Chapter 198: Cocktail Party
In the early days of reform and opening up, Boss Zheng returned to the city from the black soil educated youth to become an unemployed youth, in order to make a living, he first ran a single gang to pour clothes back and forth in Xiangjiang and Huacheng, and later started to buy and sell electronic watches to the north. In the mid-80s, Boss Zheng officially registered as a self-employed entrepreneur and opened his first store in Huacheng. At that time, the main business was clothing and electronics, of course, the source of these things came from the Xiangjiang side.
After doing this for several years, by the end of the eighties, Boss Zheng's assets were far greater than the so-called 10,000 yuan households at that time. And his shop pΓΉ is also opening bigger and bigger, especially at the stage when the walkman is popular, Boss Zheng has accumulated millions of fortunes in one fell swoop by doing this business, thus becoming a famous electrical king in Huacheng and even in the southeast region.
In the nineties, Boss Zheng's business became bigger and bigger, not only set up an electrical hypermarket, but also sold from Huacheng to a southeastern province, and even to the whole country. Moreover, borrowing his huge sales network, Boss Zheng also shifted from business operation to industrial investment, and built electrical appliance factories in various places, mainly producing all kinds of small household appliances, half of which are sold domestically and half exported, and its benefits are very good.
According to conservative estimates, Boss Zheng's worth has already exceeded 100 million, and he belongs to the top of the Huacheng business world. Although he has now become a billionaire, this person is still very good, he is famous in the circle for his boldness and righteousness, and he often holds a drinking party to gather friends in the circle to be lively or something, as an old friend for many years, Li Haifeng is also a frequent visitor to Boss Zheng's cocktail party.
But today, Zhou Liwen didn't go with Li Haifeng. Because Li Haifeng's company in Xiangjiang happened to have an important meeting, Zhou Liwen could only go alone.
In the suburbs of Huacheng, this is a private club built by Boss Zheng. Boss Zheng's drinking party was basically held here, but Zhou Liwen came back for the first time.
Entering the gate with the invitation card and looking at the lively venue, Zhou Liwen nodded secretly. Although this cocktail party is not small, the overall layout is not simple, if it is not for the master arrangement, it may make a vulgar and tyrannical temperament. But now Zhou Liwen only feels modern and relaxed, and it seems that this grassroots boss Zheng is not a simple character.
In the business circle of Huacheng, Zhou Liwen is most familiar with the logistics circle, after all, his first pot of gold relied on Guo's logistics. As for the big bosses in other industries, Zhou Liwen has relatively little contact with them on weekdays, except for a few bosses who are close to Li Haifeng and introduced to him, Zhou Liwen basically doesn't know other people.
There were quite a few people attending the reception, and there were nearly 100 people at a glance. In the venue, a large part of them were relatively young men and women, who seemed to be familiar with each other, walking around the venue casually with wine glasses in their hands, gathering and chatting and laughing. Zhou Liwen swept his eyes after entering the door, and did not see a familiar figure, just at this time a waiter asked Zhou Liwen what he wanted to drink, looked at him holding the wine plate in his hand, and took a glass of red wine from it.
With the wine, Zhou Liwen walked to the side and was alone and leisurely. He was invited to attend the cocktail party today, and the main purpose was to meet with Boss Zheng, and then chat a few words to test whether there was any possibility of cooperation between the two sides. As for the rest, Zhou Liwen didn't care, since the host was not at the venue for the time being, Zhou Liwen waited patiently, and by the way, he also took this opportunity to relax himself.
"Haven't you seen this friend before?" Just when Zhou Liwen was sipping red wine alone and looking around, a voice sounded beside him.
"It's the first time I've been here, and it's normal that I haven't seen it." Zhou Liwen smiled at the young man who was talking to him.
The other party is about the same age as Zhou Liwen, with a glass of red wine in his hand, and the suit he wears is very elegant, it seems that it should be the son of the family or Shaodong.
"Hehe, no wonder." The other party laughed when he heard it, nodded and said, "What do you call it?" β
"Zhou Liwen."
"Zhou Liwen?" This unfamiliar name made the other party slightly stunned, as if he was wondering if there was a boss surnamed Zhou in Huacheng, and after thinking about it, he finally remembered it, and asked with a smile: "Are you the ...... of the boss of Xiaguan Zhou's family?" β
Zhou Liwen smiled dumbly and shook his head: "I'm sorry, I don't know who you said about Boss Zhou, I shouldn't have anything to do with him before." β
"And ...... you?"
"Li Haifeng, Li Dong's invitation to me." Zhou Liwen replied with a smile.
The other party suddenly realized, nodded with a smile, politely let Zhou Liwen feel free, and then walked away.
"Brother Zheng, whose family is that person just now?" The man left Zhou Liwen's side and soon came to another corner, and several young men and women who had been waiting for a long time asked when they saw him return.
"I don't know, he said his surname is Zhou, his name is Zhou Liwen, which of you has heard of it?"
"Zhou Liwen? I haven't heard of this ....... The crowd shook their heads.
