? As he spoke, he grabbed his sister-in-law's arm, half-supported and half-mopped the floor, and dragged the person home, not forgetting to stare at the door of the neighborhood.
It's a pity that she dragged Ma and his party into the house and quickly closed the door, still not stopping the curious eyes of the neighbors. The neighbors soon got together in twos and threes to talk about Ma's old man who had been away from Chang'an for more than ten years.
(End of chapter)