Chapter 407: The Missing Su Lanxin (First Update)
The registration for the cooking competition in Fujinglou is still continuing, and it seems that Su Lanxin's company is still continuing their domestic layout.
There was no stagnation because he lost the competition with Su Ji, and there was no change in the plan and strategy.
It's just that after the competition with Su Ji, for so many days, everyone hasn't seen Su Lanxin again.
Even Chen Wei, Su Liancheng and Tan Xueli, the three people closest to Su Lanxin, have not seen her for many days.
After the end of the competition with Su Ji, Su Lanxin suddenly disappeared as if the world had evaporated.
disappeared with her, as well as 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 carried out in accordance with the original rules.
But Su Lanxin's disappearance has brought some changes to Chen Wei and Su Liancheng, the father and son.
Chen Wei couldn't find Su Lanxin, and he still had some worries and anxieties in his heart.
Su Liancheng began to be a little confused. Because he was used to it, many things had to be reported to his mother, and then some affairs had to be carried out with his mother's consent.
Now that Su Lanxin has disappeared, Su Liancheng always has a little uncertainty about the final idea.
The one most seriously affected by Su Lanxin's disappearance was Tan Xueli.
This female apprentice, who always thought that she was Su Lanxin's closed disciple and the master's most trusted person, suddenly couldn't find the teacher, and then the teacher left without taking her with her.
This made Tan Xueli feel very lost, and suddenly felt that she had not been valued by the teacher at all.
Even Tan Xueli once doubted whether she really had the talent that her teacher once praised?
Otherwise, why couldn't she help the master at all in this competition with Su Ji?
When self-doubt begins, it is often like a knot in the heart, and the pimple will go deeper and deeper in the heart, and there is no way to cut it well, and you will be afraid to do anything.
Tan Xueli made mistakes in the back kitchen of Fujing Building for several days, and even got angry for no reason.
For this reason, Su Liancheng specially found Tan Xueli and talked a lot.
Su Liancheng hopes that Tan Xueli can stabilize her heart and not bring some personal emotions into her work, if Tan Xueli can't do it, he hopes that Tan Xueli will rest for a while.
Tan Xueli was a little more excited in the face of Su Liancheng's kind words and persuasion.
"Do you also think that I am not qualified to be your mother's apprentice? Do you think that I will never be able to catch up with your mother? So, in your eyes, no matter how hard I try, I will not be liked by you. β
Su Liancheng also felt very helpless when he saw Tan Xueli's excited appearance, and he didn't even know what to say?
After being silent for a long time, Su Liancheng still said very directly: "Do you know what is the most different thing about you and my mother?"
Tan Xueli asked curiously, "What is it?"
Su Liancheng said: "You always bring personal emotions into your work, and you can't separate personal emotions from your work." β
Tan Xueli was stunned for a moment when she said this, and she wanted to refute it, but after thinking about it carefully, she couldn't refute it.
Su Lanxin is indeed a person who can distinguish between public and private, and she will never bring her personal feelings to work.
Perhaps emotionally speaking, Su Lanxin is very eager to get Su Ji's old plaque, but she will not sacrifice some aspect of the company's interests to target Su Ji with some extraordinary means just because she wants to get the old plaque.
So even in the end, Su Lanxin still used a competition to win the Su Ji plaque.
Tan Xueli heard Su Liancheng mention Master, and immediately said, "Since you mentioned Master, now that Master is gone, don't you care? Don't you go to Master?"
Speaking of this, Tan Xueli hesitated for a moment, and still asked Su Liancheng directly.
"Or did you actually hope that Master would disappear like this and you could take over the entire company?"
Su Liancheng was said to be a little angry, but he was also a little crying and laughing.
"What the hell are you talking about? Do you think I can take control of the company without my mother's authorization, without the approval of the board of directors, without the consent of those shareholders? Can you not be so naΓ―ve?"
Tan Xueli was also stunned, and she had nothing to say for a while.
Su Liancheng sighed: "That's it, you can rest for a while, you can go out for a walk during this time, or sleep in the hotel, you can do anything, don't stretch yourself too tightly, you have to rest properly, I don't want you to be the same as my mother." β
Tan Xueli listened to Su Liancheng's words, and her expression relaxed.
