loyal dog becomes cat

"The official name of Ximen is Ximen Fang. He was originally the son of Houmen. Rongyuanhou has been hereditary for three generations. His generation is the fifth generation. Although he has no title, Ximen's family is also one of the most famous in Huanzhou." Hua Hua Seeing that although she is only a little maid, she always likes to gossip and knows a lot about the affairs of the town and the village, "It's strange to say that this Ximen official doesn't like to be an official, he only loves doing business, and his family has a thousand acres of fertile land. He also runs a herbal medicine shop, besides Hexiangji, seven or eight restaurants in Huanzhou are all owned by him. Even the famous Xiuluyuan and Tingfenglou in Chongzhou, the capital city, also have his shares."

He turned out to be a successful entrepreneur, Ma Ke rubbed his chin, he sounded like Liu Xiaodong.

"Although he has no title now, he is a son of the Hou family after all, and has a very good relationship with the officials in the capital. I often heard the master say that the magistrate of Huanzhou will act according to his face."

Ma Ke sighed in his heart. Sure enough, there are people in the court who are good at handling things. It is the same in any era. The second generation of red entrepreneurs and officials are bulls.

"However, the most powerful thing about him is that he has many wives at home." Hua Jian changed the subject and said, "He is only in his 30s this year, and he has already married twelve concubines. wife."

"Ah?" Marco was curious, and clicked his tongue: "So much? Is he busy?"

"What is this? The most coincidental thing is that these thirteen wives gave birth to twenty daughters for him, but they couldn't bear any sons." Huajian smiled and said, "So, this lady from Ximen's family The names are very interesting, either Zhaodi or Pandi, or Laidi or Youdi."

"Pfft..." Ma Ke couldn't help but spit out a sip of tea, no wonder this Ximen official married so many wives, it was so sad.

On October [-]rd, the market in Dengzhuang finally opened. Ma Keda and Huajian had packed up early in the morning and went to the market to buy gypsum powder and donkeys.

Huajian looked at the mirror and clicked her tongue: "Brother, you are so beautiful, even more beautiful than the officials in the city."

Ma Ke was speechless, wrapped his head with a floral handkerchief, and said, "Brother doesn't like to hear such compliments, so save yourself."

Hua Jian stuck out her tongue, and carried the basket with Ma Ke out of the room. The kitten Liu Xiaodong seemed to know that they were going out, jumping up and down non-stop, Ma Ke had to take it with her and stuffed it in Hua Jian's basket.

Mrs. Ma stood under the eaves to see them off. Before leaving, she took Ma Ke's hand and said: "A Ke, be careful on the road. If you encounter rogues, don't be as knowledgeable as them. Just get out and go home early."

Ma Ke knew that Ma Ke was raised as a daughter since she was a child. Although Mrs. Ma knew he was a son, she still couldn't help treating him like a daughter, so she smiled and said, "Mother, I'm a young man, I'm afraid of some rascals, don't worry. Just wait, we'll be back at noon."

Mrs. Ma was taken aback, then laughed and said: "Isn't that right, why do I always forget that you are a kid."

In order to facilitate trade, the markets of several villages outside the city of Huanzhou were held together. Dengzhuang and the adjacent Wangzhuang were similar in size, so the market was set up on a threshing ground between the two villages.

The threshing ground is three miles to the east of Dengzhuang. It is neither far nor close. Ma Ke and Hua Jian walk. One is young and the other is weak. They are not fast. They walked for half an hour before leaving. Deng Zhuang.

"Hey, isn't this a girl from the Ma family?" As soon as they left the village, they ran into brothers from the Deng family. Deng Youcai probably also went to the market, driving a crude carriage. He came up and said, "Sister, I think your legs are not strong enough, why don't you get on brother's carriage."

Ma Ke didn't say anything, but Liu Xiaodong poked his head out of Gebu who had opened the basket, and gave him a gouged look, revealing his shiny teeth, and let out a warning sound of "woo hoo".

Marco knew that although it was a cat, it was better than a dog at protecting its owner, so he patted its head comfortingly and stuffed it back into the basket.

