Chapter 139: The master is a chef, and he will require his children to become chefs in the future...
After taking some photos, Xu Sannian ran over and said he had to go back to his middle school.
An Fusheng was a little taken aback, but seeing that Xu Sannian's expression didn't seem to indicate anything bad, he was somewhat relieved. "Why are you suddenly going back to the middle school? Is there something urgent?"
Xu Sannian changed the subject, saying, "We've taken a lot of photos, that should be enough, right?"
An Fusheng: "Your parents haven't arrived yet, have they?"
Xu Sannian: "They won't be here until the afternoon, I can come back then."
Since Xu Sannian didn't want to talk about it, An Fusheng didn't press further. "Alright then, you have things to do, so we'll head back now."
Xu Sannian stammered, "Can you all come along?"
An Fusheng: "Shall we go too?"
Xu Sannian: "I want you to stay with me?"
An Fusheng: "Why?"
Xu Sannian: "Oh, that's right, that's right. I want to go back to my alma mater to cheer on the younger students taking the college entrance exam. But what if he sees me if I go alone? If you go together and he sees me, I'll say that I'm taking Wen Xinglan and Wen Xingrui to experience the atmosphere of the college entrance exam in advance, so that they won't be carefree every day and have no sense of urgency about the college entrance exam."
An Fusheng: "If you want to pursue her... why not just go for it openly? You're not bad off, and Boss He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would make things difficult for others."
Xu Sannian said with distress, "It's not that I'm afraid to pursue her, it's just that I haven't decided whether or not to."
An Fusheng: "Then... what do you mean by doing this now?"
Xu Sannian: "How should I put it? I just like him, but the thought of being with him makes me feel a little awkward. I like this kind of liking that's a bit distant. I don't know how to describe it. Maybe it's because distance makes the heart grow fonder?"
An Fusheng: "I don't really understand your 'beauty'."
Xu Sannian: "Are you coming with me or not?"
An Fusheng sighed softly: "Let's go."
...
Xu Sannian's alma mater is about an hour's drive from the university town. Zhaolin is driving again, but compared to the joy he felt when he arrived, he is clearly depressed now.
"Isn't your school a prestigious one? Why didn't you invite him out of all those outstanding alumni? Is he really that great?" Zhaolin said indignantly.
Xu Sannian: "Yeah, I'd say it's excellent."
Zhaolin: "What's so great about him? He just went abroad to get a PhD. Who knows if it was a dubious degree? Aren't there plenty of people in our circle who went abroad to get dubious degrees? He's been back in China for two years and hasn't achieved anything noteworthy. He might as well go home and inherit the family business."
Xu Sannian: "In Germany, graduating with a doctorate involves being paraded through the streets; it's a great honor. How is that a joke? My juniors are facing the college entrance exam, and they need role models who excel in their studies."
Zhaolin: "Being able to get a doctorate doesn't mean you had good grades in high school. What's there to be proud of?"
Xu Sannian: "He was admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of sixteen, so he should be considered quite successful."
An Fusheng:! ! !
Wen Yue: !!!
This is the first time I've ever met someone who got into Tsinghua University in person!
Zhaolin: "..."
Xu Sannian: "He's not without achievements, is he? His company recently broke through a technology and won a national award."
Zhaolin fell completely silent.
...
An hour later, the car drove to Xu Sannian's alma mater.
In the second semester of senior year, every day is very important for students preparing for the college entrance examination. However, the school will still hold activities unique to senior students, such as the pep rally, the coming-of-age ceremony, and the school's traditional learning experience exchange meeting. In order to save time, these activities are all scheduled to be held together today. The school also invites parents to participate in important activities, so the school is open to the public today. Visitors can enter after registering.
Xu Sannian's high school is a prestigious school in the city. The school's learning experience exchange meeting can be attended not only by students from the school itself, but also by students and teachers from other schools. Therefore, there are a lot of people coming to the school today, and the cars are already stuck outside. Anyway, Zhaolin didn't want to listen to any sharing, so he drove alone in the back and let Xu Sannian and the others walk to the school first.
Before coming, Xu Sannian had already inquired about everything. As soon as they entered the school, he led An Fusheng and the others straight to the playground. When they arrived at the playground, it was He Zhi's sharing time.
The students gathered on the playground, and it wasn't just the podium in front of the playground that was giving speeches.
In An Fusheng's memory, people who stand on the podium are usually tall and proud, with high morale, holding the microphone and speaking loudly and emotionally. But He Zhi was completely different. He held the microphone and strolled around the stage. His tone of voice was similar to when he was chatting with people. His tone was very kind. An Fusheng felt that he had been too fierce when he spoke to him before.
After listening to He Shi speak for a while, An Fusheng had to admit that people who are well-read are indeed very good at speaking.
In just a few words, he clearly explained the professional technology and technological achievements of their company in a way that even laymen could understand. He told everyone that they had established themselves in the fierce international competition through technological self-reliance, and encouraged everyone to study hard and become builders and successors of the country's cause in the future. His words were full of earnestness, without any boasting. An Fusheng was quite moved and felt that as a member of the younger generation, he had a mission to shoulder and must do his best to make a difference, otherwise he would be letting down this great era.
Xu Sannian was completely captivated.
An Fusheng thought about how He Zhi had just mentioned how he chose to work in a technological innovation industry different from his parents', and how Xu Sannian and Zhao Lin didn't seem to have any intention of inheriting the family business. He also remembered watching TV shows where rich people always liked to fight over their inheritance rights, so he asked curiously, "Why don't you two like to inherit the family business?"
