Twenty or thirty miles east of Lantian County under the Xi'an Prefecture of Shaanxi Province, there is a small town called Magou.
It is called Magou because there is a small river next to the town and it is located next to the official road. Pedestrians and merchants often drink horses in this ditch when they take a short rest in the town. For a long time,
The town was simply named after Magou.
Magou Town is located in a flat land between the Qinling Mountains and the northern hills. The land is fertile and the crop yields are high. Most of the local people have enough food and clothing to live in.
In the center of the town, there is a courtyard that does not look very grand, but takes up almost one-tenth of the entire town.
The owner of the yard is named Malianshan. He is in his mid-thirties, with an average build and average appearance. He runs a jade processing workshop in Lantian County. Jade bracelets, jade pillows, etc., although not very expensive, have always been available.
Sales and business are booming and impressive.
The sun had just risen a pole high, and the people of Magou Town were still working in the fields. A shabby-looking carriage, with dust rising from the back, passed through the streets of Magou Town and stopped at the entrance of the compound.
The curtain on the carriage was opened, and Malianshan jumped out of the carriage with a gloomy face.
"Master, you are back." The servant at the door hurriedly greeted him.
"What about the evil bitch?" Ma Lianshan asked angrily.
"Madam is in the yard, feeding the pair of jade rabbits she bought from the county town." The servant hurriedly replied with his body hunched over.
Malianshan snorted coldly and walked towards the courtyard.
This courtyard looks ordinary from the outside, but inside, it is paved with granite slabs unique to Lantian, and the pavilions and pavilions are mostly made of stone.
Many construction stones are smooth on the surface but hard on the ground. If you look carefully, you can see that they are not ordinary stones. They are clearly a mixture of jade and ordinary stones.
Under a persimmon tree with a huge canopy, there is a small round rattan table with a few fresh cabbages on it. On the chair next to it, a tall and round-waisted "lady" is sitting.
She is said to be a lady because she is wearing a pink gauze skirt. If you don't look at this dress, no matter the muscular body or the dark face, no one would think that she is actually a woman.
At the feet of the "lady", two white rabbits were jumping around and eating a small cabbage.
"Eat more, I'll see if you two get thinner." The "lady" said angrily, using her right hand suitable for blacksmithing, she picked up another cabbage and threw it to the ground.
Behind the "lady" stood two maids aged fifteen or sixteen, each holding a lace umbrella, covering the head of the "lady" to block her from the morning sun.
The other one held a cattail leaf fan in his hand, shaking it gently to let in a ray of breeze and relieve the lady's fat body from panting after even a little movement.
Seeing the "lady" feeding rabbits, the maid holding a cattail fan hurriedly said: "Madam, it's better to let the slaves do the rough work of feeding rabbits, just watch it."
"Okay." The "lady" sat upright, "My delicate little hands were almost scratched just now when I picked up a piece of cabbage."
Hearing this, the maid holding the umbrella frowned slightly, but said nothing. She continued to use the flower umbrella in her hand to block the sun for her wife.
Figures flashed at the door, and Malianshan walked in with a gloomy face.
"Sir." The two maids hurriedly bowed and saluted.
Seeing her husband, the "lady" was filled with joy. She stopped looking at the two white rabbits at her feet, held on to the armrests of the chair, and was about to stand up.
But she was so fat that she couldn't stand up all of a sudden.
Seeing this, the maid next to her hurriedly put down her cattail leaf fan and held up her hand.
"Sir." "Lady," she called out angrily, and she also bowed and saluted.
Unfortunately, her huge belly made it impossible for her to bend over. All the etiquette was reduced to a slight nod.
"Okay, okay." Ma Lianshan waved his hand impatiently, "Look at your virtue, I don't know how old you are, and you are still wearing a pink gauze skirt. It looks like a piece of gauze wrapped around a big lump of fat."
"My husband is busy with business in the county town, and when he comes home occasionally, he talks about the slave family like this. The slave family feels very sad." She pursed her big lips, and the "lady" said delicately.
"Okay, okay, let's get down to business." Ma Lianshan seemed to have no choice in dealing with the fat pig-like wife, so he had to change the topic, "Why did you instruct the servants to hurt the Zhang family? Even if it was a beating, you would just beat a young man.
Well, do you want to risk your life by beating their eighty-year-old father?"
