Registration for the cooking competition at Fujinglou is still ongoing, and it seems that Su Lanxin's company is still continuing their domestic layout.
There was no stagnation due to the loss in the competition with Su Ji, and there was no change in the plan and strategy.
However, ever since the competition with Su Ji, no one has seen Su Lanxin in the past few days.
Even Chen Wei, Su Liancheng and Tan Xueli, the three people who were closest to Su Lanxin, had not seen her for many days.
After the competition with Su Ji, Su Lanxin suddenly disappeared as if she had evaporated from the face of the earth.
Also missing with her was Su Lanxin's personal secretary Mei Ru.
Su Lanxin's disappearance did not have much impact on her company's affairs, and all the company's affairs were still proceeding according to the original rules.
However, Su Lanxin's disappearance brought some changes to Chen Wei and Su Liancheng, father and son.
Chen Wei couldn't find Su Lanxin, and he was still worried and anxious.
Su Liancheng began to feel a little confused because he was used to reporting many things to his mother and some matters also needed his mother's consent before they could be carried out.
Now that Su Lanxin has disappeared, Su Liancheng is always a little undecided about his final decision.
The person most affected by Su Lanxin's disappearance was Tan Xueli.
This female disciple, who had always believed that she was Su Lanxin's last disciple and the person her master trusted the most, suddenly couldn't find her teacher, and then her teacher left without taking her with him.
This made Tan Xueli feel very disappointed, and she suddenly felt that she had never been valued by the teacher.
Tan Xueli even once doubted herself, wondering if she really had the talent that her teacher once praised.
Otherwise, why couldn't she help her master at all in this competition with Su Ji
When self-doubt begins to arise, it is often like a knot in the heart. The knot will grow deeper and deeper in the heart, and there is no way to cut it off, which makes you hesitant to do anything.
For several days in a row, Tan Xueli made mistakes in the kitchen of Fujing Building and even got angry for no reason.
For this purpose, Su Liancheng specifically found Tan Xueli and talked a lot with her.
Su Liancheng hopes that Tan Xueli can keep herself calm and not bring personal emotions into her work. If Tan Xueli cannot do this, he hopes that Tan Xueli can take a break for a while.
Tan Xueli became even more excited when faced with Su Liancheng's kind words of advice.
"Do you also think that I am not qualified to be your mother's apprentice? Do you think I will never be as good as your mother? So, in your eyes, no matter how hard I try, you will never like me."
When Su Liancheng saw Tan Xueli's excitement, he felt very helpless and didn't even know what to say.
After a long silence, Su Liancheng said directly: "Do you know what the biggest difference between you and my mother is?"
Tan Xueli asked curiously: "What is it?"
Su Liancheng said: "You always bring your personal emotions into your work. You cannot separate your personal emotions from your work."
When Tan Xueli heard this, she was stunned for a moment. She wanted to refute, but when she thought about it carefully, she couldn't refute it.
Su Lanxin is indeed a person who can distinguish between public and private affairs, and she will never bring personal feelings into work.
Perhaps emotionally, Su Lanxin is eager to get Su Ji's old plaque, but she will not sacrifice some aspects of the company's interests or use some extraordinary means to target Su Ji just to get the old plaque.
So even at the end, Su Lanxin still wanted to win the Su's plaque through a competition.
When Tan Xueli heard Su Liancheng mention the master, she immediately said, "Since you mentioned the master, now that the master is missing, don't you care? Don't you want to go find the master?"
Having said that, Tan Xueli hesitated for a moment, but still questioned Su Liancheng directly.
"Or, have you actually been hoping that your master would just disappear so that you could take over the entire company?"
Su Liancheng was a little angry, but also a little amused.
"What on earth are you talking about? Do you think I can just take control of the company without my mother's authorization, without the approval of the board of directors, and without the consent of those shareholders? Can you not be so naive?"
Tan Xueli was also stunned and speechless for a moment.
Su Liancheng sighed: "How about this, you take a break for a while. During this time, you can go out for a walk, or sleep in the hotel, you can do anything. Don't be too tense. You need to rest properly. I don't want you to be like my mother."
After hearing what Su Liancheng said, Tan Xueli's expression relaxed.
After thinking about it carefully, Tan Xueli finally agreed: "Okay, I will rest as you said."
Su Liancheng then added, "Also, don't go to Su Ji and don't disturb them."
