After trying on the new clothes, Ma received a reply from his brother and sister-in-law. She was welcome to go back to her parents' home in the afternoon.

According to the customs of this dynasty, outsiders should visit the master's house for no longer than noon. But Ma came to marry a daughter back to her parents' home to save relatives, and secondly, his brother Uncle Ma was sick and weak, and he always couldn't get up in the morning, and he often had to go to three poles in the morning to have energy, and the afternoon was a more suitable time for him to visit, so Ma chose to see him again in the afternoon.

Haitang grinded Ma's two sentences, and then successfully got her permission to accompany Ma's out together.

Goodbye Uncle Ma today, his spirit is much better than the previous two days, it seems that a new doctor, the medicine prescribed is quite effective for him, the time of leg disease is short, he sleeps soundly at night, and his complexion is naturally greatly improved.

Uncle Ma couldn't help but complain to Ma: "This medicine is excellent, and the doctor's medical skills are also excellent, but a pair of medicines is too expensive, compared to the medicines that I was used to eating before, each pair is at least seven dollars and eight cents of silver!" The doctor also told him to eat more days to see the cure. A pair of medicine on this day costs seven taels of silver for ten days, and more than twenty taels for a month! That's all catching up with a month's worth of expenses for our family. The cost of each month has to be doubled, where can I afford to eat?! ”

Uncle Ma showed a wry smile on his face: "You don't have to say a word." What nonsense are you talking about in front of Yumei?! ”

Uncle Ma's wife glared at him and said, "The master doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive, so what's wrong with my sister-in-law?" My sister-in-law is the wife of the house, so she naturally knows the hardships of the forehead! ”

Ma glanced at her speechlessly: "Which doctor are you looking at?" Where did you catch the medicine? After learning the doctor's name and the number of the medical hall, he said, "I remember his family, when my father was there, it was his grandfather and his father who saw the doctor, but I didn't expect him to grow up now." Since the eldest brother is good at taking his medicine, then continue to take it. Isn't it twenty or thirty taels of silver a month? Can it be more important than the big brother's body? After speaking, he paid for his brother's medical expenses, so as not to make my sister-in-law long-winded.

Mrs. Ma suddenly smiled, and enthusiastically said a lot of good things to Ma and Begonia, praising Begonia so much that her face turned red.

Uncle Ma was embarrassed to hear this, and hurriedly found an excuse to send his wife: "Didn't you make an appointment with Mrs. Liu next door?" Hurry over and don't keep people waiting. ”

Uncle Ma's wife remembered it at this time, and hurriedly smiled at Ma's: "The second aunt sits slowly." Mrs. Liu next door agreed to find a good errand for the son of Lu Sheng's family, and she had to go over and ask for clarification to rest assured. ”

is related to the future of her precious grandson, and the sister-in-law who just gave her silver flowers is suddenly not important.

Ma had long been accustomed to his sister-in-law's temper, waved his hand carelessly, and when she left, only his ancestors and grandchildren and his brother were left in the house, so he whispered to Uncle Ma about the rebellion of the ancestors and grandchildren of the Zhou family yesterday.

As for Zhang Pinggui's arrest, Ma felt that it was unnecessary, so he didn't mention it for the time being.

Uncle Ma was taken aback. Zhou Jinpu has always been angry with Mrs. Ma and blindly obeys her, and Mrs. Ma always pretends to love her grandson. Zhou Jinpu respects her step-grandmother, who is not related by blood, more respectful and close to her mother's relatives. I never thought that this pair of cheap grandchildren would have a time to turn their faces!

Although Ma said that Zhou Jinpu still had a bad attitude towards Zhou Ma, it was a good thing for Zhou Ma that he no longer blindly obeyed Mrs. Ma's orders. As for Zhou Jinpu's mother's family, Uncle Ma doesn't think it's a problem. Over the years, he has maintained a good relationship with the Tu family, and the other party should listen to his persuasion and give some benefits in the future, they have no reason to refuse.

If nothing else, the Tu family is now on the territory of Chang'an, and they can only count on the Zhou family, an in-law, to support their caravan. In the past, they obeyed Mrs. Ma because she was the mother of the third house of the Zhou family, not because she had any friendship with them. Now that the Zhou family and the family are all looking at Mrs. Ma unpleasantly, can they still fight against the entire Zhou family for her alone? Why? She is not the flesh and blood of the butcher!

