Chapter 129 Dinner in the Twin Cities
It only took Zaun three days to expel all the Noxians in Zaun, while Piltover took a little longer, because of the business between Zaun and these Noxians. Often it is just a relationship between the seller and the buyer.
The Noxians went to Zaun to buy resources and weapons, and Zaun sold them to them. Apart from that, they had no other contact. After all, apart from the weird weapons, Zaun had nothing to make Noxans The place that Si likes.
But Piltover is different. Piltover and Noxus have various business connections. They are not just pure sales relationships. Many of them are investor-invested relationships. Therefore, Piltover wants to Driving away the Noxians would take a long time, and the compensation would be quite large.
Although Silko felt that Piltover had already chosen to do this, why would he still be friendly with the Noxians?
Isn't this taking off your pants and farting? Are you looking for trouble?
But Lenata rejected Silko's idea, although Piltover could indeed just drive them away without paying for the goods or liquidated damages to the Noxian merchants. After all, war has been officially declared. .
Doing so would save a fortune, but it would also damage Piltover's credibility.
Lenata is a genius businessman. She failed to inherit the family's alchemy skills, but she realized the alchemy on her own. She was self-taught in business methods. In Zaun, she used Zaun's method to do business in Piltover. Husband, she did it the Piltover way.
In different places, her methods of doing business will be different. From the perspective of Piltover, Lenata believes that Piltover is now a technological city-state, but before the advent of Hex Technology, Piltover Husband is a trading city-state.
The means it relies on to make a living and the way it accumulates wealth all rely on maritime trade. It cannot be said that after acquiring new technologies and new means, it will abandon the means it once relied on for survival.
After all, the technological products produced by Piltover must have something to sell, right?
Because of this, it took half a month for Piltover not to see a single Noxian businessman.
The Twin Cities did not actually announce the severance of diplomatic relations with Noxus, but after learning about this incident and looking at the small cities and small countries that the Twin Cities have recently operated, they all know that Valoran is going to change in the future.
The former pearl of trade is no longer satisfied with being just a commercial transit point for major city-states. Instead, it officially wants to attend the stage on the continent of Valoran and show off its muscles.
Interestingly, Noxus made no move at all about this. Just as Mel said, the Noxians have no time to deal with the two cities at the moment. Perhaps in Darkwill's eyes, Put together, Piltover and Zaun are just little bugs that can be eliminated by Leiser's garrison in one round.
Therefore, Noxus is still fighting everywhere, ignoring the provocations from this "little bug" in the Twin Cities.
The little bugs were content to hide in the shadows, evolving rapidly at a speed that the Noxians could not imagine.
At the end of February, Jace came to the parliament building in Zaun this afternoon.
With a smile on his face, he looked at Li Ke and Silko and said, "Although we haven't been able to capture all the war masons in the city-state, Mel feels that our two cities should hold a dinner party."< br>
"It's time for the top management of Zaun and the top management of Piltover to meet each other. We have to understand each other, right?"
Jess is here to deliver a message to Mel.
Holding the dinner was Mel's idea. First, it was to stabilize the relationship between the two cities. The two cities are now cooperating not only economically, but also militarily. It is not an exaggeration to say that the two cities are one.
Although the people of Zaun didn't mention it, and the people of Piltover didn't have the nerve to say that the people of the two cities were one family, everyone tacitly understood this.
Believing in the same god, they once had a common culture, and now they have powerful enemies outside. These invisibly brought the people of the two cities together.
Moreover, Zaun really needs Piltover's financial resources, and Piltover also needs Zaun's trust.
The second reason is that Mel wants the war masons who are still in Piltover to see that the current relationship between Piltover and Zaun has completely tied the two cities to death in the eyes of Noxus. Together.
Make Piltover heavier!
"Where is the location?" Hilko asked.
"Blue Smoke Manor is the manor behind the Parliament Buildings in Piltover."
"Oh, that rich area, Li Ke, I went there when I was young." After hearing this, Jinx looked at Li Ke and said.
Li Ke searched his memory and found that he had never been there, so he said, "Then why haven't I been there?"
"You were hanging out with Marson at that time, Vi would definitely not take you there." Jinx said.
She did go to Lanxun Manor when she was a child. Wei took her there, saying that she wanted to get some valuable things back, but it was a pity. Is it so easy to get into a manor in a wealthy area?
In the end, Vi could only leave with Jinx in despair.
"I think it's feasible. I haven't been to a high-class party yet." Li Ke thought for a while and said, he looked at Jinx and said, "Do you want to go?"
"I kind of want to, but I kind of don't want to." Jinx thought for a while and said.
