readx;?“ Okay, I'll leave now" Ma Haibo said: "But this matter will not be settled like this, I will wait for news from the city guards, if it turns out that you deliberately harbored criminals, I will not be polite to you"

"Don't worry" Liu Feilong said with a smile: "We are here to teach and educate people, not a place to hide filth and dirt, I also warn you, it is better to let your grandson's two followers tell the truth, otherwise, I will sue them for perjury, of course, there is also your grandson's own confession"

"You are the same, if your people lie, I reserve the right to hold them accountable," Ma Haibo threw down the sentence, turned his horse's head and walked back. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Walking out of Liu Feilong's field of vision, Ma Dejiang said unconvinced: "Father, why did we leave so easily, I think the people of the city guard will send the news over soon, whether it is for the city guard to do it, or we can act with them, we can find out the murderer hiding in the students."

"It's not as simple as you think," Ma Haibo shook his head.

"Do those old guys who don't become Amethyst Academy really dare to do anything with us?" Ma Dejiang asked.

Ma Haibo shook his head again and said: "It's not a question of whether the three old guys of the Amethyst Academy will do it with us or not is another matter, mainly from the city guards, they have investigated and collected evidence, and the result is very unfavorable to our Ma family, in this case, we have brought people to surround other people's colleges, even if they do it first, public opinion will point the finger at our side, and we will be difficult to distinguish when the time comes."

"How can it be a bad result for us?" Ma Dejiang was a little unconvinced.

"Why not?" Ma Haibo said angrily: "You know best what your son usually does, he causes trouble outside all day long, no one says that he is good, when the city guards are investigating and collecting evidence, everyone says that Yaoming is to blame, what should I do?"

"What do the City Guards eat? Didn't you pick up their captain, and every time they celebrate the New Year, they will go to our house to give us a big gift, how can they come up with such a result? Can't you just do it?"

"It's hard to seal everyone's mouth" Ma Haibo said: "You must know that we are not the only nobles of the Ma family in the empire, when those nobles committed crimes in the past, when did the emperor give his mother face, the people of the royal family wish that there were fewer nobles in the empire, and weaken the privileges of the nobles all day long, so we must not think that the position is high and powerful, no matter what we do, we don't have to take care of anything, but we must be careful everywhere, so as not to be caught by people pigtails, and then I will really regret it."

"I know, but that's all about Yaoming?"

"Of course not" Ma Haibo said viciously: "How can it be just like that, if you can't open your eyes widely, then you will come to Yin, the people who dare to move our Ma family, the people of Amethyst Academy are really ambitious leopard guts"

……

Ling Xiaotian stood up with a smile and said, "Old Dragon, today I have seen your true heroic side, which is really impressive."

Liu Feilong said angrily: "Come on, boy, if it weren't for protecting you, you would say such nice things?" Let me tell you, in the stable, although many people are not used to the people of the Ma family, but after all, they are high-powered, and the city lord has to give some face, and the father and son surnamed Ma are not open-minded people, so it is impossible for them to give up."

"Damn, I can't wait for it" Ling Xiaotian said indifferently: "The aristocracy is rotten, this is a very serious social phenomenon, if they don't say anything, I won't say anything, if they dare to do it, I will make them regret it, I will pick their Ma family from the position of the nobles"

"Boy, you speak very arrogantly" Chu Lingyun said with a smile: "However, I like your way of talking, don't let us catch the handle of the Ma family, otherwise I won't be polite to them."

……

At the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, several people sat at a large round table, and Liu Feilong specially ordered a meal from a large restaurant, and the hotel guy just delivered the meal.

"Let's start" Liu Feilong said with a smile: "It's next year in a while, let's take advantage of this year, let's have a drink first"

The crowd raised their glasses and drank them all.

Ling Xiaotian asked the old immortal to go to the Ma family to inquire about the situation, mainly to find out their next plan, so that he could make timely preparations on his side, to be honest, he was ready to fight the Ma family.

If Ling Xiaotian had done it before, he would definitely not have done this, his personality now is very different from when he was on Earth, he has always been in the same thought: We don't cause trouble, but we are never afraid of things, you respect me and I will return you a foot, but if you take away my foot, I will take a foot from you.

The old immortal soon spread the news.

"What?" Ling Xiaotian asked in shock, "The news got out so quickly?"

"Yes" The old immortal also said a little incredulously: "It stands to reason that it shouldn't be so fast, in the afternoon, Ma Yaoming was injured, and in the evening, all the military figures from the surrounding cities came to their Ma family, and they all went to give gifts, and it was seen that what they gave was not a New Year's gift, but more supplements and gold coins, and they took this opportunity to make offerings."

