Chapter 498: Surprise

Zhou Ma returned from the study shortly after. The news she brought back confirmed that Zhou Yijun's guess was not cranky.

Zhou Jinpu made such a big mess, and was scolded by his father Zhou Shigong for a long time, but he still looked indifferent. Zhou Shigong thought that he couldn't support the wall with mud, but he didn't expect that his missing henchman would bring back a surprise when he returned home.

They found Madame Ma's last minions outside the mansion, and it was also her remaining power. If these people are not discovered, after Mrs. Ma is punished by the Ming Dynasty, they may have a grudge against the Zhou family's three rooms, the Zhenguo Mansion and even Tu Tongzhi and others because of the death of their master, God knows what crazy things they will do?

It turned out that when Zhou Jinpu went to the West Courtyard to find Mrs. Ma and offered to help her escape, he said that he could only help her escape from the third room of the Zhou family at most, but after she escaped, he didn't dare to guarantee whether she could get rid of the pursuers smoothly. He wouldn't leave his family and leave with her, but the henchmen and attendants around her were basically arrested, and she was a handful of old and not physically strong, so she escaped like this, can she survive? Can you support yourself? If she escaped without food and clothing, starved and cold, and died earlier, then it would be better for him, a grandson, not to save her. Although she couldn't live long if she stayed at home, she didn't have to worry about food and clothing, she died a dignified death, and her own son came back to see her death.

Of course, Mrs. Ma was not willing to stay at home and wait for death. She didn't trust Zhou Jinpu originally, but after some testing, she found that he was still the obedient stupid grandson in the past, and he could be easily coaxed by her, so she was moved.

She had no other way to think about it, if she didn't run away, as soon as her biological son Zhou Shicheng came back, her death would come. Now that the Zhou family room and the third room are staring at her, even the palace has sent people, and the emperor has even given poison, it is impossible for her to successfully get away with her own tongue. Even if Zhou Jinpu was just teasing her, or she didn't really have the ability to save her, she could only give it a try. If you fail, it's just the situation you are in; But if she succeeds, she will be able to survive again!

With this in mind, she told her step-grandson Zhou Jinpu an address and a name. It was the property she had quietly purchased a few years ago, and the people she had arranged for her to take care of it. She helped her daughter Zhou Shuyi cooperate with the Sun family, knowing that it was not good for the Zhou family, and once she was discovered, there would be no good end. She had also made some preparations just in case, and if it was time to escape, she had to have a place to hide, money to spend, and someone to send a guard.

She bought a small house in Chang'an City and outside the city, the place is not big, it looks inconspicuous, she never goes, she never sends her henchmen to go, and she will never let anyone think of herself. She kept the two houses in the names of her trusted old servants as their estate. Of course, she had a way to restrain these old servants, lest they have dissenting intentions outside.

And the people she chose to guard these two properties said that they were confidants, but in fact, they could only be regarded as the abandoned sons of their daughters. Zhou Shuyi has been the second wife of the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion in the capital for nearly 20 years, and I don't know how many times she has played unsightly tricks during this period, and there are not a hundred but dozens of people who have been tools for her. In addition to those who must be extinguished, there are still some family members who can only abandon their henchmen for various reasons. However, there are many people in the capital, and the Yingchuan Marquis Mansion is not her home, she is afraid of being discovered, and she does not dare to kill everyone easily, so she finds an excuse to send it back to her mother's house and let her mother's mother do this for herself. It's just that Mrs. Ma didn't kill so many outsiders casually, so she simply raised people, anyway, it cost the money in the Zhou family's three rooms, and she didn't have to pay out of her own pocket, she didn't care.

Some of the children in these people's families are quite talented, so Mrs. Ma tried to let people teach them the art of riding and archery, so that they could join the army when they grew up. She originally wanted to install her cronies in the border army, but most of these children were still at the grassroots level, and they hadn't grown up to the point where they could satisfy her, and they couldn't even get into her eyes at the guard station they were in, so she put it aside.

However, in the eyes of the families of these children, it was a great blessing that their children and grandchildren could be freed from slavery and become full-fledged sergeants, without risking war on the frontiers, and could be promoted to officers by virtue of their masters. They were grateful to Mrs. Ma and devoted themselves to her. Even if she didn't need them at all, they didn't change their minds.

Now, almost all the people around Mrs. Ma are in prison, but these dozens of old servants who no one knows about their existence are safe and sound. They don't know what happened to the third room of the Zhou family, they only know that the door of his house has been closed for a long time, and there is gossip that Mrs. Ma made a big mistake and was placed under house arrest. They wanted to rescue her, but they couldn't get in, so they selected a few clever people to enter the city to find out the news.

What Mrs. Ma told Zhou Jinpu was one of them and the address of the house in the city - just in case, of course she wouldn't let Zhou Jinpu know all her hole cards.

However, Mrs. Ma's anger was exhausted.

Zhou Jinpu was very lucky. After he informed his brother and confidant about the incident, the latter went out, and met someone who came up to inquire about the news of the third room of the Zhou family, and found out without much effort that the other party was one of the old servants hidden by Mrs. Ma, pretending to drive a carriage into the city to deliver goods to earn pocket money, and specially went to the outside of the third room of the Zhou family to inquire about the news.

Zhou Jinpu's henchman took the opportunity to get into the man's car, and relied on the token given by Mrs. Ma in advance, and successfully got in touch with these people. Under the pretext of inquiring about the escape route they had arranged for Mrs. Ma, and inquiring about Mrs. Ma's residence and living conditions after she escaped, he succeeded in gathering all her hidden old servants together, finding out the addresses of the two houses, and also figuring out the location of a property that Mrs. Ma had hidden.

It took him a day to find out all the information before he used the excuse that he wanted to go back to the house to report to Mrs. Ma, returned to the city, and explained everything to Zhou Shigong.

The reason why Zhou Jinpu was scolded by his father still didn't care, and he was not even afraid that Zhen Guogong, Tu Tongzhi and others would punish him for Mrs. Ma's leg injury, because he knew that his long-term entourage would definitely hear the news of Mrs. Ma's remaining minions. He can use this credit to offset his mistakes.

After Zhou Shigong listened, he couldn't say a word for a long time, and he felt that he was not as calm as his son. However, with this credit, he really doesn't have to worry that the eldest son will be punished, but when he thinks of such a big thing, the eldest son only relies on subordinates to act, but he doesn't even leak a little bit of tone to his father, and he can't help but feel a little bitter in his heart.

When Zhou Ma went to the study, he was just in time for Zhou Shigong to send someone to report to the Zhenguo Mansion and Tu Tongzhi, so he also knew the good things Zhou Shigong had done, and his mood was a little more bitter than that of his husband.

She could only smile and say some words of praise to her husband in the study, and when she returned to her room, she couldn't hold back the sourness in her heart anymore: "Why is Zhou Jinpu so lucky?" He doesn't seem to be such a smart person for a long time, but he can still get a great credit after the conviction of the A family. Eh, when the master is the master, he will be annoyed with him from now on, and he will look at Jin Lin more. I didn't expect him to do such a thing...... Now that the lord is so happy, where can he still think of Jin Lin?! ”

Ma Shi and Haitang could only comfort her softly. This kind of thing is really unexpected, they were unprepared in advance, and there was no way to take Zhou Jinpu.

Only Zhou Yijun wondered: "Uncle doesn't seem to be such a calm person." He's been getting angry lately. Could it be that someone else gave him an idea? ”

(End of chapter)