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Chapter 581: Beautiful and Tsundere Pig

Chapter 581: Chapter 581: Beautiful and Tsundere Pig

Yan Shao naturally nodded his head, "Hmm, this sounds good."

Actually, Zhu Qianying wasn’t wrong. If they had really gone to a Szechuan restaurant, he had genuinely planned to eat plain rice.

However, Zhu Qianying is obviously not the kind of person who only thinks about herself and not others. Besides, she dotes on him, how could she let him go hungry?

The Cantonese restaurant that Zhu Qianying chose was, in her words, "decently tasty." However, to Yan Shao, all the food there tasted average, no matter what he ate.

"You... stop comparing all these flavours to my mother’s cooking. My mom is a master super chef, alright?"

Speaking of which, it wasn’t really Zhu Qianying being arrogant.

Ever since the news of Chen Jing collaborating with Fanxin Restaurant to participate in the International Gourmet Fair was announced, it stirred up quite a storm.

Many people started to wonder where this obscure Chen Jing got her bullshit luck, being able to participate in the competition together with Fanxin Restaurant.

Then, those curious crowd started to dig deeper. However, they were shocked to find out that Chen Jing was once the chief cook at the Mingxuan Hotel and that, till this day, the hotel still displays a trophy Chen Jing had won over two decades ago.

And that award, in particular, caused quite a sensation among the industry professionals at that time. It’s because the golden award of that session was won by a beautiful female chef under twenty.

And that beautiful female chef was none other than the current Chen Jing, who is now participating in the competition with Fanxin Restaurant.

"Speaking of which, Mom is even more famous than you are now!"

This was indeed a heartfelt comment by Yan Shao because, these past few days, he has been receiving increasingly more calls from wealthy businessmen and senior officials, all of them asking him to help them book a table at Quiet Restaurant.

Yan Shao dealt with this fairly by directing all these people to make reservations through the online process.

Zhu Qianying laughed it off, "I was never famous to begin with!"

Zhu Qianying might be somewhat well-known in M country, but once she returned to her home country, nobody even recognises her name.

"You could’ve become instantly famous, what a pity..."

To this day, Yan Shao still regrets her decision to withdraw from the competition.

His comment about becoming "instantly famous" wasn’t without basis; he later enquired from the organisers and a few adjudicators and found out that the couple rings his parents had crafted during the competition had scored highly from the judges. Even if they hadn’t won the golden award, they would have certainly won silver or bronze.

"There is nothing to regret. True fame relies on the endorsement of customers and not on an award."

"Just like Mom. If she were still Auntie in the Zhu’s family, even if her past glorious feats were exposed, how many people would think of her as a genius and praise her? Instead, there would only be hypocritical sympathy or kicks when one is down."

Zhu Qianying was ambitious about the award, but from the beginning till the end, she didn’t place it as her main goal.

Yan Shao was initially extremely hard to convince, but he had to admit, he was convinced by Zhu Qianying.

"Alright then. It seems like no matter what I say, you always manage to get me to see your point."

Yan Shao couldn’t tell if he was feeling helpless or happy. But this feeling of being convinced, although he hadn’t experienced it much, didn’t feel too bad.

"When we previously talked about opening a branch with Mom, do you think she might be more inclined to collaborate with Luo Yifan now?"

This question was originally asked by Qin Xiu to Yan Shao at first. He didn’t take it to heart back then, but upon hearing Zhu Qianying’s analysis now, he suddenly remembered this question.

Zhu Qianying chuckled, "Don’t you see it already? The relationship between mom and uncle Luo is complicated. We should interfere less in such matters. Let them decide for themselves."

A meal extended to almost an hour while they chatted.

Zhu Qianying, who is usually a fast eater, slowed down due to discussing a multitude of topics with the young master Yan.

However, her slowing down did not mean that she would eat less.

The two ordered a fish, two meat dishes, two vegetable dishes, and a soup, along with four bowls of rice. They finished everything.

Yan Shao looked satisfied as he watched Zhu Qianying clean up the last mouthful of rice. He then asked, "Are you full?"

Zhu Qianying put down her bowl contentedly, had a sip of soup, and then replied to him, "I’m full. If I eat any more, I’ll turn into an elephant, not a pig."

She remembered that, a long time ago, Yan Shao had teased her more than once by calling her a pig.

Yan Shao chuckled and gently touched her face, "Hmm, I am raising a beautiful pig, and then I gave birth to an arrogant little pig."

Zhu Qianying didn’t bother to pay attention to him. She pointed out the empty plates on the table that were cleaned to the bone, "Since you’re raising it, please, pay the bill!"

When Yan Shao paid the bill with his card, he hesitated for a moment holding the black card but eventually, didn’t use it.

Because of Bai Xiangdong’s illness, Zhu Qianying had transferred a million from the dividend card of Mingxuan Group to Bai Shao’s account.

The rest, including the card that Yan Shao had given to the baby boy for his living expenses, remained untouched.

Of course, Zhu Qianying didn’t actively tell him about all this, but he now has his attention set on her account, knowing the ins and outs of the account balance like the back of his hand.

However, what was somewhat comforting for him was that all the items purchased today, including those for Zhu Qianying’s personal use, were all bought by Yan Shao, and Zhu Qianying, showed no signs of resistance.

This matter, if it had happened in the past, would be a trivial issue for Yan Shao. For example, he had given Yi Wei a sports car and an apartment as a birthday gift before, yet he never cared whether the recipient liked it or not.

But now, he was still spending money, yet he was always on tenterhooks until she naturally let him pay the bill. Only then did he finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Yan Shao rarely took a day off to accompany his wife shopping for a whole day. Although the bodyguards followed them and took care of all the heavy lifting, spending a whole day at the mall could be seen as wearisome for many men.

However, Yan Shao thoroughly enjoyed it. Perhaps it was because of experiencing loss that he came to understand companionship is much more precious and harder to forget than money.

Previously, he was reluctant to spend a little more time on anyone, including Yi Wei.

But now, he has infinite patience to play with the baby boy, to take the baby boy out for walks, play with the dog, accompany Zhu Qianying for shopping and chatting, and even just being with Zhu Qianying while she’s washing dishes or picking vegetables in the kitchen, which he finds immensely joyful.

"Tired?"

As evening fell, the two finally got into the car to return home.

As Yan Shao asked, his hand reached over to lift her legs onto his lap, gently kneading her tense leg muscles.

Zhu Qianying reached out to tap his shoulder, "Aren’t you tired?"

Yan Shao shook his head. Indeed, for someone with his stamina, shopping for a day was nothing much.