Uncle Ma immediately took out the four treasures of the study, put them on the kang table and wrote a letter to the current head of the Tu family.

The letter was written, but Uncle Ma also reminded Ma: "The butcher family will not refuse the foreheads, but the foreheads also have to beware, the companions who manage his mother's marriage to Zhuangzi for Zhou Jinpu are no longer the servants and slaves of the slaughtering family, you need to be careful that these people are bought by Mrs. Ma and refuse to obey the orders of the old master." ”

Under normal circumstances, most of the accompanying servants brought by the daughter of the eunuch family when she got married had relatives and family members staying in the bride's maiden house as servants, so that the mother's family could contain these companions, and they would not easily betray the hostess because they were bought by the husband's family. But the situation of the Tu family is a little different, more than 30 years after the death of the Tu family, Zhou Jinpu ignores the general affairs, and has always entrusted the deceased mother's dowry to Mrs. Ma to take care of, and the servants who manage the dowry have multiplied for more than one generation, even if they are still surnamed Tu in name, there is no guarantee that they are still loyal to the old master. Maybe they have already changed to Mrs. Ma in private, but it is unknown.

Ma Shi was prepared for this: "If this is the case, let the Tu family go and tell Zhou Jinpu that these Diao slaves have betrayed their masters, and let him stop using them." The Tu family spoke, and Zhou Jinpu would not believe it. ”

Uncle Ma nodded: "Cheng, then I will tell the Tu family one more sentence." He added two more lines to the end of the letter, sealed it, and told the butler to go and make sure that the letter was handed over to the head of the butcher's house.

The steward took the letter and went away. Uncle Ma turned around to reassure Ma: "This matter is not difficult to do. In the letter, the Tu family had already been reminded not to misjudge the situation. No matter how prestigious Mrs. Ma used to be, she relied on the Zhou family to be convincing. Now that even the Zhou family refuses to support her anymore, the Tu family is the best at watching the wind and steering, so they naturally know how to choose. ”

Ma nodded. Haitang asked with some curiosity: "Uncle and grandfather, Mrs. Ma seems to be quite powerful in Chang'an, is it all because she is the fate of the Zhou family?" Didn't she develop any other connections? ”

Uncle Ma smiled: "What kind of connections can she develop?" When the old general is here, whatever she wants to do, the old general will do it for her, and she doesn't have to worry about it at all. The old general went, she was a widow and it was not easy to show her face, and occasionally she made an errand for others, and people would give the Zhou family a face in the third room of the Zhou family for the sake of the old general's life. Anyway, the old general has also made a lot of contributions in the past, and he has planned for the brothers of the border army, and the big guy has received the favor of the old general, and he should take care of his wife and children more, shouldn't it? Besides, Zhou Shigong is in the army again, he is willing to do things for his stepmother, can others refute his face? ”

Recalling the past, Uncle Ma couldn't help but sigh. Although the three of his brothers and sisters all felt that Mrs. Ma was not a good person and just pretended to be virtuous, the Zhou family was willing to believe her, and no one in Chang'an said bad things about her, so how could their brothers and sisters dare to say more? It can be seen how good Mrs. Ma's means are. However, no matter how good she is, now she can only end up losing power, and in just a few days, even Zhou Jinpu no longer buys her account, which is really surprising.

What kind of confusion did Mrs. Ma make to choose to dig the foot of the border army?

Uncle Ma's cause of the accident in the Zhou family's three rooms is still stuck in the matter of Mrs. Ma secretly building a glass workshop. Ma knew that his brother had misunderstood, but he didn't give any explanation.

Haitang knew that the real crux was that Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi's mother and daughter were privately attached to the Sun family, and they were suspected of betraying the Zhou family, but she didn't say anything either, only thought in her heart that Mrs. Ma was not outside the Zhou family's sphere of influence and operated her own personal network, which would save trouble.

The grandparents and grandchildren listened to Uncle Ma's sigh like this, thinking that Zhou Shigong had finally gotten up this time, and Zhou Ma's family had been in the third room of the Zhou family for more than 30 years, and finally ushered in the dawn, and there was no need to suffer from the evil mother-in-law in the future.

As for whether she will continue to be angry with her husband and stepson? That's another story......

(End of chapter)