Chapter 208: The banquet begins
The preparations for the dinner were thoroughly prepared in the evening with the help of the hotel's two butlers.
The entrance of the hotel has long been surrounded by policemen wearing high hats, black cloaks, and wielding black wooden sticks, and the street is close to half of the hotel.
At the entrance of the gate, in addition to the original doorman, on both sides of the door stood a pair of expressionless guards wearing black military uniforms like clay sculptures, but the four guards did not wear any weapons, but their yellow faces still attracted the attention of passers-by, and people looked at the strange outfits of these four guards with curious eyes.
The people of the whole city have long known from the headlines of various newspapers that this evening the wife of the former minister of the four countries from China, from the other side of the world, will be here to entertain celebrities from all walks of life throughout the city of Le Havre.
For this woman who brought new drugs to the European world, people are grateful and hateful to her, the efficacy of the new drugs has been reported in the newspapers for a few days, and everyone is amazed by the wide range of treatment and good results of the new drugs, but they are deeply disgusted by the high price of the new drugs.
On the one hand, there is hope for life-prolonging medicines, but the high price excludes many people, but in the evening, the latest issue clearly published a statement that in order to thank the city for giving her a good impression, the former minister of the four countries, Mrs. Bo Caiyun, will donate 50,000 francs of medicine to help those poor patients for the treatment of diseases.
And tomorrow the kind lady will donate another huge sum of up to 100,000 francs to renovate the medical conditions in the city's hospitals, the largest donation ever received by the city's health system.
People gathered at the door of the hotel to satisfy their curiosity and express their gratitude to the caring lady.
Behind this qiē activity is Gao Hongsheng's design, a kind and caring lady is one of the characters that Bo Caiyun will play, using the high price of drugs to plunder their wealth, and then use one-thousandth of it to bribe the vast number of poor people to win a good reputation for charity.
These are the leftovers of modern businesses, and he's just moving them around, but it's a good way to do it, just look at the people gathered around the hotel.
With the advent of night, a beautiful carriage under the gaze of people, slowly drove into the hotel illuminated by the arc lamp, a well-dressed men and women opened the door and slowly walked into the lobby of this top hotel under the courtier's courteous support, and then after depositing the heavy coat at the reception, wearing a light dress, slowly walked into the banquet hall surrounded by flowers in a shout, and then sat at a round table under the guidance of a waiter in a white uniform, They wrapped their napkins around their necks with great grace and whispered hello to each other, while looking at the doors of the restaurant with hidden eyes, listening to the names of visitors with various titles who were not a little lower than them.
Mayors, councillors, business owners, farmers, lords, earls, dukes, and all sorts of people kept entering the hall with their most graceful posture from the open door of the banquet hall, and people had already described the high standard and scope of the whole banquet in words, and they also indifferently began to face the big people who kept appearing.
It was the most extensive high-level banquet in the city's history, and the banquet hall that could accommodate more than 300 people at the same time was packed, and people constantly stood up and whispered hello to everyone they knew. The whole hall is mixed with soft music, the sound of pulling chairs, the sound of greetings, the sound of whispering, the hall gradually starts to be noisy from gentle and elegant, and the voices of people are gradually improving, making the whole hall like a lively bazaar.
Suddenly, the musicians in the orchestra pit in the hall suddenly stopped, and then the musicians turned the sheet music in front of them to the next chapter with the gesture of the butler at the door of the hall, and then nodded to each other, and with the light rhythm of the drummer beating the drum, a trumpeter in a black dress stood up, and in the last stroke of the drummer, he used a long note that resounded throughout the hall to drown out the other sounds in the hall, and then the drummer opened the opening line of the piece with a strong and powerful drum sound, The piano then played a rhythmic lead, and the violinist also stood up, and then played a long chorus with force, and with the rhythm of the piano, the light notes were added, and the cellist was not to be outdone with its deep music to enhance each deep movement, and the trumpeter kept reminding people with a high tune that it was the strongest note in the whole orchestra.
The whole band was like a silent monster suddenly waking up, and suddenly played the strongest note, a cheerful and fierce tune, a bright rhythm, and a passionate performance, which made the people who were whispering stop one after another, and turned their heads to look at the band that suddenly woke up and broke out in surprise.
Just when people were still wondering what the band was doing, the last drum "bang" struck down, and the whole band came in after five minutes of passionate performance, just like they suddenly erupted, and the slightest mental preparation was not left for the people in the whole hall, so it stopped after the outburst, making the whole hall look at the musicians in amazement, silent.
"The former minister of the four countries, Mrs. Bo Caiyun has arrived." The shrill voice of the butler resounded in the silent hall, and the people turned their heads to look at the door of the hall when they heard the news.
The heavy door inlaid with brass and gold rim in the hall opened to both sides, and Bo Caiyun, who was wearing a black dress, stood in the middle of the door, and standing side by side a little further back on both sides were Lin Daiyu and Jin Xiaobao, who were also wearing a red dress.
Bo Caiyun glanced around indifferently with her beautiful Danfeng eyes, but she did not step into the door, but stood at the door elegantly and smiled at those curious eyes, and then gently made a Western-style bowing salute to the people in the entire hall, and then said softly in English with a smile: "Thank you very much for coming, here are some small gifts I have prepared for you, I hope you like it." After speaking, he stepped back lightly, and after waiting for the flashing Fei Liya to translate into French, she and Lin Daiyu and Jin Xiaobao flashed open the door.
More than 30 French ladies dressed in blue gowns walked in on either side, holding a delicate gift box containing samples of several pairs of stockings for the guests, who were in charge of bringing the gift boxes to the table and opening the package to show the stockings inside, and the guests could get the gift box from the doorman when they left.
How big is the profit of stockings, just look at the DuPont company that made a fortune in stockings in later generations, how can Gao Hongsheng let go of this opportunity to make a fortune? Ten dollars a pair, even according to the conversion rate of later generations, is equivalent to the price of sixty yuan a pair, but in that era of seventeen dollars was a ton of steel, then two pairs of stockings are equivalent to a ton of steel, will Gao Hongsheng let go of such a profiteering?
The gift is fake, it is true to borrow the following set, and it is true that these celebrities promote the nylon stockings of later generations, otherwise he would not have arranged such a show.
No one can resist the charm of stockings, especially the men, who look at the ladies around them in deep tones and look at the exquisite packaging and the highly elastic stockings inside, thin, thick, one-piece, sexy, a gift box contains six different kinds of stockings, so the high-sounding Tongguò banquet appeared on the European stage.