At the same time as Shi Jinbin left, Chen Wei also contacted several juniors and disciples back then.

After contacting, Chen Wei learned that two of the seven junior disciples who ran away from Su Ji together had passed away.

Chen Wei, who learned the news, could not calm down the sadness in his heart for a long time.

After a long time, he got up and walked into the bathroom of the hotel room and looked at the mirror in the bathroom for a long time.

Chen Wei suddenly found that he was already an old man. If it weren't for the good maintenance over the years, Chen Wei would actually be 70 years old.

Recalling that year, when I was in my early thirties, I went to Suji to apprentice in order to learn to cook.

It's as if it were yesterday.

In a trance, I realized that forty years had passed.

Clenched his fists, Chen Wei faced himself in the mirror at this moment, and suddenly understood that he had used profligacy to disguise himself over the years, but in fact, he had always been thinking about that little junior sister in his heart.

Maybe this time the kitchen competition will be the last time he will go to stand up for the little junior sister.

But no matter what the final result is, Chen Wei still hopes in his heart that he can accompany his wife in the rest of his life.

Thinking of this, Chen Wei walked out of the bathroom of the hotel, grabbed the mobile phone on the table, and dialed a call.

"Hey, hello, I'm Chen Wei, can we have a chat? Yes, just the two of us, okay, I can wait, in the evening, yes, I'll go over there and wait for you that night." ”

As soon as he hung up the phone, the doorbell in Chen Wei's room rang.

Chen Wei quickly rushed into the bathroom first, rinsed carefully, sorted out his image, and then opened the door in that prodigal posture.

opened the door, and Su Lanxin's secretary stood outside the door.

"Xiaomei, is there something wrong?"

The secretary looked at the door, Chen Wei, who was older than Mr. Su next year, but dressed as a prodigal corpse, especially smelling the cologne on the other party's body, made the secretary frown slightly.

After hesitating for a moment, the secretary said, "Mr. Su asked me to inform you to go to a meeting about the Chinese cuisine-Suzhou Provincial Cuisine Cooking Competition." ”

Chen Wei nodded: "Well, okay, I know, you go back first, I'll go in a while." ”

The secretary naturally didn't talk nonsense, turned around and left the door.

Chen Wei closed the door, turned around and opened the box he brought back, took out the chef's uniform that had been with him for many years, and changed it very seriously before going out to the conference room arranged for Su Lanxin in the hotel.

came to the conference room, in addition to Su Lanxin, Su Liancheng and Tan Xueli were also there, as well as people from provincial and municipal catering associations.

The moment Chen Wei entered the door, everyone was really a little in awe when they saw his meticulous chef costume.

Especially Su Liancheng and Tan Xueli, when they saw Chen Wei's outfit, they knew that Chen Wei was serious at this moment.

After Chen Wei sat down, everyone began to discuss the specific details.

According to the results of Zhuang Daozhong's discussion with the catering association, this cooking competition is mainly based on the classic dishes of Suzhou Province, and the approximate competition system is divided into auditions, preliminary rounds, and semi-finals to determine the top eight first, and then all the way to the finals.

As one of the organizers, the catering association gave the opinion: "The audition and preliminary competition will be held in various parts of the province at the same time, and the preliminary selection will be carried out, and finally eight people will be selected from each city, and then the semi-finals will be conducted."

The semi-finals were interspersed in each city, and the special dishes selected by each place were used as the points of the competition.

After the top eight are decided, the top eight will be held in Huaicheng Fujing Building. The semi-finals will be played in Sioux City, and the final will be held in Jinling. ”

After listening to this, Su Lanxin frowned slightly and asked, "In other words, if we host this competition, will only the top eight be in Fujinglou?"

The people of the catering association looked at each other, and the vice chairman of the provincial catering association came over this time and said: "That's the case, after all, this is a cooking competition in our province, and the purpose is also to select dishes that represent our province, so it must not be only in Huaicheng." ”

The people of the Huaicheng Catering Association also spoke: "Yes, Mr. Su, I hope you can understand, and we will definitely fully support the auditions and preliminary rounds in Huaicheng, as well as the top eight in the future." ”

Su Lanxin was silent for a moment, thought about it carefully, and finally nodded and agreed: "Okay, after all, it is a major event in our provincial culinary industry, and our group will definitely support it." ”

Hearing that Su Lanxin was willing to support, the people in the catering association were also secretly relieved.

Su Lanxin then asked: "However, in the selection of dishes, how should they be selected in the end?"

The vice president of the restaurant association explained: "This is first selected by the local restaurant associations, and the dishes that are the most representative and most recognized in each place are the main dishes, and then some screening is carried out. ”

Su Lanxin continued to ask: "Then how many dishes will be on the 'Chinese cuisine' menu in the end?"

