Hardy Empire 1945 - Vol 2 Chapter 417: : Old cow eats tender grass

The reception was held at the most luxurious ‘Tian En’ hotel in Penang, which is the property of the Zhu family, a wealthy Chinese family in Penang. The main building has four floors and is mainly white.

Behind is a large garden and golf course, the scenery is very beautiful, it is very suitable for holding an outdoor cocktail party, today’s cocktail party home is outdoors.

Today, guests of Tianen Hotel are in full bloom. Government officials, parliamentarians, wealthy businessmen, big family heads, and big business owners from Penang and Malacca are all here, and they also bring their families and families. There are a total of five to six hundred people in the venue.

This can be said to be the most grand event held in Penang these years.

The guests felt honored at the invitation of the governor. Everyone was full of spring breeze. In the crowd, Huang Henian, the head of the Huang family, his brother Huang Xinnian and his son Huang Linghui, became one of the focus of the crowd, and many people chatted around them.

Not long ago, it was because of the Huang family and his son that caused the earthquake in Malaya, the Sultan of Johor was killed, the world was shaken, and even the United States and the sovereign state Britain were alarmed. Finally, half of the land in Johor was sold to Governor Hardy.

In the eyes of everyone, the Huang family has been completely labeled Hardy.

Of course,

The Huang family is also happy to see its success.

The men gathered in groups to chat with their wine glasses, while the women gathered together to chat about topics of interest.

at this time,

There was a slight commotion in the distance.

Governor Hardy walked into the venue, next to Han Yezhen holding Hardy’s arm, behind Hardy, a large group of people followed, including Andy.

The people at the reception immediately divided into two rows and kept saluting Hardy. Hardy smiled and nodded to the people.

Hardy didn’t like those empty-headed things. There were no cumbersome rituals. After meeting people, he stepped onto the stage and started speaking. The people in the audience stood up straight and looked at the Governor.

“I hope that in the future, Penang and the Dominion of Malacca will be a free, democratic, safe and stable place, and a very tolerant place. Here, people can live and work in peace and contentment, religious beliefs are free here, and there will be no famine or war here.”

“Of course, it is not easy to do this, so it requires the joint efforts of all the people in the dominion.”

“Economically, the Dominion Association upholds an open policy and welcomes all enterprises that invest here to settle down. My vision is to build the Dominion into a financial transit station in Asia, a place for processing high-end products, and have the characteristics of a Dominion in the world. Have a place on top.”

“Culturally, diversity is a characteristic of dominions.”

“Regarding education, I have communicated with the government. In the future, the Dominion will implement the education for all policy. Primary education will be completely free and free lunch will be provided. The middle and high schools will implement universal education, and we will build three schools to go to colleges and jointly run schools with top universities in Europe and the United States. To make our university a top university in the world.”

……

Hardy described a perfect picture to everyone present. Of course, he was not painting a pie, he really planned to do so.

Standing in the distance, Andy didn’t listen to Hardy’s speech too seriously, because Hardy’s speech was read by him yesterday, and much of it was negotiated by Hardy and him.

He took a sip of the champagne in his hand, and glanced away inadvertently.

suddenly,

His eyes freeze.

Because in the crowd, he saw the face of a girl, which was a familiar and strange face. The familiarity was because he saw her yesterday, and the strangeness was because he didn’t know who the other party was.

Yes,

It was the laughing **** the beach yesterday.

Sometimes things like fate are very strange, maybe you don’t feel it when you get along day and night, or you may get deeply into people’s hearts just by looking at each other.

The lyrics of the song “Legend” read:

“Just because I looked at you more in the crowd, I never forgot your face again. Dreaming of seeing each other one day by chance, I have been lonely since then.

When you think of you, you are in the sky, when you think of you, you are in front of you, when you think of you, you are in your mind, and when you think of you, you are in your heart. ”

I don’t know if it’s telepathy or Andy’s eyes are too eager. The girl seemed to feel something and looked sideways to Andy.

The two people looked at each other again.

The girl froze for a moment. She seemed to have seen this man, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen it. The two looked at each other. Out of politeness and education, the girl nodded slightly to the middle-aged man who was staring at her. Responded with a smiling face, then turned his head to continue listening to Governor Hardy’s speech.

Andy’s heart was beating again.

The girl smiled again.

……

Shattering~!

Hardy finished speaking and received warm applause. Then he stepped down and people began to communicate freely.

Hardy became the center of men.

As for Han Yezhen, she became the center of women.

Hardy took Andy to introduce everyone that this is the president of Hardy Group, and people immediately showed respect to Andy.