Thinking of Deng Liang's words, Ma Ke took a look at Deng Youcai, and said with a fake smile: "Thank you, no need, we can walk."

Deng Youcai thought he was shy, and salivated and said, "Don't tell me, it hurts your little feet when you walk away, brother loves you so much."

Ma Ke was so disgusted that he almost vomited, he walked quickly with his head down, and said with a sneer, "You fucked up too much."

"What did you say?" His voice was so small that Deng Youcai couldn't hear him clearly, he urged the carriage to take a step forward, and asked.

"It's nothing, I mean..." Ma Ke stood still, raised his face and said word by word, "In broad daylight, you follow me like this, it's indecent, and people can see it, your father's patriarch will lose face Where to put it."

The sun was just rising, and Ma Ke's pink face was shining brightly under the sunshine. Although no makeup was applied, it had a thrilling natural beauty. Liu Xiaodong got out of the basket, raised his right front paw, and stretched out his middle fingernail so brightly that he didn't see it.

While he was in a daze, Ma Ke took Hua Jian and ran a few steps to get into the crowd. Deng Youcai came back to his senses after a while, patted his thigh with a "snap", and said, "Hey, this girl is so fucking pretty. .”

"You're still silly after eating it." Brother Deng Youqing gave him a white look, and Deng Youcai smiled, "What do you know, what's so good about a stupid woman, brother likes her strong temper."

Although it is a rural market, because it is jointly organized by several villages, the scale is quite large. Ma Ke has never been out of the house since he crossed, and he is very happy to be among the crowd. Although he has no money in his pocket, he looks left and right. Complacent, now I finally understand why my ex-girlfriend likes to go shopping so much, even if I don’t buy anything, I’m happy.

"Hana, where can I buy gypsum powder?" After shopping for an hour, Ma Ke finally got down to business.

"Go to the raw medicine stall and buy it." Hua Jian pointed to several large stalls beside the market, "Miss, what are you buying gypsum powder for?"

"Use it." Marko dragged her to the raw medicine stall.

The two squeezed to the raw medicine stall, Ma Ke asked the price, and did not dare to buy more for the first time, only bought a small pack, just about to pay, I saw a big fat hand stretched out, with a little Sui Yin, Deng Youcai's wretched voice came from behind him, "My brother asked for what Ma's sister asked for."

Ma Ke's face turned dark, and without turning his head, he said: "No need, I appreciate it well, if it's not relative or reason, don't bother me."

Hua Jian hurriedly took out the money and handed it over, saying: "Boss, take our money."

"Hey..." Deng Youcai raised his thick eyebrows, patted Huajian's hand, and said, "You damn girl, how dare you touch my face!"

Seeing that she was timid, Hua quickly apologized with a smile and said: "Brother talented, I dare not let you spend money, we have brought money."

"Take mine, old man." Deng Youcai threw the money in his hand to the boss. The old man knew Deng Youcai already, knew that he was unreasonable, looked at him, then at Ma Ke, and murmured: " This...this girl, look..."

Ma Ke ignored Deng Youcai, took out the bag of gypsum powder from Huajian's basket, put it back on the stall gently, and said, "I'm sorry, boss, we don't want this bag anymore."

Ma Ke pulled the flowers and turned around and left. He didn't take a look at Deng Youcai from the beginning. Deng Youcai was furious, so he rushed up and dodged in front of Ma Ke, saying: "Hey...you little girl, don't give up. what?"

Hua Jian even smiled apologetically, Ma Ke pulled her behind, stood in front of her and sneered, "How much face do you have? Give it back?"

Deng Youcai was taken aback for a moment, and it took him a long time to realize that Ma Ke was robbing him. Before he could reply, Ma Ke said again: "My face looks good, and I don't need others to give it to me. If you don't want your face, just There will be a fair today, so I might sell it at some stall, maybe someone will want it."

Huajian couldn't hold back a "puchi" laugh, and Liu Xiaodong also got out of the basket and let out a "meow", as if in a demonstration.

