Ma Erniang's Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 53
Even though it was raining, Mrs. Guo and Li didn't stop to tend the vegetable bed. She wore a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, and worked very hard, which made Ma Min'er feel very sorry.

Standing on the porch, Ma Min'er called out to the rain: "Aunt Guo, it's raining too much, you'd better go back and do it after the rain stops."

"Er Niang, it's okay, there is a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat, it doesn't get in the way at all!"

"Aunt Guo, if I knew this, I wouldn't have asked you to help me with the vegetable bed."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Guo Li immediately stood up and turned around and said, "That's it, I'll turn over the land in my hand."

"That's it!" Seeing that the other party finally listened, Ma Min'er breathed a sigh of relief.

Ma Qifeng also heaved a sigh of relief, went back to the room, sat in a daze, he would not work with needles and threads when there were people around.

After a while, Mrs. Guo and Li finally went back, and Ma Miner returned to the room from the corridor, "Father, are you under pressure?"

"It's okay." Ma Qifeng smiled, "She also wants to pay back the food favor."

Ma Min'er sighed and sat on the floor, "I don't know when I will be assigned the land?"

Ma Qifeng picked up needlework to make shoes, but he didn't reply to his daughter's words, and he didn't know what to do with the land.

Ma Dalang was bored and sat on the floor under the porch, the rain splashed in, he taught Sanlang to write on the floor, and Xiao Yueer also squatted beside him to learn.

This calm didn't last long, the little beggar ran over again, and when he reached the fence gate, he hurriedly shouted, "Ma Erniang, it's not good, it's not good..."

"What's the matter?" Ma Min'er hurriedly stood in the corridor and shouted out.

"The pavilion chief drove them all out."

"Ah..." Ma Min'er turned to look at Ma Qifeng, he didn't care about the rain, and went down the corridor.

At home, Mrs. Guo heard the shouts from the neighbor and saw the elder brother running into the rain, so he hurriedly returned the coir raincoat, "Elder brother, put it on quickly."

Ma Qifeng stretched out his hand and put on his coir raincoat, put on a bamboo hat and ran towards the town.

"Ma Erniang..." Fu Xiaoyou looked at the little lady in the corridor.

Ma Min'er pursed her lips, turned around and took the oil umbrella. Shen Hou'er specially gave her this precious oil umbrella. I will give you my wife's dowry umbrella, and I will lend you auspicious words to make Yunshui rain heavily. '

"Second sister, I'm going too." Ma Sanlang grabbed his sister who was about to go down the corridor.

"You stay at home with your brother."

"No, I'm going to town with you."

"I also need to go……"

……

The heavy rain couldn't stop people from gossiping. Many people surrounded the yamen of Yunshui Town, and they all looked at Ma's family in the rain, the exiles from the capital.

"Father, speak up!" Ma Qimeng knelt in front of Ma Chengzu, "We've all been bullied like this. If you don't speak up all the time, how can you let us live!"

The heavy rain drenched Ma Chengzu, this generation of emperors who had a great reputation in the past, stood in the rain like a drowned chicken, motionless.

Seeing that his father was not alive, Ma Qiguang was so angry that he rushed towards Li Tingzhang, "You shit Tingzhang, you have played such a big trick, it turns out that you used this brain, I can't beat you to death."

Before rushing to Li Tingchang, he was held up by the Yamen and beaten.

Standing under the oil-paper umbrella, Li Tingchang said with a sharp smile: "Master Ma, you also said that you have no money to stay in an inn. You can buy not only cooking cakes, but also all of them are silver, silver, in our kind In a small town, it’s rare to see even a copper, and you’re still crying poor, living in a government office, it’s not in line with the system!”

The rain trickled down Ma Chengzu's eyebrows, he gave Li Tingzhang a disdainful look, but still kept his mouth shut, not saying a word.

