Chapter 102: The Engagement Banquet Begins
The Shao family's private club, with a total of three floors up and down, covers an area of thousands of meters, and is magnificent, comparable to a five-star hotel.
At this time, the banquet hall of the Shao family was already full of guests, and it was a lively scene.
To be able to participate in a banquet of this scale, they are naturally celebrities, officials and businessmen in H City.
Shao Wuwu greeted the guests at the door with a spring breeze on his face, and not far behind him, Qiu Xiaodie's father, Qiu Baisheng, and her mother sat there with a sad face.
His daughter is still unconscious, but she is forced to attend her daughter's engagement banquet, such a thing is tantamount to a great insult to Qiu Baisheng.
But he has no choice, in recent times, his own industry has shrunk significantly, and the bank loan is about to expire, and the most terrible thing is that a force that does not know where it came from is specifically against him.
In just a few months, he has been forced to retreat, if there is no more capital injection, not only will several projects in his hands be suspended, but the bad loans on the bank's side will be enough to make his property be auctioned off and directly declared bankrupt.
Although he has a lot of private collections in his family, they are not enough to pay off his debts, and second, those collections are the hard work of his Qiu family for decades, and he is really reluctant to sell them.
Therefore, he had no choice but to agree to the Shao family's courtship, and use the collection as collateral in exchange for the Shao family's investment help, so that he could still have a glimmer of life.
Qiu Xiaodie's mother sat next to her, but her heart was always uneasy.
Yesterday, she woke up in the hospital room and remembered in a trance that she seemed to have had a strange dream.
In the dream, I saw my daughter Qiu Xiaodie, and it was in a very strange place, and a young man said that he would help the Qiu family at today's engagement banquet.
The dream was clear, but it was a little vague, so she couldn't tell whether it was true or not.
She kept looking at the door, expecting the young man to appear.
Soon, the guests arrived, and the engagement banquet of the Shao family officially began.
Shao Tiezhu walked out in the midst of a group of people, standing on the hosting stage with a red face, looking around domineeringly, and suddenly, in the hall where he was still talking to each other just now, there was silence.
Shao Tiezhu nodded with satisfaction, the struggle of more than 20 years has finally not been in vain, and now he is almost the richest man in H City.
At this time, sitting below, there are bigwigs from all walks of life, and there are people with heads and faces in the city.
At this time, however, they all tilted their heads and waited for their mouths to speak.
This sense of accomplishment that is enough to be proud of makes him very comfortable.
It's just that the guests have already arrived, why haven't they served the food yet?
He had just received a report from Secretary Huang, saying that Bai Chang had refused the convoy that came to the door, and he had to come over with the dishes for the banquet.
This arrogant guy, if he dares to delay today's banquet and doesn't have to do it himself, someone will naturally put him to death.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Shao has been grateful for his help over the years to have a little scale today. Today is a worry-free engagement banquet for children, so I specially prepared a thin wine and vegetarian dish to show a little heart. β
After he said this, the audience immediately burst into applause.
It's just that everyone is thinking about a question.
There are only some dried fruit preserves on the table, where is the food?
Shao Tiezhu was also a little embarrassed, now that the banquet was about to start, even the chef didn't know where it was.
He cleared his throat and said, "Everyone must also know that Xiao'er's fiancΓ©e, that is, the pearl of Brother Qiu's family, Qiu Xiaodie, can't come to today's engagement banquet because of an accident a few days ago. But the child is in love with Die'er, and my Shao family is not a ruthless and unrighteous person, so even if today's engagement banquet is missing the heroine, it still has to be carried out, my Shao family and the Qiu family will be the children's family in the future, I hope everyone will help each other in the friendship for many years, so that Brother Qiu can get out of the predicament as soon as possible. β
Qiu Baisheng was sitting on the side, his face was a little hot, but at this time, he had to stand up and look around, with a smile on his face.
Shao Tiezhu directly exposed his old bottom in front of so many people, which is equivalent to the Qiu family being a head shorter in this family business.
