When he got up early the next morning, Ma mentioned to Haixiya at breakfast that he wanted to go to the Zhenguo Mansion to ask for peace, but Haixiya did not object, so he went to the Yamen.

After the meal, Ma sent someone to the Zhenguo Mansion to deliver a post to Mrs. Wednesday.

Haijiao and Haitang cleaned up, changed into decent clothes, let Ma Changnian and his wife drive the car, loaded the gifts, and rode horses on the reef, and the brothers and sisters went out to the third room of the Zhou family.

Yesterday evening, Ma Li and his son returned to the city from Beizhuang with their wives and daughters-in-law, and the family was reunited in the Hai family's house. The crisis in Beizhuang has been resolved, and they no longer need to stay there to do things for Zhou Ma's family, so they naturally have to go to the city as soon as possible to serve the new master.

When he arrived at the third room of the Zhou family, Ma Changnian went to the concierge to spread the word, and inquired that Zhou Shigong had been at home for the past two days, and there were no guests coming to the door, so he was free, so he reported to the reef to know. After a while, Zhou Ma's henchmen and maids came out of the front yard and took the Haitang brothers and sisters into the main courtyard.

The brother and sister first met with their aunt Zhou Ma and presented them with a gift prepared by Ma.

Zhou Mashi no longer pretended to be sick today, wearing homely clothes, just finished housework, and was in a headache and tired time, when he saw the two children of Xiaomei's family come to visit him, and sent the tonic carefully prepared by Xiaomei, his mood was suddenly much happier.

She smiled and said to the reef begonia: "Thank you for your hard work." In fact, your grandmother is also troublesome, just send someone to run, why bother asking you to run errands? Just arrived in Chang'an, not familiar with the road, right? It's a cold day, and if the wind blows, you fall ill, and you can't even live in peace during the New Year. ”

Haitang said sweetly: "My brother and I are not hard, it is good to be able to go out for a walk, and it is good to be breathable, and I can be more familiar with the style of Chang'an." Although the people can help run errands, they can't express their concern for my aunt and grandmother instead of grandma, so grandma specially asked my brother and me to come. ”

Zhou Ma's heart was even more ironed.

She asked about Ma's trip back to the province yesterday. The reef and the begonia told the story, especially highlighting the performance of Ma's explanation, Uncle Ma's wife's slamming the door and being respectful.

Zhou Ma also felt that his sister-in-law was too embarrassed. Although she has always been able to understand the difficulties of her brother and sister-in-law, her sister-in-law doesn't even care about the dignity of the Ma family, and blindly only cares about a few small money, where is there still a little bit of the demeanor of the Chang'an eunuchs? As the married daughter of the Ma family, she can't help but feel that her face is dull, even if one day the gossip reaches the ears of her stepmother-in-law and stepson, and they add a handle to make fun of her.

In the past two days, she was ordered by her husband Zhou Shigong to take over the money again, but the account office refused to pay the money, so she asked Zhou Shigong to withdraw the account room and replace it with a person who Zhou Shigong could trust, although the money was still very tight, but it was finally able to allow her to spend the daily purchase money smoothly. She, the housewife, has a feeling of being in charge.

However, Mrs. Ma's side is unrelenting, from her stepson and stepdaughter-in-law to the internal and external stewards of the family, they are still making trouble for her. She struggled just to deal with their provocations and keep the whole part of her home functioning. She really wanted to sue her husband, but she didn't dare to sue too much. Because she knows that once she annoys her husband, she will not please either.

Now she took advantage of the fact that her husband was wary of her step-mother-in-law and annoyed that her eldest son was also adding to the chaos, so she quickly grabbed the power of the family and replaced the unobedient steward with her husband's person, but she didn't dare to do more. Although the newcomers are all husband's men, there is no guarantee that they will be loyal to him, but before her husband finds evidence of their betrayal, she can only use them hard, instead of replacing them with her own henchmen, lest her husband misunderstand that she also wants to follow the example of her stepmother-in-law, Mrs. Ma, seize the power of the family, and fool him like a fool.

Zhou Ma casually complained to the juniors about these troubles, and he didn't want to say too much. After chatting for a while about the recent situation of Uncle Ma and his wife, Zhou Ma asked the girl to invite the "third lady" over.

