Chapter 25 The Dowry
A long group of carriages appeared outside the door of Ma Jiaji, all covered with red cloth, led by a bald man, with a long scar on his face, from the corner of his eyes to the lips on the other side, looking extremely hideous and fierce. The old horse was startled and asked in a loud voice, "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"
The big man with the scar was watching the defense of Ma Jiaji, and when he heard someone ask him, he snorted to the sky and said, "I was sent by the Tianfeng in the city, I came to give a dowry for our second son, open the door, we have to send these finances to Miss Ma Ling'er's house, open the door quickly." When the old horse heard these words, he almost fell from the top of the lookout, and he actually came to give a dowry gift, where did he agree to this family business?
Thinking of this, the old horse's angry roar resounded in the sky above the entire Ma family, "You guys go back for me and tell you that the shopkeeper Li didn't agree to this family affair, as long as I am here, don't think about taking my Ling'er away, even if I die, I won't marry Ling'er to the Fang family!"
The scar-faced face below was scolded for a while, but when he remembered the young master's instructions, he still held back, took out a gift list, and read it aloud, "Don't make noise with the old man, listen to a certain family's words, you look at the gift list, the finance is more than ten thousand gold, there are one hundred brocade silks, one hundred silk horses, one thousand taels of silver, fifty taels of gold, ten pairs of coral, and twenty pearls..." Get out, get out of here with your stinky money, even if I starve to death, I won't do this thing of selling my granddaughter, I want to sell your wife to your son-in-law to be a child. This sentence caused a burst of laughter from the onlookers below.
The big man was caught off guard and almost hit the pole, and then he heard the old horse head scolding himself angrily, his face sank, and he shouted loudly: "Old horseman, don't toast and don't eat and drink, let me ask you, is it open or not?"
The big man sneered and said, "In this case, the so-and-so family will leave, and sooner or later there will be a time for you to cry, and then don't come to hug the thighs of the so-and-such family," After speaking, he turned around and turned his horse and left, walking back with a long convoy of horses. At this time, the old horse's head was so angry that he couldn't speak, but he was panting and watching them go away.
After taking a breath for a while, he suddenly remembered that Mr. Zhang must have heard about such a big thing, and when he thought of this, the old horse's head suddenly had a headache, how could this be good? He hurriedly got down from the lookout platform and hurried home, and sure enough, he saw Mr. Zhang standing at the door like a javelin from a distance, with a face as cold as ice. The old horse head suddenly complained secretly in his heart, but he still stepped forward.
Before he could walk in front of Mr. Zhang, he heard him say coldly: "One hundred brocade silks, one hundred silks, such a big hand, Ma Village Chief, our family is poor, but we can't take out such valuable things." When the old horse head heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to accompany the smiling face: "Mr. Zhang, what are you talking about, my old horse head really loves some money, but am I the kind of person who can even sell his granddaughter for money? They came to give a dowry, it was just wishful thinking, I have never promised this thing." ”
When Mr. Zhang heard this, his face became a little better, and he said: "You proposed the matter of the two dolls marrying, and this dowry is also going to be sent to your house, so you don't want to do a thing about a woman and two families." When the old horse head heard this, he couldn't help blushing, gritted his teeth and said, "Mr. Zhang, don't worry about this, if those grandsons come to make noise again, my old horse head will break their legs." This old horse's head was really pushed by Mr. Zhang, but this anger could only be swallowed by himself, and he almost didn't come up in one breath and fell to the ground.
Mr. Zhang saw that he even said such cruel words, so he stopped speaking, turned around and walked towards his private school, saw Gan Ping at the door, ignored him, passed by directly, and said: "Ping'er, come back to study, read the book of sages to know shame." Gan Ping originally saw Mr. Zhang coming out for himself, and his heart was moved, but when he heard this, he stumbled under his feet and almost fell, and he didn't dare to look at the face of the old horse's head, but just glanced at Ma Ling'er on the other side through the fence and walked back to the house.
