188: The focus of the marriage

Xu Ruoying nodded hurriedly and said, "No problem! I know about this Fengqing Company too. I will go find them tomorrow!"

"Tomorrow? Go now! Time is precious. Why worry about whether it is day or night?" Xu Guanghu said.

"Now?! But what if Long Yuan doesn't have any inspiration?" Xu Ruoying was stunned and asked skeptically.

"If he doesn't have inspiration, you help him find it. Wouldn't that be even better?! You can also bring good works from the head office for him to sing. Given his talent in Music Dao, singing those songs shouldn't be a problem at all!"

"That makes sense! Uncle, you are still the best!!!" Xu Ruoying's eyes brightened, and she said excitedly.

"Haha, Uncle is doing this for your own good..." Xu Guanghu laughed triumphantly.

"Uncle, you are so bad. I'm not talking to you anymore..." Xu Ruoying left hurriedly with a flushed face...

Xu Guanghai was dumbfounded watching from the side. When he realized what was happening, he shouted, "Third brother, what are you doing? She is my daughter!"

"So what if she is your daughter? As a woman of the Xu Family, she is the joint asset of the Family. Don't you forget that!" Xu Guanghu snorted.

"But she hasn't fully matured yet, has she? Besides, Long Yuan's father is quite useless; he might implicate him and my Xu Family. Regardless of the point, we shouldn't gamble my daughter's future, right?!" Xu Guanghai said anxiously.

"Who told you to let your daughter gamble now? It's just to deepen contact first. The main goal is to block women from other families from getting close. Multiple Family investigators have sent information that the women who have contacted Long Yuan include Ye Xuan of the Ye Family, Luo Ying of the Luo Family, He Sui of the He Family, and Tong Xueqin of the Tong Family..."

Xu Guanghai was dumbstruck upon hearing this and said angrily, "Long Yuan is so young yet so fickle. When he grows up, won't he become a playboy?!"

"Sigh, you are wronging Long Yuan. From what we have investigated, Long Yuan is basically passive. These people from small families are also quite cunning. They have already discovered Long Yuan's special talent and future prospects, and all intend to let the women in their families establish close relationships with him. Although these small families don't amount to much, we cannot treat them lightly. We must exclude these threats in advance and open a path to the heavens for Ruo Ying!" Xu Guanghu said.

"Hmph, I don't know if it's a path to the heavens, but these little pieces of trash must step aside for my Ruo Ying!" Xu Guanghai said with a cold expression.

"That's right! Currently, the Geng Family poses the greatest threat. We must prepare in advance and first see what excellent, age-appropriate women the Geng Family has..."

Xu Guanghu and Xu Guanghai lowered their heads and began to conspire, making phone calls to the outside from time to time...

Long Yuan noticed the movement over there and couldn't help but smile bitterly. "I just want to protect myself; why are you all rushing to marry the women of your families to me... Please, I am only 16 years old, okay?! If this kind of thing happened on Earth, it would be a great opportunity for an underdog to rise, but unfortunately, in this Otherworld Ming, it could cost me my life..."

However, complaining was just complaining. He was very clear in his heart that for these super noble families, age was not a problem at all. Even if he were only three or four years old, or one or two hundred years old, as long as he met their criteria for a son-in-law, they could still quickly arrange a marriage!

For them, occupying the position of the legitimate wife was the most important thing. In the Ming, whether it was the royal Family or the great noble families, only by becoming the legitimate wife could one be the mistress of the various powers in the true sense. Occupying this position allowed a woman to possess legitimate rights and the moral high ground, possessing absolute exclusivity!

Below the legitimate wife, all concubines were subject to her jurisdiction and constraints. Sometimes, even the children born had to become the offspring of the legitimate wife. This was the tragedy of concubines. Therefore, what the super noble families valued was, of course, the position of the legitimate wife. As for other positions, they existed, but they were more for the purpose of pleasing and fawning, and did not achieve the true effect of a marriage alliance!

Of course, regardless of whether one became a legitimate wife or a concubine, this move by the noble families was more or less useful. Especially with marriage alliances with the royal Family, even if it meant becoming a secondary consort or a concubine, countless people still scrambled to be first. Some noble women themselves did not even feel their fate was tragic; on the contrary, they liked it very much. After all, they could cling to a powerful figure, bring glory to their Family, hold power for a time, and be high and mighty. For many people, this was probably more stimulating and enjoyable, and making a small sacrifice for this was nothing at all. Besides, couldn't they get compensation from elsewhere by relying on power and money...

"Women only slow down the speed of my sword! To survive in this Otherworld Ming, I must minimize these emotional entanglements. After all, when I first Transmigrated here, apart from the special identity I passively accepted, I was actually just an ordinary person. And for an ordinary person, even struggling to survive would consume 99% of one's life energy, leaving no time for anything else! Therefore, only by concentrating on walking my own path can I be qualified to covet other things... Right, let me refine some more bullets; they might be useful tomorrow..."

Geng Yun had not contacted him just now. He had passed the information about the cultists to Geng Yun through the mouths of Xu Guanghu and Tong Jingshan. He did not want to directly intervene in this encirclement operation; the pleasure of manipulating things from behind the scenes was actually greater, so he returned directly to West Lake Island...

At the same time, the county office guard and the Xuanwu Guard were acting overnight. Together with the Martial Master experts invited by the county office, they were all forming teams to search in secret. Among them, the Xuanwu Guard and the county office guard were mainly responsible for the Mystic Cannon near Qianlong Middle School, which was the main event for tomorrow. Bai Pu and Bai Shan, as well as the two groups led by He Hao and Qi Da, were mainly responsible for the Mystic Cannon near the Martial Arts Market. Guided by the information, they had currently discovered that One-Eyed Dragon and his subordinates were looking for a location to install the Mystic Cannon. All four of them were secretly shocked; they did not expect that the mysterious person's information would be so accurate. Who exactly was he?

Could it be that the government actually had someone lurking within the cultists?

But how could this be possible? One had to know that such a mission was simply a path to self-destruction, because if things went wrong, one would be caught between a rock and a hard place. The cultists would kill you if they saw through your disguise, and the government side only had the word "kill" when facing cultists. Therefore, without the power to protect oneself, undertaking such an undercover mission was absolutely a dangerous task with a nine-in-ten chance of death!

Several people did not dare to think too deeply. They all lurked in the dark, silently observing the actions of One-Eyed Dragon and the others, and quietly reporting the information...