After marrying the fierce god, her handsome young husband was pampered to the extreme.

"No destruction, no construction"—this is indeed a solution.

If this goes smoothly, the Xia family's fleet can quietly become Xia Ying's private property.

Xia Ying thought for a long time before nodding, "Okay, but I need you to help me with this."

The third branch of the family has many informants, so if he makes any big moves now, they will definitely not escape their notice.

But Lin Er was different. He appeared and disappeared mysteriously every day, and being a son-in-law, the third wife's family didn't pay much attention to him.

Lin Er said, "It's not impossible."

Xia Ying suddenly had a bad feeling.

"What...what do you want to do?"

Lin Er gave a harmless smile. "Yingying, I helped you. How do you plan to repay me?"

Xia Ying thought for a moment and said, "How about this, for the mermaid yarn trade, I'll give you another 10% profit."

Lin Er shook his head. "I don't lack money."

Xia Ying couldn't think of anything else, so she asked, "Then what do you want?"

"I need a husband to warm my bed."

Xia Ying said, "That's easy. What kind do you like? As your legal husband, I'll arrange for you to take in a few more beautiful concubines."

Lin Er was shocked. "Yingying, when did you go astray? How could you have such dangerous thoughts!"

Xia Ying curled his lip. After spending this time together, he had already figured out this jerk's temperament.

To deal with a scoundrel, you have to be even more scoundrel than him!

"You were the one who said you needed a husband to warm your bed, and you didn't want the one I found for you, so you can't blame me."

"I don't want a concubine, I want you." Lin Er started to put on an act. "Young Master Xia, please have pity on me."

Xia Ying said, "You're not pitiful at all."

This man is a cunning fox, with a hundred schemes in his head!

"How can I not be pitiful?" Lin Er walked slowly towards Xia Ying. "I'm just a son-in-law who's never even held my husband's hand..."

"Haven't you held my hand enough already?" Xia Ying didn't back down, raising her small face to retort, "You're taking advantage of the fact that there are outsiders present so I can't refuse, and, and..."

Lin Er: "Anything else?"

He even put his arm around my waist! Xia Ying thought angrily, as expected, he's still a shameless man.

Lin Er smiled and took Young Master Xia's hand.

Xia Ying struggled symbolically for a moment, then let him have his way.

Lin Er said, "Yingying, now that we're talking about fleets, there are many things to consider."

Xia Ying asked, "What?"

Lin Er pulled Xia Ying down to sit, and taking advantage of the fact that the young master Xia was not on guard, he simply hugged him and let him sit on his lap.

Young Master Xia twisted his hips, trying to break free, but Lin Er continued, "Yingying, now we need to consider two scenarios."

Upon hearing this, Xia Ying stopped struggling and let him hold her.

Because Young Master Xia's attention was completely drawn to the man's words, he said, "Explain in detail."

Lin Er said, "If the fleet catches little or no seafood, and the fleet is operating at a loss, how many times can we afford to lose money? Conversely, what should we do with the seafood we catch?"

"I currently have about ten thousand taels of spare cash, which should be enough to cover two or three losses..."

Xia Ying was very open-minded about it.

"If we lose everything, it just means we're not suited for sailing. We can just find another way to make a living then."

Lin Er said, "I never expected Yingying to be so magnanimous."

Xia Ying rolled her eyes, wanting to retort with something like "our family" or "your family," but then she thought that they were all married, so they really were one family.

In name only.

"If it really is a series of losses, then it's probably not fate, but something people are doing," Lin Er said.

Xia Ying said, "Unfortunately, none of us have experience in managing a fleet, so we can only try and fail at every step."

A thought flashed through Lin Er's mind, when suddenly the person in his arms gently tugged at his hair.

He looked up. "Hmm?"

Xia Ying said, "If the fleet's profits are good, how about I have the Xia family's restaurants use seafood from our fleet?"

"Then Han Cejun will think you're deliberately trying to cause trouble. If he joins forces with the third branch of the family, we'll suffer a greater loss."

"How about we process them into dried goods and sell them to other states? Or we could open a restaurant. Anyway, we have a lot of spare cash on hand and can afford to lose money."

Lin Er tightened his arms without making a sound, encircling the handsome young man in his arms. He rested his chin on the young man's shoulder. "It's feasible, but the Wu family controls Yanjiang. We still need to think of a way to deal with them."

Xia Ying nodded and sighed, "I used to think that I could rebuild my own business by using the Xia family's connections, but I was too naive."

"Yingying, you're already very capable," Lin Er said. "If you're willing, I can teach you how to embezzle the Xia family's money and line your own pockets."

Xia Ying chuckled and said reproachfully, "I knew you were the worst."

"Young Master!" Caiwu suddenly pushed open the door and ran in, her face full of anxiety.

His eyes widened suddenly.

What did he see?!

He saw that the audacious son-in-law actually dared to hug the young master!

How dare he! It's outrageous!

Absurd! Ridiculous!

Xia Ying asked, "What's the matter that you're in such a panic?"

Hearing her young master's voice, Caiwu snapped out of her daze and cried out in a panic, "Young master, something terrible has happened! There's a problem with our mermaid silk!"

Xia Ying was startled by this and immediately stood up. "What happened?"

"Someone just came from the shop saying that someone came to return some goods, saying that all our mermaid-silk dresses...all...all faded!"

"Fading?! How could it fade!" Xia Ying exclaimed in surprise.

After struggling to organize her thoughts for a while, Caiwu realized that her ability to express herself was indeed very limited, and said, "You'll understand when you go and see for yourself."

Upon hearing this, Xia Ying lifted her leg and walked outside, saying, "Go prepare the carriage."

"yes!"

Lin Er said, "I'll go with you."

Xia Ying nodded, "Okay."

The two went to Xia's Clothing Store together. As soon as they entered, they saw several husbands arguing and demanding to return the goods.

The shopkeeper tried his best to appease them, but to little avail.

"Look at this! This is the silk dress the Xia family sold. This one dress cost a full 170 taels of silver, and it's already turned into this state! How can anyone wear it?!"

"That's right, everyone come and see! The Xia family is selling inferior silk, cheating us ordinary people!"

Xia Ying subconsciously walked over and said, "Please calm down, everyone. Let's sit down and talk things over. Don't worry, we will take full responsibility for any clothes sold in my shop."

The husband who was arguing the loudest snorted coldly, "You must be that Young Master Xia, right? Look at yourself, how dare you sell these tattered clothes for 170 taels?"

Xia Ying looked over and saw that the silk dress in the husband's hand was somehow dull and lifeless.

Not only was there no trace of color, but the entire dress also had a drab, grayish appearance.