Lu Tao heard Du Xiaoyu's pleading tone, coupled with the pomp and circumstance of almost the entire Liu family who came to participate in the birthday banquet, Lu Tao had already concluded in his heart that his guess about Du Xiaoyu's identity was 90% true: she was very likely to be the third of the "three golden flowers" of the Liu family! Although she did not look much like Liu Feiyan and Liu Shuangyan, and her surname was Du Bu Liu, it was estimated that she might have followed her mother's surname, and her appearance also followed her mother's ......

Thinking of this, he suddenly asked, "Xiaoyu, is your mother's surname Du?"

Du Xiaoyu was stunned for a moment, his face turned pale all of a sudden, nodded lightly, and whispered "um".

Lu Tao glanced at her deeply, didn't say anything, and walked quickly towards Liu Hong and the others. Du Xiaoyu followed closely behind him and walked in front of Liu Hong and the others together.

Liu Hong saw Lu Tao coming to greet him, and his face did not show an angry and angry expression, he was very happy, and hurriedly took the initiative to stretch out his hand, hold it with Lu Tao, and shook it affectionately, while saying with a smile: "Xiao Lu, I wish you a happy birthday, and I wish your mother a blessing like Nanshan in the East China Sea!" Yesterday, I heard Xiaoyu say that you are going to put your mother's birthday banquet in the O'Neill Hotel, I am really happy in my heart, so I invited Xiaoyu's sister and brother-in-law and some middle-level managers of the hotel, there is no other meaning, that is, everyone joins in the fun, adds blessings and longevity to your mother, and also takes this opportunity to wish you and Xiaoyu a sweet love and an early marriage!"

Lu Tao had mixed feelings in his heart at this time, but considering that there is indeed such a custom here: anyone who comes to wish the elders birthday wishes, no matter how much grudge they usually have, cannot shirk and refuse, and they have to greet each other with a smile, otherwise they don't understand the rules, and they are also unfilial and disrespectful to the elders.

Therefore, despite the reluctance in his heart, when faced with Liu Hong's enthusiastic blessings, he was not easy to refuse and turn his face, so he had to reluctantly show a smile and said insincerely: "Thank you Mr. Liu for your presence and blessings, please come and sit in front." ”

Afterwards, he hugged his fists to Liu Feiyan, Liu Shuangyan and others behind Liu Hong, and said loudly: "On behalf of my mother and the whole family, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you for your hospitality! Please come and sit down in front of you!"

The reason why he preemptively hugged his fists to thank everyone was that he didn't want to shake hands with everyone individually to thank him, so as not to have an embarrassing scene when shaking hands with Li Weijun.

Liu Hong probably guessed his thoughts, so he waved his hand to the people behind him and said: "Xiao Lu has already expressed his welcome and gratitude to you, he has a lot of things today, and he didn't shake hands with you one by one to welcome, this is not rude, everyone is considerate and take care of it, you will have a lot of opportunities to be with Xiao Lu in the future, it doesn't matter if you don't introduce each other today, it won't be long before everyone becomes friends, hahaha!"

At this time, Song Xitang came out of the crowd and said to Lu Tao and Du Xiaoyu with a smile: "Xiaolu, Xiaoyu, I know most of the leaders and friends who came to the birthday banquet today, or I will welcome you to a banquet! ”

Lu Tao was worried about how to sit down, and when he saw that Song Xitang took the initiative to ask for help, he was in the middle of it, and hurriedly thanked him.

Liu Hong smiled and said, "I'll talk about An Xi's matter later, Xiao Lu, you take me to meet your mother and relatives first, and we have to congratulate her in person." ”

Lu Tao had no choice but to take him, Liu Feiyan, Liu Shuangyan, Li Weijun, and Song Xitang to the front VIP table, pointed to Liu Hong first, and introduced to his mother and Tian Guodong and others: "This is Mr. Liu Hong, the chairman of O'Neill Hotel Group. ”

Tian Su'e, Tian Guodong and others didn't expect the chairman of the hotel to come to attend the birthday banquet in person, they were all taken aback, and quickly stood up and greeted Liu Hong with a smile.

