Haitang frowned when she heard this: "Although their words are reasonable, if it wasn't for Mrs. Ma's instructions, it would be too coincidental." ”

Zhou Shuyi sent people to chase Mrs. Wang all the way to Chang'an, and Mrs. Ma sent people to chase Mrs. Wang all the way from Chang'an to Liangzhou. If they really have nothing to do with this, then why didn't the Wang family grain store catch fire in the morning or night, but when they sent someone to Liangzhou to shut up Mrs. Wang, it caught fire?

Haijiao said: "Don't talk about Tu Rong, even if the Zhenguo Mansion heard about their confessions, they didn't believe it at first, but they only felt that either they knew that the matter was important, so they contended with each other to cover up the truth for Mrs. Ma; Either Mrs. Ma had another helper, and when she did such a big thing more than ten years ago, she didn't let them, the people who were waiting in the inner house, know about it. At the moment, no one is torturing them and forcing them to tell the truth, but it is just because the Sun family is more suspicious. ”

Haitang was reminded by his words: "How did the suspicion of the Sun family come about?" said that there was a shadow of his family behind the fire of the Wang family, but I listened, it seemed that only the merchants of the Western Regions might have asked the Sun family to catch this matter. Didn't Tu Rong say that more than ten years ago, the Sun family inadvertently caught a Hu spy and asked him that the guide to his way into Beijing was obtained with the help of Mrs. Ma, so she found out her crime of colluding with Hu people? These two things are exactly right, and I think it's true. But even if the Sun family catches a Hu spy and wants to make a fuss about this matter and frame the Zhou family, there is no need to set fire to the Wang family's grain shop?! ”

Haijiao said: "What is going on, Dusi Yamen can't tell, or my cousin got the news from Zhenguo Gong and told Grandpa Cao, the Tao is that those mothers-in-law once mentioned one thing, saying that Mrs. Ma was sent to Liangzhou to find Mrs. Wang's henchman, who was the son of one of them, and he met the steward of the Sun family in Liangzhou City, and he was also a very important steward under Sun Guifei's cousin Sun Yongbai." ”

It is also a coincidence that after the henchman arrived in Liangzhou, he learned that the Wang family's grain line was on fire, and the Wang family was almost dead, so he was anxious to inquire about what was going on. At that time, there was a caravan in Liangzhou City, and he had dealt with the shopkeeper under the old aunt and grandmother of the Ma family in the past, so the henchman went to ask them for help, and met a few people coming out of the courtyard of the caravan.

The henchman inquired with the caravan's people, and heard that it was a servant of a wealthy merchant who had just come from Beijing to buy wine for his family in Liangzhou, but he left without buying anything. The people of the caravan thought that they did not speak well, and spent money and thought to send people from Beijing to Liangzhou, and after a few days they had to send them back to the capital by the same way, and along the way they helped to do some customs and defense documents, remote road guidance, eating and drinking and hurrying, day and night, the horses were tired to death of two horses, but not a single business was done, only a few hundred taels of reward money, just enough to lose the horse money, it was really a loss to the grandmother's house. It's just that the owner of the caravan is worried that the master behind those people is big, and he doesn't dare to offend, so he just complains a few words behind his back.

And this henchman was later sent to Beijing by Mrs. Ma to send something to Mrs. Zhou Shuyi, and once happened to meet Sun Yongbai's wife who sent someone to Zhou Shuyi to ask for silver, and the two sides met head-on in the courtyard. The other party had an arrogant attitude, and it was estimated that he didn't remember him for a long time, but he was deeply impressed, and remembered that he had met each other in Liangzhou City.

He told his aunt Zhou Shuyi about it privately, and after returning to Chang'an, he also reported it to Mrs. Ma. But whether it was Zhou Shuyi or Mrs. Ma, they all ordered him to shut up, and from now on, he should not have such a thing, and it was strictly forbidden to mention it to anyone. He himself only told his mother, but other than that, he was quite tight-lipped.

It was only after Tu Rong asked about the news that he felt that the Sun family might have nothing to do with the Wang family's fire case.