"Just beat me. Who told my father, your father-in-law, to be the magistrate of Lantian County? As long as my father is here, I won't just punish anyone I don't like in Lantian County?" The noble lady showed her fierce look and said fiercely.
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"The Zhang family's complaint has been filed with the county government. My father-in-law persuaded me nicely and paid some money, so that the Zhang family withdrew the complaint and brought the old father who was injured by you back home. You like to treat yourself
If you dress up like Didi, then just wear this pink gauze dress and stay in the yard feeding the rabbits, but you have to go outside and cause trouble for me." Ma Lianshan said helplessly.
"You are doing business in the county town, so you leave me here in the yard of Magou Town. I feed rabbits every day and I am not bored to death. Besides, I am also doing it for your own good by beating up the Zhang family." "Lady" is very good.
It is the way of grievance.
"You hit someone and you said it was for my own good. With your excuse, what can I say about you?" Standing opposite, Ma Lianshan grinned and said helplessly.
"Husband, do you know why the slaves beat them?"
"I don't want to know the reason. I just hope you won't give it to me again and just cause trouble for my father-in-law." Malianshan said coldly.
"Xiao Hong, take out the thing I snatched for you." Mrs. Ma said to the maid beside her, waving a cattail leaf fan.
"Yes, madam." Putting down the cattail leaf fan, the maid named Xiaohong left in a hurry.
Staring at the greasy "fat" in front of him, Ma Lianshan felt regretful in his heart. Why was he so greedy for vanity at the beginning that he insisted on marrying the daughter of the county magistrate despite his elder brother's obstruction?
Nowadays, he doesn't work at home and makes trouble everywhere. The most important thing is that his originally burly figure loses his appetite whenever he sees her, so that he is as hungry as he is now.
"If your father hadn't been the county magistrate, I would have divorced you long ago with a divorce letter." Ma Lianshan closed his eyes and said silently in his heart.
Not long after, the maid Xiaohong walked over with a heavy-looking object wrapped in red cloth in her arms, her face flushed from suppressing her emotions.
Stretching out her fat hand, Mrs. Ma casually pushed the few cabbages on the rattan table to the ground: "Here, put them here. Be careful not to drop them."
Xiao Hong tried her best to hold her stomach, lift the package and put it on the table, and then carefully let go of her hand.
There was a layer of sweat on the forehead, obviously this thing was not light.
"What is this?" Ma Lianshan asked casually.
"You will know when you open it, husband." Twisting her huge head, Mrs. Ma said proudly.
As the red cloth of the package was opened, a long strip of stone with a faint green color appeared in front of Malian Shan.
Malianshan's pupils instantly dilated, filled with joy.
Based on my many years of experience in dealing with jade, I know that this stone is a natural green jadeite.
The eldest brother said that if you want to achieve success in the court, you must either spend a lot of money or use rare and rare treasures that are hard to find in the world.
If this stone is processed into an exquisite piece of green cabbage, not to mention the high officials in the court, even the emperor will be very fond of it when he sees it.
"Is this a good thing?" Mrs. Ma asked with her eyes narrowed.
"Yes, yes. It's definitely a good thing." Ma Lianshan stroked the stone with both hands, his eyes never leaving for a moment.
"Am I very powerful?" Mrs. Ma asked again.
"Awesome, very awesome." Ma Lianshan responded.
"Don't deal with me, tell me, am I beautiful?" Raising her head, Mrs. Ma took the opportunity to want some words of praise from her husband.
Looking away from the stone, Malianshan became serious: "Although we are in the Ming Dynasty now and no longer in the Tang Dynasty, you are the most beautiful sister Yuhuan in my heart."
Mrs. Ma turned her head and looked shy: "I hate it, my name is Yuhuan. You praise her like this, she is so shy."
Seeing Mrs. Ma's pretentious look, coupled with her big fat pig-like head, and her upturned nose with only two big holes left after closing her eyes, Malianshan's stomach tumbled and his throat surged several times. In the morning
The porridge he drank, together with the half-digested mushy stuff from the chive vermicelli buns, filled his mouth instantly.
Looking at the clean jade floor and the fact that the other party had indeed done something good, Ma Lianshan's heart trembled, his throat surged a few times, and he swallowed the filth in his mouth a few times before swallowing it all.