"Zheng Gongzi, could it be that he slipped in......?" A girl frowned and guessed, because Boss Zheng's drinking party has always been very famous, and often every time there is a drinking party, some boring people pretend to be guests to sneak in, hearing Zheng Gongzi say this, the girl quickly thought of this.
"Don't guess, he said it was an invitation from Uncle Haifeng, I don't think it's fake." Zheng Gongzi replied like this, and the girl was a little unconvinced: "That's not necessarily, Boss Li didn't come today, Zheng Gongzi, have you seen his invitation?" If it's really a guy who gets in, it's going to be a problem when something happens. β
"That's it, Brother Zheng, this drinking party is not a dog and a cat can come in, this fresh face is for people to check carefully." A group of boys on the side are afraid that the world will not mess up with their ideas.
Zheng Gongzi hesitated a little after hearing this, although the conversation between him and Zhou Liwen just now was only a few simple words, but he could see that Zhou Liwen was not a simple person, don't look at everyone about the same age, but Zhou Liwen's temperament was not at all comparable to his fox friends and dog friends, in Zhou Liwen, he even felt the feeling of facing his father.
But everyone is right, their Zheng family's drinking party has always been someone who wants to pretend to squeeze in, and his father is now receiving distinguished guests upstairs, and temporarily handed over the task of welcoming guests to him. As the second generation of the Zheng family and the temporary host of the cocktail party, Zheng Gongzi also has to take care of the safety of the cocktail party and understand the origin of the guests. That's why he saw Zhou Liwen, a stranger, taking the initiative to ask, if he really mixed in with any reporters or outsiders who tried to inquire about the news from the drinking party, he would have to teach him a hard lesson after letting his father know.
Zheng Gongzi thought about it and felt that it was more reassuring to ask again. He hurriedly summoned a waiter and asked him to go to the door and ask Zhou Liwen if he came in with an invitation card and whether the invitation card was Li Haifeng's. After a while, the waiter returned, and he told Zheng Gongzi that Zhou Liwen came with an invitation, but his invitation was very strange, it was not Li Haifeng's name, but Zhou Liwen's name.
"Strange ......." At this moment, Zheng Gongzi suddenly became vigilant, if Zhou Liwen came in with Li Haifeng's invitation, it would not be a big problem, Li Haifeng would know that he would not come today, and it would be normal for Zhou Liwen to come over instead of the boss if Zhou Liwen was from Li Haifeng's company. But he obviously said that it was an invitation from Li Haifeng just now, but this invitation was not written by Li Haifeng, but his name was written. You must know that the invitations to the reception were all sent out by Zheng Gongzi, and Zheng Gongzi was clear about those people who were invited, and he could be sure that there was absolutely no Zhou Liwen in the invitations he handled.
"Call the security guard!" Zheng Gongzi's face sank suddenly, he didn't expect that after experiencing the previous incident, someone would have the audacity to sneak into their Zheng family's drinking party. Because of what happened just now, Zheng Gongzi felt that he had been deceived and lost face in front of his friends. Now that you've figured out that this is a guy who got in, don't blame him for being rude.
Soon, two security guards arrived. The security guard who took the lead greeted Zheng Gongzi and asked what was needed of them. Zheng Gongzi stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhou Liwen, signaling the security guard to follow him, and the seven or eight men and women around him all excitedly followed him when they saw a good show.
"Mr. Zhou!"
"Oh, it's you, what? Something? Hearing the greeting, Zhou Liwen, who was thinking about the telecommunications problem in the capital, looked up and saw that the young man who had just greeted him was back.
"I'm sorry, could you please show me the invitation?" Although Zheng Gongzi thought in his heart that Zhou Liwen was an outsider who had mixed in, as the master, he still maintained his bearing and said very politely. But the tone in his words was completely different from just now, with a condescending attitude, which made Zhou Liwen frown slightly.
"No problem." Zhou Liwen didn't know why the other party's attitude suddenly changed, and he also noticed the two guys in black suits and a group of young men and women following behind the other party. However, Zhou Liwen still nodded, put the wine glass aside, and reached into the suit pocket.
"Oops! Brother Zhou! Rare Guest! I'm so sorry, I walked away with something just now, I didn't expect you to come so early! Just when Zhou Liwen was about to take out the invitation, a loud voice suddenly sounded, and when everyone looked back, they saw Zheng Gongzi's father, Boss Zheng, walking briskly with a spring breeze on his face, and came to Zhou Liwen in a blink of an eye, and in the midst of everyone's stunned, he took the initiative to hold Zhou Liwen's hands and shook them back and forth with an extremely affectionate attitude, laughing so much that his mouth couldn't close.
Boss Zheng's sudden appearance and such enthusiasm made Zheng Gongzi, including the group of people behind him, stunned, but the next situation made Zheng Gongzi's brain crash. Because Boss Zheng saw that Zheng Gongzi was by Zhou Liwen's side, he thought that they had become friends, and he happily introduced Zhou Liwen: "Brother Zhou, this is the dog Zheng Jiefu, you already met just now, right?" Hahaha! Jeff, come on, come on, this is your Uncle Zhou, why are you still stunned, call people! β
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