To know,

Most of the companies in the Dominion are currently owned by the Hardy Group. Even the Hardy Investment Company, which has the largest assets, is just a subsidiary of the Hardy Group.

Soon Andy became the center of entrepreneurial chat.

“Hello, President Andy, this is Zhu Yunquan.”

A bad English came from behind Andy. Andy knew that it was another one who came to say hello, so he turned and looked at it.

When he saw the people behind him clearly, he was slightly stunned.

A middle-aged man, in his fifties, with a slightly fat body. This is nothing unusual. Andy was stupefied by the girl next to the man. It was the girl who had laughed at him twice.

Andy looked at the middle-aged man, stretched out his hand and said, “Hello, I’m Andy.”

“My name is Zhu Yunquan, I~~”

Zhu Yunquan can’t speak anymore. He basically can’t speak English. The English used to say hello and introduce his name just now has only been learned in the past few days.

Zhu Yunquan said to the girl beside him: “Xijun, you can translate for me, so that this hotel belongs to ours, and I hope to cooperate with Hardy Hotel in the future.”

The middle-aged man said this sentence in Hokkien.

The girl nodded and said in pure English: “Hello, President Andy. My father said that it is a pleasure to meet you. This’Tian’en’ hotel is our family’s property. My father said that he hopes to have the opportunity to cooperate with Hardy Group. ”

The girl’s voice is very gentle.

At least Andy feels so.

“Of course, I don’t know what the young lady is called?” Andy asked.

“Sorry for not introducing myself, my name is Zhu Xijun.” The girl smiled at Andy.

Laughed again.

This is the third time the girl smiled at him.

If Andy knew the story of China, he would know the allusion of Qiuxiang three smiles mercilessly.

“Hello Miss Zhu.” Andy stretched out his hand to Zhu Xijun.

Zhu Xijun shook hands with Andy generously.

Released his hand, Andy said: “It turns out that this hotel belongs to your home, and it’s done very well. Hardy Group also has a hotel company. Now the largest Hilton Hotel Group in the United States and even the world is a cooperative enterprise of Hardy Group.”

“We, Hardy Group, and our own hotel group, are in charge of hotel businesses in the United States, Cayman, and Hong Kong. If you want to cooperate, there is no problem. Hardy Group is happy to cooperate with powerful companies.”

Andy said so much, Zhu Yunquan couldn’t understand at all, so he could only look at his daughter. He brought her daughter today and asked her to do the translation.

Zhu Xijun translated Andy’s words to his father. Zhu Yunquan was very happy when he heard it, and then talked a big deal with his daughter. This time it was Andy’s turn that he couldn’t understand.

Zhu Xijun looked at Andy with wide eyes, and translated: “My father said that Zhu’s family has hotels in Penang, Malacca, and Singapore. Our Zhu family’s business not only has hotels, but also rubber plantations, plantations, and rubber processing plants. , Wood processing, pulp and paper companies all hope to cooperate with Hardy Group.”

Andy smiled, “Of course it’s okay.”

Zhu Yunquan didn’t expect the two parties to talk so smoothly, and said with a smile: “Xijun, you invite President Andy, if you have time to visit our home, you can visit our company by the way.”

The girl hesitated, “Father, they are the president of Hardy Group. How can I come to our house if I have time?”

“Are you polite? This is a courtesy.” Zhu Yunquan said.

Zhu Xijun turned to look at Andy, and expressed his father’s meaning in English. Andy hesitated for half a second, then nodded, “I’m about to investigate the industrial structure of Malaya. Go to your house. It’s good to watch.”

Andy’s answer surprised Zhu’s father and daughter.

Then came the surprise.

Unexpectedly, this big man actually agreed. You should know that in an industry like the Zhu family, not to mention Andy, the group president, even the branch president or even a department business manager can go in the past.

Who is Andy?

The President of Hardy Group, he doesn’t need to care about such a small business at all, but he actually agreed. Maybe he can take this opportunity to get a little relationship with the President Andy. This is definitely a good thing for the Zhu family.

Zhu Yunquan is overjoyed.

“Xijun, you said to Mr. Andy that we are extremely welcome.”

Girl translator.

Andy smiled and nodded. Zhu’s father and daughter said goodbye. Someone else came over to chat with Andy. When Andy was chatting politely with the visitor, he glanced at the girl’s back.

the next day,

The Zhu family sent someone to invite, and Andy brought several company leaders to the Zhu family’s enterprise for inspection.

Mainly I looked at rubber processing plants, wood processing, pulp and paper companies. The scale of the Zhu’s companies is not bad. They are already very good in Malaya, but they are much worse than the United States. They are industrialized. Also lower.

