In fact, what to eat and drink at the wedding banquet, what entertainment to invite people to play, and what airplanes, yachts, luxury cars to pick up and drop off, there is no point in pretending to be forced.

Those facilities, no matter how luxurious, are just a lingering moor, moisturizing things silently as a background.

Even if you spend thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars on each guest, you won't notice it if you don't pay attention.

For people of this level, it is important to have what level of guests you have at your banquet.

After getting off the helicopter, Ye Kun and a group of American guests were first led by Gu Wei to the main hall to receive a position.

Gu Biao didn't say that the table seats were allocated according to his status, but Professor Ji was his teacher after all, so of course he had to be in the front. The others, as colleagues of the professor, are not too far away, at most only one or two tables away.

At this moment, it is only three o'clock in the afternoon, and father Gu Yong and sister Gu Min, as the main family, have already sat down at the first table in advance, and they can chat when they are idle.

After Gu Biao led a group of people in front of him, he first turned back to the professor and confessed: "Professor, please sit next to my father, and Mr. Schultz can also sit over." Well, this is Principal Liu, this is Teacher Han, and they will all translate for you. ”

Gu Biao has more than one teacher, so today he asked President Liu, who was studying at the Foreign Affairs University and took them back then, to also invite him, as well as some other teachers, including Han Ting.

It has been eight years since Gu Biao graduated, and President Liu has also been transferred, returning to the ministry and taking a back seat, and is about to retire. But since Gu Biao was the principal when he was studying, he should be invited.

President Liu sat on the other side of Professor Ji, feeling a little frightened, but he was still able to hold it, after all, his status was not low. Han Ting sat next to His Excellency Schultz.

These people are all proficient in at least five foreign languages, and Han Ting knows nine foreign languages, so there is no pressure to help Americans translate a few sentences when chatting.

However, my father and sister sat at this table, and they felt very stressed. Dad obviously misses the state of "being powerful" in Qiantang locally, and he doesn't have to give anyone face when he attends any banquet.

"Dad, relax. You have to think about it, you have to be awkward here, and when you go back, others don't know how much they envy you. Gu Min understood his father's mind very well, and persuaded him intimately.

Dad changed his mentality and felt that it was quite profitable.

Yes, it is more restrained to eat with foreign dignitaries, but after returning to the mainland, others will admire your new knowledge and experience. Your casual remark of "what did I talk about when I had dinner with Professor so-and-so" can make people quote the previous year.

"I heard Director Gu say that when he was having dinner with Professor So-and-so, he talked about something, and Professor So-and-so said so......"

This is something that even paraphrases or even second-way paraphrasers feel honorable.

What's more, there are people from TV stations and news agencies filming there.

Of course, people's filming is not dedicated to reporting on weddings, and weddings can't be on serious news, at most it's just a mention that so-and-so is married.

However, the news that "whoever and who is waiting for others to attend the wedding of such and such a person today" can be seriously reported.

In particular, it is necessary to use the special broadcast cavity for the registration form of the news series, similar to "who attended the meeting".

After arranging the first two dignitaries and the faculty members of the Foreign Affairs Academy who accompanied the foreigners, there were already six people sitting at the main table, not counting the places left by Gu Biao and Xiao Sui.

Therefore, other former dignitaries who have served in the United States must not be able to sit at the first table.

Gu Wei turned to Ye Kun and Peterson, Baker, and other characters who were inferior to Peterson, weighed it, and politely suggested:

"Counselor Ye, you were sent by the leader to receive American guests along the way, so ...... Please sit down at the first table, and you can talk to Lord Baker, please.

Peter, you go to the table. ”

When Gu Biao pronounced Peterson's name, he was very casual and pronounced very colloquially, as if he was talking to a business guy or even a subordinate.

However, his identity is indeed enough status, who made him an important client and a major customer of the Blackstone Fund.

Peter Peterson was the chief of business in the United States more than ten years ago, but now he is only the CEO of the Blackstone Fund, and Americans do not have so many official positions in terms of seniority.

So even though Peterson came to the wedding banquet as a "former colleague of the professor", Gu had nothing to say if he had to arrange him to be slightly lower than the professor's other former colleagues, and he didn't care.

Americans don't care much about seating at private banquets.

However, other people who didn't know only saw this Miss Ye, who seemed to be ranked ahead of Mr. Peterson.

Ye Kun kept her face expressionless and didn't say a word, and finally when everyone decided, she coughed professionally: "Your Excellency Baker, I'll translate for you for tonight's banquet." ”

"Thank you very much. "Baker, who had just tossed and was miserable in the square agreement two years ago, was very happy to sit and eat with Ye Kun, "I heard that Miss Ye, you and Mr. Gu have been classmates for many years, and they are really people in groups." ”

Ye Su bared his teeth for a moment, and forcibly returned his expression to a smiling indifferent face.

On the side, Gu Min knew a little bit of foreign languages, listened to the conversation between those Americans and Ye Kun, and secretly talked to his father: "Dad, when my brother was in Washington, he went to the club with those American dignitaries, well, a club called the 'Amphibious Club', which was opened by Akio Morita, the president of Bensony Company.

