Chapter 327: Eavesdropping
The two nurturing grandmothers were locked up for several days, during which they were completely cut off from the outside world, and they couldn't get any news, so they had already held back their fire.
But even so, there was an abnormal movement immediately after they moved out of the Tang family, which still surprised the people who were monitoring them. Everyone thought that they would have to stay in the small house for at least three or two days, and after confirming their safety, they would consider contacting their accomplices. They were so breathless that they seemed to be really anxious in their hearts.
In fact, these two nurturing grandmothers are not really so brainless and reckless. They didn't trust the two-room family sent by the Tang family, and after moving to the small house, they forbade them to step into the backyard, and only used the two henchmen they brought from the capital to wait closely. At night, they stopped the two-room family in the front yard, closed the backyard door, and lit lanterns and candles to illuminate the whole yard as if it were daytime, and anyone who sneaked in would be immediately discovered. After making these preparations, the two grandmothers and their two confidants gathered in the main room with all the doors and windows open, and discussed the secrets head to head. If someone eavesdrops nearby, they will never be able to hide their eight eyes.
However, being so cautious could not prevent the Tang family from making thorough preparations in advance.
This small mansion, together with the house next door, is actually Mrs. Tang's private property. She took out one of them and used it as an estate to house the two nurturing grandmothers, and the Tang family sent cronies and servants to work overtime, day and night, to dig out several tunnels, and install copper pipes with eavesdropping functions.
After the nurturing grandmothers entered the house, they checked the front and back, and even carefully checked how thick the walls were, to ensure that there were no mezzanines, dark rooms, and no space for people to hide and eavesdrop. But they didn't expect that the real place where they were made was under their feet.
When the two grandmothers and two henchmen gathered in the house to talk quietly, in the tunnel below the floor, the Tang family's henchmen and soldiers who were in charge of eavesdropping and monitoring were listening to every word they said clearly through the hidden copper pipe.
The soldiers took note of their conversation, and immediately ran through the tunnels to the next house. The representatives of the Zhou and Tang families were already sitting there and had been waiting for a long time.
Parenting grandmothers are anxious. They don't know what happened to the Tang family recently, and they don't know if there is a new Sun family spy who has been arrested, but a big change has happened in the Tang family, but it can be seen without asking. Now that they have been driven out of the Tang family in disguise, there is no way to inquire about the information of the Northwest Frontier Army and the Zhou family through the channels of the Tang family. What's next for them? Do you stay in Chang'an and find another way, or go back to Beijing directly?
Among them, the fatter grandmother wanted to return to Beijing even more: "We are also old, and we do such a risky thing, once we are discovered, we can't run if we want to." It's better to take the opportunity to get out of the way and hurry back to Beijing to retire. The savings of these years are enough for us to support ourselves. ”
Another tall and thin grandmother said with a straight face: "It's easy for you to say, can the Sun family let us go so easily?!" I only hated that we didn't know anything when we were young, and we were greedy for a while, and we accepted the benefits of the Sun family, and became their eyes and ears, but we offended the old lady and Concubine Gong. Now that the Zhang family doesn't care about us at all, even if we go back to the capital, we can only look at the face of the Sun family. If they can easily let us go, seeing that we are old, they will let us leave, and when we leave the palace, they will not be thrown to Chang'an! ”
What did the Sun family say back then? As long as they do what Sun Ge Lao wants, they quietly tell him the news of the old lady Zhang Defei and King An, and help the emperor ascend the throne, and they will enjoy endless glory and wealth in the future. The result? Ronghua and wealth don't even have a shadow, they still have to be servants in the palace, and the ladies who wait for the Zhang family are just changed from aunts to nieces. For decades, they didn't even become a serious and high-ranking female official, and after leaving the palace, they wanted to retire with peace of mind, but they were thrown by the Sun family to Chang'an, two thousand miles away, as spies. They have been waiting for others all their lives, and they used to wait for the ladies in the palace, but now even a few female relatives of the martial arts family can show their faces......
The more the thin mother thought about it, the more angry she became, and said angrily: "With the temper of the Sun family, as long as we are not dead, they want us to continue to do it!" We will not give up until we drain all the oil from our bodies! It's easy for us to go back, but it's just a matter of a few taels of silver. But let them know that we have returned in vain, how can they let us have a good life?! ”
The fat mama was so frightened by her that her face turned pale: "Then what should I do?" Do you want to stay in Chang'an for retirement? I'm afraid that one day, the people here will find out our true details, and then we will really have to die! ”
The thin grandmother said: "If we want to go back to Beijing to retire smoothly, we have to coax the Sun family to be happy first, and feel that we have not left Chang'an in vain!" ”
"You want to ...... Inquire about the news here and bring it back to the capital? The fat grandmother hesitated, "We have only been responsible for finding out the news in the Tang family since we came, at most, when we go out with the Tang family's daughters, we inquire about other families, but we have never been spies outside?" We've been in Chang'an for a few years, and we've only been out a few times. If I don't bring a driver, I don't even know how to go on the road in Chang'an City, how can I find out the news? ”
When she thought of this, her heart became weak, and she shook her head again and again: "If it doesn't work, it won't work." I don't know the way, and I don't know how many people the Sun family has planted in Chang'an. Just went out to investigate so rashly, I was afraid that I would be noticed immediately. Since the beginning of the month, Chang'an City has been arresting spies everywhere. If any of the generals saw me and became suspicious, how could I escape? ”
The thin mother comforted her: "It's okay, you don't have to take risks." Although the Sun family never told us how many people they had in Chang'an, but last year, the Zhenguo Mansion and the Tang family discussed Miss Hui's marriage, and the boss ordered me to find a way to become Miss Hui's companion and follow her into the Zhenguo Mansion. ”
The fat mama was surprised: "Why didn't you tell me?" Then he nodded, "That's a ridiculous idea. We are not Miss Tang's wet nurse, can we still be her dowry? Who are the Sun family? We are just here to teach students in the Tang family, not to be slaves to the Tang family! Except for the nobles in the palace, who deserves us to be slaves?! ”
The most important thing is that they enter the Tang family as spies in the name of raising their grandmothers, as long as they wait until the students are married, they can retire, and the Sun family must also fulfill their promises to them in the past, so that they can live a rich, stable and decent retirement life. But if they follow Miss Tang to her husband's house, they are afraid that they will continue to be spies until they die of old age, where will there be a day when they can retire with peace of mind?!
Why does the Sun family always talk like this?!
The fat mama snorted coldly, and then asked the thin girl beside her: "Xiaocui, do you know where they connect?" ”
Xiao Cui nodded and replied: "At that time, the slave maid watched the man enter a tavern near Tang's house, stayed there for less than two quarters of an hour, and then returned to Tang's house with the smell of wine. The slave guessed that he must have given the information to the people in the tavern. But the slave and maid bought a few children in the vicinity, and asked them to help keep an eye on the tavern, and found that there was only one shopkeeper in it, and there was nothing suspicious, but every three or five days, a person would go to the tavern, neither eat nor drink, and stay for a short time, and say a few words to the shopkeeper, and then take a small cloth bag and leave. Every time. The slave and maid guessed that this man must be their accomplice. So the slave and maid kept an eye on them for a while, and once while they were connected, she quietly followed them, and found the place where the accomplice had stayed......"
(End of chapter)