Chapter 27: Chen Ran's Birthday Banquet
Not only the people in Jinghai remember Chen Ran's 70th birthday, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Geng Tianshuang called Lin Quan, Gu Xianzhang wanted to come to Jinghai in person to congratulate Chen Ran on his birthday, Yang Tianhua and Duan Jinghong couldn't leave, but they brought Geng Tianshuang to Jinghai with the birthday gift, Liu Qingshan was transferred from other provinces, and he didn't recognize Chen Ran, but he also came with a gift, and people couldn't get out. For the Chinese New Year, if anyone leaves the house for a day, the loss can be hundreds of thousands.
After twelve o'clock, the banquet had not yet started, and the people who went to the banquet were hungry, but Chen Ran, Liu Yetian, Jiang Zhiming and others were waiting at the door of the house, what other opinions could others have, but they just whispered: Who is the person who is waiting, and you want Liu Yetian to wait outside the door?
The convoy was late, Gu Xianzhang was three cars when he set off from the provincial capital, Geng Yimin, Zhao Zeng, and Lin Quan went to the highway intersection to greet six cars, and the nine cars stopped at the door in turn, Geng Yimin accompanied Gu Xianzhang from the first car, and Zhao Zeng, Geng Tianshuang, and Yang Ying sat in the second car. Gu Xianzhang came to Jinghai in person, Lin Quan must go to greet him, he has someone else to accompany him at this time, he sat in the last car, watched everyone hug Gu Xianzhang and invited the old mansion, and then got out of the car with Ji Yong and walked to the old mansion.
Chen Jianguo was dumbfounded, thinking about moving forward, but he was afraid of losing his sense of proportion, he knew that the old man still had this relationship in the provincial capital, why bother to rush back to Jinghai again, and thought in his heart, the old man didn't tell them about this relationship, and he probably still had resentment in his heart.
Kong Limin, Luo Yitong, Liu Huadong, Zhu Yuntian and others came to congratulate him on his birthday, which also surprised Chen Jianguo's brothers and sisters, but they never thought that the old man had any connection with these rich people. The uninvited VIPs made Chen Jianguo really panicked, and the original seat list had to be changed, and he couldn't suppress his excitement in his heart.
Gu Xiaoling, Qin Ming, Xu Jian, Zhang Biyun, Ye Jingqiang, Zhou Shan, Zhao Kunyi and others didn't see Lin Quan and others when they came over, Lin Quan went to pick up Gu Xianzhang at that time, and they were all arranged in the separate hall in the back compartment, Lin Quan took Xiao Siyu and sat in the outermost hall with Lin Mingda, plus Lin Jingyi, Yang Ming, Xiao Chu, Chen Xiu, Fang Nan, Guo Baolin, Zhao Jing happened to get together at the table, the hall was arranged with some ordinary relatives and friends, some people, Lin Quan couldn't remember the name.
Lin Jingyi squinted at Lin Quan with her chin propped up: "You don't have to go in to accompany you?" ”
"It's a seniority, I can't interject."
While he was talking and laughing, someone outside shouted: "Mayor Zhang, Secretary Xiang is here." ”
Lin Quan picked up the chopsticks, gently tapped the edge of the bowl, and said with a soft smile: "Heh, you can hold the Standing Committee." ”
Only one deputy secretary went abroad for inspection, casually spent the Spring Festival on Long Island in the United States, seven members of the Standing Committee of Jinghai City, secretary, deputy secretary, organization minister, mayor, executive deputy mayor, and secretary general, all gathered in the old mansion of the Chen family, watching Chen Mingxing step into the hall with Zhang Quan, Lin Quan couldn't help but have a slightly gloomy face, and his hand was lightly beaten.
Zhang Quan's eyes stopped on Lin Quan's face, only feeling a little familiar, and he was stunned for a while before he recognized it; Chen Mingxing was very impressed by him, and when he saw him sitting in the hall, he was a little surprised, and thought: What an insignificant character is he? Just as he was about to take the initiative to greet him, Chen Jianguo's brothers and sisters came out together: "Mayor Zhang, what kind of wind blew you over?" ”
Zhang Quan naturally didn't expect Gu Xianxian, Chen Ran or Geng Yimin to come out to greet him.
"The old secretary's seventieth birthday, how can we not come to join in the fun?" Zhang Quan turned his head sideways and was about to introduce Chen Mingxing to Chen Jianguo, but he saw that his eyes stopped on Lin Quan's face, and he also looked at Lin Quan, pretending to be puzzled and asked, "This is ......?"
"This ......" Chen Jianguo didn't know how to introduce Lin Quan for a while, in his heart, he never regarded Chen Xiu as a member of the Chen family, not to mention that Lin Quan was still raised by Chen Xiu.
"Oh, I remember. The grandson of the old secretary, the naughty little girl, is so big in the blink of an eye, I remember the same year as my family Kaiming, did I have a car accident last year? ”
"It's an honor for Mayor Zhang to remember me as a little person."
"Why did you talk to Mayor Zhang, why don't you stand up quickly?" Chen Jianguo saw Lin Quan sitting as steady as Mount Tai, and hurriedly came over to pull him.
Lin Quan stood up casually, nodded at Zhang Quan and Chen Mingxing, said hello, and sat down again.
"Children don't know how to be polite, Mayor Zhang doesn't mind." Chen Jianguo said with a smile, the excitement in his heart can only be described by one sentence of anger, the old man's seventieth birthday, and the seven Standing Committee members of Jinghai City are just one of them, what a face. It is not easy to do business in the future, what to do sand and gravel yard, a ton of yellow sand is only a few dollars of profit, the yard will continue to do, and the project will be accepted, this is the most money, and then subcontracted out, and hundreds of thousands of dollars will be in hand. Now that the price of land is rising, if you get a hundred and ten acres of land, it will change hands for tens of millions.