The people from the catering association present shook their heads: "We can't be sure about this, and we still need to discuss it with the National Catering and Culinary Federation later." ”

Su Lanxin felt a little complicated when she heard it, and Chen Wei saw her frowning slightly, so she reminded her in a low voice.

"This is national, representing the essence of our entire Chinese Shenzhou cuisine, and it is not allowed to be hasty. ”

Hearing Chen Wei's reminder, Su Lanxin also understood. He said to the people in the restaurant association: "Okay, our group will cooperate with the power, if there is any need, you can contact my secretary, and we will do our best to do it." ”

After receiving Su Lanxin's reply, everyone in the restaurant association was really satisfied.

Such a major event not only needs the support of the government, but also needs the support of all sectors of society.

In particular, a multinational catering group like Su Lanxin is willing to provide support in terms of funds and cooking skills, which can definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

The next few conversations, and the details of things, are relatively easy to talk about.

Regarding the specific details of cooking, Chen Wei also stood up in a timely manner, gave some professional advice, and expressed some ideas of their group, and the conversation between the two sides was very smooth.

After ending this meeting, Su Lanxin naturally wanted to receive people from the catering association.

But Chen Wei did not participate, he was alone, and after changing his clothes, he left the hotel.

Su Lanxin, who heard the news, was very dissatisfied, but she didn't show it too much.

Chen Wei rushed to the old street where Su Ji was located when it was almost nine o'clock in the evening. This time, he did not enter the old street, nor did he go to Suji, but waited quietly at the corner of the street.

Looking at the bustling crowd on the old street at night, Chen Wei seemed to have returned to the past in a trance.

In that era when Su Ji was famous and many people would come to Su Ji to taste the dishes, Chen Wei and his disciples followed the master and cooked dishes of a very high standard in the culinary world in that small restaurant with only ten tables.

In today's day and age, many people may find it incredible.

If a chef with that kind of strength doesn't go to those well-known restaurants? Why don't you go to the big cities to develop?

But in fact, it was precisely because Su Ji did not have those troubles back then that he was able to stick to the taste consistently.

Chen Wei waited until about half past nine and saw Feng Yifan coming from the old street.

After the two people met, the two of them didn't know what to say for the first time, and the two fell into silence at the corner of the street, and they always felt that this way of meeting was a little strange.

In the end, it was Feng Yifan who spoke first: "Uncle, should we find a place to sit?"

Chen Wei came back to his senses, nodded and said, "Okay, let's find a place to sit down and talk." ”

Because Chen Wei didn't want to go to Suji, the last two sat down on a leisure bench outside the old street, on the side of the roadside green belt, in front of a spacious road, and there would be vehicles passing by from time to time on the road.

There was silence again, and Feng Yifan spoke first: "Uncle, you are looking for me for the sake of me and you cooking?"

Chen Wei looked at the traffic on the road in front of him, and was silent for a while before he spoke: "I really envy you." ”

Unexpectedly, Chen Wei opened his mouth with such a sentence, Feng Yifan was stunned for a moment, and asked: "I envy me, who is also Su Ji's son-in-law, because there is no eldest brother to grab the old plaque, I can inherit Su Ji openly?"

When he asked like this, Chen Wei was stopped by him.

After being stunned for a long time, Chen Wei finally came to his senses, and then raised his head and laughed: "Hahaha, your answer is really amazing." ”

Feng Yifan also laughed.

Chen Wei was also very frank after laughing: "Although I don't want to admit this, I can only admit that I do envy you for this, no one is robbing you of Su Ji." ”

Feng Yifan then asked: "Speaking of which, my uncle also thinks that my father-in-law is not qualified to inherit Su Ji?"

Chen Wei was asked again, and suddenly there was a kind of conversation in which Feng Yifan was turned against him, and he seemed to be completely led by the nose.

In order to reverse the situation, Chen Wei said: "It is a lie to say that you are not jealous, but I don't think that your father-in-law is not qualified to inherit Su Ji, and he is also the most qualified in terms of blood relationship alone." ”

Feng Yifan asked directly: "It seems that uncle, you are still very unconvinced, and you think that my father-in-law is taking advantage of it?"

Being asked so directly from his heart again, Chen Wei really wanted to jump up and flip the table.

Can we still have a good chat?

However, these problems cannot be avoided.

Over the years, Chen Wei has always avoided this issue, even if he succeeded, worked hard abroad with Su Lanxin, and created a multinational restaurant group, he also considered himself successful.

But the more successful he is, the more Chen Wei is haunted by the comparison of chefs back then, and the more he thinks that the inheritance of the old plaque is unfair.