After thinking about it carefully, Tan Xueli finally agreed: "Okay, I will rest as you say." β
Su Liancheng then instructed: "Also, don't go to Su Ji, don't disturb them." β
Tan Xueli looked at Su Liancheng with some surprise: "How do you know, I want to go to Su Ji?"
Su Liancheng sighed: "You are such a stupid girl, Su Ji has already won, don't be unconvinced, my dad can't win, and you can't win if you go." β
Tan Xueli was still a little unconvinced: "However, compared with kindergarten, it is clearly very child's play." β
Su Liancheng shook his head and said: "The so-called master has made a move, the point is stopped, and if you lose, you will lose, don't look for objective reasons, you just need to admit that you have lost, and then work hard." β
Tan Xueli looked at Su Liancheng and couldn't help but say, "I think you seem to have changed." β
Su Liancheng smiled and asked, "Have I changed?"
Tan Xueli nodded: "It has changed a lot, if it was you before, you would definitely not say such a thing, you will definitely try your best to prove yourself to your mother by the means you can use." β
After listening to Tan Xueli's words, Su Liancheng also smiled.
"Maybe during the time I returned to China, I saw some people and things that made me grow. β
Tan Xueli didn't seem to understand, but she still agreed: "Okay, I won't disturb Su Ji's people." β
Su Liancheng nodded: "Well, then you go back and have a good rest." β
After seeing Tan Xueli leave, Su Liancheng kept wondering in his heart: Mom, where did you go?
In fact, when everyone wondered where Su Lanxin went.
Su Lanxin and her secretary Mei Ru had already left Huaicheng, and the two of them drove by the secretary Mei Ru to a small town in the south of Huaicheng.
Unlike Huaicheng, Yangcheng and other large cities that are gradually urbanizing, this small town looks unusually beautiful.
There is quite a feeling of water town between the Jianghuai River, the buildings with gray tiles and white walls between the mountains and rivers, and the small bridges and flowing waters, which are really full of a kind of poetic feeling.
The reason why Su Lanxin came here is because this place is where Su Ji's ancestors once lived.
Many people who know the history of Su Ji's existence will think that Su Ji started to open a small restaurant in Huaicheng from the generation of Su Jinrong and Su Lanxin's grandfather.
But according to some records of Su Jizu, after the Su family ancestor ended serving meals for the former royal family.
After returning to his hometown, he was in this small town rich in ink in the south of Huaicheng.
For several generations, they have lived in this town.
It wasn't until Su Lanxin's grandfather's father left the town.
The family's cooking skills also began from that generation and reappeared in the world, and by the time of Su Lanxin's grandfather, it was the first generation to get the opportunity to participate in the state banquet.
It's just that Su Lanxin's grandfather only participated in a state banquet temporarily.
In Su Lanxin's father's generation, he really stood at the top of the domestic culinary industry, not only participating in the state banquet, but also becoming the chef of the state banquet for a time. Many family heirloom dishes were improved and presented at state banquets. It has even become a well-known dish in China today, and it is also used as a standard dish for culinary assessment.
Stepping into the town with her secretary Mei Ru, Su Lanxin's whole person seemed to relax instantly.
The pace of life in the town is fast and slow, and most people in the town still work at sunrise and rest at sunset.
Although he no longer only depends on farming for a living, he still keeps farming every day.
Such a rhythm of life will make people who have lived in the city for a long time have a sense of comfort in returning to the countryside, and get a kind of relaxation and happiness, which makes people very comfortable.
Mei Ru has always followed Su Lanxin, so she rarely comes to this kind of small town far away from the city.
Following behind Su Lanxin and walking on the stone road in the town, the feeling of relaxation and joy made Mei Ru forget all the troubles for a moment.
A babbling stream flows through the town, and by the stream are buildings with gray tiles and white walls.
Walking on the stone path next to the stream and listening to the sound of the babbling stream under your feet is particularly pleasant to the ear.
"yes, hahahaha......"
With a burst of crisp laughter, Mei Ru saw a group of children with schoolbags in front of her, playing and running towards her.
Because the stone road next to the house was too narrow, Mei Ru saw a group of children running towards her, and even stood in place and didn't dare to move.
When the children ran past one by one laughing, Mei Ru remembered Su Lanxin in front of her, and quickly raised her head to look forward, wanting to protect Su Lanxin from being hit by the children.
