Time passed slowly, and there were gradually more and more people in the hall. Most of the people who came early were relatives and friends, but it was a pity that Li Yang didn't know anyone.
At around ten o'clock, the hall was already very lively. Li Yang's table had always been empty. Li Yang saw Wu Xiaoli and her cousin coming in and out several times, but no one brought anything to this table.
people.
After a while, Li Yang suddenly stood up and looked in front of him in surprise. Wu Xiaoli was walking towards him with someone. This was also the first time that Li Yang saw someone he knew besides Wu Xiaoli.
"Li Yang?"
"Manager Zhang?"
Li Yang and Zhang Ying greeted each other in confusion. Li Yang did not tell Zhang Ying about this before coming to attend the birthday banquet. Similarly, Li Yang did not know about Zhang Ying's coming.
"Manager Zhang came here on his own!"
Wu Xiaoli smiled and said, in fact, she didn't know Zhang Ying would come. Wu Xiaoli didn't tell Zhang Ying about her grandfather's birthday party.
"Mr. Liu has helped me a lot, so I will definitely come to celebrate his birthday!" Zhang Ying explained with a smile.
In fact, both Zhang Ying and Mr. Liu are from the Mingyang Antiques Association, and Mr. Liu is the president of the Mingyang Antiques Association. It is not surprising that Zhang Ying appears here, but Zhang Ying did not know the relationship between Wu Xiaoli and Mr. Liu before.
, neither Mr. Liu nor Wu Xiaoli mentioned it to him.
It wasn't until Zhang Ying sat down and chatted with Li Yang for a while that they all understood the relationship. The only fault was that none of them had ever talked about such a thing before, so they didn't understand each other until now, and Zhang
Ying took a leave of absence and went to Beijing on a business trip to see if he could buy something good and bring it back to Mr. Liu to celebrate his birthday.
There were more and more people, and Li Yang no longer felt bored because he was a familiar person. Zhang Ying knew a little more people, but he kept sitting with Li Yang and did not leave.
Several more people came into the hall, this time it was Wu Xiaoli's uncle who accompanied him personally. Wu Xiaoli seemed to have said that her uncle was a division-level cadre in the city. If such a cadre were placed in their Licheng County, they would be at the county magistrate level.
A cadre.
What Li Yang didn't expect was that the people accompanied by Uncle Wu Xiaoli were actually people Li Yang knew, Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida, and Uncle Wu Xiaoli was leading them inside.
Sima Lin was chatting and laughing with Wu Xiaoli's uncle. In a blink of an eye, he also noticed Li Yang sitting next to him. He was walking forward and suddenly stopped. After saying hello to Wu Xiaoli's uncle, he walked directly to sit next to Li Yang.
After sitting down, Zheng Kaida, who was with Sima Lin, also smiled at Wu Xiaoli's uncle, and finally sat at this table.
Wu Xiaoli's uncle glanced at Li Yang and Zhang Ying in surprise, and then left the hall after everyone at the table nodded in greeting.
Zhang Ying also looked at Sima Lin in surprise. He knew Sima Lin much better than Li Yang. He also knew that Li Yang and Sima Lin had the experience of gambling stones together in Zhengzhou, but he didn't expect that Sima Lin would actually meet Li Yang.
Yang stopped. As Sima Lin, it was not too much to sit at the main table.
Sima Lin glanced at Zhang Ying and asked in a low voice: "Li Yang, why are you here too?"
"Grandpa Xiaoli celebrated his birthday, so I came with him!"
Li Yang was also a little confused. He didn't know Zhang Ying was coming, so he didn't expect Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida to come. They had been together in Zhengzhou for so many days, but they had never heard anyone mention it.
"Mr. Liu is Xiaoli's grandfather?"
The person speaking this time was Zheng Kaida, who was staring with big eyes and a look of disbelief on his face.
Li Yang nodded, and Zheng Kaida suddenly slapped his head: "I see, then last time you were in Zhengzhou Antique City, you were preparing birthday gifts for Mr. Liu? No wonder, I say!"
Zheng Kaida chuckled, and Li Yang found that Zheng Kaida seemed to have a habit of patting his head, and he didn't look like a billionaire at all.
"I understand too!"
Sima Lin was smiling similarly on the side, while Zhang Ying was the only one sitting there confused, not understanding what Li Yang and the others were going to say.
Through Li Yang's explanation, Zhang Ying finally understood that Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida, like him, did not know the identities of Mr. Liu and Wu Xiaoli before, so several people had mentioned that they wanted to celebrate someone else's birthday, but
But I didn’t know that the same person was going to celebrate his birthday. I didn’t realize it until we got together today.
With the addition of Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida, their table became more lively, especially Zheng Kaida, who told Zhang Ying about their stone gambling in Zhengzhou, especially his experience of betting on both odds and gains, saying:
Very happy.
Listening to Zheng Kaida's passionate narration, Zhang Ying glanced at Li Yang complicatedly. He originally wanted to pull Li Yang out of the quagmire of gambling on stones, but now it seems that it has backfired. Li Yang has not only been gambling, but also has been gambling.
rise.
Now even Zhang Ying is not so opposed to Li Yang's gambling on stones. Good luck once or twice can be said to be in the past. He has always been so lucky and can bring good luck to people around him. If you have such luck, don't gamble on stones.
, it is indeed a waste.
A few people were chatting when the room in the hall suddenly opened, and five old men with gray hair walked out together. At the front was Liu Xuesong, who was wearing a bright Tang suit, and behind him was someone Li Yang knew.
, Mr. Zhao from Licheng County also came.
The five old men attracted everyone's attention as soon as they appeared. The five old men walked out of the hall without stopping except for smiling and saying hello.
"Who is here and actually asked the birthday girl to pick him up in person?" Sima Lin looked at the background of several old people and shook his head gently.
Li Yang and the others also looked into the distance. What Sima Lin said revealed what they all thought. Several old people obviously went out to pick up people together, but they didn't know who had the dignity to ask the birthday girl to go out in person. It was Sima Lin.
When I came, it was only Uncle Wu Xiaoli who received me.
A few minutes later, several old people came back again. When Sima Lin saw the old man gathered among the old people, his expression immediately became very serious. Zheng Kaida and Zhang Ying were also similar. What Li Yang didn't expect the most was the expression of these old people.
The person who came in was actually someone he knew.
"He Lao?"
Li Yang said blankly that this old man was Mr. He who spent 6 million to buy Li Yang's jade snuff bottle. Several old people gathered around Mr. He and quickly entered the innermost room of the hall.
Many people in the hall knew Mr. He, and they were all talking about Mr. He's appearance here. Li Yang raised his head and glanced at Zhang Ying. He knew Mr. He, but only once, and it was Zhang Ying who took him with him that time.
He went.
"Mr. He's identity is somewhat special. His presence here is worthy of anyone going out to pick him up!"
Zhang Ying whispered to Li Yang. Sima Lin and Zheng Kaida nodded together, obviously agreeing with Zhang Ying's words.
