Chapter 748: Chapter 748: Attending the Banquet
These past two days, Chu Tingting and Jing Xiaoxi, as the local big shots of Ma City, took Huang Xiaolong sightseeing. However, Ma City is only a county-level city, far from on par with Binhai, Jiangnan, and Dong’an, the prefecture-level cities Huang Xiaolong had visited. Therefore, there wasn’t much to see.
In just a day or two, they had explored the entirety of Ma City.
Ma City. Mi Family!
In the hall.
The atmosphere was gloomy and ominous.
The helmsman of the Mi family, Old Master Mi, was seated at the head, fury burning in his eyes.
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Many of the family’s executives sat indignantly in the hall, their faces contorted with anger.
“Father, Little Lian… Little Lian turned out like this… This is outrageous! Someone in Ma City is making a move on our Mi family, this is disrespecting you, father!” A middle-aged man’s face was full of savage color. “According to Little Lian, Jing Xiaoxi was back to her normal state, but then someone snatched her away! Father, Jing Xiaoxi is the daughter-in-law of our Mi family! She is Little Lian’s wife! This public snatching is entirely a blatant humiliation to us, the Mi family! Moreover, once the Jing family puts pressure on us, we won’t be able to withstand it!”
This middle-aged man turned out to be Mi Lian’s father. Now with Mi Lian screaming painfully in his room, preferring death over life, he was thoroughly upset.
Bang~!!!!!!
Old Master Mi suddenly slapped the tea table, raging. “Who did this? Who did this, making Little Lian this way, neither human nor ghost? Snatching our Mi family’s daughter-in-law, isn’t this an outright insult? If this matter isn’t dealt with well, we, the Mi family, will become the laughing stock of the whole Ma City! Outrageous indeed! Outrageous indeed!”
“Father, we have clarified the situation. An illegitimate child of the Chu Family, Chu Tingting, brought a man from out of town to Ma City to attend Old Master Chu’s eightieth birthday. That outsider is Chu Tingting’s boyfriend! It was he who turned Little Lian into this ugly state! This kid, he seems to know some kind of dark magic!” Mi Lian’s father said angrily.
“An outsider? Humph! Just because he knows some dark magic, he dares to stir things up in Ma City, he really doesn’t know how high the sky is or how thick the earth is!” Old Master Mi’s face was terribly dark. However, after ruminating for several moments, he spoke. “Let’s deal with this matter at Old Man Chu’s eightieth birthday banquet!”
With that, Old Master Mi’s eyes narrowed slightly, exuding a deadly venomous glare. “This time, I want Old Man Chu to lose face, making the entire Chu family a laughing stock!”
“Father, what do you mean?” Mi Lian’s father asked in a trembling voice.
“Right! We are finally moving up to a connection with the Jin family in Jiangnan City!” Old Master Mi’s eyes glowed with excitement. “The Jin family is the overlord of Jiangnan City! Its family head, Old Master Jin, is a centenarian with an unyielding spirit! The Jin family is extremely powerful, rumored to have an ancient martial background. Even the most insignificant member of the Jin family can command the respect of senior officials in Jiangnan City! This time, our Mi Group is planning to seek some development in Jiangnan City, naturally, we need to pay our respects to the big boss there, the Jin family. Unexpectedly, people from the Jin family initially agreed to our cooperation proposal, and they will send a representative to Ma City tomorrow to discuss the details of the contract.”
“At that time, I will invite this distinguished guest to the Chu family with us and severely intimidate the Chu family, while also elevating our Mi family’s prestige! No matter how grand Old Man Chu’s birthday banquet is, once a person from the Jin family arrives, all the limelight will shift to us!”
Hearing Old Master Mi say this, the Mi family members in the hall were as excited as if they had a shot of adrenaline, indescribably thrilled.
The Jin family! That’s a towering figure! If the Mi family manages to forge a connection with the Jin family, our future development won’t be limited to just Ma City!
With such a formidable backing, the Mi family is destined to replace the Jing family’s position and become the leading figure of Ma City!
“Therefore, tomorrow, that boyfriend of Chu Tingting will definitely attend Old Man Chu’s birthday banquet. At that time, we will pressure them heavily, demand Chu family to hand over that outsider! I will make sure to punish him so harshly he will wish he was dead, to vent my grandson Little Lian’s anger!” A hint of a cruel smile appeared on Old Master Mi’s face.
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Next day!
It was Old Master Chu’s big day!
Huang Xiaolong and the mother and daughter of Chu Tingting were about to rush to the banquet site.
Today Chu Tingting got up early to dress and choose outfits.
However, she did not dress extravagantly, but rather simply.
She was wearing a white sleeveless T-shirt with a colorful raccoon pattern on the chest, over it, she threw on a new autumn jacket from the European brand Eossirai. Her pants were blue jeans, everything fitting her perfectly. With her picturesque features, rosy cheeks, and small mouth, she had the innocence of a young girl but the maturity of a professional woman.
Huang Xiaolong originally wanted to take Jing Xiaoxi with him. However, fearing that she would run into people from the Mi and Jing families, she adamantly refused to go, so Huang Xiaolong could only leave her at Chu Tingting’s home.
Mother Chu drove a Harvard M4 commuting car, heading straight for the Chu family’s mansion in Ma City.
The Chu family villa was located in the suburbs, surrounded by mountains and rivers, quiet in the bustling city, which was quite suitable for elderly people like Old Master Chu’s retirement life.
The car stopped outside the villa.
Huang Xiaolong and Chu Tingting got out of the car together.
They looked up and saw that in the large lawn outside the villa, many seats had been set up, with colorful decorations, which was quite lively.
There were already many people sitting in the lawn, among them some from Chu Tingting’s father’s lineage.
These people, one by one, were dressed in extravagant clothes, their spirits high, proud and ambitious, exuding the aura of social elites.
Huang Xiaolong smiled faintly, unconcerned. The scale of the Chu family was somewhat inferior compared to the four big families in Binhai. For Huang Xiaolong, who had seen all sorts of great wealthy heroes, there was a feeling of coming from a big city to the countryside and seeing a group of nouveau riche local tyrants acting like big fish in a small pond.
“Let’s go in.” Chu Tingting took a deep breath and said softly to Huang Xiaolong. “Little Long, although the Chu family doesn’t accept me, grandfather has always been very kind to me. Today is his big happy day, let’s just bear with whatever comes. We don’t need to care about their sarcasm and mockery.”
“Mmm-hmm~~” Huang Xiaolong nodded cheerfully.
The three of them stepped into the lawn.
Suddenly, many eyes were on them.
Among these gazes, there were indifference, contempt, gloating, teasing, mocking, sympathy…
Many voices of discussion followed:
“Look, that slut and her bastard are here again. Our Chu family has never considered them part of the family, their faces are really thick-skinned. They still dare to come.”
“I heard that Chu Tingting is a teacher at Binhai University, haha, an impoverished bookworm, who cares.”
“Look, Chu Tingting brought a man with her this year. He should be her boyfriend. Why does he look so poor and grass-rooted? Could he be some sort of society outcast, some low-class being?”
“Chu Tingting is undoubtedly beautiful, but what truly excellent man would have eyes for her? At most, they would regard her as a plaything. We need not analyze it. The boyfriend she brought back is probably just a lower-class person. Chu Tingting and this man are like peas in a pod, they can never hold their heads high.”
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