Summary of the previous chapter: Zi Shaoyan led Zi Long to Ma's house... Zi Shaoyan was very surprised by Ma Xiaoquan's appearance...
"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you. Hot rice can't stop your mouth. I'll just eat your food." Li Qinghan frowned and said.
Across the table, Zilong suddenly said: "Sister-in-law Li..."
"Huh?" Li Qinghan raised his head and looked at Zilong. Zilong's face burned again when he looked at his big watery eyes.
"Sister-in-law Li, if I remember correctly, eating tofu... doesn't mean a very good thing..."
"Oh? Is there any other meaning to eating tofu?"
Zilong's face turned red again, and he nodded: "Well, it's not convenient to say, but I can tell you when I have the chance..."
Li Qinghan turned his head and glared at Ma Xiaoquan, and found that Ma Xiaoquan was picking up the rice in the bowl with a guilty conscience. He said angrily: "Ma Xiaoquan, what bad idea do you have?"
Ma Xiaoquan put down his job with some resentment, glared at Zilong across the table, and thought to himself, good boy, I'm not familiar with you, so just take a fucking copy of my book, and what the hell...
Opportunity? Grandma, I told you to have no chance at all in my Ma family, damn...
"What do you think they are doing? You must have had some bad idea just now..."
At this point, Ma Xiaoquan could only quibble: "Sister-in-law, you believe that guy just based on his words. Besides, we don't even know him..."
Ma Xiaoquan is right. It was the first time that Li Qinghan and Zilong met, and they didn't say hello in a serious manner. Maybe... Ma Xiaoquan was right.
Zilong didn't argue much, after all, this was not his Zilong home, hey, it was better to settle the matter after dinner.
Seeing that Zilong didn't say anything anymore, Ma Xiaoquan felt very proud, "Boy, I guess you are wise enough to go to sleep after dinner."
...
Mrs. Ma shook her head with a smile and asked Zi Shaoyan: "Shaoyan, you are here this time, but what matters does your old man entrust you to handle?"
Zi Shaoyan nodded and did not hide anything: "What Aunt Yang said is right. Our Zi family is indeed in trouble. Well, we can discuss this after dinner."
Mrs. Ma nodded and hummed.
"Aunt Yang, Ma Xiaoquan...well, Quan'er...".
"Well, all of you will come with me," Mrs. Ma said.
Zi Shaoyan chuckled: "That would be great"
...
Ma Xiaoquan lowered his head and ate his meal. He had listened to the conversation between Zi Shaoyan and Mrs. Ma just now. Regarding Zi Shaoyan, Ma Xiaoquan was very sure that the other party was from the Zi family.
It's just...I heard from grandma that since the death of the old man of the Ma family, the Zi family has rarely interacted with the Ma family. It's New Year's Eve, but the Zi family has come uninvited?
After dinner, Mrs. Ma led Zi Shaoyan and Ma Xiaoquan to her bedroom.
After closing the door, Zi Shaoyan couldn't wait to take out the portrait scroll from his arms.
"Aunt Yang," Zi Shaoyan handed the scroll to Mrs. Ma and said, "This portrait..."
Mrs. Ma took the portrait painting, looked at it once, and nodded gently.
"Aunt Yang, don't you think this painting is related to..." Zi Shaoyan looked at Ma Xiaoquan and said.
Mrs. Ma shook her head and said: "Shaoyan, it must be your first time to come to my Ma's house. My Ma's house also has a similar picture like yours. We were all surprised at first, but as time went by, it became clear that
I’m used to it, it’s nothing surprising...”
Ma Xiaoquan came over, took a look at the portrait on the scroll, and said with a smile: "It turns out that I can be painted so much like me, it's great! Haha..."
Zi Shaoyan smiled bitterly, shook his head and said, "Quan'er, do you know where this portrait came from?"
Ma Xiaoquan shrugged his shoulders, not knowing what he meant.
Zi Shaoyan said: "This portrait was made by the former head of my Zi family, Ma Xiao!"
"Xiao...you said...it's Xiao...Ma Xiao?" Ma Xiaoquan was so excited that he almost called out "Xiao'er".
Ma Xiaoquan is Ma Xiaoquan's biological son, and he is also the eldest son. Ma Xiaoquan clearly remembers that before he left the late Han Dynasty, Zi Chen, the head of the Zi family at the time, came to the door and said that he was interested in Ma Xiao and wanted to ask Ma Xiao to be his servant in the Zi family.
The head of the family...
Although Ma Xiaoquan suddenly activated his temporary precognition ability after the incident and saw Ma Xiao becoming the head of the Zi family, but... that was just a precognition. Ma Xiaoquan didn't know whether it was a fact or not.
Now after hearing what Zi Shaoyan said, Xiaoer has indeed become the head of the Zi family. It's really... the world is amazing.
Ma Xiaoquan deliberately pretended to be stupid and said: "Uncle Shaoyan, why do your words sound weird to me? How can the head of your Zi family still have the surname Ma?"
Zi Shaoyan shook his head and said: "According to the records preserved by our Zi family, at the end of the Han Dynasty, the then head of the family, Zi Chen, invited you, the then head of the Ma family, Ma Xiao... to be my Zi family's
The owner’s…”
Ma Xiaoquan smiled. Old guy Zichen, huh, must have used that little girl Zi Yuexin to deceive Xiaoer, right?
Seeing Ma Xiaoquan purse his lips and smile, Zi Shaoyan laughed and said: "This matter is helpless, but then again, the beginning of all this actually originated from your Ma family."
"Oh?" Ma Xiaoquan stretched out his hand, meaning Uncle Shaoyan, please continue.
Zi Shaoyan nodded: "This... is also what I saw from the preserved classics of my Zi family..."
...
When Ma Xiaoquan was in the late Han Dynasty, he had always been unable to figure out the thoughts of that old guy Zichen. Just think about it, it is impossible for a wealthy family not to be able to choose a head of the family, right? Is there no one in the Zi family?
?
Impossible, absolutely impossible...
Ma Xiaoquan once analyzed Zichen's idea of asking Ma Xiao to be the head of the Zi family. At that time, Ma Xiaoquan believed that Zichen did this entirely because he was interested in Ma Xiao's ability.
But... the story Zi Shaoyan told... was not just because Zi Chen fell in love with Ma Xiao's ability.
The most critical issue here, speaking of it...should all be blamed on Hua Yuexin.
Ma Xiaoquan still remembers that not long after he arrived in the late Han Dynasty, he went to attend the "Bracelet Wearing Ceremony" held by the Hua family.
This "gift of wearing a bracelet" is actually the coming-of-age ceremony for girls from the Hua family, and... the "gift of wearing a bracelet" actually determines the future husbands of these adult women from the Hua family.