"Okay, okay... I want to see if it's you who are stubborn, or the rain..." Li Tingchang pointed to the front and rear doors of the yamen, "Show me the jail, and they are not allowed to enter."

"Yes, my lord!"

"I'll fight with you guys!" Ma Laojiu couldn't move even though he was pinched by the Yacha.

A few young servants of the Ma family were also detained by the Yamen and could not move.

"Fight with me?" Li Tingchang sneered: "I didn't prepare last time, and I let you take advantage of the loopholes. This time, I called the whole family and all the servants. Let's see what you can do?"

The head catcher Du Yingxiong came out from the back office and posted it in front of Li Tingzhang, "Tingzhang, except for some broken books, no money or jewelry was found."

Elder Li Ting's skin was wrinkled into a chrysanthemum, and the voice in his throat was high-pitched: "Then where did they get the money for the cakes?"

The headhunter, Du Yingxiong, was also in a hurry. He went around, but he couldn't get the Ma family's money. He pointed at the Ma family's son and shouted, "Ma Qimeng, can you stay at the inn?"

The inn in the town was jointly opened by him and the head of the pavilion. There was not much business throughout the year.

"I...how can I live..." Ma Qimeng howled.

Du Yingxiong didn't believe it, and shouted: "If you have money to buy food, why don't you have money to stay in a hotel?"

"I..." Ma Qimeng was driven into a frenzy, and his head rested on the rainy ground, "God, why don't you kill these thieves..."

The back office couldn't find the money, and the inn couldn't stay, let alone arresting the head, Li Tingchang was even more anxious, "I'll catch you all in the prison..."

"What are you doing in the prison?" Someone in the crowd couldn't help asking.

"What else can they do? If they are caught in prison and stripped of their clothes, they will definitely find money..." someone whispered back.

"what……"

……

What?The Ma family panicked when they heard what everyone was talking about. Even if they left the capital, no yamen or Jiecha had ever done this. Isn't this driving them to death?

Mrs. Ma San couldn't stand still anymore. She knelt in front of Ma Chengzu's legs, grabbed his lapel, and cried loudly: "Father, this is an insult to us. How can we live?"

The old aunt was also frightened by these words and knelt down, and then shouted: "Master, you can't ignore us anymore, the women of our Ma family are all upright, if they search you, how can you have any face?" Living in this world...Master...Master..."

……

Ma's women, maids, and girls all rushed to Ma Chengzu, crying and shouting, hovering over the yamen.

Standing in the crowd, Ma Min'er breathed a sigh of relief. Fu Xiaoyou's grandfather stood beside her, taking advantage of the chaos and said: "Little lady, I just said what you taught me, right?"

"That's right." Ma Min'er nodded, she asked Father Fu to say the words of stripping clothes, and it was to remind the Ma family what Li Tingchang wanted to arrest them and put them in prison.

The body of the Ma family is hidden in the woman. Only then did Ma Miner remember something she heard on the way home. Her grandfather almost killed the woman of the Ma family because of his errand. Now she understands, except As an emperor and teacher, this grandfather also inadvertently protected the retreat of the Ma family, but is such a retreat a retreat?

"Crying, is there no law for crying? Let me tell you, if you live in the yamen without authorization, you will be beheaded, and it will be light to arrest you and put you in prison."

Li Tingchang didn't expect that someone in the crowd would reveal his dark heart, damn it, who, if I let Lao Tzu know, I will chop you into mincemeat.

"Catch, catch me quickly, all of them will be caught in the prison, no one will be missed!" Li Yaozong was impatient, pointing at the head catcher Du Yingnan and shouted.

"Yes, my lord, the little one will immediately follow your lord's order."

"what……"

The members of the Li family and the yamen yamen went into battle together, two of them fought one another, and their movements were swift, and after a while, all the women in front of Ma Chengzu were caught by them.

"Master..." Mrs. Ma cried out in despair, "You really want our Ma family to be wiped out!"

