Chapter 203: Pathetic Stepmother
Zhou Ma quickly returned to the main courtyard with the two girls.
At this time, Zhou Shigong and Haijiao had already left with Zhang Pinggui. Cai Luoyu, who stayed behind in the main courtyard, reported that the four generals of the Zhenguo Mansion had just brought ten personal soldiers over and personally escorted the car away.
Although General Thursday is not the son of Zhenguogong, he is shrewd and capable, both civil and military. With him escorting Zhang Pinggui, an important witness, this journey should be foolproof. Not to mention that Zhou Shigong also brought a few more skilled veterans, and there is Haijiao, a young master who can fight with Zhang Pinggui and even slightly better. Zhang Pinggui's accomplices may not know that he has been arrested now, and even if they do, in a hurry, they can't help this powerful escort team.
Zhou Ma suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't have to worry about what would go wrong with her family anymore, she just had to wait for her husband to return.
She had just beckoned the two juniors to sit down again in the upper room, and before she could take a sip of water, Caijuan, who was a little behind, also came back.
She brought the follow-up news of Begonia and their departure from the West Courtyard.
Mrs. Ma naturally refused to return the dowry of Zhou Jinpu's deceased mother, Tu. She didn't mention it, she just cried and wanted to go to the ancestral hall. The grandmothers shouted that they wanted to ask the clan elder to call the shots, punish the old man Zhou Shigong and the eldest young master Zhou Jinpu, who have repeatedly disobeyed the old lady recently, and some people want to implicate the old backstabber Zhou Ma's head.
But this time, Zhou Jinpu unexpectedly didn't follow their tone, and didn't want to throw the pot at his stepmother Zhou Mashi at all.
He said that his stepmother is indeed not a good person, and she has been saying bad things about herself in front of her father since she entered the door, but she didn't pretend to be a good person, didn't lie to him, and never succeeded in framing him. Therefore, Zhou Ma's is nothing at all. Whether it was the matter of the glass workshop, or in the past, she was never qualified to get involved, and no one would believe it in sowing discord.
He resented that his step-grandmother, Mrs. Ma, had been pretending to care for him, but in fact she was secretly calculating!
Take the trivial matter of returning the dowry at the moment, Mrs. Ma always claims to take good care of the property for him, and will show him the account books every year and quarter, but he was impatient to pay attention to it in the past. Why is it that now that he proposes to get back the dowry, Mrs. Ma is not happy? Does that mean she's been coaxing him all the time?
At this time, Mrs. Ma's henchmen dragged Zhou Ma's into the water again, and the intention was too obvious.
Zhou Jinpu said that he hated his stepmother very much, but he was not a fool! I won't be fooled by Mrs. Ma's few words, and forget my true purpose. On the stepmother's side, he can scold at any time. But Mrs. Ma's refusal to return the dowry proves that she is weak-hearted, and she must be doing something on the account!
Mrs. Ma has always claimed to be a virtuous woman of the Zhou family, but now for her aunt Zhou Shuyi, she has done everything to trick her son and deceive her grandson, which shows how much money she lacks in her pocket. If she had the money in her hands, would she be guilty of taking such a risk? Is the dowry of her deceased mother, which Zhou Jinpu handed over to her before, still intact? She really didn't do anything to these properties?
Zhou Jinpu must find out the answer to this question today!
