Chapter 20: The Engagement Banquet
At noon on March 12, the "Rich Nightclub" was lit up, the high-end cars in the parking lot were like luxury car exhibitions, and a banner hung at a huge rainbow door at the gate read, "Miss Murong Amin and Mr. Qiu Wu's Engagement Celebration".
Wang Ning drove the Buick business car of the "Second Branch" and pulled the brothers to the gate of the "Rich Nightclub", and the high-end and Li Nuo happened to meet the people of the "Security Brigade" when they got out of the car, Liang Hao walked to the high-end and greeted warmly: Brother Gao, this is a big event for your section chief, let's have a few drinks.
High-end said: It is natural for me to drink more when our section chief's daughter is engaged, Captain Liang, you are a distinguished guest, and I have the obligation to accompany you.
Liang Hao hurriedly said: Brother Gao is polite, I said Brother Gao, don't take it to heart last time, I can't do anything about business, I can't ruin the relationship between our buddies because of that incident.
Gao Gao waved his hand and caught up with Li Nuo, Wang Ning and Tang Wan without saying much to him. Zhao Yong, Zhang Kai and others also caught up with Li Nuo and walked towards the gate of the nightclub, and suddenly a burst of singing came intermittently from the left side of the restaurant:
......
When I look into your eyes, I feel no longer cold and warm in my arms;
The song dispelled the loneliness and conquered the difficulties, how could I think that this was a love affair that awakened the soul;
I hugged the love game, stood strong on the stage, and sang for the love game with a heartbeat;
Love, calling out my proud soul; It tells the unchanging wish for love;
Ahhh Yes... Love...
Zhao Yong said impatiently: This beggar is so annoying, he sings this song everywhere, it sounds weird and miserable, he should really be driven away.
Wang Ning said: Do you say this guy is really poor?
Li Nuo said: It's definitely not a rich person, otherwise who will make money by singing on the street, I occasionally catch up and give a ten yuan or eight yuan, but the singing is really good, according to his level to go to the song hall or bar to sing is more than enough, not to mention other places, the nightclub in front of me has singers singing every night, and a few follow him.
Wang Ning said: Sister Nuo said that, it feels really true, but if you look at his long hair and unshaven beard, is he sloppy, which song hall dares to invite him.
Li Nuo said: Actually, he looks good, Zagu is very handsome, don't just look at the clothes.
Liang Hao smiled and said: Okay, a few brothers and sisters, we should go in.
Wang Ning said: Yes, let's go, listen to him and don't get full, let alone be a hairy crab, and if you don't go in, the hairy crab will be gone.
Gao Gao also heard the singing, he knew that it was the beggar singer who sang it, and the singing was always desolate and sad.
The lobby on the first floor of the "Rich Nightclub" is very magnificent, the ceremony stage is almost shrouded by a pink tent, and there is a 5 x 10 meter LED electronic screen hanging above the ceremony platform, and different welcome words are scrolling on the screen, the background is red, and the big golden characters read: Miss Murong Amin and Mr. Qiu Wu's engagement celebration.
In the lobby, there are hundreds of banquet tables, with pink tablecloths on the tabletop, "Moutai" wine and French "Lafite" red wine on the rotating glass countertop, as well as German dark beer, delicate and transparent ceremonial tableware like milk, and cutlery with chopsticks, knives and forks and five goblets of different sizes.
Wang Ning only scratched his scalp with envy when he saw this scene, and whispered to the high-end: It seems that there are not only hairy crabs, but also steaks and pizzas.
Li Nuo poked him on the back and said, "It's a bit of a good thing."
Just when everyone was looking for their place, the guests appeared, Qiu Guozhu and his wife accompanied Murong Bin and his wife into the banquet hall, followed by the bosses of dozens of enterprises in Luancheng, and among them there was a young woman with orange hair. Ji Liang was obviously the master of ceremonies for this celebration banquet, shaking hands with the VIPs non-stop, while directing the women in the coal mine office
Staff guide guests to their own locations.
