Chapter 166 Cao Gongzi arrives
"The Governor is here, Wang is wronged and guilty!"
Ma De did not let the welcome guest sing aloud, but took Hai Liuhe and Risong leisurely into the gate and walked directly to the main hall. However, although he kept silent, how could the welcome guest dare not report his reputation?
So, before he could walk a few steps, the "birthday star" Wang, who received the news, brought his family and a few important guests to greet him, bowing and bowing. Although he did not speak loudly, he also attracted everyone's attention.
"Haha, Mr. Wang, you are polite. Don't be busy. If you don't come, you have to buy any gifts. This gadget is my own belonging and is not a good thing. It is just used as a birthday gift, and I hope you can accept it!" Ma De took out a snuff bottle from his arms with a smile and handed it to Mr. Wang.
"Sir, you are so polite. Wang really can't accept such a gift..." "Master Wang" held the enamel snuff bottle handed over by Ma De in both hands and said carefully. The snuff bottle is still called a snuff bottle. It flowed from the West to the Middle Earth in the late Ming Dynasty and is not widely circulated now. However, as a number of people among Hui merchants, this Mr. Wang knew about this kind of thing. He also knew that this enamel snuff bottle was only available in the palace. It was made by Kangxi's orders for Westerners who were good at painting enamel in the palace. Now Ma De gave it out as a birthday gift without blinking, asking him how he dared to accept it casually? This is much more expensive than those gold, silver and jewelry!
"I said to Mr. Wang, are there any gifts I gave back? I don't have this habit, haha, just keep this thing!" I don't have the habit of smoking snuff, why keep it? Ma De smiled twice, walked towards the hall again, "Mr. Wang" hurriedly held the snuff bottle to his family around him, and followed closely.
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"Sir, please take a seat!"
There were dozens of banquet tables in the hall, and there were about one or two hundred tables in the yard outside the hall, which was not the same as those in the hall, the other yard, and the backyard. Ma De didn't care about these and went straight into the hall. "Master Wang" followed behind, gave Ma De to the chief, and then pulled open the chair of the seat.
"Master Wang, you are the birthday boy today. Of course you are here to take the seat, please!" Ma De smiled, pulled Master Wang and pressed it on the chair, and then he sat on the seat next to him... The chief was not full, and there were still a few seats without anyone. I think some guests with a background have not arrived yet. However, what is certain now is that there is always a qualified customer who cannot get to the chief.
"Sir, you're not going to celebrate Wang's birthday, right?" Although Ma De's appearance caused a little twists and turns in the birthday party, everyone here had seen the big scene. After Ma De sat down, the scene quickly returned to its original state. The "Master Wang" also began to take advantage of the time to ask Ma De in a low voice.
"Master Wang, why are you polite? Can't I come to celebrate your birthday?" Ma De also replied with a smile. Hai Liu and Na Risong were invited to the side hall before entering the hall. Although they came with the governor, there were still differences in status. Of course, they were also good and could still get seats. The followers brought by other guests were only able to go to a remote corner regardless of their size...
"Haha, sir, you are joking. Wang, a businessman, has already made Wang so flattered. Where can I and cannot?" "Master Wang" laughed twice and stopped asking.
"Master Wang, you can think so. I was worried that it would be abrupt!" Ma De smiled again.
"Where is it? As soon as the lord arrives, Wang is covered with a tent. How can there be any abruptness?" "Master Wang" responded, while secretly scolding Ma De while standing and talking without a pain! He was living his birthday, and a governor suddenly broke in. Isn't this abruptness? At first he thought he had committed some major case!
"Master Wang, why did you suddenly want to celebrate President Wang's birthday?" "Master Wang" was not able to pick Ma De's purpose here, so he winked at the others on the table. In the middle, someone immediately asked Ma De.
"President Wang? Is it still our Master Wang..." Ma De said in surprise.
"Sir, you don't even know that Mr. Wang is the president of our Hui Business Association, right?" A young businessman on the table couldn't help but be surprised. As a result, as soon as he said that, the businessman in the same table was plucked up with his eyes. Isn't this the point that Ma De "has been in"?
"Haha, this friend said it well, I really don't know! I didn't expect that I actually broke into the presidential birthday party of the Huizhou Merchants Association. It seems that my luck is really good..." Ma De responded with a smile. All the merchants in the same table calmed down. Luck? What luck does the governor want? Or the luck of breaking into the presidential birthday party! Oh my, this guy seems to be like other officials, coming to ask for money!
For a moment, several guests began to ponder.
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Made and the others are the chief!
All of the people here are big businessmen, so people from other seats often wait and see here.
However, the other seats were filled with wine, but the chief suddenly became quiet! So, the person who saw this situation immediately calmed down, and then the situation continued to react. Soon, the entire hall was quiet and it was spreading into the yard outside the hall.
