Outside a brick house in the back village of Majia Village, a group of young men in cloth clothes surrounded a young man in a brocade robe and an old man in gray cloth.

The old man was entangled with the brocade-robed youth, both of them were snatching the bull rope, while the surrounding youths were watching the play around them, and there were even sneers on the corners of their mouths.

This brocade-robed young man is named Ma Qiu, the son of the head of Majia Village, Ma Qiu is also a scholar, but he does not have the quality of a scholar, and he obviously has a body of knowledge, but he is unwilling to participate in the imperial examination, but likes to run rampant in the small land of Majia Village.

This old man's name is Ma Lao Liu, and the name Ma Lao Liu is very famous in Majia Village, because he has a bandit son, and his bandit son is bold, and he formed the famous Fuqin Army with the descendants of Zhaojia Village next door, and was finally recruited by the imperial court to become the general of Daqin.

When the news first came out, the villagers of Majia Village had great respect for Ma Lao Liu, and the village chief Ma Shui saw that Ma Lao Liu had to give three points of courtesy, and did not dare to offend.

But several years have passed, Ma Daring has never written a letter back, let alone returned to the village to visit the villagers, as if he had forgotten everything in Majia Village.

Ma Lao Liu's wife, that is, Ma Daring's old lady Li, was sick in bed for a long time because of this incident.

Ma Qiu has always been unhappy with Ma Lao Liu's original scenery, so he deliberately burned Ma Lao 60 acres of fertile land, and then used chicken feathers as an arrow to give Ma Lao Liu the crime of abandoning fertile land.

Ma Lao Liu's field was deliberately set on fire and burned, and it did not violate the law, but whether it was touched or not was not Ma Lao Liu's words, but the village chief holding the legal scepter had the final say.

Ten acres of fertile land is wasted, that is, a fine of one hundred taels of silver, for Ma Lao Liu, who has paid honestly for a lifetime, is undoubtedly a huge amount of money, an astronomical amount, when the national policy was implemented, he smashed the pot and sold iron, borrowed money from everywhere, and bought a cattle to open up the wasteland and farm.

After three or four years, the borrowed money has been paid off with interest, and after the foreign debt is paid off, Ma Lao Liu originally thought that as long as there were no natural disasters, life would be very comfortable, but he didn't expect that jealousy was crazy, and natural disasters did not have natural disasters.

Because Ma Lao Liu couldn't pay the money, Ma Qiu took the temporarily formed 'officers and soldiers', raided Ma Lao Liu's home, robbed Ma Lao Liu's savings for several years, and took the scalpers away to mortgage the fine.

Ma Lao Liu can tolerate the money being taken, but he will never tolerate the cattle being taken away, because the money is taken away, he can continue to farm if he has a cattle, and it will be better next year, but if there is no cattle, his old bones will not be able to plough the land at all, and if he does not plant crops next year, he will have to be fined a hundred taels of silver.

It is precisely because of this that the current scene happened, Ma Qiu and Ma Lao Liu were entangled, snatching each other's bull ropes, facing the upright and prime-aged Ma Qiu, how could the elderly Ma Lao Liu be Ma Qiu's opponent, and in less than a few breaths, Ma Lao Liu was pushed to the ground by Ma Qiu.

"Ma Lao Liu is really miserable!"

"Who said it wasn't, I finally had a son, and as a result, this son went to be a bandit!"

"Fate makes people, I originally thought that the bandit Ma Daring became a general, and Ma Lao Liu's life would be better, who would have thought, Ma Daring is an ungrateful and unfilial son!"

"Ma Lao Liu's godson has no way, he deserves it!"

"Yes, he deserves it!"

The villagers all love to watch the excitement, and in less than a moment, Ma Lao Liu's house surrounded the villagers of Majia Village one after another, and even the village chief Ma Shui came, and he didn't care at all about his son snatching Ma Lao Liu's scalpers and money, and regarded it as a play.

And those villagers don't have any good intentions to help Ma Lao Liu, one is jealous of Ma Lao Liu's son becoming a general, and the other is that they dare not provoke Ma Qiu, Ma Qiu is a well-known bully in Majia Village, and there is absolutely no good end to provoking him.

In the crowd, a villager saw this scene, and immediately turned his head to look at an old man next to him with a wicked smile and said, "Ma Lao Wu, your brother is being bullied, don't you go to help talk?" ”

This old man's name is Ma Lao Wu, and he is the fifth brother of Ma Lao Liu, Ma Lao Liu's family has a total of eight brothers, and there are only four surviving, namely the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth.

The villager's words fell, and the eyes of many surrounding villagers looked at Ma Lao Wu, and their eyes were playful when they looked at Ma Lao Wu.

Ma Lao Wu couldn't help but feel flustered, glanced at Ma Shui, the village chief not far away, in fear, and hurriedly cleared up the relationship and said, "I... I... We have already separated, his family's business, what does it matter to me, don't talk about it, there is an urgent matter at home, go first! ”

Ma Lao Wu fled, Ma Lao Qi, who was standing in other places to watch the play, Ma Lao Ba saw this, and also hid his face and fled, many villagers saw this scene, the corners of their mouths couldn't help showing a sarcastic look, when Ma Lao Liu was in the limelight, these three brothers had to go to Ma Lao Liu's house almost every day to sit down, and as a result, when something happened, they hurriedly cleared up the relationship.

"Haha, Ma Lao Liu, grandpa will go first!"

Ma Qiu proudly showed off the cow rope in his hand, and then jumped on the back of the cow, ready to ride the ox away, but at this time, Ma Lao Liuyi hugged the leg of the ox, crying bitterly, and begged for mercy: "Master Qiu, please let me go, you can't take away my cow!" ”

Ma Qiu looked down at Ma Lao Liu, who was holding the corbel, and said with an interesting smile: "What did I hear?" Qiu Ye? My obedient, the dignified general's father, actually called me a master, haha, in this way, am I not the ancestor of Ma Daring, haha! ”

Ma Qiu let out a wanton laugh, and many villagers couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh, and their eyes were full of playfulness when they looked at Ma Lao Liu.

"When the ancestor of the general? Are you enough? ”

In vain, at this time, a cold and murderous rough voice struck, making everyone's eyes widen, and the smile on Ma Qiu's face instantly froze, and for a while, everyone's eyes looked to the west, only to see that the path was full of murderous black-armored iron horses.