Bai Xian Ming was surprised before his expression was overwhelmed by happiness. He immediately hugged Heero's shoulder and pulled him into the district.
"Let's give the daughter and the father a room to talk, shall we?"
Heero turned to Bai Xin Yue and the girl nodded. This indicated that it was okay to leave her with the middle-aged man.
As he dragged Heero along, the old man sent a barrage of questions about the wedding.
"So, where are you going to have the wedding? Who will you invite? How many?
Such a question came out of the old man's mouth.
But before the two of them could enter the district, Wu Shen Lei stopped them. The sharp eyes of the young man were glued to Heero.
"Is it true?" He asked in a somber tone.
"What?" Heero replied immediately.
"The wedding! Between you and Xin Yue, is it true?"
This time, Heero did not answer the young man. Wu Shen Lei dressed himself in a stylish outfit that made his handsome face shine even more. He also brought a bouquet of red flowers with him.
"It's true, we will hold the wedding here in two weeks," Heero pointed to his district.
Bai Xian Ming stepped aside. It was a problem of the young people, as an elder he decided not to interfere.
"Then let's spar! I want to make sure that you are strong enough to protect them!" Wu Shen Lei issued a challenge.
Bai Xian Ming shook his head at Wu Shen Lei's decision.
"This is absurd, what do you care? Who are you to her? I understand if you are her big brother or something, but you?" Heero found it absurd.
"Besides, why should I waste my time with you to accompany you in your games? You know it yourself, right? You can never win against me!"
Wu Shen Lei held his tongue and looked directly at Heero.
"You're just looking for an excuse. You want to have a spar with me so that you have a justification. The justification that you can't win her heart because I'm stronger than you! Because you are defeated by me, something like... A consolation perhaps!"
"You'll say, Ah, he's strong and she deserves someone like him, something like that? So your wounded heart and pride would be less hurt!"
"Accept the bitter reality and move on! I am too busy to accompany you to play around!"
Heero tapped Wu Shen Lei once on the shoulder and walked through him. The young man rooted to the spot with a blank expression on his face.
Bai Xian Ming followed after Heero and said, "Don't you think this is too harsh? He's just a young man whose heart is hurt because someone he loves is about to marry another man" he said.
"Oh, come on, old man. That's youth, he's got to go through it. I mean, getting hurt or hurting others, that's youth, right?" Heero shrugged casually as he answered with nonsense.
"Or it could be the opposite, because he knows how painful it was. He would take his revenge on other women or men," Heero rolled his eyes at the old man who started to talk about unimportant things.
Both have their conversation until they arrive in front of the Xing Hotpot: "I reserved a room so you can talk to their chief later!"
"I don't want a hotpot for lunch! I want a steak, Xing Steak House!" Bai Xian Ming objected.
"Then you can just book the room for yourself, why are you telling me now?"
"A treat from future in-laws will have a different taste... it makes the food more delicious..." The old man grinned at Heero. Old Ming seemed incredibly happy.
Heero just rolled his eyes at the old man and called the owner of the Xing Steak House to book a room.
"You can wait for them there while I pick up the guests!"
"But why should we meet them here? Wouldn't it be faster to meet them in the dungeon? Besides, I thought you already had the conversation with them," Old Ming thought today's meeting was supposed to be an introduction, but it was not.
"Give and take, Grandpa Bai! You want their service to help you hunt the specters, but what can you give them in return for their service?"
"They were born to be hunters. That's why they live by hunting, whether it's a beast or a specters. They can't get anything from hunting the specters, so you have to pay them. That's how it works, right?"
Give and take, something he learned from the people here. No one would help you without a hidden motive.
Besides, he was helping the Purple Mountain Tribe blend in with the people on Earth. Money was essential for that and it would also help the tribe to solve their food crisis.
Heero left the old man in the restaurant while he went to pick up the chief and the elder of the Purple Mountain Tribe.
Not long after Heero left, Bai Tian Ming and Bai Xin Yue burst into the reserved room.
"Where's that guy, Father!" Bai Tian Ming asked loudly.
"He went to pick out our guests. You can wait here with me if you want to meet him!" The old man replied with a smiley face.
Bai Xin Yue herself immediately sat down next to her grandfather and poured the drink for him.
Before Bai Xian Ming could take the glass, his son took it first and sat on the opposite side.
"Father! I don't agree with Xin Yue marrying this guy!"
"Oh, why?" Old Ming took the second glass and asked. He was piqued by his son's objection to letting his daughter marry Heero.
"Let's not talk about the fact that he has two wives and his origin is also unknown. There's a rumor that he came from a dungeon! There's no way I would agree to my daughter marrying him!"
Bai Tian Ming began to vent his dissatisfaction in front of his daughter and father. Bai Xin Yur remained calm despite her father's objection.
"Oh, what's wrong with having two wives? Or four or even more? We work with the central government to encourage that, don't we? Besides, it doesn't matter where he comes from, I found him to be a fine young man, that's the point!"
Bai Xian Ming shrugged lightly and continued, "Besides, this is Xin Yue's decision. Don't we agree? We will not interfere in her love life or marriage."
"But I have to make sure that she marries the right man, not just any man from an obscure background!"
"Says someone who suddenly brought a woman home and said he wanted to marry her!" Old Ming smiled at his son.
"That was because I was afraid you would not approve if I told you where she came from. Besides, she was just an ordinary woman with no power. She's completely different from this man!"
They were both talking about Bai Xin Yue's mother. The woman Bai Tian Ming loved deeply, the reason why he did not remarry even after she left him and their two daughters forever.
The father and son argued with each other while Bai Xin Yue thought about another matter, like...
'What if father knows Heero's age, it would be funny to see his reaction...'.
While the Bai family had their time to discuss the marriage, Heero brought Dazekh out of the dungeon. The chief brought along two elders and a team leader of the Purple Mountain Tribe's best hunter team.
"It's not as bad as you told me, the air I mean," was the first sentence that came out of Dazekh's mouth the moment he stepped onto Earth.
"It is because I have done my work here, you will know how bad the air is when you step out of my territory! This way, please!"
Heero led the group in front of his Martial House.
To his surprise, a group... no, a family was waiting for him. The Kang family, Kang Seo-Yeon was with them and Heero recognized the old man and the lady, Kang Myung-Chul the grandfather and Kang Sang-Hee the mother.
So the middle-aged man is the father, Kang Yun-Cheol.
Kang Seo-Yeon rushed over and whispered something. She made no effort to hide her intimacy with Heero.
"Good, let's make an appointment for tonight! I have a matter in my hand now!"