Chapter 378: Reminder
After Hai Jiao finished saying the news he knew, he couldn't help but sigh: "Mrs. Gui is really quite a pit, she acted absurdly, and even the minions of the Sun family were shocked." It's a pity that the Zhou family saw that in front of the Wu family, they couldn't drive her out, ignored her, and had to continue to provide good food and drink, which was unpleasant to think about. β
Jin Jiashu pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "This Mrs. Gui...... I've heard you talk to Yijun about her, too. When she was living in Cining Palace, did she have a dislike with Concubine Xu Xian? Why...... Why do you seem to hate Concubine Xu Xian and the Eighth Prince? The Sun family has a life-and-death feud with her, but in order to let Concubine Xu Xian and the Eighth Prince have an accident, she seems to rather let the Sun family benefit. How much enmity does she have with Concubine Xu Xian? β
The reef also can't figure it out. In his previous life, he had never heard of any survivors of the Wu family and his wife, let alone Sun Cai's abduction of the Wu family's daughters as hostages.
In his previous life, when he heard Sun Cai's name, he had already entered Beijing as a secret agent. At that time, Sun Cai was a well-known first confidant under Sun Yongbai, insidious, cunning and vicious, I don't know how many people he harmed. After Sun Yongbai left Jinyiwei, he also threatened Jinyiwei's people to do things for him, and one of the hundred households refused, so Sun Cai kidnapped his children and forced him to bow his head. Although the children were later put back, one of them was left disabled. Later, when the Sun family had an accident, these 100 households took people to raid Sun Yongbai's house, and would rather risk being punished afterwards, but also directly give Sun Cai a charge of "disobeying the emperor's orders and fleeing without authorization", and hacked people to death on the spot.
But now, according to Sun Cai's accomplices, he was sent by Sun Yongbai to Lintong County to run the manor industry and intelligence network for the Sun family for two or three years. Due to the large investment but the results were not great, Sun Yongbai was dissatisfied with him and planned to send another henchman to replace him. Du Boqin had an accident, and the Chang'an intelligence network was almost destroyed, and Sun Cai saw the hope of turning over.
In order to make a contribution and prove his ability to Sun Yongbai, he did not hesitate to risk running to Chang'an to kidnap Jin Jiashu, and also set his sights on two nurturing grandmothers sent by Sun Yongping. After the failure of the operation, he was afraid that he would completely lose his position and no longer have any hope of turning over, so he kidnapped the mother and daughter of the Wu family, thinking that they were also the thorns in the side of the main family, which was better than nothing to gain, so he left the main family's property in Guanzhong empty-handed and returned to Beijing in a hurry......
Sun Cai's whereabouts in the past few years are completely different from his previous life!
Could it be because the Sun family in the previous life had the nail of Sun Yonglu in the northwest, and the Zhou family was repeatedly frustrated and gradually lost power, so there was no need for the Sun family to find someone else to operate an intelligence network to deal with their relationship?
After the Battle of Suzhou, Sun Yonglu was driven out of the Northwest Frontier Army, and now he is only relying on his family power to re-emerge, so as not to be idle. The forces he left behind in the Northwest Frontier Army in the past were basically cleared by the Zhou family. Those who were not cleaned up were also recruited after Du Boqin was arrested. If the Sun family refuses to give up the Zhou family, they will have to start a new business in Guanzhong.
However, Lintong County actually has the Sun family's manor industry? This reef really didn't expect. The Zhou family also looked very surprised.
Lintong is less than 100 miles away from Chang'an, and in such a close place, there is a stronghold of the Sun family, which seems to be still in operation for a long time, and there is economic support from the manor industry, which can be self-sufficient. With such a big target, even if the Zhou family didn't find it, didn't the local officials and the army notice it?
The Sun family raised a lot of outlaws in the manor, but they still had to send dead soldiers from the capital to Chang'an to kill people, what kind of medicine was being sold in the gourd?
The reef pondered. He suspected that there might be some problems within the Sun family. Could it be that there is an infighting between Sun Yongbai and Sun Yongping?
