The three of them had not arrived too early, there were already dozens of people in the venue, and they were divided into several small groups, scattered throughout the circular restaurant, tasting the food and wine on the table, while whispering about the topics of interest to them.

Thomas took Hong Tao and Erin all the way to the innermost group of people, Hong Tao observed the passing crowd as he walked, among these people, most of the men were over 3 or 40 years old, and there were many old men in 5 and 60, and the age of the ladies was very large, both young and beautiful girls, and old women with heavy makeup.

"Hey! Thomas, you have eaten, introduce us to your distinguished guests, they are very distinctive......" Before Hong Tao and the three of them walked to the group of people, several people in the crowd who happened to be facing this side spotted Thomas, and then separated from the crowd to greet him, and while greeting Thomas, he cautiously looked at Hong Tao and Erin.

"They are all senior executives of local law firms in New York, this group of people are like us, they are all taking on trade, commercial law, patent cases, this hook-nosed man is Paul, one of the partners of Willkie Farr & Gallagher, they also have business in China, earlier than our company, and they also opened an office in Beijing, and the Chinese name should be Boweis." Although it was the first time for Erin to come to this kind of occasion, she still had some understanding of the big names in the industry, and while maintaining a smile on her face, she whispered to Hong Tao in Chinese to roughly introduce the basic attributes of this group of people.

"Oh, that's a competitor." Hong Tao didn't know the names of these people, let alone what the Boris firm did, but he had heard of the brand Jeanswest and wore its jeans.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the head of our firm's Asia Department. Ms. Hong, this is Mr. Hong Tao from China. She is also Ms. Erin's husband. At this time, Thomas finally got rid of Paul's entanglement, and began to introduce Hong Tao and Erin to this group of people, and then introduce that group of people to Erin and Hong Tao one by one.

"Beautiful lady, my name is Paul, although we haven't met, but you have deeply hurt me in Beijing, so today's first dance must be danced with me, which can be regarded as a small consolation." When introduced to the middle-aged man with a hooked nose, he first shook Hong Tao's hand very politely or a little casually, and then focused his attention on Erin's side.

"I'm honored. Please. Erin was very generous, and let the hooked nose take her hand.

"Mr. Hong, don't mind if I borrow your wife for a while." Paul hadn't forgotten the proper etiquette, nodded to Hong Tao in a fake way, and then pulled Erin to the dance floor.

"Honey, I'll be back in a moment, you take care of yourself." Erin turned around and squeezed her eyes at Hong Tao, and then followed the hooked nose away.

"Mr. Hong, don't worry. Paul is a competitor to our company, but I have to say that he is indeed a gentleman, come, let's sit here. I've heard Erin say that you like to smoke cigars and drink hard liquor, and there are good cigars and Scotch malt whisky. "Thomas didn't throw Hong Tao to fend for himself, but always stood by Hong Tao's side. No matter what he thinks in his heart, for Hong Tao, he is still a qualified master.

"Paul said that Erin hurt him in Beijing? How did I not know there was such a thing? Hong Tao followed Thomas to the couch in the corner and sat down. As he took the glass from the waiter, he asked about what Paul had just said.

"Hahahaha, you misunderstood, Paul likes to joke, the injury he said was a business thing, that German friend of yours was originally targeted by Paul, but was snatched away from him by Erin, and he didn't leave him a chance at all, and he was mad." As soon as Thomas talked about this, it was really a heartfelt laugh, which not only frightened Hong Tao, but also attracted several people who were chatting near the sofa, so 7 or 8 people sat on the sofa together and gathered in a circle, listening to Thomas bragging here alone.

"My German friend? Do you mean Pan or Brother Marx? Hong Tao is not very clear about this matter, this is all business dealings between Erin and Pan, he just knows that Pan got a large amount of money from Europe, and then invests in real estate in China through the relationship of Boss Liu, but he has never asked about specific things, and he doesn't want to ask, everyone in Europe uses the unit of 100 million yuan, Hong Tao felt very small as soon as he talked to them about this topic, He felt a sense of accomplishment when he dug up millions of yuan from Pan to invest in his company, and he didn't want to be stimulated by that anymore.

