Chapter 0375 – Charity Auction (VIII)
Zhuang Rui carefully sized up Commander Huang who walked up to him. This person should be forty-eight or ninety years old, his age was several years older than Ouyang Lei, but his rank was going to be lower than Ouyang Lei, but a Major General of this age was considered a young and strong faction in the military, knowing that the average person who was promoted to the rank of Major General had to be fifty years old.
Commander Huang walked over to Zhuang Rui and asked, “You are called Zhuang Rui, right?”
“Yes! Commander Huang recognizes me?”
Zhuang Rui nodded, then looked at the general in front of him with some puzzlement, since he was a child, except for his grandpa’s family that he only recognized in the past few months, he didn’t have any interactions with the troops.
“Could it be Grandpa’s people?”
Zhuang Rui’s mind popped up this idea, but then dismissed it, he knew grandpa but these few months, and this is a family matter, even if this general in front of him and grandpa have interactions, it’s impossible to recognize himself.
Not only Zhuang Rui, in this hall, including Qin Xuan Bing. All the people who knew Zhuang Rui were confused, how did he know the highest officer of the Hong Kong Garrison? Qin Xuan Bing even walked lightly to Zhuang Rui’s side and stood together with him.
“Hey, it’s really you kid, I looked like you earlier, but I didn’t dare to recognize it, just now I made a call to Sister Wan, and I know that you came to Hong Kong, and that’s how I know it’s you …….”
Commander Huang’s look somewhat excited, heavily patted Zhuang Rui’s shoulder, the voice was so loud that the whole audience heard it, but it made these people’s hearts even more confused, who is Sister Wan?
“Commander Huang you know my mom?!”
Zhuang Rui can now be sure that this general is indeed related to his grandfather’s family, and actually knows his mother, to know, his mother has left the Ouyang family for decades.
“Call Uncle Huang! I can afford to call you that ……”
Commander Huang corrected Zhuang Rui’s shouting, and suddenly remembered that he had stirred up this auction, and hurriedly said, “Auctioneer, I’m sorry, please continue to preside over the auction! Xiao Rui, let’s go over there and talk.” He also didn’t care if Zhuang Rui agreed or not, pulled his arm to find a corner with less people and walked over.
“Hey, I say Old Qin. You’re not being a friend enough! This young man obviously and Commander Huang know, you also said that he has no foundation in the Mainland, old brother I do business and not use the army, we make a friend for fear of what, why hide it?”
At this time, Qin Haoran’s old friend came back to his senses and complained to Qin Haoran. The conversation between Zhuang Rui and Commander Huang just now, it sounded like a family relationship, if Zhuang Rui didn’t have any background and was just a commoner, could he be a family friend with a general?
“Mr. Liu, I really don’t know! Hey, this Xiao Zhuang never mentioned it ……”
Qin Haoran due to the surprise of the open mouth, also just closed, heard an old friend so say himself, hastened to speak out to explain a bit, as for other people believe it or not, he can not care so much, this thing through a stock of evil line.
“Wife. You’ve had a lot of contact with Xiao Zhuang, do you know that?”
From Qin Haoran and Zhuang Rui’s interactions, this young man is humble, and does not have the kind of superiority of the children of the world’s families that is revealed from the bones, according to their own judgment will not be wrong, but the scene in front of them, so that Qin Haoran is also a little bit confused, turned his face and asked Fang Yi who was beside him.
“I don’t know either, I’m afraid Xiao Bing doesn’t even know, just look at the look on her face.”
Fang Yi was more attentive in her observation, seeing that her daughter also looked puzzled, she knew that her daughter did not know much about Zhuang Rui’s family history, either.
However, Fang Yi’s words released that old friend of theirs, daring to say that this is almost marrying her daughter, and she doesn’t even know about someone else’s family history, General Liu slandered Qin Haoran’s two couples in his heart.
“Commander Huang, may I ask how you know my mother? By the way, we’ve never met before, how did you recognize me?” Qin Haoran’s two families were confused, Zhuang Rui was also a bit baffled.
“Call what Huang Commander, all said shout Huang uncle, who said we have not seen? It’s just that your kid didn’t remember.” Commander Huang glared at Zhuang Rui, that look really treats Zhuang Rui as a junior.
“I just saw you a few days ago, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have remembered, that day you and Xiao Lei were talking at the door, I was in the courtyard, I didn’t expect it to be only a few days work, I actually saw you here.”
Commander Huang’s next words made Zhuang Rui realize. Dare I say that on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, within the group of generals that came to see Grandpa, there was this Commander Huang?
It’s no wonder Zhuang Rui can’t remember, that day in the courtyard stood more than ten generals with gold stars on their shoulders, besides, they were all wearing military uniforms at that time, where can Zhuang Rui distinguish one by one ah! He just stood at the door for a while that day and went back to his room.
However, since he was with Ouyang Lei, he was remembered by Commander Huang, and only after asking Ouyang Lei later did he realize that Zhuang Rui was Ouyang Wan’s son.
