……

An hour later, the banquet started as scheduled. After Louis finished his opening speech, the upper-class people present each looked for someone to talk to and began 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, and although he was unhappy with her previous contradiction to him, he still raised his glass to respond to her.

The two clinked their glasses, and Chelinina then drank the wine in her glass in one gulp.

"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 am living a good life." Chelinina smiled.

Louis knew she was mocking him, but he didn't get angry. Instead, he asked, "You haven't given up yet?"

"Give up what?" Chelinina asked.

"It is almost impossible to bring Antica's branch's income to the first place. You have to know that the second-ranked Prussian branch has a monthly income six times that of your branch."

"Oh, so it's doubled now." Chelinina said this, took out a monthly financial report and handed it to Louis.

Louis took the financial report, took a look at it, and frowned.

Chapter 60: Sudden Intrusion

"Cherinina..." Louis said in a deep voice after reading the financial report: "I have thought of many possibilities, but I never thought..."

"I never thought that you would cheat for this matter!" Louis said this, pointing at Celinina, his fingers trembling slightly.

"Do you think I can't see it? In that financial report, the revenue of local chambers of commerce has increased threefold."

"In just one month, I have tripled the revenue of almost all the chambers of commerce in the cities. Who do you think you are? The goddess of wealth?!"

"But what if I say that all this is true?" Chelinina looked at Louis, 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 Dukedom of Antica to verify whether I have cheated or not."

"Hmph." Louis snorted coldly. Although Chelinina looked fearless, who knew if she was pretending to be like this on purpose to fool him.

"I will naturally send someone to check on this matter later. If there is really a problem, then you should prepare to be dismissed and return home."

Louis said this and snorted coldly.

At this time, Donnie politely came up with a glass of wine.

"Uncle Louis, I toast to you." Donnie said, raising his glass with a smile.

"Yeah." Louis also smiled again at this time.

No matter what, Tony is the son of the Duke after all, and he may very well be her future husband, so she must give him some face.

At the same time, he winked at Chelinina.

"Chellinina, Mr. Donny is so polite, why don't you give him a toast in return?"

"..." Chelinina said nothing, silently filled her glass with wine, suppressed her disgust towards Donny, forced a smile, and then toasted him with a glass of wine.

"I heard that your uncle's Naples branch's business seems to be a little bit difficult recently. Do you need me to help you talk to your father?"

"Haha, that's great." Louis said this, as if he really had a good relationship with Tony. He patted Tony's shoulder and laughed.

"Okay, I won't bother you young people anymore." Louis said this and prepared to leave, leaving Donny and Chelinina alone here.

Donnie looked at Chelinina with greed in his eyes.

And at this moment, a figure appeared beside Chelinina.

"Miss Chelinina, I wonder if I would be lucky enough to dance with you?"

The three people present were stunned when they saw the person coming.

The handsome young man with black hair and purple eyes is Orson.

"Orson..." Donnie murmured Orson's name.

When Louis heard the name, he immediately knew the other party's identity.

"Oh, I was wondering who it was." Louis turned back and snorted coldly at the look of Orson and Chelinina standing together, a handsome couple.

"It turns out that you are so confident talking to me, Chelinina, because you have found another backer for yourself."

Donny also came up at this time.

"Mr. Orson, I didn't expect you to know Cherylina." He looked at Orson with a fake smile and held 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 always, Mr. Donnie."

"Haha, can I take this as a compliment?"

"Of course." Orson nodded, then looked at Chelinina. "So, can you answer my first question, Miss Chelinina?"

"Yeah." Chelinina nodded. She could see that Orson wanted to help her out.

"Wait a minute." Louis came up at this time. "Mr. Orson, I don't know what benefit Chelinina gave you to make you help her."

"But I hope you can understand one thing. No matter how powerful a noble is, they cannot interfere in other people's family affairs."

"Yes." Orson nodded. "So I'm just inviting Miss Cherylina to dance with me, and I don't have any other intentions. Or, President Louis, do you think I have feelings for your daughter and want to interfere in your family's inheritance?"

"..." Louis was silent. He didn't know how to answer. Then, Donny walked up.

"Mr. Orson, if I remember correctly, you are already engaged. At this time, don't you feel sorry for your fiancée by inviting a girl of your age to dance with you?"

"Besides, Chelinina will be my future wife. Don't you think that what you did is inappropriate?"

"Oh?" Orson raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and then looked at Chelinina.

"Cherinina, when did he become your fiancé?"

"Never." Chelinina shook her head.

"Look." Orson looked at Donnie. "Cherinina is not your fiancée, and..."

"If you ask me, Mr. Tangni, compared with the romantic affairs you left behind in the Imperial City, what I have is nothing."

Donnie stood there, too angry to speak.

At this time, Louis also got angry, which was rare.

