After dinner in the evening, Xiao Zhenlei asked the dog to prepare the carriage, he took an invitation card and put it in his pocket, tonight he was going to attend the party organized by the manager of the Deutsche Hua Bank, Feige, it is said that the people invited to this party were basically the more famous figures in the foreign business circles of the concession, as well as the members of the board of directors of the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession and the directors of the Board of Directors of the French Concession, and even the British Consul in Shanghai, Farlett Farretch, the acting chargé d'affaires of France in Shanghai, and the Consul of the American Embassy in Shanghai, Mr. Galler. Miyamoto, the Japanese consul in Shanghai, Hahausen, the consul of the German embassy in Shanghai, and others will be present, so Xiao Zhenlei does not want to miss this opportunity to meet the ministers of various countries in China.

Went to Aurora College to pick up Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio, the carriage crossed the road in the shadow of the trees illuminated by the dim light and stopped at the door of a brightly lit luxury villa, dozens of luxury carriages parked at the door of the villa, and a few Ford Model T, compared to today's Ford cars, more bigwigs still prefer luxury four-wheeled carriages.

Xiao Zhenlei, Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio got down from the carriage and straightened their clothes, and a foreigner butler stepped forward and bowed slightly: "Welcome, Mr. Xiao!" Welcome two young ladies".

"Thank you!" Xiao Zhenlei nodded, smiled and handed over the invitation and walked into the villa, while the foreign housekeeper instructed the dog to park the carriage on the side of the road, there were too many carriages, and they were all gathered at the door and looked a little crowded.

Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio. The left and right were hugged by Xiao Zhenlei's side, which attracted the attention of many men, and the foreigners were envious of the Qing people who could hug the left and the right, and have three wives and four concubines. This is too happy for men, but foreigners don't have such good benefits.

The hall of the western-style building is spacious. It is the most suitable place to hold a cocktail party or party, and when you enter the hall, you will see the bustling crowd in the hall. A group of three, a group of five gathered together to talk and laugh, most of them are foreigners, and the Chinese are pitiful, think about it, even if the Chinese are rich, no matter how high the status of Shanghai Tang, it is nothing in the eyes of foreigners, even if they are rich. No matter how much status he has, he is just a person of an inferior nation, and he is only a citizen of a weak country, how can he be compared with the high nobles and citizens of these European powers?

"Oh, welcome, Xiao, and these two beautiful and generous Miss Dongfang, I am the owner of this place, Feige" Feige was chatting with a few guests when he accidentally saw Xiao Zhenlei and Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio coming in, so he said goodbye to the guests and walked to the door to greet them.

In Feige's opinion. Xiao Zhenlei was undoubtedly very different from the rest of the Qing people, and although he still had long braids, he was not at all as pedantic as the other Qing people, and he had a deep sense of awe and wariness for Westerners.

At this time, Bauer came out of nowhere to say hello: "Hi, Shaw." You're a little late, oh, these two ladies are so beautiful. Welcome two young ladies, I'm Bauer. The manager of Lihe Foreign Bank! ”

Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio knew a little more English and German, and they greeted Feige and Bauer with a smile: "Hello. Mr. Feig, Mr. Bauer! ”

Feige looked at the two girls with envy, and smiled at Xiao Zhenlei: "Xiao, it seems that I have to learn from you!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei asked: "What to learn from me?" ”

"How do you make two women live in peace!"

Xiao Zhenlei and Bao Er both smiled at the same time when they heard this, there was no music in the hall for the time being, people were talking very quietly, and it was rude to laugh on such an occasion.

Bauer pointed at Feige and smiled: "It seems that Feige is more than one woman, when will you introduce another woman to me?" ”

Feige realized that he had just slipped out, and his face was a little embarrassed, and he found an excuse to go and tell the band to play the music.

Soon, the hall sounded light music, the waiters came up with glasses of wine, the guests each took a glass of wine in their hands, and some guests went to the table to get plates and eat some small snacks.

Bauer led Xiao Zhenlei to meet some foreigners, while Wang Yanan and Cheng Baguio stood in place with wine glasses and chatted.

