In the guest hall of the front courtyard, the guards of the Old Gu Family were eating and drinking.
Constable Ma was drinking wine and eating meat while saying: "You guys don't know how accommodating Gu Jin'an can be, he gave the brothers thirty taels of silver joy money. After the brothers returned to the government office, his servants even brought workers from the Futai Building to deliver three banquet tables for us. One was given to the squad leaders, one to the brothers cleaning the road, and one to us."
This Constable Ma was Constable Xiao Ma, a cousin of Squad Leader Ma, who had helped during the Prefecture Examination in the Ritual Room, and after the examination, came back to guard the Old Gu Family.