"God wants to destroy my Ma family, what can I do?" Ma Chengzu's numb voice came through the rain curtain.

"Master, master..." Mrs. Ma who was dragged away shouted, "Master, as long as you admit your mistake to the emperor, the emperor will definitely let you return to the capital."

"I'm not wrong!" Ma Chengzu replied firmly.

"Master..." Mrs. Ma's face was ashen.

Ma's face was ashamed.Has the Ma family come to an end?

Hmph, old stuff, it's all like this, and he still refuses to let go, "Take it away, take it all away..."

Seeing his relatives being escorted away, although he didn't have much family affection, Ma Qifeng still felt the arrow piercing his heart, and was about to step forward, but was grabbed by his daughter.

"Min'er, they are my relatives, I have to save them."

"Father, someone is here."

"..." Ma Qifeng turned his head in surprise, followed his daughter's gaze to look behind the crowd, "Master Yao—" he exclaimed happily.

"Master Yao..." Ma Min'er quickly followed her father to salute.

"Who is Master Yao..." Li Yaozong was about to snort coldly, but he suddenly reacted and ran over quickly, the oil umbrella was blown away by the wind from his sleeve, and the servant shouted, "Pavilion Chief, your umbrella..."

"Yao...Master Yao...Your subordinates didn't go to greet him, there is a rule of disrespect, please forgive me..." Li Yaozong was so frightened that he quickly knelt down in front of Master Yao.

Yao Zeliang stared at him disdainfully: "Mr. Li Ting, if I remember correctly, Master Ma has been in Yunshui Town for less than half a month."

"Yes...Master Yao..."

"Has the residence of the boss been arranged?"

"Not yet...not yet..."

"Is the land divided?"

"not yet……"

"Is it because I'm new, and you don't take me seriously?"

"No... absolutely nothing, my lord!" The water on Li Yaozong's face could no longer tell whether it was water or sweat. How many years had he been the head of the pavilion? He seldom came here, and he didn't expect the magistrate to come here, but he vaguely knew why the magistrate came here. Firstly, it must be because of the rain, and secondly, it was because of the former emperor's teacher. He... Did he fall?
It doesn't matter, Li Yaozong secretly thought, the official is your senior, but the land is familiar to me, you are a new magistrate, you have to give me three points of face for this local snake.

Official Yao Zeliang said in a dignified manner, "Then why don't you invite the boss into the yamen, and divide the house and land quickly?"

"Yes, yes, Master Yao..."

Master Yao's voice was stern, but Li Yaozong understood that Master Yao let go of him, so he hurriedly ran to Ma Chengzu's side, bowed down, and invited him personally: "Master Ma, it's all because of the villain's negligence. Please forgive me if I offend you."

Master Yao also stepped forward and personally held an umbrella for Ma Chengzu, "My lord, the students are late."

Ma Chengzu looked at the white rain curtain through the umbrella. Without this rain, would his students come to Yunshui?
"Father……"

"grandfather……"

……

Ma Chengzu didn't move at all, and Ma Qimeng's uncle and nephew cried out in a hurry, father (grandfather) is not the time to be stubborn now!

Withdrawing his eyes and looking at the Yamen, nearly a hundred members of Ma's family were imprisoned in the rain, old and young, big and small, sighing deeply, Ma Chengzu's straight back suddenly collapsed.

"My lord..."

"teacher……"

"Father……"

"grandfather……"

……

Half an hour later, everyone in the Ma family was standing in the lobby of the yamen. After the dizzy grandfather came to his senses, Master Yao forced Li Tingchang to allocate the house and land to the Ma family.

Li Yaozong bent down to make fun of him: "Yao...Master Yao, it's not that the lower officials refuse to allocate houses, it's because Yunshui Town is too small, and the Ma family has... too many people."

"Li Tingchang, do you want me to divide the house and land?" Yao Zeliang's eyes tightened.

