Break out of the courtyard

Early the next morning on the 7th, Zhang Heping rushed back to Hong Kong Island by train.

Then, I saw my mother-in-law, Xu Jiefeng, sitting in the living room watching TV. When I asked her, I found out that she had returned yesterday afternoon.

Just as Zhang Heping was arranging people to make large-size posters of his pencil drawings and invitation cards with a big-eyed girl on the cover, his father-in-law Tang Ming, his elder brother-in-law Tang Ren, and his eldest nephew Tang Lie all walked in quickly.

"Heping, is it really that lady who has come?" asked father-in-law Tang Ming anxiously.

"Yeah!" Zhang Heping responded casually.

After writing a note on the coffee table, Zhang Heping took a roll of Hong Kong dollars and a stack of pencil drawings from his first wife Tang Xin and handed them to a young bodyguard from the Umbrella Company. "Here is 10 Hong Kong dollars. Find a few more advertising companies. I want to see the finished product requested on the note by 8 o'clock tonight at the latest. Can you do it?"

The young bodyguard quickly replied: "Boss, I will report to our captain and ask him to find someone to deal with it."

"Go!"

After Zhang Heping sent the bodyguards away, he looked at Tang Ming and the others.

"They are at the Baiyun Hotel right now, preparing to hold a charity auction party in Hong Kong Island." Zhang Heping said with a smile, "I asked Shu Ting to book the Hilton Hotel at the foot of the mountain. We will hold the party there. There is a bank next door, so it will be convenient for collecting money."

Brother-in-law Tang Ren smiled and said, "It would be much more convenient if we open it in Hong Kong Island!"

"Other Chinese businessmen probably haven't received the news yet." Zhang Heping saw the hesitation on his father-in-law Tang Ming's face, so he added: "Besides, my mother also came with them."

"The in-laws are here!" Tang Ming's face lit up, and he immediately found a reason to go over, "Ah Xin, bring the children, we're going to Huadu to meet your mother-in-law."

He thought that if he went directly to the lady, it would be seen as flattery, but with the buffer of the relationship with his relative Ma Xiuzhen, it would be more natural.

"Xiaobei and Xiaonan still have extra classes to take, so they shouldn't go!" The eldest wife Tang Xin looked at Zhang Heping in embarrassment. Seeing Zhang Heping nod, she happily went to call the children.

Just when everyone was thinking about their own things, Zhang Heping called Wei Chunqiao, the head of the Umbrella Company.

"Brother Wei, I'm here for security business!" Zhang Heping said to Wei Chunqiao on the other end of the phone with a smile, "Security work for important visitors, 20 guests are expected, and security work for a charity auction. Please make a plan and quote immediately. Can you send it to me before 3 pm so that I can review it?"

Seeing Tang Xin taking her four children with her parents, eldest brother and others leaving, the concubine Chen Shuting couldn't help but ask: "Husband, do you need me to do anything?"

"We need two more auctioneers, one for backup, venue layout, etiquette, and catering arrangements..."

Zhang Heping made intensive preparations for the whole day, and that evening he received a call from his eldest brother-in-law Tang Ren in Huadu, saying that the 8 o'clock train the next morning would arrive at Kowloon Station in Hong Kong Island at 8:50.

This passport was processed too quickly!

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The next day, just after dawn, Zhang Heping went to Kowloon Station to pick up people with a Hongqi sedan, six Land Cruiser bulletproof vehicles, and several black sedans requisitioned from the garage.

They arrived at the exit and had just sent a car to buy breakfast when the China Resources fleet also arrived.

China Resources' cars drove past the Hongqi sedan one by one, circled back, and stopped behind Zhang Heping's convoy.

At first, no one got off the vehicles in either convoy.

It was not until the Tang family's car came back with breakfast that Zhang Heping asked everyone to get out of the car and eat breakfast to prevent the smell of food from remaining in the car.

Soon after, many people from the China Resources convoy also got off. The old man who led the team knew Zhang Heping. He shamelessly came over to have a free breakfast, and then started chatting with Zhang Heping.

"It's Mr. Zhongxin Rong's car." The old man leading the Huarun team looked at his watch and smiled, "8:, quite punctual."

Then they saw the Rong family's motorcade driving over, circling around, and coming back to stop in front of Zhang Heping and his companions' Red Flag sedan.

Seeing that Zhang Heping did not react at all, the drivers and bodyguards of the Umbrella Company did not say anything and just waited and watched.

The people from the Rong family did not get out of the car. They seemed to know whose car they were blocking and were too embarrassed to get out.

At 8:45, a green train pulled into the station.

