Gu Anran originally thought that she would spend this holiday safely, but she did not expect to receive two invitations on Friday, the invitations sent by the Shangguan family.
Gu Anran glanced at the content inside, and it turned out to be the official engagement ceremony of Duan Hongwu and Shangguanqing. It was not meant to be formal. This ceremony was to announce the news to the outside world, and to invite prominent people from all walks of life to participate.
Among them, Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi were of course invited by the younger generation, while Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan were invited as friends of Duan Hongwu, but Gu Anran always had an ominous premonition. It was Duan Hongwu who would invite Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan to participate? But I didn't hear the news. Could it be that it was just a simple congratulations, and I was too sensitive
Gu Anran looked at the two invitations and thought, the other was from Mu Qingli, probably because she was Xiaoqing's friend, so she sent it to herself.
Knock knock, Hong Qingyi walked in.
"What do you think the Shangguan family is at ease this time?" Hong Qingyi asked, shaking the two invitations in his hand.
"I don't know. Recently, the Shangguan family has been suppressed by many companies, and the stock has fallen again and again. Maybe it is trying to use the Duan family as a shield." Gu Anran quickly tapped the keyboard, which displayed various information about the Shangguan family. The record of falling, which company has had business exchanges with, the various flows of funds, etc.
In the past three days, the stock market of Shangguan's family has dropped by nearly half. You don't need to think about this abnormal phenomenon to know that someone is causing trouble. However, there is no obvious increase in other companies. It is difficult to determine who did it.
"Aren't you going to check?" Hong Qingyi poured two glasses of water and sat beside Gu Anran, handed a glass to Gu Anran, and then asked Erlang's legs leisurely.
"No, let's watch now and see how tomorrow's form is making a decision. After all, it is not difficult to overthrow the Shangguan family, it's just a matter of sooner or later." Gu Anran took a sip of water lightly, as if he was talking about something commonplace. of.
"Okay, let's inform Yanyan and Xiaoqing first." Hong Qingyi shrugged.
"Yeah." Gu Anran nodded. The two of them called Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan respectively to inform Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan about the situation that day. Since they had to wear dresses tomorrow, it was impossible for Mu Qingli and Chi Mengyan to catch up in one night because of their family backgrounds. If you come out with a dress, you will be laughed at when you wear ordinary clothes, so I just ask someone to take a few dresses to change the size, and then give them to the two of them.
On Saturday night, Gu Anran asked the driver to drive to the downstairs of Mu Qingli's house to pick her up. Seeing Mu Qingli wearing light makeup and wearing a white dress like an angel, Gu Anran couldn't help but be stunned.
"Xiao Ran? What's wrong? Is it weird?" Mu Qingli was a little nervous to wear such a formal dress for the first time, saying that Xiao Ran is so cute! The little purple dress makes Xiaoran even more beautiful! I want to fall down!
"Ah... no... it's very beautiful..." Gu Anran turned her head away, her ears under her hair were a little red, and her heart beat faster.
"Cough, let's go, the banquet is about to start." In order to hide his unnaturalness, Gu Anran coughed and said to Mu Qingli.
"Yeah." Mu Qingli nodded and entered the car door opened by the driver with a smile. Gu Anran took a deep breath outside before stepping into his car.
The car drove fast and arrived at the banquet scene after 20 minutes.
Before entering the venue, I knew how huge the banquet was. The brilliant lights illuminated the darkness outside, the vermilion carpet aisle, and there were groups of reporters on both sides of the carpet. It seems that this kind of high society thing is still very concerned by the media. .
The driver opened the door, Gu Anran calmly stepped out of the car, and immediately the shutter of the camera kept flickering. This feeling is not too much for a big star, but Gu Anran, who was originally a small citizen, knew very well that this kind of shutter The way is to catch the other party's gaffe, or write the proof of the gossip.
But it's really a little nervous, Gu Anran thought to herself, then turned around and extended her hand to Mu Qingli who was still in the car.
Mu Qingli was stunned for a while, everything outside was something that only happened on TV to her, and she seemed quite out of place here, but seeing Gu Anran's smile and the hand reaching out to her, she suddenly felt that outside Nothing matters anymore.
With a smile, he put his hand on Gu Anran's, and stepped out of the car.
For a moment, it was quiet for three seconds outside, and then the shutter and flashing lights sounded even wider than before.
Gu Anran certainly knew how dazzling Mu Qingli was today, but she didn't expect it to be so dazzling, which made her feel uncomfortable and wanted to hide Mu Qingli in a place that only she could see.
Holding Mu Qingli's hand into the venue, there were already many distinguished guests, but it was obvious that the adults were all in one block, while the younger generation gathered in another block, which was divided into groups of small groups.