Sun Yongbai is shrewd and vicious, but he is only Sun Gelao's nephew and Sun Guifei's cousin. Sun Yongping is mediocre and stupid, but he is Sun Ge's old son, Sun Guifei's younger brother, and the father of the princess of King Ji. As long as the Sun family can continue to be prosperous, he will continue to be prosperous. His identity allows him to enjoy wealth and glory even if he is stupid and incompetent, which is something that Sun Yongbai, who is trying to please Sun Ge Lao, can't do. It's normal for the two of them to have a disagreement......
Haijiao thought about how to take advantage of this, and heard the little sister Haitang discussing the question that the latter had just raised with Jin Jiashu: "I also think Mrs. Gui's idea is very strange, so I specially asked Wu Qiong about it." But Wu Qiong didn't think there was a problem at all, she said that when their mother and daughter were still in the palace, Concubine Xu Xian was just a palace person next to the Queen Mother, and when she rarely met them, she was polite and respectful when she met. Compared with the other palace people around the Queen Mother who were dissatisfied with their mother and daughter, Concubine Xu Xian's attitude towards them was good enough. Wu Qiong was also very surprised when she heard Mrs. Gui say those words to Sun Cai, and she couldn't understand why she did this. β
Haijiao temporarily put aside Fang Cai's train of thought and participated in the discussion between his sister and his friends: "What did my little sister talk about with Wu Qiong just now?" β
Haitang told him what she had said to Wu Qiong.
Haijiao hesitated for a moment: "What are you...... Want to win over Wu Qiong? Let her stop Mrs. Gui from continuing to mess around? But I heard that Wu Qiong has a weak temperament and obeys her mother's arrangement in everything, but I am afraid that you will work hard, and she will not have the courage to disobey her mother once. β
Haitang smiled: "How do you know if you don't try?" I didn't say that her mother was bad, I only said that her mother might be confused, because of a little thing, she was dizzy, forgot her position, and didn't think about it later. She herself didn't think much of my mother's behavior was strange, and it was easy to feel the same way as me. Now her mother has just made a big mistake, and Wu Qiong also knows that this is a big mistake, and she is feeling guilty and uneasy. I didn't blame her, which filled her with gratitude, and she naturally felt that I was amiable and trustworthy.
Even if she is really forced to go against her mother's wishes in the future, it is not that she is unfilial, but that she is forced to use tactics in order for her mother to live a better life in the future. That's the real filial piety! Otherwise, would she let her mother be stupid, dig her own grave, and be kicked out of the gate of the Zhou family in the future, lose her protection, and can only end up in a desolate end?! β
Haijiao understood and smiled: "That's not bad." What you say is right, and no one who listens to it will be able to find a mistake. If Wu Qiong is truly filial to her mother, she will naturally agree with your statement and believe it unswervingly. As long as she no longer acts as a puppet of Mrs. Gui, and begins to have her own ideas, and is willing to resist her mother's stupid orders, then we will have an important eyes and ears by Mrs. Gui's side. Once Mrs. Gui is stupid again, we can get the news as soon as possible, so that the people of the Zhenguo Mansion can quickly stop the people. β
Haitang nodded, and looked at Jin Jiashu again: "I have already mentioned it to Wu Qiong, let her help inquire, what grievances Mrs. Gui and Concubine Xu Xian have, so that Mrs. Gui can secretly instigate the people of the Sun family to kill the Eighth Prince." It's good to figure out this matter earlier, otherwise the Zhou family will not move Mrs. Wang, and most of them will not put people under house arrest in the Zhenguo Mansion, she is messing around all day long, and she doesn't know what else will happen. It won't be long before the generals from the capital will go to Chang'an to take up their posts. If Mrs. Gui ran in front of others and talked nonsense, let people spread the matter back to the capital, and affect Concubine Xu Xian and the Eighth Prince, it would not be good. β
Jin Jiashu's heart suddenly froze, he didn't dare to be careless, and said busily: "Now that the spring flowers are blooming, presumably the post road can be reopened." I want to write a letter to my aunt, I wonder if I can get it to her as soon as possible? She didn't know when she had a grudge against Mrs. Gui, and even I was almost implicated. After all, the Wu family is the Guozhang Mansion, and Wu Wen'an Gong has always had prestige in Shilin. If Mrs. Gui said bad things about her aunt and the Eighth Prince in front of the Wu family's protΓ©gΓ©s and relatives and friends because of her own selfishness, which affected the reputation of the Eighth Prince, it would be bad......"
(End of chapter)