Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 166
what happened?Mo Huaien didn't dare to ask this out loud. He knew his wife too well, so he was a troublemaker.

"Why don't you ask yourself, why didn't the Ma family send the post to Mo's house?" Mo Shaolin walked to his father from the crowd, and said with a suppressed temper.

The main hall was full of people. Mo Huaien was the magistrate of the county. He didn't want to cause any embarrassment. He lowered his head and smiled and asked, "Sanlang, shall we go and see our little nephew?"

"Okay... okay..." Mo Sanlang is only seven or eight years old. Although he is tough, he still doesn't understand the affairs between adults. He clapped his hands happily and wanted to see the baby.

Ma Qifeng was entertaining guests, and when he saw Mrs. Liu coming, it was a headache. Under the courage of his daughter, he didn't post a post, but he didn't expect that she would come to the door by herself, after everyone had finished eating, so that No matter how he entertained, he stood aside in embarrassment.

Ma Min'er was entertaining the female relatives, the little girl ran up to her and whispered, "Mr. Liu is here!"

Dare to come?Ma Min'er raised her eyebrows coldly, stood up, and smiled at everyone, "Everyone sit down for a while, I have something to do, I'll be right over."

In the main hall in front, if a smart person is in this situation, he should be a man with his tail between his legs. If there is anything, we can wait for the guests to leave. Her strength was completely gone, she felt that her face had been trampled out, and she came here with a hostility and strength.

Master Mo talked to Mo Sanlang affectionately, but such an obvious attitude failed to remind her, let her not get angry and make trouble for the sake of her children.

Up to now, Mr. Mo still thinks that his wife is just making trouble in general, and doesn't realize how bad the nature of her trouble is.

Yesterday's Liu came here with sinister thoughts, today's Liu came here with a troublesome appearance, seeing so many guests in the Ma family, one side was sad, so many people have to charge so much gift money, and the other side was secretly happy , What a nice person, let everyone see, what do you mean by not inviting your natal family to the wedding ceremony of the three dynasties.

Everyone did as she wished, with gossiping faces, and some even talked in low voices, talking about things, lest the world would not be chaotic.

Mrs. Liu glanced at her stepson, did not reply to his words at all, and turned her head to look at everyone with the posture of an official's wife: "Everyone, do you post a post for your mother's family when your daughter has a baby and will go to three courts?"

"Of course, not only posted, but also the first one."

Mrs. Liu raised her head halfway: "But when our daughter gives birth to a son, she doesn't send postings to her natal family, and keeps her natal family at home without knowing. If the master didn't come directly from Fucheng, wouldn't our natal family be punished by others today?" Poke the spine and poke to death."

Everyone looked at each other, as if something was wrong, there were people from Xiaowang Village among the crowd, they knew what happened three days ago, and someone pleaded, "You stepmother, you almost let your stepdaughter have no child, you have the nerve to say that. "

Hearing this, Liu Shi stretched out her finger like Zha Mao's cock, "How could I let her have no child? Tell me, did I push her or hit her!"

That morning, Liu didn't push or hit, she just cried and howled, which made people feel uneasy, really... the pouty person stopped talking and shrank back.

Mrs. Liu shrank her head from the person, and said proudly: "Is it wrong for me, a mother, to care about my daughter?"

care?Inside and outside the main hall, there are seven layers of people from Pingding County. Who doesn't know that Mrs. Liu is not a good stubble, how could she care about her stepdaughter? Who would believe such nonsense.

"What's going on?" Mr. Mo, who didn't want to bring the matter up in front of everyone, saw that Mrs. Liu still had no color, and was making a lot of noise here, as if he was playing monkey in public.

"Master..." Like a wronged little daughter-in-law, Liu hurriedly stuck to Mrs. Mo, tears and snot, "Seeing that Wanniang's delivery day is coming soon, I don't think the master has come back yet, so I will come to the door Look at Wanniang, I didn't expect it to be like this."

Visiting someone at home will make the Ma family not post?Mo Huaien faintly felt that things were not that simple, but the more it was like this, the more he dared not speak. He was afraid of embarrassment once things were shaken out.