But what Mei Ru didn't expect was that when she raised her head and looked forward, what she saw was Su Lanxin's long-lost smile, a kind of loving gaze looking at the children running past her.
After a group of children ran over, Mei Ru was in a daze for a while, forgetting what to do?
It took a long time for Mei Ru to come back to her senses, quickly took two steps forward, and asked with concern: "Mr. Su, are you okay?"
Su Lanxin smiled and said to Mei Ru: "It's okay, it's all a group of children, and don't call me Mr. Su here, you can call me Aunt Xin." β
Mei Ru was stunned when she heard this, a little overwhelmed, and didn't know how to respond to Su Lanxin.
After a long time, Mei Ru came back to her senses and responded: "Okay, Su ...... Aunt Xin. β
Su Lanxin smiled and nodded: "Well, let's go, it just so happens that the students are out of school, let's go to the school in front of us." β
Led by Su Lanxin, Mei Ru walked with her through the narrow stone path by the stream, and when she actually entered the town, there was a large number of houses in front of her.
Among the houses is a six-story building that is somewhat out of step with the town's architectural style.
This is the town's school.
When Mei Ru followed Su Lanxin into the school gate, she saw that there were people waiting for them in front of the school gate.
When I saw Su Lanxin, waiting in front of the school, a woman who was obviously a little older stepped forward and took the initiative to stretch out her hand to Su Lanxin with a smile.
"Lan Xin, you are here, I have been waiting for you for a long time. β
After Su Lanxin shook hands with the other party, she hugged the other party very intimately.
"Caiyun, I'm sorry, I said I wanted to come to see you and see the children, I didn't come here until today, and I was really busy just returning to China. β
"It's okay, I know you're the big boss now, busy. β
"What a big boss, very tired, I still envy Caiyun, how good it is to teach children in the town. β
Mei Ru listened to the conversation between the two, and she really had too many curiosity and speculations about the identity of the "Caiyun" old woman in Su Lanxin's mouth, and she was completely unsure who the other party was?
It wasn't until Su Lanxin chatted with the other party for a while that Su Lanxin introduced the other party.
"Caiyun, this is my son's girlfriend, Mei Ru. β
"Mei Ru, this is Aunt Xin's playmate when she was a child, her best friend when she used to go to school, and now she is the principal of the town's elementary school, so you can call her Aunt Yun. β
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 said that she was "her son's girlfriend".
At this moment, Mei Ru's heart is really very complicated.
Originally, Mei Ru thought that no one knew, but she didn't expect Su Lanxin to know all along.
After a short moment of stunnedness, Mei Ru quickly came back to her senses and greeted the other party: "Hello, Aunt Yun." β
Pei Caiyun looked at Mei Ru with a smile, quite a feeling of a mother-in-law looking at her daughter-in-law, and then smiled and nodded: "Well, Lan Xin, your son's girlfriend is really good." β
Under the guidance of Pei Caiyun, when the group entered the school gate, Mei Ru was still a little apprehensive.
But suddenly I heard Su Lanxin whisper: "I have long known that you and Lian Cheng are alumni, you are his senior sister, and the girl he has been pursuing for a long time. β
Mei Ru was taken aback, raised her head and looked at Su Lanxin incredulously, she really didn't expect it to be like this.
But everything Su Lanxin said was actually true.
Mei Ru and Su Liancheng are alumni, she is two years higher than Su Liancheng, but when Su Liancheng saw her for the first time, it seemed like he was enchanted, and later he launched a little crazy pursuit of her.
Finally, when she was about to graduate, Mei Ru was finally impressed by Su Liancheng's perseverance.
But after that, neither of them expected that the company Mei Ru applied for would be Su Lanxin's company.
When Mei Ru joined the company not long ago, she met Su Liancheng in the company, and knew that Su Liancheng was the son of the boss, she really had a feeling that her cognition was completely subverted.
Later, Mei Ru also proposed to break up, because she didn't want Su Lanxin to misunderstand, thinking that she relied on Su Liancheng to enter the company.
But Su Liancheng refused, and agreed with Mei Ru that the two of them would not be made public.
In this way, Mei Ru worked hard step by step in various departments of the company, and finally became Su Lanxin's personal secretary, and her relationship with Su Liancheng has been well hidden, and no one knows about it at all.
But today, Mei Ru realized that she and Su Liancheng had been deceiving themselves all along, and they had not been able to hide Su Lanxin.