After saying that, the girl pushed open the door and walked out of the private room, leaving the two men in the room looking at each other in bewilderment.
Xiao Lanyi's intentions were already out in the open. A woman who had caught the eye of a second-rank marshal had little chance of being with anyone else unless he died. Ruyi didn't mind; things had to be made clear.
She was fond of currying favor with the powerful and influential, and Marshal Xiao was like a golden egg to her. The man was tall and imposing, and his aura as a leader of troops was as majestic as a lion.
Even the scar between his eyebrows gave her a sense of security. He held a high position of power and influence, and it was said that he had no one in his household, not even a concubine. As long as she nodded, she would be his legal wife, saving her from the detours that women in the capital had taken for generations.
Why wouldn't someone like this man be likable? She was attracted to him, she admitted it; she simply liked the feeling his power and influence gave her. But so what? He couldn't possibly come and stay with her at the brothel like Zhou Ning'an and Lu Wangji did.
She preferred the pleasure quarters to this false sense of superiority, especially to Huo Xiaolong, whose mouth was now covered in sesame paste.
"Marshal, what are you thinking?" Xu Zheng didn't understand, but he couldn't speak ill of Ruyi, as Xiao Lanyi was in a moment of madness.
What are your thoughts?
Why don't you, the Xu family patriarch, go find a suitable young lady to marry, and instead come to a brothel to meddle?
“If I marry her, she will give me a prescription, and the Xu family will be able to rise to a higher level. Besides, this girl is smart and she will manage the household affairs very well.”
Xiao Lanyi sneered.
"What about the person before you who died?"
Xu Zheng's first wife died in childbirth, and he has never remarried, nor has he taken a concubine. This man is not doing this to remain faithful to his first wife.
Those who would send their daughters to his household as concubines must be seeking something from him; they would be of no use to him whatsoever, and he wouldn't do such a losing deal. On the other hand, daughters of officials in the capital who could be of help to him and could become his principal wife would not marry their legitimate daughters to him as his second wife.
Ruyi was the best choice he had encountered in recent years, and Liuxu was also acceptable.
It doesn't matter who it is, the important thing is what it can bring to him.
The head of the Xu family sighed.
"That was her fate."
The original wife was the same; she was merely asking her in-laws for help.
Xiao Lanyi shook his head and said noncommittally.
"You treat others as tools, so don't be afraid that this kind of retribution will come back to you. Marrying a wife is about building a small family with her, cherishing her, loving her, and respecting her. It's about being happy when you see her and missing her when you don't. Master Xu, you've never had this feeling in your life, have you? According to your thinking, it seems that you've never liked anyone in your life."
Xu Zheng tilted his head in confusion, then nodded in agreement.
“Indeed… but I, Xu, have no need for such things.”
He poured Xiao Lanyi a glass of wine, as a way of comforting the man who had just been rejected by his sweetheart, and then continued...
"I wish Marshal Xiao a speedy success in winning the heart of his beloved."
The general raised his wine cup and said
"Thank you for your kind words."
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