……
An hour later, the banquet started as scheduled. After Louis finished his opening speech, the upper-class people present found people to talk to and started to act with purpose.
The so-called banquet is to give these people an opportunity, an opportunity to communicate and trade.
At this time, Chelinina came to Louis with a glass of wine.
Louis looked at Chelinina. Although he was dissatisfied with her previous contradiction, he still raised his glass to respond to her.
The two clinked glasses, and Chelinina then drank the wine in the glass.
"Father, long time no see."
"Yeah." Louis nodded. "It's been half a year since we last met. How have you been in the past six months?"
"Thanks to my father, I'm doing very well." Chelinina smiled.
Louis knew that she was mocking him, but he didn't get angry. Instead, he asked: "You haven't given up yet?"
"Give up what?" Chelinina asked back.
"Bringing Antica's branch revenue to the first place is almost impossible. You have to know that the second-ranked Prussian branch has a monthly revenue six times that of yours."
"Oh, it's twice as much now." Celinina said, taking out a monthly financial report and handing it to Louis.
Louis took the report, glanced at it, and frowned.
Chapter 60: Sudden Intrusion
"Celinina..." Louis said in a deep voice after reading the report: "I have thought of many possibilities, but I never thought..."
"I never thought that you would cheat for this matter!" Louis said, pointing at Celinina, his fingers trembling slightly.
"Do you think I can't see it? In that report, the revenue of chambers of commerce in various places has increased threefold."
"You have tripled the revenue of chambers of commerce in almost all cities within a month. Who do you think you are? The goddess of wealth?!"
"But what if I say that all this is true." Celinina looked at Louis, and her expression did not change because of Louis' anger.
"I can afford the money. At the same time, if you don't believe me, you can send someone to the Duke of Antica to check and see if I have cheated."
"Humph." Louis snorted coldly. Although Cherylina looked fearless, who knew if she was pretending to be like this to fool him.
"I will naturally send someone to check this matter later. If there is really a problem, then you should be ready to resign and come back."
Louis said this and snorted coldly.
At this time, Donny politely brought a glass of wine and walked up.
"Uncle Louis, I toast you a glass." Donny said this and raised his glass with a smile.
"Well." Louis also resumed his smile at this time.
No matter what, Donny is the son of the Duke, and he may be his future husband, so he must give him this face.
At the same time, he winked at Cherylina.
"Chelinina, Mr. Donny is so polite, why don't you return the favor?"
"..."Chelinina said nothing, silently filled her glass with wine, suppressed her disgust towards Donny, forced a smile, and then toasted a glass of wine.
"I heard that the business of your uncle's Napoli branch seems to be a little bit unsuccessful recently. Do you need me to help you talk a few words in front of your father?"
"Haha, that's great." Louis said this, as if he really had a good relationship with Donny, patted Donny's shoulder and laughed.
"Okay, I won't bother you young people." Louis said this, pretending to leave, leaving Donny and Chelinina alone here.
Donny looked at Chelinina, with greed in his eyes.
And at this moment, a figure appeared beside Chelinina.
"Miss Chelinina, I wonder if I am lucky enough to dance with you?"
The three people present were stunned when they saw the person coming.
The elegant young man with black hair and purple eyes was Orson.
"Orson..." Donnie muttered Orson's name.
When Louis heard the name, he immediately knew the other party's identity.
"Oh, who was that?" Louis turned back and looked at Orson and Cherylina standing together, who looked like a handsome man and a beautiful woman, and snorted coldly.
"So Cherylina, you are so confident talking to me because you have found another backer for yourself."
Donnie also came up at this time.
"Mr. Orson, I didn't expect you to know Cherylina." As he said this, he looked at Orson with a fake smile and stretched out his hand. "Long time no see, Mr. Orson."
"Long time no see." Orson stretched out his hand and shook hands with Donnie. "You are still the same as before, no change, Mr. Donnie."
"Haha, can I understand this as a compliment to me?"
"Of course." Orson nodded, and then looked at Cherylina again. "So, can you answer my first question, Miss Cherylina?"
"Yes." Cherylina nodded. She could see that Orson was trying to help her out.
"Wait a minute." Louis came up at this time. "Mr. Orson, I don't know what benefits Cherylina gave you to make you help her."
"But, I hope you can understand one thing, no matter how powerful the nobles are, they cannot interfere in other people's family affairs."
"Yeah." Orson nodded. "So I'm just inviting Miss Chelinina to dance. I have no other intention. Or, President Louis, you think I have thoughts about your daughter, so I want to interfere with your family's inheritance. matter?"
"..." Louis was silent, he didn't know how to answer, and then Donnie walked up.
"Master Osun, if I remember correctly, you are already engaged. At this time, if you invite a girl of your age to dance with you, wouldn't you feel sorry for your fiancée?"
"In addition, Chelinina will be my future wife. Don't you think what you are doing is inappropriate?"
"Oh?" When Orson heard this, he raised his eyebrows and then looked at Chelinina.
"Chelinina, when did he become your fiancé?"
"Never." Chelinina shook her head.
"Look." Orson looked at Donnie. "Chelinina is not your fiancée, and..."
"If you ask me, Master Tangny, compared with the romantic affairs you left in the Imperial City, what am I?"
Donnie stood there, too angry to speak.
At this time, Louis also rarely got angry.
"Orson! Your family only became a duke more than ten years ago. Before that, you were not even worthy of entering such a social situation!" Louis said, pointing to Orson's nose. "Your family is just a nouveau riche!"
