Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 341: Visiting Boom

Lu Shaohua is not a stingy person, nor is he a poor person. It is no problem for him to treat ten senior executives of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce to a meal. So after the meeting, Lu Shaohua led the way to a hotel in Kowloon.

Speaking of the hotel in Kowloon, Lu Shaohua found it funny every time he thought about it. Last time, because of the doorman's words that looked down on him, Lu Shaohua finally got a gold membership card, which gave him a 50% discount, allowing Lu Shaohua to save a lot of money on several meals.

It was precisely because of the 50% discount that Lu Shaohua led a group of people to that hotel. After all, there was a discount. Although Lu Shaohua had a lot of money, he was very happy to accept this kind of saving.

A group of ten people came to the hotel. Lu Shaohua asked for a small private room and a large private room at the front desk, and then was led upstairs by the waiter. When they arrived at the second floor, the large private room that Lu Shaohua had reserved arrived first. When the waiter said it was a large private room, Lu Shaohua nodded, turned his head and whispered to Li Shangkui next to him. "Brother Li, you can take the others to eat in this private room."

The other people mentioned by Lu Shaohua were not just Yang Yang and He Kun, but also the drivers and bodyguards of more than a dozen other directors. If we counted them, including Li Shangkui and his group, there were nearly 20 people in total. Lu Shaohua happened to have booked a large private room that could accommodate two tables, which was enough for them to sit.

Li Shangkui had been with Lu Shaohua for so long, so he naturally understood what Lu Shaohua meant. He knew that Lu Shaohua was going to hand over the room to him for support. He nodded to show that he understood, and then said nothing more.

After explaining to Li Shangkui, Lu Shaohua turned around and said in a neither loud nor soft voice, "Let them eat in this big room. Let's go to the small room. Is there any objection?"

Today it was Lu Shaohua who was treating us all, and he had the final say in everything. What else could anyone say? They all nodded to show that they had no objection.

Since no one was interested, Lu Shaohua turned around again and said loudly to the bodyguards of the directors who were following behind them. "Everyone, please eat in this private room. It's my treat today. Eat whatever you want."

None of the people who can serve as bodyguards for CEOs of Hong Kong's first-tier listed companies are simple people. They are either mercenaries or special forces soldiers. They have relatively cold personalities and don't like to talk. They just gave Lu Shaohua a grateful look and nodded.

Lu Shaohua could read the word "gratitude" from those people's eyes. He was stunned for a moment, nodded naturally, then turned around and wondered why those people gave him grateful eyes?

Although he was confused, Lu Shaohua did not speak out, but pretended nothing happened and followed the waiter to the next private room. After entering the private room and sitting down, the next step was to order food. Needless to say, everyone was a veteran who often went to various high-end hotels. They did not need a menu to order food, but directly reported the dishes they liked.

Three minutes, just three minutes, the tedious process of ordering food was completed. The next step was to wait for the food to be served and then prepare to eat.

Waiting for the food to be served is a very boring thing. Besides, no one in the group is the type who can keep quiet, so naturally they just chat about all sorts of things for the rest of the time.

"I'm wondering if you, as the chairman of Phoenix Group, have too much money to spend. Why spend so much money just by asking the bodyguards to find a place to eat?" asked the director named Zhang.

Lu Shaohua was stunned, a light bulb went off in his head. He had been wondering why those bodyguards looked at him with gratitude, and now he finally got the answer. It turned out that the director always asked them to wait when he went out to eat, and had no habit of arranging for them to eat together. Come to think of it, everyone has different thoughts. Maybe in their view, those bodyguards are not people of the same level as them, so it is normal not to arrange for them to eat together.

"Haha!" Lu Shaohua shook his head and said with a smile. "I never treated those people around me as outsiders. On the contrary, I treated them as my brothers and relatives."

After saying that, Lu Shaohua paused and continued, "On the surface, they are our bodyguards, but everyone should know that people like us may encounter danger at any time, and as bodyguards, they will block bullets for us!"

Lu Shaohua's magnetic voice, coupled with his passionate words, immediately stunned everyone in the box and made them quiet, as if they were recalling what Lu Shaohua had just said. After a long time, everyone nodded one after another, and at the same time made a decision in their hearts, that is, to be nicer to their bodyguards in the future.

Of course, Lu Shaohua didn't know that his action today had improved the treatment of the bodyguards, so he waved his hand and changed the subject. "I have been thinking about a question just now. There seems to be no direct flight from Hong Kong. If we want to go to Beijing the day after tomorrow, don't we have to go to Shenzhen first and then transfer to Beijing?"

"Yes! I have already contacted the flight from Shenzhen to Beijing. It will take off at 21 pm on the st," replied Ho Ying-tung.

"Oh!" Lu Shaohua responded, rolled his eyes, and continued, "Then I won't go with you all. I will go back to Shenzhen tomorrow. I will meet you in Shenzhen after you go there on the morning of the 21st."