"Ah... no..., how can I trouble my lord?"

Yao Zeliang suppressed his anger: "Then hurry up and take out the registration books of Yunshui Town's land, population and housing base, and I will watch you divide them."

"My... my lord..." Li Yaozong wanted to cry, my money, my money...

Yao Zeliang had a sullen face, a serious face, and sharp eyes. Under the pressure of his boss, Li Tingchang had to ask the owner to take out the document book and allocate the house and land for the Ma family in front of the boss.

Ma Min'er knew that Yunshui Town was small and poor, but she didn't expect that it was so poor that it didn't even have a decent house.

"Is there no public courtyard in Yunshui Town?" Lord Yao couldn't help asking.

"Yes, yes..." Li Tingchang showed embarrassment, "Isn't this where the villain lives with Master Bo and others!"

No matter how small the official position of the pavilion chief is, he is still an official of the court. It is really nothing to say that he lives in a public housing.

Master Yao frowned, "Bring it here—"

Li Tingchang hurriedly held it with both hands, "My lord, it doesn't matter whether you are a villain or not, there is really no..."

Yao Zeliang turned from the front to the back, and there is really no decent house, and some are just extinct houses or vacant houses that have been moved away for business. He looked at Ma Chengzu in embarrassment, "Teacher..."

"What's your share?" Ma Chengzu didn't care about this.

Yao Zeliang could only nod his head and signal Li Tingchang to assign a room.

Standing in the crowd, Ma Min'er felt that Li Ting was a tricky person, and instinctively flashed the inn in her mind. Is the inn a public property of Yunshui Town?He tapped his father lightly.

Ma Qifeng lowered his head and approached his daughter.

"Father, the inn may be the public property of Yunshui Town."

Ma Qifeng turned to look for Shen Houer.

Seeing that Dazhang Yao had nothing to say, Li Tingchang nodded and bowed, took the file from him, and said in a soft voice: "Master Ma, the biggest vacant house right now is Luo's house in the east of Xiaowang Village. Nearly ten houses will be allocated to your Ma family, and the house deeds will be handled by Xu Shuli later."

Ma Qimeng opened his mouth and said: "Master Yao, the seven or eight sons of our Ma family, except for the ninth son who has no family, including servants and mouths, there are nearly a hundred people, and there are ten rooms. Is that enough for us to live?"

This is the truth, Yao Zeliang looked at Li Tingchang again, which meant to let him divide the house again.

"Master Yao, it's not that lower officials don't share housing. Except for the Luo family's vacant house, there is no place in our Yunshui Town that can accommodate a hundred people from Mr. Ma's family."

"You think about it again."

"Master Yao, you have also read the file book. Yunshui Town is only this big. Apart from the Luo family, there are only a few vacant thatched cottages. There is really nothing the lower officials can do." Chief Li Ting replied simply.

It was really embarrassing, Yao Zeliang frowned.

Looking at the situation, is it possible that the room allocation will be ruined?Ma Qimeng saw that his father did not speak, so he could only kneel down and beg: "Master Yao, Master Yao, you have to be the master for us..."

"This……"

"My lord, don't look down on me, I really can't do anything about it."

……

It seems that the house is not meant to be forgotten, but the land must be obtained!Thinking of dividing land, Ma Min'er suddenly realized a very important problem, what problem?

So far, the house division of the Ma family has been carried out on a family basis, so does that mean that the division of land is also done on a family basis?If this is the case, does the land belong to the clan? If so, isn't it a big contract?

Oh my god!Lump sum!Does that mean that all the hard work of the family should be returned to the public?And judging from the current situation, will these Ma family members who don't touch the spring water with their ten fingers farm the land?
If they don't know how to plant, will my family know how to 'plant'?If my family can 'plant', wouldn't it be... Ma Min'er dare not think about it.

No, no, scorer!I heard that in ancient society, families were generally not separated, and in some dynasties it was considered illegal to separate families.

