Zhou Ma was moved by his granddaughter's words, and immediately sent Cai Juan to the study to invite Zhou Shigong over.

Zhou Shigong came with the reef. Seeing the old letter in his wife's hand and listening to the explanation of his sister-in-law and granddaughter, he couldn't help but feel in a trance: "This ...... What does this mean...... The stepmother didn't deliberately collaborate with the enemy, but was entrusted by others to make it convenient for those spies? The one who colluded with the Hu people was Mrs. Wang of Liangzhou?! ”

Zhou Ma said hesitantly: "Listening to the tone of the A family, this is about what it means. But this letter ...... I don't know if it's true or not. Even if it's true, it may not be what Ah Jia said...... There is no name on the letter, and the time of payment is called moth-eaten, if you take this letter as evidence to prove the innocence of the Ah family, I am afraid that I will not be able to win the trust of others......"

Zhou Shigong frowned, and asked again: "Then let Tu Tongzhi arrest this Mrs. Wang and interrogate her clearly." ”

Zhou Mashi smiled bitterly: "But the Liangzhou Wangjia Grain Store caught fire more than ten years ago, and Mrs. Wang and her son's henchmen all died in the fire......

Zhou Shigong couldn't help but be surprised: "Is this serious? How come I haven't heard of it?! ”

Zhou Ma still remembers how shocked the circle of women in Chang'an Jiangmen was when the news came. Everyone has dealt with Mrs. Wang, and receives gifts from the Wang family every year, and some people who have been stationed in Liangzhou with their husbands have more and closer contacts with her, and suddenly heard that she is dead, and the whole family has died so miserably, who doesn't talk about it?

Zhou Shigong didn't understand, it was because he had been concentrating on studying, and didn't pay attention to things outside, when the Wang family was on fire, he had already been admitted to the Jinshi, and he was an official outside, but he didn't do it well. No one else is in Chang'an, so naturally they will not hear the news of the fire in the Liangzhou Wangjia Grain Store. By the time he returned to his hometown, two years had passed since then, and no one had talked about it again.

Zhou Ma told her husband in detail.

Zhou Shigong suddenly lost his anger again, threw the letter on the table, and said listlessly: "What's the use of tossing these?" There is no right symptom in death, and the letter is not clearly written, who can prove that the Hu spy was sent by the Wang family? Besides, since this Wang family is rumored to have climbed into the Sun family, his family has a relationship with the Hu people's spies, how could the Sun family not be able to inquire when they caught someone? In order not to be implicated, the Sun family will only kill people and kill people, how can they take the initiative to let people publicize the matter? His family regards this matter as the handle of our Zhou family, so he is not afraid that his family will be dragged into the water?!

"How many years have passed? Even if the Wang family really had something back then, I am afraid that the Sun family has already cleared the tail. The Wang family is almost dead again, and there is really something shady in that year, and it cannot be proven. Even if we send the letter, Tu Tongzhi will not find out about the heads of the Sun family and the Wang family, and may think that this letter is forged by us. Otherwise, when he searched the West Courtyard, he would have found the letter. ”

Zhou Yijun hurriedly said: "The letter paper is so old and smells of camphor, I'm afraid it has been pressing the bottom of the box for many years." After Tu Tongzhi found something that day, he felt that he had gained, maybe he missed something? ”

"yes, yes." Zhou Mashi persuaded Zhou Shigong with a bitter face, "Master, why do you have to worry so much? This letter was handed over by Ah Jia on his own initiative, even if it is fake, it is also the iniquity of Ah Jia himself. The foreheads handed it in first, and let Tu Tongzhi check it. Before he finds out, they can still compete for a little more time and discuss with the long house how to deal with it next......"

"What's there to discuss with the long house?!" Zhou Shigong immediately sank his face, "I said it a long time ago, don't alarm the long house in this matter!" Our three-room family is unfortunate, and we have attracted a poisonous woman, which will affect the whole body, and our family will not be able to get rid of it, and it will be just a matter of losing our lives. Brother Changfang has a high position in the border army, and once we are implicated, it will cause unrest in the northwest frontier. Let's not mess with him! ”

Zhou Shigong didn't want to discuss this topic anymore, anyway, he had already given an order, and his wife and granddaughter only needed to follow the order.

