When the time for the banquet arrived, the hotel's banquet hall was lively.

The banquet was jointly sponsored by Huanyu Group and Tianhong Group, and almost all entrepreneurs who had some influence in Yanjing were invited.

If you don't know the truth, it may seem that it is just the love activities of these two companies, but if you understand the real background of these two companies, it will not be so simple.

Behind the Huanyu Group is the Song family, one of the five families, and behind the Tianhong Group is the Li family, which is also one of the five families.

The fact that these two companies will jointly launch an event is naturally not a matter of funding, but wants to reveal a clear signal to the outside world...... The Song family and the Li family have formed an alliance.

The five major families of Yanjing are Jiang, Li, Song, Zhao, and Huangfu.

According to the comprehensive strength, the Huangfu family and the Song family are in the upper reaches, the Jiang family is in the middle, and the Li family and the Zhao family are ranked at the bottom.

The development of an enterprise is like sailing against the current, when a company is at the top of the industry in a certain field, it has only two ways to go.

Transform or expand.

Otherwise, instead of progressing, the company will be eaten away by newcomers and will continue to decline.

These five families are all leaders in their own fields, but they can only continue to expand in order to develop themselves, which leads to their collision in a certain field.

For example, the Jiang family and the Li family have been eyeing the tourism industry in China that has continued to boom in recent years, and the two sides have been constantly rubbing.

This time, the Song family and the Li family joined forces to enter the field of communication technology, which had previously been controlled by the Huangfu family.

In addition to some open and secret battles, the relationship between the five major families is not a few, and there are not a few cooperations, which can be described as intricate.

The Huangfu family has always been friendly with the Zhao family, and has also cooperated with the Jiang family in some fields.

The Zhao family and the Li family belong to the same downstream circle, and the two sides often cooperate.

And after the union of the Song and Li families this time, the relationship between them is even more cloudy.

But there are only two words that bind them together...... Benefit.

Once the interests that have been released are damaged, they will not hesitate to abandon their allies.

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The theme of the charity dinner is to care for poor children in mountainous areas, and all proceeds from the auction will be donated to poor children.

After Lu Wanqi took the stage, Tang Shuo stood backstage to watch Lu Wanqi's performance.

Lu Wanqi chose an inspirational love song called "Tomorrow's Children Have Hope", which was originally given by the author to some poor children who are living in hardship, which is very in line with the theme of the banquet.

A little eye...

Lost its light...

Even a small palm...

There is also the right to fly ...

……

As a professional actor, singing is not what Lu Wanqi is good at.

However, with her unique soft voice and singing without any technical modification, it makes people feel a sense of innocence and touches, and completely sings the love expressed in the song.

After the singing, the banquet hall burst into warm applause.

After Lu Wanqi finished singing, Tang Shuo thought that he could leave and go back directly, but who knew that Lu Wanqi took him from behind the stage and walked towards the banquet hall.

Tang Shuo asked suspiciously, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Go shoot something." Lu Wanqi said: "I gave a reward of 500,000 yuan for attending this event, and I will add a little more, and I will donate 1 million random things." ”

Tang Shuo touched his nose with some shame, at first he was a little scornful of this kind of banquet, thinking that participating in this kind of banquet were all people who were bitches and wanted to set up an archway.

If you really want to donate, why don't you donate anonymously? Why do you want to hold an auction with all your fanfare?

In fact, Tang Shuo's idea is not wrong, most of the entrepreneurs who come here are not drunk, and such occasions are mainly for them to establish some personal relationships, and the charity auction is just a pretense of throwing some money at them.

People who have such thoughts about Lu Wanqi can only be said to be rare.

As soon as he walked into the hall, Tang Shuo suddenly found that there were still a few acquaintances he knew, and he couldn't help but sigh that Yanjing was really small.

Tang Shuo took two glasses of champagne from the waiter's hand, handed one to Lu Wanqi, and the two stood in the hall waiting for the auction to begin.

With Lu Wanqi's popularity, she is naturally the focus of everyone's attention wherever she goes.

However, there was nothing like chasing stars on such an occasion, but two people who looked like the fifth level of the Diamond King stepped forward to talk to Lu Wanqi.

It's not the first time Lu Wanqi has encountered this kind of thing, although she doesn't like it, but now it's not good to leave with her sleeves brushed up, so she can only endure the impatience in her heart and talk to the other party with a smile.

After the host of the banquet took the stage to give a short introduction, the auction began immediately.

After the two staff members hung the painting on the display shelf on the stage, the host introduced: "This ink painting was made by Mr. Ouyang Wensheng, vice president of the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Association, last year. ”

The host smiled, and then said: "The starting price is 50,000, and each increase shall not be less than 5,000." ”

As soon as the host finished speaking, a bald man in the hall raised his hand and shouted, "One hundred thousand." ”

Charity auctions are different from ordinary auctions, so the way to increase the price is also different from ordinary auctions, after all, the auctioneers still wear a layer of charity.

"Two hundred thousand."

"Two hundred and fifty thousand."

"Three hundred thousand."

“……”

After a fierce auction, this ink painting, which is worth about 100,000 yuan, was successfully auctioned by the CEO of an Internet company for 380,000 yuan.

After the host thanked him, the second piece was brought up.

The host pointed to a piece of porcelain paperweight in the tray and introduced: "This is a piece of Ming Dynasty paperweight, the owner is ominous, thank you to Mr. Ma of Senqiang Investment Company for providing it free of charge, the starting price is 50,000 yuan, and the price increase shall not be less than 5,000 each time." ”

"One hundred thousand."

"Two hundred thousand."