God, God knows how good the land-to-household contract responsibility system is, it brings an old society into a new era!

Everyone in the yamen hall was in a panic, including Ma Min'er, but others were worried that there would be no big yard for a big family, and she was worried that the land would not be returned to her family account.

High officials and small officials, elders and adults, stood all over the entire yamen hall, but there was no room for Ma Miner, a nine-year-old child, to speak. Even if she dared to speak, how could these people take the Ma clan's words? The family is divided?
Ma Qifeng and Shen Hou'er stood at the corner of the yamen to shelter from the rain, "Benefactor, what do you want to ask me?" Shen Hou'er still wanted to watch the fun.

"Brother Shen..." Ma Qifeng thought that he might not know.

"Benefactor, what do you want to ask? It's okay, as long as I know, I will tell you everything." Shen Hou'er patted his chest and said.

"I heard that the inn in the town..."

Before Ma Qifeng finished speaking, he was interrupted by Shen Houer, his eyebrows almost stood up in surprise: "How do you know?"

"Is it really public?"

"Ah... I... don't know, I don't know anything..." Knowing that he had made a slip of the tongue, Shen Hou'er quickly denied it. After all, he was a local and had to live under Li Tingzhang's rule, which offended the current supervisor. , even if he has a shop and a house, his life may not be able to live on, "I... I went in." After finishing speaking, he turned around and slipped away. What kind of benefactor is not a benefactor, compared with his immediate interests, it is still far behind. !

Alas, Ma Qifeng sighed secretly, after thinking about it, there seemed to be only a dozen rooms in the inn, not enough for Ma's family to live in, so he entered the office hall dejectedly, and quietly stood behind the crowd. Don't hold out any hope.

So it's a terrible thing to have a fixed mindset (also known as 'habitual thinking'), but it's no wonder these people, the concept of family is ingrained in their hearts.

For farming families in the first class of production, apart from blood relationship, the bond between them is the primitive low productivity. In this case, there are many people with great power, which can solve the labor that many individuals cannot complete.

For the doctor class in the gentry, in addition to internal management to ensure a family's material production and consumption, it can also maintain and develop social relations externally. In the intricate social relations, maximize the interests of the family and allow the family to develop better. Handed down.

Ma Miner is not an ancient person, and does not know about land privatization. All social activities must be family-oriented so as not to be intruded and excluded from the outside world. She believes that only by separating families can individuals have autonomy and economic activities can be more active.

But how can the Ma family be separated?Quietly retreating to the gate of the yamen, she found her father standing at the back of the crowd looking listless.

"Father!" Ma Min'er's voice was very soft.

Ma Qifeng knew what his daughter was asking, and nodded slightly.

Ma Min'er got an affirmative answer, and relying on her small size, she quietly squeezed in front of the crowd again.

The room allocation was at an impasse, and Yao Zeliang couldn't do anything about it. He turned around and cupped his hands, "Teacher..." He almost said, teacher, you live in first, and the students will send someone to help you repair a few more rooms. Meaning, he understands a little bit, if he helps by himself, wouldn't he be against the emperor?He is not so bold.

Seeing Master Yao being helpless, Ma Qimeng became anxious, "My lord, there are only ten rooms, how can we live there?"

The old lady didn't want to lose face anymore, she went all out, stepped forward, and bowed to Lord Yao: "My lord, since the emperor divides the house and the land, we can't let us live."

"This……"

Li Tingchang retorted: "Madam, what do you mean, the largest yard in Yunshui Town has been allocated to your family, what else do you want?"

"Li Tingchang, you have to let our family stay here." The old lady choked.

"If you can't live there, then you can live in a thatched cottage. I heard that the sixth child of your family has already lived in it." Li Tingchang said disdainfully.

"Ah..." Everyone in the Ma family was shocked, "No..."

……

"You guys can't stay, that's no fault of me." Li Yaozong replied coldly.

