Back at the venue, Bai Qianyu turned back into his gentlemanly self. Jiang Qi also remained the image of a lady from a wealthy family.
The two came in together. Bai Qianyu leaned close to Jiang Qi's ear and said that he would go back to the original table to say hello and then go find her, and then the two separated.
When Jiang Qi came back, Tang Xin was eating, her attention was focused on the table, so she didn't notice until Jiang Qi had already sat down.
Tang Xin tilted her head back slightly, swallowed the food in her mouth, and asked, "Are you done?"
"Yeah." Jiang Qi nodded slightly.
"So, aren't you going to eat something?"
Jiang Qi shook her head slightly: "No, I've already put my makeup back on."
"Okay." Tang Xin put down the chopsticks in her hand and wiped the corners of her mouth with a handkerchief, indicating that she had finished eating.
"Why don't you eat?"
"When you come back, those people will come over soon. If I continue to eat, it won't look good."
"You care so much about your image?" Jiang Qi joked. Tang Xin didn't care what other people thought of her. She was not a good person in the eyes of these people from the beginning. If Jiayue hadn't developed like this, she wouldn't even be in their eyes.
"Why should I care about my image? The main thing is that you look bad." Although she never cared, Jiang Qi couldn't lose face.
"So I owe you a meal?"
"This is fine. It must not be worse than the table we have today."
"Okay." Jiang Qi agreed with a smile.
At this time, Bai Qianyu just came over, and seeing the atmosphere, he sat down and asked, "What are you talking about? You look so happy."
"It's not convenient for you to listen to girls' topics." Jiang Qi replied.
"Hello, Mr. Bai!" Tang Xin greeted Bai Qianyu.
"Hi, Tang Xin." Bai Qianyu responded politely, and the two stopped talking.
Although the two were classmates in high school and were good friends with Jiang Qi, they didn't have much in common. First of all, Bai Qianyu didn't like to interact with people. Tang Xin and him didn't have any common interests or similarities to communicate with, so even though they were classmates for two years in high school, they didn't communicate much.
But the most important thing is because of Jiang Qi and her control over her social circle. Jiang Qi is a person with a wide social circle, unlike Gu Jingcheng and Bai Qianyu, who are considered socially anxious. As long as she wants, she can establish a friendly relationship with anyone in a short time. Because this is a network of relationships, social connections are very important, so her social circle is very wide in terms of level and age. But she has divided her big circle into small circles one by one, and will not let her social circles connect. She strictly controls her small circle and only puts people she thinks are suitable together.
Many people are like this, even if they have a good relationship with Jiang Qi, they will not appear in each other's social circle. So Tang Xin and Bai Qianyu have this kind of relationship, and the same includes Gu Jingcheng, who only know each other but are not familiar with each other.
"Have you said hello?" Jiang Qi asked Bai Qianyu.
"Yeah." Bai Qianyu nodded in response.
"What did you say to them? Did you explain it nicely? Those people will be very helpful to you."
"Don't worry, I'm not a child anymore. I can still handle it properly and won't offend anyone."
"That's good."
At the same time, the waiter brought a new set of tableware and placed it in front of Bai Qianyu. Bai Qianyu just raised his hand to take the chopsticks, but before he could touch them, Jiang Qi reached out and pressed them on the table.
Bai Qianyu looked at her in confusion.
"Stop eating. It will look bad if someone comes over later." Jiang Qi explained.
"But I haven't eaten anything yet."
"It was you who wanted to follow me out just now? Just go hungry. It's nothing, okay." Jiang Qi patted the back of his hand gently, as a way of comforting him.
"There's no one here now, so I'll eat something first. I'll put it down when someone comes, okay? Otherwise, it will be a big loss for me." Bai Qianyu tried to struggle.
"Give up, there's no time." Tang Xin said lightly, and the two looked at her.
She looked in the direction of Chairman Gu and raised her chin slightly to signal, "Yes, it's coming."
Looking in that direction, a group of people were standing there toasting Mr. Gu.
"Who's coming?" Bai Qianyu rarely attends banquets, so he doesn't understand. Those people are toasting Mr. Gu. What does it have to do with them? How did Tang Xin know they were coming?
"Those people who were toasting to the old man of the Gu family there." Tang Xin explained.
"How did you know he was coming?"
"Because there is no guest here who is more important than me." Jiang Qi took over the conversation and replied.
This is the rule of this kind of banquet. If you want to toast a guest at the banquet, you must first toast the host, because this is someone else's banquet and you cannot lose face for the host. Similarly, after toasting the host, you must toast the most important guest present, because this person is likely invited by the host to support the occasion and save face, and his status and weight are also needless to say.
Although the Jiang family in China does not have much assets, and Jiang Qi herself does not have much weight. But she has never represented herself here. Instead, she represents her uncle's family. First of all, because her uncle has a close relationship with her mother Shi Jinhua, he is also very close to her. Secondly, due to their sensitive identities, outsiders cannot and will not have any contact with her uncle's family. Because her mother and her uncle are only cousins, not close relatives, some things can't be handled through Jiang Qi. But few people know about her identity, only those who are so-called at the top of the circle know about it.