"Of course it's Ms. Pan, she just came to our office last month to sign some documents, we worked together very happily, Ms. Pan specifically mentioned you to me, do you know what word Ms. Pan used to describe you?" Thomas saw that he had heard a lot, but he was not in a hurry to say it, and began to chat with Hong Tao about family life again.

"She can't say anything good about me, she is like a money printing machine with enough electricity, thinking about the stocks and investments in her hand all the time, but it's a pity why God gave her all her beauty, it's a waste." Hong Tao didn't mind saying a few bad things about Pan behind her back, she couldn't hear it anyway.

"Hahahahahaha, Ms. Pan said that you are an honest and suspicious, cunning and intelligent, honest and funny man, but I don't see that you have so many contradictory personalities, probably because we have been in contact for a short time." Thomas uttered a long list of contradictory words, and Hong Tao wondered if this was Pan's original words, at least she had never commented on herself to her face.

"The most important point is that she said that you are her patron saint, it was you who helped her successfully avoid this economic crisis, not only no loss but also a small gain, many of us here have heard of this goddess of German investment directly or indirectly, so we are also curious about her evaluation of you." Thomas then finished Pan's words, and then leaned back on the couch like an old fox who had just stolen a chicken, smiling and waiting for Hong Tao's answer with a big pipe in his mouth.

"Hehehehe, this is mostly Ms. Pan's joke, I don't even know what stocks are, let alone investment, as for avoiding the economic crisis, I just helped her a little bit on the mental level, all the decisions are made by herself, I didn't participate at all." Hong Tao looked at the eyes of 7 or 8 pairs of green hungry wolves around him, and finally understood why this Thomas invited himself, an unrelated person, to this very professional small circle party, which was all the fault of that talkative Pan.

"Mr. Hong, like all Chinese, is as humble as ever, well, I'll tell you about Paul being bullied by Irene." Erin snatched back all of the investment projects in China that Ms. Pan had in charge of Paul, but our firm was seriously understaffed in Asia, especially in China, so we only picked a third of the better quality projects and returned the rest to Paul. Thomas saw that Hong Tao didn't understand the slightest hint of speech, so he stopped asking about it, but turned the topic back to Erin and Paul.

When Paul re-got these projects, he soon found that there were a lot of projects that he was also optimistic about, so he knew what was going on, and actually called me in the middle of the night, and shouted to me on the phone for a full 40 minutes, almost all the swear words, before he was relieved, and now I think it is funny, the famous Paul, who has representative offices in several big cities in China, actually made a young female lawyer who had just entered the industry for a few years so angry that he almost had a stroke...... After Thomas finished saying this, not only did he laugh heartily, but even the people on the side laughed along, it seems that this hook-nosed Paul may not be so popular here, and he is about to become an enemy of the people.

"Did Paul finally take on those projects?" Hong Tao is not worried about Paul, but afraid that Thomas will go too far and embarrass Pan, although the money that Pan invested in China Hong Tao does not know how it came from, but most of it is not Pan's own money, nor is it the money of the Marx brothers, but belongs to many German and even European rich people, they are just optimistic about Pan's success before the financial crisis, so they let Pan as their spokesperson, once the money goes wrong, it is estimated that the Marx brothers will not be able to afford to sell all the family property, to say that the thief is bold, Pan said that he is the second, No one dares to say first, this is simply asking for money, and she is not short of money, what do you say.

"Of course he took it, whether he was pinching his nose or gritting his teeth, he had to follow, otherwise not only our firm would set up a branch in China, but also offices in Europe or North America would be moved, and then his leading position in China would be swept away." Thomas said it triumphantly, and the executives of the rest of the firms listened with relish.

"I'm afraid it's not you who will have the last laugh, Mr. Thomas, those investment projects that you are not optimistic about should be no worse than those projects you are optimistic about, especially those related to real estate and infrastructure, and their returns should be about the same in the end." Hong Tao really couldn't get used to this Thomas's angry and laughing style, so he couldn't help but tell the truth again. (To be continued......)

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