Qiu Guozhu and Murong Bin naturally sat on the guest of honor, Zheng Guoqiang and Wang Huaiming sat in the VIP seats, and Liang Hao and others sat with some officials in Luancheng. Orange and red hair mixed in with a group of beauties, and the rest of the characters with heads and faces were in the front row. Ji Liang specially arranged 6 tables for the "Second Criminal Investigation Section" and the "Security Brigade". High-end, Li Nuo, Wang Ning and Tang Wan are all at the same table, Zhao Yong of the "Security Brigade", and Zhang Kai's table is next to the high-end them.
Wang Ning picked up a pack of cigarettes from the table, took out one and stuck out his tongue at the high-end and said: I, giant panda, a piece is more than 5 yuan, and the 82-year-old French genuine "Lafite" is worth at least seven or eight hundred, which is really magnificent.
Li Nuo said: People must be able to make money hard, and if you are rich, you can do the same.
Zhao Yong turned his face and said: I don't believe it, even if Wang Ning is rich, he will definitely pick the door, and get two more bottles of two pots.
Gao Gao looked forward with a cigarette in his mouth, he looked at the orange curly-haired woman, and couldn't help but smile when he saw her sitting next to the guest of honor, because he had seen her in the USB flash drive video from under the table of Jiang Xing's Eight Immortals, Qiu Guozhu's daughter Qiu Wu's sister Qiu Ying, Gao Gao said silently in his heart: I'm sorry beauty, I'm going to take advantage of you today.
At 11:29, the engagement ceremony officially began, the hostess was Shu Qian, the famous wedding host of Luancheng, she wore a Chinese-style cheongsam to the ceremony, and said in a sweet voice: Ladies and gentlemen, today is the engagement ceremony between Miss Murong Amin and Mr. Qiu Wu, on behalf of Mr. Qiu Guozhu and Mr. and Mrs. Murong Bin, I thank everyone for coming, and I would like to invite a pair of prospective newlyweds to come to the stage to meet with relatives and friends.
The music sounded, Murong Amin wore a white gauze skirt and walked to the stage from the left side accompanied by Huang Ying, Qiu Wu wore a black suit and held a huge bouquet of flowers from the right side and walked on the stage alone, he came to Murong Amin and knelt down on one leg and offered nine hundred and ninety-nine roses to Murong Amin with both hands, Murong Amin couldn't hide his joy and bent down to take the bouquet, because the bouquet was too big, he put it at his feet and immediately stretched out his left hand, Qiu Wu put a sapphire diamond ring on her finger, and the audience suddenly burst into deafening applause.
Wang Ning said to the high-end: Look at people's engagement, it is more grand than ordinary people's marriage, if you get married, you can't get a plane.
The high-end glanced at him and said: I'm jealous, people really have planes.
Wang Ning said: Really fake?
High-end said: Really, in Shenzhen, and it's a helicopter.
Wang Ning said: I'm good, it's good to be rich, if I have money, I will buy one. After speaking, Wang Ning poured a glass of red wine, put it on his nose and smelled it.
Host Shu Qian said: Next, please watch the big screen and enjoy the love style of beautiful women and handsome guys.
The large LED screen above the stage was opened, and a line of large characters was played along with the lyrical music; Take a look at the romance between the beautiful Miss Amin and the handsome guy Mr. Qiu Wu. This is a scenery film, the picture begins to change from Murong Amin and Qiu Wu walking hand in hand in the suburban fields to Australian Street, from the warm dream under the moon before the flowers to the vast "Luanshan Coal Mine"... The film is very artistic, the beautiful pictures make everyone feel relaxed, and every face is full of gratification.