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"What's wrong? Come on, everyone will give us President Wang a glass and wish him a long life better than Nanshan!" The scene was a little awkward. This was not what Ma De wanted, so after a little startled, he stood up and raised his glass to the "Master Wang". Under his guidance, the other people in the chief and the people in the hall also stood up one after another. At the same time, these people also raised their glasses.
"I dare not, I dare not, thank you everyone!" With so many people's face, "Master Wang" has to drink even if he doesn't want to drink for the time being. So he did it all!
"The birthday party will officially begin later, please feel free!" After "Master Wang" finished drinking, someone stood up at the next table and said to the people in the hall, which quickly restored the excitement in the hall. Ma De looked at the person's appearance very much like the Master Wang next to him, and probably the second generation of the Wang family.
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"Mr. Liu, President Tang has arrived!"
The scene in the hall had just recovered. Before the person in the chief found the topic, he heard someone outside shouting loudly.
"Mr. Liu?" Ma De smiled slightly and turned his inquiring eyes to the outside of the hall. Not long after, he saw a slightly obese man with a mustache trot into the hall. While walking quickly towards the chief, he bowed to "Master Wang" with a big smile:
"Hahaha, Brother Weihe, long time no see. Mr. Tang isn't late, right?"
"Oh, Brother Tang! I didn't expect you to be here, I'm welcome, I'm welcome!" Mr. Wang, the president of the Huizhou Merchants Association, also left the seat and greeted the fat man, the so-called President Tang.
"Brother Weihe, what are you saying? When you have your birthday, how dare I, Tang Jimei, come?" Fatty Tang smiled.
"Not bad, President Tang's words are reasonable. President Wang's birthday, how dare we not come?" After Fatty Tang, an official wearing a fourth-grade uniform walked in with a smile. While walking, he bowed to some guests next to him, which seemed to be an old acquaintance of these merchants.
"Oh, Lord Liu, there is no need to welcome you, no need to welcome you!" Wang Weihe bowed to the "Lord Liu" and winked her eyes, turning her eyes upwards, signaling this "Lord Liu" to be careful! Since he was welcoming guests with his back to Ma De, Ma De did not see it.
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"Two, please sit down!" After a while of politeness, Wang Weihe gave Tang Jimei and the fourth-rank official named Liu to the chief, and most of the other guests on the chief stood up to show their greetings. However, of course, Ma De would not stand up. He just sat there leisurely and looked at the two new guests with a smile.
"This is..." Originally, Tang Jimei and "Master Liu" should have sat in the first place of Wang Weihe's left and right heads, but now Wang Weihe's left and right heads are occupied by Ma De. Moreover, Ma De was wearing casual clothes and did not get up to greet him. If he was too arrogant, Tang Jimei and "Master Liu" felt a little unhappy.
"I dare not, my little surname Ma! Please sit down!" Before Wang Weihe spoke, Ma De said to the two with a smile.
"Submitted to Ma..." Tang Jimei is a big businessman, not a reckless person. Just when she was about to think about where a big businessman named Ma could come, Lord Liu beside him had already thought of the wink Wang Weihe just now. Can Wang Weihe wink at him and still be named Ma?... "Lord Liu" swallowed, and regardless of whether Tang Jimei had to think about it, he hurriedly pulled him to Wang Weihe's right head. At the same time, he did not forget to bow to Ma De carefully.
"I still don't know that President Tang and this Lord Liu are..." Ma De asked with a smile when he saw the two of them sitting down.
"I dare not ask the Lord. I am asking. The lower-ranking official is Liu Yingxia, the grain bureau of the province. I originally wanted to go to see Lord Futai first today. But when I arrived at the yamen, I realized that Lord was not there. I happened to meet President Tang, who came to celebrate President Wang's birthday, so I followed him... President Tang is the president of the Yangzhou Chamber of Commerce." Liu Yingxia answered respectfully.
"Oh!..." Ma De nodded and said no further.
The atmosphere at the chief is getting heavier!
However, this hasn't reached its peak yet!
After Ma De took the lead in tribute to Wang Wei and a few cups, a guy who was dressed well, who was probably the first-level manager, rushed into the hall... This situation made the chief's people beat again! When Ma De came outside to report that he was here, it was like this.
Sure enough, the man ran to the chief, ignoring the others, and whispered to Wang Weihe! Then, the guests who arrived first saw Wang Weihe and he stood up all of a sudden when they heard Ma De's arrival.
"President Wang, what's wrong?" Ma De asked.
"Sir, this is really a bit rude! Wang is afraid he has to go out to greet someone, so he can't..." Wang Weihe's expression was a little embarrassed.
"It's nothing, President Wang just go and welcome it! But... who is the person here?" Ma De asked with a smile.
Chapter completed!