Chapter 4: The Banquet
Lisa's banquet was set up at one of the largest Hilds in W. I leaned against the edge of the flower stand in the hallway, waiting for Gao Zhao, who was fiddling with the corners of his skirt, "Beauty, I really don't understand you rich people, your family is so big and not enough to play? ”
Gao Zhao picked out a Chloe white petal scale dress for himself, which is also a hit this year, but unfortunately the youthful style of the white A-line skirt does not match Gao Zhao's temperament at all, "You are like a blackened Snow White now, no, you are Snow White's stepmother queen, and you stole Snow White's skirt." ”
However, this dress does have one thing that suits Gao Zhao very well, and that is that it exposes Gao Zhao's two-meter long legs.
"You know the, of course I, an unmarried princess, have to dress like a princess. ”
I replied to Gao Hu with a "hehe", she obviously wanted to seize every opportunity to highlight that she was a noble woman to suppress the "married woman" Lisa, but I still couldn't understand her "I don't want others and can't want it" mentality.
The dinner was hosted by Lisa herself, and the main people invited were the children of the city's leading families. Her dad quickly hid after offering her a Garff diamond bow necklace, which made the crowd of well-dressed young people at the banquet completely loosen their shackles, and the atmosphere became more and more lively.
"Honey, I invite you to come to the party today on my birthday, there will be a theme for the party, and the theme of the party today is lovers! I hope you will have fun and have fun with your loved ones at my party, and you will find your lover as soon as possible! Of course, it is better to be at my party!" Lisa said and raised champagne to the crowd, "Cheers!"
The four of us stood in the corner and looked at each other, as a young couple in the ballroom raised their champagne glasses to greet Lisa.
Led by the Queen, the four of us touched the glasses by ourselves. "You should call Guo Nuo, one man and four women are better than four wallflowers hanging on the wall. "I didn't forget to piggyback on us.
"I don't mind, but I think Guo Nuo ......." The queen was interrupted by Gao Zhao before she could speak.
"I don't think Guo Nuo minds. Gao Zhao gave me a meaningful look as he spoke, and I was so weak that I quickly looked away to avoid making eye contact with her.
"Didn't this Lisa tell you that today is the Lovers theme? This woman is ruthless enough to blatantly keep you from coming off the stage. Fan Shuangshuang was a little bored, she handed the wine glass to the waiter, took out the mirror to check her makeup, and then said: "My live broadcast time is up, since I am here, I have to make good use of this place, and it can be regarded as giving Lisa a face, isn't it?"
"I'll give Guo Nuo a call and ask him to come and pick us up. The Queen also followed Fan Shuangshuang out of the banquet hall.
"She's too heavy. Gao Zhao looked at the queen's back and sighed softly.
"You're not the same!, alas, it's okay, the old lady loves you!" I said, putting my arms around Gao Zhao's little shoulders very heroically.
"Come on, you, what can she Lisa do except disgust me, give her ten guts!"
Before Gao Zhao's voice fell, there was a noise in the corridor, mixed with Fan Shuangshuang's voice.
"Hurry up and take a look!" Gao Zhao pulled me outside.
"Ma'am, this is a private party, please hand over your phone. Fan Shuangshuang was squeezed into the corner by onlookers, and a security guard-looking person was asking her for her mobile phone.
"My phone is my personal belonging, why should I give it to you? Fan Shuangshuang seemed calm, but Gao Xuan and I could tell that she was actually nervous and even a little scared.
"Then you hand it over, and we'll check to see if there's any video in there. "Security is in hot pursuit.
"Why should I show you, what if there are other videos?" Fan Shuangshuang hurriedly spoke without thinking, and immediately attracted a burst of snickering.
"Hello, she's an invited guest today, and that's how your hotel treats guests?" Gao Zhao walked straight forward between Fan Shuangshuang and the security guard.
"He's not the hotel's security, he's my personal security. Lisa walked in from outside the crowd. "This is my party, I have the right to ask everyone not to spread the content of the party, right?" Lisa's mouth was always a little crooked when she smiled, which was quite flavorful to her delicate face, but it was uncomfortable to look at her smile at this time.
