Madam Yan's Matchmaking Pavilion for Men

51 Meeting People, Giving Them Face

Neither Madam Yu nor Madam Zhang could find any peace after they came back from the matchmaking pavilion that day. Instead, their worries even seemed to grow. What should they do about their son's marriage? Madam Zhang was at least able to talk things through with her son. Madam Yu, on the other hand, didn't even see him. When she returned home that day, her son had already vanished. She found out that he had been to the palace but that was all. He didn't return in the next few days either and she only heard about him when he went out to meet with two of the people that had participated in Madam Yan's first event.

Madam Yu really wanted to run over and drag him back home by the tip of his ear but she knew that she couldn't do that. Thus she could only complain to her husband but that didn't have much of an effect either. He only told her to let him be and that he'd come home when he felt like it.

Needless to say, Madam Yu wasn't reassured at all. This was about their son's marriage! His marriage! Whether or not they would get a daughter-in-law and any grandchildren would depend on this!

Regardless of how hard she tried, her husband didn't budge though and didn't go to search for their son so she could only silently continue to complain while she had to wait for their son to return home. When he did, she'd definitely give him a piece of her mind!

Yu Huang Rong could imagine what would await him if he went home so he didn't bother to do so in the first place. After his meeting with Zhang Shi Lan and Ming Ru Shui, he went into seclusion again, training his sword arts. Zhang Shi Lan knew how to have a message delivered to him so if he found somebody else they could have a meeting with, he would be able to tell him so. As for anything else ... Well, he didn't really need to see anybody and he was pretty sure that Luan Xin would have his ways of finding out where he was if he needed something.

In this way, another week went by until Zhang Shi Lan finally contacted Yu Huang Rong. He had found another person they could meet up with who happened to be the son of a friend of his father's.

Yu Huang Rong happily went to the meeting and bid goodbye with a heavy heart afterward. When they parted, he gave Zhang Shi Lan a look, indicating that he should better find another person to meet soon. Even though he was working on his skills incessantly so that he had something to do, it was still unbeatable to be separated for this long.

Really, if he could, he would speed up the process and get married right next week. Unfortunately, there was no way that could happen so he could only return to his seclusion and hope that Zhang Shi Lan would have another idea on how to meet.

Once again, it took a few days until he heard from him. This time, the person in question was a scholar again. Contrary to Zhang Shi Lan whose aspirations lay more in finding a place in the Academy or maybe teaching children, this person wanted to get a position at court and was thus eager to meet the younger General Yu. After all, every connection you had might one day be able to help you. Thus he had readily agreed when Zhang Shi Lan asked him if he would be interested and happily conversed with the two of them for several hours, trying to impress Yu Huang Rong who nodded absent-mindedly and spent his time admiring the way how Zhang Shi Lan poured the tea so elegantly or folded his hands in his lap, glancing at his face from time to time.

Even up until the time they bid their farewells, their guest didn't notice any of the furtive glances and was just happy that he had been able to meet General Yu and maybe leave him with a good impression. He felt that if he used this well and made sure that this relationship dried up again, he would benefit greatly.

Yu Huang Rong actually had trouble remembering that person or anything he had said. His whole head was filled with the way Zhang Shi Lan looked and moved and how melodious his voice had sounded when he injected a sentence here or there. Ah, he couldn't wait to see him again!