Hai'an Hotel will not open until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
So after the holiday, Song Shanchuan started preparing to sign up for the chef competition.
Song's mother was a little worried. She gestured with her hands: "Can you do it by yourself? Will someone bully you?"
Although my son can speak, the character he has developed since childhood is different from that of ordinary people. He is not good at communicating with others, nor does he argue with others. With such a character, he will inevitably be excluded by others when he grows up.
Song Shanchuan smiled at her and gestured, "Just go and give it a try, maybe I'll be back soon."
He had no confidence that he could win first place, nor was he sure that he could get the camera. Although everyone praised his cooking skills, he was actually at a loss about things like cooking competitions.
He mustered up the courage to participate, just because he had no way to pursue the moon of his dreams, so he wanted to use this method to try once.
Whether he succeeds or fails, it will not affect his feelings for Lin Cuiping.
Not just admiration, but also redemption.
But he didn’t expect that after signing up, he arrived in Hangzhou on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, cooked only one dish, and made it into the top 20 and entered the preliminary round!
Lin Cuiping didn't know what chef competition Song Shanchuan participated in, and during the New Year holiday, she deliberately avoided Song Shanchuan, always feeling that she was a little afraid to face the fact that he had suddenly turned from a brother into a man.
But she was not idle either. Lin Cuiping was indeed anxious about her daughter's marriage. Besides, Hai'an Hotel was now well-known in their Xicheng District. Everyone knew that Lin Cuiping was now very powerful and had become a hotel manager.
Therefore, many people took the initiative to come to her for a blind date, and her conditions were many times better than her previous job at the packaging factory.
But Lin Cuiping was not satisfied with any of them.
First, she thought he talked too much. Second, she thought he was too dark and ugly. Third, she despised him for not being able to cook...
Mother Lin was annoyed: "After all, what do you want?"
His younger brother Lin Xiaohu summed it up: "Someone who is quiet, fair-skinned, and can cook..."
Lin Cuiping was silent. It seemed that every time she met a blind date, she would subconsciously compare him with Song Shanchuan. However, it was obvious that Song Shanchuan was not the best partner in her mind.
In order to prove that she didn't have that kind of feeling towards Song Shanchuan, she decided to go meet Song Shanchuan. However, she didn't see him. Instead, she heard from Aunt Song that he went to participate in some chef competition without saying a word!
Lin Cuiping was angry: "He can talk now, and his ideas are bigger than before, but he didn't even tell me such a big thing as participating in the competition!"
Lin Xiaohu curled his lips: "Sister, you are just his manager, not his wife, why should he tell you?"
Lin Cuiping slapped her brother in the face, but couldn't help buying the People's Daily, finding information about the chef competition, and then saw the news that Song Shanchuan had entered the preliminary round.
While waiting for the day of the preliminary competition, he saw Song Shanchuan in front of the TV and immediately ran to the phone booth outside to call Xie Yunshu.
Xie Yunshu was half asleep and didn't hear clearly: "Who's participating in the competition?"
"Song Shanchuan, hurry up and watch the second program of CCTV!" Lin Cuiping said anxiously: "Oh, no, I have to go back to watch TV!"
She said she was going to watch TV, and she was going to Li Fenlan's house to watch TV, because the TV she saved up money to buy this year was black and white, and it was not as good as a color TV!
Hangzhou.
The second chef competition was much more grand than the first one, because after the reform and opening up, people's living standards began to rise, and their pursuit of food was no longer limited to filling their stomachs.
In order to carry forward the thousands of years of cultural cuisine passed down by our ancestors, the entire competition was followed and reported by cameras and was also broadcast on CCTV. Participants came from all over the country, including many elderly chefs.
On the contrary, the handsome Song Shanchuan seemed a little out of place. Firstly, he was too young, and secondly, he stood quietly in the corner. His appearance and temperament did not match the traditional impression of a chef.
Li Fenlan's house was also very lively today. No one had anything to do during the New Year holidays, and when they heard that the chef from Lin Cuiping's restaurant had taken part in the competition, they all came over to watch the fun.
Mother Lin had a good impression of Song Shanchuan. She cracked melon seeds happily and said, "This young man looks quite energetic."
Lin Cuiping subconsciously replied: "Like a girl."
More like a girl than her...
Mother Lin glared at her and said, "You can't spit out ivory from a dog's mouth. How come you look like a girl when you are so tall? Don't you see how tall you are?"
Lin Cuiping always thought that Song Shanchuan was young and put him in the same position as Lin Xiaohu. However, when she thought about it carefully, she seemed to not know how old Song Shanchuan was. Anyway, he was definitely not older than her, right?
Li Fenlan smiled and gave Nian Peng a candy: "It's already amazing to be in the top 20. With Shanchuan back this time, our hotel will definitely be more popular, and we won't have to worry about finding a partner then."
In the past, Song Shanchuan couldn't speak and had a mute mother, so normal girls would definitely not consider him. But now it's different. The young man can make money and looks good, so it's much easier for him to find a wife.
Lin Cuiping muttered: "How old is he?"
Li Fenlan gave her a strange look: "Shanchuan is already 24 years old this year, he is not young anymore!"
One year older than her!
Lin Cuiping was about to say that it wasn't too old when she was slapped on the head: "Why do you care how old she is? Look at Yunshu, she might have a child after the New Year, but you are different! You haven't found a single one you like after ten blind dates! What's the matter? You still want to find the best man in the world! The guy from the steel factory last time was so good, he was strong and had a stable salary!"
Lin Cuiping covered her head, secretly rolled her eyes, and silently imitated Lin's mother's speech. She was tired of hearing it since she was a child. She would always look at Xie Yunshu...
The guy from the steel factory was strong and as dark as coal, and she didn't like him!
She was not as fair as Xie Yunshu to begin with, and she found a partner who was darker. If she had a daughter in the future, wouldn't she be a hundred times darker than Xie Yunshu's daughter?
When she thought of this scene, she felt sick...
Although the adults here were talking about finding a partner, one was Song Shanchuan and the other was Lin Cuiping, no one connected the two together.
Although Song Shanchuan was very good in Lin's mother's eyes, she had never considered putting her daughter together with such a young man from a single-parent family who had just learned to speak. Because although she kept saying how great Xie Yunshu was, in Lin's mother's heart, her daughter naturally deserved a better person.
For example, a normal family with healthy parents, working in a stable system...
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