Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan gathered wealth for the family, but his apprentice Mao Gang secretly divided up the master's wealth. In order to cover up others' eyes, Mao Gang temporarily stored the collected wealth in the Ma family mansion in Yuyang. Ma Xiaoquan was not aware of this.
Known, but Ma Xiaoquan’s son Ma Zheng discovered...
After discovering Mao Gang's secret, Ma Zheng was not in a hurry to go home and tell his father.
Since leaving home and wandering outside for several years, Ma Zheng has seen a lot of the current social life and experienced a lot of warmth and warmth in the world. When he teamed up with Wang Dali, Ma Zheng was an out-and-out little scoundrel. In order to survive, he
He could steal, rob, or even kill people with Wang Dali... After being separated from Wang Dali, Ma Zheng was alone in order to survive and tried his best to survive in this troubled world.
Although Ma Zheng is not old, he has seen a lot and experienced a lot, so he understands a lot.
Ma Zheng secretly drew a schematic diagram of the structure of the Ma family's mansion in Yuyang, and marked the place where Mao Gang hid his treasure on the schematic diagram.
After completing all this work, Ma Zheng decided to investigate Mao Gang.
However... to investigate Mao Gang, we must start with the people around Mao Gang.
The first person Ma Zheng thought of buying was Ding Yi. Before Ma Zheng was born, Ding Yi had been with his father Ma Xiaoquan. For some unknown reason, Ding Yi is now with Mao Gang. Such a big contrast, Ma Zheng
Whatever Zheng said, he had to investigate, but... After staying in the Ma family mansion in Yuyang for so many days, Ma Zheng only saw Ding Yi once at the beginning. In the following days, Ding Yi never
Appear.
Ma Zheng shifted his target to another person, Niushan.
During these days at Ma's mansion, Niushan would come over every now and then. During this period, Ma happened to observe Niushan carefully and found that Niushan loved gold and silver money very much.
Niushan was one of the guards responsible for guarding Mao Gang's property. Whenever Niushan was not on duty, he would secretly take out some of the treasures and fool around with them.
Father Ma Xiaoquan once said: Everyone has weaknesses, either they love money, they are lustful, or they just want power... All aspects of life are nothing more than living for money, power, and sex. Although Ma Zheng does not agree a little
My father's point of view, but what Uiushan did was exactly one of the examples my father said.
Since Niushan likes money, Ma Zheng will take advantage of Niushan's weakness.
It's just... Ma Zheng doesn't have a good plan yet on how to start.
"It would be great if the second brother was here..." Thinking of Wang Dali, Ma Zheng felt a sigh of relief in his heart.
...
Yecheng, Ma Family Courtyard.
After checking the family's accounts day and night, Ma Xiaoquan was exhausted and surprised. Firstly, he was amazed that he had made so much wealth in these years. Secondly, he was also impressed by his wife Hua Yuexin's good housekeeping.
I had been working as a hands-off shopkeeper before, but my wife Hua Yuexin kept all the internal affairs in the family in an orderly manner.
At night, Ma Xiaoquan and Hua Yuexin discussed the details of the family's daily expenses. When they talked about transporting property to Yuyang, Ma Xiaoquan suddenly remembered something.
"Madam, how is our home in Yuyang... being cleaned up?"
Hua Yuexin rolled her eyes at Ma Xiaoquan and said angrily: "You are such a hands-off shopkeeper and you never take care of it. Now you want to take care of it?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, took Hua Yuexin into his arms, and murmured: "That's it, I suddenly remembered something, so I wanted to go to Yuyang, but I can't tell anyone about it...
..”
Hua Yuexin asked curiously: "What's going on? It's so mysterious?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly and whispered into Hua Yuexin's ear for a while.
"What?" After hearing what her husband said, Hua Yuexin was surprised.
Ma Xiaoquan quickly covered Hua Yuexin's mouth and whispered: "Keep it down, I just found out about this not long ago... Madam, I have to start investigating..."
Hua Yuexin hummed softly: "Then how do you want me to help you."
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Fight with me"
"A fight?" Hua Yuexin looked at Ma Xiaoquan with some confusion.
"Yes, quarrel with me, no matter what, no matter what, no matter what you say, no matter what you say, until you make me angry."
Hua Yuexin frowned slightly and said with some reluctance: "My husband, although I have some complaints against you, I love you very much. I don't think I have anything to quarrel with you?"