Therefore, Jiang Qi's status and position in the country alone is enough to suppress everyone present today.
Bai Qianyu still didn't quite understand. He rarely attended banquets, and the only banquets he had attended were those hosted by Jiang Qi and Gu Jingcheng or some academic exchange meetings. But he didn't ask any more questions.
Jiang Qi and Tang Xin did not answer him either. Instead, they watched the group of people discussing.
"From the Ming family?" Jiang Qi asked the leader.
"Yeah." Tang Xin replied.
The top four families in Beijing's business circle are Ming, Gu, He, and Su. The Ming family has been engaged in business since the old society and has always supported the victory of the revolution and liberation. In the old society, the Gu family was a wealthy family that was engaged in politics and business. Later, they sold all their property and the whole family supported the revolution. Until the generation of Mr. Gu, Mr. Gu was originally a soldier. Later, he actively responded to the country's reform and opening-up policy, demobilized and went into business, and established the current Gu family. The He and Su families were also like the Gu family. They were founded and developed at that time and now can be ranked with the Ming and Gu families.
"Where is the old man of the Ming family? Why is it his eldest son who is here?" Jiang Qi asked.
The Ming family is Su Muqing's mother's family. Although they are not her biological daughter, they still raise her as their own daughter. That's why Su's mother is so tough. Lin Yue's novel only mentions that the Ming family came today and then passes it by.
Although the Ming family has always been the leader of the four families, they have remained the same for so many years. Under the control of Gu Jingcheng, the Gu family has been able to compete with the Ming family. Therefore, the heads of the four families must come to Mr. Gu's birthday banquet today, otherwise it would be a public show of hostility.
But in Jiang Qi's memory, Old Master Ming is the head of the family, so he should come today no matter what, so Jiang Qi is a little confused.
"You don't know. The old man of the Ming family passed away more than a year ago, and now the eldest son is in charge of the family." Tang Xin explained.
"What happened? So sudden? I remember when I left two years ago, the old man was still in good health." Jiang Qi was quite surprised. In her memory, the old man was always in good health and got along well with her. He even came to her birthday party two years ago. How could it be so sudden?
"It happened about half a year after you passed away. He was old and had a heart attack. He couldn't be saved." Tang Xin felt a little regretful. She also knew the old man of the Ming family. The old man was really nice. He had an easy-going personality, was a bit playful and loved to play tricks on people. He never looked down on her and gave her a lot of help.
Jiang Qi was a little sad to hear the news. But she adjusted herself after a while, and even the sad expression did not appear on her face. She continued to ask Tang Xin: "Who are the three juniors following him?" From this angle, she could only see the backs of the figures and could not recognize them. Tang Xin came earlier and should have seen these people.
"The children of his family."
"He has three children?"
"No, just two. The man on the right is Ming Yu, the illegitimate son you should know, and the current crown prince of the Ming family."
"Oh, he is Mingyu." Jiang Qi nodded to show that she understood. Mingyu is the second male lead in Lin Yue's novel. However, because the novel is too short, he only appears twice. How does Lin Yue describe him? The original text of the novel: The person in front of me is nearly 1.9 meters tall, with beautiful facial features, but he does not look feminine at all, but rather heroic. There is even a hint of arrogance and coldness.
The character has a bad temper and is very unruly. No one can control him, but he is very good to Su Muqing.
Jiang Qi was quite curious about what kind of person this was. Because in this world, she had no memory of this person at all, she only knew that he was the illegitimate son of the Ming family. Because the original wife of the head of the Ming family was too strong, he was raised abroad.
The novel is from the perspective of Su Muqing. The two have known each other since childhood. She lived abroad from the age of five to twelve and lived with Mingyu in the Ming family's home, but she returned to China when she was twelve. It was not until half a year ago that Mingyu's original wife's family had an accident that the eldest son of the Ming family took his son back to China. Today, he was brought out to meet people on the third day after returning. It is conceivable how much he values this son.
Jiang Qi is now thinking back to the plot of the novel, and is a little curious about how Lin Yue came up with the idea of the Ming family. The Ming family has a direct branch and a collateral branch, and the direct branch's main family is abroad. The current Ming family in China is just a collateral branch. And any child of the Ming family can be sent to the main family for education and study as long as they are willing.
Although Lin Yue only gave these two sentences, the Ming family that Jiang Qi understood in his memory and that was automatically formed in this world was a very terrifying existence.
But she didn't know much about the Ming family. From memory and the novel, the so-called main family of the Ming family was the Ming family in Country Y. No one knew how they got there. But they have been there for nearly 200 years. The current head of the family is a woman. She has already controlled the economy of that country. It can be said that she controls the regime change of that country. At the same time, she also controls one-third of the economy of Europe. These are just on the surface, and it is unclear what is going on in secret.
In this world, her grandfather gave her advice not to provoke the Ming family.
As for why Jiang Qi felt terrified. If the Ming family in China and the one abroad were one, then this family would be too huge, because according to what she knew now, there were Chinese people with the surname Ming in almost every country in the world, and most of them were not ordinary people. If these people all came from the same family and were still in contact with this family, if they merged together one day, then the power they merged together would be enough to subvert the world.
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