Chapter 25: The Dinner
Although the Guan family's mansion was built inside a skyscraper, as a high-ranking general, this renovated room also occupies nearly half of the floor.
Being able to get such a mansion at the headquarters of the Twelfth Army shows the prosperity of the Guan family's power in the military department.
The entire Guan Mansion has been converted into a duplex structure by itself, and following the European and American spiral ladders upward, Wang Qiang came to the banquet hall.
The area of this banquet hall is not very large, only about seventy or eighty square meters, but the decoration is more luxurious than other places in the house. Carpets of grassland cashmere dyed golden yellow are laid underfoot, and large pieces of glazed jasper tiles are inlaid on the walls, and the whole banquet hall presents a rich psychedelic style under the light of the ten colored crystals falling overhead.
Wang Qiang looked at the banquet table through the dreamlike light.
At this time, there were already six people sitting at the table, one man and one woman.
The main sat a couple, the man was elegant and deep, and a pair of black eyes were staring at Wang Qiang, and there was a faint hint of disappointment at the corner of his mouth. The lady sitting next to the man was dressed gracefully and gorgeously, but she couldn't hide her enchanting beauty, and the lady was looking at it with a smile, but there was clearly a bit of hatred between her eyebrows.
The couple's appearance and characteristics are somewhat similar to Guan Xiaoyun, and it is not difficult to guess that they are Guan Xiaoyun's parents.
Under the main seat, in the guest seat of the chief, sat a middle-aged man with a resolute face and eyes like a torch. The man was dressed in cyan civilian clothes, sitting on a cashmere chair, raising his chest and back, with a sense of awe-like pine like a bell, Wang Qiang could feel a strong military atmosphere from him.
Next to the man in the green suit, a bald monk in a red-robed robe sat cross-legged on the guest seat, playing with a string of huge mani bead bracelets in his hands. The monk's face was fierce, and there was no mercy at all, but a bit of a yaksha. What surprised Wang Qiang the most was the two rows of ring scars on the monk's smooth head, which flashed with a crimson halo under the fantastic light at this time.
At this time, the monk was chanting with his eyes closed, chanting words in his mouth, slowly playing with the mani beads with one hand, and ...... with the other I'm picking at my feet on a chair.
This monk is really fucking disgusting, Wang Qiang looked past the monk and looked at the banquet table, the last person.
It was a long-haired man with a cold face, who looked to be about sixty or seventy years old, sitting alone on the other side of the table, deliberately keeping a distance from the others.
The long-haired guest was wearing a loose sword robe, his hands in his sleeves, and his eyes were closed. Wang Qiang noticed that there was a large, thick iron sword on the table in front of the long-haired guest.
This is a swordsman, Wang Qiang gave the answer in his heart.
In the time of observing people, Guan Xiaoyun had already walked to the side of the noble lady and sat down, integrating what the noble lady was talking about.
"Wang Qiang, come, let me introduce you, this is my great father. You can call him General Guan or Uncle Guan, this is my beloved mother, you can just call her Aunt Chen. ”
Then Guan Xiaoyun pointed to the man in the green suit who was the chief guest seat, and said, "This is General Yu Zhengyu, my father's best colleague, the most powerful assistant, and the most iron brother." Uncle Yu is a well-known gun king in the army, you can ask for advice when you have time, you can get Uncle Yu's guidance, and your polar pioneer will not be secretly cast. ”
After introducing the man in the green suit, Guan Xiaoyun pointed to the monk and the swordsman, and said, "These two are my father's personal guards, and they are also the special advisers of the Internal Affairs Department, Master Dragon Monk and Mr. Tie Jian, if you have the opportunity, you will be closer and closer." ”
At this time, the middle-aged man sitting on the main seat spoke: "You are Xiaoyun's friend Wang Qiang, you don't have to be restrained when you come to my Guan house, quickly find a place to sit down, just like your own home." Well, Ah Xu, tell me to go down, you can serve the food. ”
The old housekeeper Xu Bo took the order, and walked out of the banquet hall slowly, and only a few dozen seconds later, a team of beautiful women with silver plates of delicacies rushed in and put the food in their hands on the table.
Wang Qiang sat casually on the last seat, looking at the various delicate ingredients on the silver plate in front of him, including seven-point veal steak and brisket, shelled and peeled krill with dipping sauce, and well-cooked venison......