Of course, Zhu Yunquan and Zhu Yunquan’s two sons were in charge of the reception. Zhu Xijun continued to work as an interpreter. In fact, the two sons of Zhu’s family spoke English fairly well, but they were much worse than Zhu Xijun.

Zhu Xijun was introduced by the father and son of the Zhu family, and Zhu Xijun was there to translate and occasionally explained a few sentences. Half a day passed quickly.

Andy asked Zhu Xijun why her spoken English was so good and she had gone to study abroad. Zhu Xijun said that she went to university in Hong Kong, majoring in economics.

This is not surprising, now the University of Hong Kong mainly teaches in English.

After the factory inspection, Zhu Yunquan talked about the hotel again with Andy, and finally talked about the customs and customs of Southeast Asia.

“If the tourism industry is developed in the future, Southeast Asia will be a selling point, and our hotel will focus on local features.” Zhu Yunquan said.

Andy said: “I have traveled to some places in the past few days. Some find it very interesting, but it is a pity that there is no guidance from the locals and no in-depth experience.”

“Guide from the locals, that’s simple.” Zhu Yunquan looked at his daughter, “It’s better to let my daughter Xijun accompany President Andy to experience the local customs here.”

Zhu Xijun looked at his father, but still translated it.

Andy looked at the girl and asked, “Do you have time?”

Zhu Xijun hesitated a little, and said with a smile: “I have time, if Mr. Andy is willing, I would be happy to accompany Mr. Andy to experience local customs.”

Andy smiled and nodded.

“Then it’s settled, it’s late tonight, tomorrow, I’ll have someone pick you up tomorrow.” Andy smiled.

Then he said goodbye.

After Andy left, the family gathered around. After all, his two older brothers could understand Andy. Zhu Yunquan knew that Andy was willing to let his daughter accompany him to visit Penang, and said happily: “This is to get closer to President Andy. A good time for the relationship, Xijun, we must have a good relationship with this President Andy.”

“My father.” Zhu Xijun nodded sensibly, knowing that this President Andy is very important to the family business.

The next day,

Andy sent a car to pick up Zhu Xijun, and then set off on a tour in Penang.

Streets and alleys,

Variety of local delicacies.

Zhu Xijun introduced local customs.

Although the itinerary is simple,

But the two chatted very happily.

……

Governor’s Mansion.

Someone is reporting to Hardy.

“Boss, Mr. Andy went to Zhu’s house yesterday. Today, accompanied by Miss Zhu’s family, I visited the entire Penang. I can see that Mr. Andy is very happy.”

“Is the investigation of the Zhu family’s situation clear?” Hardy asked.

Andy is the president of Hardy Group. It can be said that he is the most important person besides Hardy. Hardy trusts Andy very much, but he also pays more attention to his situation. After all, he is too important to Hardy Group. error.

“The Zhu family is said to be descended from the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty. UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com has always settled in Penang. It is one of the top wealthy business families in Penang, operating hotels, rubber plantations, plantations, and rubber processing plants. , Wood processing plants and other enterprises, with assets between 2 to 3 million U.S. dollars, and are also members of the Hardy Investment Company.”

“What’s the situation with that Miss Zhu?”

“The full name of Miss Zhu is Zhu Xijun. She is 19 years old this year. Zhu Yunquan, the head of the Zhu family, has 7 children, 3 sons and 4 daughters. Zhu Xijun has two brothers and one sister. The sister is married.

“Ms. Zhu went to school at the University of Hong Kong last year. As an economics student, she is now returning from vacation. Zhu Xijun has been studying in Penang before going to Hong Kong and has not lived and studied elsewhere for a long time.”

Hardy listened to the introduction,

He picked up the photo on the table and looked at it.

The girl has fair skin, bright eyes, slim, graceful and moving, and she is not under Han Yizhen.

Andy went to jail because of his wife and suffered from jail. Even though Hardy was rescued and the suspicion of killing his wife was removed, he still suffered a lot of emotional injuries.

On the relationship issue, Andy deliberately closed himself.

Hardy had persuaded Andy before, hoping that he could find his love again, but Andy has never responded. Now he is rarely willing to contact a girl, which is definitely worthy of attention.

Hardy thought that if Andy was willing to find a Chinese girl, it would be pretty good. Nowadays, Chinese women, especially girls in Southeast Asia, receive a heavy traditional education. The concept of mutual husband and child is deeply rooted in the bones of Andy. For those who have been hurt, it is really good to find a gentle and considerate Chinese girl.

The personality of European and American women who advocate openness and freedom is not suitable for Andy now.

But Andy, this guy is forty-two this year, looking for a girl who is only 19 years old, this is definitely an old cow eating tender grass.