Seeing that his father didn't open his mouth to ask questions, Mo Shaolin was so angry that Mo Shaolin's teeth itch with Liu's pretentious behavior. He wished he could step forward and slap her, but he didn't care about face, and said angrily, "You are so angry that my sister moved her fetus and almost had a dystocia. , why don't you say it?"

"Why am I angry with him? Tell me, is the Ma family soliciting rumors in front of you?" Liu slapped him without any burden.

Ma Min'er brought Shan Xiaodan to the entrance of the main hall, and when she heard her confuse black and white, she asked angrily, "Little boss..."

"Don't worry!"

Mo Shaolin was angrily: "The Ma family don't have the time to tell you right and wrong, you say one thing and another in your heart, so angry that my sister moved..."

"What I say is one thing, but another thing is in my heart, did you open my heart and read it, or saw it with your own eyes at the door that day..." The words in Liu's mouth were chattering like a cannon, and Mo Shaolin She is not her opponent at all. The people in Xiaowang Village have seen the tigress of Mr. Mo's family. They heard about it before when they went to the city, but they had no chance to meet it in person. Now they finally know what it means to talk nonsense.

"Why is Mrs. Liu like this? I've seen vicious stepmothers before, but I've never seen such vicious stepmothers..."

"Yeah, me too. At the beginning of that morning, I still believed her crying, but now it seems that it's just rotten to death."

"Isn't that right... I don't know why the county magistrate fell in love with her and married her..."

……

In the living room was a wealthy gentry from Pingding County. They knew a thing or two about why the magistrate of the county married the Liu family. The Liu family was a wealthy family in Pingding County. In order to repay his kindness, Mr. Mo, who had lost his wife, married Mrs. Liu's eldest granddaughter, that is, the Liu family.

Not long after the marriage was completed, the loyal old Mr. Liu passed away, and the business of the Liu family was passed on to Mr. Liu. If it weren't for the support of the elder sister of the wife of the magistrate, the Liu family would have collapsed a long time ago. I heard that the son who was ineffective last year had reconciled with the granddaughter of the former emperor's teacher.

Everyone stretched their necks to look at the spitting wife, Mr. Mo felt completely humiliated. The three-dynasty wedding banquet not only put down all the rich gentry officials, but also rich gentry officials from other counties and even prefectures, so it spread. , He still has no face to save, he is in vain making contacts everywhere for his son's future, but he did not expect that in an instant, he was defeated by the Liu family.

"Crack!" A clear and crisp sound not only made Liu Shi shut up, but also stopped the whispering crowd.

Liu Shi covered her cheeks, her eyes widened, "You... you actually hit me?"

Mo Huaien raised his head and asked coldly, "Is what everyone said true?"

Covering her slapped face with one hand, Mrs. Liu jumped and shouted: "Are they farting?" Now, what kind of lady does that look like, and the vulgar face of a businessman is immediately revealed.

"Will you come to care about Wan'er?" Mo Huaien didn't want to reveal his ugly side at all.

"Why can't I?" Liu's face is thicker than the city wall.

If Liu's heart was guilty, or if she was soft-hearted, she might still be able to escape, but her unrepentant behavior touched Mo Huaien's bottom line.

When a man with a city mansion is extremely angry and wants to deal with someone, he often appears very calm, as if nothing happened. Mo Huaien is such a person.

Xia Zhen has stayed in Pingding for many years, no matter whether it is ambition or the way of being an official, Mo Huaien has no chance to show it. Now, Xia Zhen has been promoted to the king of Beijun, and his place of residence has become Liangzhou. He feels that his When the opportunity comes, he can do it, but why is this woman so confused, why is her status so low?

Just when everyone wanted to watch the excitement, Mo Huaien turned his head calmly, "Son-in-law Ma, it's getting late, I'm going back with the children."

"Father, I haven't seen my little nephew yet?" Mo Sanlang has long been used to his parents quarreling, in his heart, this quarrel is the same as usual, it's nothing, he's not afraid at all.

