Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 26 Disputes
Ma Min'er shouted: "San Bo, don't listen to him fooling around. The emperor must have arranged for us to be placed in Yunshui Town. He must have coveted this house and doesn't want to share it with us."

"Nonsense..." Li Tingchang looked flustered, staring and roaring.

The emperor has made arrangements?Ma Qimeng didn't believe this, the emperor even killed his elder brother, how would he arrange their whereabouts so well?

Oh my God, what kind of people are in the Ma family? It’s okay to fool people, and you can always follow along. Ma Min’er was so angry that her nose was smoking, so she could only keep it to the head of the pavilion in Yunshui Town: " Why am I talking nonsense, I also saw officials from Xing’an Prefecture transporting our rations to the Yamen, where’s the food?”

"What food, I didn't see it?" Li Tingchang became even more flustered, and opened his mouth to deny it.

The Ma family is not calm now. When Lord Yao sent them out of the city, he obviously gave them food, so it is impossible for them to eat all of them on the way.

"You want to be stupid?" Ma Qiguang was the first to refuse, and jumped out, staring more fiercely than Li Tingzhang.

"What kind of food, I didn't see it!" Chief Li Ting said as he waved for the yamen servant to come up.

After all, it is a small town, the number of yamen servants is not only small, but also crooked, Ma Miner shouted: "Father, brother, let's go in quickly, not only will there be housing, maybe there will be food."

After finishing speaking, seeing that Ma Qi was not moving, he shouted anxiously: "Why are all the men of the Ma family standing up, hurry up!"

Ma Qiguang was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that he didn't dare to call his son and grandson, "Lao Qi and Lao Jiu hurry up and bring the boys up!"

"Oh……"

The Ma family was a little hesitant, but someone took the lead and heard that there was food, so they didn't care about anything else. After a while, the men led their servants and rushed into the yamen. The family blocked the outside.

"Ting... Pavilion chief, our..." The yamen servants jumped anxiously, their tooth sacrifices!
Li Ting was gasping for breath, watching helplessly the Ma family squeezed into the back yamen, secretly rejoicing that the yamen was so simple that nothing was put there.

There are two large rooms in the back yamen, one is the file room, the other is the yamen's lounge, and there are two inverted rooms, which are small, one is the yamen's kitchen, and the other is for firewood.

"Brother, look for food first."

"Big...sister, this...isn't it good." Just like Qiang, Ma Dalang felt bad.

Yes, this is not good, most people in the Ma family think so.

I think so?Ma Min'er thought to herself, but it's not like this now, should I wait to die?Seeing Ma Qiguang squeezed into the kitchen, she immediately followed. There were two people boiling water in the kitchen.

"What...what do you want to do?" The two jumped up in fright when the people crowded in.

"I..." Ma Qiguang didn't finish his sentence, but was interrupted by Ma Min'er, "Where did Li Tingchang put our rations?"

"What... what rations?"

Originally, Ma Min'er was only skeptical, but seeing the twinkling eyes of these two people, she understood that the rations must have been stolen by Chief Li Ting, and not only that, he also distributed some to these people.

As for why it was distributed to them, there are only two situations, one is to keep it secret, and the other is that everyone in the yamen is from the same town and takes care of each other.

Ma Qiguang is also a genius in Beijing, the colors on the faces of the two chefs are not enough for him to look at, he is not as scruples as the third brother, he stretches out his hand and starts to rummage through things, the kitchen as big as a palm did not rummage a few times, a small sack is It was turned out, and when I opened it, it was not just grain noodles. Although it was rough, it was a treasure for survival in a severe drought.

Ma Min'er followed suit, but found nothing edible, and followed Ma Qiguang out of the kitchen. The two cooks wanted to snatch it away, but seeing a large group of people, they dared not, so they opened the back door and slipped out.

Ma Qiguang ran to his father with a sack in his hand, "Father, the grain in this bag is the same as the rough noodles we ate on the road."

Ma Chengzu lifted his eyelids and looked back. Ma Min'er felt it and hid behind his father. Although his grandfather was gone, the majesty of being an official was still there, and his eyes could scare people to death.

