Chapter 0370 – Charity Auction (III)
The living room of this mansion is huge. Some of it was out of Zhuang Rui’s expectation, completely comparable to some medium-sized banquet halls, richly decorated, but this style of gold and silver, a bit like the pre-liberation decorative style of some rich and powerful homes, slightly outdated.
Inside now about twenty or thirty people, Zhuang Rui roughly look, these people are divided into three groups, each in a corner of the hall talking, the largest number of people is in the doorway of a dozen young people, from the age of Zhuang Rui and about the same, in addition to sitting in the middle of the position of the seven or eight middle-aged people, is talking about discussing what is going on.
But Zhuang Rui was attracted to the door, is precisely the number of the most places, where sitting is three old people, age should have seventy or eighty years old, hair white, they sit in the deepest part of the hall, in the back of them there is a waiter, a few old people drink is not wine, but tea.
There were also seven or eight waiters in uniform. One hand holding a tray with wine glasses, wandering in the middle of the hall, next to the dining table there is a record player, which is playing the 20’s and 30’s popularity of Shanghai’s song night to come, if not to look at the hall these people dressed, Zhuang Rui really thought that it was traveling through space and time, came to the pre-liberation it!
Qin Haoran line of five people came in, immediately attracted the eyes of the people in the hall, all the voices of the talking stopped for a moment, sitting in the doorway of those young people, have stood up, very polite to Qin Haoran greetings, but then these young people’s eyes, all stared dead in the body of Zhuang Rui was Qin Xuan Bing arm in arm, regardless of men and women, face are showing a look of incredulity.
Today’s Qin Xuan Bing is undoubtedly the most dazzling woman in the field, a black low-cut dress, its proud body exposed, white neck below, wearing a black crystal cross, the downward arrow, pointing to the rising ditch, more and more provoking thoughts, the women present, see this kind of appearance Qin Xuan Bing, can not help but be a little ashamed of themselves.
With the past days cold and arrogant Qin Xuan Bing is different, today’s Qin Xuan Bing shows another side of her flavor. Between her hands and feet, it was as if she had magic power, attracting the gaze of this group of young people, unable to leave for a long time.
However, right after Qin Xuan Bing and the others stepped into the middle of the hall, these young men’s eyes finally shifted to Zhuang Rui’s body and were whispering to each other, supposedly asking each other about Zhuang Rui’s origin.
“Elder brother Qin, why are you late today, I know that Mr. and Mrs. Yin have always been the most enthusiastic about charity.”
After Qin Haoran entered the hall, several middle-aged men who were originally chatting in the center also stood up and greeted Qin Haoran couple.
“Xiao Zhuang, you young people are chatting, go sit over there! We’ll keep our old friends company.”
Qin Haoran turned around and greeted Zhuang Rui, then greeted them and chatted with the few people in Cantonese, but he suddenly saw a few old people inside, Qin Haoran hastened to apologize and walked over, saying with a respectful attitude, “Good day to Elder Kuo, good day to Sir Ho, good day to Elder Zheng, how are the health of the few of you!”
“Well, it’s Little Qin ah! Thank you for coming to support the old man, you young people have something to talk about, it’s rare for us to see each other, so don’t come over to join in the fun!”
Several old men didn’t get up, just nodded, except for Sir He who was the host, the other two old men didn’t even say a word, but Qin Haoran didn’t have a disgruntled look on his face, returned and retreated back into the group of middle-aged people, and the ones who saw this scene were all unchanged, it seemed that those few old men should have treated Qin Haoran with this kind of attitude.
“Xuan Bing, who are those people? So bullish?”
Look at Qin Haoran came in after many people greeted the scene, Zhuang Rui feel their future old father-in-law, should be mixed well, just did not expect that then those few old people, a bit of face did not give Qin Haoran, Zhuang Rui although do not understand the Cantonese language, but the attitude can always be seen.
“Let’s go to one side to talk ……”
After Qin Haoran couple walked away, Qin Xuan Bing and Lei Lei and Zhuang Rui, stood in the middle of the hall, being listened to by a dozen pairs of eyes, Qin Xuan Bing was a little bit uncomfortable, holding Zhuang Rui’s arm, walking towards a corner of the hall where no one was.
“These people are annoying, Lei Lei. You’ll help me block the way later!”
Coming to sit down at the sofa in the corner, Qin Xuan Bing realized that those gazes were still chasing her over, and simply leaned her body against Zhuang Rui’s, blocking those people’s line of sight.
“Zhuang Rui is now a living target, this time it’s not my turn to block the way.”
Lei Lei laughed, as soon as she heard that Zhuang Rui was coming, she had already guessed this situation, although these people may not necessarily want to pursue Qin Xuan Bing, but there are several of them who have been rejected by Qin Xuan Bing, and now that she sees that the beauty of her heart belongs to her, she will definitely not be convinced.
“Zhuang Rui, I’m sorry! I didn’t expect so many people to come today, if I had known we wouldn’t have come.”