He stood up: "I'll go back to the study first, don't bother me if it's okay." He nodded at his sister-in-law Ma Shi, and pointed to the reef that was getting up to greet him, "This kid is smart and kind, but there are some things that he can't mix." The second aunt persuaded him more, so that he could concentrate on his studies and not have to meddle in his affairs. With that, he lifted his feet and left.

Zhou Mashi couldn't help but cry again: "What's this called?!" I haven't finished talking yet! She also wanted to ask her husband if she could find the fourteenth room to inquire about the news, but her husband left early impatiently, what should she do?!

Zhou Yijun gritted his teeth: "Since grandfather doesn't want to be disturbed, let's not let him worry about it." Grandmother, I'll go to the fourteenth room to say hello to the elders in a moment, right? ”

Zhou Mashi wiped his tears with a handkerchief: "Let's take you there." The concierge can't stop this housewife from going out! After a while, she excused herself to send her sister and grandson out, and she could go to the fourteenth room with her feet raised. Even if her husband got angry at her after hearing the news, she admitted it. It's only serious to get things done first.

If you say it, you have to do it. Zhou Ma immediately took his granddaughter to the fourteenth room. But she just cried a few times, and now she is a little embarrassed, she has to wash her face and reapply fat powder, then comb her hair, and change her clothes to see people.

When Ma helped Cai Juan and Cai Luo change Zhou Ma's clothes, Haitang sat outside, asked Zhou Yijun for a pen and paper, and drew the inner house mark on the two ebony gold combs he had just seen on the paper, and then glanced at the reef before asking Zhou Yijun: "Yijun, do you know what mark this is?" ”

Zhou Yijun glanced at it a few times, and his face showed hesitation: "This ...... What is it? Is there a sign of the things that are made within? I remember that there seemed to be such a thing in the Zhenguo Mansion...... But it's a little different......"

There is a Empress Dowager Zhou in the Zhenguo Mansion, and it is normal to have objects produced by the Inner Mansion. It's just that the Empress Dowager Zhou gave her mother's family something, and it can't be a creation of the inner government fifty or sixty years ago.

Haitang was about to further guide Zhou Yijun, when he heard Haijiao interject beside him: "Is this thing the mark of the creation of the Inner Palace?" The mark on the head of Jin Jiashu's inner house gold seems to be a little similar to this one, but it is not exactly the same. He looked up at his little sister, "Where did you see this?" ”

Haitang gave her brother a look with satisfaction: "Just now in the main room of the West Courtyard, Mrs. Ma was dressing in the mirror, and I saw that in the box where she filled the jade comb, there were two ebony combs painted with gold, which looked very old, at least fifty or sixty years old, and there were such marks on it." I felt familiar, so I took a few more looks and wrote it down. ”

Zhou Yijun was taken aback: "Such an old thing? I haven't heard of it...... "Soon after she was born, she followed her parents to Ningxia Zhongwei, and she didn't stay in Chang'an for more than ten years.

Hai Jiao frowned: "The Zhou family is also a relative of the emperor. The three-room scenery has been beautiful for so many years, and it is not surprising that Mrs. Ma has something made in her hands. ”

At this time, Zhou Ma came out of the inner room. She had already heard the conversation of several children, and hurriedly came up to look at the imprint of the begonia painting a few times, and looked puzzled: "It's really strange...... Ah Jia has always disliked things made from within. In the past, the queen mother sent an envoy from the capital to give things to the long house, and she didn't forget the Emen clansmen, but the A family never went, and told the Emen that he was a scholar who was going to participate in the imperial examination, and he would be a Qingliu civil official in the future. Changfang sent someone to send something, but she would not refuse, but she would never go to thank the palace envoy. ”

(End of chapter)