The two brothers and sisters, Ma and Haijiao Begonia, surrounded Zhou Ma's and persuaded him for a long time, and finally persuaded Zhou Ma to let go and tell what happened in the third room of the Zhou family.

However, she is only an inner house woman, and she heard about the whole thing from her husband Zhou Shigong, so she doesn't know about it.

She only knew that a few days ago, Tu Rong, the newly appointed commander of the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division, suddenly visited the third room of Zhou's house and talked with Zhou Shigong in the living room. The two of them quarreled so loudly that the servants guarding outside the house were frightened, and immediately someone rushed to the inner house to report to Zhou Ma. By the time Zhou Ma hurried to the living room in the front yard, Zhou Shigong and Tu Rong had already stopped arguing, the former was standing in the room with a flushed face, seemingly very angry, and the chair he was sitting on was lying on the ground, and the tea set on the table was also smashed, and the ground was in a mess.

When Tu Rong saw Zhou Mashi enter the door, he didn't say hello, but said to Zhou Shigong lightly: "I wanted to have a good conversation with Lord Zhou, so I would come at night and not alarm others." Since Lord Zhou refuses to believe me, my people are waiting outside the door, so let them come in and search for it, and Lord Zhou can also see with his own eyes, will they find something? ”

Zhou Shigong really didn't believe it, and let him search.

Then he and his wife Zhou Ma watched Tu Rong call a team of personal soldiers into the door, searched the west courtyard, and then found a booklet from the house of one of Mrs. Ma's confidants.

The pamphlet recorded some names of people, places and money, and the names of the people on it were very suspicious, according to Tu Rong, they were all Hu people who were spies identified by the imperial court, and they were arrested in the capital.

He and Zhou Shigong called Mrs. Ma's confidant for interrogation at that time, and the latter couldn't bear the pressure, and finally confessed that it was the name of the businessman who used to collect money to help with road guidance and customs defense documents. But because of the time lapse, she forgot the existence of this booklet herself, and she didn't expect it to be searched.

When Mrs. Ma heard it at the time, she was immediately furious, pointed at the mother-in-law and scolded her for betraying the master, and said that she had been treating the other party well in the past few decades, and the other party had betrayed her trust and was unforgivable, and cursed that the mother-in-law would not die well.

Mrs. Ma pounced on her mother-in-law and almost strangled her to death, but was forcibly pulled away by the people brought by Tu Rong. But even if she didn't admit that she had done those things later, Zhou Shigong could conclude from her reaction: All this is true, Mrs. Ma did collaborate with the enemy, and Tu Rong did not wronged her!

The merchants of those caravans can smoothly move around the northwest border with the road guides and official defense documents obtained by Mrs. Ma through her connections, without worrying about the inquiries of the border army, and even go to the capital or Jiangnan direction, and go straight to the hinterland of Great Chu.

Although Tu Rong has not been able to thoroughly investigate all the people recorded in the pamphlet at the moment, just the fact that some of the names of the people found out are Hu people and spies, which can already prove Mrs. Ma's crime. Even if Mrs. Ma categorically denied that she had done these things, Zhou Shigong couldn't say that her stepmother was a white woman who was framed.

Zhou Shigong didn't know why she did this, and looking at the amount of bribes recorded in the booklet, it was not big enough to make the mother of the third owner of the Zhou family excited. You must know that the time when Mrs. Ma received this money was more than 20 years ago, when the old lady was still there, the third room of the Zhou family was still very beautiful, and Zhou Shuyi was far from getting married, so she didn't lack that bit of silver at all! Mrs. Ma did this kind of thing for the sake of that money, what is the purpose?!

Did she do it intentionally, or was she inadvertently taken advantage of?

