267: Chapter 267 Eating at the Feast and Eating the Melon

Zhao Xiaoshuai really injected capital to save Hengtian, which took Huo Zhengdong by surprise.

While re-evaluating this opponent, he also truly began to take the previous threat seriously.

Thus, after a private communication failed to resolve the conflict, he launched a fierce counterattack.

In a short time, the Huo Group mobilized all its connections, attracting a large amount of capital to besiege all industries under Zhao Xiaoshuai, including the still-recovering Hengtian.

But Zhao Xiaoshuai's response was lukewarm, simply meeting force with force and countering moves as they came, making many feel he was just a paper tiger and that saving Hengtian had drained his available capital.

So more and more companies joined in.

"Old Xiong, do you think everyone who should come has arrived?"

"I think about sixty to seventy percent of the power the Huo Group can mobilize has arrived."

"Then no rush, let them invest a bit more, otherwise it won't be so easy to bring them down."

"As long as you know what you're doing."

Hanging up the phone, Zhao Xiaoshuai returned to the room, "Dad, Mom, continue what you were saying."

The Xing Family had completely moved out of the mansion, and Zhao Xiaoshuai's family had now moved into this super mansion.

This mansion was indeed worthy of being the Xing Family's main residence, with a dazzling number of rooms; not only did his parents have a separate area to live in, but each of his girlfriends also had their own exclusive room here.

However, his parents were still used to living in the bustling city center, and recently they frequently traveled between the residences of several pregnant daughters-in-law, so they hadn't stayed here much.

Besides, Chu Xinyi and Father Chu also had dedicated rooms here, but they hadn't moved in yet.

Seeing their son finish his work, Father Zhao and Mother Zhao continued: "It's about your second uncle's son, Xiao Hu's wedding. They had originally rented a wedding car for nearly 3,000 yuan."

"But early this morning, they were told the main wedding car was involved in a crash and couldn't come."

"Although some deposit was compensated, the wedding is tomorrow. They've contacted several other places, but none can make it in time, so they wanted to ask if you have a way to help."

Father and Mother Zhao were still not used to spending money lavishly and instinctively turned to their son for ideas when things happened.

Zhao Xiaoshuai thought it was some big matter for his parents to seek him out specifically. "What kind of car was the main wedding car?"

"I heard it was a Mercedes S-Class."

"Then how about this, I have a maybach that's been idle for a long time; lending it to him as a wedding car is more than enough. It's not that I don't have better cars, but lending them might actually be bad for them."

The parents didn't understand his last sentence, but they were relieved the matter was resolved; after all, Father Zhao had given his word to his brother.

Time quickly reached the day of the wedding.

Since it was Sunday, his Sister-in-law happened to be on break, so Zhao Xiaoshuai took her to the feast.

His parents had already given 8,888 yuan as a gift, so he just gave 1,000 yuan as a gesture.

The person recording the gift money was from the bride's side and didn't know him. Initially, seeing his name sparked a bit of shock, but seeing the gift amount, they laughed at themselves for overthinking.

After all, the name "Zhao Xiaoshuai" was the hottest name in Chuncheng recently.

Spending seven billion to save Hengtian, saving many residential areas from becoming unfinished buildings.

Moreover, he was keen on charity, having founded the Zhao Xiaoshuai Charity Foundation, which has now helped hundreds of families.

Even the recently unearthed, staged-comeback god-level supermarket, Fat Up, was supported by him behind the scenes, making everyone's recent shopping discounts so good they'd wake up laughing.

It could be said to be a resounding name.

But how could such a person be a relative of Zhao Xiaohu? It must just be someone with the same name.

Because Zhao Xiaoshuai's parents lent money, lent a car, and gave a large gift, they were certainly seated at the main table. But Zhao Xiaoshuai wasn't familiar with these people, so he and his Sister-in-law found a corner to sit down.

"There are so many rules for eating at a feast in the city," the Sister-in-law wrinkled her nose cutely, looking around curiously.

"It's been a month since school started, you should have had monthly exams. How were your grades?"

"Hmph, definitely first place."

Zhao Xiaoshuai didn't bother asking if it was first in class or first in school; since his Sister-in-law was full of confidence, it was naturally first in school.

"Your birthday is in a few days. As agreed, since you got first place this time, I'll ask your homeroom teacher for a leave of absence on your birthday and take you out to have a good time."

"Yay!"

Regarding his Sister-in-law's birthday, Zhao Xiaoshuai had been preparing for nearly a month, but naturally, he wouldn't reveal the surprise early.

The standard of this wedding banquet at his second uncle's house wasn't too high, about 2,398 per table. Zhao Xiaoshuai remembered he used to often fantasize about his own wedding, and the planned banquet was at this price level.

That was the limit of what he could afford back then.

This cousin now could almost be compared to his future self in the original timeline.

Watching the bride and groom start the interaction segment, Zhao Xiaoshuai suddenly asked the Sister-in-law beside him: "Do you want to have this kind of wedding in the future too?"

"I definitely don't! The bride suffers so much backstage, and in the end, she finishes the process like a puppet. Isn't that just looking for trouble?"

"Then don't you think such a high-profile ceremony is romantic?"

"Hmm... it's just okay. I think it's not as romantic as the fireworks you specifically set off for me that time."

Zhao Xiaoshuai smiled, understanding her thoughts.

The wedding, however, had some twists.

Perhaps seeing that the groom's family easily borrowed a maybach worth 4 million as the main wedding car, perhaps seeing that many of the groom's relatives gave large gifts, or perhaps for other reasons.

In short, the bride's side concluded from various "small details" that the groom's family had been pretending to be poor all along; claiming they couldn't scrape together the down payment or rent a good wedding car was all just a trick to lower the bride price.

So, when the bride's parents went on stage to give a speech, they suddenly made things difficult, demanding an additional 188,000 yuan for the bride price.

The second uncle's family naturally couldn't accept it. Their down payment money was borrowed, and if it hadn't been for Zhao Xiaoshuai's family lending an extra 50,000 yuan, they wouldn't have wanted to hold this wedding in the first place.

After all, more and more young people nowadays don't hold weddings and only hold appreciation banquets, which isn't much of a problem.

But the bride's side believed that now that the word was out, if the groom's family didn't give it, it would be a loss of face; at least lower it to 88,000 yuan, otherwise, the marriage wouldn't happen.

Zhao Xiaoshuai sat below the stage leisurely watching the joys and sorrows of others. He couldn't help but think, if it were his past self standing on that stage, what could he do?

What else could he do but leave in a fit of impotent rage?

The wedding banquet ended on a sour note, concluding with the bride taking off her wedding dress in public and turning to leave.

It's worth mentioning that since the person collecting the gift money was from the bride's side, the gift money was also taken away.

The remaining second uncle's family had to face the cost of the banquet and the anger of the guests.

"See, what's the use of getting married? It's most important that two people truly love each other."

Zhao Xiaoshuai turned his head and gave his Sister-in-law a thumbs up.