"You have this qualification, but my friend was in the verandah when she did the live broadcast, not in the banquet hall, and I believe she had no intention of revealing the situation of your banquet. "Gao Zhaoyi is righteous.
"Yes, I just use the hotel as a background board, can't I?" Fan Shuangshuang's mind gradually stabilized.
"Hey, you're really calculating! Using someone else's banquet as a backdrop is similar to using someone else's money to invite someone to dinner, right......?" Lisa suddenly turned to Gao Zhao and asked, "Your friends are as calculating as you?"
"What do you mean?" Gao Zhao said inexplicably by Lisa.
"What do you mean? Everyone is mixed in a circle, who doesn't know that you failed to pursue Daniel back then, and you ran to the imperial capital to heal, and now Daniel's career is successful, and you run back again, what do you mean, don't you have any points in your heart?"
"My God", Gao Zhao was scolded by Lisa and couldn't cry or laugh, "Sister, can you stop dreaming? Since everyone is in a circle, who doesn't know that you were the one who picked up the leftovers back then?"
"Who are you talking about?" suddenly another person came out of the crowd, looking at his face and expression, I was sure that this was "Daniel", Li Yuanxiang, Lisa's husband.
Li Yuanxiang stood in front of Lisa, "I ask you to apologize to my wife. ”
Gao Zhao looked at Li Yuanxiang's righteous and hypocritical appearance and became even more angry, "Don't pretend to be me, you husband and wife spent so much effort to put me together today, are you tired!"
"Don't look down on yourself too much, our family Yuan Xiang is now the director of TX Technology, and he is very busy, how can he have time to tease you. Lisa grabbed Li Yuanxiang's arm and twisted it like a snake on top of him.
"Yes, Gao Zhao, don't force me to tell the events of the year in front of everyone, then you will be very ugly. Li Yuanxiang seemed to want to say something.
"Damn, you can say it! If you don't make it clear, I'm sorry that everyone has been watching for so long!" Gao Zhao was still full of confidence.
"Lisa and I were engaged back then, and you didn't succeed in tempting me and burned down my yard, don't you remember?"
"Oh, I almost forgot, it's not strange that you have an uncle like that, you can do such a thing!" Lisa said, glancing at the crowd, and the onlookers responded with "so it was" or began to exchange ears.
Gao Zhao's mother's family was originally a big family. Gao Zhao's mother is the youngest daughter in the family, and she is deeply loved by her parents and four elder brothers, of which the fourth brother has the best relationship with Gao Zhao's mother. But just like the fate of many wealthy families that cannot escape, after the death of their parents, the brothers fell apart, and the family property was gradually dismantled. After the fourth brother got the money that belonged to him, he completely broke away from the family business and began to get involved in the field of art investment, and later met a Chinese female painter in France, and the two quickly got married and settled in Paris after three months of acquaintance, but half a year after the marriage, it was reported that the fourth brother murdered his wife and committed suicide.
Gao Zhao's mother and eldest brother went to France to deal with the fourth brother's funeral, and after coming back, it was as if there had never been a fourth brother, and never revealed any news about the fourth brother's murder, but this kind of thing can't be hidden, and the more everyone doesn't know the reason, the more they will try to explore and speculate. These are all things that Gao Zhao told me before, but I didn't expect Lisa to take out this kind of thing to humiliate Gao Zhao at this time.
"Don't speak ill of my uncle!" Gao Zhao's voice had changed his tone a little.
I know that she was very angry, and was about to interject to help her, but was preempted by others, "I don't have a pair of sharp teeth these days, and I really don't dare to participate in the party casually." A man in a gray suit with a crewneck T-shirt stood next to us at some point. "It turns out that Mr. Li's wife knows this beauty, can you help me introduce her, I am worried that I have no chance to meet the beauty. "The man's arrival caused an immediate commotion, I think, probably because he was too high-profile.