“Uncle Huang, how do you know my mother?”
Zhuang Rui has been holding this question, just now this shouting Sister Wan shouted so affectionately, it could not be that year the old man gave the doll marriage of the one who was engaged, right? To really that can be embarrassing, but look at the age and not like, Ouyang Wan at least than this General Huang on four or five years old.
“Since I was a child, I have grown up in a university, I can not recognize? Don’t say, you look really with Sister Wan, think of that year that will be ……”
Along with General Huang’s narration, Zhuang Rui realized that this Uncle Huang’s father, was his grandfather’s old subordinate. From childhood are living in a compound, he is going to be five or six years younger than Ouyang Wan, playing small bare buttocks in the compound naughty time, but also often ask Ouyang Wan for sugar to eat it, otherwise Wan sister how to call so affectionate?
General Huang is a straight person, and does not avoid things as a child, said Zhuang Rui side of the Qin Xuan Bing pursed lips straight smile, she is not surprised that Zhuang Rui mother from the extended family.
In that time to go to Zhuang Rui’s home, Qin Xuan Bing felt, like Zhuang mother to receive the kind of atmosphere, as well as their own flow out of the noble temperament. That kind of performance of having seen the world is not something that can be cultivated by a small family.
Although Ouyang Wan left Beijing at the age of eighteen or nineteen, but there is a saying: three years old to see the old, Ouyang Wan since childhood contact with people, are the senior leaders of the military party, plus the old man loves this little daughter, on the school are Beijing’s best, that temperament if it is poor would be strange!
“Zhuang Rui, how come you didn’t tell me anything about your grandfather?” Qin Xuan Bing quietly asked in Zhuang Rui’s ear, a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.
“Cough, I only just found out not long ago, it’s a long story, I’ll slowly tell you later!” Concerning his mother’s privacy, Zhuang Rui did not want to go into detail on this occasion, fortunately, Qin Xuan Bing is a smart girl, listening to Zhuang Rui so, also did not pursue the matter.
“Okay, you two have something to say in a while, I’ll take you to recognize Director Wang and the others.” General Huang couldn’t help but laugh when he saw Zhuang Rui and the two of them biting their ears and whispering.
At this time the live auction is still continuing, in Zhuang Rui they chat this, there are three or four lots sold, this day came to a lot of people, which donated a lot of things.
But the people in the hall, obviously more interested in the relationship between Zhuang Rui and General Huang, from the corner of their conversation closer to the people, but also perked up their ears in listening, just that these people stayed in Hong Kong for a long time, do not understand Mandarin, this is a face of chagrin swore to go home to ask for a teacher to teach Mandarin it!
“Director Wang, let me introduce to you, this is the son of one of my family friends, Zhuang Rui, Xiao Zhuang, this is Director Wang of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, this Guo Lao, Sir Ho, and ……”
Several people walked to that table in front of Sir He, General Huang spoke out and introduced Zhuang Rui to several people present, but except for Director Wang, several old men nodded their heads to Zhuang Rui and did not stand up, that said, with their age, it was more than enough to be Zhuang Rui’s grandpa, how could they possibly get up to greet this little brat ah!
“Little Zhuang is my father’s old head, the grandson of old General Ouyang, I also went to see the old man a few days ago, and that’s how I got to know him.” After introducing Zhuang Rui, General Huang intentionally or unintentionally pointed out Zhuang Rui’s background, this time those old men were unable to sit still.
“Old General Ouyang?!”
Guo Lao was the first to stand up at the words, trembling, he walked to Zhuang Rui, and with that somewhat dry hand, he shook Zhuang Rui’s hand and said, “Is the old general’s body alright? I also went to see the old general the year before last, alas, it’s been a few years since then, young man, go back and give me a good greeting to the old general ……”
When Guo Lao got up, he startled those people who had been paying attention to them, and when they heard Guo Lao’s words, these people were all stunned, their mouths were wide open, and they could not close them for a long time.
Guo Lao that is what status ah! Whether in terms of age, or in terms of wealth and seniority, in Hong Kong Island is one of the figures, even to the mainland, will be received by the leaders of the reception, and now open and shut up is the old generals, this one “old” out of his mouth, that the significance of it is not the same.
“Grandpa’s health is very good, let Guo Lao miss it.” Zhuang Rui responded politely.
“Who is Old General Ouyang?”
“Which one of you knows?”
“Could it be the same General Ouyang who led his troops to kill the famous Japanese General Flower during the Anti-Japanese War?”
Various inquiries resounded in the arena, at this moment, their curiosity about Zhuang Rui’s life had already magnified to infinity, even the auction could no longer continue, and they were all talking there, but there were people who were well-versed in the domestic history, and they had actually guessed Ouyang Gang at once.
To know, Ouyang Gang’s prestige that is not blown out, but a famous battle fought out, that is, when the strong crossing of the Dadu River eighteen warriors, that are also his troops.