The Heartless Mage Chapter 96: Fool

Master Ma didn't have the bad luck of looking for his younger son, because he no longer treated his younger son as a son. It's just because the younger son has no mother, it is not easy to expel him from the house; otherwise, he will let Ba Yiniang get out with her cub.

"Is there really a curse?" He stayed up all night, sitting in his study and thinking deeply: "From a scientific point of view, of course, what my father said is nonsense. But my father is not a nonsense person— —Is there really a curse?"

Because Mr. Ma has always been rich, he has never thought about the baby in the family; but at this moment, his mind is active, not for money, but purely out of curiosity. But when it comes to mysterious and mysterious things, he would rather believe what they have than not believe what they don't have. Let him personally enter the treasure house hidden in the mountains, he will never, nor dare.

Master Ma touched his bare chin, thought about it, and finally came up with a sneer.

Meanwhile, in Tianjin, a hundred miles away, Ma Yinghao was sitting in the secret room wrapped in a half-new military coat, sneering at his colorful new pet. The cold seawater smell in the secret room became more and more dignified, and the sea snakes from the South Pacific twisted into a ball in the water.

Two hours later, he received a long-distance call from Beijing. The speaker on the other side of the phone was the housekeeper of the Ma House, with a tired and dazed tone, and asked the eldest young master to go home early tomorrow, because the old master has something important to announce to the younger generation.

Ma Yinghao agreed graciously, then put down the phone and began to lose his mind.

Ma Yinghao left in the early morning and arrived in Beijing before noon. When he entered Master Ma's living room, the four younger siblings below were already present. Nodding to Master Ma, he called lukewarmly, "Dad."

Master Ma sat on the sofa with a half-smile but not a smile, enveloped in a warm fake spring breeze: "Yinghao."

Then the two of them had nothing else to say, Ma Yinghao sat down on the sofa chair in the corner, and looked at the faces of the others calmly. Sai Wei and Sheng Yi sat side by side as usual, with no expressions on their faces; Ma Tianjiao sat on the short sofa on the side, looking down at the toes of her patent leather shoes intently; It looks very young. The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded from far and near outside the door, and the fifth concubine who was wearing heavy makeup walked in with a timid expression, and Ma Tianjiao immediately waved to her: "Mother, why did you arrive?"

The fifth concubine smiled tentatively: "I just came back, and I went to talk in your Qi Yiniang's courtyard."

Then she walked over to Master Ma and sat down, very attentively pulled out a cigarette from the chimney, put it in her mouth and lit it, took a deep breath and brought it to Master Ma. Master Ma pursed his thin lips and smiled with an old and playful smile. Taking the cigarette with one hand and touching his face with the other, Master Ma was very worried, and at the same time felt that his skin was fine.

Before his narcissism was over, a figure appeared outside the door, but it was the eldest wife Pei Hua. Peihua is considered a black man in this family. He has never seen the sun all the year round. At this moment, he doesn't apply any makeup or makeup, and he dresses up in a modest manner. When she entered the door, because her identity was still there after all, the children would call her mother whether they wanted to or not, and only Ma Yinghao remained silent. Peihua lowered his head, smiled slightly, didn't answer anything, and sat down in the corner after chatting up.

Although everyone in the hall looks natural on the surface, in fact, they are all temporarily summoned by Master Ma. The Ma family has always been a dictatorship, and there has never been a family meeting. It is also unpredictable who will add one more member to the meeting.

Master Ma knew that everyone was thinking wildly, so he smoked slowly, letting everyone think, and when everyone was thinking about it, he put out the cigarette **** in the ashtray and said, "Everyone is here. , we are a family, of course there is no need to talk about falsehoods, now, I will go straight to the topic."

Hearing this, the children looked at each other in dismay, thinking about it immediately in their hearts - aren't all the important people in the family here? Apart from the children, since Peihua has not been divorced, she is still the main wife of the Ma family in name; although the fifth concubine is a concubine, she gave birth to the fourth young lady and is the mother of the child, of course, she is different from ordinary concubines.

Master Ma said with a monotonous and dry drake's voice, and continued: "Originally, the people present today should also have Saiwei Shengyi's mother and Junjie's mother. But everyone has their own fate, They took the first step and missed it!"

He smoothed the wrinkles on the robe with his palm, and he continued to speak slowly: "I have been away from home for a few months, and after I came back, I heard a lot of rumors. Instead of letting others talk nonsense, let me pierce this layer of paper. , and lest you pretend to be gods and ghosts, make all kinds of unbearable actions, defeat my family style, and damage my reputation."

Speaking of this, the expressions of everyone in the room began to change, but the changes remained the same, and the facial muscles were barely tensing, showing a hidden tension.

