bookcurios Chapter 008 Hongmen Banquet
Chapter 008 Hongmen Banquet
Chapter 008 Hongmen Banquet
"What exactly does the Shancheng Group do?"
"Looking across the mountain city, wherever there are people, there is the Mountain City Group." After answering, Gao Xuan immediately handed the documents to Lin Fan.
Lin Fan flipped through the documents and found that Gao Xuan had not lied to him; even the Shancheng Group had dabbled in the gray market.
The brilliance of the Shancheng Group lies in its refusal to monopolize any business; it always leaves room for its competitors to share the spoils. In Shancheng City, the Shancheng Group owns countless companies, ranging from real estate and jewelry to small-scale wholesale shops; its influence has permeated the very fabric of the city.
Without Shancheng Group, there would be no Shancheng today; without Shancheng, there would be no development of Shancheng Group. The two are interdependent.
Lin Fan slowly got up. Through the French windows, a sunrise was slowly rising.
"It's dawn, time to go home."
Lin Fan returned home before Su Ruowei's family got up.
Seeing Su Ruowei wake up, Lin Fan pretended to yawn and said, "Good morning, I'm going to cook."
Su Ruowei didn't say anything. She was used to it. It had been like this for a whole year: washing up and waiting for breakfast to be served.
Early in the morning, at the breakfast table, Shen Yunlan started talking: "Ruowei, Su Jianqiang is treating you to dinner tonight, you have to be careful."
“I suspect he didn’t have good intentions either,” Su Zhengwu echoed.
“Daughter, you have to be careful of him. The way he looks at you is always weird.” Shen Yunlan said, then glanced at Lin Fan and gritted her teeth, “If you were even slightly capable, our family wouldn’t be like this.”
Seeing that Lin Fan was still engrossed in eating and ignoring her, Shen Yunlan instantly lost her temper and said, "Eat, eat, all you do is eat! You don't bring a single penny home, but you eat a lot!"
"I'm finished eating, I'm going to wash the dishes!" Lin Fan got up, picked up the bowl, and headed to the kitchen. He knew Shen Yunlan's next words would definitely be, "Stop eating, go wash the dishes!" She would just add the word "get lost."
"Hey!" Shen Yunlan gritted her teeth, glaring at Lin Fan's back, then suddenly turned fierce towards Su Zhengwu: "Look at this kid, isn't he infuriating? He's ignoring me completely!"
Su Zhengwu lowered his head and remained silent, not daring to respond to Shen Yunlan's words, because she knew that once she did, it would not only go on and on, but might even backfire.
After all, when he married Shen Yunlan, he called himself the young master of the Su family. Later, Shen Yunlan found out that he, the young master of the Su family, had no status.
"Daughter, how can I live with this good-for-nothing treating me like this!" Shen Yunlan said to Su Ruowei when Su Zhengwu ignored her.
"I didn't marry you." Su Ruowei muttered softly. She had always harbored resentment, but she just didn't mention it. It was Shen Yunlan who made her marry Lin Fan, saying that the Lin family's Tianwang Group had great potential, but now it has turned out like this.
Seeing that Su Ruowei was also arguing back, Shen Yunlan said angrily, "I'm not eating anymore, I'm full of anger!" After saying that, she went back to her room to sulk.
“But your mother is right, we should be wary of Su Jianqiang, he’s no pushover!” Su Zhengwu said in a low voice.
"Dad, I'll be careful."
In the evening, a Toyota pulled up downstairs in the residential area. It was the Su family's car, specially brought to pick up Su Ruowei to attend a banquet. She didn't want to bring Lin Fan, but Su Jianqiang insisted that she bring her brother-in-law, saying that he wanted to apologize to him.
Su Ruowei couldn't refuse, so she brought Lin Fan along, but she felt something was off, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
"Lin Fan, something feels off." Su Ruowei suddenly realized something and exclaimed in alarm, "Do you think Su Jianqiang is trying to harm you?"
Lin Fan noticed the subtle change in the driver's expression and asked Su Ruowei with a smile, "What? Are you worried about me?"