Ma Qifeng came back to his senses in a daze, and hurried over, "Lord Mo, late..."

"No, I'll take the kids back first."

Mo Huaien waved to the youngest son standing beside the mother-in-law, "Shiro, come here..."

The youngest son is four or five years old, and he wears a lot of clothes in winter. He hastily pulled his two calves towards his father like pulling a carrot, "Dad...Dad..." I haven't seen my father for many days, and the little boy knows that he misses him. Seeing him wave, I couldn't be happier.

Mo Huaien held the youngest son in one hand and the older son in the other, and called out to his daughter again, "Go home."

"Oh." Eleven or twelve-year-old Mo Erniang felt that something was wrong, but she was young, so she didn't think much, and moved to her father's side.

Mo Shaolin stood still.

Mo Huaien seemed to feel it, and turned his head, "Go home."

"Father..." Mo Shaolin was still complaining about his sister.

"Go home." Mo Huaien called again faintly.

Mo Shaolin pursed his lips, knowing that this occasion was not suitable for dealing with housework, he held his breath and stepped forward.

Liu Shi covered her mouth, and found that the man didn't quarrel with her as usual, and calmly led the children towards him. It felt a little strange, but she immediately understood that he was afraid of losing face in such a large crowd.

For some reason, thinking of the [-] taels of dowry silver, Liu's heart burst into flames, but the fire couldn't be ignited, because the beneficiary of the dowry was the future wife of the king of Beijun, so she didn't dare.

I dare not get angry again, so I can only do it, Liu Shi really did it to the end, "Master, why are you going home, the children and I didn't even drink a sip of water, can I be a stepmother? So you can’t drink a sip of water from your stepdaughter’s house? Could it be that these brothers-in-laws can’t eat a meal from her house?”

As if he didn't hear it, Mo Huaien continued to hold one hand and the other, and walked towards the door. Just two steps away, he was stopped by Mrs. Liu, "Master, what are you doing? They obviously did something wrong. Why are you doing this?" To me and the children." With snot and tears, he made himself so pitiful.

Mo Huaien's eyes met Erniang Ma who was standing at the door, "I'm sorry, I made Erniang Ma laugh."

Ma Min'er grinned lightly: "Master Mo, are you going back now?"

"Well." Mo Huaien replied calmly: "Go back and divorce Liu."

Liu Shiga, who was crying, stopped crying at once, and the bull's eyes were bigger than copper bells, "Mo Huaien, what did you just say?"

Mo Huaien turned his head: "I'll divorce you, you immoral woman."

"Why do you want to divorce me?" Mrs. Liu jumped and shouted, which was even more frightening than a shrew swearing at the street.

Mo Huaien's tone was light, but everyone could hear the decisiveness in it: "Just rely on the 'tongue' in the seven outs" (referring to talking too much or gossiping about others, like to gossip, talk about right and wrong, and affect family harmony.)
"Damn, my Liu family is indebted to your Mo family, and I have given birth to children for you, so you can't divorce me."

"I can't stop, let's go into the Mo family's ancestral hall and ask the clansmen, as long as six out of ten people agree that I can divorce you, then I can divorce you too."

"You..." Liu was scared. In order to raise money and help her family this year, she almost offended all the members of the Mo family. Those people wished that Mo Huaien would divorce her!
Seeing that she was speechless, Mo Huaien turned around and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.

The man's calm and firm steps made Liu realize that this was by no means just casual talk, and she suddenly sat on the ground and said, "Grandpa, God, come and see this ungrateful villain. You are bullying me, you are going to divorce me...God, open your eyes...God..."

When Mo Silang saw his mother crying like this, he puckered his mouth twice and started to cry too, "Mother...I want mother..."

Mo Huaien pressed his son's head into his arms, and gently comforted his back with one hand. Under the comfort of his father, the four or five-year-old child fell asleep after a while.

Mo Sanlang wanted to go over to pull his mother who was sitting on the ground, but Mo Huaien held him tight and wouldn't let him move.

Only Mo Erniang ran over to pull her mother, but she threw her hand away, "Why are you here? Your father doesn't want me anymore. You will be a motherless wild child from now on. When your father marries a stepmother, there will be no trouble." You suffer..."