When Zhou Mashi said this, he couldn't help crying bitterly again: "I really can't believe it, how can the A family have such courage?!" Even if the old lady is no longer on the front line, he is still working in the army! In case people outside know, how will the old lady behave? How do you behave? And Jin Lin and his children and grandchildren, how will they meet people in the future?! ”

Ma Shi was so distressed by the eldest sister's crying that he hurriedly grabbed her: "Eldest sister, don't patronize and cry, first explain to your forehead, this is what Du Boqin told Tu Tongzhi?" Then when he was interrogated before, why didn't he say a word?! ”

Zhou Ma cried: "I don't know! Du Boqin also came to the house before, and he didn't leak a word at all! The lord treats him well, if he is a conscientious person, he reminded the forehead earlier, and the forehead destroyed the things earlier, and stopped the Ah family from committing another crime, and now he will not be found out by the people in the capital! ”

Seeing that the eldest sister was crying again, Ma had a headache, so he could only persuade softly, hoping that the eldest sister could calm down earlier and explain things more clearly.

Seeing that his grandmother couldn't take care of himself for the time being, Haijiao stood up and gave his brother Haijiao a look, and the brother and sister quietly walked outside.

Begonia whispered, "Something is wrong. There is really such a secret account book, the mother-in-law herself has forgotten it, how did Du Boqin know? ”

Hai Jiao nodded: "He didn't say anything in front of the Zhou family before...... Now that he suddenly mentioned it to Tu Rong, he was afraid that he would be uneasy and kind. But he said so many secrets of the Sun family, it is obviously impossible to be accepted by the Sun family anymore, so why frame the Zhou family again? Did he think that by doing this, he would be able to get the Sun family to forgive him for his previous betrayal?! ”

In his previous life, he heard that Jinyiwei had caught Hu Ren's spies, but it seemed that Sun Yongbai had won the credit, God knows if it was true, maybe it was just the Sun family who made it up to put gold on Sun Yongbai's face. Besides, at that time, this matter did not implicate the third room of the Zhou family......

Haitang raised her eyebrows: "The most important thing at the moment is, what is Tu Rong's attitude towards this matter?" He said that he came at night because of his kindness, not to alarm outsiders, and it was because he was angered by his aunt's attitude that he sent his own soldiers to search the West Courtyard. We estimate that he really doesn't intend to frame the Zhou family, but if he really has good intentions towards the Zhou family, why bother to make such a posture of copying the family? But if he deliberately wanted to make the Zhou family unlucky, it had happened for so many days, and there were indeed witnesses and physical evidence, why didn't we hear a little rumor outside? He doesn't look like he wants to plant the Zhou family on the head of the enemy......"

Haijiao frowned, pulled his sister back to the inner room, and told Zhou Ma and the Ma sisters what the brother and sister thought.

Ma's spirits perked up, and he felt that there was no room for turning around in this matter, but Zhou Mashi choked up and said: "Even if General Tu didn't mean to harm the Emen's family, what was recorded in the pamphlet was true...... The lord has already sent someone to check, the name of the spy is true, and the road quotation document is also left in the yamen, and the Ah family has indeed done those things, and ......it can't be denied."

If Tu Rong hadn't found this pamphlet, and Mrs. Ma hadn't reacted violently, just based on Du Boqin's few words of evidence, Zhou Shigong could have flatly denied that his stepmother had committed such a crime. But with the booklet, plus Du Boqin and the mother-in-law, the human and material evidence is complete, and Mrs. Ma can't be washed in vain. Zhou Shigong didn't even have the courage to ask the Zhenguo Gong for help, he was afraid that the Zhenguo Guild would protect the three rooms, but he would be questioned by the imperial court at the same time.

No matter what Tu Rong said, he was also a person sent by the imperial court and a confidant of the emperor. With the emperor's usual attitude towards the Zhou family, how could he let this matter go lightly? It was only a matter of time before the Zhou family's three rooms were convicted.

Zhou Shigong is now disheartened, Ma comforted the sad eldest sister, and also felt a headache, but the reef and begonia were still calm.

Haijiao asked a few key questions: "What did Mrs. Ma do, her mother-in-law next to her wrote down the booklet, how did Du Boqin know?" When did you find out? Why don't you say it when you know it? He only told Tu Rong, did he have ulterior motives? ”

Just came back from outside, and I didn't catch up with the usual update time......

(End of chapter)