Chapter 1086 — Xie Yufeng Sweeps Away the Gloom
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Who would have thought that before Xie Yufeng could report anything, his father's call would come first?
Xie Yufeng hesitated a moment, then picked up.
"Hello? Father!" Xie Yufeng said.
"Yufeng, how are things? You've been in Songshan so many days now — have you settled in?" Yu Shuixing asked with a smile. His son was his pride, the pride of the Yu family; from now on the future of the Yu family would rest on Yufeng's shoulders.
"Not bad..." The words came out with a noticeable hitch. He had rather lost the face to speak with his own father — the whole affair was too shameful by half. The young master of the illustrious Yu family had come to Songshan City brimming with confidence, ready to make his mark, and who would have thought that misfortune would hound him at every turn? Before he had so much as crossed hands with Wei Zhao, he had been thrashed by a pack of strangers who had nothing to do with any of it!
Had it been Wei Zhao who pounded him, Xie Yufeng would not have uttered a word of complaint. To probe the man's background, a beating was a price worth paying. But the crucial point was that Wei Zhao had never lifted a finger!
"So? Have you mapped out the background on Wei Zhao's side?" Yu Shuixing failed to catch the dejection in his son's voice and still asked with a smile.
"Not yet... There's no opening to exploit, and I can't very well make a move just to test him..." Xie Yufeng said gloomily. "I feel as though I don't even know where to begin!"
"Mm... No matter. Just make yourself at home in Songshan City for the time being — as it happens, there is other business." Yu Shuixing, for his part, was in no hurry.
"Other business?" Xie Yufeng started. "What other business?"
"Heh, why of course there is! Yufeng, you are not getting any younger — I have arranged a marriage for you!" Yu Shuixing said with a laugh.
"A marriage?" Xie Yufeng blinked. He had no objection to a match arranged by the clan. Raised in a great house all his life, he knew that his marriage was nothing more than a bargaining chip of interest, and that when the time came his father would decide.
Of course, Xie Yufeng could not have cared less. He was a man: even if he wed a wife he neither liked nor found pretty, he could always keep a mistress on the side. Among the young lords of the great houses this was no secret at all — which was why, in a marriage of alliance, the truly wretched one was always the woman.
Married off to a man she did not love, she might then be left to keep an empty bed night after night, and she could never dream of taking a lover herself. Such was the unfairness of it all: when a straying man is called a dashing libertine, a straying woman is called a breach of wifely virtue.
So Xie Yufeng did not care in the least about the matter of an arranged marriage. He only paused for an instant before asking, "What does that have to do with my being in Songshan City?"
"It does. The girl I have betrothed you to is Qiu Lingshan, a granddaughter of the Song family, and she already commands the strength of late Yellow Stage peak Great Perfection!" Yu Shuixing said with a smile. "She is a fine girl, quite gifted — to have reached late Yellow Stage peak Great Perfection at such an age! I have high hopes for her."
"Qiu Lingshan?" The name jolted Xie Yufeng into recognition. "Qiu Lingshan of the Song family — I believe I have seen her once... She seemed all right, if I recall?"
All right? No sooner did Xie Yufeng learn that Qiu Lingshan was the one betrothed to him than his heart brimmed over with delight!
Not only was Qiu Lingshan beautiful, she had a superb figure and a generous bosom — Xie Yufeng was already snickering away to himself. With a top beauty like that for a wife, his days ahead were going to be bliss!