"In addition, at today's engagement banquet, there is one more thing to announce, that is, Brother Qiu has agreed, Shaw Group officially invested in Parkson Company, and the two will be even more family in the future.
In fact, many people have already guessed this news, but when they heard Shao Tiezhu say it himself, they were still in an uproar for a while.
Shaw Group's stake in Parkson Company, doesn't that mean that Qiu Baisheng's company has been acquired by Shao Tiezhu?
It seems that it won't be long before Parkson Company will become a subsidiary of the Shaw Group, a subordinate industry.
Shao Tiezhu looked at everyone in the audience, his face showed smugness, and continued: "In order to show the sincerity of this cooperation, and more importantly, for his precious daughter, Brother Qiu also agreed to mortgage his antique collection for many years to the Shaw Group. In fact, the mortgage is just a statement, our two families will be a family in the future, and after we are a hundred years old, those things will be different or children's? β
This time, the audience was even more shocked.
Who doesn't know that the Qiu family's antique collection, which is the Qiu family's collection for decades, has countless treasures, and some treasures are even more valuable.
To be honest, if Qiu Baisheng had agreed to auction off those antiques, his business would not have reached the point where it is today.
But I don't know why, that old stubborn would rather trade his daughter for that than do that.
But this time, he mortgaged those antiques, if the Shao family did something tricky, then this time it would be nothing, and the good things that had been accumulated after decades of hard work would all belong to the Shao family.
But no one dared to say this, and after listening to Shao Tiezhu's speech, the audience was still applauding.
A person on Qiu Baisheng's table, Zheng Qiaoen of the city's Longteng Construction Company, looked at Qiu Baisheng even more, with a mocking look on his face, and said: "Congratulations to Brother Qiu, this time I have become in-laws with Brother Shao, and I will be prosperous in the future." It's a pity, it's a pity, my Zheng family doesn't know which life has done evil, why didn't they give birth to a delicate daughter? β
These words were flattering on the surface, but in fact they were laughing at Qiu Baisheng for using his daughter to make a deal to hug the Shao family's thighs.
Qiu Baisheng's face was blue and white for a while, Qiu Xiaodie's mother couldn't listen to it anymore, and said: "Giving birth to a beautiful daughter is much better than giving birth to a waste son, I heard that Mr. Zheng's only son was making trouble at school a few days ago and was seriously injured, I don't know if it's okay now?" β
Zheng Qiaoen's face suddenly turned ugly, and when he slapped the table, he was about to attack on the spot.
That's right, Zheng He, who was often disabled at school a few days ago, is Zheng Qiaoen's only son.
Shao Tiezhu saw that the audience was going to make trouble, his face sank, and said: "Today is the big day of my Shao family, I specially invited a well-known chef to cook today's banquet, because the process is complicated, so everyone should be a little restless, if anyone is angry, you might as well go out first to cool down, and then it's not too late to come in." β
Zheng Qiaoen sat down at this time, snorted, and didn't dare to speak anymore.
Although his Zheng family is also a little famous in the city, all the industries added up do not exceed 100 million, and he does not dare to be presumptuous in front of Shao Tiezhu, who is known as 10 billion assets.
Otherwise, Shao Tiezhu definitely has the ability to leave him with nothing in a minute.
At this time, an old man in a fancy costume sitting in the chief paused for the black wooden cane in his hand and suddenly spoke.
"Boss Shao, what should be said has already been said. I don't know when today's feast will start? β
Shao Tiezhu hurriedly turned around and said, "What Mr. Gu said is that I have just sent someone to pick it up, so it must be almost here at this time." β
As soon as he finished speaking, someone next to him hurriedly stepped forward and whispered a few words.
Shao Tiezhu showed a slightly surprised look, and before he could speak, a rider wearing a helmet and a yellow uniform had already walked in outside the hall door, carrying a large food delivery box behind him.
"Excuse me, is it the takeout you ordered here?"
The rider's uniform and helmet have a running wallaby clearly emblazoned.
There is also a line of words on the chest.
"Meituan takeaway, everything can be delivered quickly."