Mu Qingli and Gu Anran came to the gathering place of the younger generation, and they were greeted by Hong Qingyi in a red dress and Chi Mengyan in a blue dress.
"You guys are here!" Hong Qingyi smiled while holding a plate of food.
"Xiaoyi, Xiaoyan, how are you!" Mu Qingli greeted the two of them.
"Hello." Chi Mengyan greeted with a smile.
"Speaking of which, the people here haven't changed much." Gu Anran looked around, all of them were usually classmates at school, just changed their clothes.
"Do you want to grab something to eat?" Chi Mengyan asked, pointing to the buffet bar with rich dishes not far away.
"Okay, Xiaoqing, let's go eat something first." Gu Anran nodded.
"Um."
"Then we will wait for you on the sofa there." Hong Qingyi said.
"Good." x2
When he came to the buffet bar, Gu Anran couldn't help but sigh again, rich people are rich people, what kind of ingredients seem like they don't need money, look at the large table of top-quality seafood dishes, some people are cutting and frying, I don't know how many ounces The beef, freshly baked pizza, freshly squeezed juice, etc., and even a bartender, a bottle of wine placed behind them costs tens of thousands of yuan! What a luxury.
Despite this thought, Gu Anran still took the food he wanted to eat with peace of mind, the top-quality ingredients for free! If you don't eat, your head is caught in the door, right
Gu Anran took a plate full of food and Mu Qingli returned to the sofa, where Song Wenyan in a blue suit was also sitting there.
"Hi, Wen Yan." Gu Anran greeted.
"Well, how are you." Song Wenyan forced a smile, and then looked at the lounge next to the table with a gloomy face.
Oh My God! Gu Anran and Hong Qingyi looked at each other and snickered in their hearts. Duan Hongwu currently has a favorability rating of 85 for the male supporting role, and 80 for the male supporting role. Yes, but Duan Hongwu has such a high degree of favorability for male supporting roles, and he also dislikes stupid and vicious female supporting roles so much. Why did he agree to this engagement banquet
Because of the pressure of the family or the face of the parents
Gu Anran ate the food and decided not to worry about this matter. After all, the male supporting cast didn't say anything, so she should not meddle in her own business.
"Xiaoqing, do you want to drink juice?" Gu Anran asked Mu Qingli who was sitting beside him after swallowing the food in his mouth.
"OK!"
Gu Anran nodded to show that he knew, stopped the waiter passing by, and took two glasses of juice from his tray.
Why do you know that this is juice? Most of the girls here are underage. Of course, the juice is delivered. As for adults, unless they go to the adult section, they have to go to the bar to get it. No waiter will give alcohol here. drinks.
Handing a glass to Mu Qingli, Gu Anran took a sip, um... it's orange juice, freshly squeezed orange juice is really delicious!
At this time, the lights dimmed, and the lights on the stage turned on, which attracted the attention of everyone present. There was a middle-aged man standing on the stage. He was the president of Shangguan's family, and he was also the vicious female partner Shangguan Qing and the malevolent male partner Shangguan. Ying's father was Shangguanyi.
"Thank you for coming to the little girl's engagement banquet today. Now we will invite this pair of beautiful women who are a match made in heaven." Shangguanyi raised the microphone and said loudly.
When Duan Hongwu attended the little girl's engagement banquet, it goes without saying whether the Shangguan family felt that their daughter's status was higher than that of Duan Hongwu, or they wanted to declare that the Shangguan family was actually quite powerful, and it was ridiculous to even be on the Duan family's head.
Shangguan Qing, who was still wearing actress makeup and exaggerated clothes, took Duan Hongwu, who was wearing a black suit, onto the stage, one smiling brightly (blooded mouth) and the other as frosty.
As soon as he stood on the stage, Gu Anran noticed that Duan Hongwu's eyes swept the entire venue, and finally stopped at their place, not... To be precise, it was on Song Wenyan.
Gu Anran felt Song Wenyan's body shake while sitting next to him, and then turned his head away, a trace of loneliness flashed on Duan Hongwu's face on the stage.
Well, what happened to these two seems interesting! Gu Anran glanced back and forth at the two of them, lowered her eyes and took a sip of juice, thinking.
The boring talk on the stage continued. Except for the shutter sound, the distinguished guests below all looked at the stage with the appearance of a congregation god, but it was unknown whether they were really attentive.
In the end, the engagement ceremony was finally over, and the banquet continued. It was an engagement in name, but it was actually an open and secret struggle among the families. It was like this every time.
Although Gu Anran is one of the younger generation who will definitely be in charge of the family business, Gu Anran has no interest in going to that kind of brain-burning place, of course Hong Qingyi is also, so they are the most leisurely place here, but leisurely will not last long, but Interrupted because of the arrival of a person, that is... Vicious male match Guan Ying.