“Why don’t you come? Your husband I can’t see anyone?”
Zhuang Rui smiled faintly and said without thinking, “Xuan Bing, it’s better to tell me about those guys! What’s with the big frame?”
To those few people who are about the same age as himself, Zhuang Rui didn’t put it on his mind at all, grabbing a woman with himself? Don’t look at this is the upper class party, Zhuang Rui still dare to fist fight, damn, although buddies are playing antiques, but is not a gentleman. Pissed off directly dry Ya Ting’s, on those few thin arms and legs of the people, Zhuang Rui really did not look in the eye.
See Zhuang Rui confident look, Qin Xuan Bing reassured a lot, she is not afraid of those so-called young genius, just afraid of Zhuang Rui aggrieved only, then said: “The old man who looks dry and thin, surnamed Guo, is the Hong Kong Real Estate Construction Business Association, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China General Chamber of Commerce, the President, the Permanent Honorary President. Before the return of Hong Kong, he was also a member of the Drafting Committee of the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Deputy Director of the Preparatory Committee, Deputy Director of the Preparatory Committee, Deputy Director of the Selection Committee. By the way, he also served as a member of the 5th and 6th Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of your mainland government, Vice-Chairman of the 8th and 9th CPPCC, and a member of the 7th Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC).”
“It’s him?!”
Zhuang Rui froze at his words, this Guo Lao was a big name! Being a billionaire himself not to mention, his help to the mainland is also great, since the reform and opening up, his charitable donations in the mainland have exceeded 1 billion yuan.
Zhuang Rui used to be able to often see him on TV again, but now he seems to be much older, Zhuang Rui has read his autobiography, this man’s age should also be around eighty years old, with his qualifications, that attitude towards Qin Haoran, it makes sense.
“Then who is the other person?” Zhuang Rui continued to ask.
“That person is also a tycoon, by the way you’ve heard of Chow Tai Fook Jewelry, right? He is the chairman of that company, and in Hong Kong is known as the four kings of the real estate sector, numerous investments, now the assets should be around three billion dollars, our family’s jewelry company, and compared to him, it is a little bit on the table.”
It is said that not to Guangdong do not know less money, Zhuang Rui came here, only to know what is called the frog at the bottom of the well, grandma, the money are calculated in billions, and it is still the U.S. dollar, think about yourself even if those Xinjiang jade mines to sell, and these capital predators, or there is no comparison.
“Strange, both of them don’t come out much anymore, why would they come here today?”
Qin Xuan Bing said to herself after introducing Zhuang Rui, she had participated in similar charity evenings quite a few times before. But it seemed to be mostly people from Qin Haoran’s generation, like Guo Lao, who was a heavyweight even in the mainland, had never appeared.
And today to participate in this charity auction of people, but also more than a little surprising, in Qin Xuan Bing and other people came in, the back is still a steady stream of people into the hall, and even two people were helped in the old man, joined the three in the middle.
After ten minutes or so, this hundreds of square meters of the hall, there are already seventy to eighty people, those young people’s position also gave way, have stood in the doorway chatting, but a lot of people’s eyes, intentionally or unintentionally or will sweep to Qin Xuan Bing and other people in this corner.
“Zhuang Rui?!”
Is chatting with Qin Xuan Bing Zhuang Rui, suddenly heard someone shout his name, could not help but froze for a moment, said he knows a lot of people in Hong Kong, like Superman Lee and so on he knows, but those people do not know him ah! Zhuang Rui really couldn’t think of anyone who could call out his name.
Looking up, the hall are people, Zhuang Rui looked for a while did not find out familiar people, thought it was an illusion, but the ears really ringing a voice: “Brother Zhuang, really is you ah?”
This time to speak is a female voice, Zhuang Rui looked at the sound, hey, is really a familiar person, the original is Park’s brother and sister two, mixed in a pile of men and women in the middle, is waving with him.
“Don’t go over, they won’t come over ah!”
Zhuang Rui to this brother and sister duo feel good, coupled with the previous is also the same suffering over, so stood up the body, ready to go over to say hello, but was QinXuanBing to pull to stop, Zhuang Rui can only helplessly rushed to BoMengAn waved his hand, signaling them to come over.
Bo Mengan and Bo Mengyao siblings did walk over, but behind them, there were also ten or so people who were about the same age as them, which made Qin Xuan Bing frown, but just in the way of her parents’ face, she also stood up and greeted Bo Mengyao, as for the other people, Qin Xuan Bing didn’t even take a glance at them.
“Brother Zhuang, it’s really you? I just heard someone say that Eldest Miss Qin was conquered by someone, and this heart wasn’t quite convinced, but seeing that it’s Brother Zhuang, then it should be true.”
To be honest, Bo Mengan saw Qin Xuanbing snuggled up next to Zhuang Rui like a bird, this heart is not very comfortable, these words out, not to avoid the meaning of provoking the anger of the gang of people behind him.