"Tch, you're just being presumptuous." Su Ruowei turned her face away.
Lin Fan smiled calmly, "If you really wanted to harm me, where would the law be? Don't worry!"
Hearing Lin Fan say this, Su Ruowei breathed a sigh of relief, and the driver also breathed a sigh of relief.
Yunhai Hotel, Zuixian Pavilion.
The younger generation of the Su family had all arrived long ago, except for Su Ruowei and Lin Fan.
The two arrived here under the driver's guidance. Su Ruowei was quite surprised. Although Yunhai Hotel was not considered top-tier in Shancheng City, it was not bad either. Moreover, Zuixian Pavilion was the best private room in Yunhai Hotel, with an average cost of at least 10,000 yuan per person.
Su Ruowei knew that Su Jianqiang was rich, but she never expected him to be so rich that he could afford to spend money in a place like this and even invite all the younger members of the Su family, more than ten people in total. She never dared to imagine it.
However, Su Ruowei could understand. After all, Su Jianqiang was the old lady's favorite grandson. From the day he was born, he was destined to inherit the Su family business. Moreover, the only direct descendants were her and Su Yulin, both of whom were girls. In the Su family, which favored boys over girls, they had no competitiveness.
"Sister, brother-in-law, you've finally arrived!" Su Jianqiang greeted them with a beaming smile, addressing them with utmost warmth.
"Uh." Su Ruowei smiled awkwardly. She rarely heard Su Jianqiang call her sister, and this was the first time he had called Lin Fan brother-in-law. The way Su Jianqiang called him brother-in-law even had a hint of sarcasm.
"Take a seat of honor!" Su Jianqiang said with a smile.
Inside the Drunken Immortal Pavilion, the younger generation of the Su family sat around a round table.
Apart from Su Jianqiang, Su Ruowei, and Su Yulin, the others are all from collateral branches of the family. These people cannot inherit the Su family's business, but they are also aware of this and, without exception, depend on Su Jianqiang.
"Come on, brother-in-law, let me toast you first!" Su Jianqiang said, raising his glass.
Lin Fan looked at the wine glass in front of him, which was already filled with red wine, and couldn't help but smile, saying, "Come on!"
The two clinked glasses and each took a big gulp.
"Brother-in-law, how's this wine?"
"Almost there," Lin Fan said with a smile.
"Then let's change the wine!" Su Jianqiang said, taking Lin Fan's wine glass aside and filling Lin Fan's empty glass with new wine.
"Try this!"
The younger generation was completely bewildered. They usually made fun of Lin Fan, especially Su Jianqiang. How come he and Lin Fan now seemed like close friends?
"Brother Jianqiang, why?" Su Yulin whispered.
Su Jianqiang glanced at Lin Fan's wine glass, then winked at Su Yulin. Su Yulin understood immediately, but was too scared to utter a sound. A cup of poisoned wine, meant to kill Lin Fan.
Su Ruowei watched Lin Fan and Su Jianqiang chatting happily and felt worried, wondering what Su Jianqiang was up to. But as the party was about to end, the two continued like this, which reassured her.
After several rounds of drinks, it was getting late.
Everyone went home, and the banquet came to a successful end. In everyone's eyes, Su Jianqiang was full of sincerity and acted like a true elder brother.
Before getting back into the Toyota, Lin Fan pretended to have a stomachache and wanted to have a "heart-to-heart talk" with Su Jianqiang. He had already discovered that cyanide had been added to the drink. The initial symptoms were no different from being drunk, and it was not easy to detect the poisoning after it took effect.
However, this poison was nothing to Lin Fan; it was completely absorbed by his copper tendons and iron bones as soon as it entered his stomach.
Inside the Yunhai Hotel, Su Jianqiang was nowhere to be found. Lin Fan, unable to find him, wanted to set up a ten-direction barrier to search for him, but was wary of the blood lightning. Just as he was about to leave the Zuixian Pavilion private room, he turned around and saw the driver standing at the door.
"I was just looking for someone to vent my anger on, and you've run into the line of fire, so don't blame me!"