"Uh" Ma Xiaoquan scratched his scalp. What Madam said was true. Although he was a hands-off shopkeeper, he treated Madam's family and servants very well. It was really difficult for Madam to quarrel with him.
"Then you're looking for trouble?"
Huayue thought for a moment and shook her head: "I can't think of it..."
Ma Xiaoquan was depressed and upset, and decided to tell his wife about the disappearance of his son Ma Zheng.
"Madam, I have something to tell you."
Hua Yuexin blinked her big eyes: "You tell me, I'm listening."
"Correct him..."
"Eh?" Hua Yuexin interrupted Ma Xiaoquan, "Isn't Zheng'er a soldier in Cao's camp? What's wrong? Zheng'er made a mistake?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "No."
"Zheng'er became a deserter? No, Zheng'er is not such a child."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head again.
Shaking her head, Hua Yuexin felt something was wrong. She suddenly stood up and grabbed Ma Xiaoquan's collar: "Did something happen to Zheng'er?"
Ma Xiaoquan sighed, acquiescing.
I thought that Madam would scream at me hysterically, but Hua Yue relaxed her hands and said calmly: "Mr., you lied to me, you must be lying to me."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head for the third time and said: "Madam, I didn't lie to you. In fact, Zheng'er had already been..." Ma Xiaoquan told his wife Hua Yuexin the news of Ma Zheng's disappearance from beginning to end.
"Get out! Get out!" After listening, Hua Yuexin only said this sentence.
Ma Xiaoquan wanted to say something more, but seeing the angry look on his wife's face, he had to withdraw temporarily.
Ma Xiaoquan was afraid that his wife would smash things, so he hurriedly called his sister Hua Lin, and said: "Wife Lin'er, your sister and I have had a quarrel. You go in and help me persuade your sister. You must watch your back."
Sister."
Hua Lin didn't say anything and walked straight into the house. After a while, Hua Lin yelled and cursed in the house: "Bastard Ma Xiaoquan, bastard..."
Ma Xiaoquan, who was standing outside the door, bared his teeth in embarrassment and left angrily.
During dinner the next day, the news of Ma Zheng's disappearance had spread to all the ladies. Knowing that the husband had kept it secret for so long, the eight ladies stood in a line and scolded Ma Xiaoquan mercilessly.
As the saying goes, three women can make one play, and these eight wives can barely make up three plays.
Mao Gang was extremely excited when he saw this scene. Although he had known about Ma Zheng's disappearance earlier, due to his identity, Mao Gang never said anything. Fortunately, now, my wife knows about it somehow, and she even made trouble with the master.
It's awkward. At this time, if I take advantage of the opportunity, I have a great chance of succeeding... When the time comes, I will take my beloved Hua Yuexin and fly away. When I pass by Yuyang on the way, I will take away some of the money.
, living in seclusion with Hua Yuexin from then on, wouldn’t that be a beautiful thing in the world...
"Get out, get out!" Mao Gang, who was daydreaming about something beautiful, was suddenly pulled back by a shrill female voice. He took a closer look and saw that Hua Yuexin was constantly hitting Ma Xiaoquan with objects around him.
Mao Gang was startled and quickly stepped forward to block Huayue Xin's body: "Master, please calm down, Master definitely didn't mean it..."
Hua Yuexin raised her head and looked at Mao Gang and said angrily: "Get out of the way. If this bastard Ma Xiaoquan doesn't give me an explanation today, I'm not done with him. I tell you, Ma, if you can, divorce me."
"This..." Ma Xiaoquan was helpless, why was his wife the same as Cao Cao's first wife, Mrs. Ding.
"Okay, just calm down. I'll go out to find my son!" With that said, Ma Xiaoquan raised his legs and walked out.
"Get out, get out of this house and never come back again!"
...
Looking at his master's disappearing back, Mao Gang was very happy in his heart, but on the surface he had a sad expression.
"Master..." Mao Gang shouted.
From a distance, Ma Xiaoquan turned around, smiled slightly, waved his hand, and left.
As soon as Ma Xiaoquan left, Hua Yuexin fainted immediately.
The ladies were startled and quickly stepped forward to support Hua Yuexin...
Half a month later, the servants of the Ma family suddenly experienced an inexplicable change of positions. For example, the servants who used to work in the kitchen were transferred to the logistics, while the servants who were originally in the kitchen were assigned to other positions. As for the kitchen