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Xu Taiping hadn't thought that things would go so smoothly. The Zhao Family's people couldn't persuade Old Master Zhao to go back, yet he had convinced them with just a few words. He had really given Xu Taiping a lot of face.

After following the old man around the park for a while, Xu Taiping left first.

Early the next morning, Xu Taiping rented a decent Audi A6 and specifically came to pick up the old man.

What surprised Xu Taiping was that the old man wasn't at home. He stuck a piece of paper on the door of his house with this sentence written on it.

"I'm going out to buy a new set of clothes. You go to the Zhao Family first, I'll call my own car later."

Xu Taiping smiled as he took the piece of paper from the door, put it into his pocket, and drove towards the Zhao Family.

Today, the Zhao Family was bustling with gongs and drums, firecrackers ringing in unison.

Outside the Zhao Family's huge door, there was a large open space.

In a place like the capital city where every inch of land was worth tens of billions of dollars, this piece of land was used as a parking lot by the Zhao Family.

Anyone who wanted to visit the Zhao Family had to park their car here, whether they were high ranking officials or rich people. They had to park their car and enter through the main entrance of the Zhao Family. This was how a visitor should look like.

Today, the Zhao Family had been busy since around 5 in the morning.

After cooking the sheep and slaughtering the cattle, they also had to sacrifice their ancestors. This sacrificial offering was not for the old man who was still trampling outside, nor was it for the old man Zhao Tie-zhu's father, Zhao Tie-zhu, but for the ancestors of the Zhao Family.

The Zhao family had existed for many years, even before Zhao Gang took money. Although Zhao Jin was called the Old Master Zhao, the real ancestor was the Old Zhao family's ancestor a few hundred years ago.

Ancestor worshiping was a very important matter for large families. Xu Taiping felt that he was lucky that he hadn't returned home yet, so he naturally didn't have to attend these complicated rituals early in the morning.

It was nine o'clock in the morning when Xu Taiping arrived at the Zhao Family residence.

Old Master Zhao's birthday was in the afternoon, and it was said that people from the Zhao Family would gather at night, but this had nothing to do with anyone else.

The parking lot outside the Zhao family was full. Xu Taiping thought there would be a lot of luxury cars parked here, but when he arrived, he realized that his A6 was already one of the best!

The most ordinary cars here were one or two hundred thousand cars, and they seemed to have been there for quite some time.

Xu Taiping parked the car, and someone immediately walked over, asking for Xu Taiping's birthday invitation.

Xu Taiping took out the invitation card, and the man brought him to the front door of the Zhao Family.

At this moment, there was a queue outside the main gate of the Zhao Family.

This refreshed Xu Taiping's sense of knowledge. He looked carefully at the front of the line and realized that the only reason they were queuing up was because the security check was in progress.

This was the first time Xu Taiping had gone to someone else's home for a birthday feast and had met someone who wanted to be examined.

"Mr Xu, please follow me this way." When the person in charge of leading the way for Xu Taiping saw that Xu Taiping was going to walk towards the back of the group, he quickly said.

"Which way?" Xu Taiping asked in surprise.

"You don't need to queue here." The guide said.

Xu Taiping looked at him in surprise. The surrounding people also looked at him in surprise.

Basically, they were all very powerful people, and most of them were middle-aged and old people. Those who came to celebrate their birthday, in their thirties or forties, had to queue, because these types of people were not as powerful as the others in the outside world. Although they were powerful in the outside world, this was the place where the Zhao Family gathered.

Xu Taiping was led to a side door.

The side door was open, but no one was leaving.

Xu Taiping walked to the door and saw that Xu Taiping had asked for his invitation card, so he gave it to him. After Xu Taiping inspected the invitation card, Xu Taiping was led through the side door and into the Zhao Family compound.

The Zhao Family was not that luxurious. As soon as they entered the side door, they saw a huge courtyard.

The courtyard was huge, with many fake mountains and ponds in the middle.

Such a courtyard actually didn't seem that big of a deal. However, this was the capital city, and every inch of land was worth money. It made sense that such a large place as a yard would be like a parking lot.

Using a land worth tens of billions as a parking lot was itself an extremely low-key luxury. It was far more powerful than those art pieces, gold, silver, or jewelry that were all hung on the walls.

At this moment, there were quite a number of people cleaning the courtyard. Xu Taiping was led across the courtyard, and they arrived at the heart of the Zhao Family.