Xu Sannian: "Huh? Why do I have to inherit the family business?"
An Fusheng: "Does inheriting a family business require a reason? Isn't existing wealth and a business at all attractive? Also, what if the family business ends up without anyone to inherit it?"
Xu Sannian: "Wealth is certainly attractive, but it's still there whether you inherit it or not."
An Fusheng: Okay, it's because I've never been a rich person.
Xu Sannian continued, "Why must we have a ready-made career? If our parents' career is not in our preferred field, and we are forced to inherit it, wouldn't that become a shackle? The purpose of life is to experience things, not to achieve great things. I think that our parents and elders built their businesses so that they would be able to support their descendants and allow them to make any choices without any burden, rather than binding their descendants to the family business."
An Fusheng was speechless.
"If your master is a chef, will he require his children to become chefs as well?"
"Of course not."
"That settles it."
...
Zhao Lin arrived late, his tone sour as he asked, "Is it over?"
Xu Sannian: "Yes, let me show you around our school."
Zhaolin was instantly delighted, "Okay, okay!"
Xu Sannian took everyone on a tour of their school, telling them about the places where she had beaten up bullies who harassed her classmates.
Wen Yue asked incredulously, "Your school has troublemakers too?"
Xu Sannian: "Of course there are. Scumbags are everywhere."
"It turns out that not all students with good grades are good students."
"Whether a person is good or bad has nothing to do with their academic performance. Besides, not everyone who gets into our school is admitted through exams; many people buy their way in. There are all kinds of people here."
...
After walking around for a while, Xu Sannian finally led everyone to the school cafeteria, which was open to the public today. The group planned to have lunch there, and after lunch, Xu Sannian would return to school while An Fusheng and the others would return to the orphanage.
It wasn't lunchtime yet, and there weren't many people in the canteen, but most of the food stalls were open.
The group each bought a few things to eat together.
"I've always heard that the food in your cafeteria is delicious," Wen Yue said.
Xu Sannian: "It's alright, but not as good as my master's cooking."
Wen Yue: "I think so too. In the past, our school often did your school's mock college entrance exam papers. Everyone would say that they couldn't do them without eating the food in your cafeteria. As they talked, they would start describing how delicious the food in your cafeteria was, which made us hungry every time we did the papers."
Xu Sannian: "Haha, it just means there are more choices, so it's not easy to get tired of eating the same thing."
An Fusheng thought it was alright. Cooking large quantities of food in a large pot is inherently difficult, and you also have to cater to different people's tastes. It was already quite good that it turned out this way.
...
After lunch, Xu Sannian took a taxi back to school. Zhaolin, having been deeply affected by the morning's events, refused to drive, so An Fusheng drove everyone back to the orphanage.
"Master, do you think I should take the postgraduate entrance exam?" Zhaolin asked listlessly in the passenger seat.
An Fusheng: "It's up to you. If you want to take the exam, then take it."
"But it's too late now."
"It's the same whether I take the test next year or not."
"No, if I take the exam again next year, I'll spend three years on my master's degree and then a doctorate. By the time I graduate with my doctorate, I'll be almost thirty. He Zhi will only be twenty-six when I graduate with my doctorate. Besides, if I go to school, wouldn't that just give He Zhi an opportunity to take advantage of me? What if I come back after a few years of studying, and his and Xu San Nian's child is already old enough to run errands?"
An Fusheng sighed that Zhaolin had finally discovered his competitor, but at the same time he helplessly realized that Zhaolin had gotten himself into a dead end. An Fusheng was not good at comforting people, but he tried his best to comfort Zhaolin: "He went to university at sixteen, and you went to university at eighteen. The starting line is different. No matter how hard you try, you can't catch up with him. Let's not compare academics. He is good at studying, and you can't beat him. But you also have your own areas of expertise. If you use your expertise to compete with him, he may not be able to beat you."
Zhaolin: "Master, what am I good at?"
An Fusheng: "..."
An Fusheng's silence worsened Zhao Lin's already precarious mental state: "I'm just not as good as him..."
“He’s older than you.” An Fusheng racked his brains and finally came up with a reason.
Zhaolin's eyes lit up instantly: "That's right! He's older than me! And he and Xu Sannian aren't even from the same century. He's an old-fashioned guy from the last century. There's bound to be a generation gap between them. If Xu Sannian marries him, it'll be like she's gotten on the wrong bridal sedan chair and married the wrong man. She'll be in tears after marriage, and they'll definitely get a divorce. In the end, it'll be me, hmph!"
An Fusheng: "..."
Okay, whatever makes you happy.
...
On the way home, Wen Xingrui and Wen Xinglan fell asleep in the car. When they got back, Zhaolin and An Fusheng carried them to their room to continue sleeping.
After placing Wen Xinglan on the bed, An Fusheng picked up a proposal from the bedside table.
Actually, it was just a stack of handwritten drafts, drafts of a plan for the hotel's development that An Fusheng had been working on these past few days.
Last time, when he couldn't come up with a solution, he casually picked up one of the original owner's books as bedtime reading. Unexpectedly, it was a book on business law, and some of the content about partnerships gave him inspiration. So he researched a lot of relevant information and finally came up with this solution.
However, he was unsure whether the plan was feasible, and many details required more specialized knowledge to perfect, so An Fusheng needed to consult someone knowledgeable.
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