Zhou Ma's own granddaughter Zhou Yijun is the third of the sisters in the third room of the Zhou family, she arrived in Chang'an yesterday and has just settled down in the old house. Although Zhou Wenjun of the Zhenguo Mansion tried his best to invite his cousin to live with him, Zhou Yijun had just come back, and he must have to stay with his grandmother for a few days, so he slept in the small cross-courtyard on the side of the main courtyard last night.

The small cross-courtyard was very close, and Zhou Yijun soon came to the main courtyard.

She is the same age as Begonia, she is delicate, she speaks and acts in a gentle manner, she always has a slightly shy smile on her face, and only her tanned skin reveals that she is indeed a girl who grew up in the frontier.

She smiled and saluted the reef and begonias, calling her "cousin" and "cousin". Begonia also introduced herself generously. Two little girls of the same age sat down and chatted for a few words, and soon became close.

Haijiao was still worried about Zhou Shigong's side, so he got up and confessed to Zhou Ma's family, saying that he was going to ask his aunt and grandfather for peace.

Zhou Mashi hesitated: "You wait a while, let people go and take a look, the master is free." So he sent Cailuo to pass the word. After a while, Cailuo turned around and brought back Zhou Shigong's reply that he had time to see the reef, and the reef left the main courtyard.

Haitang watched coldly from the side, and only felt that Zhou Ma's housewife was really boring. Even if Mrs. Ma completely loses power, Zhou Ma can completely grasp the power of Zhongfeng, in this family, she still has to look at people's faces everywhere.

The brothers and sisters of the Hai family inquired about the door, Zhou Shigong was idle at home today, and there were no guests coming to the door, and the juniors of the in-laws family came to ask for peace, and they would definitely go to see him, the head of the family, but Zhou Ma's family did not have the permission of her husband, and she didn't even dare to send people to the door of the study to ask for a meeting. How much respect can she get in front of her husband Zhou Shigong?

Forget it, Zhou Shigong has his brother's reef over there, and Begonia is too lazy to worry about it. She shifted her attention to Zhou Yijun, chatted with the other party about family life, and inquired about the situation at the Ningxia Zhongwei Institute by the way.

During this period, two waves of housekeepers came to ask Zhou Ma for housework, but none of them were smooth. Either there is something missing that needs to be purchased, or you have to ask the few removed stewards to solve it. Zhou Ma thought that he had finally removed his step-mother-in-law's henchmen, how could he get people back? Directly changed the old example.

The Zhou family has changed the head of the house, and many rules should be changed, and it can also cut the family's expenses by the way. Even if Zhou Shigong complained, Zhou Ma could deal with it with his words of saving money in advance.

The lady in charge who came to look for trouble returned disappointed, and after a while, it was Zhou Jinpu and his wife who came to find trouble. I don't know if it was to increase the momentum, they also brought a lot of people and broke into the main courtyard violently.

Zhou Jinpu and his wife didn't care that there was a foreigner in the upper room, Begonia, so they yelled at Zhou Ma's and accused her of removing the second steward on the purchase. That was Zhou Jinpu's grandfather, who had always been close to their long house.

Haitang pulled Zhou Yijun to the side, looking coldly at the hysteria of Zhou Jinpu and his wife. Zhou Ma probably felt that he had her husband's support, and now that she was accused by her stepson in person, she didn't panic, and she could hint that Cailuo quietly slipped away to move the rescuers.

Haitang glanced at several young people behind Zhou Jinpu and his wife, and whispered to Zhou Yijun to inquire about it, and learned that the two young women and one man were the children of their husband and wife. There is only one teenager who looks the oldest, born dark and tall, with neat movements, dressed in simple and energetic clothes, obviously a practitioner, and the painting style is incompatible with Zhou Jinpu's family, but he is a guest living in the third room of the Zhou family, and he lives in the guest house on weekdays, and he was called by Zhou Jinpu for some reason.

This is the orphan of Zhou Shicheng's old department who secretly peeked into the Hai family the day before yesterday?

Begonia stared at the big skeleton and rough skin of the young man's hand for a few moments, but did not say a word.

(End of chapter)