Chapter 480: Evidence of Guilt

The crowd was stunned.

Who would have thought? The private relationship between Mrs. Ma and the old Khan king of the Hu people when she was young still hides such a big secret!

What is she trying to do?! She's a noble lady of the clan!

Zhou Mashi looked at the stepmother-in-law in front of him in disbelief, and couldn't help but turn his head and ask her husband Zhou Shigong: "Master, did you hear me right?" ”

Zhou Shigong was also at a loss. He originally thought that his stepmother pretending to be a good wife and mother to calculate his future and family property was already the extreme, and colluding with the Hu people was already extremely evil. Where did she think she could do anything more excessive?

He looked at the head of the Zhenguo Gong in a daze: "Brother Lobby, Pingxi Hou Mansion...... It used to be the town of the northwest, right? ”

Zhen Guogong nodded slightly with a solemn expression. Before the Zhou family became the head of the Northwest Frontier Army, Pingxi Hou was the commander of the Northwest Army, and it could be said that he had great achievements in that year. His grandfather was originally just a middle-level general, but his father was promoted by Pingxi Hou and was able to lead a guard alone, and later made military exploits, so that after Pingxi Hou was transferred back to the capital, he became the deputy general of his successor, and since then he has been on the rise.

Speaking of Pingxihou's transfer back to the capital, there was a lot of discussion back then. At that time, the Marquis of Pingxi returned to Beijing to be entitled, and originally planned to stay in Beijing for two months, and then return to the northwest, but during this period, he suddenly suffered an old injury and could not return to the front line to lead the army. Emperor Yongchang, who was reigning at that time, took pity on the old minister and refused to let him go back to the field, so he transferred him back to Beijing and joined the military department as a secretary until his death a few years later.

It's just that the Marquis of Pingxi has not been passed on, the Marquis of Pingxi after the eldest son is seven years old, he asked for an order to go to the northwest to participate in the war, and made war exploits, and when the court rewarded him again, his title has become the Marquis of Yingchuan, which has been lowered by two levels compared to the Marquis of Pingxi, but the lintel of the Zeng family finally held on, and he never lost the glory of his ancestors. It's just that the prestige of the Zeng family, who used to call for wind and rain in the northwest, is no longer there, and the family of the first general of the border army has become the Zhou family.

When the first generation of Yingchuan Marquis was enthroned, the old ladies of the Zhou family had already retreated to the rear, and the father of Zhenguo Gong had already died. Zhen Guogong used to be full of emotion for the ups and downs of the fate of these former veterans, but he never expected that behind this there was a scandal of treason and collaboration with the enemy of a clan girl.

Zhen Guogong looked at Mrs. Ma. From the moment Tu Rong read out the "Mother's Black History" in Zhou Shuyi's confession, she seemed to have lost her spirit, and her whole person collapsed on the circle chair in decadence, and she no longer struggled.

She has always dreamed of finding out her handle from the ancestral hall of the Zeng family and pinning all her hopes on her daughter Zhou Shuyi, but she didn't expect that it was her daughter who finally broke her. She was angry and desperate in her heart, but she didn't even have the strength to say a word.

But no matter how decadent she is, Zhen Guogong will not let her go.

He asked Mrs. Ma with a straight face: "What Shuyi said is true?!" ...... you were back then What did you steal from the Pingxi Hou Mansion?! Why do you want to do this for Hu Ren Proton?! ”

Mrs. Ma closed her eyes and did not answer.

Seeing that she didn't answer, Zhenguo Gong only sneered twice, turned his head to Tu Rong and said, "Please Tu Tongzhi continue to read, presumably the Marquis of Yingchuan has already asked us what happened." ”

Tu Rong hid the look of shock in his eyes, nodded with a straight face, and continued to read the confession.

The negative man that Mrs. Ma fell in love with back then, everyone also guessed that it was the old Khan King of the Hu people who was once hostage in Dachu. He said all the sweet words to Mrs. Ma, coaxing her to stay with him for a long time, and even told her parents about it. Unexpectedly, her father Qin Guogong was furious, not only refused to agree, but also sent his daughter to the countryside under house arrest. By the time Mrs. Ma tried her best to find a way to return to the capital, the negative man already had a new love. Only then did Mrs. Ma realize that she had been deceived, and in a fit of anger, she accused the Hu people of stealing military aircraft. When Hu Ren fled in a panic, he remembered the secret passage of the ancestral hall of the Pingxi Hou Mansion that Mrs. Ma had taken him to, and used it conveniently.