"Oh? Because it has hundreds of years of history, does it make it noble?" Orson said, looking at Louis with disdain. "Furthermore, President Louis, if I remember correctly, your Bonaventura family only became rich in your father's generation, right? It hasn't been many years yet?"
"If you ask me, your family is just a nouveau riche."
The situation on the field became tense in an instant.
At this time, Chelinina's two brothers also came to the side.
"You, you!"
"Mr. Orson." Mark came up at this time, "I know that you are a little dissatisfied with my little sister's situation, but there is nothing you can do. Who made us born into a business family and no one enters politics."
"Moreover, compared to the Duke of Antica, the Duke of Naples is indeed a better marriage partner in every aspect..."
"So we have to ignore Miss Chelinina's personal wishes and let her marry someone she doesn't like, right?" Orson asked.
"..."
"Orson! Do you think Chelinina likes you?!" Louis shouted angrily at this time. "She just wants to use your identity to fight against me and make me cancel this marriage!"
"You're just the one being used!"
Chapter 61: The whole family is evil
As Louis finished speaking these words loudly, the venue fell into silence for a moment.
Then, Chelinina stepped forward and looked at Louis.
There were tears in her eyes, and her body was shaking slightly with anger.
"Father, since you know, why don't you ask me why I do this?
What to do? "
"Ever since I was little, you have always treated me like a commodity. No matter how hard I try, in your eyes, I am just a prostitute and will never be as good as my two brothers!"
"Even if they are dead! They don't do anything practical at all and can't make any contribution to the development of the Chamber of Commerce. Just because they are your sons! And I am just your daughter!"
"I don't want to marry him at all!" Chelinina pointed at Downey and said loudly. "Yeah, besides being the eldest son of the Florence family, what else is he!?"
"Is it his character that you value? Or his ability?!"
"You just value Duke Giovanni and the entire Duchy of Naples behind him!"
"You don't care about your daughter's happiness at all!"
After she said this, she turned around and left the banquet hall angrily.
Louis remained where he was, speechless with rage.
As the saying goes, family scandals should not be made public, but Chelinina went crazy and exposed all the family affairs.
Louis has no remorse for Chelinina now. On the contrary, if Chelinina comes back, he will slap her twice in the mouth to let her know who raised her so big.
"President Louis." At this time, Orson also looked at Louis and said: "Although I know that primogeniture is still popular among everyone, it is not that there is no precedent for female inheritance."
"Sometimes, you really should look back and take a look. Your daughter is really outstanding." With that said, Orson turned around and left the banquet.
Louis looked at the two people leaving and became so angry that he dropped his wine glass to the ground.
"Father, please calm down." Mark and Lawrence stepped forward and supported Louis. "Little sister, she was just impulsive and will come back later."
"It's no use coming back!" Louis said this, and said harshly: "I have raised her all my life, provided for her to study, fed and clothed her, and now she comes to talk back to me!? So far! I have never made a penny on my own! The biggest failure of my life is raising such a white-eyed wolf!”
"Uncle Louis, don't be angry." Downey also stepped forward at this time to comfort Louis. "You are busy with business matters every day. It is so hard, but it is important to take care of yourself."
"Oh, thank you." Seeing such a sensible Donnie, Louis' anger also subsided a little. "Donnie, don't take Chelinina's words to heart. Don't worry, no matter what, my uncle will definitely help her get together with you in the end."
"With uncle's words, my nephew makes me feel more at ease." Danny smiled after hearing this. "The banquet is still going on. Uncle, please clean up and chat with everyone."
"Yeah." Louis nodded. "My dear nephew, you are still sensible."
With that said, he glanced at Mark and Lawrence.
"You two, you should also learn more from your nephew Tangny. Don't spend your whole day learning the good stuff and only learning the bad stuff."
"Yes, father." After hearing this, the two nodded respectfully.
They are also self-aware. In terms of intelligence, the two of them may not be as good as Chelinina, but they know how to bow their heads. As long as they humble themselves in front of their father and do what their father says, they are expected to inherit their father's position.
Therefore, although they were very disdainful towards Downey, the two of them still pretended to respect Downey, which also benefited Downey a lot.
…
The second half of the banquet ended in a rather dull atmosphere. After all, such a big conflict broke out during the banquet. It is still difficult to completely forget it.
After the banquet, Louis called his two sons into a room alone.
"Father, did you call us?" Mark asked.
"Yes." Louis nodded, and then said: "When you go back today, cut off all business contacts between the branches you are responsible for and Antica."
"Father...you don't have to be so awesome, right?!" Lawrence asked in surprise after hearing this. "Although Chelinina did something wrong, her actions will also impact our other branches in the short term."
"But the impact on you will be much smaller, because you can still maintain trade relations with other branches, but Chelinina's side is all cut off."
"Father, I can understand your anger, but do you really want to do this? The Antica branch is also a subordinate of the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce. Isn't this a bit too childish..." Mark said worriedly arrive.
"You are the president and I am the president!?" When Louis heard this, he slammed the table angrily. "I asked you to do this, and you just do it, what's wrong? Mark, do you want to imitate your sister and talk back to me?!
"
"No, no." Mark shook his head quickly. "Whatever Father says, we will do it."
Lawrence on the side lowered his head and laughed secretly when he saw Mark's appearance.
"That's it!" Louis said. "The Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce was created by your grandfather and I together back then. Isn't she, Chelinina, capable?! Let's see if she can manage well under such circumstances!"
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