Master Ma kept his hands free, touched his thighs one by one, his eyelids drooped, and refused to look directly into the eyes of his children, wives and concubines: "Our Ma family has a little secret. Living a life, by chance, I got a batch of treasures. What are the treasures? It’s hard to say, because I haven’t seen it with my own eyes. According to your grandfather, it’s nothing more than some antique gold and jade. It's just worth the money."

Gently patted his thigh, he wiped the robe on his leg flat: "Why do I never mention or move this batch of treasures? Because I'm not short of money, I don't Relying on my ancestors to eat! I want to save the legacy of the previous generation and leave it to you **** in the future, so that one day you will not be able to eat, and you will end up starving and freezing on the streets!”

Two bland eyebrows jumped a few times, and Mr. Ma shrugged his shoulders in a Westernized manner: "But, it seems that you don't understand my painstaking efforts. Either way, I'll just be honest and honest, sooner or later, it's all yours, so why bother me? By concealing it, it will make you jealous and resentful?"

Then he stood up and waved his sleeves at the living room door: "Let's go, I'll take you to the garden!"

Master Ma played the front line with a cane, his sons and daughters, wives and concubines followed closely behind. Because they were all scheming, he walked without looking sideways, not even meeting each other's eyes. When they got to the garden river, everyone looked up and looked into the distance, but they were all dumbfounded - the pavilion on the opposite side of the mountain, I don't know when the roof was demolished, and the carvings around it were all gone. It was a very delicate place. The pavilion now only has four pillars and a fixed stone table in the middle.

Ma Tianjiao couldn't help but let out an "ah", and was immediately pulled by Wu Yiniang. The group of people took three small boats and swayed them to the mountains on the opposite bank. This time, when I walked near the pavilion, I saw messy footprints all around, which was a sign that the construction was not too long. Another ladder fell to the ground, I don't know whether it was discarded or forgotten to take.

Master Ma stepped into the pavilion. He put his hands behind his back and straightened his waist, he took a deep breath in the cold air, and then tapped the pavilion ground with his stick: "Our treasure is under my feet!"

As soon as these words came out, there was silence.

Master Ma said again: "Shengyi, help the ladder up."

Sheng Yi agreed and worked with Saiwei to lift the ladder. Master Ma didn't say more, threw the cane on the ground, and then went to work himself and put the ladder on the pavilion column. As soon as he lifted his robe and took a step, because he was thin, he took advantage of it when he climbed high and far. Very lightly climbed to the top, he put his right hand into the pillar.

Sai Wei and Sheng Yi were holding the ladder for him below. Seeing his actions, he was stunned for a moment. Sai Wei raised his hand and knocked on the pillar. His voice was dull, but it didn't look hollow. On the other hand, Mr. Ma only stretched his right hand down a foot, tilted his head and rolled his eyes, making a forceful upward movement. Everyone only heard a "crack" under their feet, but Master Ma was obviously relieved and nodded himself, which seemed to be an accident.

Going down the ladder and changing positions, he reached in from the top of the remaining three pillars, either pushing or pulling. It turns out that the upper half of the pillar is empty, and there is a set of mechanisms inside. As soon as the mechanism was touched, there was a sound under the cement-paved ground. Finally, Master Ma got off the ladder, looked at the central stone table for a long time, and finally said, "Someone, move it away."

The voice fell, and everyone looked at each other. It turns out that the stone table is not the product of elaborate carvings. It looks like an interesting big stone, but a mirror-like table top is ground on the top. If you want to push such a big stone, you must be able to do it.

Master Ma is not a fool. Therefore, after a brief silence, the children went into battle together without saying a word, and even Ma Junjie took action. A large group of people gritted their teeth to push the big stone, and in the end they only heard a "gudong" sound, and they really pushed the big stone down.

Next, there is another silence. Because the place occupied by the stone table was exposed, it turned out to be the entrance to a black hole.

Master Ma picked up his cane and walked over in a leisurely manner. Curiously, he bent over and looked at the entrance of the cave. He also opened his eyes for the first time in his life. The entrance of the cave is square, and a **** is cut out at a half-human depth, all the way down. The scenery at the end of the **** is naturally invisible; even the situation of the **** itself is unknown unless you go down in person. Master Ma remembered his father's thousands of instructions to him, and immediately straightened up.

Take a step back and stretched out his cane. He pointed to the hole and said, "I'm not old enough, and you guys are not old enough to stand on your own, so you are not allowed to use the contents inside until the family is separated. However, I am a father. There is no reason for my children to be in a hurry when they see good things, so from now on, every year I allow one person from each room to go down and bring up a treasure."

Looking around the faces calmly, Master Ma asked softly, "Who wants to go down first, now you can."