Liu Hongle hugged his fists haha, first wished Tian Su'e a happy birthday, and then welcomed Tian Guodong and others.

Subsequently, he introduced his two daughters, Li Weijun and Song Xitang to the people at the table, and Liu Feiyan and others also said some blessings and welcomes, and under the leadership of Liu Hong, they went to the gift money registration office on the left to send red envelopes.

After registering the gift money, Song Xitang arranged for Liu Hong, the Liu sisters and Li Weijun to sit at the same table with Lu Tao's mother, and the rest of the management staff sat at the second row of wine tables.

At this time, Lu Tao's colleagues also walked into the banquet hall one after another. Lu Tao and Du Xiaoyu welcomed them in, first went to Lu Ping to register their names and gift money, and then sat down separately at the wine table under the guidance of Song Xitang.

At about twelve o'clock, Xie Benzhu and Fu Lei walked into the banquet hall, and Lu Tao hurriedly brought them to the table where his mother was sitting, and introduced: "This is Minister Fu of the Organization Department of the County Party Committee, and this is Secretary Xie of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection." ”

Tian Guodong, Tian Guoliang and the others were taken aback again, looked at Lu Tao a little dumbfounded, and then looked at Fu Lei and Xie Benzhu, who were smiling and asking questions about Lu Tao's mother's birthday, and at the same time had a huge question in their hearts: What is going on? His sister is only celebrating her 50th birthday, why is it that even the organization director and the secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Taolin County Party Committee are here? Moreover, looking at Lu Tao talking and laughing with these two leaders, the relationship between them is absolutely very close, how did he make friends with so many leaders?

When Li Weijun saw Fu Lei and Xie Benzhu coming, he showed a trace of unnatural expression on his face, and greeted them with a reluctant smile; Liu Hong stood up casually, took the initiative to shake hands with Fu Lei and Xie Benzhu, and warmly invited them to sit on the top.

The first two VIP tables are half a circle larger than the others, and one table can seat sixteen people. At this time, the table on the right was already occupied by Lu Tao's mother, three uncles, aunts and uncles, two aunts, plus Liu Hong, two daughters and Li Weijun, a total of thirteen people were seated, and there were three seats. Fu Lei and Xie Benzhu didn't want to share the table with Li Weijun and Liu Hong, but seeing that Lu Tao's mother and uncle were sitting here, Liu Hong warmly invited him again, so he couldn't refuse, so he had to sit down at the top.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Bingbing walked in with Chen Pei - it turned out that after Xia Bingbing learned that Lu Tao was now looking for Du Xiaoyu as his girlfriend, she knew that Chen Pei was very uncomfortable, and it would definitely be embarrassing if she stayed at Lu Tao's house, so she invited Chen Pei to go for a walk before leaving last night, and after taking a walk, she opened a room in Taolin Hotel. This morning, she took Chen Pei to a scenic spot in the suburbs for a few hours, and only took her to the O'Neill Hotel for a banquet when it was almost time to start the meal......

Lu Tao greeted Chen Pei and Xia Bingbing at the door, and after registering the gifts, he arranged for them to sit at the VIP table on the left.

At this time, his sister Lu Ping suddenly walked over, took his hand and whispered, "Xiao Tao, come over here, I'll say a few words to you." ”

Lu Tao hurriedly followed her to a corner of the banquet hall, Lu Ping looked around, suddenly opened the bag containing money, motioned Lu Tao to look inside, and said a little worriedly: "Xiao Tao, the gift money from Xiaoyu's friends is too heavy." The chairman of the hotel is 8,888 yuan, his daughter is 6,666 yuan, and the employees of the rest of the hotels are 2,000 yuan. You are from the tax bureau, they are taxpayers, will there be a problem with giving such a heavy gift money?"