Every time I have a party in the clubhouse, my brother doesn't have a wife to bring, so he takes this Miss Ye as a female companion. So those American guests were ridiculing, and they all thought that their brother would marry this Miss Ye. ”

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The second table next door is the relatives of the woman's family, who are more nervous than the Gu family, after all, they usually have fewer opportunities to see big people.

However, because the Xiao family was originally an old husband and a young wife, her biological parents were past the retirement age, and her stepmother Su Ping was in her forties, so the social pressure was pushed on Su Ping, and the others only needed to eat and drink for a while, and they didn't have to chat with foreigners.

When Gu Biao led Peterson and other guests over, he discussed with Su Ping in person:

"Auntie, this is my teacher's colleague, Mr. Peterson, but he is also the owner of the Blackstone Foundation now, let him sit on your side, and I will arrange for a guest who is good at foreign languages to sit next to him later. ”

"Mr. Peterson, please be seated, and you're welcome. Su Ping hurriedly stood up, and other female relatives at the same table also stood up to say hello.

Gu Biao was about to continue the arrangement, but there was a slight situation at the next table, and it seemed that some other guests had met an old acquaintance and wanted to change positions to chat.

Gu Biao hurriedly apologized and went to deal with it.

At this time, the people who must be able to calm the scene are all dignitaries, and they must not be coordinated by the secretary, which will offend people.

Gu Biao took a look at it, only to find out that it was the president of Sony, Akio Morita at the fourth table.

He's been doing a lot of business with Peterson lately, and the acquisition of Columbia Pictures still has a bit of a financial aftermath and the details of the execution of the price.

As the big boss of Sony, Akio Morita's time is of course very valuable, and when he comes to attend Gu Ao's wedding, he will have to sit for hours on the scene alone, so he definitely wants to sit down with business friends to discuss things.

Gu Biao naturally immediately met the request of the VIP.

"Uncle, aunt, I'm sorry, this table may have to change a few guests temporarily. ”

"You don't have to tell us. Su Ping hurriedly politely.

Gu Biao led Akio Morita to the position next to Peterson. Then, after a while, two more friends of Akio Morita were pulled to the table in a row.

This one is Bill, a senior at Georgetown University, who was elected to the U.S. State Association last year. This is Mr. Chris Galvin, a mutual friend of Bill and President Morita and the owner of Motorola in the United States. ”

Gu Biao anxiously introduced two sentences, and then left, and then called Mina over to sit at this table.

Mina doesn't have to be a bridesmaid today, so she can attend as a regular guest. She wore a gorgeous pure white dress that showed off her figure than the bride's figure, and the jewels alone were worth 200,000 pounds.

The skirt itself was customized by Hermes, and the designer was the same person who made the wedding dress when Princess Caroline of Monaco married a few years ago, which is absolutely the top royal standard in Europe.

Then, the relatives of the Gu family watched Ye Su at the first table, leading those American guests to talk and laugh freely, and the topic was often how they talked about the major events that determined the fate of the capital market in the "Amphibious Club" in Watsangton...... Then Principal Liu and Han Ting also brought their own melons and casual translations.

Or those relatives of the Xiao family, listening to Akio Morita chatting with Senior Bill and Peterson about big things.

"Rice...... Mina, what are they talking about?" Su Ping asked in a low voice with some curiosity.

"President Morita is asking Mr. Peterson why he hasn't secured the equity of those Columbia Pictures privatization nail households - oh, let me explain, Columbia Pictures is currently one of the eight major Hollywood studios in the United States, and President Morita seems to have spent more than $2 billion to acquire ......"

"No need to explain, I know that. Su Ping interrupted ashamedly, "Our family is also from Hujiang Studios, and we still know about things in the industry, Columbia Pictures......"

Su Ping is also a staff member of the three major film studios in China, and in 88 years, he is definitely the most "open-eyed" group of people in China to the outside world in terms of film and television.

If you don't know how to change the line, I'm afraid it's not easy to understand how much weight Mina's translated words are.

A few friends of the son-in-law, at the wedding banquet table, casually quarreled about it, which can be a major acquisition case at the level of one of the eight major American film companies...... There is really no one in this circle of friends.

Mina didn't realize it at all, and helped the Xiao family continue to translate in a low voice: "President Morita and Mr. Galvin, senior Bill...... Well, I shouldn't call Bill seniors, and what I talked to about Bill was that they should be rewarded for the job creation and investment drainage they did when they helped Bill do a good job on the Southern Economic Development Policy Committee......

You should understand that although Americans have been promoted and changed positions, the things you promised in your original position still have to be fulfilled. ”

Mina was talking and talking, and suddenly heard someone calling her, and hurriedly confessed that she was temporarily absent, "Auntie, I'm sorry, it seems that Her Royal Highness Caroline from Monaco has arrived, she is my best friend, I'll go talk and come back." ”20