Seeing Li Ke tilting his head to look at her, Jinx gave an explanation: "I also want to see what they eat at the banquet, listen to their music, and see their dance, well. But I am not suitable for that occasion. Wouldn’t it be embarrassing if I went with my clothes?”
"Bangbao, I will take off the head of anyone who dares to speak against you." Fandel said from the side.
Jinx's clothing has always been based on comfort and convenience. She occasionally wears skirts now, but rarely, and usually wears overalls and denim jackets. This kind of dress and her personality are indeed inconsistent with upper-class dinners.
Hilko also had a smile on his face, looked at Jace, and said, "What Fandel means is also what I mean. We can go up, attend this dinner, and talk about the future development of the two cities and the business we can do." , But if someone can't control their mouths, then our mouths will only become dirtier." "I understand, no, I have been in Zaun for so long, why am I only going back for a while, and you are like this. To me?" Jace was helpless and said a little aggrievedly as he spread his hands.
Jace then spoke:
"Actually, the dinner party in Piltover is nothing interesting. It's nothing more than a group of well-dressed guys, wearing expensive jewelry, eating something elegantly with soothing music, and then holding up a glass of wine without taking a sip for a long time. Wandering around with a wine glass, chatting with other people who are equally pretentious, talking about business but not doing business.”
Jace said with a mocking smile on his face: "So speaking of it, I would actually rather attend Zaun's dinner party. Everyone gathers together to eat barbecue with their hands, drink heavily, punch fists and play cards. What the hell It’s called a banquet!”
"However, you should go take a look. After all, it is a good thing to be exposed to new things, isn't it?" Jace said to Hilko.
"Where's the time?"
"Tomorrow evening, you will be able to enter at five o'clock, and the official start will be at seven o'clock."
"You can come over at half past six in the evening." Jace said.
After that, he said hello to Li Ke, and then returned to Piltover alone.
After Jace left, the councilors of Zaun started chatting.
"The Piltover people's dinner party. To be honest, I really wanted to sneak into that kind of event before. I heard that the food they put on the table was all lobster, lamb chops, steak and so on." Scar swallowed his saliva and said. .
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Aunt Myrna had stars in her eyes, "Can I meet the actors in the musical there? I went to the musical several times recently with Caitlin and Wei, and I fell in love with an actress."< br>
"Oh, kids, don't be nervous." Heimerdinger clapped his little hands, stood up and said, "I have attended countless dinner parties. If you don't understand anything, just ask me."
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"Then Senator Heimerdinger, what kind of clothes do you think we should wear?" Myrna asked quickly.
Heimerdinger looked at her, laughed and said: "My child, you only need to wear what you think looks best."
"Heimerdinger is right, everyone just needs to wear the clothes they like." Hilko said, he put his fingers on the table, tapped the table with his fingers, and said:
"We are equal to the people of Piltover. This time, they also invited us to the banquet. We are free to wear whatever we want. We don't have to please them or cater to them."
"Then, let's get off work early today and take half a day off tomorrow. Let's get ready."
Hilko clapped his hands with a smile and said disbandment.
Li Ke and Jinx were the first to run out of the parliament door together, leaving a group of congressmen who had just stood up looking at their backs.
Myrna suddenly muttered: "I have something to say, that is, when do they plan to get married?"
Hilko was stunned, with a hint of complexity in his eyes, and Fandel next to him also looked confused.
Jinx/Bangbao is getting married.
Then, who of the two of them will be Jinx's father and attend the wedding?
Invisibly, the congressman shivered and suddenly felt a little cold.
Then, Scar discovered the reason, stretched out his hand and pulled Marna's shoulder, and gestured Marna to look somewhere.
Myrna looked over.
Seeing Hilko and Fandel looking at each other, the coldness emanated from them
"Let's go too." Myrna said quickly.
"I'm going to buy some clothes, Jinx, please help me take a look."
“I’ll also buy cosmetics later!”
"Cosmetics? Do you know how to put on makeup?"
"I'm so good at painting, isn't makeup a trivial matter?"
"That's right. So what are you going to wear tomorrow night? Jeans and black pants?"
“If I don’t tell you, you’ll know until tomorrow night~”
Walking towards the market in Zaun, Li Ke and Jinx were chatting.
Dinner party.
Li Ke's first thought was of course a suit, but he felt that his parliamentary attire was also quite good. On the white clothes, there were beautiful white petals on the chest, dark black trousers, and the three colors of black, white and gray couldn't be matched. It will be bad.
However, Li Ke is of course still most concerned about what Jinx will wear.
Thinking about tomorrow, hey, don’t tell me, Li Ke is really excited now
(End of chapter)