Tan Xueli looked at Su Liancheng in surprise: "How did you know that I wanted to go to Su Ji?"
Su Liancheng sighed: "You are such a silly girl. Su Ji has already won. There is no need to be unconvinced. My dad couldn't win, so you can't win if you go."
Tan Xueli was still a little unconvinced: "But, competing in kindergarten is clearly child's play."
Su Liancheng shook his head and said, "As the saying goes, when masters fight, they stop when they reach the limit. If you lose, you lose. Don't look for objective reasons. Just admit that you lost and try again."
Tan Xueli looked at Su Liancheng and couldn't help but say, "I think you seem to have changed."
Su Liancheng smiled and asked, "Have I changed?"
Tan Xueli nodded: "You have changed a lot. If it were you in the past, you would definitely not say such a thing. You would definitely try your best to prove yourself to your mother with whatever means you could use."
After hearing what Tan Xueli said, Su Liancheng also smiled.
"Perhaps during this time back home, I have seen some people and things that have helped me grow."
Tan Xueli seemed to understand, but she still agreed: "Okay, I won't bother Su Ji's people."
Su Liancheng nodded: "Well, then you go back and have a good rest."
After watching Tan Xueli leave, Su Liancheng kept wondering in his heart: Mom, where did you go
In fact, when everyone was wondering where Su Lanxin had gone.
Su Lanxin and her secretary Mei Ru have already left Huaicheng. The two of them, driven by secretary Mei Ru, came to a small town in the south of Huaicheng.
Unlike the gradually urbanized big cities such as Huaicheng and Yangcheng, this small town is exceptionally picturesque.
It has a feeling of a water town between the Yangtze River and the Huai River. The buildings with gray tiles and white walls between the mountains and rivers, and the houses with flowing water and small bridges are really full of poetic and picturesque beauty.
The reason why Su Lanxin came here was because this place was where Su Ji’s ancestors once lived.
Many people who know the history of Su Ji would think that Su Ji started to open small restaurants in Huaicheng from the generation of Su Jinrong and Su Lanxin’s grandfather.
However, according to some records of Su Ji's ancestors, the Su family's ancestors ended their supply of meals to the former royal family.
After retiring and returning to his hometown, it was in this small town with a strong ink-and-wash feel south of Huaicheng.
Several generations have lived in this small town.
It wasn't until Su Lanxin's grandfather's father left the small town.
The family's inherited cooking skills also reappeared in the world from that generation. By the time of Su Lanxin's grandfather, it was the first generation to have the opportunity to participate in state banquets.
It’s just that when Su Lanxin’s grandfather was here, he only participated in a state banquet temporarily.
By the time of Su Lanxin's father, he was truly at the top of the domestic culinary world. He not only participated in state banquets, but also became the head chef of state banquets. He improved many of his family's traditional dishes and presented them at state banquets. They even became well-known dishes in China and were used as standard dishes for culinary assessment.
As Su Lanxin entered the town with her secretary Mei Ru, she seemed to relax instantly.
The pace of life in the small town is very slow, and most people in the town still work from sunrise to sunset.
Although they no longer rely solely on farming for a living, they still farm every day.
This pace of life will make people who have lived in cities for a long time feel like they are returning to the countryside, and they will feel relaxed and happy, which makes them feel very comfortable.
Mei Ru has always been with Su Lanxin, so she rarely comes to a small town far away from the city.
Following Su Lanxin, walking on the stone road in the town, the relaxed and happy feeling made Mei Ru forget all the troubles in an instant.
A gurgling stream flows through the town, and beside the stream are buildings with gray tiles and white walls.
Walking on the stone road beside the stream and listening to the sound of the gurgling stream under your feet, you will find it particularly pleasant to the ears.
"Yeah, hahahaha..."
Accompanied by a burst of crisp laughter, Meiru saw a group of children with schoolbags on their backs, running towards her, playing and fighting.
Because the cobblestone road next to the house was too narrow, Meiru stood still and dared not move when she saw a group of children running towards her.
As the children ran past her laughing, Mei Ru suddenly remembered Su Lanxin in front of her. She quickly raised her head and looked forward, wanting to protect Su Lanxin from being bumped by the children.
But what Mei Ru never expected was that when she raised her head and looked forward, she saw Su Lanxin's long-lost smile, and a loving look at the children running past her.