"Orson! Your family only became dukes a dozen years ago. Before that, you were not even worthy of entering such social occasions!" Louis said, pointing at Orson's nose. "Your family is nothing more than a nouveau riche!"

"Oh? Because it has hundreds of years of history, it is noble?" Orson said, looking at Louis with disdain. "And, President Louis, if I remember correctly, your Bonaventura family also became rich during your father's generation, right? It hasn't been that many years since then?"

"If you ask me, your family is nothing more than a nouveau riche."

The situation on the field became tense in an instant.

At this time, Chelinina's two brothers also came over.

"you you!"

"Mr. Orson." At this time, Mark came up and said, "I know you are a little dissatisfied with my situation, but there is nothing we can do. We were born in a merchant family and no one is in politics."

"Moreover, compared to the Duchy of Antica, the Duchy 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 back.

"..."

"Orson! Do you think Cherylina 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 field fell into silence for a moment.

Then, Chelinina walked forward and looked at Louis.

Tears welled up in her eyes and her body was shaking slightly with anger.

"Father, since you know this, why don't you ask me why I do this?

Do it? "

"You have always treated me like a commodity since I was a child. No matter how hard I try, in your eyes, I am just a woman and will never be as good as my two brothers!"

"Even if they are just sitting there doing nothing and can't do anything for the development of the Chamber of Commerce, it's because they are your sons! And I am just your daughter!"

"I don't want to marry him at all!" Chelinina pointed at Donnie and said loudly. "Yeah, besides being the eldest son of the Florence family, what else is he!?"

"Do you value his character? Or his ability?!"

"You only care about 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 stayed where he was, too angry to speak.

As the saying goes, family disgrace should not be made public, but Chelinina went crazy and revealed all the family affairs.

Louis now has no remorse towards Celinina at all. On the contrary, if Celinina comes back, he will slap her twice to let her know who raised her.

"President Louis." At this time, Orson also looked at Louis and said, "Although I know that the eldest son inheritance system is still popular now, there are precedents for female inheritance."

"Sometimes, you really should look back and see that your daughter is really outstanding." Having said this, Orson turned around and left the banquet.

Louis looked at the two people leaving, and was so angry that he threw his wine glass to the ground.

"Father, please calm down." Mark and Lawrence stepped forward and supported Louis. "My little sister was just impulsive and will be back later."

"It's no use coming back!" Louis said, ruthlessly, "I raised her, paid for her education, and kept her well fed and clothed, all my life, just for her to talk back at me now!? She has never earned a penny on her own! The most unsuccessful thing I've done in my life, Louis, is raising such an ungrateful person!"

"Uncle Louis, please don't be angry." Donnie also stepped forward and tried to comfort Louis. "You are busy with business every day, it's so hard, you should take care of your health."

"Oh, thank you." Seeing such a sensible Donny, Louis's anger subsided a little. "Donny, don't take Cherylina's words to heart. Don't worry, no matter what happens, I, your uncle, will definitely help you and her get together in the end."

"I feel much more relieved after hearing your words, uncle." Danny smiled. "The party is still going on, uncle, clean up and chat with everyone."

"Yeah." Louis nodded. "My dear nephew, you are sensible."

As he said this, he glanced at Mark and Lawrence.

"You two should also learn more from Nephew Tang Ni, and stop learning bad things instead of good ones."

"Yes, father." Upon hearing this, the two nodded respectfully.

They also know themselves well. In terms of intelligence and talent, they may not be as good as Chelinina, but they know how to bow their heads. As long as they are humble in front of their father and do what their father says, they will have the hope of inheriting their father's position.

Therefore, although they were disdainful of Donny, the two still pretended to respect him, which made Donny very happy.

……

The second half of the banquet ended in a rather depressing atmosphere. After all, such a big conflict broke out at the banquet, it was still difficult to completely forget it.

After the banquet, Louis called his two sons into a room alone.

"Dad, did you call us?" Mark asked.

"Yes." Louis nodded, and then said: "After you go back today, cut off all business dealings between the branch you are in charge of and Antica."

"Father... you don't have to be so ruthless, right?!" Lawrence asked in surprise after hearing this. "Although Chelinina did something wrong, this will also affect 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 all trade relations with Chelinina will be cut off."

"Father, I understand your anger, but do you really want to do this? The Antica branch is also under the Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce. Isn't it a bit too frivolous to do this..." Mark said worriedly.

"You are the president and I am the president!?" Louis slammed the table angrily when he heard this. "I told you to do this, so you did it. What's wrong? Mark, are you going to learn from your sister and talk back to me?!

"

"No, no." Mark shook his head. "We just do what our father says."

Lawrence, who was standing by, saw Mark's appearance and laughed secretly with his head down.

"That's it!" Louis said. "The Silver Moon Chamber of Commerce was built by your grandfather and I. Isn't Chelinina capable?! Let's see if she can manage it well under such circumstances!"

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