The old horse's head stood there, and he simply broke his teeth, this is to say that I am shameless, I have lived for such a long time, no one has said this about myself, how can this make the old horse's head not hold his breath, this little old man's lungs are about to explode, and he stomped his feet hard, what is going on early in the morning?
But before he could dissipate his anger, someone in the village came to him, saying that those shop owners wanted to see him, which made the old horse's heart chuckle and give birth to a bad feeling. He followed the man to the inn, where the proprietors of seven or eight shops had been waiting for a long time, and after greeting them one by one, the old horse head sat down on the main seat.
Glancing at these bosses, all of them were foreigners in the past two years, and the old horse head had already thought about their intentions in his heart, and sat there without saying a word. Seeing that he was silent, the people looked at each other for a moment, and one of them stood up and said, "Village Chief Ma." The old horse raised his eyelids and saw that it was the shopkeeper Wang of the grocery store, and said, "Shopkeeper Wang, I don't know what is going on?"
The shopkeeper of the king was white and chubby, smiling and smiling, and when he heard the old horse head ask him, he arched his hand and said, "Village Chief Ma, how did you offend the Tianfeng?" The shopkeeper said: "Oh, Village Chief Ma, this Tianfeng has already informed us, and will no longer provide goods to the village in the future, and there will be no more business dealings, what should we do?" As soon as the words fell, the other bosses also shouted.
The shopkeeper pressed his hand down, and suddenly his voice stopped, only to hear him say: "Village Chief Ma, I heard that the second young master of Tianfeng wants to marry Ma Ling'er of your family, yes or no?" At this time, the old horse head had already guessed their thoughts, snorted coldly, and stopped making a sound. Seeing the old horse's head like this, the shopkeeper Wang thought that he was a little afraid, so he said: "Village Chief Ma, that day Feng is the largest shop in Xiaoyue City, and their owner is the president of the Xiaoyue City Chamber of Commerce, we can't afford to mess with it, and the biological mother of the second young master is the sister of the city lord Ning Lingtian, and if we provoke them, our Ma family will suffer." ”
Saying that the shopkeeper of the king here seemed to be tired, he picked up the tea bowl, took a sip, and continued: "It's not a few of us who force you, it's mainly for you, for the sake of the Ma family, if your family bell becomes the wife of the second young master, then our life will be better, and the life of the Ma family will be better." Why bother letting Ling'er marry that poor boy..."
"Bang!" the old horse head couldn't help it, slapped it on the table, and held his breath from morning to now, and finally broke out, this old horse head was also a good hand when he was young, and his martial arts have not fallen for so many years, and he shot out angrily, and suddenly slapped the table out of a big hole, and shouted angrily:
"Shut your mouth for me, I know, isn't it Tianfeng who broke your goods? You have to let Lao Tzu's granddaughter go to make a child for others? Why the hell don't you let your old lady marry that bullshit second son? If you want to be prosperous and rich, you have to find a way by yourself, don't pay attention to the old man's head, Ma Jiaji is now what I say, don't think that you can do whatever you want with a little money, Lao Tzu doesn't eat this set. ”
The white and chubby shopkeeper Wang had long been frightened by the old horse's palm, and when he heard the old horse's scolding so ruthlessly, he also said angrily: "Old horse, let me tell you, don't be arrogant, sooner or later there will be a time for you to cry." Hearing these words, the old horse head smiled coldly, glanced at these outsiders who came to Ma's house to collect money, and raised his legs and walked out of the door.
After all, this group of outsiders is not the villagers of Majiaji, and they only take care of themselves when they are in danger, but the old horse head is not angry at this time, come on, how many tricks are there to come, first to propose, and then to give a dowry, and now they actually unite the various shopkeepers to force themselves, then fight and see who is powerful.
The old horse's head pouted his beard all the way home, and he didn't even eat breakfast, he lay there sulking, and no one dared to say anything, and no one would touch his moldy head at this time.
What people didn't expect was that when it was time for lunch, Ma Zhang's was surprised to find that Ma Ling'er was gone, not in the private school, not in another girl's house, and when they searched the whole village, there was no trace of it, and everyone panicked.