I was divorced because I got pregnant during the lean years, so I went back to my parents’ home and

"It was the vegetables she stole. I picked up the leaves and piled them on the side.

She has already put it in her basket, what else do you have to say?"

In the middle sat a skinny little girl with tear marks on her face. She lowered her head pitifully and murmured, "I didn't steal it, you're lying!"

"Bah, I'm not lying. All the vegetables in your family are stolen. You are so poor that you have to cook porridge with rotten vegetable leaves. Hahaha."

The tall girl threw her head back and laughed, and the other girls followed suit.

The little girl's face turned red and she tried hard to hold back her tears.

"Little sister!" Ma Haixia rushed to the little girl.

When the little girl saw that it was her brother, she wiped away her tears. She did not show any surprise, but was a little astonished.

"Brother, why are you back?"

The girls were not afraid at all and stood motionless in front of Ma Haixia.

"Are you Ma Xiaoqi's brother?" the tall girl asked with her chin raised.

Ma Haixia nodded.

"Your sister Ma Xiaoqi stole my vegetables. These vegetables are mine. Ask her to return them to me!" said the tall girl in a cold voice.

"Brother, I picked up these vegetables and put them here." Ma Xiaoqi pouted and said in a low voice.

"Xiao Qi, what's going on?" Ma Haixia asked.

"Brother, what I said is true. They are the ones bullying us." Ma Xiaoqi burst into tears.

Several girls accused Ma Xiaoqi of stealing.

Ma Xiaoqi was so angry that his face turned purple, and he really had no words to explain himself.

Ma Haixia was surrounded by a group of girls, chattering non-stop.

His face was red, he couldn't say a word, and his eyes were wide open in anxiety.

Ji Xiaobei got off the donkey cart, rushed forward, and grabbed the tall girl by the back of her neck.

The girl, who was as proud as a big rooster, was lifted up.

"Who are you and what are you doing? Let me go!" The girl struggled and shouted with her feet hanging in the air.

"Tell me, what's going on? Whose vegetable leaves do these belong to?" Ji Xiaobei said in a cold voice.

"Mine, it's mine!" The girl twisted her neck to see Ji Xiaobei clearly.

Ji Xiaobei pressed the back of her neck, applying a little force.

"Ouch, it hurts! Let me go..."

"Ma Xiaoqi, tell me, what's going on?" Ji Xiaobei looked at Ma Xiaoqi with wide eyes.

Ma Xiaoqi looked at Ji Xiaobei's strong arms and felt an unprecedented sense of security. She took a deep breath and said:

"I came to the vegetable market first, picked up the leaves and put them here, intending to put them in the vegetable basket later. When Yan Zi came, she insisted that they were hers. They all saw it!"

Ma Xiaoqi pointed with his hand.

The girls stepped back one after another and looked at Ji Xiaobei nervously.

"Yan Zi, tell me, is what Xiao Qi said true?" Ji Xiaobei loosened his hand and kicked Yan Zi's knee.

With a thud, she fell to the ground.

She grimaced in pain and begged for mercy: "Master, please spare my life. I was wrong. Xiao Qi picked up the vegetable leaves. Please spare me once!"

"Xiao Qi, what do you think we should do?" Ji Xiaobei asked.

Ma Xiaoqi bit her lip and thought for a moment before saying, "Swallow, don't bully others in the future!"

"Okay, I won't bully anyone, I swear!" Swallow sobbed.

Ji Xiaobei: Ma Xiaoqi is such a kind child.

Yan Zi and several other girls ran away tumbling.

Ma Xiaoqi looked at Ji Xiaobei with gratitude and admiration and said, "Thank you, sister!"

Ma Haixia hurriedly introduced: "Xiao Qi, this is my boss, I am the master in her house."

Ma Xiaoqi blinked her big eyes and asked, "Sister, you are so old now, do you still need to study?"

Ji Xiaobei: Ahem, am I too big? In ancient times, I think I was a bit too big!

"I'm not good at studying, so my younger brothers and sisters learn from me." Ji Xiaobei replied.

Somehow, Ma Xiaoqi immediately smiled, and pulled Ji Xiaobei affectionately and said, "Sister Dong, come to our house and have a drink of water!"

Ma Haixia loaded his sister's vegetable basket onto the donkey cart.

Ma Xiaoqi also climbed onto the donkey cart, touched the side of the cart that was missing a piece, and a look of regret appeared on his face.

The donkey cart was in good condition, how come a piece was missing? It was a new piece, and it looked like it had just been broken.

The girls watched the donkey cart slowly go away from a distance, and then they returned to the vegetable market.

Ma Xiaoqi looked at them and bit her lip nervously.

After a while, the donkey cart stopped at the entrance of a narrow alley.

Ma Haixia said embarrassedly: "Boss, the donkey cart can only be parked here. It's too narrow inside."

The alley is large enough for only two people to walk side by side. If the black tower comes, they have to pass by sideways.

"Go get your things. Decai and I will wait for you here." Ji Xiaobei said.

"Sister Dong, please come into the house and have some water. I'll be watching the donkey cart here." Ma Xiaoqi said sensibly.

Ji Xiaobei was a little thirsty after eating all the way, so he decided to drink something. He was not a polite person.

Ma Haixia also warmly invited Ji Xiaobei to his home.

Ji Xiaobei couldn't refuse the invitation, so he followed Ma Haixia into the alley.

The alley is deep and narrow, with residents living on both sides, three or four houses facing each other.

It was the first time that Ji Xiaobei came to such a place, and he was a little curious. There was a lot of land around the ancient town, but the people here lived in such a cramped environment.

Ma Haixia saw Ji Xiaobei's confusion and explained, "The county is different from the village. We don't have land and we make a living by doing odd jobs for rich people.

The people living in this alley are all from other places who rent houses with their own doors and windows, which makes it more convenient to live this way.”

Ji Xiaobei understood that it was probably the people from the urban village who built a lot of small cubicles illegally and rented them out to migrant workers.

These workers are called ants, and this is probably the gathering place of the ants in ancient times.

"The boss is here, this is the house!" Ma Haixia pushed open the wooden door at the innermost part of the alley.

The yard is so small, so small, about four or five square meters. Opposite the door is the main room, and there is another room on each side.

There are actually three houses hidden in the small yard.

Ji Xiaobei and Ma Haixia stood in the yard and filled it up.

Ji Xiaobei felt his breathing quicken and he was not feeling well at all.

The light in the yard was blocked by Ji Xiaobei, and the main room became dark.

A sallow face poked out of the house, with a flash of surprise in its sunken eye sockets.

"Liujia, why are you back? What is this?" The skinny woman bent her waist, climbed down from the bed, came out and looked up at Ji Xiaobei who was blocking the light.

Haixia Niang: Oh my god, this is the first time in all these years that I feel the yard is too small.

This figure is more powerful than that of Liangshan's female general Sun Erniang. No, she is prettier than Sun Erniang. She has a nice nose and nice eyes. She is not bad looking, but a little too big.

My son seemed a little small in front of her, but that didn’t matter.