This makes sense... Mo Shaolin wants to laugh out loud, he really eats shit, he thinks shit is delicious, so he thinks other people like to eat shit, really...

Mo Erniang didn't dare to pull anymore, she pursed her lips.

"Everyone, look at this heartless man. I gave birth to a son and a daughter for her, and he said no, how can I live..." Liu scrambled for the land.

Mo Shaolin was secretly happy, this wicked woman should have retired long ago.

On the second floor, Mo Wanyi had already heard the news from Qin Hong, "Ma'am, it's so kind, the master is finally going to retire from Mrs. Liu."

Mo Wanyi looked down at her son lying beside her: "I'm happy to divorce her, but brothers and sisters..."

"Madam, you sympathize with them, who has sympathized with you and the eldest son?"

"Yes! Who has sympathized with us?"

In the front yard, Mo Huaien asked the servants to drag Liu Shi away, but the four servants could not drag her, and finally eight people got on board, and carried her to the carriage like five horses dismembering a corpse.

"I don't want to go back, I don't want to go back, I don't want to be divorced..." Liu's voice was like killing a pig, roaring over Xiaowang Village.

It wasn't until the carriage had gone a long way that people came to their senses, "Master Mo is really going to divorce his wife?"

"It's all like this, for sure."

"Your Majesty Mo is really pitiful. One wife died and another one has to be divorced. How are you going to live this day!"

"Go, he is the magistrate of the county, no matter how much he dies or how much he sleeps, he can always marry a young woman. I want you to sympathize with me!"

"That's right!"

……

Ma Xiaowu's three-dynasty wedding banquet ended in such a commotion, and the guests bid farewell with gossip!

Feeling exhausted, Ma Qifeng sat down at the entrance of the main hall and looked towards the entrance. At the entrance, servants and villagers were helping to clean up. There were nearly a hundred tables of meals and a lot of things to clean up.

"Father, it's cold on the ground." Ma Min'er stretched out her hand to pull his father.

Ma Qifeng didn't move his buttocks, "Min'er, why is it so difficult for us to live?"

"father……"

"When you were in the capital, your father was not favored. No matter how many children you had, he was deserted. Now, it's hard to get the honor of your future son-in-law, and you want to have a good time, but the result... the result..." Ma Qifeng covered his face .

Ma Min'er sat next to her father, "So people have to be strong, and if they are not strong, they will be bullied."

"Is our family not strong yet?"

Ma Min'er laughed, "Who made my daughter not a princess now, and who made my elder brother still an eighth-rank Beijing official!"

Ma Qifeng rushed to his face, "Father finally understands, but I still blamed me for being too weak, so I let them bully me."

"Father, don't worry, Master Mo is a sensible person, Mrs. Liu will not escape being suspended this time."

"Thinking about Wanyi's suffering, thinking about being disturbed by her on such a happy day, my heart is in a panic."

"Father, don't think so much. It's cold on the ground. Let's get up, prepare dinner happily, eat and drink enough, and let's go see Fifth Brother."

Hearing about his younger son, Ma Qifeng felt better, "Yes, go see my son."

The heavy snow that had been brewing for many days finally came on the night of the 21st lunar month, that is, the third night of Ma Xiaowu's birth. The north wind was bitter, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness between the sky and the earth. Snowflakes fell from the sky one after another. Immediately, it became covered in silver and white.

In the main hall of Mo Mansion, Mrs. Liu kept crying and making noises. Mo Huaien sent someone to hold her down, unable to move, and could only swear at others. The three children were frightened, and finally realized their father's majesty and cruelty.

Erniang Mo begged her father loudly, "Please don't divorce mother, don't divorce..."

"Don't stop her, let you continue to find no lady in the city?" Mo Huaien asked back coldly.

"I... But she is still my mother even if she is not good!" The 11-year-old Mo Erniang was forced to grow up instantly.

The two little boys were reported by the old servants, no matter how much they cried, the two old servants would not let go.

