Mrs. Ma was stunned for a moment and asked: "Little girl from the Dongfang Family, I heard that you have an engagement. Well, it seems that you didn't go back to cancel the engagement. Then forget it, I won't force you, old lady."
"No, no," Dongfang Qingxue waved her hands quickly, her eyes dimming suddenly.
Ma Xiaoquan stood up and whispered a few words in Mrs. Ma's ear. Mrs. Ma was stunned again, then exhaled and murmured: "So that's it, then okay... Then that's it, Quan'er
I don’t think I’m in any hurry about your marriage.”
When Ma Xiaoquan heard this, he cheered in his heart, but Bei Mingxue and Li Qinghan were a little unhappy.
Mrs. Ma is also a woman, so she naturally sees Li Qinghan and Bei Mingxue's displeasure.
"Qinghan, girl Beiming, don't worry. Grandma promises you that Ma Xiaoquan will be your man for the rest of your life."
"Ah?" Ma Xiaoquan said with a bitter smile, "Grandma, how many more concubines will I have to marry..."
Bei Mingxue suddenly stood up, stepped forward and grabbed Ma Xiaoquan's ear and said: "Don't even think about it. You have a few of us and still want other women. If you do this, I will call my sister out..."
Mrs. Ma laughed heartily and said to Dongfang Qingxue: "Dongfang girl, I will write to your grandfather and ask him to rush to my Ma's house as soon as possible."
Dongfang Qingxue nodded, stood up and bowed: "Thank you, Grandma Ma."
"Hey, good boy!"
...
At night, Ma Xiaoquan gave a fifty-fifty description of what happened in the Dongfang Family to Mrs. Ma and the housekeeper Ma Tong.
After listening to Ma Xiaoquan's description, Mrs. Ma and Ma Tong sighed together, and Ma Tong said: "The Oriental Family has declined like this, ugh."
Mrs. Ma also sighed repeatedly: "It's not bad, I think Quan'er rescued the young man named Dongfang Qinglang, and several other children. As long as the young people are here, the Dongfang family will not be completely in decline.
"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "Grandma, actually... From a selfish point of view, the decline of the Dongfang family is also an opportunity for the rise of my Ma family."
Mrs. Ma nodded: "Yes, we can support the Dongfang family and use their reputation to enter the circle of wealthy families again."
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "Grandma, we thought of it together."
Mrs. Ma chuckled: "When the old man was still alive, he always talked about returning to the wealthy family. Well, Ruiqing is good at fighting, but he is not good at managing the family at all. Quan'er, since you are my Ma
The first generation head of our family has this obligation to reorganize our Ma family."
"Grandma, don't worry. During the days when I was resting in the Beiming Family, I was also thinking about the rise of my Ma family, okay."
Mrs. Ma said humbly: "Okay, it's great that you have this idea. From now on, I will leave it to you to handle the affairs of the Ma family. I am an old woman who is not young anymore. I want to have a good rest."
."
Ma Xiaoquan was stunned and said: "Grandma, you have a rest. My uncle must also help me, right?"
Ma Tong chuckled, shook his head and said: "The first-generation head of the family, I am not too young. I want to serve my wife. From now on, you young people should do it."
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Uncle Tong, you really don't help me. I still want to ask you for help on many things."
Ma Tongdao: "It's okay. If you have any problems, just come to me. I will tell you everything I know. Well, I have a list of the eunuchs in the palace, Huangmen Huozhe. I will give it to you later. You will be in the palace in the future.
It’s a little more convenient to walk around.”
Ma Xiaoquan rushed to Ma Tong and cupped his hands and said: "In that case, I would like to thank you uncle Tong."
...
The next day, Ma Xiaoquan called Ma Tong and asked, "Uncle Tong, how much money does our Ma family have now?"
Ma Tong replied: "200,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and murmured: "Not much..."
Tongdao Ma: "Originally there were quite a few, but there was a war in Ningyuan recently, and Ruiqing was in urgent need of a large sum of money to buy armaments to consolidate the secret place that my Ma family was guarding, so the cost became larger...
..”
Ma Xiaoquan asked back: "Isn't that right, Uncle Tong? The money accumulated by my Ma family should have come from Ningyuan. How come it's the other way around?"
Ma Tong sighed, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Ma Xiaoquan. Ma Xiaoquan opened the letter, read it, and said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect that my Ma family would be so miserable to encounter a guy who robbed me on the way, hey."
Ma Tong said suspiciously: "The first generation head of the family, I always feel that something is not right. Logically speaking, the money coming from Ningyuan will not be robbed, but this time it is very strange. It seems that we are being plotted against.
Already..."