"My lord... my lord, you have to make the decision for us!" Ma Qimeng knew that if he didn't grab Mr. Yao today, it seemed that the room would not be allocated properly.

Yao Zeliang was also in a difficult situation.

Li Tingchang secretly looked relaxed.

Ma Min'er knows that even if the inn in the town is public housing, it is not as cheap as her own, but if there are ten inns in the town and ten vacant houses in the Luo family, it will become two places, if... She wants to try it!
"Master Yao——"

In the silent office hall, there was a soft and crunchy girl's voice, and everyone looked for the voice.

It's this little girl again, what does she want to do, when Li Tingchang heard this voice, his first reaction was to jump, and then let her mouth be covered, but unfortunately the boss is here, he dare not make a mistake.

Because of the incident of queuing up and arresting human traffickers, Yao Zeliang still had a fresh memory of this little lady, and his frowning unknowingly relaxed, "What's the matter, little lady?"

"Master Yao, I heard people say that the inn in the town is actually a public house in Yunshui Town."

"You...you are talking nonsense..." As expected, he came to make himself jump, Li Ting was so angry that he was about to smoke.

Ma Min'er said: "Lord Li, are you talking nonsense, just look through the most original files of the inn and you will know!"

"You...you..." Li Tingchang glared and said, "Master Xu, show Master Yao the file and see if this inn is public?" Do you think I'm stupid? In the courtyard, I have already been in the dowry of Mrs. Du Tutou.

"Yes, my lord!" Master Xu bent his waist and presented the file to Master Yao.

"Master Yao, I heard that you were an official of the household department?" Ma Min'er immediately reminded Master Yao.

Yao Zeliang waited and said, "Yes!" He said in his heart, the little lady knows quite a lot.

Ma Min'er asked back: "How do you deal with making false contracts?"

"Let your mother go..." Li Tingchang was catching the jump.

Yao Zeliang glanced over with majestic eyes like a cold knife, and Li Tingchang fell silent.

"Li Tingchang, if I want to investigate, it shouldn't take much effort, right?" Yao Zeliang's tone was light, but everyone could hear the pros and cons.

Li Tingchang was sweating non-stop: "My... my lord... then... the inn only has ten rooms once I enter and exit, and... it is not enough for Mrs. Ma to live in." What is the most afraid of being an official? Afraid of the word 'serious', most afraid of holding on to it, he didn't dare to fool around.

"One ten room is not enough, you can divide it into two ten rooms!" Ma Min'er said innocently.

Li Tingchang secretly raised his eyes, rolling the whites of his eyes like a hanged ghost, almost scaring Ma Miner to death.

Yao Zeliang and Ma Qimeng's eyes lit up.

"teacher--"

"Father……"

Ma Chengzu nodded his old head, "Your Excellency, let's look at the arrangement."

"Yes, teacher!" Master Yao said, "The two courtyards, the students will let Li Ting take charge immediately."

"It bothers you."

"The teacher is serious."

"Father, Master Yao has given up the contract, and the son will share the population living in the town and the countryside." Ma Qimeng felt himself come alive.

"Ok!"

"Master Yao, if you live in two places, you are two household heads!" Ma Min'er interjected at the right time.

"This..." Yao Zeliang looked at the teacher's family.

"It's all one family, why two heads of household?" Ma Qimeng is the head of the family, of course he can't tolerate separation of households, so what's the point of that?

Ma Min'er secretly twitched her lips, wondering if she was afraid that the court would be divided into separate households, and there would be no room for domineering.

Hehe, don't say it, I really guessed Ma Qimeng's key point.

Li Tingchang's eyes rolled for a moment, as if he had thought of something, he quickly cupped his hands, "Master Yao, we have a small population in Yunshui Town. For the sake of taxation, we have always asked adult men to set up a separate family after marriage. Since the boss has come to our Yunshui Town , then we have to pay according to the tax of our Yunshui Town."