Mo Huaien wrote the divorce letter and said to the servant: "Take care of Madam, tomorrow I will divorce her in public in the ancestral hall."

"Yes...Master!"

"Hurry up and send news to the people in the clan."

"Yes, sir."

Mo Huaien thought for a while and said, "Give the Liu family a message too, and ask them to come and lead the people."

"Yes, sir..."

The Chinese New Year is coming soon. In such a cold weather, the ground is cracked, the north wind is blowing like a knife, and the sky is full of snow. "Huh-huh-", the wind howled, the big tree swayed in the wind, and the branches were whipping in the air like dancing whips.

Mo Huaien divorced his wife for three days and nights, and the Liu family had to admit the fact that the Liu family was divorced. The Liu family who was divorced and went home wanted to come and make trouble, but the Liu family had already fallen, and no one followed her. There was a commotion, she went to the door by herself, the door was locked, she couldn't even see the crack of the door, knocked on the door hard, and yelled, "Mo Huaien, open the door for me, open the door...I want to see my son, I want to see my daughter... ..."

In the vast snowy sky, who will take care of her?She was usually arrogant and domineering, and she didn't care about human feelings. Even the watchdog didn't bother to hum when she saw her. The Liu family, who was shivering from the cold, had to go back to Liu's house. Grabbing one of them, "What's going on?"

"Young master owes a lot of money, and those usurers have come to collect the debt, and you are running away through the back door?" After the servant finished speaking, he grabbed the bag pulled by Mrs. Liu and fled.

"Little brother, little brother..." Liu quickly walked around the alley, and before reaching the back door, she met her parents and second brother, "Mei Er, run away quickly, or you will die if you don't!"

Liu Yang ignored her sister at all and just ran forward, so Liu had no choice but to run forward with her parents.

Two days later, the former Liu Mansion was taken over by loan sharks, and the whereabouts of the Liu family have been unknown since then, and no one knows where they fled to!
After Mo Huaien found out, he didn't know whether it was relief or something else, so he sighed long.

"Father——" Mo Shaolin had had enough of Liu's suffering, and when he heard the news, he only felt relieved, not sad, but she was his father's wife after all, so there was no expression on his face.

"Shaolin..."

"Father, my son is—"

Mo Huaien said: "Treat your younger brother and sister well in the future."

"Father, as long as they don't hate me, I'm willing to treat them well."

"That's good, that's good..." Mo Huaien seemed to be much older, "I don't know when Ma Dalang will come back?"

"Why does father expect him to come back?"

"Three years later, you will go to Chunwei in Beijing, and my father wants to ask him about the situation in Beijing, so as to prepare for you."

"Thank you father!" Mo Shaolin bowed to the end.

Stepping on the land of clouds and water, although there is thick snow under his feet, Ma Dalang is still in a good mood, and he can finally go home. He bowed his hands to the people around him, "Thank you, Prince!"

"It's easy to do!" Standing on the official road leading to Xiaowang Village in Yunshui Town, Yancheng County King Liu Zaili also sighed with emotion. Two years later, he will set foot on this land again.

"Your Majesty, the road is difficult, please get on the carriage." The servant stepped forward and begged.

"No, I'm going to Ma's yard."

"The county... the king of the county..."

Liu Zaili smiled: "I want to feel the feeling of heavy snow covering the sky."

"Yes, the king of the county."

Seeing that he insisted on leaving, Ma Dalang smiled slightly, "Prince, please—"

Since the stock at home was either taken away by the king of Beijun or used in the wedding banquet of the Three Dynasties, the ingredients of the Ma family were basically emptied. Niu Dabao and the companion of the Mo family carried the ingredients in two carriages towards the house, and they saw Ma at the intersection. Da Lang, that joyful energy: "Da Lang, it's really you?"

"Uncle Niu, I'm going home for the New Year!" After two years of experience, Ma Dalang has faded from his youthfulness and matured a lot.

"Yancheng County King?" Niu Dabao smiled from ear to ear, and in a blink of an eye, he saw the capital prince of Yushu Linfeng, why is he here?

(End of this chapter)