Mr. Rong got off the car, as if he had just seen Zhang Heping and the person next to him. He just nodded and said hello, then went into the station to pick someone up.

However, not long after the old man went in, he saw Tang Ming and his wife coming out, surrounded by old lady Zheng.

The Tang family took the initiative. Mr. Rong only had to say hello and missed the chance to pick up the emperor. He could only watch the lady get into the Tang family's Red Flag sedan.

Zhang Heping had just communicated with the old man from China Resources. China Resources picked up a few acquaintances and then drove to the Hilton Hotel together.

The Rong family convoy did not pick up anyone, so they simply dismissed half of the vehicles and then went to the hotel.

Because the old man from China Resources insisted that they provide hotel security, Zhang Heping left the Hongqi sedan and three Land Cruisers for his father-in-law Tang Ming and others.

He took his mother Ma Xiuzhen and Aunt Wang, as well as his wife and children, back to Taiping Mountain for a walk.

Wang Sumei followed Ma Xiuzhen and after touring Villa No. 118 for a while, she couldn't help but sigh: "Compared to here, those villas and buildings in the capital are like houses in the countryside."

"Auntie Wang, please don't be so flattering. I'm still simple!" Zhang Heping smiled and took a cup to pour tea. "Go and have a look at the two villas next door. They are so fancy. Everything is covered in gold and silver, velvet, ermine fur, elk heads and everything else."

Zhang Heping put down the kettle, sat on the sofa, pointed at the decorations in the house, and said with a smile: "These are all designed by me. The main features are simple, elegant and high-end."

Wang Sumei picked up the white teacup with delicate yellow flowers printed on it, glanced at the tea leaves inside, and said with a smile, "I came all the way here, and you're just giving me Pu'er tea?"

"I'm used to it. This is the only tea we have at home. The other thing is instant coffee. Aunt Wang, would you like to try some coffee?"

"No, I'm not used to that."

Afterwards, Zhang Heping took Wang Sumei to Pingba, looked at Victoria Harbour for a while, and briefly talked about the arrangements for the charity auction.

As dinner time approached, Chen Shuting accompanied Wang Sumei to the hotel at the foot of the mountain to discuss the Hope Project Fund's first charity gala with China Resources, CITIC, the Tang family, and some other Chinese businessmen who had heard the news.

Zhang Heping and Tang Xin accompanied their mother Ma Xiuzhen, who was still a little dizzy and had not yet adapted to the situation, and had a home-cooked meal in the villa.

Afterwards, during the three days when Mrs. Zheng, Wang Sumei and others visited primary schools, middle schools and universities in Hong Kong Island, anonymous charity gala invitations with the big-eyed girl on the cover were sent to each Chinese-owned Hong Kong businessman.

For a time, everyone in the Chinese business circle was proud to receive an invitation, and those who did not receive an invitation seemed to be excluded from the Chinese business circle in Hong Kong Island.

March 6, 12 a.m.

At key locations such as the main door, back door, entrance to the conference hall on the 3rd floor, and staircase of the Central Hilton Hotel, there were two bodyguards from the Umbrella Company on duty with a black wolfhound and a handheld metal detector, leaving the bodyguards from China Resources speechless.

Because, compared with the bulletproof vests, explosion-proof shields, large steel forks, walkie-talkies, etc. worn by the Umbrella Company bodyguards, the bodyguards of China Resources seem a bit amateurish.

At 10 a.m., admission to the Hope Project Foundation’s first charity gala will be open.

Zhang Heping was standing in the second-floor restaurant of the Hilton Hotel at this time, looking at the people coming into the lobby on the first floor below, and smiled to Wang Sumei and Chen Shuting beside him:

"Businessmen are good at speculation. Those who didn't get invitations stayed directly in the hotel. Those who got invitations came so early mainly to expand their network and look for business opportunities."

“If we want to do charity auctions well and keep them going for a long time, we need to build a communication platform for these businessmen. We need to make them feel that the little money they spend on charity is worth it!”

"If we just wait for others to donate or go to people's homes to ask for money, that would be too inefficient."

Chen Shuting's eyes sparkled, "Honey, is the membership system at the racecourse also a communication platform?"

"They are a circle, just like the circle of rich wives in Heping Real Estate, which is a gradually solidified network of relationships." Zhang Heping explained with a smile:

"Charity auctions are a semi-open communication platform, and you need to observe and experience their appeal slowly."

"Okay, I'll go back first!" Zhang Heping looked at Wang Sumei and said:

"With the 19-inch ultra-thin color monitor as the finale, the donations from this charity auction will definitely not be small."

"As for charity, I'll rely on Aunt Wang's help from now on!"

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