Chapter 610: The Lucky One

The Budokan in Kitanomaru, Chiyoda-ku was already full. Rie Sakai and Masayoshi Kishimoto were already sitting on top of the main seats where they were supposed to be. On the other side of them were the executives of the Hard Gold Group sitting in a single-file line.

Kazuya Takahashi and Takayuki Nanno, who were familiar with Rie Sakai, sat on her side, while Kiyoshi Kobayashi and the others sat on Masayoshi Kishimoto’s side.

The opening of the annual meeting was the appearance of two male and female professional hosts from TV Tokyo, each with a topic in hand. Their light-hearted and humorous hosting style immediately caused laughter on stage.

After the first opening program, the female host said, “Please enjoy”, and then she and the male host retired.

The first person on stage immediately won the cheers and screams of the young people on stage. She was the famous Japanese diva Ayumi Hamasaki.

She sang three of her most iconic songs in a row. In an instant, the atmosphere in the entire Budokan arena was lit up.

After she finished singing, she bowed and retreated backstage. The male and female hosts were the ones who reappeared on stage. The two of them invited Masayoshi Kishimoto onto the stage as soon as they spoke.

Masayoshi Kishimoto had known for a long time that this was all something that had been arranged. Even before this, Natsume Ryousuke had personally given himself a rundown of the arrangements and flow of the entire annual event.

He wore jeans underneath, a pair of sneakers on his feet, and a shirt with a blazer on top, giving him a very personable feel without being too serious like he was in a suit.

Kishimoto justice after the stage, right hand above took a she people sent to their hands of the microphone, facing the field of their own more than 10,000 employees are not in a hurry, not slow: “2001 for our hard gold group, both is a long big development year, but also a big harvest year.

Many of you here, you were not colleagues, belonging to different companies, but now is in the same group of companies to work together colleagues.

The Hard Gold Group offers all of its employees room for advancement. As long as you have the ability and hard work, you will be rewarded for your efforts.

Hard gold group can get today’s good results, but also and everyone’s joint efforts are inseparable. In 2002, we join hands together to create a more brilliant Hard Gold Group.”

The reason why he didn’t read out a long speech with a script written by a secretary was that he could understand the public’s psychology.

No one likes to stand on the stage and speak in a grandiose manner. What they want most now, besides enjoying the program, is the lucky draw.

If you can say less words off script, then say less words. The meaning is there, that’s all. Saying more on one’s own would not make them like it, but would instead make them chant in their hearts, hurry up and finish.

The hostess smiled and said, ”Chairman Kishimoto is the shortest boss I’ve ever seen speak in front of his employees at an annual meeting event. It can truly be said that you are as short on words as you are on gold.

However, every word you said was deeply memorized by us. In the coming year, we will definitely work hard to create better results for Hard Gold Group.”

“Here in the raffle, the first lucky winner will be drawn by Chairman Kishimoto. The prize is a latest model Toyota automobile.” The male host smiled.

At this time, someone had already pushed the fully transparent glass raffle box onto the stage, just waiting for Masayoshi Kishimoto to stick his hand through the round hole at the top and touch it.

Masayoshi Kishimoto moved his feet and walked to the front of the raffle box before stopping. He put his right hand through the hole in the top of the box and intentionally stirred the ticket stubs inside the box, and then pulled one out of the box and held it in his hand.

After taking his right hand out of the box, Masayoshi Kishimoto handed the ticket stub to the host.

The male host took the ticket stub from his hand and looked at it, but did not announce it immediately, intentionally creating an atmosphere, saying, “Who is the first lucky winner in the end?”

The female host also helped out by saying, “Who will this one be that Chairman Kishimoto draws?”

At the same time, among the more than 10,000 people seated inside the martial arts hall, there were both people with an indifferent attitude, not without feeling that the probability was too small and that their personal luck would not be that good, and there were also people who had their tickets in their hands, looking forward to and excitedly hoping that the Goddess of Luck would be able to favor them.

“This is the first automobile prize tonight. If you are not drawn, do not be discouraged. Later on, there will be multiple chances to win not only only the Toyota automobile prize, but also one million yen in cash waiting for you.” The male host, holding the microphone in one hand and the other was holding the ticket stub looked to his partner and said, “I’ll let you choose, do you want the Toyota car or the one million yen in cash?”

The hostess replied with a smile on her face, “I’ll take the Toyota. It’s going to be worth a lot more than a million yen.”

“Chairman Kishimoto has prepared ten of the latest model Toyota minivans for our Hard Gold Group employees. There are also one hundred places for the one million yen cash reward.

That’s one hundred million yen in cash prizes alone. On top of that, there were also one thousand prizes of cell phones from Sony. Right now, even though there were more than ten thousand colleagues within the Budokan, they still all had a chance.

Just in terms of probability, each person had nearly a one in ten chance of being able to win. As for that prize amongst the first, second, and third prizes, it depends on the good fortune of each.” The male host said bluntly.

“Don’t you dare to sell your secrets anymore. The first lucky winner better read it out quickly!” The female host feigned a look that she was more anxious than anyone else was urging.

“That’s a good number. Our first lucky winner is number 753.” The male host read aloud into the microphone in his hand.

The female host hurriedly picked up, “Number 753 is there, number 753 is there.”

While she was speaking, the camera was also searching for the lucky winner of the Toyota Grand Prize among the crowd.

A man stood up and raised his hands in the air to form a “V”. He excitedly showed the ticket in his hand and said, “I am No. 753.”

“Congratulations on being the first winner. Your prize is a Toyota automobile. By the way, do you know how to drive? If you don’t know how to drive, how about just giving me the car?” The male host joked.

The man who won the prize rushed the stage twelve times louder, “I can drive.”

“You can drive, so I’m sorry to hear that. Please come to the stage and claim your car keys.” The male host blurted out.

The winning man joyfully crossed the aisle and rushed to the stage and took three steps forward. He really didn’t think he personally would be particularly lucky to win the automobile jackpot in the first place. He stopped in front of Masayoshi Kishimoto and instinctively bowed ninety degrees to the other side.

Masayoshi Kishimoto first received a car key from a bystander, and then handed over the prize to the other person.