Chapter 73 Your chef is really good at cooking
On the table in the houseboat, the dishes were of the same style as the magnificent palace, with an air of elegance and antiquity. Su Chonglin raised his glass to wish Su Qingyan a happy birthday, and once again welcomed Zhou Cheng to Xinghai.
"Zhou Cheng, say something too." Su Qingyan said to Zhou Cheng after taking a sip of juice.
"I won't say anything..." Zhou Cheng drank water awkwardly.
"Didn't you say it was nice when we first met?"
Zhou Cheng felt even more embarrassed when he heard Su Qingyan say this.
"How did you meet?" Mrs. Su asked interestedly when she heard Su Qingyan's words.
"It's a secret." Su Qingyan didn't want Zhou Cheng to continue feeling embarrassed. Zhou Cheng lowered his head so much that he almost crawled under the table.
"Light the candles and make a wish." Su Chonglin also came to Zhou Cheng's rescue and changed the subject.
The cake brought by the waiter was not big, but it was full of artistic conception. The outer layer of the cake was made of translucent moon white, and the three-dimensional dark green mountain peaks on the side were stacked one after another. You could vaguely see a green dragon with its head but not its tail visible, and two falcons circling in the mountains. The top was half covered with pool water and half left blank, with reeds and orchids on the shore, and the floating light was golden.
Zhou Cheng looked at Su Qingyan with complicated eyes. Su Chonglin obviously had such good aesthetic taste, so why didn't he inherit any of it and could only distinguish red roses from white roses?
Su Qingyan may have misunderstood Zhou Cheng's meaning. He began to complain to Su Chonglin that he was not an old man and why the cake looked so old-fashioned. But he immediately calmed down, closed his eyes, made a wish, blew out the candles and cut the cake.
When Zhou Cheng saw Su Qingyan neatly cut the cake into four pieces and distribute them to everyone, he felt a little sad, but he also took it obediently.
"Let's go and see the gift tomorrow. It's a bit big."
Su Chonglin took a bite of the cake and put it aside. He didn't like sweets as much as Su Qingyan, but it was a family tradition that everyone had to take a bite of the birthday cake.
"What gift? I want to see it later." Su Qingyan knew that Su Chonglin must be generous.
Su Chonglin was indeed generous. After dinner, they went directly to the airport from the town and saw a business jet parked on the tarmac.
"It's your zodiac year, and you're not young anymore. You need to be more steady in your work so that you can rise to the top." Su Chonglin patted Su Qingyan's shoulder.
Zhou Cheng was shocked again. On the way back, he searched the model of the plane on his phone and realized it was the top of the private jet market, worth nearly 500 million yuan, not counting various management and operating fees. He quietly put away his phone. This felt unreal, and he really felt out of place.
"Come out with me later. I want to eat spicy hot pot. The food in the mountains is really terrible." Su Qingyan whispered to Zhou Cheng.
"Huh?" Zhou Cheng was still immersed in the gifts worth hundreds of millions. When he suddenly heard Su Qingyan say this, he was a little stunned.
"Can I eat this?" Su Qingyan thought Zhou Cheng was concerned about his health and wouldn't let him eat junk food. "Just eat this once. It's your birthday. Please."
"Yes... I also want to eat some fireworks."
On the evening of the sixth day of the New Year, Su Qingyan and Zhou Cheng accompanied Mrs. Su while chatting and having dinner. Su Chonglin had something urgent to do and did not go home all day.
"Zhou Cheng, why are you bleeding from your nose?" As Su Qingyan was speaking, she looked up and saw Zhou Cheng bleeding from his nose, and quickly took out a few tissues and handed them to him.
Zhou Cheng also felt puzzled. Xinghai's climate is so humid, there is no reason for nosebleed.
"It's okay, it's okay." Mrs. Su comforted them with a relaxed look, "Maybe you drank too much tonic soup these past few days. I'll ask the chef to make less tomorrow."