Qiu Guozhu, who was sitting on the main table, was overjoyed, and suddenly the mobile phone in his pocket vibrate, Qiu Guozhu didn't want to open it, but the continuous vibration of the mobile phone made him very upset, he impatiently took out his mobile phone and opened it to check, which shocked him to the point of being dumbfounded. I received a small video on WeChat on my mobile phone, which turned out to be an indecent video recording of his daughter Qiu Ying and her brother Qiu Wu... There is also a line of small print on it: If you don't want your daughter to be ruined, tell the truth about the death of Duanmu in the underground on February 12 in front of everyone, otherwise this video will be released on the big screen immediately for all guests to enjoy.
Qiu Guozhu was stunned all of a sudden, he wanted to think repeatedly, if he didn't talk about the incident of burying Duanmu underground on February 12, if this video was really played on the big screen, his daughter would not only be ruined, but she might be forced to die. What if I did? If he said that the incident on February 12 was a coal mine accident, and he concealed the death of the person, at most he was found to have concealed the death accident, and it was a big deal to lose money to close the mine, he could still afford this crime, and he could settle it. Qiu Guozhu hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to stop this responsibility himself and tell about the explosion in the well. However, he knew that the underground explosion was committed by his son's cronies Tong Jiayi and Jiang Xing in order to destroy the evidence that killed Duanmu.
On the big screen, Qiu Wu and Murong Amin demeanor After the VCR was broadcast, the host Shu Qian said with a smile on her face: You haven't seen enough, have you? Let's take a look at it later, and now let's welcome Mr. Qiu Guozhu, the father of the groom-to-be, to the stage with warm applause.
Qiu Guozhu's face turned pale when he heard this, he stood up and staggered to the stage, his legs trembled when he went up the steps, he took the microphone with trembling hands and said: Thank you all for coming to my son Qiu Wu's engagement ceremony, I take this opportunity to confess one thing to you, I made an unforgivable mistake, there was an explosion accident in the coal mine on February 12 this year, and a eliminated wellbore was blown up, unfortunately an employee was killed in the mine and was not picked up, I concealed the accident...
Qiu Wu and Murong Amin were originally beaming, but they were stunned by Qiu Guozhu's abnormal speech, Murong Amin opened his mouth wide as if he was stereotyped, and Qiu Wu shouted at his father: Hey! Father! Father! What nonsense are you talking about?
The ceremony hall was suddenly silent, Murong Bin was also shocked by the sudden move of his in-laws, and stood up with a swish, while Qiu Guozhu sat down on the ceremony stage after speaking. At this moment, the big screen suddenly lit up by itself, and everyone thought that the organizers wanted to divert their attention, but what Cheng wanted to broadcast was an indecent video of Ji Liang and Murong Amin, and the words "Ji Liang and Amin's private relationship" were still marked on the screen. This time the lobby was frying, and someone was shouting: Oh, look at the bride-to-be, look at the purple mole on her shoulder...
Someone else shouted: That's right, the man is the chief engineer of our mine...
The entire engagement ceremony was disrupted by this video, and the guests shouted one after another. Qiu Guozhu was startled at first, thinking that he had exposed the indecent video of his daughter and son, but when he saw that it was not the video of his daughter and son, his eyes twisted to the side in confusion, and his heart was put down when he mentioned his throat.
Murong Amin saw himself and Ji Liang... suddenly remembered what happened on Qiu Ying's birthday, she, Qiu Wu, Ji Liang, Qiu Ying and Huang Ying celebrated Qiu Ying's birthday in the hotel, and after the meal, Qiu Wu proposed to go to the nightclub to sing, Huang Ying said that he had left in advance, and the remaining four of them went to the nightclub to drink and dance, and made an indecent ugly thing in the private room when they were drunk, Qiu Wu almost patted Ji Liang with a wine bottle. Murong Amin didn't dare to look any further, she covered her face and ran into the backstage.
Qiu Wu's mind also flashed in his mind what happened on the night of his sister Qiu Ying's birthday, but who took this video? Suddenly he remembered a plot, Ji Liang once answered a phone call, could it be that he secretly filmed this video? Qiu Wu's heart suddenly ignited with anger. In fact, this video was secretly taken by Jiang Xing from the crack in the door, although they often have such parties, but it is the first time that Qiu Ying and his brother have such an indecent scene, so he secretly recorded the image, and afterwards he was afraid that this video would be copied into a USB flash drive and placed under the legs of the Eight Immortals table, but he didn't think that he would fall into the hands of the high-end after being killed.