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "I feel the same way, but it has already happened, and I am afraid I won't be able to get it back even if I pursue it. Originally, I reserved some money from Ning Yuan, but now it seems that I should have been robbed, that's fine.
If that's the case, then we can use the money we have now to be self-reliant. Uncle Tong, write a letter to Ruiqing so that he doesn't have to send money back in the future. It's getting more and more unsafe now."
"Well, but the first generation head of the family, we only have so little money now, what should we do?"
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, took out a small manuscript from his arms, and handed it to Ma Tongdao: "Uncle Tong, this is the money-making method I wrote down when I was resting in the Beiming Family. Take a look. If there is anything wrong, you can tell me
Put it forward and we will discuss it carefully."
Ma Tong took the manuscript and nodded.
In the afternoon, Ma Tong found Ma Xiaoquan and returned the manuscript to Ma Xiaoquan.
"Uncle Tong, how are you doing? Do you have any suggestions?"
Ma Tong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "The first-generation head of the family is really awesome. There are many things written in it that I have never thought of. I have no objections, absolutely not."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled, nodded and said, "Okay, then we'll follow this path, okay." After that, Ma Xiaoquan picked up the fire fold and burned the manuscript.
Ma Tong was surprised and said: "The first generation head of the family, this..."
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "As long as the direction is correct, what actually happened requires practical effort to deal with it."
Ma Tong nodded and thought to himself: The first generation head of the family is really powerful. With this person in our Ma family, there is really hope for revival. Master, if you are alive now, you will definitely be very happy...
Ma Xiaoquan stood up, exhaled softly, walked to the window and looked out the window.
Snow was falling outside the house, and several children of the Dongfang Family were happily having a snowball fight in the courtyard. To them, the decline of the Dongfang Family seemed very far away.
With a "creak" sound, the door opened.
Li Qinghan slowly walked in with two cups of tea.
"Ma Xiaoquan, uncle, it's time for tea."
Ma Tong chuckled and waved his hand: "I won't drink anymore, haha, let's talk..." After that, Ma Tong stood up and left.
Li Qinghan's pretty face turned red as he watched Ma Tong leave. The two cups of tea on the table were filled with the aroma of the list.
Ma Xiaoquan didn't look back, he just put his hands behind his back and still looked out the window.
Li Qinghan moved lightly and walked to Ma Xiaoquan's side.
"What are you thinking about?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "I'm thinking about the thing I'm looking for, but I still don't have a clue..."
"Oh, you mean that underground detector, right?"
"Um"
"Don't worry, with your ability, you will definitely find it. It's just a matter of time."
"It's a matter of time..." Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly, shook his head, turned to the table, picked up the tea and took a sip, "Well, good tea, refreshing.
, the tea you make is really good."
Li Qinghan smiled slightly and said, "Ma Xiaoquan, I will be thirty in a few days."
"Yeah, I'm already thirty."
"By the way, we received a letter from the Zi family, inviting us to go to the Zi family academy next year."
Ma Xiaoquan chuckled: "I think... I won't go. We have more important things to do. We probably won't go to the Zi Family Academy again."
"Well, okay, then I'll reject them! By the way, Ma Xiaoquan, our eleven sisters from Zijia Academy said they would come over after the new year."
"Really? That's great. I haven't seen them for a long time."
"Okay, then I'll tell you to go down and let the family make more preparations." With that, Li Qinghan was about to leave.
Ma Xiaoquan took Li Qinghan's beautiful hand and took her into his arms.
"Don't move, just let me hug you."
Li Qinghan was slightly stunned, and then hugged Ma Xiaoquan.
After a long time, the two let go. Li Qinghan lowered his head with a red face and murmured: "Then...I'll go then..."
"Um"
...
Just when Li Qinghan left, Bei Mingxue came again.
"Miss Beiming, didn't you go shopping with Miss Dongfang? Why are you back so early?"
The corners of Bei Mingxue's lips raised slightly and she said, "Ma Xiaoquan, your eyesight is really not that good?"
"Well, you are not Bei Mingxue, you are... Bei Mingshuang?"
"Humph, yes, don't worry, I just suddenly wanted to see what you were doing."
"Oh, now that you've seen it, shouldn't you leave?"
"No, no, no, I have another question to ask you."
Ma Xiaoquan made a gesture of invitation.
"Ma Xiaoquan, what are you going to do next?"
"What do you mean?"
"The future of the Ma family."
"Well" Ma Xiaoquan pondered for a moment and said, "In the near future, many things will happen, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or my Ma family, I want to use one word to describe them!"
"What?"
Ma Xiaoquan walked to the window, opened it, took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Things have changed!"