Wang Qiang felt in a trance, he had never eaten such a sumptuous and delicious food, and he had never seen such a gorgeous scene. Thinking of the hardships of the Chen family's grandfather and grandson running around for a livelihood every day, and looking at this plate full of delicacies, Wang Qiang's appetite has decreased several times.
Guan Xiaoyun's mother, Chen Qiaoqiao, is a noblewoman with a lively mind, and she can see Wang Qiang's hesitation at a glance: "What, Xiaoqiang, don't these foods meet your appetite?" If you want to eat something, I'll ask the kitchen to cook it for you. ”
Wang Qiang was stunned for a moment, and then thanked: "No need, these foods are very pleasant, but just now I thought of those people who live in the settlement and can't eat, I'm a little unaccustomed to it." ”
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the banquet hall suddenly became tense.
Chen Qiaoqiao's face showed a hint of disgust, but she was very well-educated, and she would no longer make a big deal of nonsense in her seat, but lowered her head and scolded Guan Xiaoyun: "Xiaoyun, I have said that you have been many times, you should be cautious in making friends, what kind of person are you, how can you mess with vulgar guys in the countryside!" This will not help you grow up, and it will make our Guan family slandered and despised by the enemy. ”
As soon as Wang Qiang heard Guan Xiaoyun's mother's words, he immediately understood that this was referring to Sang and scolding Huai.
"That's enough, Qiaoqiao, there are guests here, just teach the children to find a time." Guan Lin was a little dissatisfied with his wife's gaffe and criticized it tactfully. But when he looked at Wang Qiang, the rest was contempt except for disappointment.
As for Guan Lin, he didn't believe that there would be any masters in poor settlements, and those untouchables were probably more clever in deceiving people. In addition, Guan Lin is quite dissatisfied with his son, Guan Xiaoyun, as a gentleman, is surrounded by some fox friends and dog friends, as a father, how can he not know his son's catty, so he does not have much hope for Guan Xiaoyun's recommendation.
As for why Guan Lin wants to meet Wang Qiang, it is because there is an urgent need to hire people recently...... simply reported the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
There was a short silence at the table, Yu Zheng was born in the army, and he was quite disciplined in eating, but the dragon monk sitting next to him didn't have so many scruples, after picking his toes, the dragon monk took a deer leg from the table and began to gnaw it, his face was full of oil and water, and it looked really disgusting.
But unexpectedly, Chen Qiaoqiao didn't care about the appearance of the dragon monk at all, as if he was used to seeing it, which made Wang Qiang wonder.
As for Mr. Tie Jian next to him, he is much more civilized in eating, a bowl of porridge and a stack of side dishes, Mr. Tie Jian ignores the plate of delicacies, just drinks porridge in small sips, and twists pickles with chopsticks.
Wang Qiang also buried his head in eating the food on the plate, last night's pasta was hungry, and he didn't eat this morning, Wang Qiang was already hungry at the moment, and after eating a little something, his appetite was full of appetite, so he ate a lot.
Chen Qiaoqiao, who was on the main seat, looked at Wang Qiang and despised it in his heart, this Wang Qiang did not eat more than the dragon monk, but the dragon monk was a person with real skills, and he was worthy of his own worship, as for Wang Qiang, a pariah from the slums, to put it bluntly, he came to eat a big family today, how not to get bored of himself.
Guan Lin didn't care about this, just slowly cut the beef on the plate, and whispered to Yu Zheng while eating.
"I heard that some unfamiliar faces have recently appeared around the generals of Sun Zaichen's family, many of them foreigners, what's going on?" Guan Lin asked.
"I don't know where I'm going, but I arranged for some of my men to test a few of them, and found that all of them were masters, and I lost a few guards for this. I don't know where Sun Zaichen went to recruit so many foreign masters, and I don't know where these foreigners came from, but they probably came from the southern sea. Yu Zheng replied.
"This is a very important matter, according to the information I have received recently, there are more than a dozen gringos that have been targeted by us, and maybe some guys who have no roads. This matter should be known to Nian Shuai as soon as possible. The Sun family suddenly has so many masters, and the pressure on the young man is very great. Guan Lin said.