Qiu Wu believed that this video was secretly taken by Ji Liang, because Ji Liang pursued Murong Amin but was stopped by Qiu Wu, so today Ji Liang deliberately played this video on the day of his engagement to Murong Amin to humiliate him and take revenge on him. How could Qiu Wu swallow this evil breath, he reflexively looked for Ji Liang's shadow. Besides, Ji Liang was terrified when he saw the indecent picture of him and Murong Amin on the big screen, he had a premonition that the situation was serious and got up and slipped out of the lobby, he wanted to avoid Qiu Wu for the time being, and then explain to him after he calmed down a little, but he was discovered by Qiu Wu when he walked out of the side door, Qiu Wu saw Ji Liang slip away and was even more sure that Ji Liang did it, and immediately lost his mind, he jumped off the stage and chased out.
Gao Gao quietly turned off the phone under the table and pulled out the battery, and the picture on the big screen immediately stopped, and when he saw Qiu Wu chasing Ji Liang out, he felt a burst of joy in his heart, thinking that it was done. He glanced at Wang Ning, who was dumbfounded, and quietly left the lobby.
Ji Liang ran up to the fourth floor and hid in a private room, wanting to send a WeChat message to Qiu Wu to clarify that he had nothing to do with the video, but as soon as he sat down, Qiu Wu broke in violently. Ji Liang hurriedly stood up and said: Qiu Wu, you listen to my explanation... Before the words fell, a heavy punch fell on his face, Ji Liang instinctively pushed Qiu Wu away, Qiu Wu was pushed to the side of the song platform and almost fell, he stood up and unbuttoned his suit to take off the suit and beat Ji Liang fiercely, undoubtedly touched a hard thing, took it out of his pocket and saw that it was a pistol, Qiu Wu was almost crazy at this time, he raised his pistol and aimed at Ji Liang.
Ji Liang was frightened when he saw Qiu Wu holding a gun in his hand, he stretched out his hands and swayed non-stop, and kept shouting: Brother Wu, Brother Wu, calm down, don't point a gun at me!
High-end walked out of the lobby and looked around, he didn't know where Ji Liang and Qiu Wu had gone, and at this moment, there was a sudden "poof" gunshot, and High-end was startled, feeling that the gunshot was coming from upstairs, so he pulled his legs and ran upstairs. A waitress stumbled down the stairs, shouting as she ran: Murder, come on!
High-end Q: How many floors?
The waitress replied with fear in her eyes: Fourth, fourth floor.
Gao Gao ran up to the fourth floor to check the private rooms one by one, and when he pushed open the door of the westernmost private room, he was shocked by the scene in front of him, Ji Liang was half lying on the sofa, blood was spraying out of his chest, Qiu Wu stood in front of him with a pistol in his hand. High-end was so shocked that he didn't know what to do, Qiu Wu turned around when he heard movement behind him, and the muzzle of the gun instantly hit High-end's head.
At this moment, Li Nuo, Wang Ning and Zhao Yong also ran to the door of the private room, Qiu Wu saw them take extreme actions in horror, he put a gun to the quasi-high-end head and shouted: Don't shout, raise your hand above your head and turn around, otherwise I will kill you.
Gao Gao obediently raised his hands and turned around, Qiu Wu put the muzzle of the gun on the back of Gao Gao's head and said: Go back, yes, go...... The high-end walked out of the private room under the threat of Qiu Wu's gun, walked to the side door at the west end of the corridor, and walked through the side door to the hanging garden of the "Rich and Noble Nightclub".
Wang Ning, Li Nuo, Zhao Yong and Zheng Guoqiang, who had just caught up, also followed to the rooftop, and Li Nuo said to the high-end: Don't resist, listen to him.