Lu Shaohua thought that he had nothing to do in Hong Kong. He was going to Beijing the day after tomorrow and had to pass through Shenzhen anyway. Why not go to Shenzhen two days in advance and take a look at the situation at the base.

"Do you want to go to Shenzhen first?" asked Ho Ying-tung.

"Well, I don't have anything to do in Hong Kong. Besides, I haven't been back to Shenzhen for a long time. I'll go over there and see what the situation is like." Lu Shaohua's tone was very flat, as if he was talking about something insignificant.

"Hmm." Huo Yingdong hummed and then fell silent, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he continued to ask, "Will you go there tomorrow morning or afternoon?"

"Morning or afternoon is fine." Lu Shaohua said casually, and after a moment's pause he realized something was wrong and asked, "What's the matter, old man?"

"Haha! Of course I have something to do." After a pause, Huo Yingdong continued. "If you go back tomorrow afternoon, I would like to go to Shenzhen with you and just take a look at how your production base in Shenzhen is doing."

Lu Shaohua looked at Huo Yingdong and saw that he was not joking, so he said, "Welcome, welcome."

"That's settled then. I'll take care of some things tomorrow morning, and then I'll go to Shenzhen with you." Ho Ying-tung made his final summary.

Huo Yingdong planned to visit Lu Shaohua's production base in Shenzhen. This idea aroused everyone's interest. Li Jiacheng was even more eager to go. After thinking for a while, he also expressed his own idea. "I want to go with you. I have heard that Xiaohua's production base in Shenzhen is amazing. I want to go and learn more about it."

What else could Lu Shaohua say? Could he say he was not welcome? He nodded and said, "Of course it's fine for Uncle Superman to visit, but it's not about gaining knowledge. It would be nice for him to give me some pointers."

Li Jiacheng ignored Lu Shaohua's humble words and stopped talking to himself. "It looks like I have to work late tonight and arrange things for the company before I can go with you."

As the saying goes, once there is one, there will be two, and once there is two, there will be three. Both Ho Ying-tung and Li Ka-shing expressed their desire to visit Lu Shaohua's production base. The others also had expressions that said, "I want to go with you." However, they all had companies, so naturally they could not just leave without arranging everything for the company.

Finally, except for the two directors named Zhang and Li who expressed their desire to go, everyone else said they would go the next day, which was on the 20th.

Although Lu Shaohua had not spent much time with the elders of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, they still had a very good relationship. Naturally, Lu Shaohua would not refuse their visit to the production base. He smiled sincerely and then expressed his welcome for them to come to Shenzhen in advance.

At this point, the wave of visits to the production base caused by Lu Shaohua's early trip to Shenzhen has come to an end, and it is destined that Lu Shaohua's production will welcome the second batch of heavyweight guests. (Note: The reason why it is called the second batch is that the first batch has already visited, that is, the visit by Grandpa Deng Xiaoping!)

As soon as the topic of visiting Lu Shaohua's base was over, everyone gave full play to their usual gossip and started talking about some unimportant things. Lu Shaohua also participated in it, but his mind was not on chatting about anything else, but on starting to come up with his own little ideas.

The CEOs of Hong Kong's first-tier listed companies are all worth over 100 million. In Hong Kong, they can shake the stock market with just one stomp of their feet. How could Lu Shaohua miss the opportunity to seek some benefits for himself? Oh! No, not for himself, but for his family. You know, Lu Chang is the deputy director of the Shenzhen Investment Promotion Bureau. If Lu Chang can get some investment from these people, it will be a great political achievement!

With a plan in mind, Lu Shaohua smiled even more brightly. He threw himself into everyone's gossip and chatted with them happily.

The time waiting for the dishes passed by unknowingly, and finally, the waiter brought the dishes. Along with the dishes, the general manager of the hotel, who was also the person who gave Lu Shaohua the gold membership card last time, also came.

"Oh, Manager Li is here." Lu Shaohua was sharp-eyed. When Manager Li walked in, Lu Shaohua saw him and greeted him with a smile. After all, he gave him a membership card that gave him a 50% discount!

Manager Li also greeted him with a smile and returned the greeting. Then he looked at the people sitting there. His heart twitched and the degree of shock made him feel like he was dreaming. He couldn't help but ask himself if he had seen it wrong.

"Ten CEOs of listed companies? Sitting together?" What kind of concept is that? Even if we don't talk about the other nine, just Mr. Ho Ying-tung is incredible.

Although Manager Li was shocked, he was used to seeing big shots all the time, so he kept a calm expression, greeted everyone with a smile, and then said a few polite words before leaving. This was the rule on the surface, and Manager Li wanted to stay, but his status could not compare with the people inside, and he didn't know if he would be annoying if he stayed.

Manager Li's departure also meant the official start of dinner. I don't know why that disrespectful old guy said he was hungry, and then he started this dinner worth nearly 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in a daze.

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