Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Lan Zhenhua pulled Lan Yaxin over to Su Yuemei and introduced her, "Aunt Su, this is my other daughter, Yaxin. She now runs an entertainment company that will be listed soon. She truly has a bright future!"
Su Yuemei didn't even glance at Lan Yaxin, and said with disdain: "Isn't it just an entertainment company? How can it go to heaven? Wasn't it because you spent money to promote her when she was listed? Do you really think that an old woman like me is useless?"
Lan Zhenhua was so frightened that he quickly explained, "No, no, I just wanted to introduce Yaxin to you. My daughter is very well-behaved and sensible. She recently discussed a new project. If it succeeds, it will be listed soon!"
Su Yuemei nodded lightly, turned around, peeled a shrimp and put it on Gu Siyu's plate, "Eat more, planning a wedding takes a lot of energy, I don't want you to collapse from exhaustion."
Gu Siyu picked up the shrimp and put it into her mouth. "Thank you, grandma! The shark fin soup is delicious. Can I serve you a bowl?"
Su Yuemei smiled and handed the bowl to Gu Siyu, "Great! Siyu is so well-behaved and sensible, the more I see her, the happier I am! Mu Qing, you are so lucky to have such a caring little cotton-padded jacket, I am almost envious!"
Ouyang Muqing was already grinning from ear to ear, praising from the bottom of her heart.
"You have no idea how hardworking Siyu is! When I knew she wanted to collaborate on a project with the Ouyang Group, I tried to give her a backdoor, but she refused. It took her countless sleepless nights to finally succeed. It really broke my heart!"
"Also, Siyu buys me a gift every year when she gets a scholarship. Over the years, I've only enjoyed the blessing of having a granddaughter. I can't even think about having one for anyone else!"
"The best thing about Siyu is that she's incredibly caring. One year, I was hospitalized for the better part of six months, and Siyu came to the hospital every few days to accompany me. Aside from the nurses, Siyu was the person who spent the most time with me! I used to regret not having a daughter, but now that I have this granddaughter, I'm content."
Gu Siyu was moved and took Ouyang Muqing's hand, "Grandma, you are also the best person to me!"
Lan Yaxin originally came here to show off and wanted to get the favor of Qin Haotian's grandmother, but she didn't expect that in the end she got nothing and became a background board!
"Grandma, I'm here! I will definitely be filial to you and come over to accompany you often!"
Lan Zhenhua also chimed in, "Yes! Mom, Yaxin is a good child. Let her stay here with you from now on! If she does something wrong, you should teach her a lesson!"
Ouyang Muqing sneered and said, "Forget it. I'm afraid it will be like last time. She won't be able to get used to it and run away in just two days!"
Lan Yaxin was very upset that she couldn't resist her grandmother's test last time. If her grandmother was still willing to keep her this time, she would definitely leave a good impression on her!
"Grandma, I was young and ignorant back then. Now I swear, I won't run away! Please let me stay!"
Ouyang Muqing thought for a moment and said, "Alright. You've always been unwilling to accept that Siyu is better than you, right? You two can compete in making tea, starting with grinding the tea powder. If you, Yaxin, can beat Siyu, then I'll let you stay and teach you again!"
Lan Yaxin swallowed her saliva. Last time, she couldn't stand the tediousness of learning tea, so she ran away. Now she really doesn't know how to make tea at all!
"Can't we compete in something else? Like flower arranging? Dancing?"
Ouyang Muqing chuckled and said, "Do you think flower arranging is easy? Or do you think Siyu's flower arranging is definitely not as good as yours?"
Lan Yaxin silently replied in her heart, because she can do whatever she wants, unlike making tea which is easy to make mistakes!
Seeing that Lan Yaxin didn't answer, Ouyang Muqing reminded her again: "What did you say?"
Lan Yaxin couldn't really tell the truth, so she came up with an excuse: "This is because I've been learning flower arrangement recently, so I really want to show off my skills!"
Ouyang Muqing nodded and agreed, "Okay. Come on, bring the bouquets and tools! Sister Su, let's go over and take a look too!"
After a while, everyone moved from the restaurant to the sunroom.
Before the bouquet and tools were delivered, Gu Siyu sat cross-legged in front of the low table, holding her breath and concentrating herself to adjust her condition to the best.
Lan Yaxin glanced at him, curled her lips and muttered, "Pretentious, hypocritical!"
Gu Siyu was not angry at all, but just responded to Lan Yaxin's complaints calmly.
"The most important thing about flower arrangement is a calm mindset. Some people used to spend twenty years just learning to arrange seven pots of flowers, meticulously adjusting every angle. What you call pretentious and hypocritical is completely disrespectful to illustrators!"
Lan Yaxin was gloomy and frowned, "What's the point of talking so well? The real skill is to do it beautifully!"
Gu Siyu raised her eyebrows. "In your current state, you are doomed to lose!"
At this time, the servant placed a bouquet of flowers picked from the garden in front of Gu Siyu and Lan Yaxin, and then took two identical flower pots and pruning tools from the cabinet.
"Madam, everything is in place."
Ouyang Muqing nodded and said, "Okay! Set the timer to five minutes, let's begin!"
The hourglass was turned upside down, and fine sand began to fall down continuously.
Gu Siyu first checked what materials were available, then decided on a theme in her mind, and then began to arrange flowers.
Lan Yaxin was faster than Gu Siyu. She picked out her favorite roses and baby's breath and matched them together, and added some green leaves to embellish them. In the five-minute competition time, Lan Yaxin only took more than a minute to finish!
"I'm fine! Siyu, you're so slow with such a simple thing! It's not too late to admit defeat now. If you lose to me after the results come out, it will be embarrassing!"
Unfortunately, Gu Siyu was completely immersed in her own world. What flowers did Lan Yaxin put in? What did she say? Gu Siyu didn't hear a word.
The hourglass leaked more and more, and gradually there was more sand at the bottom than at the top!
Lan Yaxin was so bored that she almost dozed off on the table with her head in her hands. "Are you done yet? If you really can't do it, just admit defeat. I'm dying of sleep!"
Gu Siyu trimmed the only pine branch on the table and placed it in front of all the flowers and plants.
"I'm done!"
Lan Yaxin leaned over to take a look, then covered her mouth and laughed, "What is this? A Northeastern hotpot? It's a mess with all sorts of things! It's so ugly!"
Gu Siyu also glanced at Lan Yaxin's flower arrangement and said with amusement, "Even if I'm a Northeastern hotchpotch, it's still better than your tacky look! A whole pot of roses is just a flower arrangement. There's no hierarchy, no theme. You're ridiculous!"
Lan Yaxin was just messing around to begin with, and now that Gu Siyu was mocking her, she felt extremely uneasy!
"Who said I don't have a theme? Roses represent love, and this flower arrangement of mine symbolizes beautiful love!"
Gu Siyu almost vomited up her leftover rice. "How unfashionable! How much do you lack love? You can't even let go of love when arranging flowers!"
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