“……”

Tang Shuo lost interest in the auction after two glances, and walked to a table with snacks in the corner with champagne, and dealt with the extraordinarily tempting desserts on the table.

Suddenly, there was a whispered conversation in front of the clubhouse, and when Tang Shuo looked back, he found that Jiang Tiantong and Jiang Tianwei had walked in, followed by a handsome man in a royal blue suit.

Song Wenchang, who had a relationship with Tang Shuo before, glanced at a young man full of sharp energy beside him, and then waved his hand to the host on the stage, signaled the other party to pause, and then walked towards Jiang Tiantong who had just entered the door with the man next to him.

The handsome man in the royal blue suit is a member of the Huangfu family, called Huangfu Yuanzhou, which is also the biggest enemy of their alliance this time.

They had long expected that Jiang Tiantong and Huangfu Yuanzhou would come, but they didn't expect the two of them to come together.

The meaning of this is not simple.

Could it be that the Jiang family also wants to get involved in communication? And is it with the Huangfu family?

Why did the Huangfu family pull the Jiang family into an alliance?

"I thought you weren't coming." Song Wenchang smiled and said to Jiang Tiantong: "Come in quickly, it's already started." ”

Huangfu Yuanzhou, who was standing next to Jiang Tiantong, joked with a smile: "It seems that you really only have Tiantong in your eyes, and you don't put others in the ...... at all."

Seeing Jiang Tiantong's warning gaze, Huangfu Yuanzhou's voice became weaker and weaker, and finally smiled at Jiang Tiantong and waved his hand to indicate that he was not going to continue.

It has long been no secret that Song Wenchang pursued Jiang Tiantong in their circle.

It's no wonder that even if you don't talk about family background, Song Wenchang and Jiang Tiantong themselves are also talented and beautiful, and they are very compatible.

But Jiang Tiantong has never agreed to Song Wenchang's pursuit, and treats the other party neither distant nor close.

"Brother Wenchang." Jiang Tianwei greeted Song Wenchang with a smile.

Hearing Jiang Tianwei's words, Jiang Tiantong's brows furrowed without a trace, and she walked directly into the banquet hall, she was not used to being stared at by so many people.

Song Wenchang touched Jiang Tianwei's head with a smile and said, "You go in first." ”

As soon as Jiang Tianwei left, Huangfu Yuanzhou patted the shoulder of the man beside Song Wenchang and said, "Li Ruiyi, you should think about what I said last time, don't rush to give me an answer." ”

After speaking, Huangfu Yuanzhou walked directly into the banquet hall and said hello to the people he knew from time to time.

Li Ruiyi shook his head with a wry smile rather speechlessly: "This guy ......"

Song Wenchang also smiled and said, "Let's go, let's go in first." ”

Huangfu Yuanzhou said a few simple words, and he had already separated the relationship between several people twice in front of everyone, but you still can't refute it.

He first used Song Wenchang's liking for Jiang Tiantong to stimulate Jiang Tiantong, and then directly put a thorn in the middle of their newly-knotted allies.

Although all the people present were smart people, these words didn't play much role, but they always made people feel uncomfortable.

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Time flies, and soon dozens of items from the collection were auctioned off.

Lu Wanqi also auctioned a pair of white jade bracelets with an actual price of about 200,000 yuan at a high price of 1 million.

Now only the last few finale items are left on the field.

Tang Shuo was thinking about whether to pack some snacks to take away when he went home later, when he suddenly saw the menacing Li Jia walking towards him.

Tang Shuo didn't even stay by Lu Wanqi's side for long, and deliberately chose an inconspicuous corner early in the morning to eat in a low-key manner, but he didn't expect to come or come.

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Li Jia was beaten up in Nanguo yesterday, and then thrown out of the country, and the news has almost spread all over Yanjing.

He didn't want to attend this banquet today, but his cousin Li Ruiyi asked him to come over early in the morning, and he had no choice but to go out and tell Li Ruiyi what happened yesterday in person.

Li Ruiyi didn't say anything after listening to it, there is no way to investigate this matter now, although Nanguo has gone too far, but after all, it is Li Jia's own fault.

What's more, Li Ruiyi doesn't want to offend others because of a Li Jia.

At that time, Li Ruiyi was just about to come here, and there were still some errands to deal with, so he asked Li Jia to run an errand.

After Li Jia finished what Li Ruiyi ordered, he rushed here to tell Li Ruiyi that the banquet was about to start, so he didn't leave, staying to watch the excitement.

When Jiang Tiantong and Jiang Tianwei came in, Li Jia naturally wouldn't go up to be bored, and was going to find a corner to drink alone.

Who knew that after sparing a circle, he saw Tang Shuo who was eating and drinking at the corner table.

"Who are you? Do you have an invitation? Li Jia sneered and walked up to Tang Shuo's side and sneered: "It won't be that you came in to cheat and eat and drink." ”

Now that his cousin, Song Wenchang and others are in the banquet hall, Li Jia doesn't dare to be too presumptuous, but it is no problem to ridicule Tang Shuo.

The dinner must be attended by invitation, and there is no specific rule on whether the invitee can bring family members, and even if family members are brought, the organizer will not kick family members out.

But if you have to care about this kind of behavior, it can be regarded as the other party getting in.

He felt that Tang Shuo had followed Jiang Tianwei in, and there must have been no invitation.

Li Jia's voice was not loud, but the people around the table could still hear it clearly, so they turned their heads one after another and looked at Tang Shuo, who was holding a piece of high-end handmade cake and stuffing it into his mouth.

Tang Shuo put the cake in his mouth and ate it under the gaze of everyone, took another sip of champagne and said, "Is the invitation important?" I'm here to give love. ”