After a group of children ran over, Meiru was dazed for a moment and forgot what to do.
After a long while, Mei Ru came back to her senses. She quickly took two steps forward and asked with concern, "Boss Su, are you okay?"
Su Lanxin smiled and said to Mei Ru: "It's okay, we are all children. Also, don't call me President Su here, just call me Aunt Xin."
Mei Ru was stunned when she heard this. She was a little at a loss and didn't know how to respond to Su Lanxin.
After a long while, Mei Ru came back to her senses and responded, "Okay, Aunt Su...Xin."
Su Lanxin smiled and nodded: "Well, let's go. The students are all out of school. Let's go to the school in front and take a look."
Under the guidance of Su Lanxin, Mei Ru and she walked along the narrow stone road beside the stream. When they really entered the town, there was a large area of houses in front of them.
Among the cluster of houses, there is a six-story building that is somewhat out of tune with the architectural style of the town.
This is the school in the town.
When Mei Ru followed Su Lanxin into the school gate, they saw someone waiting for them in front of the school gate.
When she saw Su Lanxin, she was waiting in front of the school gate. A woman who was obviously older came forward, smiled and extended her hand to Su Lanxin.
"Lan Xin, you are finally here. I have been waiting for you for a long time."
After Su Lanxin shook hands with the other party, she hugged him very intimately.
"Caiyun, I'm sorry. I said I wanted to come and see you and the children a long time ago. I didn't come until today because I just returned home and was a bit busy."
"It doesn't matter. I know you're the big boss now. You're busy."
"What big boss? It's very tiring. I still envy you, Caiyun. It's great to teach children in the town."
Mei Ru listened to the conversation between the two and had too many curiosity and speculations about the identity of the old lady "Cai Yun" mentioned by Su Lanxin. She was completely unsure who the other person was.
It was not until Su Lanxin chatted with the other party for a while that she introduced herself to the other party.
"Caiyun, this is my son's girlfriend, Meiru."
"Mei Ru, this is Aunt Xin's childhood playmate, her best friend when she was in school, and now she's the principal of the town's elementary school. You can just call her Aunt Yun."
Mei Ru was really surprised. On the one hand, she was surprised that the old woman in front of her was Mr. Su’s best friend and the principal of this elementary school.
On the other hand, what shocked Mei Ru even more was that Su Lanxin actually called her "her son's girlfriend."
At this moment, Mei Ru's heart was really complicated.
Originally, Mei Ru thought that no one knew about it, but she didn't expect that Su Lanxin actually knew it all along.
After a brief moment of daze, Mei Ru quickly came to her senses and greeted the other party: "Hello, Aunt Yun."
Pei Caiyun looked at Mei Ru with a smile, like a mother-in-law looking at her daughter-in-law, then smiled and nodded: "Well, Lan Xin, your son's girlfriend is really good."
When the group entered the school gate under the guidance of Pei Caiyun, Mei Ru was still a little nervous.
But suddenly, Su Lanxin whispered, "I already knew that you and Lian Cheng were schoolmates. You were his senior and the girl he had been pursuing for a long time. You two confirmed your relationship before graduation, but you concealed this relationship just to join my company."
Mei Ru was shocked and looked up at Su Lanxin in disbelief. She really didn't expect it to be like this.
But everything Su Lanxin said was actually true.
Mei Ru and Su Liancheng are schoolmates. She is two years older than Su Liancheng, but when Su Liancheng saw her for the first time, he seemed to be possessed by her and later he even launched a somewhat crazy pursuit of her.
Finally, when she was about to graduate, Mei Ru was finally impressed by Su Liancheng's perseverance.
But later, neither of them expected that the company Mei Ru applied for would actually be Su Lanxin's company.
When Mei Ru met Su Liancheng in the company not long after she joined the company and learned that Su Liancheng was actually the son of the CEO, she felt like her cognition was completely overturned.
Later, Mei Ru also proposed to break up because she didn't want Su Lanxin to misunderstand and think that she relied on Su Liancheng to enter the company.
But Su Liancheng refused, and agreed with Mei Ru not to make it public.
In this way, Mei Ru worked hard step by step in various departments of the company and eventually became Su Lanxin's personal secretary. Her relationship with Su Liancheng was always well hidden and no one knew about it.
But today, Mei Ru realized that she and Su Liancheng had been deceiving themselves all along and they had not been able to hide the truth from Su Lanxin.