Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Birthday Banquet (Part II)
Time passed slowly, and the number of people in the hall gradually increased, and most of the people who could come in advance were relatives and friends, but unfortunately Li Yang didn't know anyone.
By ten o'clock, the hall was already very lively, Li Yang's table had been empty, Li Yang saw Wu Xiaoli and her cousin go in and out a few times, but no one brought anyone to this table.
After a while, Li Yang suddenly stood up and looked ahead in surprise, Wu Xiaoli was walking towards him with a person, and Li Yang was also the first time to see someone other than Wu Xiaoli.
"Li Yang?"
"Manager Zhang?"
Li Yang and Zhang Ying said hello together suspiciously, Li Yang did not tell Zhang Ying about this before coming to the birthday banquet, and Li Yang did not know about Zhang Ying's coming.
"Manager Zhang is here by himself!"
Wu Xiaoli smiled and said, in fact, she didn't know that Zhang Ying would come, and Wu Xiaoli didn't tell Zhang Ying about her grandfather's birthday.
"Liu Lao has helped me a little, I will definitely come to his birthday!" Zhang Ying explained with a smile.
In fact, Zhang Ying and Liu Lao are both people from the Mingyang Antique Association, and Liu Lao is the president of the Mingyang Antique Association, Zhang Ying is not surprised to appear here, but Zhang Ying didn't know the relationship between Wu Xiaoli and Liu Lao before, neither Liu Lao nor Wu Xiaoli had mentioned it to him.
It wasn't until Zhang Ying sat down and chatted with Li Yang that they all understood the relationship between them, and they could only blame that none of them had ever talked about such a thing before, so that they didn't understand each other until now, and before Zhang Ying took leave to go to Yanjing on a business trip to see if he could get something good and come back to celebrate Liu Laolai's birthday.
There are more and more people, there is a familiar person Li Yang no longer feels bored, Zhang Ying knows a little more people, but he has been sitting with Li Yang and has not left.
A few more people came in the hall, this time it was Wu Xiaoli's uncle who accompanied him personally, Wu Xiaoli seemed to have said that her uncle was a department-level cadre in the city, and if such a cadre was placed in their Licheng County, it would be a senior cadre at the county magistrate level.
What Li Yang didn't expect was that the people accompanying Uncle Wu Xiaoli were actually people Li Yang knew, Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida, and Uncle Wu Xiaoli was walking inside with the two of them.
Sima Lin was talking and laughing with Wu Xiaoli's uncle, and in a blink of an eye, he also found Li Yang sitting next to him, and his body that was walking forward suddenly stopped, and after greeting Wu Xiaoli's uncle, he walked to Li Yang and sat down, Zheng Kaida, who was with Sima Lin, also smiled at Wu Xiaoli's uncle, and finally sat down at this table.
Wu Xiaoli's uncle glanced at Li Yang and Zhang Ying in surprise, and after nodding and greeting everyone at their table, he left the hall.
Zhang Ying also looked at Sima Lin in surprise, he knew more about Sima Lin than Li Yang, and he also knew that Li Yang and Sima Lin had the experience of gambling on stones together in Zhengzhou, but he didn't expect this Sima Lin to stop when he saw Li Yang, and it was not too much to sit at the main table as Sima Lin.
Sima Lin glanced at Zhang Ying and asked in a low voice, "Li Yang, why are you here too?" ”
"Xiaoli's grandfather's birthday, I'll come with me!"
Li Yang was also a little inexplicable, he didn't know if Zhang Ying was coming, but he didn't expect Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida to come, and they had never heard anyone mention it for so many days in Zhengzhou.
"Liu Lao is Xiaoli's grandfather?"
This time it was Zheng Kaida who spoke, and Zheng Kaida was staring with big eyes and a face full of incredulity.
Li Yang nodded, and Zheng Kaida slapped his head suddenly: "I see, then last time in Zhengzhou Antique City, you were preparing a birthday gift for Liu Lao?" No wonder, I say! ”
Zheng Kaida laughed, and Li Yang found that Zheng Kaida seemed to have a habit of patting his head, and he didn't look like a billionaire at all.
"I get it too!"
Sima Lin was also smiling on the side, only Zhang Ying was sitting there in a daze, not understanding what Li Yang and the others were talking about.
Through Li Yang's explanation, Zhang Ying finally understood that Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida, like him, didn't know the identities of Liu Lao and Wu Xiaoli before, so several people had mentioned the matter of celebrating people's birthdays before, but they didn't know that it was the same person who wanted to celebrate their birthdays, and they didn't understand until they got together today.
With the addition of Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida, their table became more lively, especially Zheng Kaida, who was very happy to talk to Zhang Ying about their gambling in Zhengzhou, especially when he mentioned his experience of gambling across and up.
Listening to Zheng Kaida's passionate narration, Zhang Ying glanced at Li Yang complicatedly, he wanted to pull Li Yang out of the quagmire of gambling stones, but now it seems that it has backfired, Li Yang has not only been gambling, but also has been rising.
Now Zhang Ying is not so opposed to Li Yang's gambling stone, the good luck can be said once or twice in the past, it has always been so lucky, and it can also bring good luck to the people around him, it is really a waste to have such luck not to gamble on the stone.
A few people were chatting, and the room in the hall suddenly opened, and five old men with gray hair walked out together, walking in front was Liu Xuesong, who was wearing a dazzling Tang costume, and there was a person Li Yang knew in the back, Zhao Lao from Licheng County also came.
As soon as the five old men appeared, they attracted everyone's attention, and the five old men left the hall on their own, and no one stopped on the way except to smile and say hello.
"Who came, and asked the birthday boy to pick it up in person?" Sima Lin looked at the background of several old people and shook his head slightly.
Li Yang and they also looked into the distance, what Sima Lin said said said what all of them thought, several old people obviously went out to pick up people together, but they didn't know who had such a big face, and let the birthday star go out in person, even when Sima Lin came, it was just Uncle Wu Xiaoli who received him.
A few minutes later, several old people came back again, Sima Lin saw that the old man in the middle of several old people immediately became very serious, Zheng Kaida and Zhang Ying were also similar, the most unexpected thing for Li Yang was that the person these old people received was actually someone he knew.
"He Lao?"
Li Yang said in a daze, this old man was He Lao who spent six million to buy Li Yang's jade snuff bottle, and several old people surrounded He Lao and quickly entered the innermost room in the hall.
There are many people in the hall who know He Lao, and they are all talking about He Lao's appearance here, Li Yang looked up at Zhang Ying, he knew He Lao, but he only had one side, and Zhang Ying took him there that time.
"He Lao's identity is a little special, his appearance here is worthy of anyone to go out and pick him up!"
Zhang Ying whispered to Li Yang, Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida nodded together, obviously agreeing with Zhang Ying's words.
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