Chapter 2345 — The Wrong Door
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"Tell your chairman my name is Han Xiaohu, of East Sea City's hidden Han family. If he doesn't welcome me, I don't welcome him either. He can get the hell out of East Sea City tomorrow—my family will take over his hotels and his businesses!" Han Xiaohu's voice was not loud, but it carried the weight of authority. East Sea City's hidden Han family had that kind of backing. For years they had kept a low profile and stirred up no trouble, but they were not afraid of trouble either!
Other things could be endured, but an insult to the boss—never!
"Hid... hidden Han family?" The lobby manager froze. He might not be important enough to come into contact with that world, but as the lobby manager of East Sea City's most luxurious restaurant, he had heard that the city harbored two great families—the hidden Zhao family and the hidden Han family—two colossi no one could afford to provoke!
And so the lobby manager's expression changed. The hidden Han family—at the very mention of it he lost his composure, and with none of the arrogance he had shown upon entering the room, he blurted out: "My apologies—I've come to the wrong door!"
Then he tucked his tail between his legs and fled, a woebegone look on his face, to call the chairman.
The lobby manager vaguely knew that the chairman had some power and connections, but they seemed neither great nor deep, so he wisely chose to swallow his anger.
"Chairman Zhao..." The lobby manager put through a call to Zhao Guangsi, chairman of the Guangsi Group behind the Arctic Ocean Seafood Restaurant.
"Well? The task I gave you—is it done?" Zhao Guangsi asked.
"Chairman Zhao, we have trouble. Someone from the hidden Han family has shown up—he says his name is Han Xiaohu, and he's with the very people in that private room you wanted thrown out!" the lobby manager said, his face twisted with dismay. "The moment he arrived he was shouting that you should get out of East Sea City and that his family would take over your businesses..."
"What! The hidden Han family? What are they doing here?" Zhao Guangsi was thrown into alarm by the lobby manager's words. He had never imagined the hidden Han family would intervene! Didn't the hidden Han family stay out of business? Why were they meddling in this of all things?
Zhao Guangsi's head began to ache. In the past he would not have feared the hidden Han family, for two reasons: first, he had claimed kinship with Zhao Guangyin, the young heir of the hidden Zhao family, making him an outer business member of that family; he paid the hidden Zhao family a great deal of money every year, and naturally they supported him.
Second, before the Hidden World Family Summit, the hidden Han family had been small and declining, a clan the great hidden houses all wanted to carve up. But after the Hidden World Family Summit, the winds had changed abruptly: the hidden Han family had miraculously secured its footing, and the hidden Zhao family seemed to hold them in some wariness now, no longer suppressing them as before.
As an outer member, Zhao Guangsi did not know the inside story, but he did know that the hidden Han family was not to be trifled with. What was more, he had already been thoroughly marginalized by the hidden Zhao family—he had been dragged into the fallout from what happened with his son Zhao Fafa.
Of course, because he still paid tribute to Zhao Guangyin and still handed the hidden Zhao family large sums every month, he had quickly regained his footing in East Sea City—but he would never again rise to a higher stage.
The hidden Zhao family had picked a new business representative: the chairman of the East Sea Chamber of Commerce, Lei Daming.
It had been Lei Daming's order just now that had him throwing people out. He could not possibly defy Lei Daming's demands, for he and Lei Daming belonged to the same faction.