What?Grown males set up their own business, God, did I hear that right?Li Ting, who was too old to lose his teeth, looked thin and shriveled. He was wearing a black official uniform, dirty and greasy. Instantly, I thought this old man was extremely cute.

"What did you say?" Ma Qimeng's throat became sharp, "You dare to let us separate?"

"This is not something I dare or dare to do. This is an official document issued by the Ministry of Household Affairs. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mr. Yao, right?"

Who else knows the tax system better than the household officials?Master Yao has nothing to say, it is true.

Ma Chengzu, who had been expressionless all this time, suddenly felt sad, "Separate family?"

"Yes!" Li Tingchang hanged himself in a voice, seeing the Ma family suffocating, felt that he had finally won the game, hum, if you want to make a moth on my territory, then you have to see if you have the ability.

"Master Yao..." Ma Qimeng looked bitter.

In ancient China, the land tax was mainly based on the Ding tax. The Ding tax was actually a head tax. This tax system was initially formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The poll tax of the population allows the tax to be collected in mu.

But in fact, in the long history, there have been dynasties that did not collect the poll tax, but collected it by household and mu, such as the equal land system of the Wei State during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.In the Great Wei Dynasty at this time, because the northern part of Yizhou was close to nomads, wars often occurred. In order to encourage production and childbirth, and reduce the burden on the people, taxes were not collected by head, but by household and mu. Yunshui Town is located in the in such a system.

Ma Min'er didn't know about this kind of tax system until after the family got the farm.She did not expect that the separation problem she was worried about would be solved in such a way.

The Ma family divided the family with the concubines, but Ma Min'er didn't want to live with a large group of people. Thinking about it, she was so anxious that she almost jumped and turned to look for his father.

Dad, Dad, come out quickly!

Of course, Ma Qifeng doesn't want to live with the rest of the Ma family. If there is no outsider, he can stand up and ask for an independent family, but now there is an outsider, and this outsider is the magistrate and his father's former student. He has to save face for the family.

Seeing his father standing behind him motionless, Ma Min'er's mouth almost burst into flames. Then he thought that the ancients had a very strong family concept. Even if his father was angry everywhere in the family, it still couldn't erase his deep dependence and fear of the family.

Ma Min'er was not used to this kind of big family life, she felt that she could be suffocated to death, so she didn't care about people's small words, she turned her head and smiled and said to the eldest son: "Second Uncle, we don't participate in house distribution."

"Ah..." Ma Qizhang did not expect the little niece to say such words.

Ma Min'er said like an adult: "Now we borrow two wooden houses to live in. Let's distribute the house belonging to my family to the uncles and uncles who have a large population."

Ma Qifeng, who was depressed, was reminded by his daughter's words, and hurried to the front: "Second brother, I don't want to share the house, just give me some land!"

"You know how to farm?" Ma Qiguang would run on Ma Laoliu at any time, as if he didn't exist without saying a few words.

"I can learn."

"How to learn, stepping on the mud with bare feet?" Ma Qiguang smiled disdainfully.

"If farming is like this, of course I can." Ma Qifeng replied straight.

If Master Yao hadn't stood in front of him, Ma Qiguang would have laughed three times and said with a twisted mouth: "There are so many brothers and sisters, I can't be the master!"

"It's okay if you can't be the master, I will share two of the ten rooms." Ma Qifeng frowned, don't think I'm easy to bully.

"You rest!" The old aunt called out first.

The second son of the concubine is the biggest of all the brothers. Her wife gave him a little bump, and he stood up, as if a little distressed, "Sixth, we are together, and we can always have someone to take care of us. If we go out independently, the second brother is afraid." yes……"

If it wasn't for her family wanting to go out independently, Ma Min'er would probably be able to jump when she heard her "good" second uncle. Look, these people want to drive his father out.No matter, no matter, it is an independent portal anyway, regardless of whether it is active or passive, as long as it can be separated to live in its own family, it is a good thing.

