Chapter 44

Chapter 044 Nova closed her mouth and said uttered no word. Chester smiled a little bit and said: “Don‘t

be afraid, I‘ll go up with you if you have worries.” Nova breathed slightly and thought, it was just like what

Chester said, there was no turning back since she had come this far. She thought, whatever, if Henry

showed no mercy, then she would be ruthless. At this moment. Hiram was still on stage with a smile on

his face. He said: “Usually, you people came to banquets like this to discuss cooperation in private.

Today I would like offer you all a quick pass. I‘ve fabricated a wall.” Wall? That pretty much puzzled

everyone present. With his hand waving, two tall women pushed a board of wall walking out of the

backstage. There were so many white tapes arranged orderly on that wall to block the words beneath

them. Hiram smiled a little bit and said: “This is something I prepared specially for you, the names of

yours. The crowd listened in and didn‘t know what was going on. They didn‘t know what Hiram planned

to do. Nova closed her mouth, and she knew that one of the names on that wall was hers. Hiram said:

“For fairness, we‘ve got names for both males and females. But the names of women aren‘t that fixed, so

we wrote them down as gentlemen‘s female company. Later I‘ll rip off one tape at random and that

gentleman can go onto the stage. After that I‘ll do it again and it‘ll keep going. Of course, if anyone of you

doesn‘t wanna come on the stage, I‘m fine with that. The crowd didn‘t have any clue what he was talking

about, and someone couldn‘t help asking: “What do we go onto the stage for?” Another said: “I think we‘ll

know later. Since it‘s quick pass, maybe there‘s something we hoped to get.” With the crowd‘s

expectations getting high, Hiram smiled and said: “When you come onto the stage, you can talk about

the development of you company, your future plans, potential cooperation proposals, or your own

wishes. Today is an open communication, I just want everyone to enjoy themselves to the full. I‘ll draw

five lucky guests of those coming onto at random and offer them some help within my reach.

That came as a total surprise to everyone present. They couldn‘t believe that the Smith Family was so

generous this year! Five lucky guests! If they heard something like this elsewhere, these newly rich

people couldn‘t care less. But all this came from the Smith Family! The help they would offer would be

significant! Just a signature from them would help themselves win a contract worth over 100 million! And

today‘s quick pass was quite convenient! To those people, apart from attending the birthday banquet, the

priority was to curry favor with people they wanted to! But there was a huge crowd today, those they

wanted to curry favor with might be busy with fawning on more powerful men, and they probably wouldn‘t

have time to listen to them. But if they got the chance to go onto the stage, that would be a heaven–sent

gift! So everyone waited with high expectations and couldn‘t wait to hear their names called first! Seeing

the reaction from the crowd, Hiram smiled slightly and said: “So, isn‘t that a pleasant surprise to you all?”

Some people off the stage already held their glasses of wine up and pointed them to Hiram as if they

were proposing a toast. At this moment, Mr. Smith, sitting in the master‘s seat, started to speak in a joyful

tone with a microphone in his hand: “Every year when my birthday comes, you all, whether living far

away or near, whether being busy or not, show up here. I‘ll bear your support in the rest of my life. Today

I just try to pay you back a little and wish you all have a good time.” Though Mr. Smith was a man with

high social status, he had been easy–going at all times. Each guest present was filled with gratitude

towards him! At this moment, Hiram already stood by that board of wall with his hand raised. He said:

Alright, let‘s start and see who comes first.”