"Ah? Sui, go out to sea with you?" Cao Lingyue's pretty face turned red after hearing this. She was thinking in her heart how to be with Ma Mingfeng for a long time. Unexpectedly, there was such a request here. This was simply a good thing to send steamed buns when you were hungry and a pillow when you were sleepy.

But there is still a reserve that should be, so Cao Lingyue looked at Li Xiyue with a hesitant look on her face.

But Li Xiyue smiled and said, "Since you have such talent and can help Dalang, it is not impossible to go to sea together. But I heard that the risks at sea are very high and will suffer a lot of hardships. Long-term wind and sun exposure will make your skin dark and rough. I wonder if you can tolerate these?"

Cao Lingyue hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Lingyue has also learned some martial arts before and suffered some hardships, so she is not afraid of suffering at all. As long as she can help Dalang, Lingyue will never retreat."

When Li Xiyue heard this, she smiled and said, "Good boy, I really treat it sincerely... Help Dalang. I can rest assured if Dalang goes out to sea and takes care of you in the future. But don't worry, I won't let you eat the hardships you have suffered in vain. I will definitely make decisions for you at that time."

Li Xiyue's words were meaningful. Cao Lingyue's face was covered with red clouds, and she was ashamed, but she didn't say anything. She glanced at Ma Mingfeng for a few seconds and then made an excuse to leave.

Ma Mingfeng then chatted with his mother about family matters, and in the meantime, Ma Mingfeng talked about the fact that Yue Qijie was also in his army.

Li Xiyue was also very happy after hearing Ma Mingfeng's explanation, because Yue Qijie had a place to use it, and the situation in the north is now in chaos, which is really a good thing to ensure Yue Qijie's safety.

Speaking of Yue Qijie, Li Xiyue suddenly remembered something and said to Ma Mingfeng: "When it comes to your uncle, I remember your third uncle in Guizhou. In the past two years, he has sent you nearly 10,000 taels of silver. He asked him, he didn't say it, but he just said it was for you. This immediately aroused your father's suspicion and thought that you did something that was harmful to nature. However, the fake lady believed that you would never do this, so she sealed all of these silver for your mother in case of your out-of-time needs. Now it seems that it is time to need this silver."

"One, ten thousand taels of silver?" This money is urgently needed for Ma Mingfeng now. Although he made a fortune by reselling white rice, Ma Mingfeng later asked Wu Jing to buy a house, so there is not much cash in his hand now. Although the court appointed Ma Mingfeng to be responsible for trade with Westerners, he actually just wrote a blank check and did not give him a tael of silver. He even had to pay the military pay by himself. So Ma Mingfeng is very tight now, and this ten thousand taels of silver can temporarily relieve his urgent needs.

However, Ma Mingfeng immediately realized that the ten thousand taels of silver could not have been donated to him by his third uncle Gu Congxin. Since that is the case, it was naturally the dividend he received from the winery he opened in Guizhou. He could get a dividend of ten thousand taels of silver in just three years. This shows that the winery has developed and the annual profit is at least five or six thousand taels of silver.

Ma Mingfeng happily took the silver and made the next preparations for hiring the fleet and caravans.

However, immediately afterwards, Kou Baimen came to his home. Although Li Xiangjun had not passed by, Li often interacted with her and had already loved her as his daughter-in-law. Therefore, no one in the house dared to underestimate the eldest young lady's personal maid. The servants who guarded the door respectfully led her to the door of the main hall.

After hearing this, Li Xiyue's face suddenly had a flower-like smile on her face, and asked her close maid to invite Kou Baimen over, and then asked with a smile: "I wonder what's wrong with Xiang Jun coming here?"

Kou Baimen quickly bowed down and said, "Madam, my girl sent me to come, mainly to greet her. At the same time, the girl also said that Meixianglou wanted to share the dividends of the past few years to the young master, and asked the young master to go to Meixianglou for a delivery after noon."

When Li Xiyue heard this, she asked curiously: "Luaner, what did you do? Why did even Meixianglou give you dividends?"

Li Xiyue was actually a little unhappy. Although she did not discriminate against women in the world, she definitely did not want her son to have too much involvement with those people, especially her son had any close contact with those women.

But Li Xiyue is a woman who protects her son at heart and is unwilling to accuse Ma Mingfeng in public, so she used such words to cover it up.

Ma Mingfeng naturally knew what his mother meant, but he didn't hide it. He said with a smile: "Mom, you don't know that Meixianglou is different from those brothels. In the past few years, it has stopped accepting such unruly business. Instead, it has signed a contract with the women who sing well, so that these women can perform and sing there. Because of the income obtained by singing, it is the part of the child that Meixianglou takes out the child from the share obtained. The child originally thought that Zhenniang would give the money as a bride price when Xiangjun got married, but she didn't expect it to take it out now."

But Kou Baimen said, "Actually, Zhenniang really wanted to keep the money to take out the money when the girl got married, but after the girl's persuasion, Zhenniang finally agreed to hand over the money to her husband first, which is naturally to support her husband's affairs."

After hearing this, Ma Mingfeng couldn't help but sigh and said with emotion: "It's really my good wife. If you have a wife like this, what else can you ask for?"

Ma Mingfeng didn't see it. When he said this, Cao Lingyue's expression not far away suddenly became a little unnatural. However, she saw Li Xiyue handing her a comforting look, and then said: "Xiangjun is worthy of being my good daughter-in-law. She is so thoughtful, but there is one thing I don't understand. What does Meixianglou have to do with those girls? Why do you have to share the dividends to Luan'er?"

But Kou Baimen smiled and said, "Mrs. I don't know that my husband is the first musician in Meixianglou. The songs sang by the girls are written and taught by my husband himself."

"Ah? So that's how it is. I didn't expect my son to have such skills. By the way, since you have this ability, I can't help but sing a song for Wei Mom and let me listen to it too?"

"This..." When Ma Mingfeng heard this, he felt that it made sense, so he thought for a while and began to sing affectionately: "Your new schoolbag will be taken for you by someone, your flower folding umbrella in the rain, someone will be beaten for you, and the three fresh stuffings you like to eat..."
Chapter completed!