It's just that he has a grudge against Mrs. Ma for denouncing him, so he hid the letter she wrote in the ancestral hall, thinking that once the people of Pingxi Hou's Mansion found out about this thing, they would definitely take revenge on Mrs. Ma, and he would also take revenge on her.

These are all things that Zhou Shuyi heard from her mother, and there are many differences from the versions that everyone knows, thinking that Mrs. Ma has beautified the big mistake she made back then, so as not to let her daughter know how stupid she was.

As for how did Mrs. Ma know that the old Khan king of the Hu people hid her handle in the ancestral hall of the Zeng family before fleeing...... According to her own account to her daughter, it was the old Khan king of the Nahu people, after fleeing back to China, who found out where she was hiding and sent spies to tell her, in order to make her frightened day and night, and never have peace, as a revenge for her.

Mrs. Ma didn't want to sit still, so she could only find a way to save herself. It is impossible for her to marry back to the Pingxi Hou Mansion, and she is afraid that the Pingxi Hou will recognize her, so she can't even keep the marriage at that time, and she never dares to return to Beijing, nor does she dare to contact the generals and their families from the capital. She can only carefully cultivate her daughter, teach her daughter to be obedient and filial, and then design to marry her daughter back to the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion.

There is a lot of words at the back, which are Zhou Shuyi's angry words after her heart broke down under the high-pressure interrogation of her husband and eldest uncle. She regretted that she had done so many things for her mother, if she hadn't obeyed her mother's arrangement, she would have married into another prince's mansion and enjoyed a lifetime of wealth and honor, how could she fall into today's embarrassing situation?! She used to feel that she should be filial to her mother and do things for her, but now she is worried about the future of herself and her children. She already knew that the concubine was going to take a good concubine for her husband, and if she died, her husband might still be able to continue the strings. Her pampered pair of children will suffer how much she will suffer if she wants to live in the hands of her stepmother and little mother in the future! She saw with her own eyes how her biological mother did her stepmother, and she couldn't imagine the future of her children!

This part of the confession, Yingchuan Hou probably deliberately copied it down, wanting to poke Mrs. Ma's heart. After Tu Rong finished reading, he looked at the numb expression on Mrs. Ma's face, didn't say anything, and continued to read.

After Yingchuan Hou's father and son got Zhou Shuyi's confession, they were also shocked. The Marquis of Yingchuan personally took his son to the ancestral hall, searched carefully in the main room at the rear, and searched for three days before he found a small paper bag from a very hidden gap above the beams and pillars, which looked yellowish and obviously had been around for years.

Yingchuan Hou opened the paper bag and looked closely, and there was indeed a letter written by a clan girl named Song Yuzhu to her lover, which explained the details of the new defense line that Pingxi Hou was preparing to arrange in the Northwest Frontier, as well as a hastily drawn but fairly clear map, which marked the names of the leading generals of several important points of the Northwest Frontier Army, and even the description of the temperament preferences and character shortcomings of those generals. If this information had been successfully returned to Hu after falling into the hands of the Hu protons, the Northwest Frontier Army would have suffered a major setback.

Zhen Guogong remembered several unsmooth battles mentioned by his father, and said that General Hu seemed to have suddenly become smarter, and he could guess the weak points of the Chu army, and his expression became more serious.

I'm afraid that Qin Guogong also found out what his daughter did back then, right? He didn't dare to speak out, but he quickly sent his daughter out of house arrest and withdrew from his daughter's marriage to the prince of Pingxi. Otherwise, let Song Yuzhu successfully marry into the Pingxi Hou Mansion, and break the connection with the Hu people's proton lotus, God knows what more terrible things will happen? !

The faces of all the people in the room were not very good-looking. Haitang watched coldly, and suddenly remembered something, so she leaned into the ear of her aunt Zhou Ma, and whispered softly: "When the old Khan King of the Hu people escaped from the capital, he didn't know the new identity of the old lady Ma. Why is Mrs. Ma so worried and afraid? Even if the evidence is discovered, it can't be found on her head? ”

(End of chapter)