Sai Wei and Sheng Yi stared at the entrance of the cave, and they were so anxious that they reached out their hands, they really wanted to go into the cave to see what happened; but they understood the truth of "the first bird hits the gun", especially in their own homes, they must not blindly advance. Besides, whether the baby can touch it is still an unsolved mystery.

Ma Junjie also straightened his eyes, staring at the entrance of the hole angrily, and at the same time feeling ridiculous - his own mother, died ridiculously.

Peihua stood aside, watching Ma Yinghao's face secretly.

Ma Yinghao kept calm and wanted to go down, but he didn't dare to go down.

Wu Yiniang tapped the ground lightly with the stiletto heels of her leather shoes, looking at this and that, she seemed hesitant to say anything. And Ma Tianjiao pondered for a moment, and suddenly said in a light voice: "Big brother is the oldest, let's go first!"

Ma Yinghao waved his hand: "I am a person with a career and income. The economy is very relaxed and I am not in a hurry."

Ma Tianjiao turned to Sai Wei again: "Where's the second sister and the third brother? If the elder brother doesn't go down, you all go down!"

Savi shook his head: "We are both afraid of the dark and dare not go down."

Ma Tianjiao looked at others hesitantly, but Peihua suddenly said, "If I am also qualified, I would like to go first."

Ma Yinghao glanced at her quickly, his eyes were sharp; Ma Tianjiao was anxious, but he didn't expect to be very rude. And Peihua received Ma Yinghao's hint and involuntarily took a step back: "Otherwise...let's ask the fifth concubine to go down first."

The fifth concubine smiled at Peihua in a distraught, and looked up at Master Ma again. Master Ma still had a fake spring breeze on his face, obviously he had no opinion.

"I'm going down?" The fifth aunt was too embarrassed: "If you don't go down, then I'll be the first person. Baby or something is second..." She smiled shyly: "I want to see the grandfather's generosity. ..."

She smiled shyly, and was about to go to the entrance of the cave eager to try. And Ma Tianjiao saw that she was wearing a pair of high-heeled leather shoes and walking on the ground was unstable like a lotus leaf in the wind. She felt that her mother was usually clumsy, so she tugged at her sleeve: "Let me go, I'm smarter than you!"

The mother and daughter are one family, and whoever goes down is the same. So Wu Yiniang stopped, nodding and laughing as if embarrassed, thinking that you can just pretend, our mothers are going to make a little fortune!

Ma Tianjiao wears a pair of flat leather shoes and moves very neatly. The hole is small, and she has to be flexible to move in and out of her slender figure. She jumped into the half-person-deep hole with one big step. She didn't listen to the fifth concubine's instructions. The people on the ground only heard her cry: "It's so dark!"

Master Ma bent down and said loudly: "Tianjiao, if you feel stuffy, go back immediately!"

Ma Tianjiao ignored her.

After more than ten minutes, there was a sudden sound of gold and stone crashing from the ground. Saiwei stood a little closer, and saw Ma Tianjiao come out holding a broken tripod. She straightened her waist and exposed her head, her braided hair was messy and her face was pale, but with a smile, she put the broken tripod in her hand on the ground, and said in her mouth, "I didn't dare to go inside, it's too dark, darker than the night."

Master Ma didn't have a smile on his face, and took a big step back: "What's it like inside?"

Ma Tianjiao took the fifth concubine's hand and rolled onto the ground: "Dad, I can't see clearly. Anyway, I touched something, so I quickly came out."

Then she smiled and hugged the cauldron like a small pot in her arms: "Dad, why don't you come and take a look? It's okay, it's mine!"

Master Ma looked at it from a distance and saw that the tripod was rusted with rust, like a big copper lump. With his own knowledge, he couldn't see the value. Suddenly remembering his father's advice, he shook his head subconsciously: "No, I don't know much about it. Tomorrow, you and your mother will find someone who knows how to appraise it to see if it is a real antique."

Although the fifth concubine and Ma Tianjiao did not have great knowledge, they also knew the preciousness of antiques. Wu Yitai held the tripod like a child. Although it felt extremely heavy, she was reluctant to let go. Ma Tianjiao stretched out her hand to support its bottom again, not knowing where the strength came from, she didn't feel tired at all.

The rest did their best to lift the stone table and push it back into place. Master Ma also went up the ladder and moved the mechanism inside the four pillars. Looking down from the top, he saw the four children plus Peihua, all peeping at Ma Tianjiao's mother and daughter, each with a complicated and gloomy expression, not envious.

Finally, he turned his eyes to the fifth concubine and Ma Tianjiao, and Mr. Ma thought calmly: "I think my family is full of foxes, but I didn't expect that there are really two fools."