Deng Youcai was furious, and said, "Sister of the Ma family, do you think you are still the daughter of the old lady? Your father has already eaten the noodles from the robbers, and all the land, gold and silver of your family have been confiscated by the creditors. If it weren't for me Father has pity on you orphans and widows, he has expelled you from our Dengzhuang a long time ago, you don't know how to repay your kindness, yet you still dare to talk to me like that!"

This is simply a blatant threat and nonsense. Ma Ke's nose was crooked in anger, and he sneered: "Is it great that your father is the patriarch? My family has suffered some accidents, but the deed of the house where I live now is written on my father. No matter how strong your father is, can your father surpass Master Zhizhou? No matter how strong your family’s family law is, can it surpass the Chizhang Code of Law?”

Ma Ke's words were reasonable and loud, Deng Youcai couldn't refute for a while, and said harshly: "Don't use the government to suppress me, let me tell you the truth, I thought you were handsome, and I wanted to send a matchmaker to talk about marriage and marry you." A concubine, let you live a comfortable life, I didn't expect you to be so savage, hum! Let me see how you will marry out in our Dengzhuang in the future!"

"You don't need to worry about whether I marry or not!" Ma Ke was so angry that he wanted to laugh, he was speechless towards this kind of person, shook his head, and said to Hua: "Don't talk to him, let's go, after shopping go home."

"Hey, stop!" Seeing that they were about to leave, Deng Youcai rushed forward and wanted to pull, but before his fingertips touched Ma Ke's sleeve, he heard a low growl, followed by a sharp pain on his wrist. .

"Ouch!" Deng Youcai yelled, and when he took a closer look, he saw that the tiger kitten in the basket bit his wrist, his limbs were hanging in the air, and he was hanging there by his fangs, even though it was not heavy. , is also heartbreaking.

"You little bastard!" Deng Youcai grabbed Liu Xiaodong's neck and pulled it off his arm. He lifted it over his head and was about to fall to the ground. Ma Ke had already left, but suddenly felt a pain in his heart. Frightened, he shouted, "Stop!"

Ma Ke rushed forward in two steps in three steps, reaching out his hand to snatch Liu Xiaodong, but Deng Youcai was tall and burly, and he couldn't reach it even with his arms stretched out, so he had no choice but to say: "Give me back my cat."

Deng Youcai flashed his wrist, and said: "This little beast dares to bite me, let's see if I don't kill it today!"

"Don't you dare!" Ma Ke got anxious and jumped, but barely touched Liu Xiaodong's paw, and begged helplessly, "Give it back to me, and I'll ask the doctor to look at the wound for you."

Holding the kitten, Deng Youcai sneered and said, "Brother doesn't care about a little consultation fee." Looking around, he said: "Listen, you crude medicine sellers, no one is allowed to do business with this little girl today, otherwise I will Make him look good!"

Deng Youcai usually wandered around the village, and most of the businessmen who often came to the market knew him. Although they were not angry when they heard the words, they didn't dare to speak, they just shook their heads and sighed.

Seeing Liu Xiaodong's eyes turned white from being pinched, Ma Ke's heart was twisted like a knife, and he clenched his fist and said, "Deng Youcai, let him go, or I'll be rude!"

"Hey." Deng Youcai smiled wretchedly, and stretched out his hand to hook Ma Ke's chin, "It's really easy to let him go..."

"Why can't she do business?" Deng Youcai had just stretched out his hand halfway, but was suddenly held down by a hand like iron pincers. I heard that there are always people bullying and dominating the market in Dengzhuang Wangzhuang, I didn't believe it at first, but I just found out today that it really happened."

A tall figure hung over Deng Youcai's head, and he took Liu Xiaodong from his hand as soon as he stretched out his hand, held it in the palm of his hand, looked at it, and placed it gently in Ma Ke's arms.

"Girl, don't be afraid, your kitten is fine." The man said softly, "Whatever you want to buy, just go to Ximen's stall over there, and just look for the uncle in yellow."