Cai Juan imitated Zhou Jinpu's hideous expression when he said this, and then returned to his deferential posture, bowed his head and said, "The eldest young master is still making trouble in the West Courtyard now." The grandmothers said that they were going to invite the clan elders, and he also shouted that he was going to invite the clan elders, invite a few more, and invite everyone in each room, and it was best to invite the Guogong and his wife from Changfang Town to come over to administer justice, and also call the people of the slaughter family to witness and find out what happened to those marriages. The grandmothers didn't dare to mention it anymore, but just cried around the old lady and the old lady. ”
Zhou Mashi sighed: "It's rare that Zhou Jinpu is sober up today, and he hasn't been led by the old lady by the nose for a few words." It can be seen that he has experienced a setback, but he still has grown. ”
Zhou Yijun frowned and said, "Uncle scolded so ugly." When did grandmother frame him? It was he who listened to the provocation of others and talked to himself. Now he knows that the old lady is not a good person, why should he continue to misunderstand his grandmother's kindness?! ”
Zhou Ma hurriedly waved his hand: "That's it, I don't want to be a loving mother for him." I can't stand his temper. It's okay for him to continue to hate E, he doesn't have to pretend in front of the master, but it's easier. ”
Haitang looked at her speechlessly, thinking that her aunt and grandmother had really been successfully PUA by the wonders of the Zhou family's three rooms in the past thirty years. Zhou Jinpu scolded his stepmother Zhou Mashi, who didn't hurt him much, but as long as he went against his stepgrandmother who had deceived him for decades and didn't implicate the innocent, Zhou Mashi felt that he had grown up and was happy for him. She's a stepmother who can't help but be too pathetic, isn't she?
What a vain name!
Haitang didn't want to hear Zhou Mashi say how happy she was, so she changed the topic: "That person Zhang Pinggui said that he was the second wife of Zeng, and he knows many of the secrets of the second wife of Zeng, but I don't know what they are?" Will it implicate the mother's family? ”
Zhou Mashi suddenly became excited: "Won't it?" Didn't he bluff when he said those things? He was afraid that the foreheads would hand him over to the Zhenguo Mansion, so he deliberately used words to scare the foreheads, right? ”
Zhou Yijun said: "I think he is a little evil. Since he is conceited and smart, it is estimated that he will not talk nonsense with empty teeth and white teeth, and he must know some of his aunt's and grandmother's tricks in his heart. He also said that his father also died because he was doing an errand for his aunt and grandmother, and he may have held a grudge for it. But what could his father do for his aunt and grandmother, even losing his life? ”
Zhou Mashi wrinkled his face and pondered for a while, and suddenly a conjecture came to him: "Should it be...... Just like Zhou Jinpu said, the old lady and the aunt secretly spent all the money in the family, right? What can they do to spend so much money? I've never heard the master mention it? If it's a matter of fairness, do they need to hide it? ”
Thinking like this, she became afraid: "You can't really commit a big sin, right?" If it really implicates the Emen's family, it will be too wronged! ”
Zhou Yijun hurriedly comforted her and said: "Grandmother, rest assured, my aunt is now the second wife of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion in the capital, what big crime can she commit?" It's nothing more than putting money in print, forcibly buying and selling, and taking up lawsuits. If such crimes are really verified, the court will only pursue her husband's family, and will not implicate her mother's family. As long as the old lady is not involved. ”
"But I don't know if she's involved!" Zhou Mashi was uneasy, "Although their mother and daughter have not seen each other for many years, they have exchanged letters from time to time, and the old lady often sends things to Beijing, and I don't know if it is the capital of the crime for my aunt." ”
Haitang said: "Although these are illegal acts, they are all done to make money, right?" No matter how much money is consumed, just the dowry of the second wife Zeng is enough, and it can be used to drain the mother's family? I think that since the second wife Zeng married into the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion, she has always had thoughts about the title of the Zeng family, maybe she has already done something shady about it! ”
Zhou Yijun blinked. She didn't know much about what had happened before, and she didn't quite understand why Begonia said that.
Zhou Ma immediately understood: "You mean...... She only gave birth to a son two or three years earlier than Mrs. Yingchuan Hou, and she dared to mention the succession, as if she was sure that people would not be able to give birth, yes...... Did you do it in secret?! ”
"Well, it depends on the results of Zhang Pinggui's interrogation." Begonia smiled, "Of course, there is another possibility. The second wife of Zeng has the intention to cling to the Sun family, and she also plans to marry the daughter of the Sun family for her son, it can't be a delusion born for no reason, right? She feels that she has a chance to succeed, where does she get the confidence? Could it be that he has a relationship with someone in the Sun family? How much did she spend for this friendship? Have you done anything that violates the law of the country in order to make money? ”
Zhou Ma gasped: "That's a bottomless pit!" ”
(End of chapter)