Chapter: 1376

Kong De Long nodded his head, but was also very puzzled as he asked: "Mom, why does Ru Lin need to go to that bird's nest place in Jinling?"

Dong Xiu Hua said: "I heard from your grandfather that the Ye family bought a company called Emperor Group in Jinling recently. It seems like they gave it to their young master to run, and your grandfather wants you to try it out and see if Ru Lin can develop something with the Ye young master."

Kong De Long furrowed his brow again: "Jinling really has the Ye family's young master? That doesn't seem possible..."

When he said this, he suddenly remembered Ye Chen in his head. Could this Ye Chen be the Ye family's young master?

"It doesn't seem that way, Chen Ze Kai has denied it anyway, and that guy is a married-in son-in-law from a low-class family, allegedly even moved to Jinling. There's no reason he would be Ye Family's young master!"

At this moment, Dong Xiu Hua also had some doubts: "I initially thought the chairman of Emperor Group could possibly be Ye Family's young master, but according to Ru Lin, she has never seen his face, so I'm suspicious. Even if the chairman is Ye Family's young master, he might not even be in Jinling, and could be controlling remotely from Yanjing, or just holding a board position without actually taking care of business. After all, Ye Family is so big and influential that they wouldn't bother with something as small as Emperor Group."

Kong De Long asked in surprise: "Why doesn't Ru Lin get sent back? Why isn't she rushed back already?"

Dong Xiu Hua said: "Your grandfather did want her to go back, but she's unwilling, so your grandfather went along with it."

The relationships between the big families in Yanjing are extremely complex.

They're like the nobles of the Qing dynasty, intermarried and closely connected through marriage and kinship ties.

After all, each family has its own sons and daughters, who will need to get married when they reach adulthood. The big families' standards are very high, so they won't choose their husbands or wives from ordinary families. Instead, they'll look for suitable matches within other big families.

It's safe to say that no big family doesn't have connections with other big families, and some big families might even form alliances with multiple others at once.

This is very much like the royal families in Europe, where the kings and queens among those old-fashioned monarchies are all related to each other through family ties. This is because the entire European royal family has been formed into one large family through centuries of intermarriage.

Kong De Long's mother, Dong Shi Hua, was a thousand-year-old miss from the Dong family and Kong Ling Shuang's aunt.

She had already married Kong De Long's father, Kong Lian Ce, 35 years ago.

When Kong and Dong families got married, Dong family's strength was even stronger than Kong family's for a while.

However, over these years, Dong family has been going downhill, while Kong family has been moving up. So the gap between the two families has gradually widened.

But Kong family's patriarch and matriarch have always loved Dong Shi Hua dearly, mainly because after Dong Shi Hua married into their family, Dong family indeed helped Kong family a lot.

After Dong Shi Hua married Kong Lian Ce, she gave birth to three daughters. The fourth child was finally born as Kong De Long, so she loves him very much.

Kong De Long is now 27 years old and will soon be 28. So Dong Shi Hua has started worrying about her son's marriage.

She first looked around the big families in Yanjing but never found a satisfactory match.

Su family's daughter-in-law and Ye family's daughter-in-law are both very high-profile, each family longing to marry into them. Compared to Kong family's strength, they are still too far behind.

As for those families with a similar status to Kong family, the girls in their house who are approaching marriageable age either have already been snatched up or are simply not qualified enough to enter Dong Shi Hua's eyes.

Naturally, Dong Shi Hua hopes her son can find someone with a good family background, strong abilities, and an impressive appearance, like a rich heiress.

However, most of the heiresses from big families are girls who have obvious strengths and weaknesses. Their strengths include having a lot of money and capabilities, but their weaknesses lie in that aside from being wealthy, they lack other qualities. JrNovels.com