Fei Ge led Xiao Zhenlei to several people and introduced him to a Jewish man in his fifties and nearly sixty years old, very fat, with a thick mustache: "This is Mr. Hartung, Mr. Hartung's experience in Shanghai is a legend, and the great success achieved in the development of Nanjing Road is a classic business case, this is his wife, Ms. Luo Lirui, Mr. Hartung, Mrs. Hartung, this is my Chinese friend Mr. Xiao Zhenlei, the famous Zhenhua Company is the industry under his name, and he is also the largest shareholder of the Electric Light Company."

Xiao Zhenlei bent down slightly and smiled: "I have heard the name of Mr. Hartung and Mrs. Hartung for a long time, and it is an honor to see it today!" ”

Hartung nodded and said: "Mr. Xiao is extraordinary as soon as he makes a move, there have been reports about Mr. Xiao in the newspapers almost every day in the past few months, and your popularity is very popular in Shanghai!" ”

Mrs. Hartung also smiled: "This young man is good, the future is limitless", she is a middle-aged woman in her forties, slightly fat, looks no different from a Chinese woman, but in fact she has French ancestry, according to her own words, she is of mixed Chinese and French descent, and her father is Louis, a French expatriate? Luo Shi, mother Shen.

Mrs. Hartung and Huang Jingrong's wife Lin Guisheng are both strong women, and in the process of Hartung's rise, Hartung has helped a lot, just like Lin Guisheng's role in Huang Jingrong's rise in Shanghai Tang, but the two couples have taken completely different paths in the process of rising.

Mrs. Hartung has an eye that others don't have, and what she said was very surprising to others, but Xiao Zhenlei smiled and said: "Thank you Hartung Jiyan, Mr. Hartung, I hope to have the opportunity to work together in the future."

Hartung smiled: "Okay, I like to work with a dynamic young man like you!" ”

It didn't take long for Langdale, the general director of the Public Concession Ministry of Industry, Liao Changsen, the deputy director, and the directors Led, Brandt, McLee, De Gray, Polandis, Haifei, Zhu Man, and others to arrive together, although they were nominally directors of the Ministry of Industry, but in fact they were still businessmen. It's just that in the public concession, they are businessmen with political decision-making power.

Within a few minutes of these arrivals, the directors of the Board of Directors of the French Concession: General Director Madiere, Deputy General Director Doudal, Directors Diet, Ecalder, Jurdan, Mattu, Camorra, Patilre, and others also arrived. After the directors of both concessions arrived, the atmosphere of the party was clearly high. The atmosphere in the hall was very lively for a while, and the music seemed to be much lighter.

Whether it is the directors of the public concession or the directors of the board of directors of the French Concession, they can talk very well with the Hartung couple, which is related to the experience of Hartung, who has served as a director of the board of directors of the French Concession and the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession in Shanghai after his career in Shanghai, and has more than one term, and has a wide range of contacts among foreign businessmen in Shanghai, and the foundation is not ordinarily deep, and the Hartung foreign company he founded himself in Shanghai is also a financially strong industry.

Tong guò Bauer and Feige. Xiao Zhenlei has met these directors of the two concessions, none of whom had ever interacted with each other before, but now they have just met, and most of them talk about some business matters and international political situations.

About a quarter of an hour later, several big figures came one after another, and these figures had a higher status than the directors of the Public Board of Directors and the Ministry of Industry just now, and these people were all consuls of various countries in Shanghai, compared with those directors just now. These people are real professional diplomats, and those directors are just wearing the skin of political figures, and the scope of power is only within the scope of the concession and the like, and they also have to look at the faces of these consuls.

On the side of the German consul Hahausen. Xiao Zhenlei saw an acquaintance, the dancing girl Demar, and Delmar's appearance surprised Xiao Zhenlei, he remembered that the first time he met Delmar was in the ballroom of the Huizhong Hotel. She was a dancer at the time, and the second time was at his house. accompanied Chen Qimei, but now she came directly to a nine-level jump. Rushed to the side of the German consul Hahausen, this woman's communication is too broad, right?

Looking at Xiao Zhenlei's somewhat surprised expression, Delma obviously noticed him as well, she smiled slightly, said sorry to Hahausen and walked towards Xiao Zhenlei Yingying.

"Hi Xiao, are you okay?"