Chen Jianguo, Chen Jianjun accompanied Zhang Quan, Xiang Yishan and others to the back compartment, Chen Weihong fell behind, looked at Xiao Siyu rubbing in Lin Quan's arms, and pinched her pink mouth with a smile: "Little girl, whose child has been turned over, so beautiful?" looked at Fang Nan who was sitting next to him, looked at Chen Xiu, and complained, "Third sister, the little girl is also a graduate of a famous university, what is it difficult to find, looking for a second marriage?" ”
Lin Quan changed color in discoloration, stood up violently and hit the edge of the table, shaking the dishes and making the dishes roll around, and the loud noise frightened everyone in the hall, and they didn't know what was going on. Lin Quan's face turned pale, but he didn't know what to say to this titular little aunt when he stood up, and his hands couldn't help shaking.
"Don't blame me for speaking ugly, my aunt is also good for you, no matter what, you have something to do with my Chen family, and the Chen family also wants to be face-saving......"
"That's enough." Lin Mingda interrupted Chen Weihong's words in a deep voice, and pulled Lin Quan's sleeve, "You also sit down, your grandfather's birthday." ”
Fang Nan is still Lin Quan's assistant in name, but in the eyes of others, the intimacy between the two of them has crossed a certain boundary, Lin Mingda and Chen Xiu are a little suspicious, but at this time they are more and more convinced, and they feel inexplicable in their hearts, but they don't know what to say.
Chen Weihong's face was sneering, and he walked to the back house boringly.
Xiao Siyu was frightened by Lin Quan's sudden attack, staring at Lin Quan, looking at Lin Quan, not knowing why his godfather was so angry. Lin Quan held Xiao Siyu's little hand and didn't speak, Fang Nan reached out and grabbed it, shook it gently, and calmed his emotions.
Xiao Siyu saw her mother, godfather and her three hands clasped together under the table, and thought it was so funny.
Zhao Zeng stood at the door, from his point of view, he could just see Lin Quan holding Fang Nan's hand under the table, he knew what happened to Fang Nan, and thought that it might not be a bad thing for Lin Quan and Fang Nan to be together. Lin Quan is still quite fragile emotionally and inwardly, which has nothing to do with his sophistication in interpersonal relationships and talent in business, and only a mature woman like Fang Nan can comfort him and take care of him.
Zhao Zeng walked over, leaned his head between Lin Quan and Lin Mingda, and said, "Teacher Lin, little man, Secretary Gu will let you go by name." ”
"Must go?" Lin Quan asked Zhao Zeng to sit down, but he was afraid that it was Geng Yimin's idea, and Geng Yimin would not allow Zhang Quan and Xiang Yishan to unite and continue to get in the way in Jinghai.
"You can't hide." Zhao Zeng patted Lin Quan's shoulder.
Lin Quan glanced at his father, Lin Mingda put down his chopsticks and stood up first.
"Godfather, I'm going too." Xiao Siyu wrapped himself around Lin Quan's thigh.
"Little pester." Lin Quan picked up Xiao Siyu and pinched her soft ass.
"Don't pinch a girl's buttocks, if you want to pinch you, pinch your mother." Xiao Siyu's voice was so crisp that everyone in the hall was stunned when they heard it, and then burst into laughter. Lin Quan hugged Xiaoyu and walked to the back house, not daring to look at the expressions of the people behind him.
The old mansion of ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ is preserved as a city-level ancient building, three acres of land, three courtyards, and a garden in the back house, Lin Mingda, Lin Quan, and Zhao Zeng walked into the wing room, Chen Jianguo just came out of another wing room, was stunned, didn't understand the matter, and walked in, and saw Gu Xianzhang standing up and shaking hands with Lin Mingda.
"Yimin often mentions you, you and Yimin are classmates, so to speak, we are also the same year. Lin Quan has made such great achievements, because you have educated well. ”
Lin Mingda didn't dare to specialize in beauty, Lin Quan's sophistication and sleekness were all learned from Chen Ran, if he said that he had any influence on Lin Quan, it was just to keep Lin Quan from going too far. Lin Mingda greeted everyone present without being arrogant or humble, and sat down on the lower left of Chen Ran, and Lin Quan, as a junior, of course sat with Zhao Zengjing at the end.
In this main hall, there is only one table of wine, and eight people sit in turn: Chen Ran, Gu Xianxian, Lin Mingda, Geng Yimin, Kong Limin, Luo Yitong, Zhao Zeng, Lin Quan, Xiang Yishan, Zhang Quan, Secretary Cai, Liu Yetian, Jiang Zhiming, Chen Erli, Gong Zhichao and others can only sit in the side hall next door.
Seeing Lin Mingda and Lin Quan walking into the main hall, Zhang Quan turned his head and glanced at Chen Minghang, the surprise in each other's eyes was so obvious. Lin Quan has also had some things over the years, at least it has a considerable influence on the upper class of Jinghai City, but Zhang Quan didn't take these things seriously, and naturally attributed everything to the old scholar Chen Ran. He made people pay attention to the three brothers and sisters of Chen Jianguo, but judging from the situation in front of him, Lin Mingda and Lin Quan are qualified to go in to accompany Gu Xianzhang, and it seems that the goal of the past two years is actually wrong. Zhang Quan, who has always been full of confidence, is somewhat frustrated. also only complains that he has always taken a defensive position in the struggle against Geng Yimin, that is to say, he has always been in a weak position.
Judging from the indications, Liantou is very likely to be a financial tool in the hands of Geng officials, he is so young, since he is qualified to sit in the main hall, doesn't it mean that Geng Yimin has tightly picked up the ship of Gu Charter through Liantou?
(To be continued)