Haitang left the life more than 50 years ago, no more than three years of hard work, and I still remember everything I experienced at that time.

So she immediately thought that this mark was unique to the Inner House, but it was the Inner House more than fifty years ago.

The box of gold ingots produced by the Inner Mansion in Jin Jiashu's hand, the Inner Mansion imprint on it is no longer the same, but the change is not too big, and the similarities between the two imprints can be seen. Haitang felt that she might be able to find something to do from here.

The gold-painted pattern on the ebony comb is indeed a popular pattern more than 50 years ago. This comb...... It seems to be something that Song Yuzhu is used to, right? The workmanship is high, the quality is excellent, and it is estimated that it is very much to her liking. Otherwise, she would have faked her death and fled, so why take the pair of combs away and use them to this day?

Haitang tried to recall her experience in the clan mansion before Song Yuzhu's accident in the previous life, and vaguely remembered that before Song Yuzhu's eldest sister Song Yuzhen got married, the lady of the clan mansion went to the inner mansion to order a batch of expensive and exquisite dressing utensils in order to prepare a dowry for the eldest daughter.

However, at that time, as a nurturing grandmother, Haitang paid attention to the dowry of the eldest lady Song Yuzhen, and did not pay attention to the specific patterns of the second lady Song Yuzhu. But this material, process and style are all right. and Song Yuzhen's set is definitely produced by the same craftsman at the same time.

The list of customized supplies for the inner government should be recorded, right? Will you remember the pattern on it clearly? With something, can I find out the identity of the person who ordered it?

Begonia thought secretly, her eyes still staring at the two combs.

Mrs. Ma put down the comb, turned her head and saw Haitang standing on the side, only when she was shocked by the delicate and valuable jewelry and utensils in her dresser, she snorted contemptuously, and didn't take the little girl who grew up in the city and countryside here in her eyes at all, so she turned her head to look at her daughter-in-law Zhou Ma and Ma: "Haven't you written it yet?" It's just a matter of a few words, what's so difficult? You are also the daughters of official eunuchs, haven't you read well, and now you can't even write a few words?! ”

Zhou Ma blushed and lowered his head. Isn't she a well-bred lady who has been carefully raised since she was a child? But her mother died early, and her stepmother didn't like her, she really didn't read seriously for a few years, she couldn't compare to her stepmother-in-law, she knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and knew everything......

Ma is not as sensitive and concerned as Zhou Ma. Whether it's the Hai family or the Zhou family, how talented the daughter-in-law who doesn't need to marry in at all is. It is more important for them to be able to recognize their own position, not to do things that go against the interests of the military and civilians in the northwest, and not to drag the men in their families behind. If you don't know the importance and don't care about the overall situation, no matter how many books you read, you won't be able to respect them.

She slapped the written handbook on the table, grabbed the letter, and pulled Zhou Mashi away, and by the way, beckoned Haitang and Zhou Yijun to leave together.

Mrs. Ma scolded "rudeness" and "bad luck" behind their backs, and ordered the rough girls to quickly fetch water to clean the ground, and then put away the handwritten book casually, but her face was gloomy, and she did not mean to breathe a sigh of relief.

Although the people brought by the step-daughter-in-law did not really snatch her from the Ma family in the end, Tu Rong's actions still brought her an ominous premonition. She now has no henchmen left around her, and the foreign aid has almost disappeared, even if she has all kinds of calculations, she can't start. Could it be true that you want to stay in the third room of the Zhou family and wait for death? How willing is this?!