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and said: "Yes, I'm fine, Miss Dema, I really underestimate you, you are very powerful, you actually know the German consul Hahausen, and the relationship seems to be good!" ”

Delmar laughed, "Actually, I am a fellow countryman with Mr. Hahausen, and I only recently met him and knew the fact that we are fellow villagers!" ”

"Oh, really? It's so nice and I'm so happy for you! Xiao Zhenlei shrugged his shoulders.

Dema saw that Xiao Zhenlei hadn't taken the wine yet, so he snapped his fingers to a nearby waiter, the waiter quickly came over, she stretched out her slender right hand to take the wine on the tray, and when the finger reached the mouth of the wine glass, the finger flicked slightly, and some white powdery fine objects were scattered from the nails in the wine glass, this action was extremely fast, and even the waiter holding the tray did not notice.

But Xiao Zhenlei noticed it, he began to notice her every move from the time he saw Demar, this woman made him deeply suspicious, what is she? Why does it feel so mysterious to him, and why does this mystery bring temptation? Confused, only killing, Xiao Zhenlei felt the danger, from the small actions just now, he noticed the white powder scattered in the wine glass, although he is not a professional spy, but in order to prevent the spy is infiltration, he has also done some research, he concluded that it is either a drug or a poison. What is this woman going to do? Is she going to kill me? Or do you want to charm me?

Speculating on this woman's intentions in her mind, Delmar had already handed the wine glass to Xiao Zhenlei: "Mr. Xiao, how can there be no wine on this occasion?" That would look out of place for you, give! ”

"Oh, thank you!" Xiao Zhenlei took the wine glass and thanked him, but instead of drinking it, he held it in his hand and asked, "Miss Dema, do you know what Mr. Chen has been doing recently?" ”

"Mr. Chen? Which Mr. Chen? Delmar pretended not to understand.

Although this look is very realistic, Xiao Zhenlei knew that she was pretending to be stupid, and he also pierced her, and said with a smile: "It's the same Mr. Chen who went to my house with you last time!" ”

Although Delmar was talking to Xiao Zhenlei, Xiao Zhenlei noticed that most of her attention was focused on the glass of wine in his hand, and he was sure that this woman must have something for him, but definitely not kindness.

"Oh, are you talking about that one? Actually, I don't know him very well, but we've only met twice, come, let's have a drink together."

"Oh, okay, cheers!" Xiao Zhenlei smiled and raised his glass to his mouth, and was about to drink it in his mouth, but suddenly turned his head to look away, "Oh, I have to go and say hello to a friend over there, Miss Delma, please help me hold it, thank you!" So saying, he put the glass in Delmar's hand, and did not allow her to refuse, and turned away.

Delmar looked at Xiao Zhenlei's back with wine glasses in both hands, his face became extremely ugly, Barnes asked her to find an opportunity to kill Xiao Zhenlei, but the killing game she carefully arranged failed like this, she knew that she was not familiar with Xiao Zhenlei, and it was impossible for her to contact him often, and Xiao Zhenlei often carried the British Hercules Opiyin by his side, coupled with his own strong hand, it was very difficult for her to kill him alone, but poisoning was completely different, this did not require face-to-face hands-on confrontation, It only needs to be poisoned in the wine in a very secret way, but who knew that Xiao Zhenlei's friend came at this time, so that her arrangement came to naught, and she walked out of the hall with two glasses of wine, because she had to dispose of this poisonous wine, and it would be troublesome if someone else drank it.

In fact, Xiao Zhenlei did not go far, talking to Li Pingshu, Zhu Baosan, Yu Qiaqing and others, while chatting with these people, his eyes often paid attention to Dema's figure, he decided to talk to Dema after the banquet, to see who she was, if she didn't cooperate, he didn't mind to punish this woman with a spicy hand that men would condemn.

Delmar stayed in the bathroom for less than two minutes before returning to the hall and returning to Hahausen's side, according to common sense, the assassin would definitely choose to evacuate the scene immediately if he failed to assassinate him, but Delmar not only did not withdraw, but also returned to Hahausen's side, which made Xiao Zhenlei very angry in his heart, if she couldn't poison her, did she want to use other methods?

Just when Xiao Zhenlei was staring at Dema at any time, Delmar was also staring at him with her peripheral vision, she didn't know that Xiao Zhenlei already knew that she was going to kill him, she was still thinking that as long as she was not exposed, as long as the assassination was not successful, she had to continue this mission. (To be continued......) R1292