Ma Qifeng didn't hear his 'good' second brother's words, so he smiled bitterly: "Thank you second brother, I don't have a wife, and the four children are young, so I won't drag everyone down in the public house!"

"But farming requires hard work, it's up to you and Da Lang..." Ma Qizhang seemed to be unable to bear it.

"Second brother, I can do it." Ma Qifeng really didn't want to be hypocritical with him.

Ma Qizhang had just met Master Yao in Xing'an City, and in order to please him, he smiled at him, "Look, sir..." as if he was embarrassed by his elder brother.

Yao Zeliang understood what the little lady meant, glanced at the teacher, and smiled at him, "Do as you like."

This is to agree with Lao Liu to set up a new door, and Ma Qizhang immediately handed over: "Thank you, my lord."

Under the witness of Mr. Yao, the Ma clan was divided into three households again. The legitimate son and the elder lived in an inn with one entry and one exit; the concubines lived in the Luo family's empty house.

Ma Qifeng has one family, and Guo Li's two thatched cottages belonged to his name, and another fifteen mu of land was allocated.

Finally, when the dust settled, Ma Miner felt strong all over, as if the good days in the future were beckoning to her.

Since the Ma family settled down and Yunshui Town had no decent place to entertain, Yao Zeliang went to Pingding County, more than ten miles away, after getting the household deed and land deed from Ma's house.

"Teacher, the students will come to visit you in two days."

"Buy yourself if you have something to do, and don't come to see me, this bad old man." Ma Chengzu raised his hand and brushed it twice, counting seriously, Yao Zeliang at best posted a name post, visited the mansion a few times, and when he came, How much he disdains himself, he is very clear in his heart, it is already good to be able to do this now, what else can he think about.

"Well, you can be a teacher for a day and a teacher for a lifetime. The students will definitely come to visit the teacher." Master Yao saluted very respectfully, and then asked his servants to deliver the food and silver on the carriage to the door of the inn.

Everyone was curious about what Master Yao gave his teacher, and they all followed the carriage to the entrance of the inn.

Ma Qifeng stood at the gate of the yamen and watched the crowd rush away. He sighed secretly. Not only did he not feel lost, on the contrary, he felt relaxed, as if he was reborn.

"Father—" Ma Dalang and his younger siblings had been standing under the eaves of the yamen gate, seeing his father standing motionless in the rain with his coir raincoat, he couldn't help crying out.

"Father..." Ma Min'er opened the umbrella to protect him from the rain.

"Let's go, let's go home." Ma Qifeng said to the children with a smile on his coir raincoat.

Ma Min'er took an umbrella to protect her brothers and sisters from the rain. The family of five walked back to the cabin in the rain. Under the rain curtain, their backs were high and low, but they stood upright and held their heads high.

The three mothers of Guo and Li stood at the door, and when they saw the Ma family coming back, they hurriedly asked, "Where's Daping?"

"Brother Daping and Xiaoyou went to watch the fun." Ma Dalang replied.

Guo Li was dissatisfied: "Did this child give you two houses?"

"Aunt Guo, I'm sorry, this house was originally yours, but now..." Ma Min'er was really embarrassed, she asked her eldest brother to come back and call Guo Daping, and transferred the two wooden houses into her own home.

"Er Niang, from what you said, this house should belong to your family. You should have all five rooms." After allocating two rooms to Ma's family, Mrs. Guo felt a lot more relaxed.

Ma Miner smiled embarrassedly.

Mrs. Guo Li asked with a smile: "Er Niang, I heard that Da Lang just came back and said that your family has been separated, have you been assigned?"

"Allotted." Ma Min'er nodded.

"Oh my God, that's great. Now that I have land to plant, I'm no longer afraid of starving to death." Mrs. Guo Li was sincerely happy for the Ma family.

(End of this chapter)