Thinking of this, Chen Wei said helplessly: "What you said is not wrong, I will indeed be unconvinced in my heart." ”

Feng Yifan continued: "You and your aunt have achieved great success, but the more successful this is, the more you are dissatisfied with the competition back then, and you feel that you are more qualified to inherit Su Ji." ”

Chen Wei nodded: "Yes, that's true, maybe your aunt is more serious, almost paranoid." ”

Feng Yifan responded: "Actually, it can be seen that my aunt should have fallen into a kind of paranoia, in fact, Su Ji's old plaque has long lost its practical significance to you, but you just can't let go of the knot in your heart back then." ”

Chen Wei suddenly said with a serious face: "So, I hope you can go all out this time." ”

Feng Yifan smiled and said, "Uncle, you came here just to tell me this? Do you think that I won't go all out? You don't think that I will let you go, right?"

Chen Wei continued: "Actually, I came to hope that you can forgive your aunt. ”

Feng Yifan didn't speak, staring at Chen Wei quietly.

The latter naturally said: "Your aunt is also a poor person all these years, she keeps doing a lot of things, and uses all kinds of busyness to make her life seem to be very fulfilling, but in fact she has anxiety and long-term insomnia. ”

After a pause, Chen Wei said with some solemnity: "She is actually suffering from mental illness. ”

Feng Yifan heard this and asked, "So, uncle, you mean, I hope we can forgive her, including forgiving some of the things she did to my father-in-law when she came back, right?"

Chen Wei was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then sighed helplessly: "People may do some things to hurt others at some times, but those may not be her original intentions, she just wants to fight for that breath." ”

Feng Yifan was silent for a moment, and asked very bluntly: "Since she wants to fight for that breath back, if I win, won't she be more stimulated?"

Without waiting for Chen Wei to speak, Feng Yifan continued: "Moreover, if I win this time, will she be able to give up?"

The two questions also stopped Chen Wei, he really didn't know how to answer?

This time she lost the competition, can Su Lanxin really accept it calmly? Can she really give up again?

Seeing Chen Wei fall silent, Feng Yifan said very seriously: "Uncle, in fact, the ultimate problem in this matter is still in my aunt's body, if she can't let go of the knot, then even if I win many times, it will be useless." ”

Chen Wei had to admit that this was indeed the case, the root of everything was Su Lanxin herself, and it was not in someone else.

The two men fell silent, sitting on a bench on the side of the road, quietly watching the traffic on the road not far away.

At this moment, neither of them knew what to say, and they didn't know how to solve the problem? Chen Wei didn't know how to make Su Lanxin completely die?

The two of them were silent for I don't know how long.

Chen Wei suddenly said: "I remembered, there is a dish, maybe I can use that dish to untie her heart knot." ”

Feng Yifan looked at Chen Wei with some surprise and asked, "What kind of dish?"

As a result, Chen Wei shook his head: "I don't know, but I know that there is a dish in Su Lanxin's memory, which was made for her by your grandfather, and it is said that she will cook it for her every birthday." ”

Feng Yifan was a little surprised: "Do you do it every birthday?

Chen Wei shook his head: "I've seen it, but I haven't eaten it, because the master will only make that dish for her on Su Lanxin's birthday, and we are embarrassed to grab it." ”

Feng Yifan asked again: "Then how to do it?"

Chen Wei still shook his head: "I don't know about this, every time the master does it, he doesn't let us see it." ”

Feng Yifan was really speechless, so he could only ask, "What does that dish look like?"

This time, Chen Wei described it: "It seems to be the Lantern Festival, but it shouldn't be the Lantern Festival, it looks very much like the Lantern Festival." ”

Although Feng Yifan didn't know what the dish was, he probably understood Chen Wei's intentions: "Do you hope that I can reproduce that dish and let my aunt eat that dish again to untie her heart knot?"

Chen Wei nodded seriously: "Yes, please, I beg you." ”

Feng Yifan thought for a while and replied: "I can't agree for the time being, I need to go back and discuss it with my father-in-law, after all, this is a grudge between their brothers and sisters, if my father-in-law is willing to forgive, I will try to do it." ”

Chen Wei nodded again: "Okay, thank you, and you can also ask some Jinrong, he may know about that dish." ”

After chatting, Chen Wei stood up and bowed deeply to Feng Yifan very seriously: "Thank you, no matter what the result is, I want to thank you for your tolerance." ”

Seeing Chen Wei leave, Feng Yifan shook his head helplessly and sighed.

At this moment, his mobile phone rang, and when he connected the phone, his daughter's voice rang: "Dad, why haven't you come back?"

Hearing his daughter's voice, Feng Yifan's mood instantly improved, and he hurriedly responded: "Okay, Dad will go back immediately." ”

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