The rising sun rises from the mountains like a salted egg yolk. The town of Zhaoyuan in the morning was plated with a fine layer of gold dust, and the chirping of birds and dogs were mixed with the noisy sound of firecrackers, bringing a hustle and bustle to the quiet town. This morning, I ate five meat stuffed buns from Ma's old shop in a row, which made Ma Kun's stomach swollen, and Ma Kun, who was rubbing his stomach, sat in front of the dilapidated land temple and basked in the sun. Ma Kun is 12 years old this year, he doesn't know who his parents are since he can remember, these years he has been in Zhaoyuan Town and the county seat to eat and mingle, fortunately, there are still a lot of kind-hearted people, although Ma Kun can't eat all the time, but he didn't starve to death in this land temple.

Today is a coincidence, the old lady of the Feng family in Zhaoyuan Town celebrates his 60th birthday, Ma Kun relied on his body to flexibly lean over and kowtow to the happy old lady of the Feng family three times, in exchange for five meat buns to go down, Ma Kun, who was full of stomach, rubbed his swelling and aching stomach with satisfaction, thinking about how good it would be if there were meat buns to eat every day. A sound of footsteps came along the wind, and Ma Kun, who was indulging in reverie, raised his eyes to see that a big car and a few people came from a distance on the avenue outside the Land Temple.

The cart and the pedestrians got closer and closer, Ma Kun rolled his eyes, got up, tightened the strip of cloth tied around his waist, and stood in the middle of the avenue. "You're here to sell goods in Zhaoyuan Town, right?" Ma Kun wiped his dark and thin little face with the sleeves of his exposed cotton, and asked the few traders who were stopped by him with a smile, "My family lives in this Zhaoyuan Town, there is no place in the town that I don't know, 10 meat buns, I will show you the way" Ma Kun could only count to 10, because he only had 10 fingers, so he reported the salary of 10 meat buns.

The few people who were stopped by Ma Kun laughed, and a strong man in short clothes in the lead looked at Ma Kun's thin figure, smiled and stretched out his hand to slip Ma Kunti to the cart, "You have a big family surnamed Feng here, you just take us to his house, I will not only give you 10 meat buns, but also give you two pieces of the ocean" Ma Kun has never used the ocean to buy things, but this does not mean that he doesn't know how many things he can buy back now, so he is busy nodding his head at the moment, for fear that this strong man will change his mind and regret it.

"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Sitting on the wheel, the handlebar style shook the whip three times in a row with the long whip in his hand, but Ma Kun, who was sitting in the cart with great interest, did not notice that there were more than a dozen men dressed as bankers on the avenue behind them, if anyone paid attention to the shoes on their feet, they would find that their shoes full of dust were actually cowhide. The cart with a few wooden boxes creaked into the town, and the imperial army standing guard at the entrance of the town looked at Ma Kun sitting on the cart, and laughed and said that Huazi was smoking from the ancestral tomb today, and there was actually a time to take the car.

"These people are here to pay homage to the old lady of the Feng family, I am leading the way for them" Ma Kun saw that the imperial association army wanted to stop the cart, so he shouted at the top of his voice, the Feng family is a big clan in Zhaoyuan Town, not only the third elder of his family is in charge of the town's militia, but the eldest grandson who came back after studying in Japan is also the translator of the Japanese army in the county, and there are people who the imperial association army dares to provoke. "Ladies and gentlemen, we are indeed here to pay homage to the Feng family, and buy some wine for the bosses to drink" The handlebar style that had already jumped off the wheel of the car After the strong man made a look, he smiled and took out two pieces of ocean from his pocket and quietly stuffed them into the hands of the squad leader of the Imperial Association Army.

As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, and the people who have been working in the Imperial Allied Army these years can't just eat for a mixed meal, and then get a few more money to spend, seeing that this group of people is so good, the squad leader of the Imperial Allied Army let them in with a wave of his hand. "If you don't give money, we can go in, they don't dare to mess with the Feng family" Ma Kun puffed out his face, and looked at the triumphant Imperial Association Army with some resentment, his eyes full of reluctance to those two oceans.

Holding the handlebar of the cart, he looked back at Ma Kun's little touch and smiled, "How can I look at this kid and our Dazhi, look at the wrinkled face, isn't it just two oceans, we will come back later" Ma Kun, who was sitting crookedly in the cart, was a little stunned, he didn't know what this handlebar style meant, those two oceans were given to the imperial army at the entrance of the town, how could he still come back.

Under the command of Ma Kun, the cart and the men dressed as a few vendors came to the gate of the Feng family's compound, at this time it was not yet the time to set up a big banquet in the evening, and the guests who came to celebrate the birthday were sitting in the courtyard listening to the play, crowded and crowded The entire front yard was filled, and in this way, there were people carrying gift boxes to come to the door to pay their respects. Two old bookkeepers sitting at the door wearing melon skin hats are responsible for remembering the name and singing the ceremony, taking the gifts of the guests, recording them on the red paper, and the old bookkeeper with a clear voice also shouts out the names of the guests and the gifts they bring, this is the local custom, the more guests who come, the more they have status, and the more gifts they receive, the more face they have.

"There are guests" saw that the cart with the wooden box stopped at the door, and the little guy who was in charge of greeting the guests shouted loudly, and the clever little guy was also busy sending hot towels, so that the people who came with the cart wiped their faces and hands. "Okay, we're here, this is the salary you led the way, don't lose it" The handlebar style smiled and took out two oceans and two banknotes from his pocket and handed them to Ma Kun, and whispered a few words, "Dayang is your salary, and the banknotes are the money to buy meat buns for you, remember, if you buy buns, go back to your land temple and hide them, be careful that people will hurt you for a while"

Rubbing Ma Kun's head, the strong man who jumped down from the cart and those few people carried the wooden box into Feng's house, and they didn't know what they said to the old account room who sang at the door, and the two young men who looked smart took them directly into the courtyard of the Feng family. "Didn't you give you a meat bun just now? Why is it here again? Let's go, there are a lot of people here today, don't make the Feng family unhappy and be beaten for a while" The old bookkeeper in charge of registering the name took two cold meat buns from the plate next to him and handed them to Ma Kun, waving him to hurry up.

Ma Kun smiled, grabbed the meat bun and turned around obediently, and when the old account room was busy bowing his head to register his name, Ma Kun picked up two pieces of fallen red paper from the ground, scattered his legs and squatted behind the tree diagonally opposite the Feng family's compound. I have already eaten five meat buns today, Ma Kun wants to wrap the two buns in his hand with the red paper he picked up, keep them for tomorrow, and wait for the Feng family to disperse, maybe he can still have something delicious. Here Ma Kun was spreading out the red paper, and before he could put the bun on the paper, he listened to the Feng family's compound, and suddenly there was a burst of firecrackers and cries.