More than ten years ago, the Zhou family and the Sun family were at the height of their conflict. In order to maintain the daily consumption and material supply of the border army, the Zhou family had to go to business privately to earn silver money to supplement military expenses. When Empress Wu and the third prince died in the fire of Kunning Palace, and the Wu family suffered, the contradictions between the two families were completely irreconcilable. When the old marshal of Zhenguo Gong Zhou entered Beijing to face the saint, he could fight with Sun Ge Lao in the court. In those years, the Sun family openly sent people to the northwest, and they would definitely be targeted, but the people in the Zhenguo Mansion knew nothing about the Sun family's trip to Liangzhou. Then why did Sun Yongbai's henchmen go to Liangzhou?

Not to mention that he didn't need to go to Liangzhou to buy wine, even if he really wanted to buy it, there were also merchants who could sell wine to the capital, and there was no need for the Sun family to send someone over. What's more, he still hired a caravan who was familiar with the local situation in Liangzhou, and asked the caravan to help with some road guidance and chores along the way, covering people's eyes and ears all the way, rushing day and night, and only stayed in Liangzhou for a few days, so he didn't buy anything, leaving only a few hundred taels of reward money and leaving. During their stay in Liangzhou, there happened to be a fire in the Wangjia Grain Store......

If Mrs. Ma and Zhou Shuyi encountered too many coincidences before and after the Wang family fire, wouldn't it be even more coincidental that the Sun family secretly sent people to Liangzhou to encounter the Wang family fire?

The mother-in-law's son made a big mistake in the early years, and was sent to work as a steward in the property of Sanfang in other places, and now he is not in Chang'an City. Tu Rong had already sent someone to inform Zhou Shigong, asking Zhou Shigong to order someone to be recalled to Chang'an for questioning, and then he would know more details about that year.

Just in case, Zhenguo Gong also specially sent two more personal soldiers to follow the people in the third room to go to other industries to find people, and be sure to bring back all the people. If there are still people in Sanfang who went to Liangzhou with him at that time, he will also be called back in the near future, and he will be ready to ask Tu Tongzhi after he returns.

Haitang sensed the hidden meaning of these orders: "Zhenguo Gong and Tu Tongzhi seem to attach great importance to this little steward, and they actually sent more people to escort them...... Is this afraid that he will run away, or is it afraid that he will be killed? Speaking of which, although Sun Yongbai's henchmen appeared in Liangzhou, it is indeed very suspicious, but the Sun family is innocent, why did they kill people and set fire to the Wang family? After Mrs. Wang entered Beijing, when did she provoke the Sun family? His family did not hesitate to send henchmen, found a caravan to cover their whereabouts, and ran thousands of miles to Liangzhou to extinguish the mouth? ”

If it weren't for something very important, the Sun family wouldn't have to toss it like this, right? But when Mrs. Wang entered Beijing to make friends with powerful people, what could she hinder the Sun family? It can't be that the Sun family deliberately wants to cut off the supply of grain and grass to the Northwest Frontier Army, so they deliberately sent people to set fire to the big household of the Wang family's grain store, right?

Haijiao was also confused: "Grandpa Cao can't figure it out." The people under the Yamen of the Dusi have everything to say. But Zhen Guogong attaches great importance to this matter, and Uncle Cousin is also very concerned, but they have not found out the truth, and they refuse to reveal a word. "Haijiao is a little hesitant, should I continue to ask someone? It's a pity that Zhou Yijun has been staying on the veteran Zhuangzi to ask the old military master for advice recently, and he is not in the city, and he is not so familiar with the other brothers in the Zhenguo Mansion, so he does not dare to easily open his mouth to inquire about confidential information.

Haitang guessed: "When Mrs. Wang was in Beijing, she specially went to talk to the old shopkeepers who Zhou Shuyi married, and she also saw a lot of goods in their trading house, met merchants from the Western Regions, and made friends with many stewards of powerful families who had dealings with Zhou Shuyi...... Could it be that in the process, she discovered some secret of the Sun family, but she didn't react, just as an ordinary thing? ”

Hai Jiao raised his eyebrows: "What is it that makes such a shrewd character as Mrs. Wang not suspicious at all, but makes the Sun family not hesitate to send people all the way to Liangzhou to extinguish the mouth?" ”

Begonia couldn't answer.

But Zhen Guogong and Tu Rong obviously have their own conjectures in their minds.

(End of chapter)