Zhou Ma and the Ma sisters returned to the main courtyard. After sending away the servants with the reward money, Zhou Ma looked at the old letter and hesitated: "Yumei, this letter ...... Should you hand it over directly to Tu Tongzhi? Do you want to talk to the master? ”

"It's okay to say it to your brother-in-law, but even if he says don't hand it over, the eldest sister doesn't pay attention to it, and she should hand it over." Ma Shi paused, "It's this letter, I don't know if it's true or not." In case it was forged by the old woman, Tu Tongzhi may misunderstand that they deliberately did things to help your family get rid of the crime! ”

"No......" Zhou Ma looked at the letter, "doesn't this look like a fake...... More than ten years ago, when Mrs. Wang was still there, she was indeed very wide-ranging, familiar with many officials and relatives, and would send people to their homes to give gifts during the New Year's holidays...... "At that time, Mrs. Ma was still the mother of the third house, and Mrs. Wang wrote to trust her to do things, which was very ordinary.

Zhou Yijun hurriedly asked, "Grandmother, who is this Mrs. Wang?" Begonia also showed curiosity on the side.

Zhou Ma gave a brief introduction to the two juniors.

This Mrs. Wang is the wife of a wealthy merchant in Liangzhou, her mother's family is a large grain producer in Shu, and her husband's family has the largest grain store in the northwest that year. In the years when the Northwest Frontier Army was deducted money and grain by the imperial court, they always tried their best to squeeze out the silver and find the Wang family grain store to buy grain. His family's grain bank has a large amount of inventory, which can meet the needs of sixty percent of the border army, and the price is not too expensive, so he is a fairly stable grain supplier. One of his daughters also married into the Zhou family, but she died without leaving any children. In the fourteenth room next door from the three-room division of the Zhou family, the eldest daughter-in-law is the granddaughter of the Wang family. The deceased daughter of Qifang, the one who married Du Boqin, had negotiated with the second son of the Wang family in her early years. It can be seen that the relationship between the Zhou family and the Wang family was still very good at that time.

It's just that after the death of the head of the Wang family, the eldest son was weak and could not take charge of affairs, and the second son was not able to handle general affairs, so the widowed mother Mrs. Wang was in charge of the affairs of the grain store. Since then, the Wang family's style of behavior has changed for the better.

The grain store under the control of Mrs. Wang has caused shoddy scandals on more than one occasion, and has also raised grain prices from time to time, making it difficult for the logistical officials of the border army. But the border army couldn't turn his face with her, because on the northwest border, the only merchant who could provide a large amount of grain in a short period of time was the Wang family. And the Wang family is also under the guidance of Mrs. Wang, and the powerful people in the court have a relationship, and it is rumored that even the mothers in the palace, they have climbed to the ......

At that time, the Zhou family always suspected that it was the Sun family that the Wang family climbed, so they did so much on the military rations, which was deliberately to cause chaos for the Zhou family. However, before they could find out the evidence, something happened to the Wang family. There was a fire in the grain store, Mrs. Wang and her two sons were buried in the fire, and there were no account books and documents left. Although Liangzhou Wang's Commercial Bank is still open for business now, it is no longer the same as the scale when it was at its peak.

Zhou Mashi was worried about this: "The relationship between Mrs. Wang and the Sun family in Beijing back then had some unclear rumors. Now that Ah Jia has taken this vague letter, he is afraid that Tu Tong will not believe it, but he thinks that they are going to bite the Sun family back......"

"Not necessarily." Haitang blinked and said, "Didn't Du Boqin know that Old Madam Ma had colluded with the Hu people's spies, and that the Sun family told him?" And the Sun family will know about this, and it was the Hu people who told them about it. Who knows what the relationship between the Sun family and those Hu people is a spies? Maybe he set a trap early, just waiting to frame the Zhou family! Otherwise, the Sun family caught the Hu people's spies, why didn't they send them to the government as soon as possible, but instead detained the people, interrogated them first, and then handed them over? ”

Can things be done like this?

Zhou Ma and Ma looked at each other.

Zhou Yijun clasped his palms together and said, "No matter what the truth is, send this letter out first." The letter looks old. Master Tu came to search the West Courtyard before, but he didn't find it, it is estimated that it was originally stored in a box, and he just let the old lady turn it out. Let Master Tu check this letter, no matter what is found, our family can also buy more time, so that we can find a long house to discuss, maybe we can find a way to break the situation? ”

(End of chapter)