pappabearbooks Chapter 1695: Unexpected Guest
Chapter 1695: Unexpected Guest
a week later.
The Royal Hotel on the outskirts of Beijing.
This hotel is a newly opened star hotel. It is usually only used by rich people to vacation here. It is very quiet.
At this moment, there was already a long queue of cars in the parking lot of the Royal Hotel.
Cars kept honking their horns, urging the cars in front to hurry into the garage.
However, the traffic was heavy and the car owner in front was also very anxious.
Among the long queues of cars at the entrance of the hotel, luxury cars that are not usually seen at all appeared.
It is enough to tell that the guests who will attend Mr. Yuan's birthday banquet are not simple people.
Indeed, it can be seen from the license plate that the guests coming and going are basically the upper class people in the capital.
In the hotel, Mr. Yuan was also carefully dressed, wearing red clothes, and sitting on the birthday chair with a smile.
Everyone from the Yuan family appeared here, and the people who had given gifts to Grandma Yuan before were also among them.
"Grandpa, don't you like playing Go? Do you like this set of Go made of Hetian jade?" Mr. Yuan's granddaughter said, holding his arm.
As a retired general, even though he is no longer in a high position, his prestige in the family is not clear at all.
Mr. Yuan also smiled and stroked his granddaughter's hair and said, "Xiaomu is interested. Gifts are not important. As long as you stay with me, I will be satisfied."
"This is my wish. Of course, my biggest wish is that you can live a long life, grandpa."
"Little sister, I don't want to hear what you are saying." A mean man walked in and placed a brocade box on the ground with a smile, "It's my grandpa's seventieth birthday, and you actually said you wish him a long life."
He directly handed over an agarwood box and opened it, revealing the pearls inside.
"This is a pearl from the North Sea. I wish my grandpa may live longer than the Southern Mountains and be as blessed as the East Sea."
"You are all happy." Mr. Yuan was not unhappy because of their conflict, but accepted all the gifts with a smile.
He smiled from ear to ear, and the gifts in front of him piled up like a mountain.
Lin Ran just took a cursory glance and estimated that it was worth a small million.
It is indeed a wealthy family.
Lin Ran thought to himself.
Then, he followed Yuan Qianyun to Master Yuan.
Having met Lin Ran at his wife's banquet before, Mr. Yuan was naturally deeply impressed by him.
Lin Ran stepped forward and handed the wrapped yellow box into Master Yuan's hands.
When I opened it, it turned out to be a printing pot.
"The gift from this junior is a seal pot made by Dabin during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty!"
The shape of the printed bag teapot is very bold and unique. It looks like a baggage with the seal Baogao Wanli on it.
The gall pot is a national cultural relic and is not suitable for giving as gifts. Lin Ran did not buy it at the auction and could only find a substitute.
"The meaning of sealing the pot is to enclose wealth and goods. I wish the old man's family a prosperous family and future generations of happiness and prosperity!"
For a person of his age, he has already enjoyed the glory and wealth in the world. In fact, he doesn't particularly care about the value of gifts, he just enriches his collection.
What he hopes more for is family harmony, although it is obvious that this is just a luxury wish.
"I'm interested!" Master Yuan likes the seal pot very much, and thanks to the information told to him by the owner of the auction house, as a substitute for the tree gall pot, Master Yuan really can't put it down.
Compared with other gifts, he deliberately took it in his hand and played with it, smiling from ear to ear.
Finally, he handed it to the grandmother next to him and invited Lin Ran to take a seat.
He has been recognized by the Yuan family.
Finally, he sat in the seat of Yuan Qianyun's family, but what surprised him was that Song Qiang was still there.
Previously in Sichuan Province, Yuan Qianyun's family was involved in the internal conflicts of the Song family.
I thought that Yuan Qianxi would break up with him after coming back.
Unexpectedly, after going around and around, they were still together.
Song Qiang no longer looked as arrogant as before when he saw Lin Ran, and he even took the initiative to come over and propose a toast.
"Mr. Lin, long time no see."
Lin Ran suddenly remembered that Song Qiang had spoken to him at the auction earlier and entrusted him with something.
In the end, I forgot about it because I was too busy.
But it seems that Song Qiang found the right gift himself.
The meal hasn't officially started yet, and the gift-giving process is still going on.
So Song Qiang and Lin Ran just had a little drink.
Yuan Jiahao was a little unhappy at first. As a junior, he toasted Lin Ran first instead of himself, his future father-in-law.
But thinking that Lin Ran was also the family's savior, he stopped caring.
Instead, he asked Lin Ran about business.
"Zulong Auction House is also your property?"
Yuan Jiahao had heard a little about this emerging auction house.
"I am only responsible for the operation of the capital." Lin Ran said modestly.
After all, this auction house actually has a Hong Kong-funded background.
"Yes, you are young and promising!" Yuan Jiahao nodded.
Lin Ran not only started from scratch and brought Shengshi Craftsmanship to all parts of the country, but also made small achievements in other industries.
This was completely different from the children from poor families he had seen before.
In addition to saving his life, Yuan Jiahao liked Lin Ran's ability to climb up.
As long as he can build his own brand, marrying Yuan Qianyun to him is not impossible.
It sounded like a joke, but Yuan Qianyun blushed.
"Dad, what are you talking about?"
"What? If you don't like Qianyun, then I'll kick him out." Yuan Jiahao said pretending to be serious.
"If you do this again, I will no longer be filial to you!" Yuan Qianyun felt a little at a loss when being teased.
In the past, it was just a joke between peers, but when her father made fun of her, she felt a little at a loss.
The others laughed.
Compared with the silence at other tables, Lin Ran's table seemed particularly harmonious.
Suddenly, an unsociable voice appeared from Mr. Yuan's side.
"Why are you here?"
The person who spoke was none other than Yuan Qianyun’s aunt.
She spoke very loudly and sounded particularly unfriendly.
This sentence attracted everyone's attention to the three ordinary-looking women in front of Mr. Yuan.
Lin Ran rubbed his eyes to make sure he saw it correctly.
Because the people standing in front of Master Yuan turned out to be the Lu sisters!
They were wearing ordinary clothes and looked a little shabby in front of this group of people.
And the woman standing at the front was dressed very simply.
Lin Ran took a look and realized that she must be Lu Xinyu's mother.
From the appearance, although she is older, she must have been no less beautiful than Yuan Qianyun when she was young.