The entire style of construction of the Zhao Family was imitating the style of architecture of ancient times. Whether it was the courtyard or the pavilions in the surroundings, they all gave you the feeling of being in an ancient and powerful family.

The core area of the Zhao family was also a huge courtyard. In front of him, there were over a hundred tables and chairs, and on the side of the courtyard, there were many 2-3 storey tall pavilions. All of them were made of wood.

According to Old Z, the core members of the Zhao Family all lived in this place. Only in this place could they be called the Zhao Family.

The Zhao Family had a lot of businesses in the capital and a lot of properties, but no matter where the house was, it couldn't be called the Zhao Family because there were no ancestral shrines there.

The ancestral shrine of the Zhao Family was located deep within the pavilion, in the middle of which were many ancestors of the Zhao Family. The ancestral temple was where the Zhao Family's ancestral worship ceremony was held.

At this moment, many people had already arrived in the courtyard. On each table was a sign with a name on it.

Looking at these signs, Xu Taiping was deeply moved. He remembered all the banquets that he had attended, there were rarely any signs with names on them like this. Everyone was basically casually sitting, unless some leader's seat was arranged or something.

This big family was really big family, even the people that came were arranged to sit wherever they went.

Xu Taiping was sighing with emotion when a pretty girl brought a tray with tea and steaming towels to him.

"Please have a cup of tea, it's our family's tea leaves!" The little girl said to Xu Taiping with a smile.

"He really has a card up his sleeve!" Xu Taiping sighed and took a sip of tea. He then took out a towel and wiped his face and hands.

Having done this, Xu Taiping put the towel on the plate and asked, "Where's the old man?"

"The old man is talking to someone in the room, he'll be out in a moment, please wait a moment!" As the little girl spoke, she turned around and left.

Xu Taiping had nothing to do, so he wasn't in a hurry to find his seat. He casually found a seat at the edge of the yard.

Many people were like Xu Taiping, not in a hurry to find their seats. They had already found their own, but seeing that there weren't many people sitting, they didn't sit on their own, just on the side of the yard.

After all, those who were able to receive an invitation to attend the birthday banquet were all people of status. They would chat for a while, get to know each other, and make friends with each other.

Xu Taiping was an extrovert so he naturally started to chat with these people.

After chatting for a while, Xu Taiping realized that the first words these people had said to each other were all about each other's family names.

Although this was normal social etiquette, Xu Taiping still felt that it was a little strange.

After chatting for a while, Xu Taiping finally understood. The main reason why these people wanted to ask for your surname was to confirm that the person standing in front of them was surnamed Zhao. If his surname was Zhao, then it was possible that he was a member of the Zhao Family.

Zhao Tianzhu had married many wives and had many children. Among these children, Zhao Tianzhu was the most outstanding, and after inheriting the position of Patriarch of Zhao Tianzhu, Zhao Tianzhu had married many more wives and had many children.

Because of this relationship, at least several hundred people in the Zhao Family were related to each other. Basically, all of them belonged to their own generation.

Of course, there were those who didn't like names. There were many people in the Zhao Family, after all, they were a gathering place for all sorts of mysterious people. Some people didn't like names, so they gave children names as they pleased.

In the current Zhao Family, the younger generation in the middle were the 'Tai' generation. For example, Zhao Taixu, Zhao Taiji, and Zhao Taiheng. They were the three most outstanding individuals.

Although Xu Taiping's name had the word 'too' on it, his surname was not Zhao. Therefore, the people who chatted with him took him for a normal guest just like them.

Xu Taiping sat by the side for an hour, two people beside him.

Xu Taiping had just made friends with these two. One of them was called Chen Shengli, the other was called Li Chenghuan.

However, when they talked, Xu Taiping could feel that this person must be very rich. And that Li Chenghuan came from the southwest, and did business with herbs, and opened a small pharmacy, and didn't have any money, and didn't have any rights either. This made Xu Taiping very surprised, as how someone like him could have come to Old Master Zhao's birthday feast, and only later did he find out that in the past, Old Master Zhao had contracted a serious illness and gave a prescription to a doctor. However, since the road was long, Li Chenghuan's grandfather was already old. If he couldn't come, then Li Chenghuan would come.

These two could be considered to be able to chat with Xu Taiping, so they sat down next to him and talked. Mobile users please browse and read, better reading experience.