Seeing that the old man was silent, the old lady called out to her eldest grandson, "Da Lang, take it."

"Grandmother—" Ma Yihui stood still.

"Take it!" The old lady's face was heavy, and she looked at the people around her. The aura of the wealthy mistress forced everyone to avert their eyes unconsciously.

"Yes, grandma!" Ma Yihui walked up to Ma Qiguang, "Fifth Uncle!"

Ma Qiguang glanced at his father again, but didn't receive any expression, and reluctantly gave the sack to the eldest grandson of the Ma family.

Mrs. Ma glanced at everyone again, "The third family's——"

"Mother, my daughter-in-law is—"

"You take someone to tidy up the rear office, we will live here."

"Mother..." Mrs. Ma San stood up in surprise.

"Why don't you move?"

"This is Ya..."

"Do you have money to stay at the inn?"

"Yes, mother, my daughter-in-law knows." Of course there was nothing, Mrs. Ma San ordered someone to clean it up.

As expected of a big family from the capital, even if they were exiled, there were still many servants accompanying them. With them, the rest room of the yamen servants in Yunshui Town was tidied up in a short while, and separated into three rooms.

The head of the Ma family and the son-in-law all had a place to live, and the others all robbed the eaves of the back yamen. After a while, even the eaves of the back yamen were full, and Ma Qifeng's family didn't even have a place to stand in the back yamen.

No way!Ma Min'er couldn't believe her eyes, "Father—"

Ma Qifeng has long been used to it. When he was in Beijing, he lived in the worst corner. Even the third-class steward of the family lived in a better place than him, so he moved out of the back office.

"Father—" Ma Min'er clenched his teeth and shouted, seeing that his father didn't stop, he turned his head to look at Mrs. Ma and the third wife who were in charge. They seemed to have not noticed the situation of the six concubines at all.

Wulang Ma Qiguang was standing on the steps of the eaves corner, watching his aunt instructing the servants to tidy up the eaves corner, when he heard the call, he turned his head and sneered, "Who will clean it up for you!"

Ma Qifeng paused and continued to walk outside.

Ma Min'er understood that this family did not have a foothold for his father, sighed and looked at the sack of rough noodles, thinking that he would be able to eat tonight, but it seemed that there was no hope.With his head down and his head down listlessly, he left the Yamen with his father.

Li Tingchang was about to leave when he found that the troublemaker had come out. He was stunned for a moment, rolled his eyes and guessed something, his melon face was like a flower: "little lady, why did you come out, did you get kicked out?" What? Then why were you so active just now?"

Ma Qifeng's feet paused again, and when he lifted them up, he was filled with lead, feeling bitter in his heart, and couldn't help shouting, lady, where are you, I'm so tired, so tired!
Walking with your head down, dejected, why is life so difficult?Ma Min'er was so angry that she wanted to hit someone, but the other party was the head of the pavilion, and she was about to settle down in Yunshui Town in the future, and she had offended him once, so what else could she do?

Ma Dalang supported the other, and Sanlang and Siniang walked obediently beside him, their small bodies stretched so long by the light and shadow of the setting sun, as if they had grown up in an instant.

After wandering around the street, the Ma family and the Guo family met.

"Big brother, have you been allocated a house yet?"

Ma Qifeng shook his head and found a corner to sit down. Hunger and suffering left him with only one breath left.

Seeing that he was not in the mood to speak, Mrs. Guo Li turned around and asked, "Er Niang, what's going on?"

"I don't know how long it will take for the yamen to get it." Ma Min'er didn't talk about the dispute just now.

"That's right." Guo Lishi sighed.

"What are your plans?"

"I don't know either." Guo Lishi really didn't know, she was at a loss.

Even the adults didn't know what to do, and the children didn't know what to do. For a while, the Ma and Guo families were sitting by the earth-stone wall, looking into the distance indifferently.

Looking through the gray and ruined town, apart from the empty fields, there is an endless sky.Hunger, no land to stay, no hope for tomorrow...everything makes people desperate.

(End of this chapter)