Section 6: Finding Relationships

  Ma Lixin knew that no matter how hard he looked, the result would be the same. He had only heard that the imperial court was not a place where things could not be done, but now he had a taste of it. If he still wanted to go and find someone, he should just accept his fate. Could he just swallow the beating he got? No! Ma Lixin's stubbornness surged up.

  Let's talk about it when we get home, and if all else fails, I won't be a teacher anymore.

  Mom is busy with business, and their family business is still doing well. Sometimes mom also says why don't you quit teaching and help me with the business, but when Mali Xin agrees, mom changes her mind again.

  The mother was startled when she saw her son coming home. It's not the time for school holidays, how did her son suddenly come back home?

  When she saw the two big packages on her son's head, the mother said with a heartache: "I said why my eyes have been jumping these days, it turns out that something is really going to happen." The mother shouted loudly: "Ben Shan. Ben Shan. Come down quickly." Ben Shan is Ma Ben Shan, the father of Ma Li Xin.

  Ma came down when his mother, Li Xin'e, put down the business in her hands and pulled her son to scold her husband: "You are a person who doesn't care about anything every day. Your son was beaten by someone, what do you say we should do?" "What to do, you have a way, then go and do it yourself, why ask me what to do." "You are a dead man, who else can I ask?" She also said: "Hurry up and think of a solution!"

  "Then let's find Ma Chongxi, his connections are extensive, let him bring his son over to our side."

  Ma Lixin is now thinking: How can I take revenge? Finding a few gangsters to beat them up, it's possible to vent my anger, but what about myself? What will happen to me in the end? I'll still have to pay them money, and if things go wrong, I might even get into trouble. It's better to find my cousin Ma Chongxi. My cousin is the head of the Organization Department of the county government, he's an official who manages other officials. That's it, his mind was made up. Now the only way to deal with this matter is to use official power to suppress official power.

  Mom knew what Ma Benshan meant and realized that he was going to go out. She said, "Then hurry up and make a phone call." Ma Benshan got up and made the call.

  "Chong Xi ah, are you busy now? Do I have time to find you now?" "You come, Uncle, as long as I am here, anytime is fine, we're family after all."

  "Go, go to the county town." Ma Benshan was very decisive. "You guys go, must get him to transfer his son to a better unit, we'll spend some money, our family still has some money these few years." "Got it got it, why are you being so nagging?"

  The town quickly arrived at the county seat, with buses running every twenty minutes. Ben Shan and his group arrived in the afternoon.

  Arriving at the county town, Ma Li Xin said: "Let's go buy some things."

  "What's the big deal, we're close relatives, isn't he going to help me out?!" Mali Xin knew that his older cousin would help him out, as he often did when their family members asked for favors. However, his wife was not very enthusiastic about helping out with Chong Xi's family matters.

  It's better to buy something. Ben thought about it too, nowadays people are very realistic, and besides, his family has earned a lot of money, which is worth spending on his son.

  As expected, her brother didn't come back, and her sister-in-law was at home. Seeing that they had brought a lot of fruit, she looked slightly better and smiled, saying: "I'll add some rice, let's just eat at home."

  Ma Lixin thought, isn't this nonsense? It's almost time to eat, if we don't eat at your house, where else can we go to eat? Thinking of how their parents treat them like ancestors when they're at home, he still feels a bit uncomfortable. However, when asking for help from others, how can one not show humility under another person's roof?