Outside a brick and tile house located in Hou Village, Majia Village, a group of young men in cloth clothes surrounded a brocade robe and an old man in gray cloth. The brocade robe had a thin chin, narrow eyes, and a yellow cow in his hand. The old man was not only old, but also extremely thin and looked weak.

The old man was entangled with the young man in brocade robe. Both of them were snatching the cattle rope, while the young people around him were watching the show, and some even had sneering at the corners of their mouths.

The young man with brocade robe is named Ma Qiu, the son of the village chief of Majia Village. Ma Qiu is also a scholar, but he does not have the qualities of a scholar. He has a good knowledge, but he is unwilling to participate in the imperial examination. Instead, he likes to be domineering in a small place in Majia Village.

The old man is named Ma Laoliu. The name Ma Laoliu is very famous in Majia Village because he has a bandit son, and he, the bandit son, is very brave. He formed the famous Qin Restoration Army with the young man in Zhaojia Village next door. He was eventually recruited by the court and became a general of the Qin Dynasty.

When this news first came out, the villagers of Majia Village respected Ma Laoliu very much. The village chief Ma Shui had to give in to Ma Laoliu when he saw Ma Laoliu and dared not offend him. Even the county magistrate of He County visited Ma Laoliu. The brick and tile house where Ma Laoliu lives is still built by a group of officials in He County.

But years have passed, and Ma Dadan has never written a letter back, let alone go back to the village to visit his fellow villagers, as if he had forgotten everything in Majia Village. In response, the villagers of Majia Village criticized Ma Dadan for being ungrateful, while sarcasticating Ma Laoliu.

Ma Laoliu's wife, Ma Dadan's mother Li, was ill in bed because of this.

Ma Qiu has always been unhappy about Ma Laoliu's glory at the beginning, so he deliberately burned up all Ma Laoliu's 60 acres of fertile land, and then used chicken feathers as a command arrow to lower Ma Laoliu's crime of wasting fertile land. The Qin Dynasty's law is clear, and the waste of fertile land was abandoned due to laziness and lack of farming, and a fine of ten taels of silver per acre!

Ma Laoliu's field was intentionally set on fire, and it did not violate the law. However, whether it was violated or not was not Ma Laoliu's final decision, but the village chief holding the scepter of the law had the final decision. With the village chief Ma Shui's inaction and default, Ma Laoliu's crime was established.

Ten acres of fertile land were abandoned, which would be a fine of 100 taels of silver. For Ma Laoliu, who was honest and devoted all his life, it was undoubtedly a huge sum of money. It was an astronomical figure. When the national policy was implemented, he sold his money and borrowed money everywhere, and then bought a scalper to open up land and farm.

He kept some of the crops he planted and sold them for money. After three or four years, the borrowed money had been paid off, along with the principal and interest. After paying off the foreign debt, Ma Laoliu originally thought that as long as there were no natural disasters, life would be very comfortable, but he did not expect that jealousy was crazy, and there were natural disasters without human disasters.

A simple fire not only burned Ma Laoliu's hope this year, but also made him fall into dire straits. Since Ma Laoliu could not pay the money, Ma Qiu took the temporary "official soldiers" to confiscate Ma Laoliu's home, snatched Ma Laoliu's savings over the past few years, and took the scalper away to mortgage and fine.

Ma Laoliu can tolerate money being taken, but he will never tolerate scalpers being taken away. Because money being taken away, he can continue to farm with scalpers and will get better next year. But if there are no scalpers, his old bones will not be able to plow the land at all. By then, if there are no crops next year, he will be fined 100 taels of silver.

It is precisely because of this that the current scene happened. Ma Qiu and Ma Laoliu got entangled and snatched each other's ropes. Facing Ma Qiu's upright and upright Ma Laoliu was not Ma Qiu's opponent. In less than a few breaths, Ma Laoliu was pushed to the ground by Ma Qiu.

"Ma Laoliu is really miserable!"

"Who said no? I finally had a son, but this son became a bandit!"

"Fate is a mess. I originally thought that if the bandit Ma Dadao becomes a general, Ma Lao Liu will have a better life. Who would have thought that Ma Dadao is an ungrateful and unfilial son!"

"Ma Lao Liu has no choice but to teach his children, he deserves it!"

"Yes, he deserves it!"

The villagers all like to watch the fun. In less than a moment, Ma Laoliu's home surrounded by circles of Majia Village, and even the village chief Ma Shui came. He didn't care at all about his son robbing Ma Laoliu's scalpers and money, and regarded it as a show.

The villagers had no good intentions to help Ma Laoliu. One was that they were jealous of Ma Laoliu's son becoming a general, and the other was that they did not dare to provoke Ma Qiu. Ma Qiu was a well-known bully in Majia Village, and there would definitely be no good end to provoking him.

In the crowd, a villager saw this scene and turned his head to look at an old man next to him with a smirk, saying, "Ma Laowu, your brother is bullied, why don't you go and help me?"

The old man is Ma Laowu, who is Ma Laoliu's fifth brother. Ma Laoliu's family has eight brothers in total, and only four are alive, namely Laowu, Laoliu, Laoqi and Laoba.

After the villagers finished speaking, many villagers around looked at Ma Laowu, and the eyes of Ma Laowu were amusing.

Ma Laowu couldn't help feeling panicked. He glanced at the village chief Ma Shui not far away in fear, and quickly cleared his relationship and said, "I...I...we have separated a family long time ago. What does his family matter have to do with me? I won't say anything. If there is an urgent matter at home, let's leave first!"

Ma Laowu fled in panic. Ma Laoqi and Ma Laoba, who were standing in other places to watch the show, also covered their faces and fled. Many villagers saw this scene and couldn't help but look sarcastic. When Ma Laoliu was in glory, these three brothers had to go to Ma Laoliu's house to sit almost every day, but when something happened, they hurriedly cleared their relationship.

"Haha, Ma Laoliu, Grandpa is leaving first!"

Ma Qiu proudly showed off the cow rope in his hand, then jumped onto the cow's back and was about to ride the cow away. However, at this time, Ma Lao Liu hugged the cow's legs, and while crying, begging for mercy, "Master Qiu, please let me go, you can't take my cow away!"

Ma Qiu looked down at Ma Laoliu, and smiled interestingly: "What did I hear? Master Qiu? My goodness, the father of the general, actually called me Master, haha, so I am not Ma Dada's ancestor, haha!"

Ma Qiu laughed wildly, and many villagers couldn't help but cover their mouths and laughed. The eyes of Ma Laoliu were full of fun.

"Being the ancestor of this general? Are you enough?"
Chapter completed!