Chapter 447 Mr. Mei visits

Otherwise, he couldn't understand how these animals could suddenly appear without making a sound within five minutes.

In short, no matter how much Old Master Wang doubted himself, the Qiao family still held their housewarming party.

To the Qiao family's surprise, Qiao Changdong did not invite many people, but many unexpected people came.

One of them was Old Master Chang, who had returned to Baoyi City. I don't know where he got the inside scoop, but he brought his son-in-law and came to visit with a big smile.

Upon arriving at the Qiao family home and seeing Qiao Qiao and Qiao Changdong, Old Master Chang feigned anger and complained.

"Qiaowawa, Brother Qiao, what's going on with you? Why didn't you tell me about something so important? Luckily I had my own way of finding out, otherwise I would have missed it again."

Qiao Changdong was both amused and exasperated.

Actually, the purpose of this banquet was to let Grandpa Wang experience the local customs and traditions. Apart from the families in the village and town with whom he had social connections, he did not notify anyone else.

However, without notifying him, besides Old Master Chang, many other people came uninvited.

For example, Cheng Zhisheng, the county leader who came to investigate last time, brought several staff members from his office with him.

The road construction project in Hongfeng Town is now on the agenda, and construction can begin as soon as the route design is completed.

There was another group of people, from the hospital where Qiao Xiaoyun worked. The hospital director brought over several doctors and nurses who were part of the leadership team but not on duty.

If you were to ask what other great things have happened in Hongfeng Town recently besides the road construction, it would probably be that their county hospital received a large donation.

In addition to doubling the size of the hospital and significantly improving its facilities, a batch of extremely valuable medical equipment—something even the city's hospitals don't have—is about to be delivered to their hospital.

The medical equipment was donated by Yan Xiaoqing and Grandpa Wang.

The Wang family's main businesses now are medical equipment and pharmaceutical manufacturing, which are related to hospitals.

The last time Yan Xiaoqing accompanied Yan Liti to take Meng Zihuan to the hospital, she witnessed how poor the medical conditions were and how scarce the medical equipment was. After returning, she called Wang Xinghua.

Later, when Qiao Xiaoyun was hospitalized, she went to see the hospital director in person.

She immediately asked the hospital director to fill out a form, specifying what medical equipment the hospital needed. She and Grandpa Wang would donate it to the hospital in Qiao Qiao's name, as long as she could obtain it.

When the dean heard Yan Xiaoqing's words, he almost thought he was hallucinating.

Listen to this, listen to this! What arrogance, no, what pleasing words!

Let them fill out the forms themselves! We'll get whatever they want for the hospital!

What surprised the dean even more was Yan Xiaoqing's next words.

"You don't need to worry about not knowing how to use it. We will send relevant experts over at the same time. If it's convenient for you, we can also set up a training course for you in the county."

For a county-level city to receive such a donation is something the hospital director never dared to dream of before.

Therefore, many leaders from various sectors of the county attended Qiao Changdong's housewarming party.

In their eyes, the Qiao family is now incredibly desirable, and they wish they could treat them all like royalty.

However, although Yan Xiaoqing's donation was also made in Qiao Qiao's name, everyone learned from previous lessons and did not allow the media to report on it extensively. Only the county leaders and some people in the hospital knew about it.

In short, Qiao Changdong's small housewarming party attracted many people who surprised the Qiao family.

The other person who surprised Qiao Changdong and Qiao Qiao was Mr. Mei Tianming, whom they had tried to meet but failed to see last time.

Mr. Mei was still wearing a long robe, exuding an air of otherworldly elegance.

Perhaps fearing that his appearance without eyeballs would frighten others, he wore sunglasses on the bridge of his nose when he came to the Qiao family's new house.

To outsiders, he might just look a little strange, but no one would notice that he has no eyeballs.

Standing outside to greet the guests were Qiao Changcai and Mo Wenpei. Mo Wenpei had previously accompanied Qiao Xiaoyun to meet Mei Tianming.

Seeing him walk over hidden in the crowd, she was first startled, then immediately told Qiao Changcai beside her to go to the inner room to call Qiao Changdong, while she went to greet Mei Tianming.

Qiao Qiao was sitting with Grandpa Wang and Qiao Xiaoyun at the table in the courtyard where the gift register was being prepared.

Grandpa Wang signed the papers, and Qiao Xiaoyun helped translate, while also handing out cigarettes and candy.

Qiao Qiao's cheeks were puffed out, and she had a piece of chocolate in her mouth. She watched curiously as Grandpa Wang wrote down the names in the gift book, and praised him generously: "Grandpa, your handwriting is so beautiful."

Unlike her handwriting, which resembled chicken feet in her previous life, her family said it was because she ate too many chicken feet that her handwriting looked like chicken feet!

The gift register is a book used in Hongfeng Town to record favors and gifts received.

When someone hosts a banquet, regardless of the type of wine, a monetary gift is expected. The host will record the gift in a special gift book so that they can reciprocate when someone else hosts a banquet in the future.

Qiao Changdong didn't expect to receive much in gifts this time; he just wanted to give a token amount. Unexpectedly, he actually received nearly ten thousand yuan in gifts.

Of course, most of these gifts came from relatives of the Yan family and the Wang family.

According to the customary exchange of gifts in Hongfeng Town, the usual gift money between neighbors is two to five yuan, and if the relationship is better, it is ten to twenty yuan.

Of course, there are also some that cost hundreds.

This usually refers to an extremely close sibling relationship.

The Pei family gave the Qiao family a gift of five hundred coins this time.

The two Wang brothers both gave gifts in units of thousands.

Then there were the relatives on Yan's side. Yan Liti didn't forget to call each of them to inform them to send their gift money by mail.

The only pity is that Shen Qingyan didn't come back for the banquet, nor did he make a single phone call.

Before dinner, Qiao Qiao deliberately sat down next to the newly bought high-end sofa, pretending to be casual, but actually she was always by the phone, wanting to answer it as soon as Shen Qingyan called.

Unfortunately, she waited a long time but never received it.

She was forced to leave the phone when the banquet began.

After the meal, I would stand here and watch as the guests who had finished eating came over to give me their monetary gifts.

Just as she was engrossed in watching, she saw Mo Wenpei walking over hurriedly and asking, "Sweetie, where's your dad?"

Qiao Qiao pointed in a direction into the house.

Qiao Changdong was having drinks with Old Master Chang, who had come from Baoyi City.

"Sweetie, go and call your dad, Mr. Mei is here."

Mr. Mei?

Mei Tianming?