"It looks like the entire Zhuang family is here!"
"Wow, really? Since when did the Zhuangs become this close to the Lu family? Lu Tingxiao's just celebrating his birthday, but the entire Zhuang family has come?"
As the crowd thought about how strange it was, they started to doubt it. "It really is a little weird. These two families... one's in the army and the government, while the other is in business. Usually, they would just have a nodding acquaintance, wouldn't they? Especially Elder Zhuang... He would never get close to anyone, especially businessmen, what more attend the birthday banquet of someone from the younger generation?"
"But we can't say for sure. Now that the Lu family does have an existence that even the higher-ups have to fear, I'm afraid the Zhuang family are bound by convention!"
"Well, that's true..."