Lisa's face immediately changed two gears, she stiffly retracted the provocation and disdain just now under the gaze of the man in the gray suit, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Chang, this is my good friend Gao Zhao, we are chatting with her!" Lisa turned her head and squeezed out a "sincere" smile at Gao Zhao: "Gao Zhao, this is Chang Yulin Chang Zong, our fellow countryman, but he immigrated to the United States very early." ”
"Mr. Chang, it seems that you and Gao Zhao are familiar at first sight, so don't bother!" Li Yuanxiang immediately took over his wife's words, took a step forward after speaking, and said in Mr. Chang's ear: "Mr. Chang, I'll go to my house in a while, and there is a game of cards." ”
That Mr. Chang hummed lightly as an answer.
"Thank you for helping me out, is it a pleasure for our sisters to have a drink? Although Gao Zhao has always insisted that Shake Sen is her life, she will not be soft at all when she encounters a high-quality man like Chang Yulin.
I gave her a hard look, "We sisters", why do you want to pull me on this back, I have always hated this kind of man who looks very strong.
"Yes, I don't know if Mr. Chang gives face. "The Queen has joined us after the phone call at some point.
Chang Yulin seemed to smile even more happily when he saw the queen, "No problem, the beauties are invited, and the wolf cave and tiger's den are also going to it." ”
Sitting at the small table near the corner of the bar on the second floor, I was very uncomfortable, first of all, I was very dissatisfied with the setting of four women and one man, and secondly, it made me nervous to sit so close to a man like Chang Yulin!
Just when the queen and Gao Zhao took turns discussing Van Gogh, the stock market, and the new Australian winery with Chang Yulin, Fan Shuangshuang began to attack Chang Yulin again on the issue of investment. And I, my eyes were blurred with sleepiness, "Everyone, dear, I'm going back to sleep." Mr. Chang, I'm sorry, I can't stay up late. "Although I have paid attention to the wording, I know that my rude departure must have caused the displeasure of several people in the room.
"Good night, Miss May. Chang Yulin actually stood up and pulled out the chair for me.
I have to say, although I hate the way he looks like he is in control, he really doesn't have to pick his talking appearance.
"Oh, good night!" I decided to leave the scene quickly in order to completely get rid of my feeling of being out of place with this group of handsome men and beautiful women.
Back in my room, I took a shower at the speed of light and slipped into the bed. I checked my email again, but I haven't heard a reply from the studio, these guys! Just as I was thinking about how to tidy up the office atmosphere after a while, the landline at the bedside rang.
"Miss Tang, this is the front desk, a gentleman just left you a gift, can I give it to you?"
"I'm sorry, what did you say I had?" I actually heard clearly, but I couldn't believe that there was actually a "gentleman" who gave me a gift? I only received a group gift when I was a student......
"A gift, a gift. The front desk said slowly.
"Okay, send it up!" curiosity overcame drowsiness, and I wasn't so sleepy anymore.
As I sat down on the bed to open the gift, I suddenly asked myself a question: Who do you want this to be?
"Nonsense! Of course it's Guo Nuo!" But immediately I slapped myself in my heart again, this dream has been going on for ten years, why don't you wake up yet!
But at the moment when the card inside the box was exposed to me, I was stunned, really, it was Guo Nuo.
"Little beauty, I wish you a happy birthday in advance!
The gift is a box of cigars, small cigarillos, which are not expensive, but they are very suitable for taking on your body. Yes, cigars are one of the few hobbies I have. One when you're happy, and one when you're unhappy. But I was reluctant to buy too expensive, after all, no one else supported me except myself.
I don't know how to describe how I feel when faced with this gift. I don't know why Guo Nuo gave me a gift because I was a good friend of her wife's, or because we had a brief friendship in college? I don't even know how Guo Nuo knew that tomorrow was my birthday.
The next morning, before the sun climbed over the horizon, we set out on our way home. The Queen and Frost went to a nightclub after the dinner party, so they slept soundly in the car that Gao Zhao's family took us to the airport. I still haven't received a message from the studio, so I can't help but close my eyes. Gao Zhao is as always paying attention to all kinds of news about her family Dsen, and because the new Avengers has carried out preliminary publicity, she is considering whether to go to the U.S. premiere to support her family Dsen. The other thing that annoyed me a little bit was that Gordon wasn't with us, and according to Queen Anna, he had something to do and needed to spend a few days in W.