Zhou Cheng looked at the three empty bowls of soup in front of him and finally understood what had been going on for the past few days.
"Your chef uses really strong ingredients." Zhou Cheng was washing his nose in the bathroom.
"For you... my mother really doesn't care whether I live or die." Su Qingyan handed the towel to Zhou Cheng.
"Don't care whether you live or die?" Zhou Cheng glanced at him.
When Su Qingyan saw his eyes, she knew that she had accidentally touched his sensitive nerves again.
"No, no... Bro, you're awesome. I didn't say you're bad."
Su Qingyan would never have thought that there would be a day when he would have to look at other people's expressions.
The sixth day of the Lunar New Year is the day when shops open. Jiang Yuexing also returned to Xinghai from Mincheng. As soon as he landed, he asked Su Chonglin to meet him, and the two went to the jewelry industrial park together.
"Mr. Su, it's the new year, would you like to try your luck?"
Jiang Yuexing brought Su Chonglin to a small building in the park, which was filled with uncut jadeite stones worth millions of yuan.
"Mr. Jiang also likes to play with stones?" Su Chonglin touched the raw stone that felt warm to the touch beside him.
"For good luck, Mr. Su, please pick a few."
Because Xinghai is rich in mineral resources, Su Chonglin is also very knowledgeable about it. He took a look around and chose an inconspicuous stone.
Jiang Yuexing was not an expert and could not see anything special about the stone chosen by Su Chonglin, but when the stone was cut, everyone present exclaimed in amazement.
"Mr. Su, this location has a glass-type imperial green, no cracks, and even some hidden purple."
Su Chonglin nodded. He could tell without any explanation that this stone was worth tens of millions.
Seeing Su Chonglin's satisfied expression, Jiang Yuexing asked him to keep trying and open another one, but Su Chonglin shook his head.
“Moderation is better than excess.”
Jiang Yuexing didn't comment after hearing this, but left the building with him.
Carefree days never last long. Su Qingyan was bombarded with phone calls early in the morning on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year. He originally wanted to delay and sleep for a while, but after hearing the assistant's increasingly fast reporting speed on the other end of the phone, he sat up directly from the bed.
"Several companies are teaming up to start a price war? Are they going all out?..."
"The people assigned to them have received the documents, and they will implement them on the first day of work resumption after the New Year."
"Sure?"
"Sure."
"knew."
Su Qingyan sat on the bed and thought for a while, and decided to go to Su Chonglin to discuss it before making a decision. After all, he was in Xinghai now, and it was not the time for him to fight alone in Mincheng.
Zhou Cheng was a little confused when he saw Su Qingyan appear in the living room early today, so he stopped teaching Su Chonglin about health care.
"Aren't you going to sleep until the sun shines on your butt today?" Su Chonglin filled the teacups in front of him and Zhou Cheng.
"You've been exposed to the sun for too long and your butt is burning." Su Qingyan gestured to Su Chonglin to go to the study and talk.
Zhou Cheng still couldn't get used to having so many housekeepers, stewards and chefs at home, which forced him to stay alert all day long and feel as if he was being monitored no matter what he did.
The father and son of the Su family did not talk for long in the study, and both appeared at the breakfast table on time. Mrs. Su was also surprised to see Su Qingyan coming downstairs to have breakfast. After all, his behavior in the past few days was that he wanted to lock himself in the room all day.
"Mom, let's go back to Mincheng today." Su Qingyan said to Mrs. Su.
"So sudden?" Mrs. Su didn't expect them to leave so early.
"Zhou Cheng has to go to work." Su Qingyan made up an excuse.
"You're so seriously injured, and you're going to work so soon?" Mrs. Su looked at Zhou Cheng worriedly.
"Then we have to wait until Mr. Su acquires the hospital, then Zhou Cheng will stop working like a slave for others." Su Qingyan drank a glass of milk and went upstairs to change clothes.
When Zhou Cheng saw the milk stains on his lips, he immediately looked around.
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