No, the New Year's gifts were delivered to Mafu a few days ago.

"What are they for? Do you remember?" Ling Xiaotian asked.

"Of course" the old immortal smiled and said: "I copied all the gift lists of those people, don't you know, those people are really willing to bleed, the most ruthless guy gave 10,000 gold coins at a time, and the others are relatively less, but they are all more than 1,000 together, and the Ma family has collected nearly 100,000 gold coins."

"I" Ling Xiaotian said in his heart, a small commander of coastal defense, his grandson can receive so many gifts with a little bit, this is too much, hundreds of thousands of gold coins can top the income of ten ordinary families for a lifetime

"Old immortal, I have an idea," Ling Xiaotian said with a grin.

"If you have any ghost ideas, let's say it quickly" The old immortal said: "When I encounter such a corrupt official, I also hate it to the core"

Although the coastal defense force is the weakest army in the empire, it is also the army with the most oil and water, here, promotion does not require military merit, but is directly promoted by the boss, so those who do not have the strength of the fighting spirit but have money like to come here, spend some money, mix a familiar face in the army, you can climb up step by step, the higher the military rank, the corresponding noble title will also rise.

"You go again" Ling Xiaotian explained: "Since you can find today's gift list, I think you can also find the gift list from the previous days, if you can find out the previous years together, this is the key to our defeat of the Ma family."

"I know, I said, why don't they discuss how to deal with you, it turns out that they are busy receiving gifts and meeting guests all the time, I will leave, I will come back when I find what you want," the old immortal left the restaurant quietly.

Liu Feilong saw Ling Xiaotian sitting there alone and laughed, and couldn't help asking, "Xiaotian, what are you doing?"

"Huh?" Ling Xiaotian was excited, smiled very "innocently", and said: "It's nothing, isn't it the New Year today, I'm happy, happy, hehe"

"Really?" Liu Feilong was a little unconvinced, and he asked in a low voice, "Aren't you worried at all?"

"Worried about what?"

"Knowingly, of course, the people of the Ma family are worried, they may come to you for trouble sometime."

"Mountain people have their own tricks"

……

The old immortal hid behind the curtains, a very secret study, but there were not a single book on the shelves, all the valuable antiques and gold and silver utensils, and a few large wooden chests at the base of the wall.

Ma Haibo covered a wooden box that was already full and said to Ma Dejiang: "These people are quite discerning, they know that Yaoming is injured, and they have given a lot of gifts."

"That's a hundred thousand, right?" Ma Dejiang asked with a smile.

"Almost"

"Hehe, we can be regarded as a blessing in disguise" Ma Dejiang said happily: "Yaoming's injury is not very serious, it didn't hurt the vital point, it can be healed in half a month, I didn't expect such a thing to happen, we can still receive so many gifts"

Ma Haibo shook his head and said: "If you take someone else's, you have to do things for others, have you counted the gift list?" In addition to the people who gave gifts a few days ago, according to the number of gifts they gave, after the New Year, we have to consider their promotion, fortunately, we are a coastal defense force, otherwise, if we promote these people to become officers, when we really fight the enemy, we are simply a group of lambs with slaughter."

Ma Dejiang said indifferently: "Father, you are thinking too much, the coastal defense troops are not even the third-line troops in the army's military establishment of the empire, who would expect us to have outstanding performance?" To tell the truth, our coastal defense force is simply an adoption center for the old, weak, sick and disabled."

Ma Haibo smiled and said, "You immediately count all the gift lists, and if something goes wrong when the time comes, whoever shakes out what our father and son did must hand it over to me the night after tomorrow, and it will be credited to the account."

"Got it"

The two of them left the study together, and the old immortal's body slowly revealed from behind the curtains, and he opened a small wooden box made of red sandalwood, which was full of bright red gift lists.

"Hehe, fortunately, they haven't destroyed these gift lists" The old immortal smiled and said: "Today, I will help you count it a little, and then come over the day after tomorrow to steal your account book, I see how you still fight with this kid Ling Xiaotian"

took out a pen and paper, and the old immortal began to count, during the period before the New Year, the income of the Ma family was more than 400,000 gold coins, and many people were loose with two gifts, one was counted as a New Year's gift, and the other was counted as Ma Yaoming's "nutrition fee".

"Moth, what a moth" The old immortal wrote down the last stroke, closed the book and said to himself: "You can collect more than 400,000 gold coins a year, Ma Haibo has been the commander of coastal defense for more than ten years, and the amount of bribes he has received for the New Year alone has reached at least more than five million, plus the gifts he usually receives during the holidays, this amount must be very amazing."

Putting the gift list back into the mahogany chest, the old immortal left the place.